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sunday housecall. check out the web page on foxnews.com for more. media buzz with reports of tornadoes and widespread damage and hail in indiana and illinois with entire neighborhoods wiped out. we are getting some stunning images like this one, where a tornado touched down and it has been confirmed. emergency crews are picking through what is left of the homes. they are looking for survivors who may still, this hour, be trapped beneath the rubble. more than 70 million people in ten states are at risk. this thing is moving still very
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quickly across ohio. let's get right to our meteorologist, janice dean, tracking this storm in the fox extreme weather center. >> the pictures are heartbreaking. unfortunately, we are going to continue to see the threat for tornadoes throughout the afternoon and the evening and into the overnight. we have several tornado watches in effect that continue across the great lakes, the midwest and ohio river valley through the ten river valley and as you can see the latest until 10:00 p.m. eastern but the storms continue to press eastward so we will see watches and warnings throughout the next six to 12 hours. severe thunderstorm warnings in the yellow and where you see red north of bowling green, that is where we have tornado warnings, doppler radar or storm spotters on the ground. west of cincinnati, now, several tornado warnings and up to east of ft. wayne as we get into indiana and michigan looks to have several thunderstorm warning with that we have seen gusts in excess of 80 miles per
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hour. storm reports, just updated moments ago, 68 tornadoes, hail in 38 reports and 150 reports of wind damage make this a historic november outbreak. i bet we will rise, unfortunately, as we get through the evening with a report of 68 tornadoes so far just, really, in the last hours when we first saw this outbreak. severe threat through tonight and the high risk area where we think all of the ingredients come together for long lasting life threatening storms including tornadoes and moderate risk in the red but you cannot rule out the yellow here with a slight risk including new york city and washington, dc as the storm moves east overnight and into the evening and into the morning commute. again, as we thing, these are the areas we will watch for the potential of very damaging storms including hail, damaging winds and very damaging, unfortunately, life-threatening tornadoes
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moving through the evening. look at the wind advisories, not only do we have hail and tornado threats but we could see straight line damage winds with gusts in excess of 40 miles per hour. we have already seen gusts in excess of 80 miles per hour through illinois and indiana and the cold front moves through and we see temperatures drop in some cases 30 degrees in a matter of hours. look how quarter-mile it is across the east coast as the front pushes through. very warm, unstable air mass is leading to the instability and what we need for the severe weather outbreak. in terms of what we usually see, the primary severe season is the springtime but we have a secondary season in the fall. really, to see this many tornadoes in mid-november as you can see, earlier, it is historic. we are in the top five. the most tornadoes we have seen for the month of november if that is verified. i do thing we will see more tornado threats in the evening.
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>> i know you will follow it and we will check with you. some travel delays are going to stack up in the midwest and the northeast because of all of this severe weather. passengers should call ahead to your carrier for updates. if you have pictures of the storm you might want to think of sending them to us at our website at ureport with pictures like this from a viewer from washington, illinois. remember, folks, please, first, stay safe. we do want to show you a picture of indianapolis. amid all of the bad news today, there is a rainbow there.
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isn't that a thing of beauty? indianapolis has been hard hit by the storms today. so, stay with fox news for updates throughout the afternoon and the evening. we join media buzz. f his own ne. let's take a look at that. >> the mainstream media, i ey afrd, wants obama care to fal >> i believe obama will fail, they are afraid to do a positive story. they are afraid someone might not watch. the media is just cherrypicking the bad facts that are out there, repeating them over and over again and in many cases they are making stuff up. >> making stuff up? >> what? >> what did he say? i'm sorry, he didn't make any sense. the media has been upbeat on this until the website crashed? until it was learned that the promises of broken. on the negative facts, hello? there are more negative facts than positive. >> there are some positive stories to be told because this
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is helping some but it is totally overwhelmed by those who cannot get on, cannot get the policy or it will cost more money. what about the fix, the announced proposed fix to allow the substandard plans to be continue to be sold. why did that not change the coverage? >> that is fascinating that immediately after the announcement, you saw criticism from the media, instantly. does the president have the legal authority to rescind the cancellations? this is a media credit seek that is instant if a way we have not seen in five years. >> your feeling about journalists, being let down and angry. you have lost your health insurance plan as a result of this new policy. does that extend to you? are you personally disappointed in the president and how much does that color what you write?
