Networks News Division which President Trump sometimes criticized. Im not saying this to defendant trump. I worked a lot of places it would take the exact same position if a bunch of white wieners were trying to boot msnbc because they dont like Rachel Maddow. This is the politics of suppression but where is the media outcry and the coverage . We content to shrug their shoulders because they are just fine with the censoring of conservative voices. More on this later in the program. This is media buzz ahead new Sexual Harassment allegations against andrew cuomo breaking overnight. Even as President Biden commemorated the tragic deaths of 500,000 americans a backlash is building on the riots against keeping covert resections in place despite improvements. Covid cases of hospitalizations are coming down but i need to be honest with you. Cases and hospitalizations could go back up with new variants as they emerge. So, i want to make something very clear. This is not a time to relax. Im over doctor Anthony Fauci but quite prickly, the Biden Administration should remove him and put someone else in place that does understand. He is increasingly becoming a political figure putting draconian Policy Directives over peoples prosperity. Why do they want to look down and miserable for as long as they possibly can even when there is a clear opportunity to open up . He inherited a mess we wants to tell americans please stop and reflect, understand the challenge. Howie joining us now to analyze the coverage in new york, kat timpf of the greg god fell joe and vaccination host. Mo elleithee on fox news conservator who now runs Georgetown University institute of politics. Kat, why is there such a Backlash Brewing in the conservative media against President Biden and Anthony Fauci who have basically said look we have to stay cautious because the pandemic is far from over . Right, i think a lot of it comes from the fact that doctor fauci in the media in in general has been treated as what this guy says goes and what this guy says is the truth and of course he has said things and taken aback and g another way and that can be expected because this is a novel virus. At the same time, you should have been the entire time taking all this with a grain of salt. I have someone who has, way big on follow the signs. I followed every role the entire time but we have the vaccinations out and there was a piece in the New York Times and once we have the older people protected and vaccines widely protected will become clear that the impacts of lockdown will be worth in this sort of negative is maybe we cant open till christmas that will be harmful because it encourages governors and encourages people and states to keep the lockdowns going a lot longer than they may need to. Howie on that point, mo, i should mention House Democrats yesterday after midnight past the nearly 2 trilliondollar relief along party lines. Im torn, dont Media Liberals need to reckon eyes that there is an impact to the indefinite lockdowns and restrictions where more people are losing their jobs, Small Businesses are going under and kids have been kept out of classrooms . Well, yeah. I think they do. I think any notion that anybody wants lockdowns to go on longer than they need to is a misguided sense. Nobody wants them to go on. We are all tired and exhausted and we are all feeling beat down by this. Look, if you look at the trajectory of this thing for the past year, it was about a year ago i got sent home from my office and have been sitting in this attic working but if you look at the trajectory over the past year every time we sort of prematurely relax the guidelines we see a spike and i think all the president is saying now and all doctors bounty is saying now is common sense which is we are moving in the right direction. We got to get more shots in the arms but lets not start Throwing Parties again until we get this thing completely under control and until enough people are vaccinated and until we know how were dealing new strains are coming out so lets get closer and closer do it in a smart way and i think that is right there was no National Strategy for getting this vaccine in peoples arms and now we are getting there so there is progress. Howie i agree that were sick of being in the attic or the basement and its great that President Biden has got another two and a Million Dollar doses coming of the vaccine by the Vaccine Program right now is a frustrating mess. Doctor Anthony Fauci has done a lot of interviews in his new role as top biden deputy so lets take a look at one exchange on cnn what does normal mean . To think americans will still be wearing masks, for example, in 2022 . You know, i think it is possible that that is the case. Again, it really depends on what you mean by normality. Howie cap, if doctor Anthony Fauci gets asks a question, he says hes being cautious and cant rule it out and thats reported as you want masks forever. A National Review writer called his approach insane. Yeah, look, there are certain things we dont know but i think when it comes to when you talk about the vaccine in particular when doctor Anthony Fauci said just because you had the vaccine you should not be going to the Movie Theater and you should not grow to eat i think they could do a better job in terms of messaging saying this vaccines will do great things to get us back to normal because there is some hesitance and it will