MSNBC Grills Kirby: You Left People Behind to Taliban ‘Medieval Cult'
Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Tuesday, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby actually faced a grilling over the Biden administration’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan that abandoned as many as 200 Americans and tens of thousands of Afghan allies. The usually friendly broadcast for Democrats hammered the Defense Department spokesman over how so many could have left behind to…
Engel on Afghanistan Debacle: ‘Worst Capitulation of Western Values’
At the conclusion of MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel reflected on the impact of the Biden administration’s “chaotic withdrawal” from Afghanistan. He warned that “the next Osama bin Laden” may be emboldened by the disastrous surrender and that it represented “the worst capitulation of western values in our lifetimes.”
Barnicle Absolves Biden: 'Always Going To End In Chaos and Death'
On today's Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle sought to absolve President Biden for yesterday's terrorist attack that killed 13 American service members and scores of Afghans. Barnicle thrice claimed that "it was always going to end this way, chaos and death." Translation: it was inevitable. Nothing Biden could have done better. Move along.
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…
WashPost's Max Boot on Afghanistan: Trump and Pompeo 'Need to Shut Up'
On Morning Joe, Washington Post columnist Max Boot says that Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo "just need to find a good opportunity right now to just shut up and stop criticizing" Biden's mishandling of the Afghanistan withdrawal. Boot argues that it was Trump and Pompeo who originally set the withdrawal in motion, and are now in no position to criticize what Boot admits is Biden's "very…
Ignatius: Afghanistan ‘Really Difficult’ for White House Self-Esteem
Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Thursday, Washington Post columnist and associate editor David Ignatius sympathized with “shell-shocked” White House staffers for which the catastrophe in Afghanistan has “been really, really difficult.” The concern for the emotional well being of top Biden aides came amid discussion of the President’s disastrous ABC interview in which he…
Alcindor on Afghanistan: Biden 'Not Running Away From Responsibility'
On Tuesday's Morning Joe, after Willie Geist pressed Yamiche Alcindor hard, twice asking whether the Biden administration understood the gravity of the Afghanistan situation, Alcindor, of PBS and MSNBC, responded: "I think it’s been very clear to me in talking to White House officials that they understood the gravity. This is a 20-year war spanning multiple presidencies. And President…
NBC's Engel Blasts Biden: 100 Times Worse than Saigon
In all my many years of blogging MSM outbursts against Republican presidents, I've never seen anyone angrier Richard Engel about Biden's Afghanistan fiasco. Well, there was Keith Olbermann. But for present purposes, let's leave aside the clinically disturbed. In a piece with which Morning Joe opened today's show, Engel absolutely unleashed on the Biden administration. Rolling heartbreaking…
MSNBC Hack on Afghanistan: Biden Couldn't Foresee, 'Boxed In' By Trump
Today's Morning Joe offered the spectacle of a stunning contrast between two Democrats, one principled, the other totally cynical, on the issue of Biden's Afghanistan fiasco. On the one hand, Mika Brzezinski. As anti-Trump as ever, but passionately blaming Biden for "leaving to die" Afghans who had helped America. Mika also said that as much as Trump can be blamed, ultimately, "Joe Biden made…
Afghanistan: Scarborough Scoffs At Biden Aide's 'No Abandonment' Claim
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough scoffs at the claim by Biden's State Department spokesman who said of Afghanistan that "this is not abandonment. This is not an evacuation. This is not the wholesale withdrawal." That's "exactly what it is," retorts Scarborough. And retired Navy Admiral and Supreme Allied Commander Europe James Stavridis says calls the abrupt Biden withdrawal a "very dark moment…
On MSNBC, Mayor Says 7-Year-Old Kid Cried Happy Tears for Mask Mandate
On Morning Joe, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, who had obtained a temporary restraining order, blocking Gov. Greg Abbott's order prohibiting schools from mandating masks says, "I had someone tell me yesterday that their seven-year-old daughter cried when she heard the ruling because she felt like finally somebody was caring about them and their health."
Scarborough: 'Death Cult' Parents Trust 'Jesus' Instead of Science
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says parents who send their children to school without wearing masks because they believe "Jesus" will protect them are members of a "death cult."
Unhinged Morning Joe: DeSantis a Covid 'Criminal'
Morning Joe on Tuesday ripped into Ron DeSantis for perceived Covid sins. Washington Post editor and MSNBC analyst Eugene Robinson said Republican Florida Governor DeSantis' prohibition of localities mandating masks, and talk of withholding the pay of school officials who try to mandate them, was "criminal." Mike Barnicle passionately agreed, saying that…
Hateful Mika LIES, Trashes ‘DeSantis Variant’ Governor as ‘Death Cult'
After prolonged exposure to Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski has come down with a bad case of the Scarborough sickness: that of endlessly repeating a phrase. We've seen multiple flare-ups of poor Joe's affliction. With Joe away, Mika jumped on his repetition hobby horse on today's Morning Joe. Her phrase: "death cult." In the opening segment, she used "death cult" no fewer than eight times to…
