He won't respond, becuase you caught this self-important novice looking like a complete ignorant.

The NYT is slipping if this guy is one of their top reporters.

What a moron!

Give Sorkin a break! It's not like he's a business reporter at the NY Times.

Reminds me of that NY Times commercial: "The best reporters in the world work at the Times. And there's no debating that!"

If you want to know why the traditional media is doomed, look no further than Sorkin. Because right now, mainstream print journalism is dominated by rich kids. The days of the 'working class/middle class, beat reporter' are gone.

"Name a successful unionized company. Think. You're going to go to [commercial] break before you come up with one. And that's the problem,"

he's right. that IS the problem. of course, he imagines that the the morning joe dumbasses' inability to name successful unionized companies is proof (or at least evidence) of something other than how little those twits know about the subject. and THAT is the problem with the conversation about organized labor in this country - the conversation is being led by morons like scaborough and sorkin.

The question of "give me a successful company that's unionized" is not the point. The point is that unless you work 16 hours a day, and your children work, and you don't get vacations or sick time off, and can get fired for no reason, and you don't have health insurance through your job, etc. etc. etc. YOU benefitted from unions. For the rest of America and most of the world there have been tremendous workplace benefits and laws that came into being because of unions and union actions. Which, and I'm sure the Moron Joe group does not get, actually involved people dying and being injured fighting for those rights. It's the history of labor action in this country and around the world that allow pipsqueaks like him, who probably had grandparents that educated his parents and himself with money they made in union jobs, to make ignorant lazy populist comments like this. I get really angry when issues are framed by cynical Fox and MSNBC phonies who then dupe most people into believing unions are all bad and greedy while they sit at their desk at work two hours before they get to go home instead of working until midnight and saying" tut, tut--unions."

Morning Joe belongs on FOX News. From that context everything that happens on that show makes sense including Mika...'nuff said.

Is there a port in this country that isn't represented by National Maritime Union?

I saw this much to my chagrin. And there was that Barnacle, nodding to the demise of decent wages, decent treatment of workers and decent respect for the American.

I cannot believe my eyes and ears when I hear this trash.

The only way our country can succeed is if we pay our workers seven bucks an hour with no benefits and with tens of millions of dollars going to the upper eschelon?

What in the hell is the matter with these people?

Anyone know if Joe or Mika happen to be AFTRA?

Because that would be seriously, seriously, funny.

Best thing would have been for every cameraman, grip and lighting tech to immediately stop what they were doing, even if it meant that the show went dark for a few minutes.

Then you hear a voice from the darkness: "Mr. Sorkin, you realize where you are now, right?"

What an idiot. I'd have seen it live, but I gave up that hack-fest months ago.

Plus, I saw this guy on "Real Time with Bill Maher", and he could not have been more of a sanctimonious prick. I feel like I knew a ton of guys like this in college.

In the category of "Ignorance," there's a special place for "Smug, Glib and Sanctimonious Ignorance."

Get rid of the sophomores, Bill Keller, and hire someone who knows what he's talking about.

Isn't this line of reasoning more of an intentional distraction from the obvious: company management is never unionized. Most company failures are likely due to management failures, not high labor costs. By blaming company failures on unions, capitalists get to escape any responsibility.

It might be worth noting that Joe as well as all other talking heads are members of AFTRA but they don't let that stop them from slamming other union members.

Sorkin has to be a relative of someone working high up or be a friend of same to get hired. Nobody that uninformed about a topic should be discussing it as an "expert." People like him are full of sh!t.

Morning Joe? that idiot, everyone voted for him to have that show because they couldnt stand watching him on msnbc during the day,,,, He is a complete idiot and a republican to the core,,,If it wasnt for a union he wouldnt have a job that paid anything because hes not smart enough to have come this far by himself,,,All these people who this this labor problem with the mexicans is cute will soon find out just how much unions have inadvertantly caused their wages to go up, Big business and their poverty level wages dont want you to have any money,,,, their thinking is ridiculous but then again they arent worried about the USA, the want to rape our recources and sell to other countries, not this one, Morning JOE,,, shut the lite off, youll never ever replace IMUS,