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Open Thread: Joe Scarborough's Skinny-Jean Caucus
Most of you guys probably have a favorite candidate or two for the caucus tonight, and so an open thread is probably bound to get rather heated as folks debate the merits of their respective choices. So in our attempt to unite everyone around a common foe, here's a topic starter: What's with Joe Scarborough wearing skinny jeans on air this afternoon?
February 1st, 2016 6:29 PM
Jeb! Surrogate to Jorge Ramos: Bush 'More Latino' Than Cruz or Rubio
Former U.S. Treasurer and current Jeb Bush surrogate Rosario Marín goes on Univision's Al Punto, and essentially affirms Jorge Ramos' campaign of racial disqualification against Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio
February 1st, 2016 5:16 PM
NBC, ABC Offer Fawning Puff Pieces Hailing Bernie’s ‘Revolution’
After conducting live softball interviews with Hillary Clinton on Monday, NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America both devoted admiring full reports to the Bernie Sanders campaign as well, both touting his “political revolution.”
February 1st, 2016 5:01 PM
Andrea Mitchell Helps Young Iowan Voter Find His Way
Iowa is known for having voters make last minute decisions on caucus day. Andrea Mitchell kept audiences on the edge of their seats while chronicling this internal conflict in one Democrat sophomore college student, Gabe Schabilion. Well the wait is finally over! Gabe announced his final decision on Monday afternoon: “I’ll actually be caucusing for Hillary.”
February 1st, 2016 4:57 PM
Chris Matthews Changes Election Prediction in Just Over a Minute
If you want Chris Matthews to change his mind, just wait a minute. In just over a minute on Morning Joe today, Matthews changed his election prediction from agreeing with Joe Scarborough that Trump would win the Iowa caucuses and that Bernie Sanders would squeak out a victory to changing his prediction to a win by Hillary Clinton. However, the most fascinating part of his quick change of…
February 1st, 2016 4:50 PM
New York Times Gushes at 'Hillary Clinton's Ease with Faith'
New York Times political reporter Amy Chozick is once again trying to warm up Hillary Clinton’s bitter-cold image with a Saturday story headlined “Some in Iowa Surprised by Hillary Clinton’s Ease With Faith.” As they have since 1992, liberal journalists play the “Methodist card” when they want to imbue their favorite social-justice warrior with a Christian sparkle.
February 1st, 2016 4:35 PM
Matthews: Bernie Sanders a 'Radical Risk' Democrats Won't Take
Hillary Clinton will win the Iowa caucuses tonight, MSNBC host Chris Matthews predicted as he closed out an interview Monday afternoon with Clinton senior strategist Joel Benenson because "there's going to be a spine there of her supporters" in Iowa and the "Democratic Party is ready for a radical risk" when "they think they can win this one."
February 1st, 2016 2:58 PM
Joe Scarborough: Hillary's E-mails are 'Safe to Talk About' Now
It only took the State Department to withhold 22 of Hillary Clinton’s emails for the media to report “about how advanced this investigation is” admitted Joe Scarborough on Monday’s Morning Joe. “Is it safe to talk about it now?” Scarborough recalled, referring to a conversation he had with a network executive.
February 1st, 2016 12:53 PM
MSNBC's Harris-Perry Likens Illegals to...the Fugitive Slave Act?
The left-wing hootenanny that is the Melissa Harris-Perry show went off the rails again on Saturday morning, with the host and her National Public Radio guest somehow comparing illegal aliens in Flint, Michigan to the Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Act. As if someone in America was enslaving the illegal immigrants?
The topic was the Flint water scandal, a favorite MSNBC obsession.…
February 1st, 2016 11:49 AM
ABC, NBC Skip E-Mails With Hillary; CBS Presses Her on Scandal
While all three network morning shows conducted live interviews with Hillary Clinton on Monday ahead of the Iowa caucus, only CBS This Morning actually brought up her ongoing e-mail scandal. NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America both ignored the issue and lobbed softballs to the Democratic frontrunner instead.
February 1st, 2016 11:48 AM
Pundit: Why Won’t Conservatives Admit They’re the GOP Establishment?
The kids in The Family Circus blame their misbehavior on gremlins with names like Ida Know and Not Me. The Week’s Damon Linker believes grown-up conservatives do something similar when they deny what Linker sees as the plain truth: that they run the Republican party.
In a Tuesday column, Linker contended that the right-wing “counter-establishment” that first gained a share of power in 1981 now “…
February 1st, 2016 10:10 AM
Sucking Up to Sanders: Liberal Media 'Feels the Bern'
With polls showing Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders running neck and neck with Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire, it’s clear Sanders has benefitted from his own cheering section in the liberal media. Instead of laughing off the candidacy of a candidate who is so left he spent his honeymoon in the USSR, members of the media couldn’t contain their excitement over how…
February 1st, 2016 10:02 AM
Andrea Defends Hillary: 'I Don't Think There's Legal Culpability'
Hillary Clinton's criminal defense attorney made a surprise appearance on today's Morning Joe, saying . . . oh, wait: that wasn't Hillary's lawyer--it was Andrea Mitchell. Same difference.
Relying on her sources, Mitchell asserted "I don't think there is the legal culpability here." Andrea first suggested that Hillary lacked "intent." Joe Scarborough pushed back hard, noting that the statute…
February 1st, 2016 8:59 AM
NYT Sportswriter Makes Left-Wing Cut onto QB Cam's Racism Bandwagon
New York Times sportswriter William Rhoden jumped on the latest leftist bandwagon on Sunday, heartily supporting controversial comments by the Super Bowl-bound Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton. Newton was quoted in the Charlotte Observer accusing critics of his showboating post-touchdown antics of being racist. It’s been twenty-eight years since Doug Williams became the first black…
February 1st, 2016 8:34 AM