Jonathan Lemire

On Monday's Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle offered a typically overwrought take that if Donald Trump wins the presidency again in 2024, it's a threat to the existence of America as we know it. They can never be moderately alarmed. It always has to be an "existential threat."

The midterm elections are still over a week away and MSNBC has already shifted to warning Republicans not to “overreach” should they win because “the public would turn against them.” Those comments were made by Politico White House bureau chief Jonathan Lemire to Andrea Mitchell Reports guest host Lindsey Reiser on Thursday as she tried to suggest that Republicans risk falling into…

Monday's Morning Joe launched quickly into Trump Attack Mode, bizarrely claiming Donald Trump put out a "dangerous" and "anti-Semitic screed" on his Truth Social account about American Jews and Israel. They bizarrely claimed Trump was endangering the Jews by tweeting about his staunch support for Israel. 

After defending an NBC reporter who interviewed John Fetterman, who in her subsequent remarks said it wasn't clear he understood small talk without closed captioning, Morning Joe turns to trashing Fetterman's opponent Dr. Oz. At one point Mika Brzezinski says that "Dr." should be put in quotes about Oz. Facts: Oz's undergrad degree was magna cum laude in biology from Harvard, and he has a…

On Morning Joe, retired Admiral James Stavridis, commenting on Putin's chaotic call-up of 300,000 conscripts, came up with a truly strange metaphor, saying: "This is like pulling a bunch of bartenders off of Fifth Avenue, and sending them out to the front lines. It's not going to work."

The Morning Joe crew cheerleads for Biden and the Democrats, claiming that there is a "momentum shift and turning point" in their favor, and that Biden and the Dems are "on a roll" and have "the wind at their back" heading into the midterms. 

Morning Joe tried to get viewers’ tears flowing for democracy on Tuesday by bringing on Florida state attorney, Democrat, and lefty-caterer Andrew Warren. Warren was recently suspended by Governor Ron DeSantis for refusing “to enforce Florida's 15-week ban on abortion and gender-affirming care.” Warren’s response? Acting like a free speech martyr and calling DeSantis a “wannabe…

Senior NBC international correspondent Keir Simmons was interviewed on today's Morning Joe regarding the potential swap of Griner and Paul Whelan for a Russian arms dealer. Simmons reluctantly said " sorry to say it, but I think this is an example of where inside-the-Beltway politics is good, probably smart, from the White House point of view's inside-the-Beltway politics, is not good…

The Morning Joe panel blasts Donald Trump for hosting at his NJ golf club a tournament sponsored by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund. Richard Haass, head of the Council on Foreign Relations, opines that 9/11 would not be happy about it. But no mention was made of the condemnation by the 9/11 families of Biden's notorious fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during Biden's…