>> I'M TOLD THAT WE HAVE A LIBERAL MEDIA IN THIS COUNTRY.
LAUGH ALONG WITH ME.
THIS MEDIA IS COMPLETELY ESTABLISHMENT
MEDIA, THEY PROTECT THE ESTABLISHMENT IN EVERY WAY.
CONSERVATIVES SAY THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS THINGS ALL THE TIME,
NEVER GET CHALLENGED.
THE MINUTE THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA OR HILLARY
CLINTON SAYS SOMETHING EVEN SLIGHTLY CHALLENGING TO
REPUBLICANS, AND EVEN IF THEY DON'T -- YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN
KINDER TO THE REPUBLICANS.
HOW DARE YOU?
I WILL GIVE YOU SOME
EXAMPLES OF THAT, THAT IS WHY WE ARE DOING THE SEGMENT.
PRESIDENT
OBAMA GIVES A SPEECH ABOUT HAVING TO BE SMART IN HOW WE
ATTACK ISIS, WE HAVE TO USE SPECIAL FORCES, WE WILL USE
BOMBING RUNS, BUT MARK HALPERIN, WHO IS AS MUCH OF AN
ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA FIGURE AS THERE IS -- YOU WANT TO GET THE
NONSENSE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM OF WASHINGTON, IT BREWS IN HIS
MIND.
HE TALKS ABOUT THE CHATTERING CLASS IN THIS CLIP,
HE IS THE CHATTERING CLASS.
IT'S A JOKE.
HE COMES ON THE TODAY SHOW ON NBC AFTER THE PRESIDENT'S
SPEECH AND SAYS THIS GARBAGE.
>>ARE YOU SURPRISED THAT IN THE SPEECH HE DIDN'T OFFER ANYTHING
NEW IN TERMS OF STRATEGY OR POLICY, THAT IT WAS BASICALLY
STAY THE COURSE?
>>I'M SURPRISED BY THAT, I'M ALSO
SURPRISED THAT HE DIDN'T DO A GOOD ENOUGH JOB, OR MAYBE ANY
JOB, AND REACHING OUT TO REPUBLICANS.
THIS IS A TIME WHEN
WE NEED NATIONAL UNITY, HE IS LEAVING OFFICE IN A YEAR.
THE REACTION FROM REPUBLICANS WAS UNIVERSALLY BAD.
NOT JUST
CANDIDATES, ALSO CAPITOL HILL LEADERS.
NO SENSE OF
BIPARTISANSHIP.
THIS IS THE FUNDAMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY OF
WASHINGTON, TO PROTECT THE COUNTRY AND AMERICAN INTERESTS
ABROAD.
WHEN THE PRESIDENT GIVES A SPEECH THAT BECOMES FOR THE
CHATTERING CLASS, THAT IS A FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP OF BOTH
PARTIES, BUT THE PRESIDENT HAS THE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY NOW.
YOU WOULD LIKE THE WORLD, LIKE AFTER 9/11, WHERE THE PRESIDENT
ADDRESSES THE COUNTRY, SAYS WE ARE IN CRISIS, AND REPUBLICANS
SAY WE WILL PUT PARTISANSHIP ASIDE AND WORK WITH HIM.
THAT IS NOT WHAT WE ARE SEEING.
>>WAIT A MINUTE, IF THE PRESIDENT DID NOT DO ANYTHING
ABOUT POLITICS, HE DIDN'T MAKE IT POLITICAL, REPUBLICANS
IMMEDIATELY JUMPED ALL OVER HIM AND MADE IT POLITICAL.
AND YOU SAY
HE DIDN'T REACH OUT TO REPUBLICANS ENOUGH?
LISTEN TO HOW THE
REPUBLICANS REACTED AFTER THE SPEECH.
>>WHAT HE IS SAYING IS NONSENSE, IT DOESN'T EXIST WITH THE FACTS.
BECAUSE HE HAS CREATED THIS NARRATIVE THAT EVERYBODY IS
AGAINST MUSLIMS.
