Seeing as there's 200 Democrats running for president,
there's bound to be differing opinions
on how to deal with Fox News, right.
While Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris
are avoiding Fox News like cooties,
Bernie Sanders, Vermont senator
and guy who uses a Walgreen's bag as a briefcase,
has gone for a different approach.
He went on Fox and held an hour-long town hall.
Millions of people every single year
lose their health insurance.
Now, what we're talking about actually is stability,
that when you have a Medicare-for-all,
it is there now and it will be there
-in the future. -WOMAN: But, Senator... -(cheering)
A show of hands of how many people get their insurance
from work, private insurance right now.
How many get it from private insurance?
Okay, now of those, how many are willing to transition
to what the senator says, a government-run system?
(cheering)
Wow.
That had to be a shocking thing for Fox News viewers to watch.
Right? Turning on their TVs and seeing a crowd cheering
for a socialist's plan for Medicare-for-all?
In fact, that's probably what killed your grandpa.
That's what that was.
Like, you realize that's the opposite,
it's the exact opposite of what Fox viewers
were expecting to see, right.
It's like buying a ticket to see Paddington,
but then you walk into the wrong theater,
and all of a sudden it's Fifty Shades of Grey.
It'd just be like, "Mommy, why is Paddington being
so mean to that lady?" Be like, "No, no, no.
"You're not supposed to be seeing this.
"Mommy, are we leaving?"
"No, hold on. Not yet. Not yet.
Hold on. Not yet. Not yet."
But you see, what Bernie Sanders did there was interesting.
Right? He didn't pander to the Fox audience.
He stuck to his principles and by the end,
the audience was on his side,
which ends up being good for the Democrats, because,
normally, when Fox viewers hear about Medicare-for-all,
it's stuff like, "The government will only pay
for your pills if you go trans."
And as for Elizabeth Warren's point
about legitimizing Fox News, Pete Buttigieg,
he showed that that's not necessarily the case, right?
He showed that you can do it a different way.
Because the mayor of South Bend, Indiana,
and how of Nathan for You, he did a Fox hall--
he did a Fox town hall on Sunday,
and he showed that visiting Fox
doesn't have to mean that you endorse them.
You know, a lot of folks in my party were critical of me
for even doing this with Fox News.
I mean, when you got Tucker Carlson saying
that immigrants make America dirty...
w-when you've got Laura Ingraham comparing detention centers
with children in cages to summer camps...
then there is a reason why
anybody has to swallow hard and think twice
before participating in this media ecosystem.
But I also believe that there are a lot of Americans
who my party can't blame if they are ignoring our message,
because they will never hear it
if we don't go on and talk about it.
I hope you'll join me in making sure that that next era
is better than any that we've had so far.
Thank you.
(cheers and applause)
Thank you, Mayor, and thank you...
-Wow, a standing ovation. -All right, then.
Wow!
Standing ovation.
Pete Buttigieg went on Fox News,
trashed their most popular anchors
and then got a standing ovation at the end?
-That is amazing. -(cheers and applause)
That was amazing.
Because... because if someone came to your house,
and told you how ugly your kids were,
you'd probably be like, "Get the hell out of here."
You wouldn't be like...
"Someone had to say it.
"You got a big-ass head, Billy, you got a big-ass head.
Someone had to say it."
And, and it wasn't just the audience.
Some reporters on Fox News actually credited Buttigieg
for coming on to their network.
But the kids with the big-ass heads?
They weren't as happy.
Mayor Pete,
who desperately needs a re-Buttigieg.
Now, when he wasn't pushing for tax increases
or lobbing lame cheap shots,
he was trying to pass off political pablum
as some type of high-minded oratory.
Maybe we should call him Pope Pete,
because don't you love how he, you know,
because he attends church, we're supposed to treat him
as the be all and end all moral authority,
or the arbiter of who is,
and who is not operating in good faith.
Okay.
I get that Laura Ingraham is trying to dis Pete,
but I don't know if she achieved that by calling him "Pope.”
People like the pope.
It's not a great diss. It's like going,
"You know this guy Steve is always walking around
"being a dick to everyone, let's call him Big Dick Steve.
"Ha-ha. That will show him.
"Then everyone will know
what a big, throbbing dick he has-- I-I mean, is."
(laughter)
So Laura Ingram, Tucker Carlson
and Bryan Kilmeade, they were all pretty pissed
with Buttigieg's star turn on Fox.
But there was one Fox viewer
who was downright heartbroken.
Last night I watched Alfred E. Newman.
(crowd reacting)
What's going on with Fox, by the way?
What's going on there?
(crowd exclaiming)
They're putting more Democrats on than you have Republicans.
Something strange is going on at Fox, folks.
Something very strange.
Did you see this guy last night?
I did want to watch, you always have to watch
the competition, if you call it that.
And he was knocking the hell out of Fox, and Fox is--
Somebody's gonna have to explain the whole Fox deal to me.
Oh.
Poor Trump.
You realize what happened here.
The news network that he loves the most flirted
with a younger, hotter candidate and...
and he's clearly shook.
He's clearly shook.
You heard when his voice broke?
(voice cracking): "What's going on with Fox?"
(normal voice): You know who Trump is? Trump is basically
a guy scrolling through his ex's Instagram
trying to act like he doesn't care.
He's just like (mimics Trump): "Look at this new guy.
"This new guy Fox is with, what a loser.
"His boobs are way smaller than mine.
"You know what would be funny
"is if I followed him totally as a prank.
"Totally as a-- Oh, no. I liked one of his posts.
Unlike, unlike, unlike, unlike."
(normal voice): So...
Should Democrats go on Fox News or should they stay away?
Look, I don't think there's one correct answer.
All right, in many ways, you know,
it's-it's just like eating an Oreo, you know?
Yeah, you-you-you can dunk it,
you-you-you can twist it, you know,
you can lick it, you can do whatever.
Just as long as you don't think it's a (bleep) real estate term
you should know as a part of your goddam job!