Jonathan Lemire

Morning Joe makes excuses for Biden's pitiful polling numbers.  Elise Jordan says his bad numbers are "overhyped," and not his fault, just something "situational." Joe Scarborough says there would have been high inflation no matter who was president!

On Morning Joe, liberal Ed Luce of the Financial Times discusses his current column, in which he sees similarities between the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and that of Joe Biden. Luce twice describes a current sense of "drift."

The opening segment of the December 23 Morning Joe was one — interminable — tongue bath for Joe Biden. On everything from the omicron variant to the supply chain, to inflation, the panel lavished praise on Ol' Saint Joe. The praise reached its absurd apotheosis with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski twice -- joking-not-joking -- speaking of a "Christmas miracle." Scarborough ended…

Morning Joe was in no mood today to give Donald Trump credit for his vigorous advocacy of the COVID vaccine during an interview with Candace Owens. Nope: it was just a nefarious ploy, with an eye to 2024, to win back the suburbs.

Singling out Josh Hawley and Mark Meadows by name, on Morning Joe Joe Scarborough accuses Republicans of having their "testicle" in a Donald Trump lockbox.

Morning Joe to the rescue to lift Democrat spirits! Today's panel went out of its way to praise Nancy Pelosi as one of the "most successful" Speakers ever. This despite the prospect of her presiding, in 2022, over the loss of Dem House seats counted in the dozens. And Biden's catastrophic poll numbers? Happy days will soon be here again, assures the Morning Joe panel. Covid and inflation will…

Morning Joe was baying for Steve Bannon's blood this morning, demanding that the Justice Department prosecute him for refusing to testify before Congress. Joe Scarborough took things to an outlandish extreme, predicting this dire consequence if the DoJ doesn't go after Bannon and other Trump allies: "I swear to God. Ten, fifteen years from now, if people get away with this now, we're…

On Monday's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and then Jonathan Lemire [who somehow doubles as a supposedly objective AP "reporter" when he's not spouting liberal opinions as an MSNBC analyst] rushed to Biden's defense after he . Lemire adamantly claimed: "Let's be clear here. This was him uttering his opinion. This is very different than what Donald Trump used to do when he was in office…

Morning Joe—in the persons of Scarborough, Richard Haass, Anne Gearan, and Willie Geist—tore into Biden's mishandling of the cancellation of Australia's submarine-building contract with France in favor of one with the US. But Biden had one, lonely, backer: Mika Brzezinski. She piped up throughout the long segment, doing her best to defend Biden.   

Morning Joe defended General Milley this morning. Promising to tip off China to any attack ordered by President Trump? Why, that's "helpful." Milley "didn't do anything wrong." In fact, "we owe him a debt of thanks!" The only "problem" is that Constitution thingy!  Said David Ignatius of the Washington Post: "The problem is, and I think every single thing that was done by those three people,…

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…

All week, MSNBC’s The ReidOut host Joy Reid has shilled for the Biden administration amidst the embarrassing and deadly collapse of Afghanistan that’s trapped thousands of Americans and Afghan allies. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Reid’s spin ranged from arguing this was what the American people wanted to blaming Donald Trump for the calamity to denouncing Afghans and the U.S.…

Marking the 56th anniversary of passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, on Friday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe pushed the panic button when it came to Republican-backed voting reforms advancing in states across the country and the failure of Democrats in Congress to force through a federal takeover of elections. The hysterical panel feared that GOP legislatures enacting new election laws…

Tuesday marked an eventful day at the White House as not only was there a press briefing with Press Secretary Jen Psaki (and a packed one at that), but President Biden gave a speech on the coronavirus and ended up taking questions from eight different reporters on the virus, Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), and illegal immigration. Of course, Fox’s Peter Doocy was a central player in questioning…