Jonathan Lemire

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 Tuesday, MSNBC Morning Joe hosted liberal commentators Molly Jong-Fast and Donny Deutsch and gave the former the floor to suggest that Senator and Republican Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance was “racist” and wanted “more white Children.” But in reality, Vance was in an interracial marriage and had three biracial children.

Somebody might want to run an AI analysis of Eugene Robinson's current Washington Post column: "No, really, Republicans are getting weirder." It'd be interesting to see if it were written in the style of Kamala Harris speechwriters, or some other member of her campaign. He threw the W-word eight times in his column and six times on MSNBC today.

On Morning Joe, they freaked out over Donald Trump joking to Christians they won't need to vote in four years because "we'll have it fixed." Al Sharpton suggested that Trump is planning to eliminate early voting and drop boxes, which would mean that "voting will not matter."

Morning Joe hypes a clip of a staged phone call in which Barack and Michelle Obama call Kamala Harris to endorse her. Jonathan Lemire dismisses as "nonsensical" reports that the Obamas lacked confidence in Harris.

On Morning Joe, MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire warns the MSM not to report Donald Trump's softer new tone. Says Lemire: "I do think we need a moratorium here in the media about Donald Trump's -- praising Donald Trump's new tone. That doesn't ever happen on this show, mind you."

Morning Joe knew "for a long time" that Biden was losing, but it continued to claim that he was doing well, discounting any negative polls. It does put a final nail in the coffin of any pretensions Joe Scarborough might have had of being anything other than an all-in Biden lackey and hack.

After playing a clip of Republican Rep. Eric Burlison jesting that Pres. Biden might be "jacked up on Mountain Dew" at the debate. Joe Scarborough claims that Trump is whining, whimpering, and scared that Biden will beat him badly.

On Morning Joe, Washington Post columnist and MSNBC analyst Eugene Robinson says that if Biden can "remain upright" and "make sense" during this week's presidential debate, that will be a "massive victory."

On Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire, speaking of the upcoming presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, says: "some Democrats have said privately, if Biden has a very bad night, there'll be real worries about whether he can continue forward with his campaign."

Morning Joe gets defensive about videos showing Biden being dazed and confused. They call them deepfakes, although they accurately depict a doddering Biden. They focus on the video of Biden wandering away from a G7 group, but ignore the one of Obama having to guide Biden off stage.

On MSNBC's Way Too Early, political analyst Molly Jong-Fast says that only "low-information voters" would let a conviction of Hunter Biden on gun charges impact their vote. She also claims that the evidence that Hunter lied on his application for a gun license in denying being a drug user is "convoluted," despite the fact that there is overwhelming evidence based on his…

On Morning Joe, Mara Gay, an MSNBC analyst and member of the editorial board of the New York Times, says of Trump: "He's like a caged animal. And that's a dangerous situation. He's feeling very threatened. He's out of control. And so we do expect him to lash out."

On Morning Joe, MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire suggests that Israel's strike on World Central Kitchen workers was intentional, saying "it's hard to reconcile" Israel's "mistake" strike on the workers with its "precision" strike a day earlier on an Iranian general in Syria. That was after Joe Scarborough called for a permanent cease-fire and a two-state solution.