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>> i have been personally disappointed as you know many times with the president over the years. yes, it is disappointing when he says something that is not true. i'm not concern about my personal situation. i'm willing to pay more for more people to have insurance but it is more that i know for a fact what they are saying is not true. an example is they continue to claim that, well, we are saving people from substandard plans which was never the purpose of obamacare. however, we were saving people from subs.t.d. plans. my land is not substandard. it helps me be able to know, well, wait, what you are saying is not true and you need to come clean and stop making up all these reasons for why people are being kicked off their health insurance. >> other presidents in modern history have lost the confidence of the public and also lost the
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benefit of the press. >> take president obama with katrina, out of it looking from a helicopter down on the ravaged nation. bill clinton had an affair and his popularity didn't tumble that were but --. >> why? >> because he didn't hurt the millions of people and their pocket boxes. what he did was personally, that wasn't acceptable. >> obamacare affects everyone in the country whether you keep your health insurance or not, and it is not a these let cam washington scandal. interesting moment on megyn kelly where former white house aide, the brother of rahm emanuel took a shot at this network. take a look at that. >> remember, this was not an environment which was hospitable to setting up the exchanges. >> i know. i know. you and your colleagues were constantly criticizing trying to underfund it and trying to make
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sure it didn't work. >> i don't think fox news had anything to do with will roll out of healthcare.gov. >> it was all our fault. let me ask --. >> i watched the interview and he is doing obamacare no favors with this wild absurd ridiculously honestly untrue pin. >> he can push back againsting for. >> there has been negative coverage but fox news had nothing to do with the roll out. >> blaming the messenger? >> getting back to the point with the spin that is shown to be false, we have five million chance lakes, five million stories. we only have 27,000 enrollments so the media does not have to go far to find people negatively affected who do not get to see their doctors or go to the hospitals. this story will keep rolling. >> in the face of this we have "new york times" editorials,
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first that obama misspoke about keeping the land and then it was described as "inaccurate promise." >> pathetic. i don't know how they can write this stuff on the editorial page. go to new york magazine they put together not exactly conservative outlet every time he said it, 20 plus times, something that not only he said but now they rounding up every senate democrat who said it and the democrats were going out and saying and promising this and believed it. >> before we go, while the president was having his press conference, at the same time, up in canada, the embattled mayor of toronto, rob ford, the crack smoking, murder threatening someone crazed we politician -- listen to this with the reporter handling the we explicit sexual
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language. >> the last thing was oliviaia said i wanted to [ blank ] and i have never said that in my life and i would never do that i am happy married more than enough at home. >> i know we are live but i don't know [ blank ] and mayor ford is speaking as mayor ford does very plainly as he said he is using language that i don't think we can broadcast on tv but we just broadcast that on tv. >> what else are you going to say? >> i did hundreds and hundreds of live shots and never had anything happen like that and i don't thing i would be as composed. >> i again her composure and thanks to mayor ford everyone in the united states gets to know who this reporter is. >> did you feel for her? >> well, usually what happens you re-cap what was said, so, as
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they just said... >> the kicker to thetory is, rob ford just got his own tv show in canada with his brother so maybe he has been planning for this all along and in terms of american coverage of canada, which is a country...this story has gotten more coverage than anything since the war of 1812. when we come back, an upfloor over a "washington post" columnist and his description of interracial marriage. when you have diabetes like i do, getting the right nutrition isn't always easy. first, i want a way to help minimize my blood sugar spikes. then, a way to support heart health. ♪ and let's not forget immune support. ♪ but now i have new glucerna advance with three benefits in one.
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bill de blasio, new york's newest mayor has an african-american wife. this was written, people with conventional views must compress a gag reflex when considering the mayor of new york, a white man married to a black woman with two biracial children. that brought country simple and people demanding that richard cohen be fired. your thoughts? >> as a biracial conservative who went to a wedding last month, yes, obviously, it's thoroughly absurd. it was awkwardly shoe horned into a column that had nothing to do with the new york mayor or marriage or his children. i think it was a way to slur and put down tea parters and conservatives that to me, the surprise was that liberals pushed that. that was surprise to go me.
