new mexico reporting that at least two deaths have been tied to ivermectin. a drug commonly used to treat worms in livestock as a treatment for covid. this comes as media matters of america, a liberal watchdog group, found 60 facebook groups dedicated to ivermectin with tens of thousands of members. messages like this one, ivermectin is clearly the answer to solve covid and the world is waking up to this truth. the surgeon general, among others, have warned while ivermectin can be prescribed for humans as an anti-bacterial dewormer, it is not a cure for covid. outfront now, dr. david, the human services secretary and acting-health secretary for new mexico. and, doctor, i appreciate your time. look. it this has had consequences. i know you are aware of two people at least, whose deaths have been tied to taking ivermectin for covid. can you tell me more about those two deaths, and how widespread the use is of this drug as a, quote/unquote, covid treatment? . well, we first heard abou
at all. i just don t think it is the same thing exactly as pulling a child from a bus stop and sexual assaulting a child. the rapist made a life long commitment to take care of the person. let s be honest about. be honest about the distinction between raping a child once and then forcibly maintaining your control over them to rape them again. carlson went to twitter and did not apologize saying media matters caught me saying something on a radio show more than a decade ago and with the usual ritual contrition. the president of the group that uncovered that of media matters of america and you have new audio you just published this evening. yes. where should we start. there is one clip in which he used a homophobic slur. i think that we have that which you ve just published. take a listen. tuck, do you like coming on with us. i like you. i m not trying to [ bleep ] but i like you. well i like you too.
bret: if you want to read something negative about this channel or other nontraditional media there is a website that provides one-stop shopping. now we re learning that website has been cooperating with your federal government to suppress the press. chief washington correspondent james rosen tells us how. good to see you. jamie, good morning. reporter: six months ago, tea party figure justin phillips appeared on fox news to advance the claim, hotly disputed by the obama administration, operation fast and furious was designed to usher in draconian gun control laws. at the department of justice, someone was watching closely, because 90 minutes later, tracy smaller, director of the department office of public affairs e-mailed a crypt to matt gertz, media matters of
america. you see this? , he wrote? completely false. wide receiver, hernandez to gun tracing operation launched under the bush administration put this to a lie. there has been lots of coverage on priest bush operation. by that afternoon, media matter website featured a blog post critical of the phillips segment. that attorney general eric holder s advisors worked closely with the media matters is the chief revelation from 69 pages of d.o.j. documents that the department belatedly provided under the freedom of information act to the conservative web site the daily caller. it s clearly a pure unadulterated attempt to lie about the news. in one case, we have a spokesman from the justice department e-mailing media matters and saying why don t you do a story on this? i saw something on fox. i like it and why don t you attack it. founded in 2004 by dade brach the conservative reporter turned liberal activist, media matters is tax exempt non-profit posing media bias. in the reality, their
saddam hussein, not to only look at ubl. ubl being osama bin laden. don t focus on those who did 9/11, but attack a random middle eastern country that had nothing to do with 9/11 that they wanted to attack anyway. prosecute republicans can t decide whether we should make deals with terrorists or invade random muslim countries. they can t decide if they should blame president obama for being for mubarhosni mubarak or again mubarak. you ll excuse president obama if he doesn t take their foreign policy advice too seriously. joining me now is will bunch, senior fellow for media matters of america. he s also the author of the book tear down this myth the right wing distortion of the reagan legacy. that s pretty relevant that you would be here then.