Scarborough Blasts Mainstream Media’s Liberal Bias: ‘They Are Embarrassing Themselves’

MSNBC’s Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough tore into the mainstream media — and CBS, NBC, and ABC in particular — for only hiring Democrats for major positions over the past fifty years.

The discussion got rolling when Bloomberg Politics’ Mark Halperin opined that contrary to some GOP candidates, he thought the debates should be moderated by “objective” journalists. “I don’t think that word applies anymore,” lamented co-host Mika Brzezinski.

“And it never did,” Scarborough butted in. “I’m sorry. Walter Cronkite, who we watched every day and we loved Walter Cronkite, he was liberal. Tim Russert, a guy that I loved and respected, who was the best of the best, was a liberal. Tom Brokaw, I’m guessing Tom, you know how much I love and respect him, I doubt Tom’s voted in the Republican primary before.”

“So when you say ‘objective,’ we Republicans have been forced to define ‘objective’ as people who are objective Democratic voters,” he continued. “…Outside of Brit Hume, who has held a powerful position at ABC, NBC, or CBS in the past 30 years?”

“You can’t do it and nobody here can do it,” he said. “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 can not do it!”

Halperin pointed out that former Bush spokesman Tony Snow had at least hosted Fox News Sunday, but largely conceded the point. “I agree with you 100%… there’s huge liberal media bias. Not just in the examples you’ve given but in less prominent people. All I’m saying is find the few people who don’t fit in that category and get objective journalists.”

“You can’t, because they’re all Democrats!” Scarborough insisted. “The people that run the Sunday shows are all Democrats. The people that have run the network newscasts, the nightly newscasts have all been Democrats, the network executives have been all Democrats.”

“We put up with the BS and the cultural slander and the cultural bias…” he concluded. “At some point, the mainstream media is going to have to realize that they are embarrassing themselves in 2015. Because all they do is hire liberals to run Sunday shows and nightly news.”

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