Morning Joe Bleeps The Late Michael Hastings Calling Out Hillary Spox

June 19th, 2013 7:39 AM
Who was Morning Joe protecting: the sensitive ears of its viewers, or Hillary Clinton? During a discussion of the death of the feisty and fearless reporter Michael Hastings, Morning Joe bleeped out Joe Scarborough's reading from an email from Hastings to Philippe Reines, Hillary's personal spokesman during her Secretary of State tenure.  Hastings had accused Reines of "b---s---" answers on…

Scarborough Fumes: Obama Was Shaded in NRA Ad to Make Him ‘Look More

June 14th, 2013 5:06 PM
Cole Sear from The Sixth Sense sees dead people, and Joe Scarborough, like pretty much everyone else at MSNBC, sees racism. That’s just the way it is. On Friday, the Morning Joe crew was chatting about a recent NRA attack ad against Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) when Scarborough took issue with the image of President Obama shown briefly in the ad: "[P]eople called me up and said, what do you…

Mika Brzezinski: ‘Snowden Is Not a Whistleblower

June 12th, 2013 11:03 AM
As NewsBusters has been reporting, it's been a hoot watching typically anti-surveillance liberal media members support the President's program of having the National Security Agency look into everyone's phone records. Count MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski amongst them, for on Wednesday's Morning Joe, the co-host struck back at any suggestion that leaker Edward Snowden was a whistleblower (video…

Former Obama Advisor Turned NBC News Analyst Rips CBS's Schieffer for

May 28th, 2013 10:33 AM
Former Barack Obama senior advisor David Axelrod on Tuesday demonstrated why it's absurd for him to have been hired by NBC News at the beginning of his previous boss's second term. Appearing on Morning Joe, Axelrod struck back at CBS's Bob Schieffer for his criticism of the White House on Sunday's Face the Nation (video follows with transcript and commentary):

MSNBCers Fall Over Themselves Praising 'Amazing,' 'Historic' Obama For

May 25th, 2013 3:56 PM
If you have any lingering doubts about which way MSNBC "leans," you don't need to look any farther than the cable channel's coverage of President Obama's speech on Thursday regarding foreign relations and national security. At times, it seemed that each MSNBC host or contributor was trying to outdo the other with fawning cheers over the latest address from the Democratic occupant of the White…

Chris Matthews Trashes 'Morning Joe' for Being 'Open to All People's P

May 23rd, 2013 6:40 PM
Chris Matthews on Thursday made it crystal clear that he sees his role at MSNBC is to present only one side of any issue. Clearly oblivious to how he was letting the cat out of the bag for all to see, the Hardball host trashed his own network's Morning Joe for being "open to all people's points of view" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Scarborough, 'Morning Joe' Panel Continue Relentless Attack on Ted Cru

May 23rd, 2013 12:30 PM
Joe Scarborough seems to have an obsession with conservative and Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz. Scarborough and his Thursday Morning Joe panel bashed the freshman Texas senator for at least the fourth time in a few months, berating the Lone Star Republican for his distrust of Congressional leadership. The MSNBC host suggested Cruz has “no interest in working with any of his colleagues,” and…

Chuck Todd: Obama Administration Wants to 'Criminalize Journalism

May 22nd, 2013 10:18 AM
As more revelations surface concerning the White House targeting press members, more and more of Barack Obama's fans in the media are breaking ranks. Count NBC's chief White House correspondent amongst them, for on MSNBC's Morning Joe Wednesday, Chuck Todd actually said, "They want to criminalize journalism" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

IRS Scandal: Scarborough Angry at Gun Bill Opponents in April; Now Won

May 17th, 2013 3:46 PM
Joe Scarborough is outraged, OUTRAGED, that any senator could have opposed the gun bill which went down to defeat. Oops! That was a month ago and it now appears that Scarborough is having second thoughts on this since he wondered aloud today if the government could be trusted with performing background checks in the light of the revelations of the IRS scandal in which that agency targeted Tea…

Luke Russert: 'Smart' House Republicans Aren't The 'God, Guns & Guts P

May 17th, 2013 7:53 AM
Call it Luke Russert's version of "bitter clingers" on steroids . . . In Russert's world, there are apparently two kinds of Republican congressmen.  The "smart" ones—to be found on the Ways & Means Committee—and the others, whom he calls the "God, guns and guts people," presumably in reference to this book. Russert made his statement on today's Morning Joe, responding to Joe…

Andrea Mitchell: IRS, AP Scandals Among 'Most Outrageous Excesses I've

May 14th, 2013 9:20 AM
President Obama knows he's in trouble when Andrea Mitchell—Andrea Mitchell!—proclaims the IRS and AP scandals to be among "the most outrageous excesses I've seen" in all her years in journalism [which pre-date Watergate].  The strength of Mitchell's statement drew gasps from Scarborough and Brzezinski. Then Ron Fournier, former AP editor now with the National Journal, darkly described the White…

MSNBC's Scarborough and Geist on IRS Scandal: 'This Is Tyranny

May 13th, 2013 11:22 AM
As NewsBusters has been reporting all morning, the folks on MSNBC's Morning Joe almost unanimously came down on the Obama administration for using the Internal Revenue Service to intimidate its political opponents. Putting an exclamation point on the outrage late in Monday's program were co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist who shockingly agreed, "This is tyranny" (video follows with…

Chuck Todd: 'IRS Story Has More Legs Politically in 2014 Than Benghazi

May 13th, 2013 10:52 AM
It only took four and a half years, but the liberal media finally found something to criticize President Obama for. After former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw excoriated the administration on MSNBC's Morning Joe Monday for using the Internal Revenue Service to intimidate political opponents, NBC's chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd said, "This story has more legs politically in…

Carl Bernstein 'Can't Imagine' Obama Involved In IRS Scandal

May 13th, 2013 8:50 AM
When it comes to investigative reporters, how do you change a bulldog into a lapdog? Easy: change the occupant of the Oval Office from a Republican into a Democrat. Witness Carl Bernstein's pitiful performance on today's Morning Joe.  The man who teamed with Bob Woodward to bring down Richard Nixon now credulously claims that he "can't imagine" that President Obama is possibly involved in…