as an independent purveyor of journalism, somebody who was at the vanguard of the conservative blogosphere, that this kind of strategy of marginalizing people outside of the traditional media elite has a purpose, and that purpose is to prevent new competitors in that marketplace. so with a mirror and a broad brush, everybody who is not attached to one of the dinosaur networks or who does not have some sorbonne-like certification from a top ivy league school, and then everybody gets associated with the rogue operators out there who are spreading truly fake news. journalism is not rocket science. it is not brain surgery. anybody can do it. of course, that is a threat to people who are trying to control narratives. of course, we should vet every single news, but the solution is not to ban or limit the number of voices out there. it is always has been my opinion that the answer to bad, fake, phony, or unreliable speeches more and better speech, and that is why i am involved with crtv.com host: how high-tech and errors and bipartisan beltway crack weasels are screwing america's best and brighte

as an independent purveyor of journalism, somebody who was at the vanguard of the conservative blogosphere, that this kind of strategy of marginalizing people outside of the traditional media elite has a purpose, and that purpose is to prevent new competitors in that marketplace, so with a broad brush, everybody who is not attached to one of the dinosaur networks, or who does not have some store-bought like certification from a top ivy league school, and then everybody gets associated with the rogue operators out there who are spreading truly fake news. journalism is not rocket science. it is not brain surgery. anybody can do it. of course, that is a threat to people who are trying to control narratives. vetcourse, we should b every single news -- vet every single news source, but the solution is not to ban or limit the number of voices out there. it is always has been my opinion that the answer to bad, fake, phony or unreliable speeches more and better speech, and that is what i involved with cr tv. and errorsigh-tech and bipartisan beltway crack weasels are screwing america's best and br

called a nazi every night of on this network for eight years and bloggers coming out and sort of the blogosphereng and the hate and venom that he's endured. and again, accumulative effect and then stack twitter and facebook and fake news and social media on top of that pyramid of hatred and now what do we find ourselves? we find president obama enduring this from all sides and yet why is it that under these harsh circumstances, these presidents all get re-elected? >> you know, it's amazing. somehow they're able to cope. in barack obama's case, you know, i know and i think you know this, privately he has talked a lot about the fact that he has to be a president at a time where the president's voice often times is drown out by all of these people. 1962, john kennedy wanted to go on tv. the networks gave him the time. there was three network road block where you didn't have analysts on afterwards saying this is what we tnk about the president said. this is an increasing part of what a president is faced with in these times. it's going to be fascinating to see what served donald trump so well as a c

trigger warnings came from the feminist blogosphere sphere. right when the internet started to hit, feminist started to argue that content on the internet, sexual violence, should have a trigger warning because if people have been victims of sexual violence they'll be retrauma tiesed. the problem is that it's now come to cover almost anything that might upset you. so, we have demand ford trigger warnings, anything about pregnancy, about addiction, bullying, anything about suicide. my favorite is, there should be a trigger warning if a professor shows a clip of downton abbey because there's all that stuff. there was actually a situation where a student asked for a trigger warning in a horror films class about blood. and i'm like, dude, this is an elective and it's elective called a horror films class. maybe you shouldn't have elected this course. but to be clear here, just like all of this stuff, there are times and placed where it maybe by totally appropriate. so, one of the courses, a big undergraduate court i teach is about the culture wars

this argument in sort of the blogosphere is really -- >> we'll see.ity former republican governor of pennsylvania and founder of ridge global, tom ridge. good to have you back on the show, sir. >> good morning, y'all. >> how are we doing? how are we doing, first of all, as a country when it comes to homeland security from your vantage point someone who was there when it was at its hottest? >> joe, you know, one of the challenges i think from my perspective is we've grown from 180,000 to 240,000, and i'm not sure where we needed the additional 160,000. we needed more people at the borders and immigration and customs enforcement but i don't know that the messages that i get from some people that have been trying to work with and through the department of homeland security, it's not as focused as it needs to be on precurement of the kind of technology that was in our legislation when they said we have enough people, let's give men and women of homeland security more and better technology to do their jobs. i think they made gradual progress but not the ef