The resident Republican blowhard on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough, has staked out his post as the network's voice of rightist disinformation. He commands his three hour block of airtime like a junta leader, ordering the topics of discussion and interrupting his guests incessantly.
Scarborough: Outside of Brit Hume, who has been a conservative in the mainstream media in the past 30 years who you’ve worked for? Outside of Brit Hume, who has held a powerful position at ABC, NBC or CBS News on the air? [...] Name the single Republican that has hosted a Sunday show, that has been an anchor of a news network for the big three networks over the past 50 years. You cannot do it.
Setting aside the fact that Scarborough conveniently leaves out Fox News, the most watched, and therefore mainstream by default, cable news network, he repeatedly spits out this challenge to his colleagues, who are not particularly well informed on the subject. For instance, Mark Halperin, the senior political analyst for MSNBC, responded sheepishly saying "Joe, I agree with you 100%." No one else on the panel was able to take up Scarborough's challenge either.
For their future reference, they may want to note that Chris Wallace, now the anchor of Fox News Sunday, hosted NBC's Meet the Press for year. Tony Snow, who went on to serve as press secretary for George W. Bush was the first host of FOX News Sunday. Diane Sawyer anchored ABC's World News Tonight for five years after serving as a press aide to Richard Nixon. So Scarborough's sweaty insistence that no one can name such people is demonstrably false.
Scarborough kept switching from asking for on-air-personalities to executives in charge of the news operations. On that front there are right-wingers like David Rhodes, the current President of CBS News who had the a similar position at Fox for fifteen years. Ken Jautz, the head of CNN, is the man who gave Glenn Beck his first job on television. NBC is now owned by Comcast, whose Roberts family owners are notorious righties.
There are certainly more conservatives in television newsrooms, but it's hard to pin them down with proof. That's because most career journalists are careful to avoid any open expression of partisanship. So people like CBS's Scott Pelley, or NBC's Chuck Todd, and many more, may have distinctly conservative views, but they have never worked for a GOP senator or made a donation to any political campaign, or even registered with a party, so there is no hard evidence.
And the same is true for journalists who are accused of being liberals. That doesn't mean they aren't there. And it doesn't warrant the loony outburst that Scarborough let loose today. If anything, the fact that no one at the table could cite any of the people mentioned above is proof that the media is conservative, and blind to their bias.
they all fail to do their homework before blathering their ignorance to that which they are railing about it is a staple for the republicans leap before looking. remember he's one of those hammering republicans for their stupidity and embarrassing themselves while he rants and commits the very same thing he accuses the party of. party of third tier stupidest, yeah the panel were they afraid of losing their guest spots or just as ignorant as Scarborough?????????????????????????????
he gets busted as Halperin cites a republican who hosted shows etc. at the end than tries to move the goalpost saying he was talking about higher ups. this is what he posed as the question no mention of position in hierarchy. he's busted again and looks even stupider.
he gets busted as Halperin cites a republican who hosted shows etc. at the end than tries to move the goalpost saying he was talking about higher ups. this is what he posed as the question no mention of position in hierarchy. he's busted again and looks even stupider.
Scarborough: Outside of Brit Hume, who has been a conservative in the mainstream media in the past 30 years who you’ve worked for? Outside of Brit Hume, who has held a powerful position at ABC, NBC or CBS News on the air? [...] Name the single Republican that has hosted a Sunday show, that has been an anchor of a news network for the big three networks over the past 50 years. You cannot do it.
