thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. please call or go online right now to give. if operators are busy, please wait patiently. or go to loveshriners.org right away. howard: -- biden used a prime time speech not to talk about kitchen table issues, but a talk he's hit many times before, and while some pundits praised the address, others said the performance was way off key. >> you know, american democracy is under attack because the defeated former president of the united states refuses to accept the results of the 2020 election. >> president biden's speech tonight the saying that

democracy is on the ballot struck a new note for him, a new note of realism. >> that's the closing argument now for the democrats, mega-maga republicans are evil, and every day is january 6th. >> it's hard to say to them, you know, you should be worrying about democracy than gas prices. >> when voters are paying record high prices, some democrats are questioning whether the president should have been focusing on the economy instead in his closing argument. >> biden proceeds to do what he now so commonly does, bark at the rest are of us for the rest are of our moral failures. howard: biden's a made a version of these remarks many times, and most democrats wanted him to talk about the economy or inflation or crime. now, the address began at a high-minded appeal to reserve american democracy but very quickly became a blatantly partisan speech. an attack on donald trump and maga republicans who are trying to. suppress voting rights and condoning political violence and threatening the fairness of this

election. not much of a stretch to conclude the president was saying the only way to protect democracy is to vote democratic. and as some democrats privately confided to journalists, joe biden missed an opportunity to connect with swing voters who are mainly worried about paying their bills. i'm howard kurtz, and this is "mediabuzz." ♪ ♪ howard: the media are belatedly, reluctantly and in many cases sadly acknowledging that the republicans are virtually certain to take over the house and have an increasingly good shot at seizing control of the senate. a washington post story actually saying the democrats are in a panic. >> republicans are riding a wave of optimism in the final days of the fall campaign, even eyeing seats deep into democratic territory. >> voters are most concerned about the economy, inflation and crime in that order. january 6th? not there. and they trust republicans to

handle these issues the best. >> republicans are on a position really to win a majority in the house. only five seats make up the difference. the question is how big of a majority will there be. >> an insidious and seemingly intentional campaign by republican-backed polling firms to flood the zone and tip the balance of polling averages in favor of their candidates. >> look, the fate is sealed for the democrats, a lot of us now thinking, and their media lackeys, they're resorting to insane theories. howard: joining us now to analyze the coverage in new york, will cain, cohost of "fox & friends" weekend s and in cleveland, geraldo rivera, a member of "the five." will, it's been obvious for weeks this rengts election was breaking in the republicans' direction. why do you think the mainstream media are finally acknowledging that? >> i guess because it'd be -- it's undeniable, howard. what will be fascinating is how they explain it in relate to

prospect once it's over. they can't really ask joe biden to focus on kitchen table issues. he doesn't have a positive message that he can put forward when it comes to inflation or to crime. so the democratic party has largely adopted these very, very, very unpopular ideas, whether or not that's on gender or the denial of a rising crime rate. and so in lieu of talking about these very, very u.n. popular ideas -- unpopular ideas, it's go back to the well, it's go back to january 6th. and it's going to be a losing message for hem income a matter of -- them in a matter of days. howard: democrats fear midterm drubbing as party leaders rush to defend blue seats. obviously, everything depends on turnout, that's always the x factor, but do you see these predictions as kind of a butt-covering exercise for the media geraldo? >> yeah. i guess you can say that, howie. but timing is everything in life, and certainly politics is part of life. a couple of weeks ago, mid

october, i think that it would have been a whole different vibe, a whole different story. you had oz trailing in pennsylvania, you had vance fighting for his life here. herschel walker battered by one scandal after another in georgia. so georgia, pennsylvania, ohio all were in play a couple of weeks ago. now they're, i think, oz is ahead in pennsylvania. here vance is ahead in ohio, herschel walker has steadied his campaign. i would say looking at some of the polls that you already broadcast this morning, howie, that herschel walker is ahead in georgia. so i think the democrats missed an opportunity. abortion has faded, inflation is wearing on people, it really is. president biden's speech that you and will were speaking about earlier, very disappointing. howard: yeah. >> he's a nice guy. he's not supposed to be, you know, mr. partisan. i don't think he's ever made a great speech, but that one was particularly irritating to many people -- howard: i'll come back to that. >> i think the democrats are

