Twenty-three-year-old Ezra Klein is a staff writer at The American Prospect, has written for a number of self-important publications, and also regularly appears on MSNBC's Hardball. Earlier this month, on his Twitter page, Klein added "mocking NBC News mainstay Tim Russert" to his superlatives: "Fuck Tim Russert. Fuck him with a spiky acid-tipped dick."

That didn't go over so well, and when the controversy bubbled up, he recanted his msg; it was just a joke, he insisted. He then removed his Twitter page.

Now it's Time.com's Ana Marie Cox, who also appears regularly on MSNBC, that's getting in a Twitter of trouble, also for making fun of Russert.

"Russert clearly taking C Matthew's medication," she types out, "resembles a manic-depressive jellybean."

So begs the question: With all this NBC-hating, when is their cable news network going to ban them from appearing? (Then again, we're still invited on, so, never?)