Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Brzezinski: Democrat's Affair 'Not Pressing,' No Objection to Vitter Coverage

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:57 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Dc Madam, Double Standards, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Media Bias Debate, Political Scandals, Religion, Sexuality, Antonio Villaraigosa, David Vitter, Joe Scarborough, John Ridley, Mika Brzezinski, Mirthala Salinas, Morning Joe, Msnbc

  reporter and "Morning Joe" regular showed off her famous sense of journalistic integrity while filling in for host Joe Scarborough on Monday morning. In the first half hour, Brzezinski played a video of a journalist trying desperately to get an interview with Antonio Villaraigosa, the Democratic mayor of Los Angeles. Villaraigosa has

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• Brzezinski Reverses on Villaraigosa Story: 'That Story's Important'

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:42 pm

  Tags: Animal Rights, Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Dc Madam, Double Standards, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Media Bias Debate, Political Scandals, Sexuality, Antonio Villaraigosa, David Vitter, Joe Scarborough, John Ridley, Mika Brzezinski, Mirthala Salina, Morning Joe

  MSNBC's "Morning Joe" for the vacationing Joe Scarborough, Brzezinski aired a video of a female reporter chasing after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Before she could catch up with the mayor however, the reporter was intercepted by a very large security guard and sent barreling into the side of what appeared to be a

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• Scarborough falsely claimed "Obama's people are saying, 'We don't want to debate anymore' "

  Published: August 20, 2007, 12:58 pm

  Tags: Joe Scarborough, Msnbc, Morning Joe, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections, Media, Propaganda Noise Machine

  during MSNBC's Morning Joe on August 20, host Joe Scarborough asked, "Any news out of the debate yesterday other than [Sen.] Barack Obama's [D-IL] people are saying, 'We don't want to debate anymore'?" Obama's campaign, however, has not said that Obama "do[es]n't want to debate anymore." Rather, in an August

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• Scarborough: Military groups, like the VFW, give the GOP "standing ovations" but are "very cool" to Dems

  Published: August 23, 2007, 6:11 pm

  Tags: Joe Scarborough, Msnbc, Morning Joe, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections

  of MSNBC's Morning Joe, in discussing President Bush's speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) convention, host Joe Scarborough stated that "you always have the VFW, and you always have military groups, giving Republicans standing ovations and being very cool to people like [Sen.] Barack Obama [D-IL] and [Sen.] Hillary

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• MSNBC silent so far on Carlson comments

  Published: August 30, 2007, 3:41 pm

  Tags: Amy Robach, Joe Scarborough, Monica Crowley, Tucker Carlson, Msnbc, Msnbc Live, Scarborough Country, Tucker, Civil Human Rights, Lgbt Issues

  of MSNBC's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough also referred to Carlson's claim of having been "bothered" in the men's room, but did not mention that Carlson "went back with someone," even though Scarborough was a guest on Abrams' show when Carlson recounted the alleged high school incident. During the August 28 show,

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• Buchanan, Scarborough claimed that a military strike against Iran would be popular, but polls suggest otherwise

  Published: August 30, 2007, 4:48 pm

  Tags: Joe Scarborough, Pat Buchanan, Msnbc, Scarborough Country, Iran, National Security Foreign Policy

  of MSNBC's Morning Joe, MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan suggested that U.S. officials were "laying down a predicate" for "military strikes" on Iran. Buchanan claimed that an attack on Iran is "comin[g]" and went on to assert that a military strike against Iran would be "a very popular initial move." Host Joe Scarborough

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• 'Morning Joe' Shout-Out: 'Call NewsBusters Now!'

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:27 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Media Bias Debate, Fred Thompson, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe, Msnbc, Mrc Nb News, Video

  taking her potshot, but Joe cut her off. JOE SCARBOROUGH [presumably speaking to producer Chris Licht]: Hey, can you call NewsBusters?BRZEZINSKI: What? SCARBOROUGH: She's in the newscast [and offering an anti-Fred opinion]. Call 'em. Just call 'em right now. BRZEZINSKI: I'm just saying that it was stylistically underwhelming. What? I can't

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• 'Morning Joe' Peeps Perplexed OBL Pop-Ups Help GOP

