joe perry says it is the same news that came out about banker pay, and the media would jump all over is it always media's fault? >> yes, absolutely. [laughter] >> is always the media against the bankers and corporations. melissa:ou poor thing. and why are you not weeping? [laughter] so jonathan, what d you think? why is there no outrage over professsonal athletes? >> well, professional athletes are only doingt for the team. and that is athletes that are being very altruistic. and they are interested in making money and that seems to be a very bad thing. >> they had the highest average pay for the 50th consecutive season. an astonishing $8.1 million. tually heard someo in a radio interview say that the reason why they are so bad is because the yankees are overpaid and fat and lazy and they don't care. so those are some harsh words. what do you think? >> well, i think first of all that it is -- it's a problem with where the priorities of the american people are out. the baseball salaries and no one is saying a word. ticket prices keep going up. the ballplayers are in it for the love of

win 50 seats so the democrats will still control the senate in 2015 because joe biden is the 51st vote. >> thegrio.com's perry bacon. good to see you. >> thank you, thomas. >>> still ahead, another setback in efforts to free that ship that's stranded in ice off antarctica. plus an historic step forward for the boy scouts. they prepare to open their ranks to gay children this week. what does the mean for young scouts across america? we'll talk about that straight ahead. in the nation, we know how you feel about your car. so when coverage really counts, count on nationwide insurance. because what's precious to you is precious to us. ♪ love, love is strange just another way we put members first. because we don't have shareholders. join the nation. ♪ baby... ♪ nationwide is on your side ♪ >>> so there's more than 70 passengers stranded in a ship in antarctica since christmas and they're going to have to wait a little longer before they can go home. this is all after a third rescue attempt had to be aborted because of bad weather. the australian ice breaker ship got within ten miles but had to turn around due to h

the host of the show, melissa harris-perry, eventually tweeted out an apology. joehere to begin on where is the biggest mistake on this. poking fun at his family, making an issue of a mixed race family. what was the real cardinal sin here, in your mind? >> i think hypocrisy for starters. if you look at the host, melissa harris-perry, she comes from a mixed mormon family. she has a black father and a white mother. you would think miss perry would applaud, would celebrate the romneys adopting an african-american child. instead, she and her panel sat there for five minutes ridiculed and mocked that act and if that's where we are in 2014, we're in trouble. >> i think others have said this is very true, where were the adults in this conversation because it certainly didn't seem like they were in front of the camera. the right did jump all over this in of course the same month they defended phil robertson from "duck dynasty" for his own offensive comments. a double standard? >> i don't think so here at all. there's a third rail here and that is that you're dealing with a

perry, mclemore and robin thicke. >>> congressional democrats are facing some tough questions back home after the obama care website's disastrous rollout. one of those is west virginia democratic senator joein who left washington, d.c. for coal country to take a shot almost literally at answering people's complaints about obama care and other issues in a series of town hall meetings. correspondent traveling with the senator has more now. >> reporter: at a gun range in west virginia on thursday democratic senator joe manchin hitting head center. the certainty of target shooting is a refreshing departure from washington politics. later at a town hall meeting he faced a moving target. once loyal democratic state has shifted on the national level, a trend accelerated now because of obama care. >> what i'm hearing from our corporations and the business owners is uncertainty, uncertainty, uncertainty. >> reporter: manchin heard west virginias are tired of washington's gridlock and angered over the war on coal. >> i'm afraid not only are they going after coal, we're seeing an end of that. i'm worried they're going to go after natural gas. >> reporter: a september poll by the left-leaning ppp fou