http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/mika_brzezinski This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Mika Brzezinski en-US Copyright 2009, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200812220010 On <em>Morning Joe</em>, shortly after Mika Brzezinski remarked that the weather was "so cold" that "[i]t'll freeze your car door shut," Joe Scarborough recounted, "I tried to turn the key, and it was ... locked." Then, in response to Brzezinski's comment, "Oh, American car. That's the problem," Scarborough declared: "The American car -- you know what? It's probably some Japanese engineer that made the key hold -- just sabotaged us. Kinda like blowing up things at Pearl Harbor." http://mediamatters.org/items/200812220010 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:01:12 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200812190003 On <em>Morning Joe</em>, Joe Scarborough again claimed that Al Franken "can steal" enough votes in the Minnesota Senate race to emerge victorious, marking at least the sixth time Scarborough has invoked "steal[ing]" votes since the recount began. Scarborough later denied that he was "saying Al Franken's stealing votes" but was instead "just saying how easy would it be for Al Franken to steal 150 [votes]." He added: "I'm like a scientist. This is a theory that I'm trying out there." http://mediamatters.org/items/200812190003 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:01:04 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200812160014 Previously having stated that Democrat Al Franken "only needs to steal 130 more votes to win" his race against Republican Sen. Norm Coleman for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough again raised the subject of "steal[ing]" votes on the December 16 edition of <em>Morning Joe</em> -- at least the fifth time he has made such comments since the recount began on November 19. After co-host Mika Brzezinski reported that Franken is behind Coleman by 188 votes, Scarborough asked Pat Buchanan, "Buchanan, can you steal 188 out of 1,500? That's easy, right?" http://mediamatters.org/items/200812160014 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:49:20 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200812040008 Debunking the false claim, advanced by many in the media, that autoworkers employed by U.S. auto manufacturers receive $70 or more per hour in wages and benefits, Bob Shrum said on <em>Morning Joe</em> that "there's this one crazy statistic" that autoworkers are "paid 70 bucks an hour." Mike Barnicle added: "The $77 an hour thing is not true. It's the compilation of all the benefits." Joe Scarborough later stated, "[J]ust so everybody knows, when we talk about $77 or $45, we're not only talking about the money, the benefits, everything else, retirement, we're also talking about the money to -- the legacy costs of the existing retirees." http://mediamatters.org/items/200812040008 Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:06:32 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811240004 MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski falsely claimed that "the average Big Three automaker union worker's compensation is $73/hour -- two and a half times the average for the taxpayer being asked to bail them out." In fact, the $73 figure includes not only future retirement benefits for current workers, but also benefits paid to current retirees, according to GM. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811240004 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:58:06 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200811190006 Discussing the possibility of Democrats gaining a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, Joe Scarborough stated, "So, with [Sen. Ted] Stevens losing, Democrats have 58 [senators and Senator-elects]. They've got this run-off in Georgia, which could get them to 59. ... If Al Franken steals enough votes in Minnesota, they get to 60. I'm not saying he stole any votes, I'm just saying, as a Republican from Florida, I mean, it's a close race. Steal some votes, you get over the top." In fact, Minnesota Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty has repeatedly said there is no actual evidence of fraud in the vote count of the state's Senate race. http://mediamatters.org/items/200811190006 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:08:41 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810160016 On <em>Morning Joe</em>, Joe Scarborough falsely asserted that Sen. Barack Obama said during the October 15 presidential debate that Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) "drew appropriate comparisons" in a statement invoking George Wallace and a church bombing in criticizing "the negative tone of the McCain-Palin campaign." In fact, Obama said that Lewis "<em>inappropriately </em>drew a comparison between what was happening [at McCain-Palin rallies] and what had happened during the civil rights movement, and we immediately put out a statement saying that we don't think that comparison is appropriate" [emphasis added]. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810160016 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:01:40 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810090006 <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>The Washington Post</em>, and <em>Morning Joe</em> reported Cindy McCain's attack on Sen. Barack Obama that his "vote to not fund my son while he was serving sent a cold chill through my body." However, none of their reports noted that Sen. John McCain himself voted against legislation to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810090006 Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:23:31 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200810080024 On MSNBC's <em>Morning Joe</em>, Mika Brzezinski asserted that "people overwhelmingly thought [Gov. Sarah Palin] won her debate," while Willie Geist suggested that Palin won by a smaller margin than Brzezinski claimed. However, most polls conducted on the days following the vice presidential debate found that Sen. Joe Biden won. In fact, a <em>Media Matters </em>review of polling sites did not find any national polls that found Palin won the debate. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810080024 Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:14:28 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809290007 On <em>Morning Joe</em>, host Joe Scarborough falsely asserted that Sen. Barack Obama "wants" "higher taxes." In fact, the Tax Policy Center concluded that, compared to Sen. John McCain, "Obama would give larger tax cuts to low- and moderate-income households and pay some of the cost by raising taxes on high-income taxpayers" -- those households earning more than $250,000 per year. http://mediamatters.org/items/200809290007 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:38:16 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809250010 On <em>Morning Joe</em>, Nicolle Wallace, senior adviser to Sen. John McCain's campaign, stated that "our campaign is suspended" pending agreement on legislation to address the country's current financial situation, and later accused Sen. Barack Obama of having "done exactly zero" to produce bipartisan legislation. Hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski did not ask Wallace to reconcile her appearance and her attack on Obama with her claim that McCain's campaign is "suspended." http://mediamatters.org/items/200809250010 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:33:44 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200809150004 On MSNBC's <em>Morning Joe</em>, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough uncritically aired video of Sen. John McCain falsely claiming that Sarah Palin is "governor of a state that 20 percent of our America's energy supply comes from." In fact, as Factcheck.org noted, according to the most recent figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Alaska is responsible for "just 3.5 percent of the country's domestic energy production," and only 2.4 percent of the energy the United States consumes. http://mediamatters.org/items/200809150004 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:28:02 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200808280015 <em>Good Morning America</em>'s Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer echoed Republican talking points mocking the stage at Invesco Field in Denver, where Sen. Barack Obama plans to give his acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination for president, for including a structure with columns. But Roberts and Sawyer failed to mention that the stage at the Republican National Convention in 2004 also included columns. http://mediamatters.org/items/200808280015 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:31:07 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807290006 On <em>Morning Joe</em>, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough did not challenge McCain campaign manager Rick Davis' assertion that a McCain campaign ad attacking Sen. Barack Obama for not visiting wounded soldiers at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany was "the truth," despite reporting by their colleague, NBC's Andrea Mitchell, that the ad's criticism of Obama is "completely wrong, factually wrong" and "literally is not true." http://mediamatters.org/items/200807290006 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:03:49 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200807160009 On <em>MSNBC Live</em>, Mika Brzezinski failed to correct Mitt Romney's false assertion that Sen. John McCain "said that [Donald] Rumsfeld needed to go." Although a McCain spokesman reportedly acknowledged that McCain "did not call for his resignation," MSNBC hosts have repeatedly failed to correct guests' assertions that he did so. http://mediamatters.org/items/200807160009 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:19:02 EST