THAT IS NOT THE CASE.
BUT WE ARE AGAINST ISLAMIC
JIHADISTS.
>>AND NOTHING THAT HAPPENED IN THE SPEECH TONIGHT WILL ASSUAGE
PEOPLE'S FEARS.
WE HEARD TONIGHT THAT THE SAME STRATEGY THAT HAS
BROUGHT US TO THIS POINT IS THE STRATEGY HE IS GOING TO
CONTINUE WITH.
>>HE DIDN'T LAY OUT ANYTHING NEW AND HE SPENT MORE TIME
TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE SHOULDN'T DO THAN WHAT WE SHOULD.
>>I WOULD GO ON OFFENSE.
WE HAVE 3500 AMERICAN TROOPS IN IRAQ, I
WOULD GO UP TO 10,000 SO WE HAD THE CAPABILITY TO REINFORCE THE
IRAQI SECURITY FORCES TO DESTROY ISIL INSIDE IRAQ.
>>IT WAS A SPEECH ABOUT NOTHING, ALMOST LIKE A SEINFELD EPISODE.
>>WE ARE AT WAR WITH RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM AND THIS PRESIDENT
CONTINUES TO DENY THAT, AND SO DOES HILLARY CLINTON.
>> MAKING IT POLITICAL, WHAT DID HILLARY CLINTON HAVE ANYTHING TO
DO WITH THAT SPEECH FROM THE OVAL OFFICE?
HERE'S HOW
REPUBLICANS REACH OUT, WITH THE BACK OF THEIR HAND.
THEY SEE THAT
AND THINK THAT IT'S THE PRESIDENT'S FAULT.
MARK HALPERIN, THE
SO-CALLED LIBERAL MEDIA, THAT IT'S THE PRESIDENT'S FAULT FOR
GETTING SLAPPED AROUND LIKE THAT.
BUT THEY ATTACKED HIM.
IT
IS NOT THEIR FAULT, DON'T BLAME REPUBLICANS, BLAME DEMOCRATS.
DON'T EVER FIGHT BACK, IN FACT YOU SHOULD PREEMPTIVELY, BEFORE
THEY CRITICIZE YOU, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THEY WILL NO MATTER WHAT YOU
SAY, IN THE SPEECH YOU SHOULD HAVE MADE IT POLITICAL AND
REACHED OUT TO REPUBLICANS.
BUT WAIT A MINUTE, I DID OVER 5000
BOMBING RUNS OVER ISIS, I'VE GOT SPECIAL FORCES ON THE GROUND,
WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?
MEET THEM HALFWAY, MAYBE NUCLEAR.
WHAT IS
MEETING THEM HALFWAY?
GROUND TROOPS?
I ALREADY HAVE 3300.
MAYBE 10,000 OR 50,000.
START ANOTHER WAR.
HALFWAY, JUST IN
SYRIA, BUT NOT IN IRAQ.
HOW THE HELL CAN HE MEET THESE GUYS
HALFWAY, AND HOW IS IT HIS FAULT THAT THERE IS DIVISIVENESS
IN WASHINGTON?
NOT JUST OBAMA, HERE IS CHARLIE ROSE YELLING AT HILLARY
CLINTON OVER A SIMILAR THEME.
>>A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK THE BIGGEST PROBLEM FOR AMERICA
IS WASHINGTON.
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
PARTLY IT IS REFLECTED IN THE POLITICS WE SEE.
>>THAT IS TRUE, BUT LOOK AT HOW OUR FOUNDERS SET IT UP.
THEY SET
UP THIS SEPARATION OF POWERS, AND THEY MADE IT DIFFICULT TO
GET THINGS DONE.
AND SOME YEARS, IT IS REALLY HARD.
AND WE ARE IN
ONE OF THESE PERIODS WHERE WE HAVE A MINORITY WITHIN THE OTHER
PARTY THAT DOES NOT BELIEVE IN COMPROMISE, DOES NOT BELIEVE IN
REACHING CONSENSUS --
>>BUT ATTACKING THEM IS NOT THE WAY TO DO IT.
