All signs indicate that no, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is not fair. Not at all. Even if I ignored the signs though, I could just turn my television to “The Place for Politics” and wait five minutes or so for this “objective journalist” to take the screen and present “bias free” news and commentary. And yes, everything in quotes is sarcasm.
For example, in the above clip Scarborough Wednesday prefaced a question to Mitt Romney by claiming — as if 100 percent factually true — that half of the credit for John McCain’s Florida presidential primary win goes to “the fact that he lied about [Romney's] position on getting out of Iraq.”
But who’s really “lying” here? Watch the video to see (hint: It’s not McCain).
Worse than his lies though is the fact that MSNBC continually lets Scarborough get away with constantly spinning for Team Romney and doing so from a position of feigned impartiality. Every time the guy is on camera he’s pushing their narrative.
If Chris Matthews and company really want to restore any of the credibility lost by Scarborough’s antics, they would cut down on his face time or outright fire him. Seriously, do they really need to have a guy with a blatantly pro-Romney agenda hosting a six-hour block of political news coverage every the morning and making twice-hourly appearances for the rest of the day?
So is Scarborough, as MSNBC tries to argue, really fair? And if not, why does MSNBC keep him around as anything more than just a talking head?




Are any of the MSNBC talking heads fair? Why stop at Scarborough? Chris Matthews gets gushy about Obama, Oberldouche is so far up the Clinton’s hindquarters he could tickle a tonsil or two. Par for the course at the peacock.
Romney (or one of his funcationaries) owns Clear Channel. Duh.
I agree wholeheartedly. Scarborough is not only in the tank for Romney, he constantly perpetuates lies about McCain that sit out there unchallenged by any of the guests or co-hosts. MSNBC has killed any chance to be a reputable news outlet.
I guess it is not enough that Romney outspends the other candidates on media 10-1, he has to have help from these pretend conservatives that blindly buy into Romney’s miraculous and opportunistic conversion.
The good news is the listeners (if they have any) seem to be ignoring the anti-McCain rhetoric.