Sam Stein

Was that David Plouffe? Brian Fallon? Maybe the Second Gentleman himself? Surely no one from outside the inner circle of Kamala Harris' campaign would have the chutzpah to use the term "soaring rhetoric" to describe Kamala Harris' pedestrian-at-best performance during her CNN interview last night! But no! It was actually Jeremy Peters, an MSNBC contributor and New York Times "reporter…

It was a tale of two networks on CNN and MSNBC in their 6 am hours today. CNN This Morning devoted a long opening segment to the strike that reportedly killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran. Meanwhile, over on Morning Joe, Joe and Mika might be on vacation, but under the baton of Jonathan Lemire, that same crucial opening segment was all about "cat ladies," "weird,"…

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough mocks Rudy Giuliani for marketing his own eponymously named coffee brand, lamenting, "Unfortunately, this is our world, 2024." Scarborough apparently forgot that for years, he's had his own "Morning Joe" brand of Starbucks coffee.  Scarborough also slurs Trump voters as "stupid."

Morning Joe mocks Speaker Mike Johnson for partially blaming the Republican loss in the NY-3rd special election on an Election Day snowstorm. But the show ignored the fact that Democrats enjoyed a major advantage over Republicans in early voting and mail-in voting, and thus were not as affected for same day voting by the snowstorm.

On Morning Joe, David Ignatius, the Washington Post columnist and Morning Joe regular, repeatedly sighs while trying to defend Biden Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for his failure for several days to inform the White House of his ICU hospitalization for complications from cancer surgery.

The Morning Joe panel unanimously condemns people like Dem Rep. Pramila Jayapal and others who refuse to unequivocally condemn Hamas' use of rape as a tool of war. 

On Morning Joe, Willie Geist says that Trump lawyers John Eastman, Sidney Powell, and Rudy Giuliani make frequent TV appearances because they "crave" attention. Meanwhile, Geist himself is omnipresent on NBC and MSNBC, with eight different gigs.

On Thursday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, co-host Mika Brzezinski, Politico White House editor Sam Stein, and former Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) desperately peddled crazed claims about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. They claimed a new ProPublica report on Justice Thomas’s gifts received while in office was evidence he was being bribed in order to rule in favor of…

As President Biden prepares to travel to Arizona to declare a new national monument around The Grand Canyon, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell used her Tuesday show to lament how people’s basic needs to heat their homes and not break their wallets over gas prices have hurt his ability to cut back on fossil fuels. Mitchell and Politico White House editor Sam Stein also insisted that those gas prices have…

Fox & Friends leads with the expected testimony before a congressional committee by Devon Archer, a former business colleague of Hunter Biden, that Joe Biden was aware of and involved in Hunter's influence-peddling schemes. Meanwhile, Morning Joe trashes Trump for raising the Biden-Burisma connection, but fails to make any mention of Archer's expected testimony.

On Morning Joe, Eugene Daniels of Politico says that Ron DeSantis has adopted an anti-woke approach to the teaching of American history because he and others feel that "we can't teach the correct history of this country, because it makes white kids uncomfortable."

As the cast of Thursday’s Morning Joe discussed the latest non-scandal involving Justice Clarence Thomas, co-host Joe Scarborough condemned what he saw as conservative hypocrisy, declaring that if Thomas were Justice Sonia Sotomayor the reaction would be very different. He said this as Sotomayor faces ethical questions of her own.

A giddy Stephanie Ruhle could hardly contain her excitement on Monday’s The 11th Hour as the MSNBC host applauded Democrats for “fighting like Republicans” on alleged GOP hypocrisy on student loan forgiveness. As a result of all the pom-pom waving, facts were forced to take a back seat.

For the second weekend in a row, Politico’s Sam Stein guest hosted MSNBC’s Velshi. On this Saturday, Stein accused pro-lifers in Kansas of “essentially trick their citizens into voting away their own rights” on an upcoming ballot measure on August 2.