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'Morning Joe': Trump Listens to 'Voices in His Head'

January 10th, 2018 3:00 PM
On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, reacting to President Trump’s comments during an open door meeting with top members of Congress about DACA and immigration reform, co-host Joe Scarborough argued that Trump’s performance was indicative of his supposedly deteriorating mental state and even stooped to mocking Trump as a doddering, forgetful, and schizophrenic old man who listens to “voices in his head”…
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Scarborough Admits: No 'Objective Evidence' That Trump Mentally Unfit

January 9th, 2018 4:27 PM
In a stunning admission that contradicted Scarborough’s numerous past attempts to paint Trump as sociopathic, homicidally insane, and suffering from predementia, Joe responded to Greenfield’s arguments by conceding that in regards to these sorts of claims about Trump’s mental instability: “You have to have [...] objective evidence, the sort of objective evidence that we do not have and most…
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Scarborough Complains WashPost Won't Publish His Trump Dementia Claim

January 9th, 2018 6:15 AM
During an interview with anti-Trump author Michael Wolff on Monday, MSNBC morning host Joe Scarborough complained that he has twice tried to include unproven references to President Trump suffering from an early stage of dementia in his columns for the Washington Post, but both times the editors told him to remove those references.
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Wolff Admits Trump Book Was Rushed, Blames ‘Inaccuracies’ on Sources

January 8th, 2018 4:25 PM
On Monday’s Morning Joe, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were both back in-studio to talk to Michael Wolff about his new anti-Trump book Fire and Fury. In a wide-ranging 25-minute interview, Wolff went after his critics at the New York Times and Washington Post, repeatedly called the President’s mental health into question, and even insisted that “100%” of Trump’s “closest” advisors…
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Morning Joe on Wolff Book: ‘Just Every Page Really Rings True’

January 5th, 2018 4:31 PM
In spite of growing evidence that Michael Wolff’s explosive new book Fire and Fury should not be treated as the epitome of truthful and accurate reporting, Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson were still keeping the faith and treating it as the Holy Grail of recording the true story behind the internal workings of the Trump administration.
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Joe Scarborough Compares 'Red State' Americans To Iranian Theocrats

January 5th, 2018 12:36 PM
On Friday’s Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius tried to explain the current anti-government protests in Iran by painting a broader picture of a “red state Iran” and a “blue state Iran.” Scarborough described “red state Iran” as a place that “wanted to keep the mullahs in charge,” whereas “[b]lue state Iran wanted to move Iran into the 20th century.”
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Joe Scarborough Wonders If President Is Illiterate: ‘Can’ Trump Read?

January 4th, 2018 5:02 PM
In the wake of the immense political conflagration that Michael Wolff’s upcoming book Fire and Fury has caused, Thursday’s Morning Joe was almost entirely consumed by discussion of all its salacious claims and their implications for the Trump White House. Even though multiple guest panelists on the show admitted to the shaky factual foundation for Wolff’s book and the unproven nature of many of…
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NBC Tells Employees to 'Rat Out' Misbehaving Colleagues or Be Fired

December 28th, 2017 9:22 PM
It’s understandable that executives at the National Broadcasting Company want to cut down or eliminate accusations of sexual harassment after longtime Today anchor Matt Lauer was fired on Wednesday, November 28, but NBC’s new guidelines have employees responding that they may have gone too far in the opposite direction. According to an article by Emily Smith of the Page Six website, staffers at…

Bozell and Graham Column on 2017: The Year of Media Freakouts

December 26th, 2017 10:42 PM
The year 2017 unfolded into a massive surprise to liberals, who fully expected that before Christmas we would (a) all die in a nuclear war over Donald Trump’s tweets, or (b) be swearing in President Pence after Trump was impeached or petulantly quit because the news media were full of meanies. More than ever, the media see themselves as valiant tellers of truth. More than ever, most Americans peg…
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Mika Brzezinski Apologizes for Criticizing Mark Halperin's Accusers

December 23rd, 2017 1:27 PM
Well, that didn't take long for her to get her mind right. It only took a few hours from the time Mika Brzezinski on Friday's Morning Joe criticized the sexual harassment accusers of Mark Halperin for not meeting with him personally to apologizing for it later that afternoon. Seeing your own career starting to slip away can be a powerful incentive for producing an apology.

Scarborough Attacks 'The Stench of Trump's Self-Dealing' in WashPost

December 22nd, 2017 7:40 AM
The headline on today’s Washington Post Opinions email sounded like a real liberal barn-burner: “The stench of Trump’s self-dealing.” Which liberal was throwing fire? That would be….Joe Scarborough. Scarborough has the chutzpah to insist that Trump is not following through on the populist rhetoric he used on the campaign trail in 2016. Just as Scarborough used to be gleefully FOR Donald Trump…
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Tom Brokaw: Conservative Media on a ‘Jihad’ Against FBI, Mueller

December 21st, 2017 4:38 PM
On Thursday’s Morning Joe, the show’s liberal pundits continued their smear campaign targeting congressional lawmakers and journalists who have been trying to reveal the full extent of political bias within the FBI that may have adversely affected its investigations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. Working with the knowledge that there is now an official…
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Bernie Bro Joe Bemoans Tax Bill: ‘The Rich Are Getting Richer’

December 20th, 2017 5:17 PM
With the passage of the Republicans’ $1.5 trillion tax cut bill looming, most of Wednesday’s Morning Joe was devoted to portraying the legislation as not just bad policy (which would be par for the course on MSNBC), but a threat to America’s survival, prosperity, and democracy. “Conservative” co-host Joe Scarborough put on his Marxist cap to make the case that “the greatest threat to American-…
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Mika Brzezinski Turns on #MeToo Over Al Franken’s Resignation

December 19th, 2017 3:57 PM

On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski once again publicly attacked the #MeToo movement and its core demand for absolute belief of women who make sexual misconduct allegations. In the context of discussing Al Franken’s announced resignation from the Senate, Brzezinski lamented about how “right now, any woman can say anything and a man’s career is ruined.” She also explicitly doubted…