There wasn’t a drop of red wine at the New York Historical Society’s perennial Strawberry Festival luncheon last week, and Shindigger was left to wonder: wasn’t it five o’clock somewhere? Sure, there was a delicious quinoa, truffle and herb salad, but that wasn’t why everyone had turned out. It was to see Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski receive the Women in Public Life award. Read More
The New York Times reports that Willie Geist, a co-host of MSNBC’s kaffeeklatsch Morning Joe and host of its wee-hours lead-in, Way Too Early, will be setting the alarm ever-so-slightly later; he’s moving to the 9am hour of Today on NBC. Mr. Geist will likely stop hosting the 5:30am Way Too Early but may well stay on Morning Joe, writes the Times.
Though he’s jumping from Read More
This just in from today’s DNC coverage: Tom Brokaw accidentally ate half an Ambien before appearing on Morning Joe. He’s O.K., though!
Cue the music: Read More
The cast of MSNBC’s Morning Joe put out another goofy, mock behind-the-scenes promotional video today. This one showing the team’s pre-show routines. Willie Geist shares a bottle of champagne with some models; Joe Scarborough smokes and plays dice; Mike Barnicle rides a Rascal scooter to work after sleeping in a park, and Mika Brzezinski, Read More
Chuck Schumer made a football analogy while talking government shutdown on Morning Joe today.
“We are on the one-yard line, but Republicans in the House are making a goal-line stand on women’s health,” he told the hosts.
And Schumer, who has gotten into some trouble with his messaging recently, laid the blame entirely at Read More
Andrew Cuomo has been in office fewer than 100 days and the ink is still not dry on his first budget, but the political pundits are already discussing a possible 2016 presidential run in earnest.
On today’s Morning Joe, New York magazine writer Chris Smith, who wrote a big profile of Cuomo’s first 100 Days Read More
Tom Golisano continues his push for the elimination of the electoral college system.
Earlier today on Morning Joe, Golisano said, “the candidate who gets the most votes in a presidential race, should always win the White House.”
Pat Buchanan countered, calling the Read More
Rolling Stone executive editor Eric Bates spoke on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today about the editorial process behind the magazine’s explosive profile of General Stanley McChrystal. Mr. Bates emphasized that the general and his aides knew they were on the record for all of their candid remarks — including a now viral one where Read More
Jon Meacham was on Morning Joe today discussing one small gaffe within The New York Times’ scoop about Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and his presentation of his military service in Vietnam.
Mr. Blumenthal, who is running for the senate, has been saying that he served in Vietnam when he was really in the Read More
Is softball code for lesbian? Short answer: yes, says Pat Buchanan.
“Women’s softball has been associated with lesbians and being gay for a long time,” said Mr. Buchanan on MSNBC’s Morning Joe about Elena Kagan. “That’s been sort of a signal like two men sunbathing together on a beach, or something like that. The Read More
