TUESDAY: He's crafted our most intelligent cable news show!

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2026

He may be wrong about this: We're grateful to Joe Scarborough for the cable news show he has built.   

It seems to us that Morning Joe features the most intelligent discussions found anywhere in daily cable news programming. That said, we think he may be somewhat incorrect-adjacent on this:

Scarborough Fumes That the Media Has a Pro-Trump ‘Bias’ Because Reporters are ‘Numbed To It All’  

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough accused the mainstream media of effectively developing a bias in President Donald Trump’s favor Tuesday, arguing reporters have become so accustomed to his rhetoric that comments that would engulf another president in controversy now barely register.

The host pointed to Trump’s remarks at a rally in Nebraska on Monday, where the president suggested Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego while defending the economic costs of the ongoing conflict as a “small price to pay.”

Scarborough said he checked the websites of several major newspapers Tuesday morning, naming The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Financial Times, and found only The New York Times had prominently covered the comments. 

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Scarborough added: “I mean, you could take his quotes from last night, you can take his quotes from other speeches, you could run together a supercut of all of those clips and that’s the same questions about his mental acuity that were asked about Joe Biden’s mental acuity. But that’s not happening and that won’t happen.”   

We've often criticized the New York Times for failing to report (for disappearing) the steady stream of crazy remarks posted by the sitting president. That said, we thought the Scarborough gang were paraphrasing a bit freely today about the president's comment last night about San Diego and Los Angeles.

(The paraphrase offered in the passage we've posted strikes us as almost surely inaccurate.)

That said, also this:

Regarding the sitting president's "mental acuity" (and possible issues of "mental illness"), Joe and Mika and their standard roster of high-end guests have joined everyone else in the guild in refusing to discuss what they must surely think they know about the sitting president.  

By the way, when was President Biden's "mental acuity" widely questioned in the mainstream Blue American press, including on Morning Joe? 

That earlier president's "mental acuity" was relentlessly flogged on the Fox News Channel, sometimes in ways which were transparently bogus, quite often in ways which were not. We don't recall seeing that topic discussed on Morning Joe or elsewhere in Blue America's press until very late in the game, long after that president's debate meltdown made the (unfortunate) topic quite hard to avoid.

Were Scarborough and the rest of the group perhaps a bit over their skis today? It seemed to us that they might possibly maybe were!