The asshole extraordinaire strikes again

By Michael J.W. Stickings

More evidence -- at Think Progress and Media Matters -- that Fox's John Gibson is as extraordinary an asshole as there is anywhere in the 24/7 news cycle.

(For more of Gibson's assholery, see here, here, and here.)

But Gibson's not alone. Consider the misogyny of MSNBC's Joe Scarborough. As Steve Benen is reporting, Scarborough his guest Craig Crawford this morning if Fred Thompson's (much younger and quite attractive) wife "works the pole". According to Ed Morrissey, "[a]nyone who has watched Scarborough for any length of time knows that Scarborough can be an ass. What we didn't know was that he could also be tacky enough to attack someone's wife in the most personal of terms." True enough. I understand why Melissa McEwan is "so sick of this bullshit [she] could puke". Hey, even Michelle Malkin is outraged. Like Sister Toldjah, "I long ago stopped caring about what Joe Scarborough had to say," but, obviously, this was inappropriate (and downright offensive).

I won't bother to post the video here, but you can find it at the blogs linked above, or at The Palmetto Scoop.