he cleared the air. and i appreciate it. we had a nice call. that s not an answer. did he a that doesn t sound like an apology? he said it s nothing personal, pal. i told him that i appreciated him reaching out. now, this whole exchange could be something small, a gaffe over language, but it s actually perhaps a window into biden s private thinking. that maybe he actually thinks fox is not the same, which is why he had those harsh words. but he has other reasons to echo a kind of conventional wisdom here. and this is a common refrain from certain voices. take bill maher, who is often on the left on many issues. he said msnbc s coverage of chris christie meant it was time to look at yourself, msnbc, you re turning into fox news, bridgegate has become your benghazi. this conventional wisdom keeps on cropping up, and yes, full disclosure, this is an msnbc
most viewed anchors like tucker carlson and its reporters are just one more comparable source on a polarized spectrum? and will we ever know? i mean, we can t read minds, right? but we can hear hot mics, which is why this story tonight is actually extra interesting, because on hot mics, of course, the mic catches something that a speaker meant to be private. and that s what happened to joe biden at the same presser where i showed you him making those remarks after getting a question from a fox news reporter, whom he later called after the hot mic moment to try to make it right. do you think inflation that s a great asset. more inflation. what a stupid son of a bitch. stupid son of a bitch, mr. unity strikes again. within about an hour of that exchange, he called my cell phone, and he said, it s nothing personal, pal. did he apologize?
we re not seeing any significant increase in extreme weather events affecting people s lives. the severity has been on the decline. i think it was the coldest july we have had in a while. global cooling. climate change panic is so overblown that it s hyperbolic and silly. kids have a lot of things to worry about. climate change should not be one of them. fox has been doing this for years. in a way that is fundamentally different from other media and other even opinionated media. now, there were those public service announcements that said the more you know. remember that? back in 2012, a while back, a study showed fox viewers were also less informed than people who literally said they consumed no news at all. think about that. you spend your time watching something called fox news. and you end up statistically less informed than people who don t watch the news, period. this is not journalism.
demonstrations. and it s wrong to go after law-abiding citizens who were engaging in their constitutional rights. reports that antifa sympathizers may have been sprinkled throughout the crowd. so fbi operatives were organizing the attack on the capitol. all of that is misleading, much of it is directly false. whether it was defamatory is a higher legal bar. i mentioned lawsuits against them. what do you think at the political level, which is the other part of this, the democratic party needs to do? i think we need to really push back on the idea that conspiracy theories are somehow equivalent to conservative opinion. they re not the same them. a lot of people wis listen to me and say, hey, you re a democrat. of course you feel this way about fox news. think about this as a thought experiment. imagine if we had bill kristol or george will running fox news. they would not run a single
for example, fox draws influence from the perception that it is basically a news organization. like the ap or abc news when in reality there has been evidence for years which shows fox routinely broadcasts misleading and false information, which is different than most news organizations. more on the details of that in a moenlt, but if you re on the receiver end of that misinformation, if it s designed to take you down, you wouldn t want people to just take at face value the fox materials they re getting treated as if it s totally comparable to any other channel like abc or nbc or what you re watching, n msnbc. what i just said does sound obvious e, but at the big press conference president biden said, he casually propped up and legitimized fox news by likening to another news channel. american public are trying to sift their way through what s real and what s fake.