On Morning Joe, former Obama car czar claims Colin Powell feels "hostility" from Republicans in part "because he's a minority."
On his MSNBC show, blanking on Michele Bachmann's name, host Thomas Roberts refers to her as "what's-her-face."
MarkF | December 18, 2012 On Hardball, Chris Matthews suggests that Congress should "outlaw" semi-automatic guns.
MarkF | December 11, 2012 On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski, claiming "it's simple," says that employers should just pay workers more. She ignores the previous segment discussing the fact that unless wages in the US are kept in line, businesses will choose to send jobs to countries like China or even Germany.
MarkF | December 10, 2012 On Morning Joe, criticizing conservatives, including consultants and people in the 'conservative entertainment complex', who oppose increasing tax rates to avoid going over the fiscal cliff, Joe Scarborough says "conservatism is a racket for a lot of people to get very, very rich."
On her MSNBC show, Andrea Mitchell says that the defeat by the Senate of a controversial disability rights treaty "seemed to underscore everything that is wrong with Capitol Hill."
On Morning Joe, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, says the US and Israel should have voted in favor of the UN resolution granting “non-member observer statehood” to Palestinians living in the West Bank of Israel.
On Morning Joe, Ron Fournier, formerly of the Associated Press, now with the National Journal, recounts a story of visiting former President Bill Clinton with his son, who has Asperger's syndrome. Fournier says that after Clinton went on a long monologue about Teddy Roosevelt, clearly unaware that he had lost Fournier's son, Fournier wrote a note "is he an Aspie? Is B.C. an Aspie?"
On Morning Joe, asked by substitute host Willie Geist how much of the tough talk by Republicans and Dems over the fiscal cliff was posturing, former RNC Chairman Michael Steele said that 80% was posturing, then added "a lot of it is, let's see how big yours is compared to mine."
MarkF | November 28, 2012 A PSA for Hurricane Sandy relief, aired during Morning Joe on MSNBC, features a star-studded cast including Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino and Whoopi Goldberg urging people to "join Governor Cuomo."