really on their back foot. howard: yeah. timing is everything and, obviously, there's been early voting, but election day is huge. will, the media back during the primaries wrote off many of the trump-backed, maga candidates as no way they can win a general election, they're too extreme, this is great for the democrats. and now many of these people -- kari lake, blake masters, herr shell walker -- are at least tied. so was this a tremendous mistake on the part of the press? >> yes, absolutely. but a predictable mistake, howard. look, okay, for the better part of 7-8 years the democratic party, and by extension, the media's focus has been exclusively on donald trump. as a result, all these issues that are now so important to the american people existed uncovered underneath the surface. the economy, inflation, crime and so fort. but their focus had only and

always been on donald trump. they thought by making all of these individuals -- kari lake, dr. oz -- surrogates for donald trump, they could stay on the same themes. what they didn't realize was that those candidates, not only the policies, but those candidates themselves are very popular. and by the way, they're riding a wave of popularity attributable to donald trump. >> yeah. what's amazing is for the last two years when donald trump hasn't been president, obviously, he still gets a lot of coverage and part of that is the former president's doing. geraldo, was this case of journalists on the coasts living in a bubble, and the country maybe is a bit more conservative or more fed up than the pundits were willing to believe? >> well, i don't know. oz was a pretty flamboyant choice as was herschel walker in georgia, you know? they weren't run of the mill candidates.

the president, the former president, president trump, endorsing them really, you know, in many ways bothering their candidacy was out of the mainstream. but, you know, these are quality people. i was mt. talk show business with mehmet oz, he's a great guy. i think that he might have been stunned by oprah's endorsement of john fetterman, but i also think that he has, he has surgically, if i may -- [laughter] use his profession, his former profession, worked his way back. and i think that herschel walker, similarly, i think he was helped by georgia crushing tennessee yesterday and to be probably number one in the nation mt. ncaa football -- in the ncaa football. so these are familiar people that gradually have gotten their stride, you know? ryan was competitive the here in ohio, i thought that he was going to do it, but he has -- he had that great line that ohio needs ass kickers, not ass

kissers. but vance has, you know, he's a quality guy, hill billy el jill -- "hillbilly elegy" with, yale law school. he's finally found his footing also. so i think vance wins, i think oz wins, and i think herschel walker wins, and i lose $1,000 to jesse watters. [laughter] howard: look, maybe they did seem 'em extreme back during the primaries, but maybe the definition of what's acceptable particularly on the republican side has changed. i want to circle back, will. the biden speech on democracy. there were quite a number of liberal pundits, and this was somewhat surprising, saying this was not what most americans wanted to hear six days out. eventhey agreed with the substance, even if they agreed with the substance. >> yeah. paint me as kept call -- skeptical, i'm sure there are some who actually believe democracy is on the line. but the way this has hyperbolically been raised, jim

cry bern saying we're on the verge of nazi germany, sonny hosten on "the view "saying we're political cockroaches. howard: that was historian michael beschloss who said, essentially are, if the democrats don't at least control something, congress on tuesday. >> i don't think that's resonating with any significant portion of america. it is easily dismissible. howard: well, geraldo, news outlets are reporting that biden wanted to give this speech for weeks. here he is attacking trump and maga republicans. what do you think? is he saying when he got more partisan about it, when he mentioned the former president that unless democrats win, the whole country is going to go to hell? >> i, i hate that stuff, howie. i hate that. it really, it paints the country in a way that we are engaged in a civil war. i don't believe it. i think that, you know, there is

an essential social conservativism in america. people settle down. we can have opposite points of view. i certainly disagree most of -- with most of my colleagues at "the five" and fox, but i really think what happened is biden gave a speech that obama maybe how much given. he's much more smooth, more articulate, more personable in many ways, it would have seemed less partisan i think if the former president, president obama, had given the speech rather than president biden. when president biden did it, like your best pal who never picked a fight with anybody all of a sudden pretending that he's the tough guy, he's going to take you in the backyard and beat the hell out of you. i just think it was ill-advised, and as i said earlier, i don't think he's ever given a great speech, and that was probably the most ill-timed, partisan attack ever. howard: well, you know -- very

