Media
Joe and Morning Joe
Los Angeles Times, “MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ tries to keep cable news smart while expanding to four hours”
Ever since MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” became a cable news breakfast staple nearly 15 year ago, its three hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist have gotten stopped by viewers who offer thoughts about the three-hour show, which airs live across the country starting at 6 a.m. on the East Coast or 3 a.m. in California…Read more here.
Variety, “MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski on Trump and Why ‘Everyone’ Should Ban Kellyanne Conway From TV”
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski long ago put to rest the notion that morning shows had to be fluffy and light to gain traction among the toast-and-orange juice crowd. Their “Morning Joe,” co-hosted with Willie Geist, has become an MSNBC must-stop for anyone seeking to divine how Washington works — or doesn’t…Read more here.
Boston Globe, “Scarborough, Brzezinski get a little political at Harvard”
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, coanchors of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and current Fellows at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, have a lot to say about President Trump.
But they mostly restrained themselves at a town hall-style conversation with Harvard students Wednesday night…Read more here.
GQ, “Joe Scarborough Has Big Dreams (Including 'Trump: The Musical')”
At the center of America's schizoid political-fame complex, there sits Joe Scarborough, a congressman turned TV star who somehow built the most influential show in Washington despite never wanting to be a mere morning-show host…Read more here.
Vanity Fair, “Joe Scarborough Has a Little Secret . . .”
The band began playing at 8:30 sharp—the exact call time for the evening’s gig—a punctiliousness perhaps less rock ’n’ roll cool than cable-news precise. Its front man, after all, was Joe Scarborough, the 53-year-old host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and the band, naturally, goes by the name Morning Joe Music. The players—a group of talented, scruffy-looking guys in jeans—formed a constellation around Scarborough not unlike Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle, and Donny Deutsch do on-air every morning…Read more here.
New York Times, “Up Front”
One of Scarborough’s biggest fans is Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who said of him: “Joe speaks his mind without fear or favor, because he puts his country before his party. . . . That independence is what makes Joe Scarborough such a valuable voice in American politics.”…Read more here.
New York Daily News, “The GOP pied piper of common sense”
That is what makes Scarborough’s voice so valuable. Angry when it needs to be, always armed with the facts, it reminds us that truth is not a commodity to be cheaply peddled by the likes of Roger Ailes and the Koch Brothers …Read more here.
Time, “Time 100 Joe Scarborough”
As a group, cable-television talk-show hosts are not exactly known for independent political analysis that is free of partisan favoritism, but that is exactly what makes Joe Scarborough, 48, so refreshing — and so important. Joe's approach to politics is the same as mine: call 'em like you see 'em, and even if people don't agree with you on every issue — and they won't — they will respect you for being honest…Read more here.
New York Times, “Joe and Mika, the Odd Couple of Morning TV”
LAST week on the North Lawn of the White House, the morning after the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski held court on the grass, presiding over a special Sunday edition of their MSNBC daily news program, “Morning Joe.” As they sat beside one another in directors’ chairs — Mika in a black evening gown with a plunging neckline; Joe in a dinner jacket (sans tie), both of them wearing dark sunglasses — they exuded the reckless, easy glamour of old-style Hollywood stars: Rock Hudson and Doris Day (but Doris Day with a tan and killer abs)…Read more here.
New York Times, “Morning in America”
Joe Scarborough was walking in his neighborhood, near 66th and Broadway, one afternoon this spring when he felt a tap on his shoulder. It was Harry Smith, the avuncular co-host of CBS’ The Early Show… Read more here.
New York Times, “TV Host Is in His Prime With a Morning Audience”
More important, perhaps, the three hours of hard-core political chat (often laced with humor) that Mr. Scarborough and his co-hosts, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist, put on each day is unlike anything else on morning television. Little wonder that every major presidential candidate has made at least one stop at Mr. Scarborough’s desk since fall — including Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose husband Mr. Scarborough voted to impeach — and that throughout the broadcast Mr. Scarborough’s Blackberry continuously vibrates with e-mail messages from the candidates’ surrogates…Read more here.
Tampa Bay Times, “Joe Scarborough's peculiar personality”
The quirky newspaper has further established Scarborough as the oddest member of the Florida delegation. He is a Republican who prefers hanging out with Democrats (he says they're more fun). He is a fierce critic of the media who runs a newspaper. He is a conservative who writes songs about transvestites and taking bribes…Read more here.
Op-Eds by Joe
The Atlantic, “America Is Doing Just Fine”
As Americans celebrated the Fourth of July by watching baseball, fireworks, and Joey Chestnut hammering home his 16th win in the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, poor Uncle Sam labored through the mid-summer celebration beleaguered and under siege from all sides. News items over the course of the holiday weekend reported that Americans were feeling more skeptical of their country’s future and less patriotic. Seventy-four percent believe America is headed in the wrong direction, and a great majority dread the presidential rematch America seems doomed to face…Read more here.
Washington Post, “Opinion: Trump is killing the Republican Party”
I did not leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left its senses. The political movement that once stood athwart history resisting bloated government and military adventurism has been reduced to an amalgam of talk-radio resentments. President Trump’s Republicans have devolved into a party without a cause, dominated by a leader hopelessly ill-informed about the basics of conservatism, U.S. history and the Constitution…Read more here.
Washington Post, “Opinion: The GOP must dump Trump”
The Muslim ban, the David Duke denial, the “Mexican” judge flap, the draft dodger denigrating John McCain’s military service, the son of privilege attacking an immigrant Gold Star mother and the constant revisionism and lying about past political positions taken are but a few of the lowlights that have punctuated Donald Trump’s chaotic chase for the presidency…Read more here.
Men’s Health, “Perfect Match”
I am a meat-and-potatoes, Southeastern Conference, barbecued-ribs-and-sweet-tea-on-a-Saturday college football fan. I was a quarterback from the time I was 9 years old until I graduated almost 10 years later, and I grew up with a healthy contempt for soccer players and soccer fans. Like all God-loving Americans, I heaped abuse in the general direction of effete soccer followers and mocked their Eurotrash pastime just for sport…Read more here.