Joe Scarborough

Defending Biden’s ‘Mental Acuity,’ Trashing Trump Cabinet Nominee
With President Joe Biden’s imminent departure and Donald Trump’s return to the White House the leftist media have spent the last month making last gasp defenses of Biden’s “mental acuity” while trashing Trump cabinet nominations (like Pete Hegseth) as a “throwback” to the “11th century.” The following are the most obnoxious outbursts from the leftist media over the last month:

Scarborough Claims Soviets Blame Carter and Mika's Dad for End of USSR
In a fit of world-class revisionism, Morning Joe credits Jimmy Carter, more than Ronald Reagan, for the fall of the Soviet Union, and analogizes Carter to Abraham Lincoln.

Bitter-Clinger Joe Scarborough Cries: 'It Was A 1% Election!'
On Morning Joe, Scarborough climbed up on his hobby horse, and for the umpteeth time since November 5th wailed about how it was only a "1% election." Forget that Trump won EVERY swing state. That he won the popular vote. That the overwhelming proportion of districts, red and blue, swung right. Scarborough also tried to make the case that things were better under Biden than he was given credit…

Scarborough Leads Trump Certification With Suicide of Capitol Hill Cop
Joe Scarborough leads his comments on the certification today of Trump's victory with a story about a Capitol Hill police officer who committed suicide after J6. But he left out some important details.

Morning Joe Edits Out 'Best Biden Ever' Losing His Way In NOLA Remarks
In the clip it airs of President Biden's remarks on the ISIS-inspired terror attack in New Orleans, Morning Joe edits out the moment when Biden totally loses his ability to speak and has to scramble his way back.

Scarborough Scours the 'Evil Geniuses' Redistributing $$$ to the Rich
Last week, we caught Joe Scarborough banging his desk in frustration as he inveighed against "billionaires" and wondered how the Democrats could possibly have missed the "layup" of beating the Republicans in November's election, given the disparity in income between those billionaires and working class Americans. Today, Scarborough made it clear that he has signed on to the project of…

The Brian Stelter Award for Worst Quote of the Year
It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel led by MRC President L. Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and declared a winner.

Scarborough Desperately Clings to Wisconsin to Downplay Trump Win
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough repeatedly cites the election results in Wisconsin to downplay the scope of Trump's win. He doesn't mention that Trump flipped the state after having lost it in 2020. Scarborough also buries the fact that the electorate shifted right in all 50 states, and in 89% of counties.

Bernie Sanders Kvetching About Billionaires? No, It's Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough is frustrated by the Democrats having lost Ohio to the Republicans, despite low household income in Ohio, and yet voters supporting a Republican government "of, by, and for" billionaires. If you just read the transcript, you might have thought it was Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont, not Scarborough.

Morning Joe: 'Retrograde' Hegseth Would Take Military Back to Crusades
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says that Pete Hegseth's views on women in the military would take us back to the 11th century. Calling him a "retrograde throwback," MSNBC Republican Elise Jordan says his views would take us back to "the Crusades."

MSNBC: Republicans 'Cheated' to Win House with 'Rigged' Districts
This past week, several MSNBC hosts pushed a sore loser narrative that the Republican House majority was won because of "rigged" congressional districts, with one host even claiming Republicans had been "cheating basically."

Scarborough Makes Like He's Never Heard the Phrase 'Lived Experience'
Reacting to a clip in which accused murderer Luigi Mangione speaks of "lived experience," Joe Scarborough pretends to be unfamiliar with the phrase, saying "What does that mean? It's lived experience?" He later goes on a rant, criticizing the qualifications of Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth.

Scarborough Exploits Penny Acquittal To Suggest Trump Fairly Convicted
On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough somehow exploited the acquittal of Daniel Perry in his trial in NYC to suggest that Trump was fairly convicted by a jury there. Said Scarborough: "A jury of his peers found him not guilty. A lot of people that were also screaming when a jury of peers found Donald Trump guilty, of course. They [the jurors] were dismissed as hacks. Well, in the same…

Axios Calls Fox Viewers 'Right-Wing Grandpas'—But MSNBC Audience Older
Morning Joe devotes a segment to an Axios article, Shards of glass: Inside media's 12 splintering realities. The notion is that depending on demographics, people get their information from very different media silos. One of the categories is "Right-wing grandpas,' a reference to Fox News viewers. What is not revealed is that the average age of Fox News viewers is 68, whereas the average age of…