Many of us watch morning television like it's a NASCAR race, just waiting for the wrecks. And boy, Morning Joe really delivered yesterday, when Mika Brzezinski literally pulled a real, live cat out of a tote bag. Her cohost's cat, no less!
As part of the battle for ratings dominance via coverage of the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, the hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe spoke with some experts about the plane Monday morning. (Here "spoke with some experts" = postulated wildly about nothing at all and then yelled at each other. It was a normal day.)
When she's not being steamrolled on a daily basis by Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski takes time to help young women. On Tuesday evening, after a panel discussion at Columbia University Journalism School, Brzezinski took out her phone and called up a friend to see if she could get a young woman who had asked her for…
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It's a little-known fact that Connie Britton (a.k.a. Rayna Jaymes, a.k.a Tami Taylor) was once college roommates with New York Senator and the awesome Kirsten Gillibrand. The pair shared a room one summer while studying Chinese in Beijing.
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Have you watched a man dig a hole with his mouth and then jump in and try to dig himself out (also with his mouth) this morning? If not, I encourage you to check out Donny Deutsch on Morning Joe explaining to Mika Brzezinski, Kathleen Parker, and Alex Wagner why a woman can't be the President until every other country…
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New York Times reporter Kate Taylor's piece "Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too" caused quite a hubbub at this site and many others – so much so that the author is now doing the media circuit, arguing that she's "surprised" by the negative reaction to a story that we've seen time and time and time again.
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Politics nerds can rejoice today, because former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who's currently on a campaign to win both the office of City Comptroller and the hearts of New Yorkers, may have gotten a little teary on MSNBC's Morning Joe Tuesday morning.
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Mika Brzezinski of Morning Joe is very sorry for the disastrous Russell Brand interview that aired last Monday and subsequently went viral. In the original interview, she and her co-hosts were openly rude to Brand — mocking his accent, being poorly researched and talking about him like he wasn't there — and now, after …
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Comedian Russell Brand was invited to appear on MSNBC's Morning Joe yesterday, ostensibly to talk about his controversial world comedy tour Messiah Complex.
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Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are both pretty accomplished media powerhouses. So it makes sense that in a photo of the two of them featured in this month's Vanity Fair, they'd both be posed similarly. Ha! Just kidding. They put Mika on a tabletop kicking her leg in the air and gazing back inscrutably at Joe, who…
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Last night, news broke that Yahoo's new CEO — former Google fixture Marissa Mayer — is six months pregnant. Her new employer was fully aware of the pregnancy when they brought her on, and did it anyway. They didn't care. Zero fucks given. Congratulations and "atta girl"'s echoed through the Twitter echo chamber. But you…
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Colin Powell has never been one to hold his tongue if he disagrees with the Republican party on something—witness his endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008, for instance. And while he's said he's not yet ready to endorse Obama this time around, he doesn't seem to be leaping at the chance to support Mitt Romney either.
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Rick Santorum went on MSNBC's Morning Joe this morning where Joe Scarborough asked him if he regrets bringing the issue of contraception into his campaign. Rickles got flustered and turned pissy fast. He said, "I've never had any record or anything about talking about access to contraception." Umm. Not to cross you, oh …
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What does it take to be a repeatedly steamrolled female cohost to a loudmouth morning television personality? Mothering, exercise, and sexy female assistants, that's what!
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Ann Coulter, edgy youth voice of the American cranky old racist movement, was bleeped on MSNBC's Morning Joe today for calling fellow crab John McCain a "douchebag."
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What do you get after watching Morning Joe every day for three months? Why, thirty goddamn examples of host Joe Scarborough talking over co-host Mika Brzezinski while she tries to complete a goddamn sentence. Honestly, how does she do it?
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In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, Piper Palin is sick of all the bullshit, Sandra Bernhard recounts the first time she met Courtney Love, and apparently, horses can get herpes.
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"On Morning Joe today, Joe Lieberman called me "sweetheart" ... do you really think he meant it??" tweeted Arianna Huffington this morning. Lighthearted, affectionate banter, perhaps? Not quite.
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The woman who tried to set a news brief about Paris Hilton on fire is once again infuriated that her co-hosts would have the audacity to relay news about popular culture.
Sarah Jessica Parker wants to talk about Joe Scarborough's political ideology. Also, she thinks he's in love with Obama. What was that about her new movie? "It's far less interesting than this conversation," Parker said on MSNBC this morning.
