have the opposite of what we knew growing up on the east coast, which was sort of almost a reflexive trust in folks like us. now it s almost the opposite. and trump as his white house guest, benjamin netanyahu is doing fairly effectively in israel, playing the same bash the media card because it s working, even though certainly in this case i don t know about israel but in this case it is socially destructive. so you re going to for lack of a better word, curate web sites in realtime and give them stamp of approval or not. how do you do that for more than a blue audience? in a divided country, how do you tell people this has been verified, you can believe this? you do what you can. there s something like a million
talking about, talked with a.b. stoddard about trade, this is all about playing to the base and make no mistake, there has absolutely worked. two years ago the pew group asked americans about whether they saw the media as having an oversight function, a watch dog function. democrats and republicans were about the same, mid 70s, yes, they agreed. two years later the democratic number has gone up a little bit, the republican number is in the 40s. that s how it s plummeted. with this democratization, you have trump, as his white house guest, benjamin netanyahu is doing fairly effectively in israel, using the same bash the media card because it s working i don t know in israel did you in this country
democrats and republicans were about the same, mid 70s, yes, they agreed. two years later the democratic number has gone up a little bit, the republican number is in the 40s. that s how it s plummeted. with this democratization, you have trump, as his white house guest, benjamin netanyahu is doing fairly effectively in israel, using the same bash the media card because it s working i don t know in israel did you in this country it is socially destructivedestru so you re going to for lack of a better wore curate web sites in realtime and give them stamp of approval or not. how do you do that for more than a blue audience? in a divided country, how do you tell people this has been verified, you can believe this? you do what you can. there s something like a million new links every day, say you had 1% of that hundred million are baloney.
reporter: i think we ll see some fireworks there. i think the question will be, whether or not it s effective for trump to go after carson. you hit on this a little bit. he is, in many ways, much harder to go after, and carson is playing this media card, right? he s saying, look at these vicious lies that the media are telling about my background. is trump going to go and make these attacks that carson could then argue are the same as those that are coming across in the media? i think that s risky territory for trump to be in. and what about jeb bush? i mean, this is the second time we ve gone into a debate saying, boy, jeb bush really has to show something tonight. what are we expecting to see from him? is it an attack dog, jeb bush, or is it something else? i think it s something else, steve. i think the thing that they came away learning from the last one is that jeb follows jeb bush follows the rules too much. their perception is, he didn t jump in aggressively enough. he l
private fund-raiser for an environmental group, and he got up and dramatically tore up his speech, and said, this is how i do business, and he owned the room. a lot of high-rollers were there. i do think across the country, however, when they re looking at long-term unemployment, and they re looking at the uncertainty of the obama care, they re going, you got to move on, guys. you can only close those lanes for so long if you re in the national media. i do wonder if this had happened in nevada, whether it would have gotten as much attention. or, right, let s say wisconsin, where another potential presidential candidate yeah, right. or something like this, there is this idea. you live by the new york media sword and you die by it. and he s played the new york media card and i ve spent a lot of time with him. i must say as a political journalist, and you, as well, he s the kind of guy you wait to come along. great theater. great theater. and in a democratic state, he s