Scarborough: "Media People Are Living In Fear" This Election Season

If anyone in the media, or any media, haven't the balls to tell anyone to piss-off, then they deserve what they get. If all you are ot for is ratings and sponsership, then you do not belong in the first place. I don't care what a campaign or administration threatens; reveal it, and tell them to go fuck them selves. You people aren't news reporters anymore, yo're talking heads, with nothing to say, self agrandizing, egotistical butt-wipes, who would be dipping chicken tenders and fries if it weren't for the cable TV. Noone reports anymore, they expound their own beliefs and bigotries. I don't give one tenth of one monkey crap WHAT YOU THINK. Give the unvarnished NEWS. I'll make up my own goddamned mind, thank you.

We tried to warn you Liberals about Political Correctness.........

MSNBC tried to rehabilitate Chris Matthews using all of their on-air "talent" and it backfired big-time. Instead of rehabilitating Matthews the tactic has revealed the bias running through all of MSNBC's programs and staff. Enter Rachel -- another MSNBC attempt to clean up the sexism. Joe's afraid for his JOB and he should be. Where was his fear of media bias or censorship during the run up to the war?

Poor Joe, What comes around goes around.

I think the media should be afraid, they have let everyone down by giving Bush a pass.
He is starting to see the day of reckoning....good.
Hey Joe, people starting to yell at you in the street?

This is a classic example of faux balance. Scarborough couples his real frustration about false claims of sexism with his feigned frustration about supposed false claims of racism.

Joe is so right.

Rhetoric used by many groups along with the politically correct police are running rampant again. The media must to be able to freely discuss issues like voter behavior of different groups on the facts, including ethnicity and gender, without constant fear of being attacked.

I'm as liberal as anyone here, but I just don't understand the vitriol for Scarborough. He's a Republican that is workable. He's not fallen too far into the abyss that is yee-haw right-wing douchebaggery. Sometimes he actually makes sense, unlike many of his right-wing colleagues, so I don't understand the hate on this board for the man (ditto for Tucker - he's actually made the case quite a few times for getting out of Iraq and for our personal freedoms).

C'mon people! Joe is just an average Joe in the GOP. I it wasn't for fear, what would the GOP live for? Well, besides hate..,

Good, people like YOU should be scared for their jobs. If you keep your mouth flapping with all those nasty comments about everyone that doesn't think like you. Hope people like YOU do lose their jobs for someone more competent and that has actual facts then your made up facts. When you go JOE the world and media will be a better place. You are overpaid for the vile that you put on our air waves.

What a revelation. And I thought media people were living in fear because their opinions are bought and sold to corporate fascist, complicit election fixing handlers and We The People are fed up with the spin.

Although Truthyguy doesn't like Red Neck Joe, in this case Red Neck Joe speaks the truth.

I'm glad to hear someone finally say this outloud. I think that with the internet, youtube, and the other sources out there, every single word of every single surrogate and media person is under the microscope. What might not even have gotten out of it's intended original audience even 4-8 years ago, is now blared across the internet, shot around the world on youtube, with feedback comments on forumus just like this one. I'm not sure that is a good thing in the least. The pressure that both campaigns must be under is enormous, same with the media.

After living in this society as a white male for more than 60 years, I am certain that I have unconsciously absorbed a good deal of racism and sexism. My task is to make that conscious and reject those corrosive influences on clear thinking before I speak. It is not that my intention is malign, but that patterns of thought and assumptions absorbed from an unjust society and culture may shape my thoughts unconsciously. For media people to feel some fear that their prejudices and faults of logic and evidence should be exposed is not such a bad thing. And criticism of their unconscious racist or sexist assumptions and thinking are fair game -- and potentially a healing discussion.
On the other hand, as Saul Bellow said once, suffering is not necessarily ennobling. People in classes that have been held down and oppressed are not exempt from the requirement for clear thinking and critical examination of their own prejudices.
What's most malign, and most difficult to determine, is when people consciously play on the prejudices of others to gain a political advantage. Was Bill Clinton consciously playing the race card when he dismissed the significance of Senator Obama's victory in South Carolina or was he simply operating with unconscious racist assumptions? Was Geralidine Ferraro positioning for her candidate when she declared that Obama was 'lucky to be black' or was she just massively ignorant?Was the MSNBC reporter who spoke of the Clinton's 'pimping Chelsea' just insensitive to the historical oppression of women or using that expression to pump up his image as a commentator?
It is difficult to read what is in someone's heart. But news media that promote ratings based on 'controversy' rather than fact based debate, and a campaign whose motto is 'whatever it takes' are suspect. There is a great deal to be said for civility and self-reflection before speech.

