MSM: She's Mad As Hell, But The Good Old Boys Will Keep The Cunt in Line

A journalist on one of MSNBC's psuedo-news variety hours apparently got fed up and refused to read, as the lead story on her segment, about Paris Goddamned Hilton getting out of jail. She thought it was a travesty that this was what the network insisted on covering instead of, say, the catastrophic war in Iraq.

There's a widely available youtube video of the confrontation between journalist Mika Brzezinski and her smirking, wiseass, self-important co-hosts that's been floating around.



People are hailing her for standing up for basic journalistic principles, and she certainly did, but for me, that's not what jumps out about this segment. Watch how a professional journalist is treated on a cable news network when she dares to deviate from the script and tries to bring some sanity and reason back to public discourse. She is mocked, belittled, patronized, even outright physically overpowered (as when the one host takes away her lighter and copy of the script), all because she dares to do the responsible thing. Then, when they've finished dragging out their mockery of her work and her profession, they toss her turn to speak back to her, discarding the air time as if, now that they've covered what's Really Important, the viewers should tune out while the crazy bitch rants about a war.

Naturally, one of the two domineering male douchebags is Joe Scarborough, former Republican congressman and all around asshole. His utter contempt for women and the job he supposedly performs as a newsman shows through here with startling clarity. Beware even the friendliest seeming Republican out there, folks. They all carry knives of one sort of another, and are waiting for you to turn your back.