recently president bomb a and al gore have both come out the aggressively
against foxes rush limbaugh and say but there have forcing republican
politicians to be more more extreme
has appointed seems nearly indisputable even if you don't think they have
overall a lot of power and i would
than our ups and the second you've got a at least admit that
uh... they are pushing
uh... their home politicians more to the right and that's the point that gordo
obama war-making but howard kurtz the c_n_n_ takes issue with that
me certain a column asking them to stop white invite literally says
quote my response
can't we please stop
the whining
first of all it's the easiest rick in the world whenever you disagree with
anybody you can use them for being a wine
uh... but let's go in the heart of argument so he says quote i didn't
realize the conservative media
were so on a popping the powerful
so this is a specific on come on iran knows that media is liberal
uh... and so about to start living parallel so funny
really political examples
so for example in the year two thousand
um... you had a little bit of an election by the way that involved al
gore
and who is an election called for cold by
isn't fact you can look it up if you like
fox news channel they were the first network to call it
for george w_ book
now the reality is we found out later was that it was a statistical tie
mission of uncalled for either side
do you know who
fox's had hired to call the election
the person in charge of call in the election
was literally george w_ bush is
and then what happened the rest of the networks panic again go back and look at
the tape if you like
you'd pull of the fact that
check anything you like a spurred a
and the rest of the networks after fox news called and said all i got
uh... if i choose call that we got we got a call etc never george bush wants
george which one toward which one george which one
they all call the dislike
foxes its gonna wanna be lame
and wannabe liddy we already had a news network called the election
and uh... that idea major's abhi which had definitively one and al gore had
lost
that might have affecting how things went down afterwards and a little bit
but there are no conserving the isn't by pal popping the powerful and all right
and then there was of course iraq war
or fox news came on with the flag and m_s_n_b_c_ fired phil donahue and
everybody else they wave the flag in the fall of fox news and local from nineteen
ninety six a two thousand six
and fox news where in the media
i know to to
let people working in this that was from media that is
heresy think
when you say that in all it opulent illicit everybody how the media is
liberal
not incensed
foxes will push one story after another into the mainstream of the media
as c_n_n_ msnbc will run be handling lap dogs
those three networks are
every newspaper
uh... office there in every radio officer in every local television
office and they all fall on fox news
now sings about little better into their in two thousand six different
dusted his famous special comments
msnbc's starts going the lapd
the craziest little balanced out
uh... is fighters still powerful
they sneeze and then jones direction
and all bomb assume uh...
overboard
then does look as surely sure on the wrong way she had to be pulled over a
little either side of the road and fire
backfired
at encourage to resign immediately
so
if you think that they're not powerful with the white house
well you're not following the news
let alone their enormous influence all over the g_o_p_
or these things
should be obvious to anybody following the news
men uh... kurtz goes out of the sex comment
uh... whatever you think of fox rupert murdoch's network is their financial
success and print t_v_ was anything but
as my favorite
uh... well how foxnews worked as a financial success
assault they must be right
they must be doing something right and progress of the aisle you can figure it
out act
so wait which one is it
is all the media liberal
war ken liberals not succeed at all in media which one
than ever clarify that point
okay so onto the issue of fox is being so great well they are did your doing
terrific in the rates right
duplicity immediate
of all people brett hume service
foxnews lost ninety million dollars a year
for the first five years
and has lost four hundred
fifty million dollars nearly half a billion dollars
before they turn a profit
now if current t_v_ or whoever else also out of a half a million dollars
have a billion dollars to invest
could they do well
answer is yes
because look at msnbc they also have incredibly deep pockets
and look at that
now they're incredibly successful
id when people told me that all liberals
will never succeed on t_v_ get ratings i was like yeah i know that the country's
at least fifty percent progressive
but somehow magically
none of them watch t_v_
how painfully stupid is that
so it's a matter of have enough capital to make that investment
so now you don't understand
that you shouldn't take success in the ratings as a guide for who's right who's
wrong when you need two more
uh... points here
first of all oreilly who's been old leader in cable news from for along a
long time over a decade
has at his height not anymore but at its height had over three million
viewers tonight