be even worse when people are saying if i get the Vaccine Nothing will change anyway so why even bother. I completely understand wanting to be cautious but when people have been following the rules and when people have been doing what they are supposed to do and they still arent changing and hearing i dont know when this will change or maybe thats disheartening and, as most said, we are all tired and makes us feel like its for nothing. You dont want to lie but they are probably trying to under promise and over deliver but a little bit of hope could be really helpful with getting us through this hopefully final stretch. Howie we should keep in mind that although the administration has become the face and he doesnt do anything but provide medical advice. In some of the interviews hes becoming increasingly outspoken and that trumps in Action Conservative to the death toll in that is making many conservatives in the media feel like hes become an increasingly partisan figure. I dont know about that. I think a lot of people in conservative media made him an increasingly partisan figure. Last year i think when President Trump made him an increasingly partisan figure last year. I think there are people out there who have unfortunate politicized this virus. Doctor Anthony Fauci is a guy who does not seem to care much about politics of this but he just wants to get the job done. He just wants to get the shots in the arms and to make sure people are following the guidelines but hes also a bit of a straight shooter. When he is asked a question do you think that there were missteps last year that made the situation worse hes the guy that just says yeah, i think they did. It is hard to argue against that. Howie right. Let me get to both and on this question because it seems like this is a replay of the trump debate with liberate michigan about what the states should and should not do. It seems to me, as well, that, you know, fauci and biden cant order the schools to reopen in President Trump, former President Trump talks at cpac and says they should reopen the schools but its the governors and the mayors and the county executives that need to make the decisions, not washington. Kat, go first. Yeah, absolutely. That happens often when youre campaigning and saying this is bad with coronavirus and i will deal with this and then you get the new president in and not much changes. This is something that obviously happens all the time. Its not surprising but again i really, really think that a little bit more positivity here in a little bit more hope here would be help will because biden did come out and say first 100 days i want to open schools and then it shifted to majority of schools open one day a week. When people hear one thing and then actually see another and people stop listening or get frustrated or say why am i doing this and that makes this covid exhaustion, people hit the wall harder. Howie yeah, and the media we know the president will take the credit or the blame but these are local decisions. Thats right, they are. Look, part of the problem with this and what has made the whole Covid Response so tiring for so many people is that when you watch the Media Coverage what was happening in one state was different than in others and that is understandable for different populations got hit in different ways but there was no coordinated National Response to a lot of these issues and so the new and ministration came in and said we will try to have one and that is challenging. So. Howie in a lot of ways. I think people are feeling. Howie let me jump in because i want to move to our next topic in the remaining time. Liberal in the media is now castigating President Biden over his taking no action against the Saudi Crown Prince after the release of an intel report saying that the crown prince ordered the 2018 murder of saudi journalist and Washington Post contributor jamal khashoggi. A lot here in cnn jake tapper. Is the only difference the words surrounding the decision . , either way the man who ordered a barbaric slaughter of an american based journalist has been saved. Howie cap, the editorial says biden is giving a murderer or a pastor this is the toughest criticism hes received since he has become president. Absolutely, New York Times saying hes letting a murderer walk. This is another example that the rhetoric from the campaign versus what we are seeing here now. During the campaign he was saying saudi arabia is a pariah with no redeeming social value and then this happens in the report comes out and hes not matching his actions what his words were in his actions arent matching that. He set that up himself. This has been something hes been hit on All Over The Place and he certainly not getting a pass from anybody. Howie mo, during the campaign he said there would be a price to pay and they ministration is talking about recalibrating the relationship with saudi arabia and i remembers understand there are Geopolitical Realities here but what is trekking to me at a time when people think the president is often joe biden this is the first real moral condemnation and the few weeks that he has been in the white house. Think if you are a Democratic Political operative he just threw up your hands right now and say, anyone who says that the press is not in for joe biden needs to look at this episode. I shared the outrage over the brutal murder and i think this report was