How... unfortunate?

Heh. On his own show this evening, Chris Matthews took umbrage with his early-morning colleagues on Morning Joe for what he sees as their apparently oh-so-irksome tendency to be “open to all people’s points of view on that show.” Yes, how very… uhm… dreadful of them? Via NewsBusters: Screw ups are not need for penitential [...]

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Scandal.

Via Newsbusters, if you’ve got reporters now saying stuff like this on the air at Obama TV, you’ve got something. I’m pleasantly surprised that she named two different scandals as big deals, as there seems to be a developing strategy (on Twitter at least) among lefties to choose just one as the “real scandal” as [...]

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"We're going to have a debate about ideas."

Mark Sanford won the runoff election and the Republican nomination to replace now-Senator Tim Scott in South Carolina’s 1st CD, with a special election in a little under five weeks against Democratic nominee Elizabeth Colbert Busch next on the horizon. Sanford’s convincing win even in a low-turnout runoff would normally give the GOP some confidence [...]

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Obviously.

Womp. Sometimes I wonder if some of these MSNBC panelists will ever be able to resist the temptation to play into caricatures of themselves and maybe stick to intellectually honest, reasonable argumentation instead of descending into despicable race-card territory, but just last week Chris Matthews was once again musing on how it is that anyone [...]

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Mm hmm.

Via Mediaite, I thought the public editor was the one person at the Times deputized to acknowledge the plain fact that yes, the paper is indeed overwhelmingly, glaringly liberal. Two of Sullivan’s predecessors went even further than that and actually accused the Times of letting its “coverage” of certain issues turn into out-and-out cheerleading for [...]

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"I’ve told the governor I would now like, frankly, to do that."

After an initial demurral on the question, Barney Frank has changed his mind about taking a temp job across the corridor on Capitol Hill.  Joe Scarborough asked the retiring Rep. Frank whether he’d consider accepting a temporary appointment to fill John Kerry’s Senate seat while Massachusetts arranges a special election, and Frank not only says [...]

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Concern.

Two clips for you on this slowest of news days from Newsbusters and Mediaite. Today’s meme du jour is distinct from Friday’s alleging that Republicans like McCain and Graham are racist and sexist for picking on Obama’s designated stooge in the Benghazi mess. That meme’s still alive and kicking — James Clyburn pushed it this [...]

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"Every day they're spending in Pennsylvania is a day they're not spending in Ohio."

Just how much has this race changed since the first debate in October?  At the time, Democrats thought they had a pretty good glide path to a narrower win in the Electoral College than in 2008, but a win nonetheless.  Almost four weeks later, the Obama campaign is having to buy air time in states [...]

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Fantastical!

While most of you were still sleeping, I was getting up early (even for us Midwestern types) to make my first appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.  Some of you were awake and tweeting me about going into the lion’s den, but I like Morning Joe because it has at least some diversity of opinion and [...]

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Hope.

We didn’t circle back around to the NBC/WSJ poll after the initial tease yesterday morning, but Joe Scarborough and his team certainly did.  Mark Halperin, who was one of the few national journalists to note that Barack Obama didn’t outline a second-term agenda in his second debate, discovers an important clue as to why, on [...]

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Losing the argument.

A couple of weeks ago, Jazz Shaw wrote that conservatives should consider Morning Joe a good forum to have for moderates and independents that tune into MSNBC to get some semblance of the truth.   We’ve already noted Mark Halperin’s cutting criticism of Team Obama’s “Bindergate,” and this is another piece of data that these viewers [...]

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Plus: More Burton bumbling.

As they say, it’s not the disgusting Mitt-murder ad that gets you. It’s the disgusting Mitt-murder ad cover-up. Mika does not approve. Allow Allahpundit to walk you through what the Obama campaign knew when. Short version: I’m Stephanie Cutter and I know nothing about this guy and his story, and it’d really make things easier [...]

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"Gone are the days when the Republican party used to put forward big, bold visionary stuff."

I can see why he’d feel that way. We could have done the pragmatic thing and nominated a smart, handsome, centrist, technocratic former governor with a connection to Utah. But instead we’re probably going to nominate … a smart, handsome, centrist, technocratic former governor with a connection to Utah. He’s not fantasizing here about a [...]

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