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!