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>> well, what i found odd, and i should say i've known richard cohen for many years. i don't consider him a racist, but i'm not defending the wording here is that he wasn't just describing the tea party. he pivoted from that to talk about people with conventional views as if many, many people in america are appalled to the point of gagging by interracial marriage. at the same time, we have a lot of people saying the guy should be fired. what do you think? >> i don't understand it i guess is the bottom line. i don't know what his point was. i don't know what it had to do with the column. i don't really think tea partiers necessarily gag when they see biracial couples. i don't think there's any evidence to support that. i don't think rib rals think that that's what he was saying. i think if they thought he was putting down tea party people and calling them racist, they probably wouldn't be upset. they thought he was expressing his own racist views by calling it conventional. he's come out and been upset
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that people are calling him a racist. why do you think that's conventional? i would call that racist and bigoted. >> gallop poll h had a poll that came out and said 87% v people support interracial marriage. that doesn't mean he was speaking on behalf of people that may be conventional. it was clumsy wording, i think. he was picking at the scabs of racism. if you're going to do that, like he did in 1986 where he said georgetown starters are justified in locking their doors because they're afraid of young african-americans and he also maid a comment about zimmerman in the trayvon martin trial saying he understands why when zimmerman was in that hoodie outfit -- i'm sorry, when trayvon was in the hoodie, zimmerman would be afraid. >> well, i don't think richard cohen is a racist. i think his intent was to smear conservatives with this racist
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label without considering the facts, for example, that the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is himself in an interracial marriage and the politicians who were trying to use it against him are democrats in kentucky. >> let me take a moment to pup put up on the screen what he had to say about this whole controversy in the huffington post. the word racist is truly hurtful. it is not who i am. it's not who i ever was. i could have picked a better word, but it didn't ring any bells with anybody. if he is going to use that wording, he has to expect to take the heat. i don't think he's shocked by this. >> the media critic jack shaffer said he wrote his retirement better by saying that. then there was a takeout that said dear washington post, please fire this man. so i think that people are starting to liken him to helen
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thomas, when helen thomas started as she was in her later years to call people pejorative names. >> right, in the context of the middle east. so even if he was wrong and even if this was terrible, is there anything that troubles you about, you know, this online mob basically calling for his head? >> yeah. yes. but i think it -- look, if somebody is doing something that is blatantly racist over and over, then of course people should be calling for them to be fired. it's not clear to me that every column that they're bringing up actually are racists. i think you have to remember he's 72 years old. he's describing in one case, you know, being in school in the '50s and what he was taught. that's a fact. they didn't teach very well about slavery back then. i didn't care that that is racist. i think this is racist, but, you know, i don't know him and i'm not going to -- >> he thinks that other americans -- >> right. and i'm all for making mistakes,
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clumsy wording, that i'm not saying that anybody should be fired over this. i just think what fred hyatt was saying was also true. his opinions don't necessarily always reflect his politics. >> thanks very much for stopping by this sunday. coming up, why no one is satisfied with the "60 minutes" apology over that benghazi story. then my sit down with bill o'reiley to delivers a rather strong response to his critics. >> if you don't like me because you think it's object knockus or you think i'm misguided politically, that's all right. but if you try to hurt me or my family, my enterprise, you try to hurt it, i'll come after you. [ brent ] this guy's a pro, herbie. [ herbie ] no doubt about it brent, a real gate keeper. here's kevin in the nissan sentra. lamb to the slaughter. mom's baked cookies but he'll be lucky to make it inside and here's the play. oh, dad did not see this coming. [ crowd cheering ]
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a security contractor claimed to have been dealing with benghazi. >> we end with a correction. on thursday night when we discovered the account given to the f.b.i. was different than what we were told, we realized we had been manage led and it was a mistake to include him in our report. for that, we are very sorry. the most important thing to every person at "630 -- "60 minutes," is the truth. >> while her apology was sincere, cbs left a pile of unanswered questions. how did they get duped? how carefully did the reporter and the producers vet the account by the contractor? did they try to figure out why he said he wasn't at the compound in a report to his bosses? were they influenced that a unit of cbs was publishing his book?
