toughest things for republicans right now, how they deal with the roe decision in a state like pennsylvania where half the voters are not going to agree with that. howard: yeah, the moderators missed a lot of opportunities to pin these candidates down. they kept asking oz about how he would vote on [inaudible] mara, some pundits criticized dr. oz who has high negatives for appearing condescending. he said to fetterman, obviously, i wasn t clear enough for you to understand this. pundits are opinion mongers, and they re going to say bad things about the candidate that they re not supporting. overall, to me as a political journalist, what i m interested in is did people watch the debate? what are the snippets they re seeing from the debate? because that s usually how people see it, they just watch the clips. they go to their information
the press absolutely refuses to be journal lifts and they just want to be opinion mongers, it s unfortunate that taking what ought to be the celebration of a great patriot, statesman, selfless servant of this nation and instead of focussing upon his qualities they re trying to focus on what they perceive to be the lack of qualities in donald trump, the very qualities that many americans frankly believe to be the reason he s president right now. laura: 7% craig of the media, 7% voted for george h.w. bush! boyden is listening going, wait a second, was it that many? no one they didn t act like this. they had a lot of writers at national review that year. laura: they embraced a republican in death, but don t treat them fairly in life. when they re actually in office a. pointing people like justice clarence thomas.
convenient foil. the press isn t particularly well-liked by the american people. it s not a particularly strong industry in terms of the business of doing media, the business of doing news. particularly in local media. things are tough for reporters and editors and local reporters and local news anchors and stuff. when you take it to the further degree that you re describing, is there an additional political benefit that you get other than just picking a political foil? why is he doing this? well, it enhances his power. don t listen to those guys in the press. don t listen to the naysayers, the critics, the opinion mongers. listen to me. i m the president of the united states. or soon to be the president of the united states and what i say is the truth. what truth. what they re saying, the criticism that for the history of this country, the press has always been against people in power, ignore it. it means nothing. it s a lie.
politicians at all levels who have attacked the press have done it because the press is a convenient foil. the press isn t particularly well-liked by the american people. it s not a particularly strong industry in terms of the business of doing media, the business of doing news. particularly in local media. things are tough for reporters and editors and local reporters and local news anchors and stuff. when you take it to the further degree that you re describing, is there an additional political benefit that you get other than just picking a political foil? why is he doing this? well, it enhances his power. don t listen to those guys in the press. don t listen to the naysayers, the critics, the opinion mongers. listen to me. i m the president of the united states. or soon to be the president of the united states and what i say is the truth. what truth. what they re saying, the criticism that for the history of this country, the press has always been against people in power, ignore i
the press. don t listen to the naysayers, the critics, the opinion mongers. listen to me. i m the president of the united states. or soon to be the president of the united states and what i say is the truth. what truth. what they re saying, the criticism that for the history of this country, the press has always been against people in power, ignore it. it means nothing. it s a lie. that s the climate he s created and creating. that s the whole climate of criticizing us constantly. there s something that s sort of going on in the sidelines of the transition, which feels like more than just criticism, more than the two minutes of hate that he directs at the press at his rallies, and that is the future first lady. his wife showed up in person last week in a maryland courtroom, where he s suing a sort of low-level blogger conspiracy theorist rguy, for