briefly. >> if i could really quickly, joe biden discuss have a way of -- does have a way of saying it in an angry manner, but barack obama said the same stuff. he said democracy is on the line. this is -- >> source poetic. >> it isn't like the relationship between geraldo and myself or everybody else. [laughter] nationally, it's a relationship of you're a threat, and you must be silenced. howard: all right. obama did it in a mocking way which he has a certain talent for. by the way, tiffany cross has been fired by msnbc abruptly, like, she's off the air immediately. and while there's some attempt to blame this on conservative criticism, reports say she was warned repeatedly about -- i was always stunned by some is of her racially-inflammatory attacks. for example, calling clarence thomas justice the pubic hair on a coke can, and the final straw seemed to be when she went on some interview and talked about a phallic symbol for florida and then said let's castrate

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howard: many of those crazy conspiracy theories posted about nancy pelosi's husband and the man who nearly killed him have been deleted. we now mow that david depape planned to kidnap the house speaker and, if she didn't tell the truth, kneecap her. and he has a list of other targets as well. the media's handling of the attack has become entangled with the midterm campaign. >> do they want to hand power

over to those people, to people lying and pushing false flag lies about an 82-year-old man whose skull was fractured by a hammer in. >> san francisco was responsible for the misinformation. they gave this sloppy press conference. >> are your parents really proud that you with mock 82-year-old withs getting their brains barked in or you just can't say this is a tragedy, this is bad for america? >> paul pelosi was the victim of a deranged individual. it's sad, but it's happening in city after the city and town after town, and it's becoming increasingly lawless in this country for everyone in large part because of democratic policies. howard: will cain, does the david depape confession about planning to kidnap nancy pelosi, not to mention posting showing he was suicidal, that he believed in an imaginary fairy undermine efforts by some in the press to paint this mentally unstable guy as some kind of trumpian right-winger?

>> well, the efforts by the media to paint this into a larger narrative to smear their political opponents is the reason percent existence of -- for the existence of conspiracy theories. you played chris hayes and joe scarborough, and nbc along with politico, for example, are two of the organizes that helped create the misinformation in the beginning. those two organizations reportet blame on san francisco law enforcement as well -- but put information out there that there was a third person that opened the door. howard: right. >> so if you put out false information, how can you indict people for understanding that false information? but let me say this, when you go from 0-60, you to go from scant details to indicting an entire sector of political opponents, when you draw big, large narratives and it's not just on this story, howard, whenever there's an officer-involved shooting, how quickly do we start to go to the racial politics in america, when you do that you make everyone very kept

call. the details, why should i care about them? i think that's where the media makes a massive mistake. howard: let me get geraldo in. this is a shorter segment. should the people who posted this made-up garbage about paul pelosi and depape supposedly being a male prostitute, which includes elon musk, larry eller and donald trump jr., now apologize rather than just deleting the tweetsesome. >> yes. yes, they should. and will's analysis is baloney. what these people did was grow he's thing. what don jr. did, tweeting that the9 halloween costume of the year was paul pelosi with a pair of underpants and a hammer, it was disgusting. it's low to down and dirty. it's partisan politics taken to an extreme that makes me want to spit -- >> what part of what i said was baloney? >> that the atmosphere or the san francisco police --

>> they got the facts wrong. >> -- some of the early information -- well, what, do you jump, do you jump into a gay tryst -- >> no. >> -- you know, a fight? do you jump right into the gutter? >> no, no. let me ask you this -- >> why in because he's nancy pelosi's husbandsome. >> you and the me a question finish and is and what we cannot do, what we cannot do is take an incident like this and twist it so it becomes part of -- >> okay. howard: let will respond. >> you asked me a district question. ooh i'm going to ask directly and ask the same of you. i do not think you take those scant, false, bad details as provided by media law enforcement and -- media outlets and law enforcement and jump to conclusions. now, do you take those same details and jump to a conclusion of indicting 50% of america for their political beliefs? do you do what joe biden --

