his top political cronies have waged a war for years. for years. they have waged a war on fox news. they have tried to tell the american people this is not a legitimate news organization. that it s pretty much a wholly owned subsidiary of the republican national party. i don t have any smoking gun memos, but i don t think it s some tremendous leap to say that they went after james rosen because he works at fox in a way that they would have never gone after him if his name were brian williams. not that brian williams will ever i couldn t uncover ag like that. the media hasn t played that angle up to the extent that i think it s a legitimate story bell bill all right, bernie, thanks as always. krauthammer on deck. what happens next with libya on the irs and snooping on reporter s mess.
if media companies don t fight the overreach we ll all suffer and how so? i think all reporters individually if you go back to the begins of the obama administration. all of us here at fox they decided to launch a war on fox news and claim that we were in the a legitimate news organization and frankly lied and distorted fox news and most of the media stayed silent. there was no push back against this and now everybody is shocked that the obama administration has total contempt for the media. john, last week or the week before. you referenced an animal farm noefle. and what about 1984 and this is big brother and the class that kind of mind control? this feels like that, doesn t it in it does. freedom of speech which we hopefully cherish is freedom to
difference is is this particular white house calls them out by name. so this week it was the drudge report. in the past the white house has waged a war on this network, on fox news, waged war on talk radio, called out individual reporters by name, to smear them in the press or question their coverage and it s all by way of trying to delegitimize whole networks or whole institutions so somehow you re shamed if you re going to the drudge report or tuning into fox news. jon: and a person grew up in democratic politics agrees with you. i think what you just said is egregious and take it another step what they re doing here. they re actually telling reporters where they re allowed to get their information. they did this in the war on fox news. they said cnn you re leg legitimate and we don t want you listening to fox news and jake tapper stood up, who are you to t
difference is is this particular white house calls them out by name. so this week it was the drudge report. in the past the white house has waged a war on this network, on fox news, waged war on talk radio, called out individual reporters by name, to smear them in the press or question their coverage and it s all by way of trying to delegitimize whole networks or whole institutions so somehow you re shamed if you re going to the drudge report or tuning into fox news. jon: and a person grew up in democratic politics agrees with you. i think what you just said is egregious and take it another step what they re doing here. they re actually telling reporters where they re allowed to get their information. they did this in the war on fox news. they said cnn you re leg legitimate and we don t want you listening to fox news and jake tapper stood up, who are you to tell us. and coming up next, a
thank you, juts. media matters declaring war on fox news. media watchdog group status allows them to pay no income tax on donations. but, in fact, an investigation shows media matters has some suspicious ties. in the only are are they tied to the white house. but also directly linked to a political super pac, american bridge. joining us now with more is alex papaps. political reporter for the daily caller. good morning to you, sir. good morning. tell us about this pac, american bridges. well, that s right. so somebody knows david media matters. watchdog. don t know if many know in 2010 he founded this group american bridge. it s a liberal super pac and essentially what they are doing is trying to be going out in and doing the things more partisan that media matters really knows they can t do in public. this is the partisan. i have been out on the campaign trail and i have seen these guys out there. what they are doing, they are