incredibly damning. The notion that this was no different from the Previous Administration approach is, i think, a misguided notion. The last president wouldnt even acknowledge mbs role. This greatly lays it at its feet. Previous administration took no action against the saudi government. This one has stopped arms sales and impose sanctions on many individuals. I get the frustration over not doing more about mbs but lets see, i know there are supposed to make an announcement tomorrow of some sort so lets see what comes in the coming days but this is more than weve seen, yeah. Howie the story has yet to play out but let me get, a break ahead. How will the rest of the media react now that a second former aide has accused andrew cuomo of Sexual Harassment to it when we donald trump speaking at cpac as they consider this ruling on his tax returns. Sensation for your throat. Feel the clarity, and live claritin clear. Upbeat music transitions™ light under control. Upbeat music transitions™ Signature Gen 8™ available now, in 4 vibrant style colors. Transitions™ Research Shows that people remember available now, in 4 vibrant style colors. Commercials with exciting stunts. 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He really s donald trump, who as president , used the law as a weapon over and over and tried to at least rewarding his cronies with pardons and computations. Other networks continue to freak out over the tax returns full dives into issues important to you. Howie it is fair to point out that the prosecutor is a democrat but trumps charge about fascism in third world justice has grown media flak. Is that justified . Look, of course there has been a lot of black. The first that pops into my mind is a vanity fair that said sad, prosecutors have the trump returns and there is nothing he do about it. I think its interesting because here we have just one statement about it where, in the past, trump had his twitter account and i thought he wouldve tweeted about this a lot. He be going on tweet storms about this a lot and there would be more coverage of additional things he wouldve seen so there has been Media Coverage of this for sure a lot of it pretty breathless but its interesting because in the past i think it wouldve been even more so because trump wouldve been saying more about it. Howie mo, Media Liberals say its pretty rich for donald trump to talk about using the law as a weapon when he asks for the Justice Department to investigate barack obama and joe biden and urged the payment of a special counsel to look into the origins of the russian probe. It does not mean necessarily that the new york investigation isnt partisan. Well, so, one yes. I think it is a little rich. This is the guy who would lead chance against lock her up against his political opponents. He has a long record of disparate look, the reason i think the press is so interested in this is because its unprecedented. The fact that you have a former president of the United States facing grand jury investigations over tax returns and look, the tax story has been around for a long time. It goes back to his First Campaign when he promised to release them and then spent four years doing everything he possibly could to not release them. So now the prosecutors have them and they are in front of a grand jury and we dont know what will happen with them but this is a heck of a story. I can understand why the press is interested. I think kat is right. Thank god for donald trump that his twitter was a shutdown because if that was still open he would be making this a much bigger story. Howie yeah, i just point out that the Supreme Court has a conservative majority with three trump appointees. The Seatback Speech got excerpts from the four present will say that joe biden is or had the most disastrous first month of any president in modern history. Kat, this is such a big buildup in the media are saying trump should not even have the platform at cpac but they will cover the hell out of it. Your thoughts. Of course they will. The New York Times pointed out this is rare for a president to end his term as president and then have this public but, you know, as they referred to barack obama in 2017 that the Kites Gliding or whatever you call it with the photos of that but they also point out that trump did not have a typical presidency so he will not have a typical post presidency. Again, i almost look at it like i cant believe this is the first time we are going to hear from them even though normally we dont because he does enjoy The Public Eye so much. Yet, people are saying you should not have this platform but they will cover it, cover it, cover it. Howie its not just the trump enjoys The Public Eye but the media enjoys covering it. To finish up another excerpt the republic and party is united and the only divisions are with a handful of washington political hacks. When you have Mitch Mcconnell and liz cheney and others trying to move the party away from trump i dont know, will the media by the notion that the gop is united . I think that room will be fairly friendly to the president. I think this is another reason why the story is so interesting and that is because we have seen, since the election, and really since the insurrection, a real battle within the Republican Party over where it goes. It is not the media that is building this up, this division. Its not the media that is propping up donald trump. Even