Jonathan Lemire

Scarborough: Republicans Have 'Testicles' In Trump Lockbox
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 Erupts in Happy Talk Over Heroic Pelosi, Biden's Bad Polls
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…

Scarborough Wails: Someday a Bezos-Like Billionaire Will Take Over US!
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…

Morning Joe Covers for Biden on DOJ Interference, Executive Privilege
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…

Mika Plays Defense As 'Morning Joe' Blasts Biden's French Sub Fiasco
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.

MSNBC: Milley Tipping China Sounds Great, Except for the Constitution
Morning Joe defended General Milley this morning. Promising to tip off China to any attack ordered by President Trump? Why, that's "helpful." Milley "didn't do anything wrong." In fact, "we owe him a debt of thanks!" The only "problem" is that Constitution thingy! Said David Ignatius of the Washington Post: "The problem is, and I think every single thing that was done by those three people,…

Morning Joe: Afghan Headlines Will ‘Fade,’ Biden Will Get ‘Credit’
On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe was hoping that the Afghanistan catastrophe would “fade from the headlines” just in time for President Biden and the Democratic Party to make a political comeback before the 2022 midterm elections. The liberal wish-casting even went so far as to suggest “more and more people are going to agree with what he did” and eventually give him “credit” for the…

Kabul Karen: Joy Reid’s Three Nights of Spin for Biden on Afghanistan
All week, MSNBC’s The ReidOut host Joy Reid has shilled for the Biden administration amidst the embarrassing and deadly collapse of Afghanistan that’s trapped thousands of Americans and Afghan allies. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Reid’s spin ranged from arguing this was what the American people wanted to blaming Donald Trump for the calamity to denouncing Afghans and the U.S.…

Morning Joe Panics Over GOP Voting Reforms ‘Devastating’ Dems in 2022
Marking the 56th anniversary of passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, on Friday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe pushed the panic button when it came to Republican-backed voting reforms advancing in states across the country and the failure of Democrats in Congress to force through a federal takeover of elections. The hysterical panel feared that GOP legislatures enacting new election laws…

Doocy Gets Help in Pressing WH on the Border, Lockdowns, & Travel Bans
Tuesday marked an eventful day at the White House as not only was there a press briefing with Press Secretary Jen Psaki (and a packed one at that), but President Biden gave a speech on the coronavirus and ended up taking questions from eight different reporters on the virus, Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), and illegal immigration. Of course, Fox’s Peter Doocy was a central player in questioning…

Morning Joe Realizes Mitch McConnell Might Not Be SO Evil After All?
Morning Joe has a history of trashing Mitch McConnell, with Joe Scarborough having slimed him as "Moscow Mitch," and even more disgustingly, as "Chokehold Mitch." But on today's show, Morning Joe went out of its way to praise the once [and future?] Senate Majority Leader for his advocacy of Covid vaccinations. In doing so, Morning Joe acknowledged that hearing praise of McConnell might be…

MSNBC Begins to Worry About Ron DeSantis 2024? Check Out This Exchange
Substitute Morning Joe co-host Jonathan Lemire channels the supposed fret of foreign leaders that "there could be a return to Trump or Trumpism if Biden, let's say, serves only one term and Donald Trump or someone like him follows him into office."

AP's Lemire Paints 'Deeply Cynical' Republicans vs. 'Good-Faith' Dems
On MSNBC, Associated Press "reporter" Jonathan Lemire, who moonlights as an MSNBC "analyst," commenting on the January 6th committee, accuses Republicans of a "deeply-cynical move" while praising Democrats "good-faith, bipartisan" efforts.

Morning Joe Suppresses Kamala Hospital Visit, Slurs Walmart Shoppers
Morning Joe's opening segment today consisted of one, long complaint about the unvaccinated hordes that are going to make us all have to mask up again. Mika Brzezinski condescended to the Americans of Walmart, saying they would be "fighting over whether or not they have to wear their masks." Mika can't imagine a mask squabble among the hoi polloi at Saks Fifth Avenue.