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we will keep in mind that the reporter has had a terrific career and risked her life and was sexually assaulted in egypt. maybe cbs wanted her to deliver a bare-bones apology but the journalistic inquiry of cbs is not enough. they should do what they did after the report on dan rather about george bush and the national guard and find out what went wrong and who is responsible otherwise they will operate under a shadow. >> send me a tweet about this. next, the host of the "riley factor why he doesn't discuss the mainstream media. across america people are taking charge
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thunderstorms ripping through the midwest and 70 million people in a dozen different states are in the crosshairs with extensive damage reported in illinois and indiana with entire neighborhoods wiped out. some wiped out in a matter of seconds. the national weather service warping there is the potential to be "extremely deadly and destructive." the storm is blamed for two deaths in washington county, illinois. the storm is affecting professional football games this sunday, the rain at chicago forced officials to delay the bears game against the baltimore ravens. lay was stopped in the first quarter when fans were told to look for cover as lightning hit near the stadium. the game resumed after a two-hour delay. bill o'reilly who has opinions on just be about
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everything is a author of a series of best sellers. we decided to turn the tables by putting him in the hot seat on "the aisle riley factor" set. welcome. >> thank you. >> rob lowe just started in a movie based on your book. we seem to be awash in documentment documentaries about the 50 ath anniversary of the death of jfk. >> he is frozen in time. glamour. he was assassinated at such a young age. people who were alive then certainly with all the unanswered questions of conspiratorialists and all that, there is a mystery involved in his death. then the younger people coming up, they see this very handsome president, beautiful wife, and would little kids, and so -- inherently there is ain't in it. like princess diana. it is like anybody that that's glamorous, marilyn monroe, that never dies out.
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>> your new book,a big bestseller. what do you bring as an author to the subject that has been so extensively covered in many other books. >> when i first pitched "killing lincoln" to a publisher that turned it down, he said will are so many lincoln books. i said, but not by me. we sound cocky but it is in the formula. >> you get to promote it every night. >> if you don't have a good product you can promote it every might and nobody will buy it. the product is fun to read and it will teach you something. fun to read and teach you something. you know it. >> you were asked about the colorful matters in one view in "killing jesus and you said of course it is sensationalist. what do you mean by in a. >> we are setting up the drama of why jesus was executed. by the very nature when you have, you know, the powerful romans and temple authorities trying to get this guy and cat
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and mouse game, that's going to be sensational. it was. the execution was as ghastly as you could possibly imagine. our research uncovered a lot of things about how it was done and why it was done and who did it really. and we lay it all out like we did with kennedy and lincoln. >> you promote "killing jesus" on 9:0"60 minutes" and "the vie. i thought people didn't like. >> did you they get rate. >> you say it is a self-serving effort by the organizations? >> i think they feel there is a guy in a country selling millions of books. "killing jesus" will sell 5 million books. that's unheard of. the highest rated cable news show for 13 years. there has to be something there. thus if we get him on our show maybe we will get some of this. >> you like to it up a narrative you versus the media. i think you have become more
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accepted. >> i disagree with you. if you look at the reviews for "killing kennedy," the people that hate me reviewed me, not the movie. that's still there. if i ever fall, they will be like jackals on my carcass. had hate me. because i represent something that is very feared in america. i made my success outside of the establishment. that is how i did it. they don't like that. and the right doesn't like me eeth ier. you listen to talk radio. they don't like me. i don't tow the lie. i'm an independent thinker and i do things my way. >> does it bother you that people hate you, to use your verb? >> no. i asked president obama that in my laster and view of him. i think he is very sensitive of that. i could be wrong. i don't like the cheap shots. the cheap shots i despise. i go after people who do it. but if you just don't like me because you think i'm obnoxious or misguided politically, that's
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all right. all right. if you rye to hurt me or my family, my enterprise, you try to hurt it, i will come after you. >> when you talk about president obama, you haven't person person natural criticizing him but you have been very critical of this president the last five years. would you agree that the mainstream press, particularly with this, obama care rollout, other issues where he doesn't appear to be plugged in, more critical of this president in the first term? >> they had to. because they were losing credibility. mine, as a people who apologize for barack obama now are losing ratings and readership and are hemorrhaging. they don't have business. it is a business decision. if they could they would still stay with their guy. they have a lot of emotions. i disagree with you. i haven't been overly hard on barack obama's presidency in the last five years. i reported fairly and analyzed it fairly on a factual basis. he has done some good things and i gave him credit for those good things. >> you are basically opposed to his approach to government which