Lindsey Graham the other day came out and said i dont know how we as conservatives can get our agenda done without donald trump. The Republican Party and the activists base is wrapping their arms around him in a big bear hug. Some in washington are pushing back and this is the first time he steps out and it will be an interesting story to see what happens. Howie it is a story. Mo ally and kat timpf thank you for joining us this sunday. After the horrible car accident with tiger woods but up next, what is up with the supersoft Feature Stories on joe biden and his family. Redit card debt. Sofi helped me pay off twentythree thousand dollars of credit card debt. They helped me consolidate all of that into one low monthly payment. They make you feel like its an honor for them to help you out. I went from sleepless nights to getting my money right. So thank you. This is a tempurpedic mattress. And its mission is to give you truly transformative sleep. So, no more tossing and turning, or trouble falling asleep. Because only tempurpedic uses proprietary tempur® material, that continuously adapts and responds to your body, to relieve pressure. So you get deep, uninterrupted sleep. All night. Every night. 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Political, biden brings back president ial pda during the white house for joining is is steve krakauer, what explains the Puppy Stories some of this just beating the normal public curiosity about a new president and what life is like in the white house for him and his family and his dogs . Yes, there is certainly some of that. Things get covered in the media for one of three reasons. It is because it is going to get ratings or clicks. Awards. This is the kind of think the drives traffic to these sites. Thats a certain subset of the Voter Population in america that may be treat politics like a hobby or sport and this is super interesting and drives traffic to those sites. Howie i certainly understand that but look, pieces and politico and Washington Post that went on and on talked about how the new president holds hands and kisses his wife. I have no doubt this is genuine and they been married a long time but do these pieces explicitly contrasted that with trumps Chile Marriage for your thoughts. Yet, the reason this is so obvious right now and so clear is because of how things have happened that the Pendulum Swing from the last four years. Part of this, honestly, is the media has gotten used to feeling like there is this hero worship of them that came during the last four years. The job of a journalist has never been cheered. I think the way that the media or the public thinks about journalists is around congress and not particularly high but that changed during the trump era. They were held up and got the twitter followers and became famous and now how will you go back to that and you dont want to alienate these people that made you famous and that you catered to during the last four years. Howie that is why you have joe biden was hailed because she wears a scrunchy and regular People Like Us whereas melania and trump were expensive dresses but let me pick up on your point, briefly, you said they enjoyed the status of having all the leftleaning audiences treat them as conquering heroes as part of the resistance and so forth and now they dont want to alienate some of their newfound fans . Absolutely. I think certain jobs in the media have simply gone away now that theres a new administration picked look at jim acosta. Hes been chief White House Correspondent in the white house for the last four years and has gone in a domestic correspondence and essentially what that means is standing outside maralago about what trump may or may not be doing or try to go to Cpac To Manufacturers On Borat Moment and made 14 feet moment. He catered to the resistance journalist side and that does not exist anymore no one wants to be a Resistance Journal List when its the Biden A Ministration now. Howie that will be a story we cover in the covering months and years. We will catch you later but next on media buzz, new york time reveals a second accusation of Sexual Harassment against andrew cuomo. Try to Knox Fox News off the air. Howie a New York Times a bomb shell detonated last night just as much of the media or downplaying or ignoring a former top aide Sexual Harassment allegation against andrew cuomo. The new case, Charlotte Bennett, 25 yearold former Executive Assistant tells the times the last ring the near governor asked about her love life, whether she had sex with older men and said he would be open to relations with someone over 22 quote, i understood that the governor wanted to sleep with me and felt horribly uncomfortable and scared. Cuomo has asked for an independent review of the accusation saying he quote, never made advances toward ms. Bennett nor did i intend to act in a way that was inappropriate. These earlier former top cuomo aide Lindsay Boylan said in a lengthy post on medium that hed given her an unwanted kiss and made her so uncomfortable that she resigned in 2019. Joining us now to analyze the coverage, alexandra and maria harf and Executive Doctor of Serve America packed. Alex, Charlotte Bennett says cuomo never touched her but she believed he wanted to. The governor isnt denying it but complained to State Officials at the time and this was last spring. Will this on the record interview have an impact and