they want to see us be put this way and they re doing it for exploitation purposes let s not give them the ammunition. tucker: that s unbelievable. that s by the way not neutral thinking and not clear thinking. it s not the way that journalists think. it s the way that political operatives think. their first concern is always how will the other side benefit from this? how can we win the next campaign? that s how they think because that s exactly what they are doing. joe concha covers media for the hill and he joins us tonight. joy, do you think thajoe, do yok the real problem with buzzfeed given segments to this where mean commentators on fox news give segue to stories like this. let me address chuck todd there people don t realize. this is he not only the moderator of meet the press. he is also the political director of nbc news. here s the thing. everybody all those anchors and pundits you just show had ample warning there was a serious problem with this story. on friday morning,
conservative inc. that the great suspicion of much of the base is that these guys don t really believe in it. and the fact this they are so eager to just because these kids are wearing donald trump hats and the guy they are up against is a called tribal elder. i mean, he is not that old, actually. i think he was born in 1955. he is like early 60 s. kind of like tribal middle age rather than tribal elder. the fact that they can only accept the same identity politics cliches that the left has imposed guess to the heart of the problem. tucker: they have absorbed all the lies. it s amazing. mark steyn so wise as always. thank you. thanks a lot, tucker. tucker: well, the covington story wasn t the only story they got wrong last week. last week they telling you about a buzzfeed story that the special counsel then declared false.
report by buzzfeed. a bombshell report from buzzfeed. it s the buzzfeed bombshell is triewnchts the bombshell report that president trump told his to lie under oath. buzzfeed reporting the bombshell reports. no response to the bombshell report deeply disturbing. tucker: bombshell. dumb people with small vocabularies. there was a problem though with buzzfeed s reporting, none of it had been confirmed at all. even the author suggested they hadn t seen the documents in question. actually, there were two authors, co-by lined and one said he had seen the documents and another said he hadn t. that was never really resolved. it didn t matter because the dumb people on tv so badly wanted it to be true that they repeated it. the story, if true, could lead to his impeachment. if true, it could be a really big deal. if true, obviously we ourselves have not corroborated any of this. but if it is true, it s a big if, this would be a
that the great suspicion ofmi much of the base is that these guys don t really believe in it. and the fact this they are so eager to just because these kids are wearing donald trump hats and the guy they are up against is a so-called tribal elder. i mean, he is not that old, actually. i think he was born in 1955. he is like early 60 s. kind of like tribal middle age rather than tribal elder. the fact that they can only accept the same identity politics cliches that the left has imposed guess to the heart of the problem. the right fights on the left s terms. tucker: they have absorbed all the lies. it s amazing. a t mark steyn so wise as always. thank you. thanks a lot, tucker. tucker: well, the covington story wasn t the only story they got wrong last week. last week they telling you about a buzzfeed story that the special counsel then declared false.
she was asked what you make of this discredited bus speed story? shot it down. she looked right into the camera and says iat think we need to investigate it. she s just got a talking point on tape and she can t adjust to newau facts, does that give you pause? yeah. for this reason, i always thought the buzzfeed story was overblown because, two things. we will have cohen s public testimony and some of your guests, i would think, like jim jordan, will rake him over the coals as a liar and so forth and we will, you know, whether there is any reason to believe him and then we have mueller s product to basically say, again, further is there any of this to back it up or not? right? so whether what buzzfeed wrote up is frankly irrelevant and i don t know why you would tucker: i agree with you.it a whole website is a joke, right? obviously. the fact that it s takent? seriously by people and the kind of glee that people showed at the prospect of getting trump, i don t know, that s not rea