him because he s been getting beat up by the press. if msnbc doesn t like him, he must be okay. maybe. but he showed up this year, didn t show up last year because he wasn t invited. i read he got one point higher in the poll for showing up, but he s something like 7%. the guy isn t a favorite of the right and the republican party. but, you know, i think it s of his own doing. even the republican governors that he visited those states in the last few months, the governors didn t want to see him. there was all this media bashing at cpac, but it s the media that have turned this into a major event, have taken this conference and given it all this coverage. and the message that i ve seen coming out of cpac is the continuing divisions within the republican party. that s going to be the message, more than whether or not the press is popular with these candidates. i suspect you are right. judy miller, john, thanks for joining us.
him because he s been getting beat up by the press. if msnbc doesn t like him, he must be okay. maybe. but he showed up this year, didn t show up last year because he wasn t invited. i read he got one point higher in the poll for showing up, but he s something like 7%. the guy isn t a favorite of the right and the republican party. but, you know, i think it s of his own doing. even the republican governors that he visited those states in the last few months, the governors didn t want to see him. there was all this media bashing at cpac, but it s the media that have turned this into a major event, have taken this conference and given it all this coverage. and the message that i ve seen coming out of cpac is the continuing divisions within the republican party. that s going to be the message, more than whether or not the press is popular with these candidates. i suspect you are right. judy miller, john, thanks for joining us.
and others. ex-politicians. here is the distinction, there s nothing wrong with being an ideological network, a conservative network is one thing. a republican network is something very different, so fox doesn t want to look like they re hilling for the republican party just like msnbc doesn t want to look like they re hilling for the democrats. nothing wrong with being liberal or conservative. you lose credibility when it appears that you are an actual partisan. to me, raising money is the dividing line. cnn s contributors include james carville, paul we gala sign fund-raisers for democratic leading groups and i don t think anybody who does that ought to be on as a commentator but cable networks disagree. no, you re absolutely right and again undermines the credibility of the message and it increases that sort of apathy and cynicism about what s going on in the news media and in politics. it s a difficult marriage, it s unfortunate it undermines us all. msnbc three guys, c