because there are a lot of people who watch this show, other cable shows, and they are mad as hell. the vast majority of the public is mad as hell. i want to be able to interpret that anger and hopefully, hopefully be able to lessen it. howard: frank luntz, thank you very much. we appreciate it. thank you, howie. howard: still to come, a reporter threatened at knifepoint, russia slaps sanctions on anti-trump comedians and more. the buzzmeter is next. rking circulatory system, you had to give your right arm to find great talent. but with upwork, there s highly skilled talent from all over the globe. right at your fingertips. this is how we work now
i don t think fox news is reporting loss of revenue. advertisers are still there, right? the viewership is still up. they re still number one in the various, you know, wars that they have with the other cable shows, so you tell me. i mean, to me, the evidence is very clear. their audience likes this stuff. they want more of it. and fox has indicated it s prepared to feed more of it. now, they may put a, you know, it s like dressing up a big, you know, add little lipstick and blush, but maybe it s a pig, and it doesn t look any better, and that s their problem. now, if they lose the suit and they re slammed with, you know, a billion dollar plus, you know, in damages, we ll see does it alter their behavior certainly as a warning shot for a lot of other folks who don t want to go into that room. but fox is coming at this from a very different perspective. what have they paid so far other
camera that whoopi, all she did was just say, talk about the white house. and it became a big thing, and it s over, and it s why are the salah his famous? w why are all the reality shows famous? you tell me. a little bit of controversy, a little bit of trouble, and we ve got to fill hours and hours. bravo, which probably does them more than anybody else, that s their whole program. you know, the cable shows. it s talk, talk, talk, and if you can find a bone to chew on, you ll chew it until there s just this much of the bone. it s a different time in television. but these people become a hit for being a hit. off of being messy, off of being sort of you know, it seems to me all they do is drink and shop, you know? where are we going today? where are we drinking? where are we shopping? you know, they re famous for being famous. where will they be ten years from now? they ll be rich. i don t think they ll be on the
say talk about the white house. and it became a a big thing. and it s over and it s why are famous? why are the reality shows famous? we ve got to fill hours and hours. bravo, which probably does them more than anybody else, but that s their whole program, the cable shows. your own, it s talk, talk, talk. and if you can find a bone to chew on, you ll chew it until there s this much of the bone. it s a different time in television. these people become a hit for being a hit. off of being messy, off of being sort of you know, seems to me all they do is drink and shop. where we re going today, where we re drinking, where we re shopping. and, you know, they re famous for being famous. where will they be ten years from now? they ll be rich. i don t think they ll be on the air.
discouraged about what s happened over the past five years. but i hope, i home, you re determined to join in the political fight to change things. to make things better to keep us moving, mike, in the right direction. well, that s the fight to have, too. the political fight. you know, when we say this is who we are, it doesn t mean that we have no hope. we always have hope as americans. this is the greatest country that god ever created. and has done more good in the world than all of the other nations combined. so, i have hope and i m sure eddie has hope. and most people watching today have hope. hope that their children will do better in this country than they have done. they still retain that hope. but the language that s employed these days. the niagara of language on cable shows, on social media, there s a license to that language.