Out of Control: Chris Matthews Drops F-Bomb In MSNBC Rant Against Bush
— Headline on Feb. 7, 2007, NewsBusters post by Rich Noyes, who went on to portray the F-bomb as evidence that Matthews was going “even further off the deep end.”
Scarborough Apologizes For Accidental F-Bomb
— Headline on Nov. 10 NewsBusters post by Mark Finkelstein, who went on to give Scarborough a pass: “For folks that get up in the middle of the night to get ready for their show, and have just come through covering an historically long and grueling campaign, it’s surprising that more of these mishaps haven’t made their way onto the air. Scarborough was clearly mortified, his chief dread apparently that of going home to face his wife. Let’s call a 5-yard penalty on Joe for unintentional roughness.”