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Dr. Katz and America’s “Fat” Week

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “If you’re not obsessed with food and, for that matter, sex, you’re not really normal. Because food and sex are about survival and obsession with them is hard-wired into us. Food is about surviving in our own lifetime. Sex is about surviving as [...]

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With Mika Away, Joe Scarborough Does His Worst on Women in Combat

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “There will obviously be limits, correct, for certain assignments women can do based on physical ability. [..] There’s a reason why there are no women are in the NFL… there’s a difference physically between men and women. Can we say that in 2013? [...]

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The Debate Over Obama’s Boys’ Club Resurfaces

WAKING UP every day and listening to the acrimony on morning political shows, represented today through “Morning Joe,” is bound to color the rest of your day. How can it not? The conversation is toxic on most the cable channels, which ratchets up when the conversation turns to the continued minority of women who hold [...]

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Joe Scarborough: What Voting Problems in Florida?

MEDIA MATTERS catches the moment where Joe Scarborough makes light of what’s been going on in Florida, which I wrote about early this morning. “It’s absolutely a story,” David Gregory added. And, yes, so is Benghazi, which I’ve been covering more than any other liberal in new-media. In response to these reports, Brzezinski said “We’ve [...]

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Mika Brzezinski Slams Romney for Remarks Now Exploding Into “Bindergate” [Video] *Updated*

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy THIS IS pretty remarkable and it should be sobering for Democrats, but especially Team Obama who once led with women by double digits over Mitt Romney. Brzezinski is an Obama supporter who has close ties to the White House and the clip above [...]

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News Desk: After Continued Killings, Coalition Sharply Reduces Joint Operations with Afghans

IT TOOK too long and the ultimate message still hasn’t been received, but at least there is a decision that acknowledges reality. From the New York Times: After years of tightly intertwining its forces with Afghan troops, the American-led military coalition has sharply curtailed ground-level operations with the Afghan Army and police forces, potentially undercutting [...]

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Joe Scarborough Talks to “Intelligence People,” Unloads Anti-Muslim Rant

MORNING INFOTAINMENT in a microcosm. Joe Scarborough just can’t help himself. While intending to exalt himself through his important sources, a daily grind, he trips over his own ignorance through his haste to regurgitate what he’s been told. “You know why they hate us? I talked to intelligence people all weekend. They hate us because [...]

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Time Channels Tina Brown, Gets Attention

THE TIME COVER produced a whine from Mika Brzezisnki and Gillian Tett on “Morning Joe.” “I’ll tell you why it bothers me. It bothers me because it’s a profile of Bill Sears,” Brzezinski said, suggesting, as Tett did, that the cover was a cheap shot. [Politico] Whoosh… That’s the sound of the subject matter attached [...]

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Sunday Sermon: Jeremiah Wright, Baptizing the Dead, and Aspirin Between Her Legs

Ironically, Lawless noted, all the attention to contraception at the moment may end up boosting the overall public standing of the 2010 health care law. Free preventive health care, whether it’s a cancer screening or the pill, may well become as popular as provisions like allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ health plans [...]

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Joe Scarborough’s Weird DM Twitter Rant Invades My Weekend

*updated below* So much for keep calm and carry on, what Joe Scarborough proclaims to be his motto. It was the weirdest one-on-one back and forth with a high profile talking head imaginable. It makes high school look mature. It began with a Joe Scarborough blast of venom and didn’t let up until he’d finished [...]

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Women Want Their Birth Control

“The Peggy Noonan piece left some things out. … But I have to say, the article appears to be very misleading.” – Mika Brzezinski, “Morning Joe” (7 Feburary) This started yesterday on “Morning Joe,” with Brzezinski reading part of an over the top declarative Peggy Noonan op-ed and getting very exercised about it before she [...]

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Al Sharpton Schools Morning Joe

The Catholic League, according to CBS, is “poised to go to war with Obama over mandatory birth control payments.” A better stenographer the Catholic League could not have than CBS, with the threat meant to put a political scare into Obama. But this isn’t 1980 and the Catholic League is facing a new generation in [...]

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Gingrich Soars on Wings of Obama Fluffing Media*

*See note below “The liberal media,” she added, “and some of that GOP holier-than-thou machine overplayed their hand this time. … I call them ‘dumb arses,’” she said. … “Their target in this case, Newt,” Palin added, “is now going to soar even more because we know the game now and we just won’t put [...]

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MSNBC Needs Ann Coulter as a Permanent Contributor

Ms. Coulter pronounced it Democratic, not Democrat, so what’s the problem? Adults watch “Morning Joe,” not children. “Sesame Street” it is not. So the audience can handle the likes of Ann Coulter, otherwise why book the bombastic right wing bandleader? There’s also the reality that no one articulates right wing primary voters’ plight better than [...]

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The Wannabe 1% Presidency of Newt

Newt Gingrich tops the list in the race for the GOP nomination, according to a new national survey. – Gingrich at top of pack for first time in CNN polling Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy National polls don’t mean much, but the notion of President Newt is frightening. [...]

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