so
was super traveler
three million viewers mark exactly
one-percent of the u_s_ population
so
the fact that they were able to superstar that bought forty years and
say the conservatives hey you know what
okay
well your guys and they got one percent of the country of all that
does that mean to the country's conservative not these letters and a
country like this are there
tell us what solution
hey look obvi
fund buys the sense that i'll tell you about us right
but now look isn't positive number swiss out a big deal that i reveal this right
but i'm gonna tell you why it doesn't mean that we're necessarily right so for
example the interns
we have of four over forty million views a month on utube alone
we've had over a hundred million may dispute among class war there was a
hundred and three million
and we have over one billion views are network if you combine all the other
conservative media
and times of bike ten online
they would not equally on perks
now does that mean for the young turks
then or write about all these other countries obviously leon trance like
well carey says impossibly gospel in there so much larger hello conservative
online news
out
now doesn't mean that all of these we do but i hope an entertaining program in a
lot of people watching
it's nowhere near fifty one percent a country
by the way would be
stopped with the species nonsense arguments
about although fox news as well the reading so
the country must be with them
or reply and that's the only way you can succeed at it financially nonsense
that heat that culprits
points are something else here have been them he says edited down then the white
house communications director
uh... called quarks the communication arm of the republican party has said
it is not really in news network anymore
the resulting furor gift box months of potter was widely joseph tactical mister
okay thing about that right
so why is that a tactical mister
fox is not really news network on mon this anybody in america actually think
that they're unbiased news network that they don't have a conservative
slant to the news
at all nobody in the right wing could possibly think that yes conservatives
they don't think that
only people who sink down
of the people that work in cable news
uh... why why would cnn msnbc
serum competitors
to foxtons want to continue that myth and say all was a mess that to challenge
them
on the internet
here's what you have to understand
by third
and this is roughly and i worked in cable news so i know
about author of the people have already
worked on fox news
nowadays in the same producer is a so-called report is a set of that are
circulating
in cable news on television
sort of the reporters the producers have already worked at fox's
they might work there now or they already moved and then out msnbc rs
c_n_n_ i can tell you the number of people
that worked at fox is that now we're gonna mess n_b_c_ i sought right
i'm not blaming them asus reality
and third of them
fatma maybe
by might work there one day so i'd better be called by criticizing fights
news
alternatives that worked there dot where does that work
and at least a third but in reality
at least two thirds
know someone in the industry that is a
friend of theirs that works at fox news network and they don't want to say hey
joe or sally
art propagandist that work for
an arm of the republican party they wanna say no
don sutton is a first preview joe's embarked on an announcement by alpine
the producer by for the report
this protracted reporter there are no anyway so you money from roger ailes who
used to be
you know that you propagandist for the republican party in this style that he
probably has
further problem in party but upon a much more efficient skilled foxnews but i can
say cuz my friend is there and i might work there
and two and three of my producers work there earlier
that's why they defend fox news
that's why they're the only people in the country
that wanted at obviously boxes as conservative
and holy supports a republican part
the guys on cable news pretending to compete with boxing
and then finally i will give howard this credit
he does get a ride it and he said the let's face it
these are cable channels with relatively modest audiences
and their impact is sometimes exaggerated inside the beltway echo chen
with that part
is now finally tree it wasn't true from ninety six a two thousand six
but right now the reason surely sure other than shows et-cetera all those
guys get thrown overboard
is because president while in his white house is obsessed with fox news
and then give them more power than they married
yes
they are influential at all the ways that i described
and yes they impose a republican party to be much more radical more right wing
no one can dispute that in their right mind
but you're giving them more power by saying oh my god what is now is not like
it
dosage plan that was such a full
he got thrown out by fox news
but meanwhile the whole time nobody as usual zack panic over what glenn beck
was going to say
stop it already
stopped watching fox news channel at the white house
and keep reacting to them and keep going for them for the right wing
ted peeves that
'cause you've given them more power than they already have
so on that note
howard kurtz and i can agree