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MSNBC’s Morning Joe: We Don’t Know Much About Economic Recovery
MSNBC’s Morning Joe: We Don’t Know Much About Economic Recovery
Over the last two weeks on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski and their regular guests have repeated a number of significant falsehoods about the economic recovery package. The cumulative result has been to turn MSNBC’s morning talk block into an echo ...
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Krugman: How Can There Be Bipartisanship When GOP ?Take Their Marching Orders From Rush Limbaugh??
The Hollywood Liberal — ... have been having a tough time with the facts of the economic recovery plan — hosted Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman to discuss the bill. Krugman began by emphasizing the severity of the current economic crisis. “This is not your father’s recession,” Krugman said. “This is your grandfather’s recession. This is something that is closer to what we went through in the 30s.” Krugman criticized ...

What's Not to Understand?
Hoffmania! — ... a day later. At the mostly liberal MSNBC, the morning host, Joe Scarborough, started preparing the final rites. Obama couldn’t possibly eke out a victory because the stimulus package was “a steaming pile of garbage.” ...

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