Jonathan Lemire

Morning Joe has given a general thumbs-down on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover. there was an exchange between Mika and NYT Washington bureau chief, Bumiller. The latter uttered that classic line, "we all believe in free speech, BUT . . . "  Bumiller went on to fret about the "guardrails" coming down, and claimed Twitter has become "a platform for a lot of misogyny." A terrified Mika recited a…

On Morning Joe, Obama's former National Security Council specialist on Syria says that Obama's "infamous" failure to enforce his redline on the use of chemical weapons in Syria could bite us in Ukraine, because Putin doesn't believe there would be any repercussions for his use of chemical weapons. 

Thursday’s Psaki Show reminded viewers of a sad but necessary reminder that too many in the liberal media will never relent on fear porn surrounding the coronavirus and their penchant for restrictions on everyday life. Such was the case with numerous reporters pushing the press secretary from the left to reinstitute them due to a new omicron variant and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff’s positive…

Joe Scarborough had two general modes of partisan reaction to everything President Trump did -- either "snarky" or "infuriated." But on Wednesday's Morning Joe, Scaborough made clear his anger at any people who dared to offer "snarky" critiques of President Biden's "historic" handling of the Ukraine situation. And in particular, Scarborough would not tolerate anyone suggesting that…

MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough continued his rantings against Special Counsel John Durham and conservative media on Friday when he concluded that Durham's latest filing was written by a third grader and it was deliberately incomprehensible. 

Morning Joe makes excuses for Biden's pitiful polling numbers.  Elise Jordan says his bad numbers are "overhyped," and not his fault, just something "situational." Joe Scarborough says there would have been high inflation no matter who was president!

On Morning Joe, liberal Ed Luce of the Financial Times discusses his current column, in which he sees similarities between the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and that of Joe Biden. Luce twice describes a current sense of "drift."

The opening segment of the December 23 Morning Joe was one — interminable — tongue bath for Joe Biden. On everything from the omicron variant to the supply chain, to inflation, the panel lavished praise on Ol' Saint Joe. The praise reached its absurd apotheosis with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski twice -- joking-not-joking -- speaking of a "Christmas miracle." Scarborough ended…

Morning Joe was in no mood today to give Donald Trump credit for his vigorous advocacy of the COVID vaccine during an interview with Candace Owens. Nope: it was just a nefarious ploy, with an eye to 2024, to win back the suburbs.

Singling out Josh Hawley and Mark Meadows by name, on Morning Joe Joe Scarborough accuses Republicans of having their "testicle" in a Donald Trump lockbox.

Morning Joe to the rescue to lift Democrat spirits! Today's panel went out of its way to praise Nancy Pelosi as one of the "most successful" Speakers ever. This despite the prospect of her presiding, in 2022, over the loss of Dem House seats counted in the dozens. And Biden's catastrophic poll numbers? Happy days will soon be here again, assures the Morning Joe panel. Covid and inflation will…

Morning Joe was baying for Steve Bannon's blood this morning, demanding that the Justice Department prosecute him for refusing to testify before Congress. Joe Scarborough took things to an outlandish extreme, predicting this dire consequence if the DoJ doesn't go after Bannon and other Trump allies: "I swear to God. Ten, fifteen years from now, if people get away with this now, we're…

On Monday's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and then Jonathan Lemire [who somehow doubles as a supposedly objective AP "reporter" when he's not spouting liberal opinions as an MSNBC analyst] rushed to Biden's defense after he . Lemire adamantly claimed: "Let's be clear here. This was him uttering his opinion. This is very different than what Donald Trump used to do when he was in office…

Morning Joe—in the persons of Scarborough, Richard Haass, Anne Gearan, and Willie Geist—tore into Biden's mishandling of the cancellation of Australia's submarine-building contract with France in favor of one with the US. But Biden had one, lonely, backer: Mika Brzezinski. She piped up throughout the long segment, doing her best to defend Biden.