MarkF | November 30, 2015 Ruth Marcus has come close to blaming Republicans for the Colorado Springs shootings. Appearing on Jose Diaz-Balart's MSNBC show today, Washington Post columnist Marcus said that "the Republican candidates . . . have been part of the inflamed and inflammatory rhetoric about Planned Parenthood, about the sale of baby parts, about dismembering live babies . . . I think it's a fair conclusion,…
MarkF | November 29, 2015 It was one of those live-TV moments revealing the seamier side of TV news. Pat Brown is a criminal profiler who has taken a principled stand on media appearances about mass murderers. She will not discuss individual criminals, their motives, etc., believing that to do so pnly increases the number of mass murders. But when Brown appeared on CNN's New Day this morning, host Christi Paul…
MarkF | November 28, 2015 When last month Ben Carson suggested that people confronted by a shooter should rush him en masse, ABC ran a story criticizing him, claiming that Carson "appears to be second-guessing" the victims of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon.But on ABC's Morning America today, in the wake of the mass shooting in Colorado Springs, guess what an expert suggested? "If you can get other…
MarkF | November 25, 2015 You name the problem, Tom Friedman's got the answer: raise taxes on gasoline. Looks like Tom Brokaw's caught Friedman's gas-tax raising fever.On today's Morning Joe, Brokaw proposed, as part of fighting the war on terror, raising gas taxes by five cents per gallon. Brokaw argued that it is wrong that the burden of fighting falls on just 1% of Americans, and that the result of his tax increase…
MarkF | November 23, 2015 Death of a Salesman's Willy Loman was a guy "out there in the blue riding on a smile and a shoeshine." President Obama sees ISIS as Willy's bad mirror image, dismissing the Paris terrorists as guys with "conventional weapons and good social media."On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough blasted Obama's dangerous insouciance, calling it "staggering to our allies. It is staggering to people like…
MarkF | November 21, 2015 I turned on MSNBC this morning in the admittedly masochistic hope of watching Melissa Harris-Perry, only to find Harry Smith--of all--people hosting cotinuing coverage of the Paris attacks and related issues.After running clips of Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee questioning the admittance into the US of Syrian refugees, Smith immediately displayed on screen and read the passage of Matthew…
MarkF | November 21, 2015 I turned on MSNBC this morning in the admittedly masochistic hope of watching Melissa Harris-Perry, only to find Harry Smith--of all--people hosting cotinuing coverage of the Paris attacks and related issues.After running clips of Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee questioning the admittance into the US of Syrian refugees, Smith immediately displayed on screen and read the passage of Matthew…
MarkF | November 20, 2015 Joe Scarborough opened today's Morning Joe with a report on the unfolding terror attack in Mali, and promptly turned to Ayman Mohyeldin for a report.
The very first words out of Mohyeldin's mouth were "it's important to emphasize we still don't know the identity of these gunmen who have taken the hotel hostage." Great point, Ayman. I mean, sure, they were yelling Allah Akhbar, and released…
MarkF | November 18, 2015 I took some flak awhile back for saying that--his liberalism notwithstanding--Chris Matthews has a patriotic streak.
More evidence for my theory on this evening's Hardball, when Matthews, twice called the president's response to the ISIS terror threat "dainty" and said "I don't see us doing anything."
MarkF | November 18, 2015 There's been a lot of arrant nonsense spoken since the Paris attacks, but Margaret Carlson's might just take the cake . . .
On today's Morning Joe, Carlson suggested that because the US is better than Europe at assimilation, terrorists sneaking into our country might not carry out their plots. "Maybe they become Americanized and the anger goes away. What they snuck in to do they are not going…