  Published: September 7, 2007, 7:38 am

  Tags: 2008 Campaign, Democrats, Republicans, War On Terrorism, Bill Clinton, Chuck Todd, Joe Scarborough, John Edwards, Matthew Felling, Osama Bin Laden, Morning Joe, Msnbc, Video

  on today's "Morning Joe." At 6:40 a.m. EDT, reacting to the news that OBL is planning to release a new video to mark the sixth anniversary of 9-11, Host Joe Scarborough expressed his perplexity to NBC News political director Chuck Todd. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Hey Chuck, we see Osama Bin Laden is appearing again, coming to a computer

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• Media continue to tout Democrats' campaign finance issues, but not Republicans'

  Published: September 9, 2007, 1:23 pm

  Tags: Craig Crawford, Joe Scarborough, Msnbc, Morning Joe, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections, Hillary Clinton

  of MSNBC's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough said that Norman Hsu -- a Democratic contributor and fund-raiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) campaigns -- was "on the lam again," referring to Hsu's failure to appear in a San Mateo, California, court on September 5 to address charges pending against him. Scarborough

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• Mark Levin vs. Morning Joe: Arianna Allowed to Slash Petraeus

  Published: September 13, 2007, 11:19 pm

  Tags: Iraq, Arianna Huffington, Joe Scarborough, Mark Levin, Morning Joe, Msnbc, Blogs

  Mark Levin laid into MSNBC's Joe Scarborough over a Thursday morning interview with Arianna Huffington. (He calls the host "the Morning Schmo.") Scarborough had no answer for Huffington when she stoutly defended the MoveOn.org ad bashing Gen. David Petraeus. She added: "And again and again, despite the administration's best efforts

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• NewsBusters Notwithstanding, Mika Says 'Misleading' Bush Speech Made Her 'Mad'

  Published: September 14, 2007, 7:09 am

  Tags: Democrats, Iraq War, Surge, George W Bush, Harry Reid, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Nancy Pelosi, Morning Joe, Msnbc, Mrc Nb News, Video

  opened today's "Morning Joe" with an intrepid assault on President Bush, undaunted by the rhetorical fire she knew it would draw from NewsBusters. View video here. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Not a lot of fans, though, in the Democratic party, about what the president said last night. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Well, I think first of all, I was hoping he

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• Scarborough's Sop: 'You've Opened Your Heart Even More'

  Published: September 18, 2007, 8:46 am

  Tags: 2008 Presidential Election, Universal Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Joe Scarborough, Morning Joe, Msnbc, Video

  were leaving his mouth, Joe Scarborough acknowledged that he was going to get "killed by conservative bloggers." And being the obliging sorts we are here at NewsBusters . . . Joe's interview of Hillary Clinton on today's "Morning Joe" was one long paean to her greatness coupled with a mea culpa for the wrongs that he

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• 'Bubbles' Brzezinski: SATs Were Not My Strong Suit

  Published: September 20, 2007, 6:56 am

  Tags: Education, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Boston Globe, Humor, Video

  sitting in for the ailing Joe Scarborough [we certainly hope our item of Tuesday didn't contribute to his discomfiture] added a bit of ageist insult to injury. WILLIE GEIST: By the time I came around, we had writing. BRZEZINSKI: Really? GEIST: Yeah. BRZEZINSKI: Are you that much younger? GEIST: Just kidding. BRZEZINSKI: Thanks a lot, Willie!

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• Rather: 'Nobody Has Proved Documents Were Fakes'

  Published: September 21, 2007, 9:31 am

  Tags: Dan Rather, George W Bush, Joe Scarborough, Mary Mapes, Mika Brzezinski, Media Scandals, 60 Minutes, Cbs, Msnbc, Journalistic Issues, Video

  read the apology, Dan? Host Joe Scarborough remains out on sick leave, but had called in and listened to the exchange. When it was over, he wasn't as accepting of Rather's claim as Mika. JOE SCARBOROUGH: He said that these documents have yet to be proven false. I guess I need to go back and take a closer look at it, and I'm not being facetious

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• Dan Abrams Takes MSNBC Evening Slot; Scarborough Replaces Imus

  Published: September 25, 2007, 8:48 am

  Tags: Media, Dan Abrams, Don Imus, Joe Scarborough, Msnbc

  reports; that means that Joe Scarborough will remain in the morning position previously occupied by Don Imus.     MSNBC said today that Dan Abrams, who has been the host of a 9 p.m. news hour called Live with Dan Abrams temporarily since July, will stay in the job permanently, leaving behind the managerial position he had

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