>> you're gaslighting. what does that have to do with the slander of paul pelosi? we sat by concern. >> because, geraldo, i answered your question directly, but you won't answer mine -- >> some thingses we can't do. some things wen't do. i have absolutely finished with the intolerant of these -- where do you think whackos get these ideas? they get these ideas because -- [inaudible conversations] entitle them. >> the president of the united states, not some random -- >> that old man got his head, his skull fractured. >> and the president of the united states used that horrific incident to indict people to disagree with him. howard: all right. i've enjoyed -- i was waiting for things to heat up between you two. finally, geraldo, donald trump can't say anything about the attack on paul pelosi for a couple of days, then he said it was a terrible thing. and then he called in to a radio interview and said this: >> it's weird things going on in that household in the last couple of weeks.

i'm not a fan of nancy pelosi, but what's going on there is very sad. howard: as your longtime friend -- >> oh, come on. come on. yes, yes. yes. i mean, shame on the former president. weird things going on in that house. how about your house? how about my house? how about other -- i mean, this is really beyond the pale, howard. i mean, when -- at what -- what they say, have you no shame? they said during the mccarthy hearings. >> yeah. >> you know, is have we no shame? shame on us for allowing the alex jones of the media, it's really pathetic. howard: all right. you two are going to have to take this outside. we're out of time. [laughter] >> i like will very much. he's very intelligent. howard: we all do. will cain, geraldo rivera. ahead, jason chaffetz on the campaign coverage. but up next, elon musk orders

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has unexistent cash flow when you take into account other metrics. it doesn't make any money. [laughter] it's losing users. it relies heavily on advertising, but it's trying to figure out ways to make sure the advertising experience isn't too detrimental. it has a ton of bots, fake accounts, and now he has to figure out a way to make money on this thing -- howard: right. or to stop losing money. >> that's true too. [laughter] howard: musk's $8 a month offer for blue checks, which is available to anyone, would include such benefits as getting half the ads and higher priority for what you post and reply. would this allow affluent folks to buy greater exposure on twitter? >> you know, i -- listen, how much is a starbucks coffee? you know -- howard: elon made that -- >> did he? i didn't even know that. >> yeah, he did. >> great minds think alike there, howie.

listen, it's prohibitive. i really reject the argument of the whackos like aoc who says goes against his whole free speech platform. there's nothing un-free speech about this, making a business work. you have free speech. it's protected by the constitution the, not by the twitter board of directors, and you could do a lot of things which are free speech, including blog. but if you want to do it on musk's platform, you might have to pay. howard: on that point, and by the way, you don't have to pay, but musk tweeted the following: twitter has had a massive drop in revenue due to activist groups pressuring advertisers even though nothing has changed with contenteded moderation. that is the true. hasn't changed a thing so far. we tried to appease the activists, they're trying to destroy free speech in america. >> right. howard: whether he's scapegoating these activists or not, are these money-making schemes like you can send direct messages to celebrities going to fly? >> listen, i -- who knows?

it's a lousy business. he way overpaid for it. his own business, tesla, is going to get hurt as the market continues to correct. i mean, he's got a financial problem, and there's no doubt that he's getting desperate. but the free speech implications here are absurd. i mean, think about it. the worst free speech sort of violation that we have here is a bunch of lefty, progressive activist groups calling on advertisers to boycott twitter. they do that with fox news, they do that with everybody whose speech they hate. that is much worse than trump -- than musk charging $8 for a blue check mark. trust me on this. howard: all right. well, it does seem to me that he's had to, that musk has had to confront the reality that he can't drive advertisers away, and he does need that revenue. great analysis, as always. charlie gasparino, thanks for joining us from vegas. next on "mediabuzz," donald trump is very likely to declare his candidacy, press reports say it could be next week.

