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Jon Meacham: Only Way to Fix the Republican Party Is to Have It Lose

August 20th, 2023 10:11 PM

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.

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Scarborough Touts His Pro-Biden Article: 'America Is Doing Just Fine'

July 11th, 2023 11:23 AM

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.

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Morning Joe—Vote For 'Constitutionalist' Biden Not 'Seditionist' Trump

June 23rd, 2023 4:30 PM

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."

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Fascism, Forbidden Fruit: Morning Joe Had It All On Trump Indictment

April 1st, 2023 10:38 PM

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."

FLASHBACK: Media Slobbering Over Obama’s SOTU Speeches

February 4th, 2023 9:30 AM

Joe Biden can never hope to garner the gushing praise the media habitually lavished on his onetime boss, former President Barack Obama. Liberal reporters were always thrilled whenever they were privileged to hear their hero delivering predictable liberal platitudes from the well of the House of Representatives.

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Morning Joe Ties Trumpism To Auschwitz & JFK, MLK Assassinations

January 26th, 2023 8:12 PM

On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski announces that on Friday's show, Joe Scarborough will be reporting from Auschwitz on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. She and Jon Meacham then somehow tie it to the "rise of fascist threats from within" the United States, and also tie those threats with the assassinations of JFK and MLK. Meacham suggests that if the threats are not countered early, they…

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Meacham Alleges Republicans Oppose The Declaration Of Independence

January 6th, 2023 11:28 AM

MSNBC historian Jon Meacham took his overly solemn and pretentious analysis to Friday’s Morning Joe to accuse the Republican Party of not believing in the principles laid out in the Declaration of Independence amidst the anniversary of January 6 and the Speaker election drama.

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Jon Meacham: Biden Has Handled Ukraine Crisis With 'Immense Skill'

December 21st, 2022 11:13 AM

On Morning Joe, Biden speechwriter and Morning Joe regular Jon Meacham says he may be mocked, but Biden has handled Ukraine crisis with "immense skill"

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Scarborough: Compared to Nixon, Trump Takes 'Evil' to a 'New Level'

December 20th, 2022 4:19 PM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough quoted Hunter S. Thompson calling Richard Nixon evil "in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the devil can understand," says Nixon deserves another look, and that Donald Trump takes evil to "a new level."

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Media Throw World’s Sappiest Going Away Party for Nancy Pelosi

November 18th, 2022 4:31 PM

True, the media slobbering all over Democratic politicians is fairly unremarkable. But given the Republicans’ rather lackluster performance in the recent midterm elections, now more than ever it’s worth noting just how subservient the media are to Democrats.

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Meacham Tells MSNBC Midterms 'The Gravest Test' Since The Civil War

October 28th, 2022 1:18 PM

Fresh off his CNN appearance, presidential historian Jon Meacham took his shoehorned Abraham Lincoln analogies to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on Friday to warn “this is the gravest test of citizenship since the Civil War.” Therefore, just like Lincoln fought slavery, voters must vote Democrat to save democracy.

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Meacham Tells CNN Voting Democrat Is Like Lincoln Saving The Union

October 26th, 2022 10:31 AM

Presidential historian Jon Meacham swung by Tuesday’s CNN Tonight for a segment that included several loony analogies, including that voting Republican is akin to voting for the Confederacy or the Knights of the Golden Circle, which naturally means that voting Democrat is like Abraham Lincoln saving the Union and Winston Churchill not surrendering to the Nazis.

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NBC Stokes Fear: Get Ready for Civil War Part 2!

October 19th, 2022 12:30 PM

Liberal journalists are obsessed with the idea that we’re about to head into another Civil War and you can guess who they think is responsible for the coming violence. Hint: It’s not the Democrats. Historian Jon Meacham appeared on Wednesday’s Today show to promote his new book on Abraham Lincoln.

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Scarborough: In Dark Trump Days, I'd Sit At Night, Listen To Churchill

September 28th, 2022 11:40 PM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough claims that during the "dark days" of Trump, he would sit at night with the lights off, and listen to the speeches of Winston Churchill, rallying the British people in the darkest days of WWII.