Sad statement on the 1st Amendment! If you have HBO you MUST see the best show of the season! Besides Joe being on point about the media, Goldberg gave a perfect analysis of HRC!! Sad state of affairs!

Mr Scarborough ,

You guys stopped being journalists a long time ago. You are not even reporters.

You are being paid to entertain us-and there has been a concerted attempt on the part of the corporate owned, consolidated mass media to dumb us down-keep us stupid and keep us entertained so that i doesnt hurt as much while our reasoning abilties we are stripped away.

When the debates first began, I was horrified at the questions that were being asked of the candidates but I was more horrified of what was not being asked. Thank goodness for independent journalists. They kept us informed. You guys F A I L E D U S...
I was horrified at how John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich Hillary Clinton, Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, Ralph Nader have been treated by our consolidated media companies.These honorable public servants were treated like subhumans. Now, I have some unanswered questions-for Sen Obama. Questions that should have been asked & answered from day 1. You think you might get chance to ask him for us ?

1- Sen. Obama"s past voting record:
http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/The_Obama_Craze_Count_Me_Out_5413.html
Damning article on how much Sen Obama REALLY cares about the voters and their issues-and- just how good was his legislation for the people? I'd Like Sen Obama to refute
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2- His choice of firm to manage his campaign-firm that specializes in helping black candidates use race baiting to win elections:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070219/hayes "Obama"s Media Maven" by Chrisptoher Hayes. 2/19/08 issue
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=aa0cd21b-0ff2-4329-88a1-69c6c268b304
The New Republic, "Race Man" by Sean Wilentz.
WHY DID HE FEEL THE NEED TO DO THIS? WHAT STRATEGIES DID HE USE TO 'RACE BAIT"?

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3- His choice of Zbigniew Brzezinski (person who at one time some have accused of being a war monger, who has written books on why the US should seek control of Iran if US wants to maintain its global primacy in Euroasia.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a1097chessboard#a1097chessboard
"Context of 'October 1997: Brzezinski Highlights the Importance of Central Asia to Achieving World Domination" Cooperative Research History Commons
WHY???? WHY ZB??? ARE YOU AWARE OF HIS PAST.
THANK YOU

All the talking heads on MSNBC knew that Barack Obama was off limits from the start but the Clintons were "fair game" as Karl Rove said of Valerie Plame Wilson when her husband Joe Wilson crossed the Bush administration.

This group of Swiftboaters had been after Hillary Clinton for years. They were just jumping on the bandwagon until Mathews and Schuster crossed the line and were called on it.

Here is proof of what is behind the Hate Hillary craze that is going on in this Country and some people feed on it like predators.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Her_Now

You guys whine too much. These are commentary shows. The opinions of the hosts are going to come through. I can watch these shows without letting them shape my opinion. Sometimes I agree and sometimes I don't, as long as the show overall is somewhat balanced. They don't have an obligation to be down the middle. If it annoys you don't watch.

For Joe Scarborough and those who want to say something about Obama. You mean like this from Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro:

"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."

Yeah I'd probably call you a racist then. You know why? You would be one. And exit polls showed 20 percent of people in Ohio voted against one candidate because of his race. Gosh wonder who that could be? Wake up people! There's still a lot of racism out there. If you're not part of it then great for you, but maybe what you should focus on is making sure Hillary ferrets people like this out of her campaign FIRST then we can deal with whatever imaginary issues you claim to be having.