generate more coverage than the first allegation against andrew cuomo . I think in the last 24 hours has shown us anything its been a new york elevation of the story from where it was. In the beginning there were rumblings about lindsay and accusations of Sexual Harassment in the Cuomo Administration. She then took to media in which i find to be interesting, she self published speaking to the Mott Democratization of media that we dont need to go to a newspaper to be heard. And now we are above the fold with the New York Times with this story. I think this will probably gain more interest and theres pentup stories and anger and grudges within the Cuomo Administration and within the press corps over the last couple of years. I think coverage will beget coverage. Howie let me get maria in here. The New York Times as a leftleaning newspaper so people might be surprised that its aggressively pursuing the Sexual Harassment allegations against the Home State Democratic governor. Well, howie, it was so interesting, and the story the times publishes night it appears and how they talked about how they got in touch with the second accuser that they contacted her. She had tweeted something after the first accusation came out and it really seems like they aggressively pursued this story. I think that the press is trying to cover this. They are trying to get accusers to go on the record. The New York Times did that. Last night i got news alerts, not just from fox but from cnn about the story so i do think that the media is covering it more than people think and the more accusations come out. I do think reporters are trying to follow up on it and nail down some of these accusations which are often very hard to do. Howie right. I will disagree with that but i want to come back because i want to turn back to the fused first accuser. Lindsay said and let me put the graphic up that cuomo told her on the state plane lets play strip poker. I shouldve been shot by the governors crude comments but i wasnt. When she was in cuomos Manhattan Office in 2018 she says as i got up to leave i walked toward an the lips. I was in shock but kept walking. Alex, that allegation, my question is, why are so many news outlets initially downplayed it, ignored it and were talking here about nothing on the network even news, four sentences on the today show, 140 second item on cnn and the female host said msnbc championed this issue not having anything to say. I think it is because they are losing what has been a useful foil to former President Trump for them and andrew cuomo. This started with the Nursing Home Scandal in the covering up of the many deaths occurred as a result of governor cuomos directives and now we are moving into allegations of Sexual Harassment and i think that they know that they have a lot of Ex Post Facto cleanup to do. Cnn released a statement way too late after the fact couple weeks ago admitted they should never have had chris cuomo interviewing his brother. I think it will be too little, too late on the medias part but now that jeff isnt in there former President Trump is out of office and that the vaccine is out there i think, you know, The Press Hungered For Coverage in a post trump era and they will make cuomo their next target. Howie cnns position is that it made an exception early in the pandemic for the governor to appear on the program and now rules again. Cuomos Press Secretary says as far as lindsays allegations are civilly not true but isnt it news, former top aide who resigned over this and do you think that the new account from Charlotte Bennett might make people, journalists, more likely to believe that lindsay was onto something as well. Well, in cases where you have accusations of Sexual Harassment, patterns are part of the story and i think journalists have to be able to cooperate accusations on their own and i know a number of Media Outlets are trying to do that just as we speak with the cuomo allegations. Look, do some leftleaning opinion shows not cover this as much because hes a democrat . I dont know, maybe. To some white ring leaning outlets not cover accusations against republicans like Madison Copthorne This Republican Star has been accused by a number of women of harassment from college and i dont see that anywhere on conservative media so i dont think this is limited to andrew cuomo and i think that Media Organizations make decisions on coverage and sometimes based on politics and that is not apprising to any of us in washington. Howie that doesnt mean i have to like it or any of us has to like it. I got about half a minute now for each of you. Agreed. Howie every allegation of Sexual Harassment was treated as big news even and he deny those allegations and the media went nuclear over the four decade of allegations against Brent Kavanaugh and is is a double standard just briefly . Absolutely print look at the double standard developing now. You see that the media is already latching on to the independent investigation and when asked about and it was Brent Kavanaugh that would lose his chance to serve on the Supreme Court and now the standard is that we are going to Ulster Due Process and the whole thing is absolutely ridiculous. Howie marie, briefly as well, in the case of Lindsey Boylan the fused accuser shes refused to talk to journalists ever since she first quoted these accusations in december and running for Manhattan Euro president picked doesnt