Mika Brzezinski Joe Scarborough Daniel Chandler MSNBC Morning Joe 12-24-24
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Scarborough Scours the 'Evil Geniuses' Redistributing $$$ to the Rich

December 24th, 2024 10:31 AM

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…

Symone Sanders Alicia Menendez Michael Steele MSNBC The Weekend 12-22-24
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Before Mocking Trump Nominee, Michael Steele Should Have Read His Bio

December 22nd, 2024 10:05 PM

Michael Steele and Symone Sanders, co-hosts of MSNBC's The Weekend, mock Donald Trump's appointment of Mark Burnett as a special envoy to the UK. Steele and Sanders dismiss Burnett as simply having been the producer of The Apprentice. In fact, Burnett, a British native who served in the Parachute Regiment of the British Army, has been the massively successful producer of…

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MSNBC’s Weekend Despair Over Media Rolling Over for ‘Tyrant’ Trump

December 22nd, 2024 11:21 AM

There was an air of despair on MSNBC’s The Weekend on Sunday morning, as an anti-Trump panel expressed outrage about the President-elect’s various lawsuits against journalists and news organizations, but also despair that the liberal media establishment is failing to step up as leaders of the #Resistance, singling out ABC News for its $15 million settlement earlier this month.

MSNBC’s Ruhle: Republicans Want to Cut Funds to ‘Children With Cancer’

December 20th, 2024 7:02 PM

Stephanie Ruhle took shots at Republicans in their Congressional struggle between a government shutdown and raising spending during her segment on Thursday during The 11th Hour. Claiming their tactics of running the government like a business as incomplete, Ruhle made digs towards the party’s choice in cutting programs. Though David Drucker provided pushback explaining the eventual…

Jonathan Lemire Michael Tomasky MSNBC Morning Joe 12-20-24
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On Morning Joe, Tomasky Blames 'Right-Wing Media' For Trump Popularity

December 20th, 2024 11:19 AM

On Morning Joe, New Republic editor Michael Tomasky blames tne "right-wing media" for the public's approval of Trump's transition.  He singles out Rupert Murdoch for particular opprobrium. Tomasky is nostalgic for the days when there was "common civic agreement about basic morality in public life." Translation: when the liberal media set the agenda.

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MSNBC Swerves Around NY Times Noting Biden Couldn't Do Four More Years

December 19th, 2024 12:18 PM

Thursday's front page at The New York Times featured a story headlined "Biden, Wearied and Stinging, Prepares to Exit." White House reporters Peter Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs were blunt in the third paragraph about Biden's twilight. "Time is catching up with Mr. Biden....it is hard to imagine that he seriously thought he could do the world’s most stressful job for another four years…

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Reid Mocks CEOs and Republicans for Support of 'Toddler' Trump

December 18th, 2024 4:02 PM

MSNBC’s Joy Reid perhaps may never come to terms with President-elect Trump’s November victory. Tuesday night’s episode of The ReidOut included the host hilariously downplaying Trump’s entire campaign while ridiculing the various CEOs and Republican politicians who had voiced their support for Trump.

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The Brian Stelter Award for Worst Quote of the Year

December 18th, 2024 10:45 AM

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.

Eddie Glaude Mike Barnicle Mika Brzezinski Joe Scarborough 12-18-24
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Scarborough Desperately Clings to Wisconsin to Downplay Trump Win

December 18th, 2024 9:01 AM

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.

Good Move, Comcast: MSNBC Fell Behind NewsNation in Saturday Beatdown

December 17th, 2024 5:42 PM

As per new Nielsen Media Research data from this weekend, MSNBC’s precipitous ratings decline hit a new low when the 28-year-old network has fallen behind NewsNation, which has only been around three years and added around-the-clock news programming on June 1. On Saturday, NewsNation topped MSNBC in the key 25-54 demographic for a total of six hours with the noon Eastern hour and then from 2:…

Tim Ryan Mika Brzezinski Joe Scarborough MSNBC Morning Joe 12-17-24
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Bernie Sanders Kvetching About Billionaires? No, It's Joe Scarborough

December 17th, 2024 5:27 PM

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.

MSNBC Whines About Defamation Settlement,Fearmongers 'Chilling Effect'

December 16th, 2024 9:51 PM

MSNBC’s Sunday shows followed a characteristically redundant script while discussing the newly reached settlement in President-elect Trump’s defamation suit with ABC News. The hosts were evidently convinced that the case spelled disaster for the “free press” as the Republicans realized their malicious plans, straight from the “playbook in authoritarianism.”

The Proliferation of Democrats’ Buts

December 16th, 2024 2:48 PM

Democrats are slowly, but surely, building a permission structure for progressive activists to kill those they determine are bad. From the rise of antisemitism to, now, the murder of an insurance CEO, few Democrats seem capable of condemning violence without adding a “but.” To their credit, Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania have condemned both without buts.…

Elise Jordan MSNBC Morning Joe 12-16-24
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Morning Joe: 'Retrograde' Hegseth Would Take Military Back to Crusades

December 16th, 2024 12:05 PM

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."