Today's Fresh Blogs...

• McCaffrey Mocks Barack's Pakistan Plan: 'Simply Nuts'

  Published: August 7, 2007, 1:39 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Afghanistan, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Barack Obama, Barry Mccaffrey, Hillary Clinton, Willie Geist, Morning Joe, Msnbc, Video

  Iraqi Shias and Sunnis. Geist was not so sanguine. MSNBC'S WILLIE GEIST: Could we possibly stay there long enough, though, to see a reconciliation between Sunni and Shia? We're talking years, possibly generations for that to change, aren't we? Later, looking ahead to tonight's Dem debate, Geist's focus was on which candidate could extricate

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• Pat & Willie Warn: Don't Cross 'Mean Schoolteacher' Hillary

  Published: August 9, 2007, 12:25 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Foreign Policy, Middle East, War On Terrorism, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mika Brzezinski, Pat Buchanan, Willie Geist, Morning Joe, Msnbc

  MORNING JOE GUEST HOST WILLIE GEIST: That's right, that's right. BUCHANAN: Hillary was dead right on that. GEIST: Hillary smacked him around, sent him to his room without dinner. That was quite something. BUCHANAN: She's a mean schoolteacher. GEIST: She is. Boy, I wouldn't want to cross her. Newsreader Mika Brzezinksi, ever the defender of

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• 'Time' Puts Horns on the Reverend Billy Graham

  Published: August 10, 2007, 7:49 pm

  Tags: Christianity, Religion, Billy Graham, Tucker Carlson, Willie Geist, Msnbc, Time, Viagra

  head.Tucker Carlson and Willie Geist took up the matter on Tucker's MSNBC show this afternoon.View video here. MSNBC'S WILLIE GEIST: A guy who has advised presidents, the Reverend Billy Graham on the cover of Time Magazine this week. I know the media is secular, but do they have to rub it in? A nice picture there of the reverend praying,

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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

  View video here. The witty Willie Geist [that's his hand in the screencap giving Mika a sympathetic squeeze], 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?

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• Tom 'Dan-Man' Shales on Memogate: 'This So-called Flawed Report'

  Published: September 20, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Dan Rather, George W Bush, Mika Brzezinski, Tom Shales, Willie Geist, Media Scandals, Msnbc, Washington Post, Journalistic Issues, Video

  forgeries. Substitute anchor Willie Geist interviewed Shales at 8:30 A.M. EDT this morning. View video here. WILLIE GEIST: Tom, why is Dan Rather bringing this suit up at this time? TOM SHALES: I think it's a matter of honor for him. Which is kind of an old-fashioned concept, these days, honor. People don't usually care about it much anymore. I

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• CNN's Newsroom,' MSNBC's Morning Joe' Pile on O'Reilly

  Published: September 25, 2007, 6:26 pm

  Tags: Race Issues, Racism, Bill O Amp 039 Reilly, Don Lemon, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Rick Sanchez, Willie Geist, Cnn, Msnbc

  Gore-style sigh. Guest host Willie Geist went further. "Also, using the term 'blacks.' I don't think anybody's said that since like 1973." Come again? Brzezinski, Geist, and host Joe Scarborough discussed O'Reilly at the top of the 8 am Eastern hour on Tuesday's "Morning Joe." While the cast played the O'Reilly clip for the

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• Mika Fave? Maureen Dowd, of Course

  Published: September 26, 2007, 7:09 am

  Tags: Foreign Policy, Iran, Sex Scandals, Sports, Isiah Thomas, Joe Scarborough, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Maureen Dowd, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Msnbc, Video

  morning's newspaper crop. Willie Geist went first today, and being the pop-culture maven he is, suggested the New York Post's coverage of the sexual harrassment lawsuit that a former female New York Knicks employee has brought against coach Isiah Thomas. Then it was Mika's turn. View video here. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Mika, what are you looking

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• Scarborough Slaps Sharpton For Not Going After 'Moron' O'Reilly

  Published: September 27, 2007, 7:08 am

  Tags: Racial Issues, Racism, Al Sharpton, Bill O Amp 039 Reilly, Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Msnbc, Video

  great indifference when Geist mentioned that O'Reilly had proclaimed NBC's coverage of the flap fair. GEIST [shown giving the thumbs up for the good news]: It looks for the moment like NBC is on his good list. BRZEZINSKI: Wow! GEIST: He laid out the people who should be attacked and who should be ashamed, and he said actually, you know what?

