Cnn primetime with abby philips starts right now. Objectively american democracy is in perilous condition. The nations politics are poisoned. Truth has become optional. Instead of desired or even required. The republic has of course always faced threats to it even before Rupert Murdoch. But so much of the current state of our democracy can be traced back to the beast of his creation. Good evening everyone. Im abby philip. Rupert murdoch is stepping down as ceo of fox news tonight. His legacy is outrage porn. Partisan red meat. Stoking relentless culture wars. But it all started with what you could argue is a noble vision to create a center right news network to elevate more perspectives that arent based in gotham or in washington. But instead, Stoking Division seemed to become murdochs mission. So did power and so did the money. Fox became a mouth piece for republican administrations, a mouth piece really for donald trump and eventually a vehicle for his baseless conspiracies. It is im
whether he s going to be combative. the campaign is over, mr. trump. let s see if you can govern and talk with everybody even those of us that are adamantly opposed to some of your policies. okay. katty kay, let s go to must-read opinions. the concern of many liberals and in the new republic the liberal response to trump is devolving into outrage porn. when we play the outrage game, we re playing on trump s turf. he has already proven to be master of this game. option to trump should focus if a more on option to his policies, decisions and judgment rather than on calling him out for for his every remark or relying on funny but ineffective memes to make our point. better if we defeat trump on the issues. force him to defend his ideas
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