can t they get together? can t they work things snout that s very much the media narrative. it s also the media narrative that tends to root for bipartisanship, regardless of the policy consequences for the american people. so i do think that is a major problem. the reality is, when you talk about fox, you re not really talking about a romantic comedy. you re talking much more about a slasher film. you know, fox s information is out to kill democracy and it does and it has killed americans. you know, fox news in my opinion is much more freddy krueger than it is tom hanks. fair. and then you look at the way they have covered recent events, which biden s got to be aware of. here was their coverage of the insurrection. it does not appear violent. it s not like it s a siege. it seems like they re protesting. an overwhelming majority of them, 99%, more than 99% had to be, were peaceful. it s a constitutional right to engage in peaceful political
when you listen to obama and biden, it was a warmed over beltway noodle cougal that made the argument you would have to get back to common facts by having less of fox and a bunch of other types of media. the evidence we just showed and some of what you said is actually, no, to get back to common facts, you have to remove the conspiracy theories wherever they are. if the studies show, don t take my word for it, i quoted pointer, wash po, quantitative research. to get rid of them, you have to go there, and you may not sound like you re matching the conventional wisdom, the koogal, as i call it, you just have to be clear about what the recipe is and bring people to that with the facts. so it s really interesting because biden said that, it caught our ear, but we had a lot of other news but it made for a good chai day. thanks for being here. thank you, ari. coming up, we know biden called it the bfd, a new
for example, fox draws influence from the perception that it is basically a news organization. like the ap or abc news when in reality there has been evidence for years which shows fox routinely broadcasts misleading and false information, which is different than most news organizations. more on the details of that in a moenlt, but if you re on the receiver end of that misinformation, if it s designed to take you down, you wouldn t want people to just take at face value the fox materials they re getting treated as if it s totally comparable to any other channel like abc or nbc or what you re watching, n msnbc. what i just said does sound obvious e, but at the big press conference president biden said, he casually propped up and legitimized fox news by likening to another news channel. american public are trying to sift their way through what s real and what s fake.
and that just keeps on accelerating. i m not the first to observe this, but yeah, you have the fox news rush limbaugh folks and then the msnbc folks. the way he puts it, his assertion is all those different folks can t agree on common facts. that s a false equivalence. you re witnessing those powerful democrats minimizing fox s factual problems which are different than, say, observing that there is opinion media out there. it weirdly legitimized fox news through that false equivalence. it s one more polarized source. now, is this the whole story? is this public concern about polarization in general a kind of political signal, perhaps, to swing voters and others, a district way for someone like a biden or obama to argue they re above the fray? or does joe biden really believe this about box? does he really believe that it s
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