young white maga hat-wearing people who are here in d.c. for explicitly conservative or political cause and they were perfectly willing to believe, without considering much further that these were the villains of the story and oh my god look what they are doing it s so terrible. tucker: i will confess. when the harvey weinstein story happened, i don t share his politics, i always thought it was creepy and actually thought i better be sure. i wanted to believe it was true in a sense because it comported with what i thought of him and at the time i think it was mostly true.t but i do think honest people, when they see a story that confirms their biases, pause, before jumping on board, don t think you meant and shouldn t our journalists be more honest than they are? absolutely. in this case it was all there. had to watch the almost two hours of footage revealing like you explained there was this crazy hate group yelling obscenity, horrible language at these kids for like an hour and g
he saw the evidence is like edward snowden. you can t find him. he hasn t tweeted for three days hasn t written any tweets anyway and he isn t doing any interviews. you see tucker: may i clarify? so, always struck me as a real reporter just to be honest about it but it leopold kid has like a long history of really reckless behavior. he is the one who publicly reported and turned out to be false that karl rove had been indicted. he was fired for plagiarism. the guy is a political activist. why would you ever put someone like that on a story of this magnitude? precisely. and it s funny because with leopold and so many in the media, the mistakes only seem to go one way toward republicans or conservatives or trump in this case. i mean, ask yourself this question. when was the last time you saw a major media outlet t make a mistake or a major error in a story about a democratic lawmaker? you know, i m racking my brain.
all the impeached and if trues came out. as you mentioned you had anthony, one of the authors in this piece on cnn saying he hadn t seen evidence that was used as a foundation for the story. then minutes later on msnbc the other author said he hadad seen the evidence. that is your red flag right there where chuck todd as a political director thenth needs to get the troops together and say guys, look, our onus organization, nbc own news organization, and be seen as, could not verify this report independently and therefore we should go about this with extreme caution. instead, you mentioned the number, nearly 200 times. on nbc alone the word impeach or impeachment was said 97 times. that falls at chuck todd s feet as a political director when in the morning editorial meeting he should have made sure that didn tn happen. on cnn same thing. they couldn t verify the report independently and it was said on their 82 times. now, look, where are we at now? jason leopold, the other reporter in t
this way and they re doing it for exploitation purposes let s not give them the ammunition. t tucker: that s unbelievable. that s by the way not neutral thinking and notle clear thinking. it s not the way that journalists think. it s the way that political operatives think. their first concern is always how will the otherop side benefit from this? how can we win the next campaign? that s how they think because that s exactly what they are doing. joe concha covers media for the hill and he joins us tonight joe, do you think the real problem with buzzfeed given segments too this where mean commentators on fox news give segue to stories like this. is that really the core problem of the story would you say? let me address chuck todd there people don t realize. this is he not only the moderator of meet the press. he is also the political director of nbc news. here s the thing. everybody all those anchors and pundits you just show a had ample warning there was a serious problem with this
man, the most charitable i will be, got it totally wrong and less charitably, lie to thee media. tucker: bill kristol said he was calm and noble and we should learn a lesson. he like ironized cody, no? you don t think he was? no. and they are not engaging in targeted racial harassment. they are just not. they are confused. they are like is this guy on my side and they are joining in with them. it s not perfect. i don t know. maybe they should have done something about it differently. it wasn t it wasn t malicious toward him. until then they get confused maybe he is not on their side. maybe he is with these crazy people. tucker: next time you writeon a piece saying hey, i don t think that story sounds right, all of us should pay close attention to it. i m serious, you ve got white a track record great to see you. author and columnist mark steyn has been watching all of this over the past few days and he joins us tonight. mark, i m just struck by the amount of hostility. i mean,