The cast of MSNBC's Morning Joe put out another goofy, mock behind-the-scenes promotional video today. This one showing the team's pre-show routines. Willie Geist shares a bottle of champagne with some models; Joe Scarborough smokes and plays dice; Mike Barnicle rides a Rascal scooter to work after sleeping in a park, and Mika Brzezinski, Read More
Chuck Schumer made a football analogy while talking government shutdown on Morning Joe today.
"We are on the one-yard line, but Republicans in the House are making a goal-line stand on women's health," he told the hosts.
And Schumer, who has gotten into some trouble with his messaging recently, laid the blame entirely at the G.O.P.'s Read More
Andrew Cuomo has been in office fewer than 100 days and the ink is still not dry on his first budget, but the political pundits are already discussing a possible 2016 presidential run in earnest.
On today's Morning Joe, New York magazine writer Chris Smith, who wrote a big profile of Cuomo's first 100 Days Read More
Tom Golisano continues his push for the elimination of the electoral college system.
Earlier today on Morning Joe, Golisano said, "the candidate who gets the most votes in a presidential race, should always win the White House."
Pat Buchanan countered, calling the electoral college system is Read More
Rolling Stone executive editor Eric Bates spoke on MSNBC's Morning Joe today about the editorial process behind the magazine's explosive profile of General Stanley McChrystal. Mr. Bates emphasized that the general and his aides knew they were on the record for all of their candid remarks — including a now viral one where Read More
Jon Meacham was on Morning Joe today discussing one small gaffe within The New York Times' scoop about Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and his presentation of his military service in Vietnam.
Mr. Blumenthal, who is running for the senate, has been saying that he served in Vietnam when he was really in the Marine Read More
Is softball code for lesbian? Short answer: yes, says Pat Buchanan.
"Women's softball has been associated with lesbians and being gay for a long time," said Mr. Buchanan on MSNBC's Morning Joe about Elena Kagan. "That's been sort of a signal like two men sunbathing together on a beach, or something like that. The immediate Read More
Over the weekend, Liesl Schillinger wrote a lengthy piece about MSNBC's Morning Joe for the Sunday Styles section of the the New York Times. Therein, it was revealed that Nora Ephron, the writer of such classic romantic comedies as "Sleepless in Seattle" and "When Harry Met Sally," regularly enjoys obsessing over the on-air Read More
For awhile, it looked like Kirsten Gillibrand might never go on Morning Joe.
Ms. Gillibrand has been judicious in her television appearances since she became a senator last January, and has reportedly declined invititations to step into what seemed like particularly hostile territory--what with host Joe Scarborough offering to knock on doors for her Read More
After voluntarily suspending his MSNBC contract during his quasi-campaign, Harold Ford Jr. went back to the friendly confines of Morning Joe this morning to talk about why he had left the race. (A spokesperson for NBC confirmed his contract as an analyst is back on.)
Here's a summary:
"The notion that liberals didn't accept me Read More
"I want to stir it up, Schumer!" hollered Morning Joe's
On the morning of January 15, when Harold Ford Jr. appeared for one of his regular guest gigs on Morning Joe, Willie Geist introduced the prospective senator as, simply: "MSNBC political analyst and chairman of the D.L.C., Harold Ford Jr."
"Doing nothing else, just hanging out," quipped Joe Scarborough.
And then Chrystia Freeland of the Read More
Morning Joe's mix of "hard news, politics, [and] intellectual rigor" looked like a good bet a year ago, but now it's "struggling to hang onto viewers," reports Felix Gilette. And its ratings woes come at a pivotal moment for NBC Universal:
Currently, teams of bankers are combing over every detail of the company's books in preparation Read More
Joe Scarborough held up a copy of The New York Times. It was Monday, Nov. 16, and earlier in the morning The Times had published a piece about Newsweek, which had recently laid off 13 staffers. Quarterly ad revenue at the newsweekly was down 48 percent versus last year. That said, according to The Times, Read More
Not long ago, shortly after dawn, Don Imus sat behind a live microphone and let his mind linger for a moment on Hillary Clinton’s wardrobe. The day before, he had watched Harry Smith on CBS’s Face the Nation interview Secretary of State Clinton about such things as Iran’s nuclear ambitions. What, Mr. Imus now wondered, Read More
