you heard basically wall to wall coverage
a bridge gay it's on CNN it summit on MSNBC all over the internet
one place you probably haven't heard anything about it though is Fox News
yesterday on Wednesday the day that the scandal broke box
affectively didn't talk about it at all in fact on
up Bill O'Reilly show in on Sean Hannity's show it was not mentioned once
despite the fact that everyone else
across the media was talking about it and that seems like an odd omission
now it was talked about at least a little bit about Meghan Kelly did
address it
Brett Baer talked about it briefly but when we talk about the actual number is
a
what different networks thought about the significance of the scandal Fox News
covered it for just 15 minutes
compared to CNN's 150 minutes
now look I'm gonna be honest I have almost as big a problem with that number
for CNN as they do for Fox
I certainly think that wanted more than 15 minutes above coverage on Fox
especially because this was the day that the big part of it broke but 150 minutes
seems like an unnecessary
amount of scrutiny when chris Christie hadn't even gone talked about yet
on and you can expect that number will be even higher today
now certain it did come up a little bit more today on Thursday Fox deciding that
look we actually do have to cover it
although the way that they addressed it especially in Fox's morning shows was a
little bit interesting
but Steve do see Hasselbeck we're talking about the gates book on a bomb
in the military
and they're not happy at all with all this bridge talk watch
imagine the commander in chief claiming that he supports you but not your
mission how do you separate
the two and how do you separate yourself the commander in chief from your trip
information that you're putting forward it just doesn't make sense doesn't make
sense on paper
doesn't make sense on air doesn't make sense from the president the United
States
to hear any other that coming forward on in this
in this book is just shocking yeah and Anne
there and I was watching one a news channel yesterday you would think that
this would be a big story who
all about to the bridge thing with busty we're gonna be talking about that little
while
yeah there Steve do see keeping up on all the relevant news talking about the
bridge thing
I don't even think it's news we'll talk about it the next segment by the way
so I love that so they are talking there about bob gates book that says that
basic or
their interpretation other is that Barack Obama doesn't care for the
military doesn't support their mission
our gates did not agree with the Brock Obama lot of his military decisions now
I have to admit I have not actually read the book which means that I have
something in common with every conservative comments are on the
internet and on Fox News
none of them have actually read the book and people who have actually read the
book
say that the Conservatives are completely misinterpreting
what Kate said now certainly gate is not gonna be huge fan
Obama but they're selectively taking a couple of quotes out of context
to reinforce a narrative that they've been pushing for years that Brock Obama
doesn't care for the military at all
and and by the way so Hasselbeck there
it doesn't it doesn't make any sense to me that he would say this it doesn't
known
any level does it make sense then perhaps you don't actually know what
you're talking about it doesn't even convinced you in your room
readily predisposed to believe the sort of BS and so
they want to get past the chris Christie stop now that doesn't mean that they are
big fans are chris Christie
it's just their general like standing ovation a standard operating procedure
is why should we be attacking a republican
when there's a perfectly good democratic president to attack and so they're gonna
focus focus on the gates thing
now I can't say at this point what sort of legs
the bridge big cock conspiracy will have on perhaps if Melissa harris-perry
talked about Karen Romney
a couple days later would still be discussing that but people got sick of
talking about the Romney child and so now we've moved on a bridge gate
hope will last for at least a few days just because I wanna know if there's any
way that they can't I chris Christie to this
because look he seems like the sort of guy who probably would be
Bain & pedi enough to use as political power to
to damage democrats that he didn't wasn't in favor of
and and just as a way of illustrating how petty it actually was
they use this political power to hurt at the Fort Lee mayor
chris Christie was not in any danger of losing
that mayors supporting or not supporting chris Christie his reelection bid
was almost 100 percent meaningless that had no influence whatsoever on the
actual come out the vote
in which chris Christie won by like 30 points and so
I would think that you just celebrate be happy that your guy Chris Christie had
won reelection
but instead they immediately begin plotting how they can take down those
damn democrats didn't support them
so that seems petty it seems childish and for those two reasons I think that
people might actually care about it whether Fox News wants to cover it
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