Eugene Robinson

Following Thursday night’s final presidential debate, NBC’s Kristen Welker received widespread praise for her performance as moderator. However, it wasn’t good enough for her colleague Mika Brzezinski at MSNBC, who thought Welker didn’t hammer President Trump aggressively enough.

Along with their reaction to Vice President Mike Pence’s Wednesday night 2020 RNC address, the “big three” broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC had plenty of other takes, ranging from excusing the rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin because suffragettes did the same to get the right to vote to calling the RNC “alternate realities” that support the Star-Spangled Banner to trashing…

On Morning Joe, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post and MSNBC, commenting on the fact that Canada and the Bahamas, because of the coronavirus, are not permitting US residents to enter, says, "we are pariahs. We are, we are the s-hole country that nobody wants people from. That's us now."

On Morning Joe, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson says "it’s hard to convince me that there’s not systemic racism in our policing" given that Dylann Roof, the white killer of nine people in a Charleston church, was taken alive, whereas Rayshard Brooks was killed in Atlanta in the course of his arrest in Atlanta

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Perhaps in a sign of anticipatory anguish over the Dems' impending defeat, Joe Scarborough went on an epic rant this morning, trashing and sliming the members of the Trump defense team. Scarborough, repeatedly calling the team a "confederacy of dunces,"  saved his most repellent comments for Ken Starr. 

Late Tuesday night, MSNBC’s post-debate panel reacted to the 2020 Democratic primary hubbub and, while later spinning that no one had a bad debate, they initially knocked Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as both “annoyed” and “petulant” for being unable to handle incoming attacks as the frontrunner, but swooned over Pete Buttigieg being the second coming of Barack Obama.

During MSNBC’s post-Democratic debate analysis on Thursday night and early Friday, former HUD Secretary Julian Castro was widely condemned for his attack on former Vice President Joe Biden for his false claim about his health care policy and suggesting the elderly Biden was mentally showing his age. But for anyone with a pulse, it’s amazing that the cast of characters were so enraged by Castro…

The stench of the Swamp was on full blast in the A-block of Thursday’s Hardball, thanks to MSNBC host Chris Matthews and assorted guests defending former FBI Director James Comey in the light of a scathing report from the Justice Department’s Inspector General that said he violated DOJ policy. But for these MSNBCers, it was justified because of their hatred for President Donald Trump and that…