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you see as big government. and you have -- >> that doesn't matter. because i'm opposed -- >> i'm not saying you are unfair. >> doesn't mean i will go after him in way that's unfair or illegal. violating journalistic standards. barack obama is a true believer. he he believes obama care is best for americans. that's what he believes. i respect that. he is not a phony. he is not trying to lead news this communist paradise. he believes it. i respect true belief. she desperately wrong. he is wrong. it is bad for the nation. so i look out for the folks. i have to report that. >> i mentioned "60 minutes." as you know they did an apology and retraction for a stories about benghazi based on a contractor that appears as not having telling the truth of being at the compound the night of the attack. that apology didn't get much attention on fox news because it
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doesn't fit the conservative agenda of pushing benghazi as a fair story. >> you know, if the facts were altered by it and we -- i hadn't -- didn't report it -- i didn't pay much attention to it. maybe that's a valid criticism against fox news. i don't run fox news. have my own problems as a factor. i look at it this way. >> yeah didn't you do more on it? the mistakes. >> because everybody makes them. it doesn't have anything do with people's lives. the perception of benghazi wouldn't have changed by lara logan's report. the guy was sharl ton. it happens. i feel sorry for "60 minutes." i think they are anna noble enterprise. i will cut them slack on a mistake. >> you take a lot of slack which is within your purview, msmnbc. >> i don't spend much time on msnbc. >> a lot of people think when msnbc has done by doing left is
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set out to copy fox news, only on the other side. >> they are not making any money. i mean, they are not doing very well. their audience is going -- is very low. so i don't know. they can do what they want over there. look, the only thing that i don't want is personal attacks designed to injure. if i see that over there, i will dip in a little bit. chris matthews saying why doesn't he write a book "killing o'reilly." he is just kidding around. i'm not going to make a big deal about that. they do what they do. we do what we do. who wins? >> you measure everything by numbers. fox news is on top. >> that's right. bottom feeders want to feed down there, that's fine. it is not even close. it is not even close. like the denver broncos and the jacksonville jaguars, that is how far apart it is. >> your view that most of the mainstream media lean left. was that forged in part by the years you spent at sxrbs acbs a?
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>> absolutely. >> working reporters saying nomar, "new york times" editorial page -- >> look, let me break it down for you. local news does not have much ideology. they cover whatever sensational stories. that. when i worked at channel 2 in new york, there weren't people doing had a. when i went to cbs, absolutely. nine out of ten people were confirmed, liberals, that want aed a liberal approach for the coverage of the news. when i went to abc it was not quite that bad. maybe it was 65%, 70%, rather than 90%. jennings didn't like it, it made him queasy but he was a liberal. he didn't want that. rather embraced more of a left coverage and that kind of point of view. i was there and i saw it. me, i was a reporter. i didn't have any ideology at all and i didn't care about it at that point. but i certainly brought that into the scene here. >> on the set occasionally you have -- got into shouting
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matches with alec baldwin and geraldo. do you ever go, maybe i went too par n. >> i have to walk the tightrope. i have to be a real person here. barney frank. right on the air, provable lie. he said he didn't lie. he deserved it. geraldo on the illegal aliens committing crimes and geraldo was not concerned about it, galled me. it hit me the wrong way. i don't think colmes was telling the truth. i don't think he intentionally lied. i walk a high wire here. sometimes i make mistakes. sometimes i overdo it but i think -- you know, after 17 years, we get a lot more right than we get wrong. >> bill o'reilly. after the break, more on the 50th anniversary of jfk's death. why is every media in america reliving it?
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hotel. from fox to cnn to pbs, the "national geographic" to the history channel, everyone wants a piece of the kennedy legacy. they are drawn to the theories and theories swirling around the assassination. also to the life of the dynamic young president and the magic of what came to be called camelot. jack kennedy was the most glamorous, attractive president of the united states who ever had and we will ever have. that alone holds your fascination. and he had enormous promise. now it was unfulfilled and it was not realized. he probably wasn't as great as he appeared to be. but he sure felt that way. >> are these media organizes trying to milk it for ratings? as some members popped up on the sunday shows this morning, it is clear that of course they are. but they are also feeding a public appetite about jack and jackie and the whole dynasty.
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so one of the evening during interests jack kennedy a half a century earlier? because jfk was cut down in his prime we will always -- there will be a sense of an unfinished dream. the dream the media is all too happy to keep revisiting. is this where tv is headed? how much can we gorge on at once? okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu.
