Jon Meacham

Corporate TV journalists are so thrilled with President Biden’s decision to step aside that they’ve begun comparing his “selfless” act to George Washington’s choice not to seek re-election in 1796.

Once Joe Biden knuckled under to tremendous pressure to drop out of the race, Biden's advisers went out to proclaim he was like...George Washington? That was former Newsweek editor, "historian" and Biden speechwriter Jon Meacham on Monday's Morning Joe.

"There is an old trial lawyers’ saying 'When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither is on you side, pound the table.'”  -- Patrick Buchanan, 1975. When it came to making the case for Hunter Biden, Mika Brzezinski has managed to devise an alternative to pounding the table when the facts and the law are against you. On today's…

On Morning Joe, historian and occasional Biden speechwriter rejects the notion that people can admit that Trump is awful, "but" they will vote for him. Says Meacham: "there is no but. It's got to be: Yeah, Trump is that, and, I'm going to vote against him."

Presidential historian and frequent MSNBC talking head Jon Meacham traveled to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to wax poetic about “there is a patriotic duty” to vote for Joe Biden and that any Republican who votes for Donald Trump needs to stop and heed the words of George Washington.

Morning Joe calls on NBC News to fire Ronna McDaniel as a political analyst, and vows to never have her on the show. 

Today we present the WORST OF 2023: The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award.

For the liberal media, any occasion is good if it can be used to bash Donald Trump. And so it was that on Thursday's Morning Joe, historian and occasional Biden speechwriter Jon Meacham used the occasion of December 7th, the 82nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, to draw a strained analogy to the challenge facing America in the face of Trump with call outs to threats…

On Morning Joe, historian and occasional Biden speechwriter Jon Meacham suggested that, given all the tough issues he is dealing with, Americans should vote for Biden out of "empathy."

Morning Joe doubts a CNN poll showing Biden tied with Trump and losing to almost all the other Republican contenders. Jon Meacham flatly says, "I don't believe these polls."

MSNBC historian Jon Meacham gives his usual partisan Biden-boosting advice that the only way for the Republican party to fix itself is to keep on losing.

On Morning Joe, keying off his recent column in The Atlantic, Joe Scarborough makes the case that America [read, Biden] is doing great. Scarborough casts himself in the role of Atticus Finch, offering a "robust defense" of Biden.

On Morning Joe, Jon Meacham, the historian and occasional Biden speechwriter, makes an explicit political pitch calling on voters to support Joe Biden over Donald Trump, casting it as a clear choice between a "constitutionalist" and an "insurrectionist and seditionist."

Discussing the Trump indictment on Friday, Morning Joe had it all: from Al Sharpton glorying over the ability of a black man to indict a former president, to Jon Meacham making an analogy to the Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden, to Joe Scarborough managing to work in a reference to "fascism."