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joining me now is neither daschle his exam director of the democratic
governors association when nathan it appears that uh... foxnews is your
opposition
what do you know about that jgv you hit the nail on the enemy innate in what is
arguably the most important election generations
this is a gross violation of the whole notion of an independent media
and this would be similar to the super bowl referee betting on the outcome i
think what we saw today is fox's action taken movement from the media
organization to a political organization we always knew they held conservative
viewpoints but we never knew that they were actually going to inject a million
dollars to see the defeat of democratic governors every when you consider that
why would a democratic governor or candidate
or penny democrat really cross-country goto and on a news network where they
just paid money to your opponent
you know it's a good question i think you said i right in the outset that the
real answer here is that we ought to just recognize fox is what it is is
literally
the mouthpiece of the republican party then you know your point about going on
fox news is interesting because today i've tried to get on fox news numerous
times i've tried to get on the vast them why they think it's appropriate for a
media organization that claims to be fair and balanced to be giving a million
dollars the single largest corporate donors they reject to giving them a very
governors and i couldn't get a single response
you know there's another issue here too which is that
the corporations can now com and buy whatever they like so it could've been
fox is good and other corporation this is all you know what i'd like to put in
a million ten million a hundred million it's all good investment i'm just going
to do with the republicans and democrats out a lot
i give a plan for the was a tough question but how do you know at that
well i guess i had i had not anticipated until today having to funders from news
corporation's by say the most interesting thing about all this is the
fox news got it wrong
apparently the spending way too much influence conditions
not enough on the research their spokesperson said that the reason they
gaidar g_a_ was because of our geez pro-growth agenda latency that the
recent study that just came out that the ten worst economies eight of those have
republican governors
yeah well of course this they don't care but that that's their excuse that
surfing i sure this isn't about politics is about politics let me let me ask you
what one last time i mean into any i know what happened today and it's a
tough thing right
but it looks like they've been cleared one you guys how do you fight back is
their nose or prefer
his organization at least at this giant media microphone and you guys are
political party so what do you do
well you right now i think today with a sense of the world is a warning to try
to maintain this facade anymore of impartiality women going to try to
pretend we rejected we are here to see the defeat of democratic and its and i
think the answers to fold first
fox ought to stop using the phrase fair balance until either they ask for their
money back where they give us a million dollars and second we all ought to
condemn this for what it is i had a condemning you i condemn it bill o
reilly glenn beck if they had any character they would condemn this and it
also tell foxnews don't undermine my credibility because what fox news is
done i wasted show the world that these by talking heads on foxes are simply
spokespeople for the r_n_c_ mary dot nathan thank you we appreciate you
joining us today sir at midnight and at what rate even mind two thirty five big
news corbis may-june mainly a and news corporation so
met that's it's not just even a giant companies specifically news coverage it
does have other facets to it but ballerina bowler he's a senior fellow at
media matters for america
that eric o what do you think this thing which is foxnews effective from the
other media outlets does he has said from the republican party of ideas it's
it's impossible there's no daylight anymore and outdated they don't
apparently care who knows it
what distinguishes them from the other news outlets is is they don't do news if
it means is that simple you know in years ago five six years and years ago
they were a conservative news outlets they'd be presented news in a
conservative friendly way ever since and not eurasian day with obama they have
become the opposition party they are picking the candidates as unique as you
pointed out they essentially created the tea party movement and if there is any
logic to this would be the republican party donated a million dollars to five
th news not the other way around right advice is also those that into
regulation by giving sappy on a lot of money newt gingrich a lot of a michael
could be a lot of money
while they wait to run for president so that's that there's that angle to to let
me throw the same questions that you yep one of the what's the demographic party
supposed to do a highly how do you fight back against it
well uh... i mean i i think that that the white house sorta started getting it
right last fall as you read as you pointed out of a deep they declared fox
news is not legitimate news organization is a news you noted those of us are this
freak out within the beltway press
let's do it let's try this ever deliver let's see who among the beltway medial
eat after today specifically will stand up and say yeah you know we we thing fox
is really doing great news they're not doing news they're doing propaganda
there there there there are additional party
now everyone really this is the other another example of why everyone should
understand that the rhetoric real quick evidence at the bottom line here is up
to the rest of the media to say hey look it's okay you can be concerned there is
nothing wrong with that
just were not going to take the news at face value like through any other news
organization
when i say okay that's a conservative spent on this but and then put it in its
proper context would that really help with that be the main answer they would
help i think if they look at what price news doesn't see it's no different than
the right wing waters there is no different than what bill kristol is
magazine does
bassist purely partisan right wing media
is purely g_o_p_ propaganda and if people want to see that for what it is
that fine well let's just let's just finish arrayed about it being a news
organization hardball thank you so much for joining us fence