harassment and placing moles within fox news. sort of war without limits against fox. there was a memo that you guys were able to obtain, this is just one of the quotes from it. it says we must take fox news head on in a well-funded presidential style campaign to discredit and embarrassing the network making it illegitimate in the eyes of news consumers again that seems lylely unusual but another thing is you uncovered a reporter that is now at another news organization apparently had this information more than a year ago. yes, he did. never really revealed the intensity of things tharpe being uncovered by this moment mow. why didn t he report the story? i mean, any journalist ought to jump at that just as a news story regardless of your point of view. you would think. and in the course of our reporting we were told by media matters employees that ben smith at politico were oner their
across from their houses, really harassment and placing moles within fox news. sort of war without limits against fox. there was a memo that you guys were able to obtain, this is just one of the quotes from it. a well-fundedst take fox news presidential style campaign to discredit and embarrassing the network making it illegitimate in the eyes of news consumers again that seems lylely unusual but another thing is you uncovered a reporter that is now at another news organization apparently had this information more than a year ago. yes, he did. never really revealed the intensity of things tharpe being uncovered by this moment mow. why didn t he report the story? i mean, any journalist ought to jump at that just as a news story regardless of your point of view. you would think. and in the course of our reporting we were told by media matters employees that ben smith
go-to reporters. someone they would leak things to, someone they felt was a useful pawn for them. we asked ben about this and in the course of that it turned out he obtained a copy of a 90 page memo about a year ago and never printed a vast majority of its contents. that s a betrayal of the core idea of journalism, which is find news that s newsworthy and bring it to your readers. for whatever reason he did not report that information. we think that s one of several examples of mainstream, so-called mainstream reporters doing the bidding of media matters. i want to be fair to all of our viewers to explain that what media matters reports is their business. that s fine. i mean, in a country where we value free speech, they are free to say things even if they are untrue and reckless, all of which they have done. but here s the rub and this is what i think is the heart of the
mine right now. boy, will they be bored. but a caller exposed the media matters operation. fox news contributor tucker carlson joins me now from washington. tucker. this is a fascinating, if not explosive series that the daily caller has been doing. and interestingly let s talk about, first, this idea that they are digging up dirt on fox employees. that s the stuff of a political campaign, not a watch dog organization. and not even a legitimate political campaign. i don t know a single presidential campaign, i know your campaign didn t do that and i don t know anyone who would do that because it s risky and unethical and it would potentially backfire. but we obtained an internal memo from media matters that laid out a plan to undermine fox. hiring private investigators to, quote, look into the personal lives of fox employees, targeting them online, going to their homes, placing billboards across from their houses, really
if that tax-exempt status is threatened, help me understand why we wouldn t have some outrage going on, and why haven t other media organizations, the new york times and the washington post and abc and nbc and cbs, why have they not touched this story? because they are in deep sympathy with the aims of media matters in many cases and also because they are implicated in what media matters does. reporters from every institution you just named receive regularly and have received over the years information from media matters. they are part of the way, they are the main way, in fact, media matters disseminates its information. it s it s attacks on fox, it s attempt to help politicians, they are all part of that. they are hesitant to report ton and also media matters gets every benefit of every doubt. i can tell you what, if a fox memo were uncovered and fox executives were ais ing we are hiring detectives to look into the lives of some group we don t