>>PART OF WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO IS MAKE IT CLEAR TO EVERYONE ELSE
WHO IS IN THAT PARTY THAT THERE IS ROOM.
>> ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
THERE YOU GO, ATTACKING THEM.
WHAT DO THE
REPUBLICANS DO?
THEY ATTACK NONSTOP, OVER NONSENSE.
OVER
THINGS THAT ARE FABRICATED.
AND WHY DON'T YOU EVER CALL THEM OUT
ON IT?
WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YOU INTERRUPTED A REPUBLICAN, THERE
YOU GO AGAIN, ATTACKING THE DEMOCRATS?
THEY WOULD LAUGH IN
YOUR FACE.
OF COURSE I ATTACK DEMOCRATS, THEY DESERVE TO BE
ATTACKED.
BUT THE MINUTE A DEMOCRAT TRIES TO DEFEND
THEMSELVES FOR ONE SECOND, CUT IT OUT.
DON'T ATTACK THE
REPUBLICANS.
WHERE IS THE LIBERAL MEDIA?
I HAVE NOT SEEN
IT.
THERE IS NO LIBERAL MEDIA.
AND THIS IS PART OF THE GAME
THAT IS PLAYED.
EVERYTHING IS 50/50, EVEN THOUGH THESE GUYS ARE
MONSTERS AND YELL AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS, I WILL CALL IT EVEN
BETWEEN THOSE GUYS AND THE ONES WHO ARE BEING ATTACKED AND EVERY
ONCE IN A WHILE MEEKLY SAY THEY ARE FILIBUSTERING MORE THAN
OTHERS, THEY ARE CREATING OBSTRUCTION.
HOW DARE YOU?
DON'T
ATTACK REPUBLICANS.
WHERE THE FUCK IS THE LIBERAL MEDIA?
I
DON'T SEE IT.
THESE ARE ALL ESTABLISHMENT GUYS.
THEY LOVE
THE SYSTEM AS IT IS, THEY ARE ALL ENORMOUSLY RICH OFF THE
SYSTEM THAT EXISTS.
THE MEDIA THAT ARE ALL MILLIONAIRES, THEY
LOVE THE SYSTEM.
THEY DON'T WANT ANY DEMOCRAT OR ANY PROGRESSIVE
EVER UPSETTING THAT SYSTEM.
THEY DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH
DEMAGOGUES LIKE TED CRUZ AND DONALD TRUMP AND ALL THE
MONSTERS ON THAT SIDE, AND THEY JUST WANT TO CALL IT EVEN.
TRUMP
SAYS WE SHOULD KICK OUT ALL THE MUSLIMS FROM THE COUNTRY.
HE
SAYS MAYBE HE LIKES PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT CAPTURED IN THE WAR LIKE
JOHN MCCAIN.
HE LIKES WOMEN WHO ARE NOT BLEEDING FROM DIFFERENT
PLACES.
LET'S CALL IT EVEN.
THAT ISN'T LIBERAL.
THAT'S BEING PART OF
THE ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA, IT IS DEEPLY CONSERVATIVE IN THE SENSE
OF, LET'S MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO.
WHY DOES THE MEDIA WANT TO
MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO?
BECAUSE IT HAS MADE THEM INCREDIBLY
WEALTHY.
YOU THINK THEY WANT TO CHANGE THAT?
YOU THINK THEY WANT
TO TIP THAT APPLECART OVER?
THOSE ARE THEIR APPLES.
THEY
LOVE THEM APPLES.
IF A PROGRESSIVE EVER CHALLENGES THAT
APPLECART, THEY ARE FEROCIOUS IN ATTACKING THEM.
IF CONSERVATIVES
KEEP GOING WITH THAT APPLECART, THEY APPLAUD.
I AM JUST BEING
NEUTRAL.
THAT IS WHAT THEY SAY.
MEDIA IS A LOT OF THINGS, BUT
LIBERAL AIN'T ONE OF THEM.
YOUNG TURKS.