three years of spending time in the back row communities to understand that wow, we really speak different languages to understand that language. and why aren t more journalists doing this work? i don t think people have the resources to do it. and i think, you know, just sending someone around the country in a car and saying, go to these 30 communities, spaend week and a half in each one, i don t think any of those any media level any senior media person would approve that. last question for you, given all of this work, do you feel more hopeful about the country or less? less. sorry. less? i wish i could say hopeful, but the division the divide is more extreme than folks might realize in their own communities? trump is exploiting that divide. he s exploited that divide. and very negative ways. and the reaction to trump hasn t has only made that
we asked them for comment on the substance of the allegation. what they sent us was a lot of information about how great bill o reilly s ratings are. your ratings are great! i ve seen your ratings shoot my ratings right in the head. well, i ve seen pictures of that, i should say. but the fox news channel now has a problem, right? they have a problem even on a business level, a media level with the face of their network i their flagship anchor having all this stuff trailing him around with no plausible explanation for what exactly he said and did and why they haven t tried to at least fix it. the network has not retracted any of o reilly so vert threats about the real credibility they ve got with him right now. so, cable news, as an institution, sometimes does get into a pickle like this.
in what was a very unexpected and also sort of i have to say amusing development, they didn t we asked them for comment on the substance of the allegation. what they sent us was a lot of information about how great bill o reilly s ratings are. your ratings are great! i ve seen your ratings shoot my ratings right in the head. well i ve seen pictures of that, i should say. but the fox news channel now has a problem, right? they have a problem even on a business level, a media level with the face of their network i their flagship anchor having all this stuff trailing him around with no plausible explanation for what exactly he said and did and why they haven t tried to at least fix it. the network has not retracted any of o reilly so vert threats
for when that will happen. cory booker one of the pledges too. they all break the pledges. he didn t make a pledge. one year, right. of a runway where he is going to be pretty much able to keep his head down and focus on new jersey. and, and try to make good on some of the rhetoric in the speech. but once we get past mid terms of next year. he is going to have to be running flat out if he will run. don t think there is any one in republican politics. he has an advantage, he has been under a national media spotlight. also under the new york media spotlight, very intense. local media. that s very good training for presidential media level which becomes yet a whole another level of scrutiny. it is. democrats missed a chance in the race. not that they had an opportunity to win it. but they could have test run a couple of messages against hem to see how they could potentially build a case against chris christie. if we are going to see him again
his mission will be completed. he announces. we can fast forward to a year from now. the year that all sandy victims are back in their homes. i think he will declare mission accomplished. he has a pretty clear timetable for when that will happen. cory booker one of the pledges too. they all break the pledges. he didn t make a pledge. one year, right. of a runway where he is going to be pretty much able to keep his head down and focus on new jersey. and, and try to make good on some of the rhetoric in the speech. but once we get past mid terms of next year. he is going to have to be running flat out if he will run. don t think there is any one in republican politics. he has an advantage, he has been under a national media spotlight. also under the new york media spotlight, very intense. local media. that s very good training for presidential media level which becomes yet a whole another level of scrutiny.