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time now for our digital download. amazon post ad new video series called "alpha house." part of a trend that's bypassing television for the web. >> amazon is joining netflix and others in creating original
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programming. had one a comedy about four republican senators who share a group house. starring john goodman. >> look, i have been through this. the time i knocked [ bleep ], that video [ bleep ] exploded. on every station. the next morning, zip, gone. over. >> what? why? >> i caught a break. a hurricane wiped out carolina beach. but that's the way it works, lewis. the media always moved on. >> that's so, so true. isn't it? >> i really like this series. it captures the cynicism of washington and it is a very funny moment. what i also like is that amazon had a series of pilots. this is one of them by trudeau and let people vote on them. democracy in action. >> it is very similar to what netflix has done with "house of cards." kevin spacey, robin wright. >> you like that one. >> i love it.
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i'm addicted to it. as a matter of fact, what i love about it is that netflix allows you to binge watch. they put the whole series right up there. you can snuggle up on a sunday morning or sunday afternoon, i guess, and watch. >> amazon is not doing that and put out lee of the 11 episodes. it is a comment from the head of amazon studios say thing is so customers can chat about the shows and build up. let me tell you why i don't like it. a, i have a life. b -- >> really? >> it is like eating 13 chocolate sundaes p of how much can you do? >> i'm sorry, but all do you is work. i do not have a life. >> you know, i really like watching. i want to wait another week before i can revisit john goodman and the other three senators. otherwise just -- you are not doing anything else look, you have to look at the business model here. the business model in television is advertisers support the actual content. this is -- this is different.
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what amazon is doing by this is it is encouraging its prime customers. that's if you sign up for amazon prime you get -- for $79 a year, you get free shipping. let me tell you, it is worth it if you shop a lot. what they are doing is they are saying, okay, here are your first three episodes free. sign up for prime. and then you get the rest of these series. that's a smart business decision. they only have 11 million subscribers right now. those people on prime also happen to spend three times the amount as regular amazon shoppers. >> that's a nice side you like to watch 13 episodes in a row. without taking a break. >> did i say 13? mont no. >> maybe i'm wedded to the old model you watch the show. >> why would that be? >> okay. watch it. you watch the show and talk about it the next day with your friends and people at work. then everybody would kind of look forward to the next one. the idea is -- what happens is, first of all, if you go on
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twitter or social media and see the episodes, other people have only seen would, then you are always -- in danger of spoiling it for them. the conversation also just goes away. how many people talk about "house of cards" after the first week or two? >> i did. i talked to the other people who were watching "the house of cards." we will never know how many people actually watch "house of cards" or are watching "alpha house." there are no ratings available. you don't know how many people -- they don't -- how many people are streaming them. the success really for them, i guess is based on the money. "house of cards" costs $100 million. these episodes of "alpha," $1 million to $2 million per episode. >> that's key in terms of the economics of in. to get -- you have to spend a lot more to make a network tv series and go lou like 87 people@that have to green light it. this is much more streamlined. creative content people are going to be drawn to this sort
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of thing. i'm a fan of television. >> they are dvr'ing. >> who needs television? >> we do. >> still to come, why alec baldwin's msnbc's show is suddenly off the air.
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i asked whether the press' criticism of president obama's credibility problems has gotten too personal. he is just the president. why in the world should the failure of most prominent domestic policy reflect on him personally? his promise still holds. you can keep your plan. only when insurance companies drop it can you not.
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steven james. the right makes everything personal against obama. remember when this health care concept was originally crafted by republicans? finally, alec baldwin has a history of yelling at the paparazzi write and he was at it again on thursday. shouting an obscene anti-gay slur. >> get away from my wife with the bay with you with the camera. get away with my kid with the camera! come on! [ bleep ]. >> lot of bleeping there. it is not the first time he used such language. he told a fox reporter, you are as dumb as you look. the actor had just launched a weekly talk show for msnbc which has suspended him. i did not intend to hurt anyone
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with my choice of words. but clearly, i have and for that i am deeply sorry. words are important. a woman that repeatedly stalked baldwin was sentenced. yesterday baldwin took to the pages of huffington denying using the slur and said he's not sure his cable show is ever coming back. >> he's just his own worst enemy. when he does these things. remember when he said that his daughter was a rude and thoughtless pig. >> she was 11. >> she was just a kid. right. i think that -- zebras don't change its stripes. msnbc knew that and they took the risk going in and this is what happened. >> you can't be shocked when this kind of thing happens. i think msnbc made the right decision to suspend him. that's it for this edition of "media buzz."
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