The Republicans simply can’t get enough of the whackjobbery, can they? This weekend is the annual CPAC conference at the Omni Shoreham in Washington. They’ve got the usual suspects speaking, and last night the big stars were John Bolton and Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media. Bolton joke...

New Yorker senior editor Hendrik Hertzberg appeared on Wednesday's "Morning Joe" and compared Rush Limbaugh to 1960s segregationist and Ku Klux Klan member Bull Connor. He also linked Barack Obama to Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King. According to Hertzberg, "And I'm not saying t...

“Stop that!� said Mika Brzezinski, who plays cohost to Joe Scarborough on the morning radio program The Joe Scarborough Show. “No, no, no. You know what? That’s what you do when you want to win a fight.� “No, I want you to answer the question,� said Joe Scarborough. “I’m not fighti...

The theme gets wider and deeper by the day. Cheney, Bush, Duncan Hunter, Karl Rove, Bill O'Reilly, William McGurn and a multitude of others all say torture works. They hint, or say directly, that Barack Obama would be foolish to give it up. They declare this would put America at risk of another 9/11...

Someone stole $6 from MSNBC's Mika Brzezinkski, outside her fancy Washington DC hotel. It was such a terrible mugging that Joe Scarborough complained about it, to the mayor, on the TV! Details are scarce, but we know the mugger approached Mika outside her hotel and asked for $20, as muggers usually ...

In case you didn't see this message from "Rahm Emanuel" (played by Andy Samberg of "Dick in a Box" fame) recorded for Saturday Night Live, but, strangely, unplayed on Saturday's show... I love when the line between reality and satire gets so thin.... After all, Rahm Emanuel really does talk that way...

Very Early News Roundup Joe Scarborough became more and more agitated as the presidential campaign drew to a close. The more obvious it became that John McCain and Sarah Palin were screwing up the race, the more panicked he became. Yesterday morning on “Morning Joe” Mr. Scarborough dropp...

You know, it never fails. Those who preach their brand of "decency" the loudest, who see it as their appointed purpose to tell the rest of us how to think and talk, sooner or later turn out to be the worst offenders themselves. Not that saying "fuck you," on television or in a song lyric, or in any ...

Or: Blame It On The Cheetos, Joe ... I'll have to look up and research Morning Joke Scarborough's position on "No Child Left Behind" Of course, after this morning's incident, we may find that Morning Joke refers to it as "Giving The Child A Kick In Their Fucking Asses" Oh My! If he didn't take Keith...

"Someone called me a redneck woman once, and you know what I said back? 'Why thank you,'" quipped the Divine Mrs. P at one of her rapturous rallies yesterday. She's on a roll, and media fuddy-duddies are falling in droves (see below). Above, statue by Rudolph Tegner (1873-1950) of Sarah Pa...