Joe Scarborough

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, who was recently revealed to be a frequent phone buddy with and adviser to Joe Biden, in discussing a new NBC News poll fails to mention its most important finding: that among registered voters, Trump is beating Biden by 5 points, his largest lead yet. 

After Morning Joe plays a clip of President Biden mentioning his son Beau first among the "fallen soldiers" that Donald Trump failed to visit in a military cemetery in France, Jonathan Lemire covers for him, saying that Beau died of cancer "shortly after returning from Iraq." Beau Biden died six years after returning from Iraq.

In the course of discussing pushback from some conservatives complaining about Taylor Swift showing up during NFL broadcasts, and the prospect that Swift, who endorsed Biden in 2020, might do so again in 2024, Joe Scarborough mocks Trump followers who pretend to be "manly." This despite the fact that Scarborough has often boasted of his own supposed toughness.

It was too good to be true -- and sure enough, it wasn't. Joe Scarborough began a segment about illegal immigrants being released the day after they viciously beat two NYC cops by calling the outraged reaction a "bipartisan issue." But Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski couldn't resist turning the "bipartisan" issue into a highly partisan one, by blaming--you guessed it--Donald Trump.

On Morning Joe, Jennifer Palmieri, a Morning Joe regular and Obama's former communications director, opposes Joe Scarborough's suggestion of bombing Iranian oil fields in retaliation for the drone attack by Iranian proxies on a US military outpost that killed three US soldiers and wounded dozens of others. She says the result of such bombing would be to raise oil prices, and that "higher gas…

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough calls for the U.S. to strike Iran directly in retaliation for a drone attack by Iranian proxies that killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded 25-30 others in Jordan.

The following is just a small sampling of the worst media outbursts post the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary: 

The cast of MSNBC’s Morning Joe kicked off their Thursday show by declaring that Republicans not passing aid for Ukraine puts them on the same side as Vladimir Putin so, by their own logic, not even an an hour later they aligned themselves with Hamas as they demanded President Joe Biden go around Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and undermine the Israeli war effort.

The day after she lost to Donald Trump in the New Hampshire primary, Morning Joe is pleased that Nikki has declared that she is remaining in the race through Super Tuesday. Joe Scarborough says Haley can beat Biden, but Trump cannot. The question arises: since Morning Joe wants Biden to win the general, why is the show boosting the person they say can beat Biden? 

On Morning Joe, the normally avuncular Eugene Robinson takes nasty shots at Ron DeSantis on the occasion of his suspending his campaign for the GOP primary. The show quotes from Robinson's most recent Washington Post column in which he mocks DeSantis' "awfully high heels on his cowboy boots."

On Morning Joe, commenting on Ron DeSantis's withdrawal from the race, Joe Scarborough says that DeSantis made the mistake of trying to get into the lane that Donald Trump had already filled, that of the super-MAGA voters. Scarborough depicted Trump as the "Fat Elvis" of 1977, and that people going to see him in Las Vegas weren't going to instead choose a knock-off imitation of Fat Elvis. 

Since 2008, the NewsBusters archives shows the intensive political coverage surrounding the New Hampshire primary has been a chance for journalists to take gratuitous potshots at conservative candidates, while liberals (often referred to as “moderates”) are treated to rock-star treatment.

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough. in a transparent attempt to cover for Biden's obvious decrepitude, makes multiple comments about Trump allegedly being in decline, not well, shuffling, losing multiple steps, etc.

If there was one thing that transformed Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski from mere critics of Donald Trump into savage antagonists, it was Trump's tweets back in 2017 saying that Mika and Joe had begged to be invited to his New Year's Eve party, but he said no, noting that "Mika was bleeding badly from a facelift." Morning Joe got a measure of revenge today, speculating about Trump…