it make it hard for the press to assess her credibility and no one can question her . It certainly makes it more difficult which is why these cases are so topper journalists when they are trying to cooperate them. Look, i think journalists cover democrats, republicans, al franken is no longer in the senate. As a member the only public official thats been held accountable because of reporting is a democrat. I think they should all be investigated and we should have people looking into whether these are true but we cannot, because of our partisan affiliation, just assume they are. We need to have independent journalists and investigators looking into them on both sides. Howie the story is clearly moving quickly. Alex and marie, thank you per good to see a bird coming up, top fcc official on the Mainstream Media staying silent as to California Democrats attempt to banish fox news and other outlets bit later, of the latenight comics are barely laying a glove on joe biden. When you drive this smooth, you save with allstate. Youve never been in better hands. Allstate. Click or call for a quote today. Want to brain better . Youve never been in better hands. Unlike ordinary Memory Supplements neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. Memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. Try our new gummies for 30 days and see the difference. 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You are a trump appointee but is this a partisan issue when you have two democratic number the congress pressuring the likes of at t to kick fox and others off the air and saying they are moral content must be judged. Judged by who . This is a chilling infringement of free speech and i would feel that way regardless of the political viewpoint of the entity being targeted here but the idea that these lawmakers are only going after what they perceive to be conservative outlets take the infringement of free speech even worse. I think, to your point, when theyre asking quote, moral principles that guide your editorial decisions, its not the governments business and we shouldnt be speaking up loudly against this. Howie right, it is fine for critics, media and others to take on networks but this is the heavy hand of government and since free speech is obviously the issue, brendan carr, where are the journalists who said that donald trump posed a chilling threat to free speech . I did not agree with his ending of peoples rhetoric but it was rhetoric and hearing of the prospect of Government Stepping in or government pushing private companies to silence certain networks. Yeah, i spoke up on the enemy of the people language but we should all speak up on these issues. Diversity of opinion is the lifeblood of our democracy. The minute we start to insist that everybody thinks the same way we think our democracy is in trouble. Those are not just my words but the words of 50 years ago with an Editorial Board member of the New York Times and he was the one that launched the oped page in the 1970s as he realized we need diversity of opinion. It was a pushback to the groupthink of the 1960s and early 1970s. Yet, we are back there once again. Look, free speech these days isnt at risk from laws passed by congress because the First Amendment stands with a strong bulwark against that but what we are seeing now is legislate by letterhead. Yet politicians who are engaged in Pressure Campaigns to get the private sector to Censor Theirta cultural embrace in this country of free sften framed by the Mainstream Media about crazy white rightwingers, while taking shots at fox said this, Rachel Maddow of msnbc speculated that rex tiller sent might be a crony of putin and lawrence odonnell, also msnbc, advanced a conspiracy that russia organized a Chemical Attack in syria to help President Trump. You dont hear much about commentators on other networks going too far. It always seems to be focused on the right. Yeah, look. If congress wanted to haul before it everyone from the left and right and look at the russia Collusion Hoax i would still say we should not do that and its a violation of free speech but at least it wouldnt be doing it in such a partisan, clearly partisan way. I think this entire effort that we are heading down needs to be shut down. We are seen pushback in the media institute, Nonprofit Verse A Moment Group In Dc pushback against this but to your point i dont think we saw across the political spectrum enough people standing up and saying we should not go down this path. Once we do, there is no limiting principle. You cheat if you cheer on the censorship of your political opponent today the government will turn around and come after you as well. Howie yeah, look, fox has people with a wide range of opinions and sometimes they are controversial but it also has an News Division which covers things straight. Finally, do you think that this is a role for the fcc here if this goes further . Would your colleagues over this be a partisan split on the committee with your colleagues feel the need to step in . Clearly this is an effort to get these entities, Cable Providers, at t and comcast to drop conservative outlets. I think all of us at the fcc should be clear on where we stand for there are some instances where if comcast or att drops a channel there could be a role for the fcc in the sunset when youre a vertically integrated Cable Provider so you have msnbc or cnn and youre discriminating against another news outlet there is a potential role for the fcc there although that entire regime itself sits a bit uncomfortably next to the first on them in. I think were all better off if we step back and realize the government has no business trying to get into the newsroom and interjecting that decisionmaking. Howie yeah, stay out of the newsrooms, liberal or conservative. Thank you fermenting the first amended. Brendan carr thank you for joining us. After the break, note joe biden skits on Saturday Night Live since he became president. The latenight lovefest, next. , plus an immediate Cooling Sensation for your throat. Feel the clarity, and live claritin clear. Its velveeta versus the other guys. 