What’s so appalling about Joe Scarborough is that one day, probably after his old MSNBC primetime show “Scarborough County” flopped, he made a conscious decision to seek fame and money by allowing the media to use him against his own party and country. Some
When August’s jobs numbers were announced Friday morning, Joe Scarborough immediately pronounced them “good news for the President.” Announcing the drop in unemployment from 8.3 percent to 8.1 percent, Joe added, “Ladies and gentlemen, what you call that is a
Tampa Bay Times reporter Steve Bousquet speaks to ‘Morning Joe’ host Joe Scarborough on Tropical Storm Isaac and Charlie Crist.
On ‘ Morning Joe’ Scarborough attacked the American people for not knowing what was in the over two thousand page Health Care act
JOE SCARBOROUGH: What do you think, Mika? Do you think, do you think it’ll work: blaming George Bush? MIKA BRZEZINSKI: A-h-h-h, well, I’m hopin’. But I think it’s a tough sell. And I still don’t know what the freakin’ metaphor
Joe Scarborough told the MSNBC panel while discussing the gay marriage political firestorm last week that Joe Biden’s people are being “frozen out” of the White House as punishment for his opinion.
Referring to President Obama’s new campaign slogan, “Forward,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough got protective of his network’s slogan “Lean Forward”. “‘Forward.’ Really? That’s it, huh? So is Fox’s slogan going to be — is Mitt Romney’s slogan going to ‘Balanced’? He’s
Joe Scarborough today on his show Morning Joe went after the right’s reaction to the Trayvon Martin case
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pointed out the double standard whereby the left calls Christie a “bigot” for his position on same-sex marriage, the same group gives President Obama standing ovations at gay and lesbian events.
When presented with a rumor about him by one of his aides, Abraham Lincoln was said to have remarked, “For people who like this sort of thing, this is the kind of thing they will like.” Whether it’s the debunked
JOE SCARBOROUGH: What presidential candidate received more money from Wall Street than any other president in the history of the United States? [Long pause.] SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER: Well, I guess you mean Barack Obama.
Also notice how uncomfortable Mika gets when Joe Scarborough begins to challenge the Democrat Senator.
Once a fierce and vocal opponent of Glenn Beck, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough had a glowing assessment of Mr. Beck’s recent comments regarding the 2012 GOP presidential field. Including his preference of a third party run by Ron Paul rather than
On Morning Joe, a consensus emerges that Barack Obama doesn’t believe he has failed America, but rather that America has failed him. Joe Scarborough encapsulates, saying Obama sees our version of democracy as “a stumbling block to his greatness.”
I can’t shake the feeling that while she’s talking about Obama, she’s thinking of hastily Photoshopping Lady Di heads onto model bodies for more creepy Newsweek covers. Tina Brown was asked her opinion on the President’s tenure on “Morning Joe.”
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough calls out Mika Brezinski for her double standard in defending Joe Biden for his fear-mongering about an increase in rape if Republicans don’t vote for Obama’s latest tax-raising stimulus plan. Scarborough says Brzezinski would
Many of you sent me a video of Herman Cain’s 9/11 tribute. Many individuals have made such tributes; they’re all over Youtube and making the rounds via email. There is no shame in honoring what we lost as a country
Joe Scarborough and the panel on “Morning Joe” discuss Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa’s controversial introduction of President Obama at a Michigan Labor Day rally.
“We’re getting hit a lot lately for not bringing on people who speak on behalf of the White House and really stick up for the President.” … Joe Scarborough pointed out moments later, when the show researched its guest list,
With many in the media focusing on Sarah Palin’s possible Presidential ambitions, her bus tour, her uncontroversial emails, etc., they say almost nothing about the actual GOP candidates expect for multiple iterations of “they’re boring.” While this may or may
Like all too many Americans TIME Magazine proves that it doesn’t know what is worth celebrating, noting, or memorializing in this world. Time doesn’t know what “important” means, it doesn’t know what “influential” means, it doesn’t even know what “top”
I must still be recovering from Grandma’s super strong amaretto slushes at the first of our family Christmas parties this past weekend because I could have SWORN that Joe Scarborough almost sounded like a Big Journalism writer here: [youtube VS3MPDXmRyk
A day after Joe Scarborough dialed up the phony outrage in a Politico opinion piece, claiming that Palin was insulting and tearing down “Republican giants” like Reagan and both Bushes to “build her weak résumé,” Morning Joe brought on Nicole
Seriously, again? MSNBC said Friday that it is suspending “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough for two days after he acknowledged giving eight previously unknown $500 contributions to friends and family members running for state and local offices during his tenure
So late last night, I stumbled onto Joe Scarborough’s column on Politico, calling for a “higher level of debate.” There, he built a condo in Jon Stewart’s butt, saluting the comedian’s attempt to challenge “extremists of all stripes.” He swoons,
Via the indispensable NewsBusters, even USA Today can’t carry this much water: There’s awful, and then there’s atrociously, hilariously awful — a line NBC and Jimmy Smits soar across with Outlaw. A gambling, womanizing, conservative Supreme Court justice who chucks
Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” discussed news coverage Thursday of President Obama’s “We’re buying shrimp” response to reporters who asked about the Iraq War.
Joe Scarborough confronts Rep. Anthony Weiner on the first-responder’s bill and the congressional dispute that caused a screaming match on the House Floor and cable news networks.
On the June 8th “Morning Joe” round table. Discussion of the Drudge Report’s headline describing President Obama’s salty language as “Going Street” Joe Scarborough: “I thought we were beyond this…”
Time for a POLL: 1. Is director James Cameron helping and truly trying to be helpful with the Gulf Oil Spill? 2. Is Cameron’s raging “those guys are morons” ego completely out of control but because he’s King of the
NewsBusters: Joe Scarborough might not have won any brownie points with his employer, but he gets credit for candor.
It’s certainly arguable whether Joe Scarborough, the host of the now nearly unwatchable haute–gabfest, Morning Joe, on MSNBC, is a conservative, but whatever he is, he’s too much for Canadian-born actor Donald Sutherland. Consider this, from the Huffington Post: Are
It’s quite a stretch to call The Nation‘s Max Blumenthal a journalist. A real journalist is free to have an opinion and even to express it, but he doesn’t fabricate things to make his subject look bad. A real journalist
NewsBusters: Joe Scarborough has expressed serious doubts as to his Republican affiliation, and made clear that House GOP whip Eric Cantor “is not my friend.” But caution to those who assume Joe has gone left: he has clarified to this
NewsBusters: Does the name Jeremiah Wright ring a bell with Mika Brzezinski? The Morning Joe co-host sought today to explain the pass Pres. Obama gave Harry “negro dialect” Reid by claiming that PBO has “worked to transcend racial issues for
Also on part three of Thursday’s show: The Daily Show invades The New York Times.
MSNBC’S Joe Scarborough shows bewilderment that Fred Thompson offered support for the commutation of Scooter Libby. Yet Thompson has been a very public defender of Libby and even sits on his legal defense advisory committee.
http://ianschwartz.com/2007/06/11/video-rather-slams-couric-for-dumb-it-down-kind-of-news/ On Joe Scarborough’s morning radio show, former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather attacked his successor, Katie Couric. Rather says CBS’ ratings are declining due to the “dumb it down†type of news that came with Couric, the former
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough defends his previous statement about Fred Thompson’s wife working “the pole,” claiming people misinterpreted what he meant because of blog coverage.
Joe Scarborough asks a risquà question about the wife of potential presidential candidate Fred Thompson.