insistence that you must praise the president all the time. one of the reasons of course is you are not seeing any courage on the part of elected officials is they know where the base is. fox knows where its audience is and increasingly the conservative consumers of media want conservative media to be a safe space and what s going on interesting to watch is as trump s behavior becomes more in defensible and embarrassing. the pressure to defend him is going to be more intense. the lack of tolerance for voices on fox news who may be descending is going to be more and more intense. so what is interesting is that fox news had been an alternative reality for some time. there were these windows and doors where fact-based information may get into a portion of that audience. that s why shep was important. it was small in terms of the
pays no attention to what happens in politics even though it impacts their life. fox dominates their time. when you ask people how they get this in the newspaper. i wish for more people of what reporters doce when th. without that i think it leads to less intellectually curious people casting ballots and having an opinion on what s happening with our country. you see that at the town hall these congressmen defending their stance. a lot of them are getting their nof information from fox news. i didn t know the mueller report said anything bad. very consistent of how dictators come to power. right. you can t trust the news, you can only trust me. how they stay in power. tiffany was absolutely right.
william barr and murdoch and the exit of shep smith? that s a great question, joy. i did a lot of reporting. sources close to shep smith told me earlier for the weekend that the meeting was not connected with his departure. i am continuing to look into it. the time is very suspect. i do know that shepard smith hired a high-powered lawyer weeks ago to begin negotiating his exit from fox news. that was in motion well before bill barr sat down with murdoch. i think the fact that meeting took place at all is news worthy and worthy to be explained. republicans created fox news so that watergate would not happen again and now we are on the verge of impeachment of a republican president and we have his attorney general sitting down with the head of the right wing news network. that smells all kinds of bad and i think fox news for their own
when he was asked he said unchallenged. the judge is a fool. attacking our colleague who s here to offer legal assessments on our air in our work home is repugnant. repugnant? i am not clear if that was you or me but someone is repugnant. when a host on any channel including this one pretends that the answer is obvious? he s not very partisan at all. i try to think up anyone on that channel who does seem to ever so often raise their hands up to donald trump. you have been on the fox news and you no at the atmosphere there. is this a surprise to you that shep smith did not last in an environment where it is all trump all the time. everyone is not just partisan,
and focusing on facts and supporting. they bullied him repeatedly on air. for tucker carlson to say he s not partisan, that s skiconsist of the level of truth coming from that network. i am fascinated. to meet for a long time does not seem conducive. let s listen to this. this is donald trump responding to shep s resignation. take a listen. i don t know, is he leaving? it is a shame. is he leaving because of bad ratings? if he s leaving, i am sure because he had bad rating. he had the worst rating on fox. this is the man in his own mind owns fox news that fox news