america, the liberal blog dedicated to destroying fox news. our next guest sat down with former and current media matters employees and discovered some unsettling facts about the web site s leaders and their connections to the white house and the mainstream media. joining us right now is fox news contributor and the writer of that report the daily caller s tucker carlson. good morning. good morning. why is media matters out to destroy fox news and some others? well, for two reasons. first, for ideological reasons. media matters is a left wing organization, wants to see a left wing monopoly on media. he could, its donors give a lot of money in order to hit fox. we ve got a week-long series going on. we have internal memos that we re going to be releasing later in the week that put a little finer point on this but the bottom line is media matters has decided it can make the most money by attacking fox and has. keep in mind, folks, this is a tax exempt organization. and let s ta
speaker gears up to save his campaign no matter how he has to do it. jenna. jenna: will be interesting to watch. rick, thank you very much. we re awaiting congresswoman bachmann in iowa. i saw someone step to the podium to give us the two minute warning. we give cover her at any moment. everyone tries to stretch a buck and some campaigns are doing a better job than others. we saw this in the washington post today. texas governor rick perry spending the most in iowa, about $4.5 million on media. divide that number, divide that by the number of votes he got and it comes to $364 each. that is the jon scott vote, right? $364. jon: i couldn t afford that. jenna: next up, mitt romney, the former governor of mass as massachusetts. won iowa eight votes. each vote costing him $49. rick santorum though got the
mitt romney, might want to brace himself as the former speaker gears up to save his campaign no matter how he has to do it. jenna. jenna: will be interesting to watch. rick, thank you very much. we re awaiting congresswoman bachmann in iowa. i saw someone step to the podium to give us the two minute warning. we give cover her at any moment. everyone tries to stretch a buck and some campaigns are doing a better job than others. we saw this in the washington post today. texas governor rick perry spending the most in iowa, about $4.5 million on media. divide that number, divide that by the number of votes he got and it comes to $364 each. that is the jon scott vote, right? $364. jon: i couldn t afford that. jenna: next up, mitt romney, the former governor of mass as massachusetts. won iowa eight votes. each vote costing him $49.
but they re trying to paint bachmann as a person who s so much more serious than palin. but did a little break down of her record here. look at that real quick. never had a bill of resolution that she sponsored that got signed into law. the amendments and bills are rarely by the committee. is that playing as a serious substantive candidate. her gaffes are more on the serious question. in her favor, barack obama didn t get legislation through of any meaningful substance before he ran for president. it had different status. he was rung for the senator. it s a different level. it is hard when you re going out of the house. if the comparison is palin and half a term as governor, maybe the bar is pretty low here. i just have to correct you, though, on media attention when
a very good point. sure. so this could be a time where this tragedy could lead us to, we hope, some sort of agreement. on media, self-critique, but we need some. thank you, both. coming up, new questions about the safety and security for our elected officials. an arizona congressman joins us next. sun in the sky