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Bill Maher Show: Joe Scarborough says "People in the media are really afraid."


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Watching Bill Maher this morning and Joe Scarborough is one of the panelists. The topic comes up about the fact that if you say something critical about Obama, you are a racist, if you say something critical about Hillary, you are a misogynist, and if you say something critical about McCain, you are ageist.

Scarborough then says that it's true, if you say something critical about Hillary Clinton, there are organizations that dedicate their lives to making that media personalities life a living hell by massive letter, email, phone in and blogging campaigns seeking that the head of that media personality be placed on the chopping block (loose their jobs) that it has got all the media personalities he knows REALLY AFRAID!

This made me have a really good laugh this morning and if you get a chance to see it I highly recommend it.

Hey and all you folks out there that participate in this fear mongering against media personalities......KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

I absolutely love it........MEDIA PERSONALITIES AFRAID TO SPEAK THEIR BABBLE ON THE AIR FOR FEAR OF CONSUMER RETRIBUTION!

What do you guys all think?
jubal

9 responses // Bill Maher Show: Joe Scarborough says "People in the media are really afraid."

  • If a media personality calls Clinton a witch, bitch, ho, hag, on the rag, or some other assorted sexual innuendo that I have seen on internet sites, sure, call them to task for it. But if it is criticism on her policies or those of Obama that is getting that kind of response to intimidate people from discussing them at all, that is just using gender and race in a reverse discriminatory role to stifle debate. And that I don't agree with. But I do agree that if you criticize Obama you are called a racist and if you criticize Clinton you are called a mysogynist and that is wrong if the criticism is on policy which we NEED to know in order to make an informed decision.
    JanforGore
  • I am totally with you JanforGore. Criticism is good when it is directed at the policy and not at the race, gender, or age of the person standing for the policy. I know that we have encountered these kind of blurred criticism intended on contradicting someone's opinion degrading into a personal attack based on one of these categories.

    I just think that its time for people in positions of power to feel the shock and awe that the citizenry can unleash on them. They need a taste of their own medicine of what fear mongering does to a person's soul and their world view. It makes people depressed and feel powerless and hopeless to change the status quo. I think it is empowering to people to have a voice and not only have a voice but be heard. The fact that a strong media personality like Joe saying "media people are afraid" is a good sign that they are starting to have fear of the people.

    Our government leaders are too arrogant right now to feel the wrath of the people, but if this trend keeps going; I don't think it will be long before we'll have many of those politicians shaking in their boots. (and a few corporations to boot)
    jubal
  • True and I hope you're right, but only if we the people move from writing letters because we are angry someone criticized Obama's own words on attacking Pakistan, to actually protesting that kind of policy across the board and the media for not concentrating on that policy across the board over the esoteric soundbites. For me it is sometimes surreal how people get angry about what they get angry about, and completely dismiss the most important part of all of this... that the military industrial complex will not just go away on January 20, 2009. Whoever takes that oath will in some ways have to continue it, which is why I cannot wholeheartedly support any of them.
    JanforGore
  • The problem seems to be that media personalities don't seem to know the difference. They haven't done sufficient research on the polices or the context so all they have to critisize is superficial things like personalies, age, race and gender. It's only for the ratings and dishing the gossip on politicians has replaced the in depth journalism so that it's all about creating drama and scandals, just as if they were other celebrities like Paris, Britney and Lindsey
    Argon18
  • yes, and that's why I don't watch them. That is also where CURRENT can be the exception to that rule.
    JanforGore
  • You guys are so right on so many levels. Most journalism has become what when I got my journalism degree was called "Yellow Journalism" and was ethically frowned upon by Journalists who got their start oh I guess back before Nixon I think.

    It has been a gradual shift as things more and more start looking like an Aldous Huxley novel. Which by the way I just recently downloaded and started listening to; Brave New World.

    I think we need to have a cross pac, grass roots, campaign to give more power to the people under the constitution. Perhaps even legal experts need to weigh in on the subject, but in the first amendment it says, beside talking about free speech, the power of the people to assemble and to petition for a redress of grievances. We need to put some more meat on this clause of the article by giving people the ability to put a stop to legislation by petition VETO. One million of our citizen signatures have the ability to send a law back to the drawing board for further negotiation and fine tuning. It can't become law. I think a mechanism such as this, grounded in constitutional rationale could possible balance the power of the people with the mighty and powerful corporations that really control the government.

    It could start as a state by state thing and then gain momentum for Federal adoption. something like that...seriously folks what do you think?

    I like the idea of having the media and the politicians shaking in their boots because the people are the power in this country. Voting is not enough, we need to be able to say no, not right now to things they keep doing.
    jubal
  • Jubal,

    I couldn't agree with anyone more than the last sentence that you just wrote. "we need to be able to say no, right now...."

    The government/cooperation is moving to a place where average citizens no longer have the opportunity to say or do anything about what is happening. I think that is the biggest problem that exist today(ahem one of anyway), folks want to have some impact, but truly the meager ability to actually see it through, is disillusioning.....so yes...I whole-heartedly agree. Or soon old Bertrand Russell will have his say, I quote...

    "Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton."
    - Bertrand Russell, "The Impact of Science on Society", 1953, pg 49-50
    queenofit
  • The news media is controlled by too few people. The industrial sector is controlled by too few people. The medical community is controlled by too few people. The government is controlled by too few people. The people who built this country with their hands and build everything that is produced and sold, have too little political power. We have had political power by working people literally outlawed. We have to have change that we can believe in, because we have to have permission of the people to do anything. And........if all I am saying isn't true.........then we don't have a democracy anymore.
    cadsuch
  • It's called accountability, Scarborough.
    phoenix_fire999

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