MarkF | December 30, 2011 On Hardball, Chris Matthews says that Rick Perry "doesn't have the brains" to be president. Matthews adds a version of the line for which Al Campanis was fired when he said it about blacks, saying Perry doesn't have "the necessaries."
MarkF | December 30, 2011 On her MSNBC show, Andrea Mitchell invites Mitt Romney to apologize to voters for the negative ads run against Newt Gingrich by Super PACs supporting him. She also asks: "is that the kind of campaign you want to run: a negative campaign?"
MarkF | December 30, 2011 On Morning Joe, Joe Klein of Time magainze says Iran wants to get nuclear weapons "just to deter Israel" and Pakistan.
MarkF | December 30, 2011 On Morning Joe, Politico's Mike Allen predicts that if Mitt Romney wins the Republican presidential nomination he will choose Ohio Senator Rob Portman as his vice-presidential running mate. Mark Halperin strongly seconds Allen's assertion.
MarkF | December 29, 2011 On his MSNBC show, Ed Schultz expresses surprising respect for Rick Santorum, among other things calling him 'impressive.'
MarkF | December 20, 2011 On Morning Joe, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie tells Mika Brzezinski "you're diving deeply into the Obama tank."
MarkF | December 18, 2011 On Chris Matthews's year-end awards show, Washington Post columnist gushes that when it comes to foreign policy, the Obama way is the "cool, and lacking in chest-beating way." She then declares: "I know everyone's going to say [I'm] an Obama lover. Whatever."
MarkF | December 16, 2011 On Morning Joe, Michelle Bachmann's debate performance is widely praised, Jeffrey Sachs puts himself to right of Ron Paul on threat from Iran, Newt Gingrich is scorched, and Joe Scarborough and Donny Deutsch report that Dem New York CEOs have deserted Obama en masse.
MarkF | December 15, 2011 On Morning Joe, Rudy Giuliani, explaining his assertion that Newt Gingrich could be the stronger general-election candidate than Mitt Romney, describes Romney as "elitist" and suggests he is "a man without a core."
MarkF | December 14, 2011 On his MSNBC show, Al Sharpton says MSNBC was right to apologize for the smear MSNBC host Thomas Roberts perpetrated againt Mitt Romney earlier in the day, when Roberts claimed Romney had borrowed a campaign slogan from the Ku Klux Klan. Video after the jump.