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• Scarborough Still on O'Reilly's Case

  Published: September 28, 2007, 7:09 am

  Tags: Anti Americanism, Foreign Policy, Iran, Racial Issues, Venezuela, Bill O Amp 039 Reilly, Eugene Robinson, Hugo Chavez, Joe Scarborough, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Msnbc, Washington Post, Humor

  of color." Mika and Willie Geist seconded the notion, Geist expressing [well-founded I have to say] skepticism at the "scheduling conflicts" the candidates cited. Aside: in other news, Mika reported that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in Venezuela to meet with fellow USA-hating crackpot Hugo Chavez. Note the uniform of the ceremonial

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• Scarborough: Media Matters Used 'Phony Story' to Go After Rush

  Published: October 2, 2007, 6:55 am

  Tags: Congress, Fact Checking, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Media Corrections, Jesse Macbeth, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Rush Limbaugh, Willie Geist, Online Media, Msnbc, Video

  as Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist combined to debunk the Media Matters allegation, accusing the organization of using a "phony story about a phony soldier" to go after Rush. It began at 6:04 A.M. EDT today, during the "Morning Joe" opening coffee klatsch. View video here. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Now you've got Media Matters

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• Scarborough and Geist repeated Limbaugh's defense of "phony soldiers" comment without noting its holes

  Published: October 2, 2007, 4:05 pm

  Tags: Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, Msnbc, Morning Joe, Attacks On Media Matters, Media, Propaganda Noise Machine

  and contributor Willie Geist discussed Rush Limbaugh's recent description of soldiers who support withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq as "phony soldiers," as Media Matters for America documented. After stating that he had gone "back and looked at the full transcript," Geist asserted that Limbaugh had been "talking about a

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• NewsBusters Making Impact at 'Morning Joe'

  Published: October 2, 2007, 7:45 pm

  Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Fact Checking, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Media Bias Debate, Netroots, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Rush Limbaugh, Willie Geist, Media Scandals, Online Media, Mrc Nb News, Video

  Scarborough and panelist Willie Geist blasted Media Matters on today's "Morning Joe" for using a "phony story" to go after Rush for his "phony soldiers" comment. Joe and Willie recognized the truth of the matter: that Rush had been speaking of one phony soldier indeed, Jesse Macbeth, and not of anti-war

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• MSNBC's Geist, Politico's Brown misrepresented Clear Channel letter on Limbaugh's "phony soldiers" comments

  Published: October 3, 2007, 1:07 pm

  Tags: Willie Geist, Msnbc, Morning Joe, Media, National Security Foreign Policy, Propaganda Noise Machine, War In Iraq

  Morning Joe, contributor Willie Geist and host Joe Scarborough discussed Clear Channel CEO Mark P. Mays' reply to Senate Democrats' September 28 letter calling on him to publicly repudiate Rush Limbaugh's characterization of service members who advocate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq as "phony soldiers." Geist stated that "[t]he

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• Mika's Cheney-Darth Vader Mock Jolts Joe to Dial 1-800-NEWSBUSTERS

  Published: October 12, 2007, 8:29 am

  Tags: Media Bias Debate, Chris Licht, Darth Vader, Dick Cheney, Jimmy Carter, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Morning Joe, Msnbc, Humor, Mrc Nb News, Video

  to the editorial page. WILLIE GEIST [to Mika]: You have to be more subtle about it. SCARBOROUGH: Chris is blaming this on me. BRZEZINSKI: You should be blamed. SCARBOROUGH: Call 1-800-NEWSBUSTERS. And you know what, when I do that [the rare occasions when Joe criticizes Dems] call 1-800-MEDIAMATTERS. BRZEZINSKI: You guys can't take a joke.

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• Mika Tries to Turn Page on Rosie's 9-11 Lunacy

  Published: October 30, 2007, 7:52 am

  Tags: 9 11, Bill O Amp 039 Reilly, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Rosie O Amp 039 Donnell, Willie Geist, O Amp 039 Reilly Factor, Morning Joe, Msnbc, The View, Video

  Back in the studio, panelist Willie Geist begged to differ. WILLIE GEIST: I watched that last night, I went and looked around a little bit. There's a clip, which we'll probably have later in the show, on the View, where she outlines exactly why Building 7 of the World Trade Center was, quote, "an inside job." Mika chimed in to concur.

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