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Heres the VIDEO of Lawrence O'Donnell going overboard on a guest on the Morning Joe show on MSNBC. It got so bad that Joe had to shout into the mike to "GO TO COMMERCIAL!-I'LL INTERVIEW HIM MYSELF!"

Here is video of the MSNBC Morning Joe Crew collectively making fun of and hating on Gov. Sarah Palin today. It is a sight to behold how truly mean and petty a group of "professionals" can be toward a person they do not like. From Joe Scarborough saying she just does not express herself like a top-tier Presidential Candidate, to Andrea Mitchell making fun of some notes she had written on her hand, to Chuck Todd calling her a quitter in a sarcastic tone of voice, it was total pile-on. For someone they believe is a lightweight and incapable of...

Here is video from Morning Joe today where a gushing Joe Scarborough quoted Mike Allen and likened President Obama's performance at the GOP House Conference last week to "Ted Williams" hitting a fastball served up by the GOP. He was talking to liberal Al Hunt, who agreed that Obama "hit it out of the park" with a "dazzling performance." Clearly the inside-the-beltway media were dazzled by Obama - as they usually are. But that does not mean the American people were as dazzled by Obama's lecturing tone. . . . (VIDEO)

VIDEO of Mika mocking Palin for picking George Washington as her favorite "FOUNDING FATHER" and then Mika picks Abe Lincoln... Last time I checked Lincoln WAS NOT a founding father........... So who's the real Ditz???

Dec 22: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) says insurance and drug lobbyists won the health care debate and that Congress will need to revisit the plan, as it is not sustainable. Video MSNBC/Sanders InterviewClick on Bernie Sanders

For anyone wondering why an increasing number of conservatives now use the term "state-controlled media" to refer to television networks and newspapers, here's one that drives the point home.

Donny Deutsch is host of The Entrepreneurs, a primetime special profiling the success stories of America’s entrepreneurs on CNBC. I thought I would introduce him to you because I didn’t know who he was until he appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today, and I assume you haven’t heard of him before either. As said, despite him being an absolute nobody, hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough invited Deutsch to appear on their show nonetheless. ‘Why?’ I wondered, ‘why would they invite somebody no one has ever heard of?’ The answer to my question came after only a few minutes: that’s...

Who is Nancy LeaMond? That's what I wanted to know after watching AARP's Exec. VP defending her organization's endorsement of ObamaCare to Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe today. Click, Wikipedia, click: whaddayaknow? Turns out that before coming to AARP, LeaMond was a senior Clinton administration appointee and a top Dem congressional staffer. Surprise, surprise! View video here.

Here is video of a Morning Joe Panel today discussing Sen. Joe Lieberman's statement that he will not support a Health Care Bill with a "Public Option." They said Lieberman has signaled he will simply not support what the Democrats are trying to do, and they tried to say it is because he is too closely tied to the Insurance Industry. The whole panel was made of liberals - Mika Brzeznski, Mike Barnacle, and Lawrence O'Donnell - and you can tell they are really put out with Lieberman! . . . (VIDEO)

Here is video of Robert Gibbs on "Morning Joe" talking about Afghanistan. Gibbs was asked when he thinks Obama will make a decision on Afghanistan. He answered "I think in the coming weeks, I think in the next several weeks the President will make a decision and announce that decision and talk to the American people." Gibbs was also asked "does the President still consider Afghanistan a war of necessity?" He answered "absolutely." (Video)

So why can't Anita Dunn use Beck's red phone? This is hilarious!

After ripping Rush Limbaugh yesterday, Morning Joe sports reporter Fred Roggin today announced he would henceforth be keeping his mouth shut on the subject--after getting an earful from his wife. As we noted, during his Morning Joe sports slot yesterday Roggin took a number of shots at Rush and his quest to purchase an interest in the NFL's St. Louis Rams. Among other barbs, Roggin falsely claimed that Rush had been "canned from ESPN for racist remarks about Eagle's quarterback Donovan McNabb." A chastened Roggin had this to say this morning . . . View video here.

When candidate Obama talked about bringing us all together, this is presumably not what he had in mind . . . There was surprising consensus on today’s Morning Joe around the fact that this is an arrogant White House. It was press secretary Robert Gibb’s boast—responding to Pres. Bush’s rather mild remarks–that “we kept score last November and we won” that set things off. Willie Geist analogized it to an athlete whose team is ahead telling an opponent to “look at the scoreboard.” Pat Buchanan took it from there, with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and even John Harwood, not known...

<p>Was Joe Biden giving solid advice . . . or sewing the seeds of panic? Asked on Today this morning how he’d counsel family members in light of the swine flu, the Veep said he wouldn’t take a plane, a subway train, or be in any other confined space.</p>

Draw your own conclusions. Personally, I think more of us should be crying.

That’s Erin Burnett holding up a $100 billion Zimbabwe bill. It will buy you about three eggs. Could the USA be on the road to becoming the next Zimbabwe? Very doubtful. But the threat of high inflation is very real, and that’s what prompted Erin to display the bill during her Morning Joe appearance today. The CNBCer was responding to Joe Scarborough’s questioning about the inflationary risk of the government’s decision, announced yesterday, to create $1 trillion out of thin air that it will use to buy Treasury bonds and mortgage securities. View video here.

Are today’s politicians and bureaucrats smarter than the ones we had a few years ago? Apparently so, since the new fad in the political set is to claim that we can avoid future financial crises via “smarter” regulation. We saw a perfect example of the phenomenon on Morning Joe today. First in a clip from Tim Geithner, then in live comments by two pundits, all agreed that smarter regulation is our salvation. There are only a few little problems with that theory . . . View video here.

Brzezinksi fears class warfare. Not Mika. Zbigniew. And not Barney Frank on the Meet the Press. Real, blood-in-the-streets riots. Jimmy Carter’s former National Security Adviser expressed his concern about the possibility of riots on Morning Joe today. To stave them off, he proposes the creation of a voluntary National Solidarity Fund, whose contributors would be the fat cats who have made out well in recent times. View video.

So what if Tim Geithner freaked out Wall Street to the tune of a 382-point Dow dive? Wall Street wasn’t really his audience. That, according to Andrea Mitchell, is the Obama administration’s defense of Geithner’s universally-panned performance on Tuesday. Mitchell appeared on Morning Joe today. It was David Gregory’s “who’s-in-charge-here” question and Joe Scarborough’s ripping of Geithner’s claim that he’d only been there two weeks that prompted Mitchell to speak up for the Obama administration. Next time I’m in a jam, I’d hope to have an advocate as passionate as Andrea. Watch 38 second into the video, as Mitchell can...