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howard: the media frenzy over the final days of the midterms has feature rallies by the former president and, despite his earlier reluctance, the current president. >> and now in order to the make our country successful and safe and glorious, i will very, very, very probably do it again. [cheers and applause] howard: biden was joined in philadelphia yesterday by his former boss, a far better orator, barack obama. >> two years ago he used that power to make donald trump not only a former president, but you made him a defeated president. a. [cheers and applause] howard: joining us now in utah, jason chaffetz, the former republican congressman and a fox news contributor. and here in washington, kristin

han, democratic strategist formerly with the blue dog coalition. jason, donald trump very, very probably, practically declared that he's running at that rally. axios says he's planning to make a formal declaration a week from tomorrow, but it's not definite. it's kind of like a save the date do you buy that and would the media ramp up their negative coverage if he becomes a candidate? >> i can't imagine the media ramping it up even more than they have. they've been negative for the last, i don't know, seven years -- howard: there'll just be more of it. >> well, more of it. look, it's their dream come true. it drives ratings on all the networks, but i think donald trump is just itching to get in the fight. he's been able to do that as a proxy and being able to go out and tout the 400, nearly 500 candidates that he had endorsed along the way, and he loves the crowd. he just absolutely loves it. howard: that is true. kristin, did the media debate about president biden not doing

any rallies and then the white house said, well, you know, those don't work, it's a failed policy, did it kind of push the president intoed s deciding, yeah, i better do a few, or is it that he understands he's not actually in demand? >> i've worked on a number of races over the past 20 years, and it's always kind of a catch 22. do you want the president there, do you not want him there -- howard: right. does it help or hurtsome. >> i think the president really made a calculation that democracy's on the ballot, and he wants to get out there and make makes the case for the midterms for the democrats. whether that tease helpful or harmful, you know, that's race by race. howard: i do want to point out most of the candidate events he goes to are are pooled events. les no video, unlike the rallies. jason, new york times headline, stoked by republicans, fears of crime loom large for midterm voters. so does that i somehow minimize

it if gop candidates are, in fact, running on the crime issue and conservative media are playing it up? >> well, look, if you live in one of these crime-ridden cities and you can't go to your local pharmacy because you're scared to go in there and shoplifting is running rampant, then it's very obvious to you. and then there's one party and one candidate, the republican, that's out in actually talking about it. if -- almost every single metric is out there to support the idea and the notion that crime is rampant. it's not just new york city, it's these major democratic cities and states. you combine that with the woke policy, the idea that you should bail people out as quickly as possible as kamala harris was doing, the cashless bail, the illegal immigration and the influx there, these horrific murders and other things that have happened along the way, republicans are going to win in part because people are scared and they want a change. howard: well, i just was so struck by that, stoked by

republicans as if it's almost a nonissue and only in the last 10 days have many democrats realized he was to talk about crime. kristin, the times doesn't say crime isn't real, it says there are mixed trends, up in some places and not in other places. and the paper says people might react to, oh, seeing homeless people and reading about vandalism. so a what -- so what if that's how they feel? isn't that how it works in politicsesome. >> you can't tell people they're not feeling what they feel, right in. howard: i mean, you can, but it's dumb. >> in some states, in some areas, i live in washington, d.c., i'm a democrat, and i am looking at who on the city council is talking about the issue of crime. so, you know, yeah, it's politics. you've got to go in and acknowledge what people are -- howard: so, therefore, you'll undoubtedly agree with me that it was a mistake for democratic candidates to avoid the issue -- >> you can't avoid the issue. you can't avoid the economy. you've got to address everything, howard. howard: it's like saying, you

know, people shouldn't worry about the economy because unemployment is 3.5%. if they're scared about losing their jobs, that's how they feel, and that's what moves you. a question for both of you. new york times and others are reporting, going back to donald trump, that if he becomes a form allocate the justice department, jason, is waiting the appointment of a special counsel to oversee the investigation including the documents at mar-a-lago, but merrick garland would still make final decision on any indictment. how would that play? >> look, it seems like it's gone in perpetuity anyway. you had the mueller investigation, all these other investigations. they keep making all of these allegations, and nothing ever comes of it. so i think america is tired of it. i don't think it's the right policy. look, if you've got something on the guy, charge him. but you know what in you can't yet. leave him aloan. you actually have to have evidence to make these things

