Steve Kormacki confronting Biden spokesperson

[madaboutharry]

on Hyde switch. He isn’t letting her off the hook.

It’s getting uncomfortable to watch.

Biden can expect these same hard questions in a debate.

[elias7]

1. He was out of control

That was embarrassing for MSNBC

[BannonsLiver]

2. Stevie K is a Bernie fan and is actively flogging the Dems in disarray melodrama.

So is Chris Hayes.

[Peacetrain]

10. That explains it..

it has always boggled my mind why some have had the long knives out for Biden..

[George II]

12. I hope Korn.... didn't ask any questions about plagiarism, he made his CAREER by plagiarizing...

Betcha he spends about a half hour in the rest room arranging his "casually mussed" hair and rolling up his sleeves so they're just right.

I can't stomach that guy. But what I'd really like to see is him and Chris Hayes in a face to face discussion, they'd probably beat each other silly with their exaggerated hand gestures. It could be bloody.

[BannonsLiver]

15. I'd love to see that too. They're both insufferable hacks.

[YOHABLO]

16. I'm not sure who you are referring to.

[George II]

19. I'm referring to Kornacki. He was an unknown until he started going on MSNBC years ago....

....during the Bridgegate scandal, reporting on information that was already on the NorthNJ (I think that was the name of it) site of the Bergen Record. Shawn Boberg did all the investigative reporting, but Kornacki used it (without attribution) on MSNBC. I don't think he ever conducted a single interview of anyone.

[Blue_true]

37. His claim was that he once covered that beat.

But I remember what he did, he made it look like all the scoops were his. That time period was when he made the move on MSNBC from having bit parts to getting longer and more appearances and eventually taking over as the elections expert.

[George II]

39. Exactly - a report showed up on NorthJersey.com and the next thing you know Kornacki was on MSNBC...

....talking about it like it was his scoop. He NEVER gave the Bergen Record or Shawn Boberg any credit for the report.

[Blue_true]

41. I don't know whether you ever worked in the corporate world.

That is how things work there. People will backstab you in a New York minute if that meant them getting ahead. Kornacki reminds me of some of the clowns that I contended with.

[still_one]

17. Really? I always thought he was a f**king lunatic. I can't stand the SOB

[BannonsLiver]

18. yes, that is without debate. He is a lunatic.

[blueinredohio]

30. Agreed 1000 percent!!!

[FloridaBlues]

32. chris Hayes has Bernie on almost every week for a long time. Had to turn off Steve K today

[mopinko]

3. yeah, she doesnt have a good answer.

when you spent your career splitting hairs on something, then do an about face and say-this is fine, it's all fine, then cant explain, you in a heap o trouble.

[wasupaloopa]

29. Biden explained his reason yesterday. It is on the net

[trueblue2007]

4. Steve Kor.... whatever is an asshole. What a jerk repeating the question 30683 times

that is a question for BIDEN to answer. How does the spokesWOMAN know what is in Biden's Brain. KorWhatever is a dam Stupid Repuke and I can't stand him.

[lark]

6. He is unwatchable to me, and was long before today.

[Peacetrain]

7. Is it just me.. or does the chattering classes go bonkers on Democrats

and sit on their hands when questioning republicans.. i did not see the segment.. but it is just a thing I have noticed.. its like they save up all their angst and go bat crap crazy demanding from Democrats.. and shine the shoes of the right.. Trump has them so cowered

[BannonsLiver]

13. Stevie K is a millionaire

His annual salary at MSNBC is believed to be $1 million. I think he's in the tank for bernie based on his antipathy toward hillary throughout 2016. If Bernie can't win, he doesn't care who wins, and might very well quietly want Trump to win since that's been good for MSNBC's bottom line. He's not regular folk. He's rich. There are no consequences for him if Trump wins.

[trueblue2007]

20. you could tell during 2016 election that Steve KorWhatever hated Hillary. He's very unprofessional

[BannonsLiver]

21. That's where I got the impression he was in the tank for Bernie

it was a constant drumbeat of hillary's emails from steve throughout 2016. And anytime he had an opportunity to talk about bernie it was breathless, glowing comments. insert biden for hillary in 2019 and it'll be a repeat performance from Stevie K.

[shanny]

31. Lol

By that "logic" everyone in the media must have been a Bernie fan.

[Hortensis]

40. Simple truth. And if Hillary, excuse me Biden, hadn't

gifted them with this mistake he should never have made, they'd be attacking on something else out of his past.

[BannonsLiver]

14. There was an element of mansplaining to it.

[demmiblue]

5. I saw her earlier on MSNBC... it was turned up to 11.

I'm glad she confronted Biden and helped change his mind, but...

[left-of-center2012]

8. I used to like Steve Kormacki

But he went through a personality change some time ago.
Now he's just a loud "a-hole'.

[stonecutter357]

9. Steve Kormacki is a poor man's ha ha goodman !

[Turin_C3PO]

11. Can't stand him.

[Paladin]

22. Glad to see Kornaki's idiotic performance getting widely panned.

To hell with him and his off-the-wall trashing of Democrats. MSNBC needs to get rid of him.

[quickesst]

23. She handled it well....

.... And did not let kornacki paint her into a corner. The abject disappointment on his face said it all.

[tiredtoo]

24. WOW! EOM

[madaboutharry]

25. The whole interview was unprofessional, but

the Biden campaign is going to need to have better answers as he moves forward.

[sop]

26. Kornaki should stick to going nuts in front election night monitor screens

The people at MSNBC seem to appreciate his histrionics - yelling, screaming and gesticulating wildly as he points out arcane little factoids about election returns - but I always flip the channel when he's guest hosting.

[Mike Nelson]

27. That was strange...

… he didn't let her off... she did the best she could. He did point out the flaws in Biden's turnaround, but it seemed "over the top" in relentlessness.

[MRDAWG]

28. Steve went too far. Picking on a pawn instead of the king. **

*

[R B Garr]

33. He was gleefully forecasting Biden's polling demise the other day

by some cherry picked stat. He was so animated that I tuned him out, but this is looking like MSNBC is giving him a platform to continue this now. I used to tolerate him, but I’ll be switching the channel now. Too bad he ruins election nights.

[BannonsLiver]

34. I think he was crushed when Biden changed his position

Like his critics here he was hoping he’d be able to ride that line of attack for a long time. Biden blunted that to some degree. So today was more or less a temper tantrum. Something we’ve also seen here.

[R B Garr]

35. +1000. Absolutely correct!

[ucrdem]

36. They had a plan.

It didn't work.

[Vinca]

38. I'm puzzled by the media stir this has caused. Isn't a person allowed to change their mind?

Things change and your feelings about things change. Think Obama and gay marriage, for example. If the media is going to focus on this BS, maybe they should discuss a few Trumpy flipflops . . . including abortion.