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Howie we are back with steve krakauer, are these socalled biden jokes, i guess the term would be pretty lame and some of these comics come out and praised joe biden. Yeah, look. I think we are seen the shift in the last four years. There was a rise of i was a people saying that is very perceptive and that was how it was and they became this moralizing social commentators instead of latenight host that pushed boundaries. I dont think theyve pushed boundaries or is pushing boundaries other than belmar at this point. Look, if we will have this time but how we, i think part of it is the factoring of media. These ratings are going down and now you have you cater to a small subset of the population so what will you do, alienate them by making topically be joe jokes . Is an interesting scenario that with the latenight hosts have found themselves in. Howie i am willing to concede the trump provided betty material and a bigger personality but the latenight comics who went totally political against donald trump and im including seth meyers and samantha be in the whole game. Will this give him a fouryear pass . Yeah, look, i think were one month in if we will hit this Inflection Point where we have to go in One Direction or the other but there are certainly more than enough material, i would say in the joe biden and industry in and a lot of the Policy Decisions that may be one of been mocked in the trump era are being continued in the biden era which is interesting but no look, to your point, absolutely. Donald trump was a Reality Tv Show figure and he is made for tv mockery by the other side and he almost embraced it. Joe biden has not and its completely different but look, we saw this during the obama era and we will see this now. Its only more glaring because of the last four years. Howie rights. S l created this entire franchise for alec baldwin creating mocking trump but now the show cant find a single funny thing since biden became president , not a single skit. They not even portrayed the character of joe biden since hes been inaugurated and that is absolutely insane. My first job in tv was as an nbc page working at s l and this is when Saturday Night Live and going back decades has been or has had their finger on the poles of what was culturally relevant and being antiestablishment, of pushing boundaries and being funny. They are not doing that. Look, they will have to make a choice because this is. Howie we got to jump. The guy picked to play biden to get a Stimulus Check because hes out of work. Steve krakauer, thanks very much. Still to come, why tiger woods a terrible accident has been so gripping even for folks who do not care much about golf. How great is it that we get to tell everybody how Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need . I mean it. Oh, sorry. [ laughter ] woops [ laughter ] good evening meow nope. Oh. What . Im an emu ah ha ha. No, buddy buddy, its a filter only pay for what you need. Liberty, liberty, liberty, Liberty Howie the world seemed to stop when all the Cable News Networks went alive after tiger woods got into that awful accident, all of us Staying Staring at the mangled car that he had been driving. Im a tiger fan and the guy is an amazing competitor. Just to yours ago he meant to that incredible comeback at the masters and him a series of astounding mistakes. These include the personal misconduct that led to his divorce and a long professional spiral and smashing his car into a tree 11 years ago. Its impossible not to question whether woods was driving recklessly on a Sunday Morning with no other cars involved in yet, with his leg held together by a rod and screws after five back surgeries its impossible not to feel sympathy for him and his family. It is hard to imagine that the man who became such a singular media figure, and good times and bad, may never play again. That is it for this edition of media buzz. You can see my columns or on my twitter feed and check out my podcast, media buzz and you can subscribe at apple, itunes, google podcast or on your amazon device. We are back here next sunday and i hope to see you then with the latest buzz. Arthel former President Trump now gearing up for his first major address since leaving office and thats a delivered. Keynote speech at the final day of cpac in a few hours. Welcome to americas News Headquarters im arthel neville. Hello, eric. Eric hello, arthel. Thank you for joining us here in the fox news channel. Im eric shawn. We are covering two other big stories at this hour. Doses of Johnson Johnsons new Covid Vaccine are set to potentially start rolling out early this week. Fda just authorized the single