happen, and all we've seen are lies and cajoling by the fbi and others, and i think america is fed up with it. they want the equal application of justice. and if you're not going to charge maybe somebody like hunter biden where there's video, audio recordings, a financial document and a whole lot of evidence, then most of america's going to look at this and say, yeah, you're going after trump, but you won't go after biden. howard: that's something the u.s. attorney in delaware, briefly, kristin, sounds like a special counsel is taking over but, ultimately, merrick garland is going to make the decision and take the heat either way. >> i think it's really dangerous to undermine the authority of our fbi and the doj. i think that, you know, you have a president who took documents, top secret documents, we know that, and that should be looked into. and that's what they're doing. howard: yeah. it is being looked into, but it's hard to say if there'll be an indictment. after the break, are anchors trying to rehabilitate john

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people around him, that i would not be safe and that the child would not be safe. >> that's very menacing. >> it is very men nateing. menacing. that is very menacing. and i felt threatened, and i, i thought i had no choice. howard: the accuser said she told her parents and friends she'd had a miscarriage. >> just was very shameful, and i felt like i had been manipulated. howard: jason, now that we can see this woman and she's got handwritten love notes from herschel walker and pictures of them in hotels, does his dismissal of this as a lie seem less credible? >> i think it's highly suspicious when it comes days before an election. this could have come out years ago, it could have come out months ago, but these

allegations, when they come out so close to election, i think, are highly suspicious. and it's, you know, he said/she said. people have to look at that and make hair -- their own decision, but i think most people are going to blow past this and vote for the person they feel most comfortable with, and herschel walker is beloved by the people of georgia. howard: i think it's certainly fair to question the timing and how this has come out. 0er78, she's provided a fair amount of evidence. i've always felt if herr herschel walker had apologized and said he wouldn't make the same decision today, the people of georgia would have forgiven him. but does this mean republicans just want to win the seat where he's going up against raphael warnock no matter what? >> yeah, i think it's pretty clear. we would be having a very different conversation. i think republicans would be having a very different conversation if he had a d behind his name instead of an r,

right? they would not be bending over backwards, standing behind him as accuser after accuse e, his own family, has come out and said. i think it's very clear that the republicans, you know, they want to win this seat, they want to take control of the senate, and that's what they've decided, they're getting behind this candidate. howard: well, there are a total of two with accusers, and we don't know the names as being represented by grover a rah -- gloria allred. let me turn to john fetterman and the pennsylvania race against dr. oz. he is essentially tied with oz. some polls have it one or two points, after that disastrous debate after he recovers from a stroke. but there have been anchors that have essentially been granting him do-others. here's don lemon, are reinvented on cnn's new morning show, talking to fetterman. >> have your health issues impacted your approach to policy and what you would do in washington? >> i think it's made me very empathetic about, more than i

even thought i was before. howard: so, jason, unlike in the georgia race, i don't see the media making the charge that, oh, democrats just want to win the seat and, therefore, the communication problems are irrelevant, that democrats will just do anything to hang on to that or take over that seat. >> yeah. they're certainly trying to rehabilitate him, because all you have to do is play back the tape of the debate, and you're going to recognize that the rigors in the united states, fetterman, i think, is totally disqualified from holding that. look, we have highly qualified people, think of tammy duckworth, the democrat senator in illinois, think of brian mast, the congressman in florida, who are injured and severely injured serving our country. of course they can serve. but, but having a stroke and not being able to comprehend and do the analytics and having cognitive capability challenges that fetterman's having, i think, disqualifies him. and i think the people of

pennsylvania will figure that out. howard: yeah. obviously, it's up to the voters. fetterman makes the case that by january, if he were elected, he will be much further along in his recovery process. joy and other liberals have done sympathetic closed captioning with fetterman, and he's done much better than in a fast-paced debate, but are they trying to rehabilitate him? >> i have more respect for people in your industry. i was just watching on -- a segment on maria's show and watching the interview with herschel walker. i think don lemon is a talentedded host, and and fetterman's been asked difficult questions. if you look at the media coverage the day after the debate, i wouldn't exactly say everybody went easy on him. howard: okay. don lemon did ask him about why he won't release his medical records, but otherwise the questions were sympathetic. jason chaffetz, kristin han,

