http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/morning_joe This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Morning Joe en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200806170012 MSNBC's <em>Morning Joe</em> aired an excerpt from Al Gore's endorsement speech of Sen. Barack Obama, in which Gore said, "After the last eight years, even our dogs and cats have learned that elections matter." Joe Scarborough then stated: "[H]e lost me with the dogs and cat thing." But MSNBC edited out the part of Gore's comments that provided the context for his "dogs and cats" remark. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806170012 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:12:24 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200806120010 On <em>Morning Joe</em>, host Joe Scarborough insisted in eight different segments of the program that Sen. Barack Obama's campaign had a strategy to highlight Sen. John McCain's age, failing to note the denials of Obama campaign surrogates Susan Rice and Sen. John Kerry that their description of McCain as "confuse[d]" referred not to McCain's age but, rather, to numerous misstatements that McCain has made. Scarborough also asserted that Obama's claim that McCain had "los[t] his bearings" was evidence of a strategy to "mak[e] him out to be a doddering old fool" while failing to provide the context of Obama's comment -- a response to a smear by McCain in which he accused McCain of violating his pledge to avoid negative campaigning. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806120010 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:51:18 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200806100015 Fox News' Carl Cameron falsely suggested that Sen. John McCain acknowledged weakness on economic issues only once, "[i]n one of those marathon interactions with reporters on the bus," while NBC's Andrea Mitchell baselessly asserted that McCain was "obviously joking" when he admitted his lack of knowledge about the economy. In fact, McCain has made such an acknowledgement on numerous occasions over the course of the campaign, and when confronted with one such remark at a Republican presidential debate, McCain did not respond by asserting that he had been "joking" -- he suggested he hadn't said it. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806100015 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:07:17 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200806090015 On <em>Morning Joe</em>, John Harwood once again described Sen. John McCain as a "maverick," claiming that McCain's criticism of the media is in part "a way for John McCain, who has been such a maverick, to try to unify the Republican Party." Harwood has repeatedly referred to McCain as a "maverick" or having a "maverick brand." http://mediamatters.org/items/200806090015 Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:51:37 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200806040008 Discussing in February a <em>New York Times</em> article about Sen. John McCain's ties to lobbyists, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle, and Pat Buchanan criticized the <em>Times</em> for its use of anonymous sources. However, Scarborough, Barnicle, and Buchanan offered no such criticism in their discussions of a <em>Vanity Fair</em> article that also relied on anonymous sourcing in purporting to report on "post-presidential sexual indiscretions" by former President Bill Clinton. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806040008 Wed, 4 Jun 2008 17:47:51 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805270001 On MSNBC's <em>Morning Joe</em>, Tucker Carlson said of Sen. Hillary Clinton, "Look, she's a trapped animal, there's absolutely no question about it. As I've thought to myself many times, if you've ever tried to get your cat in a box, you know what Hillary Clinton is doing right now." Carlson then imitated a screeching cat, and added, "with all four paws out, all the hair standing up? Look, she is in feral mode." Later in the segment, Mika Brzezinski referred to Clinton as "the cat in a box, as Tucker so aptly put it." http://mediamatters.org/items/200805270001 Tue, 27 May 2008 12:09:33 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805220005 On <em>Morning Joe</em>, Mike Barnicle and Pat Buchanan discussed whether "sexism [will] play a key role in what went wrong" in Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, with Barnicle saying that "reality," not sexism, "will play a much larger role in what has happened," and Buchanan asserting that, while "there's resistance to a woman being the nominee," "the fact that she's a woman has helped her." But Barnicle has referred to Clinton as "looking like everyone's first wife standing outside a probate court." Buchanan has described Clinton's voice as "rising to the level that every husband in America at one time or another has heard." http://mediamatters.org/items/200805220005 Thu, 22 May 2008 15:00:43 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805130011 On <em>Morning Joe</em>, John Harwood described Sen. John McCain as a "maverick" without noting any of the numerous actions McCain has taken that undermine that characterization. Harwood later asserted that McCain "voted against Bush's tax cuts" without noting that McCain reversed his position on the tax cuts and now calls for making them permanent, or that he has since offered a different explanation about why he voted against them than he gave at the time. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805130011 Tue, 13 May 2008 21:08:45 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805130010 On <em><em>Morning Joe</em></em>, Chris Matthews stated: "If you talk to people, older women, and I don't mean older than me, but maybe my age and older, and you talk to them, and they get really angry at me, of course. ... They usually have a hard time figuring out what the fact I was wrong on, but that's OK." But <em>Media Matters for America</em> has documented numerous "fact[s] [he] was wrong on." http://mediamatters.org/items/200805130010 Tue, 13 May 2008 18:54:19 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805010007 MSNBC's Joe Scarborough stated that Sen. Barack Obama has "the most liberal record in the Senate, according to the <em>National Journal</em>," but he did not mention a respected, comprehensive vote study that found Obama was the 10th most liberal senator in 2007. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805010007 Thu, 1 May 2008 17:32:27 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804280006 Despite the availability of expenditure reports showing that Sen. John McCain's campaign used a corporate jet owned by his wife's company over a seven-month period beginning in the summer of 2007, several members of the media asserted earlier this year that McCain flew coach when the campaign was low on funds. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804280006 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:59:32 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230006 On <em>Morning Joe</em>, after Pat Buchanan said of Sen. Hillary Clinton's speech following the Pennsylvania primary that "only once or twice did that voice start rising to the level that every husband in America at one time or another has heard. You know, where it starts going up -- " Joe Scarborough said, "Be careful here, Buchanan." Chris Matthews added, "Go the other way. You're in the danger area. ... You're in the danger area, Pat, take my advice." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230006 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:29:35 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804160010 On <em>Morning Joe</em>, John Harwood asserted that Sen. John McCain's speech on the economy "trying to go after ... corporate greed" demonstrated that his "maverick brand is intact," and that "this is a guy who has established a brand for himself that has endured ... despite that phase in 2007 when he was getting a lot of flak for sort of flip-flopping and trying to court the right." However, <em>The Washington Post</em> reported that "tax cuts, mostly for corporations and wealthy individuals, remain the centerpiece of McCain's economic agenda." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804160010 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:08:16 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804160008 <em>The Hill</em>'s A.B. Stoddard asserted of Sen. John McCain: "[H]e is seen as so nonpartisan, someone who has bucked his party so many times, if he did something even nakedly partisan now, we'd all have trouble seeing it that way." In fact, McCain has reversed his positions on numerous issues to align himself more closely with his party's base. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804160008 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:51:44 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804150007 MSNBC's Joe Scarborough falsely claimed that Sen. Barack Obama said of Americans with religious beliefs: "Your faith, the faith of your fathers, the faith of your grandfathers, the faith of your grandmothers -- it's just a crutch. It's just a crutch. You only believe that because you're bitter, because you're poor, because you didn't go to college, because you're working class." In fact, Obama said that "in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania," people are "beaten down" and "feel ... betrayed by government," and "it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804150007 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:25:47 EST