It was like a mother trying to lead her naughty son through an apology . . . Last week, Joe Scarborough predicted he would "get in trouble" for calling John Harwood's performance as debate moderator "embarrassing." On today's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski tried, in what seemed perhaps to be a pre-arranged mea culpa, to get Joe to say "I really respect everyone I work with." Joe didn't play along…
Can you imagine if a Republican called a prominent Dem candidate "Chauncey Gardiner," the simple soul from the Peter Sellers film Being There? The cries of racism might well cost such a hapless Republican his job. But don't expect James Carville to pay any price. On today's With All Due Respect, Carville rather clearly seemed to refer to Ben Carson in that way. Carville said that a frustrated…
Who said it?: "Get rid of all this corporatism, this corporate welfare . . . I would love to have the government stop this corporate welfare--that's what I want . . . This is a huge racket that's wrecking the country." Did you guess Bernie Sanders? Probably not because you read the headline. But no one could be blamed for thinking it was Bernie. But indeed, it was that evil capitalist, Charles…
In the wake of the CNBC debate debacle, Joe Scarborough went on an epic rant on liberal media bias on today's Morning Joe. He summed things up this way, in challenging the panel: "you can't do it and nobody here can do it: name the single Republican that has hosted a Sunday show, that has been an anchor of a news network for the big three networks over the past 50 years, you can not do it." Mark…
I took it for granted that a far-lefty like Bernie Sanders would be opposed to the death penalty. Still, I was shocked to see Sanders--not in some throwaway comment on the campaign trail but in prepared remarks on the floor of the Senate--flatly call the death penalty "murder."Al Sharpton's MSNBC show played Sanders clip this morning in the context of saying that Sanders is working to…
When this NewsBuster began preparing today's item, the focus was going to be on Joe Scarborough's statement on today's Morning Joe that "90% of the people in our business vote for Democrats and Democratic primaries." Not that it was something we didn't already know [though query whether even 10% of leading MSMers are Republicans], but nice to hear it openly stated.
But preparing the video clip,…
Tuning into Morning Joe today, the question on this NewsBusters' mind was whether--given that MNSBC and CNBC are corporate cousins--Joe Scarborough would have the guts to go after John Harwood. He did. In at least three segments this morning, Scarborough criticized Harwood for what he called his "embarrassing" performance as moderator of the GOP debate last night. Scarborough's repeated criticism…
Whatever Nicolle Wallace had for breakfast this morning, Jeb should down a double order . . . On today's Morning Joe, former Bush communications Wallace slammed a Politico story in which former McCain staffers reject parallels between Jeb's campaign and that of McCain, who came back from the political wilderness to win the nomination in 2008.
Calling the story a "cheap shot," a "low blow" and "…
David Corn has claimed that there are "serious issues" about Ben Carson's Seventh Day Adventist faith. Great point, David. After all, for twenty years, Carson sat in the pews of a preacher who spewed "God damn America" hatred, a pastor that Carson chose to officiate his marriage and baptize his children.Oh, wait: that wasn't Carson. It was Barack Obama, who chose Jeremiah "Chickens Coming Home to…
