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It's a sign of how well things are going for Donald Trump that instead of going after the man they most love to hate, Wedneday's Morning Joe spent most of the opening segment attacking the woman who endorsed him last night: Nikki Haley. The show opened with a clip of Stephen Colbert imagining Haley saying that she hates herself for endorsing Trump.  

MSNBC's Morning Joe kicked off the week by running a clip of Donald Trump suggesting Biden should take a cognitive test, like the one he passed with his own former White House doctor Ronny Jackson, but he said Ronny "Johnson." This led to unfunny jokes about bumbling names. But the funny part came when Joe Scarborough attacked Trump "stooges" for suggesting Biden's mentally failing.…

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough clings to an article by Nate Cohn of the New York Times to keep hope alive for Biden's chances in the 2024 election. Scarborough also boasts about having predicted in 2016 that Trump could win, omitting the fact that just a few days before the 2016 election, he told worried Democrats; "Just relax. Don't go under your bed and get in the fetal position and get…

Morning Joe lashes out at Nikki Haley in reaction to her announcement that, despite having been very critical of Trump during her primary run, she will be voting for him. Joe Scarborough uses a vulgarity in his tirade, and Charlie Sykes slimes Haley as a "very, very, cheap date" for Trump.

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough accuses the New York Times of rigging polls against Biden in order to create clickbait news stories.  Scarborough also shouts down John Heilemann, who politely sought to slightly differ.

On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski urges Nikki Haley to "hang in there" -- to stay in the Republican primary race against Donald Trump.  Mika says Haley would be an "American candidate," in contrast with "Russian idiot" Trump, and set up an "American race."

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough puts on a goober accent to mock MAGA supporters who believe Donald Trump's claim that he told the leader of a large NATO country that if attacked by Russia, he would not defend it if they were delinquent in their payments, and to the contrary would tell "them," i.e. Putin, to do "whatever the hell they want."

In coverage of past Iowa caucuses, the media elite have mocked religious conservatives like Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and Ted Cruz, yet always seem to be thrilled by their Democratic choices, spinning radicals as “moderates.”

2024 is bound to be not only one of the most monumental years in American history, it ventures to be among the most chaotic. So, before we dive head first into 2024 at midnight, let’s look back one last time at 2023 to look at what stories you, the readers, visited the most on NewsBusters. As always, we can’t thank you enough for not only your readership, but also financial support. Amid a…

On Morning Joe, self-described "Never Trump conservative" Matt Lewis says that in refusing to mention slavery when asked the cause of the Civil War, Nikki Haley misreads her core constituency.  MAGA voters will never vote for her. She is running to win the primary in New Hampshire, not in Alabama or Mississippi.

Watching a certain Morning Joe segment today was like being a fly on the wall at a meeting of DNC/liberal-media industrial complex, as they strategized over the best media strategy for defeating Donald Trump in 2024. The consensus was that whereas some, including the Biden campaign, had in the past felt that the best way to defeat Trump was to generally ignore him, now it's believed that there…

Fifteen years ago today, November 4, 2008, American voters elected liberal Democratic Senator Barack Obama to the Presidency. It was a campaign in which the public recognized the media elite’s tremendous favoritism towards Obama, and even many reporters admitted the coverage had been slanted against the Republicans.

Criticizing the people who caused Kevin McCarthy to lose his Speakership, Joe Scarborough calls himself an "institutionalist" who had hoped that enough Democrats would vote "present" on the motion to vacate the Speakership to permit McCarthy to remain in power. But in 1997, Scarborough was part of the failed coup seeking to remove Newt Gingrich as Speaker, and which also sought to use a motion…

Who you gonna believe: Joe Scarborough or your lyin' eyes? The opening segment of Morning Joe was devoted to the panel making the collective claim that, the evidence notwithstanding, Joe Biden is not just "sharp," but in the words of Eugene Robinson, "sharp as a tack."