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howard: freelance writer rosenfield says in a piece for national review that she keeps getting mistaken for a conservative even though she's kind of a liberal, but an increasingly disillusioned one. she joins me now from new orleans. you say you're often mistaken for a right-winger because progressives are extremely publicly mad at me, and the left wants to make me their enemy. why is that? >> i think it has a lotted to do with the fact that we're in this state of cultural, oppositional defiant disorder where if somebody wants to understand what your politics are, what

they'll look at is either who you seem to be against or who hates you and reverse engineer a label from there. the left is my home, i have a lot of progressive views, but when i criticize the left, people get upset at me, and i think keys see that happening, and they think, oh, they're mad at her, so she must be one of us. howard: to they want you to apologize or sort of repeat the company line, people on the left in. >> at this point, i don't think so with. [laughter] i can't remember the last time i was expected to apologize. that's true, yeah. howard: okay. you write in a piece that defending free speech and creative exfor example, which i happen to like, are now deemed right-wing values by your fellow liberals. how did that happen? didn't the libs use to defend free speech? >> yeah, i'm old enough to remember when that was the case, and i think in part it was because of the ascendancy of donald trump, people began to associate this sort of say anything, just go off no matter

who's offended with the political right and began to react to it from there. howard: well, from your piece, the most important folks -- excuse me, the most intolerant folks are highly educated liberals who dominate the mediasphere and now seem like high school mean girls. wow. and this bums you out, you say, because you grew up with liberals who were not censors. explain more about that. >> well, i should say that, you know, the most intolerant folks that i'm coming into contact with, yes, are the sort of more intolerant folks on the left because, again, the left is my home. why is that? i think that the left has a sort of a cultural hegemony right now. they want to kind of maintain that clutch on power, and so when somebody starts saying things that are true but maybe politically inexperiod credibility, there's a real questions to kind of shut that down. howard: with the mean girls approachsome that must have stung some of your friends.

>> i don't know if it stung my friends. i think that my friends would mostly agree with me that the tone of the discourse leaves a lot to be desired. howard: so you seem to be suggesting that, again, these are people you come into contact with, it's not the whole world, but if you dissent, if you challenge your own side on anything, that you sort of -- this is why you get mistaken for conservative, because the left comes after you. is that there true? >> yeah, i think that's true. and not just on the left. one of the things that i discovered in writing this piece is that this is a phenomenon on both sides of the aisle. i've talked to many republicans, many conservatives who were basically ostracized and sured the same kind -- suffered the same sort of the social death that liberals do for criticizing the right. it's really a universal phenomenon. i don't think it's the dead. howard: so now that you've been published in "national review,"s are you viewed as some kind of double agent? [laughter] >> that was kind of inevitable, yeah.

the sort of person who would make that criticism of this piece never would have trusted me to begin with, so not really a big deal. howard: just briefly, a line that really struck me and made me think is, politics in 2020 are defined not by whom you vote for, but by whom you wish to harm. >> yeah, i think that's true. i think it goes back to that thing of people look at who hates you, and then they decide what your, what side you're on from there. howard: so it's the all very tribal now, in your view. >> yeah, it seems like it. although because of the way things are, an increasing number of us are being left sort of tribeless, homeless politically, and i think there's maybe hope in that. howard: all right. so you're feeling pretty create homeless now. it was a fascinating piece. thanks for coming on, kat rosenfield. >> thanks for having me. howard: that's it for this edition of "mediabuzz," i'm howard kurtz. houston astros winning the world

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>> welcome to a preelection sunday edition of outnumbered. i'm harris faulkner. the high stakes midterm elections are less than two days away and control of congress is up for grabs, you know this particularly on the senate side which many analysts said would not be in play and the battle for the senate is down for the wire in places like pennsylvania, nevada, arizona