The liberal bias in press coverage of the presidential campaign has escalated dramatically in the last month before Election Day and on Wednesday’s Morning Joe, even MSNBC host Joe Scarborough had enough, calling out liberal co-host Mika Brzezinski and commentators on the morning show: “...the media can’t see past their sheer hatred of him, their uncontrollable sheer hatred of Donald Trump.”

He continued to scold his media colleagues for letting that “hatred” prevent any objective analysis of Trump’s electoral strategy in the final days of the race: “We can all be offended by what he did. We’re still supposed to report, but the sheer hatred is stopping analysts from realizing he’s doing the only thing he can do right now to keep his campaign alive....I’m not sure that right now this isn’t exactly what he needs to do to survive.”

Continuing the lecture, Scarborough acknowledged his own anti-Trump bias, “I said back in December I couldn’t vote for Donald Trump. I said in February he was disqualified.” However, he then observed: “The media is so invested in this...it’s almost like they’re going, ‘What will I be able to tell my children that I was there and I helped stop Donald Trump.”

Scarborough sarcastically added: “The had courage to stand up to a man with a 59% disapproval rating. How courageous!”

In the midst of admonishing his fellow journalists, he turned to Bloomberg Politics editor Mark Halperin and demanded: “Did he [Trump] win the debate, Mark Halperin?” Halperin begrudgingly acknowledged: “By most ways if you say, ‘Who won the debate?’ – he won the debate.”

Back on Monday, in the wake of Sunday’s second presidential debate, Scarborough proclaimed:

...despite what you think of Donald Trump, what you think of Hillary Clinton, what you think of how this race has gone over the weekend and where you think it's going to end...I think there are a couple of things that people in the press may not want to admit but it was plainly evident watching it on TV last night...it was Donald Trump's most effective debate performance to date. There's not a close second...and again, I know everybody in the press hates Donald Trump. I'm giving you the reality if you don't like it.

Then after going on the offensive, he went on defense in responding to attacks by liberal commentators, saying “I understand. You believe he's an evil man. I'm just giving you the political reality and this is the political reality: For the Republican base, Donald Trump delivered the attack against the Clinton machine that the Republican base in middle America have been waiting for, for years now.”

This was an interesting turning point because even his left-wing co-host Mika Brzezinski reluctantly agreed, saying, “No Republican in America could have done what he did last night.” She then went further and admitted that Trump has been effective in continually articulating the message that “The media is unfair! The media is not on his side! The media is trying to bring him down!”

Here are excerpts of the October 12 and 10 exchanges on Morning Joe: