it seems other news alydar taking cues from fox after their incessant promotion of the tea -- other newsoutlets are aking cues from fox after their incessant promotion of the tea party movement. but there has been a shift since there were caught yelling homophobic and racist sllrs and is bidding on members of congress. has that name -- has that had an effect on how the legitimate -pnews media covers the t party and what the tank the affect the affect is and what will be in a politicaa landscape this yearr >> one of the things about fox news and the right wing noise machine in general is that it does not have -- has a fair amount of power on the right but ii does not ave a great amount of power that it does have without the help of the mainstream media. theyyperform often as an amplifier of what fox news and right-wing radio is doing. often, they don't even know that they are doing it which is interesting. during the early part of the decade when rush limbaugh was asked to come and do commentary on election night, people were stunned in the news media that people like me were complaining

they're not just at fox news. they're at fox, at the "new york times" and everywhere else. >> certainly you can silo yourself but i don't think that's ever been untrue. so , know, what effect is it having overall? i don't think we really know yet. i believe it's really more, you know, as micah was saying that people go to certain sites. maybe you're right. they go to the opposing site just to see what those idiots are saying. >> and to say things to those idiots. >> but then that's not siloing anymore, right? it may be a different problem but it's not siloing. >> you're right. this chicago study is one study that suggested that perhaps people aren't siloing themselves. there have been others that suggested that maybe the ... maybe people who read blogs are siloing themselves. there was a study about four years ago, three or four years ago that suggested that blogs on the right were linking mainly to other right wing blogs and vice versa with the left. even if people aren't siloing themselvess on line, what we're s

it is the same crap we see every day on fox news. that is their main new source. they keep stifling it. they have real concerns like we all do. we do not know where the deficit is. to go. we have spent tons of money bailing the banks out. things we are unhappy about, they are unhappy about. we need to discredit fox news. that is not happening on a major scale. what we are talking about are very minor things. if one person gets disgrace, somebody will take his spot. we have a negative corporation such as fox news that is supporting that with many dollars that is going to be around for a long time. that is our greatest -- at this point, when you have this much misinformation floating around, that is a real challenge. what do we do about fox news in the long term? >> i completely agree. part of what we have been doing is playing defense. we take on the most extreme, push it back, scare advertisers away. we have done things with the " new york post" as well, where they have had to pull back from some of the extreme. what is needed is a proactive systematic effort camp

moments and amplify them, push come andddo noo be afraid to get on the phone and called cnn, nbc, fox news. cox news, rush limbaugh is the story. otherwise, how we haveea -- how will we have a democracy if we cannot agree on the facts? >> i worked for president obama to get him a elected. i was a delegate to the national convention, and i am now more rapid responder in maryyand, which means we pick up on any local news that are racisightesd tried to respond then. at this point i think we're more reactive ied than reactive. why are we having our own tea party movement nationally in this country? why are we taking -- aren't we taking acorn and starting t up again? i am getting frustrated that we are sitting there criticizing and saying what is bad about the right without doing something on the left. why aren't we picking of ourselves and moving forward but we should be? >> that is a veryygood point. >> good question about acorn. first of all, i wrote this book about acorn because i thought the trip had to get out. secondly, the good news is that a lot of the people that were involved with ac

can he give a guarantee that, whoever ends up owning bskyb, it will not be allowed to turn into fox newsd that there is no room here for shouty, reactionary propaganda passing itself off as fair and balanced news? >> the very idea of shouty, reactionary propaganda being passed in the house of commons is such an appalling thought. as i am sure we all recognize, these are matters for my right honorable friend the business secretary, who will be looking at them very closely. >> matthew hancock. >> can the prime minister tell us that, until yesterday's budget, the benefits for some of the poorest in society were to be increased at a rate less than inflation, and therefore cut in real terms? >> my honorable friend makes an excellent point. the labour government's plans were to increase benefits by less than consumer price inflation next year. they left a -- they do not know this, the dupes behind the front bench. >> [unintelligible] >> i think dupes is an accurate description of what i am looking at. there was a 300 million pound black hole, and you do not have to be a "star trek" fan to know

the definition they want to use on fox news and elsewhere, but the fact of the matter is it's coming out of treasury. treasury deoff the oversight w that madam chair, i yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from virginia, mr. connolly. the chair: without objection, the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. connolly: thank you, madam chairwoman. i thank my colleague from ohio for his leadership and my friend from illinois for the kind words. the small business lending fund act will expand opportunities for small businesses to access critically needed capital today. our amendment ensures that the program works as intended. that america's small businesses receive access to that capital and that taxpayers' loans are repaid. the lending facility encouragings small business loans to creditworthy companies with the repaid funds and interest payments going to reduce the deficit that our %% friends on the other side say they are concerned about. small businesses will lead private sector job growth if they obtain the capital. the office of small business lending fund program oversigh

. >> he used the n word on television on fox news in 2001. with the word white before it. but i'm glad it wasn't me. >> i hadn't seen that. maybe the day he died is not the appropriate time -- >> i don't think so. i was just giving information. >> i think there was -- there was context. he had a voting record and everything else. go ahead. >> larry: james, what is west virginia going to do, do you think? >> you know what, larry, i have never tried to figure out what west virginia was going to do about anything and if somebody can figure out winch let me know. i'm having a hard enough time in louisiana. i don't know. as i understand it qualifying his past for primaries and then you have this conflict law. i suspect that they have a supreme court and they'll decide something there. i just don't know. i'm not that familiar with it to be honest with you. >> larry: all right. do you think it will affect the kagan nomination? >> you know, it could. it depends on as you say how much of this is just a show this kagan thing or how much they're really serious. to me she's very centr

fox news opinion dynamic question. do you approve or disapprove of how the obama administration is dealing with the oil spill in the gulf coast and how do you feel about how b.p. is. the president was 40-50, 40% favorable, 50% unfavourable. b.p.s with 13% favorable, 79% unfavourable. 6 to 1 unfavourable. but among republican voters, republican voters, they thought b.p. was better than the-- now i means that's just-- if you want to see polarization and blind partisanship at a time in 2010 those are your numbers right there. >> there is also a poll speaking of polls that showed that like 70% of the american people are following the b.p. oil spill story and care about it deeply, and at the way bottom of the list now with 3% care deeply about health care. it's at the bottom of a long list of about 15 issues. >> and actually an extremely unpopular bill an one of the spill overs of this is the president really wanted to spend a lot of time this month selling the health-care bill and he's not allowed to do that because of tes

i've seen on fox news that they have a way of using straw and some other mesh materials. ere's just many ways i've heard outside of c-span and other news agencies. are they looking into all the different areas possible? >> why is that of interest to you? caller: just whatever will actually work. just as long as they try to use all different possibilities of clean up. host: the hearing i mentioned earlier before the squines and technology subcommittee is homeding a hearing today around 10:30 a.m. eastern about different technologies to clean this up. go to c-span .org to find out when that will air. going to the phone line, done in texas. caller: i'm pretty outraged. i hate to tell the american public. you ought to be going crazy over that bank rip off that just took trillions from us. i'm talking $26 trillion, america. and europe. i just do not see how people in this country aren't doing more to take this government. host: more headlines on bp. host: moving on sto more phone calls on the democratic line. go ahead. caller: it's laughable that republicans are blaming the gov

and he doesn't believe in compromise which is why others apologizeed droll rush limbaugh and on fox news carly fiorina apologized to him on the air because she made a comment he didn't like. host: one more solution from the philadelphiaya inquiror. " more states with non- districting commuents. every 10 years after the census crews states redraw the boundaries of congressional and legislative districts. too often, the process is controlled by bipartisans. creating safe districts that are comforted to conclude more democratic or republican voters. next is bob joining us from harrison, arkansas. good morning. democrats line. >> good morning. >> i think our country is polarized by the sided issues whether it's abortion, gun rights or -- but the key are our trade policy. and the olympics were held in china years ago. and they were successful. but there were standards in place and if you have a ghobal economy, you should have global standards in your manufacturing. and one of the primary things ought to be unannounced inspections. if you just take the most minimum standards, and the right to

caller: it was all over fox news and everything else. when he was other did into congress in illinois, he wanted to put his hand on the koran. he is a -- host: we are going to let that one go. this is a discussion on policy. name-calling has no place here. leave that at home. . .. caller: yes, i did vote for obama, but i did have dual mind knows when i voted for him. view is going to do this for the working class and he was going to do that her -- e was going -pto do this for the working cls and he was calling to do that, but when it comes to the corporations, he pulls his punches. hi of red blood that you have talked about -- i have read a lot that you have talked about. i read a lot about teddy roosevelt. he was a republican. he was actually for the working lives. host: we will let you go and hear from our guest. guest: that is true, by and large, he is known most famously for the sherman antitrust act. the parties were lined in different ways in daud -- those days. there were a lot of liberal republicans and conservative democrats in

>> one of the things about fox news is in that it really has a fair amount of power on the right, but it does not have a great amount of power without the help of the mainstream media. they perform as an amplifier. most of the time, they do not know that they're doing it. during the early part of the decade, when rush limbaugh was asked to come and do commentary on election night, people were stunned in the news media that people like me were complaining and screaming and jumping up and down at the idea that someone like rush limbaugh would be on a major network talking about election coverage, as if he were just another analyst. he is a major right-wing propagandists. part of it is that they just did not listen to him. but these ideas were faltering back to them. they had been transmitted. >> we are going to cut away from this recorded program as we begin our election night coverage. we will take you live to arkansas. there is a victory celebration. >> this is about us. this is about who we are as arkansans. [applause] i have heard your message. let me tell you. i cannot feel any str

caller: i was watching tv and listening to the news on fox network. host: ok. so people on the left, democrats are saying that this is an issue being stirred up by fox news, by the right. how do you respond to that? caller: how can we stir something up? there's a big mess in the gulf of mexico. there's rightly so, people were outraged that the chairman of bp went yachting yesterday. where was our president? where was he? he was out on a golf course. now, can you tell me that this is better to go out and play golf and not know what's going on or to be on a boat and not know what's going on? host: what about his comments related to the jones act? guest: let me p be perfectly clear. nobody wants to clean up this oil more than the u.s. merchant fleet. nobody has more of a vested interest. when the oil is cleaned up and hopefully it will be sooner than i think it will take, we will still be here. will those foreign flag ships still be here? will our tax money have gone and our wages have gone offshore? we have never objected to a specific waiver for any vessels in t

back-and-forth about the guyfact that general mcchrystal was a democrat and voted for president obama and had fox newsurned off in his headquarters. ironic. i think general petraeus and any general officer is interested in serving the best interests of the country, and regardless of who was in charge. we had a lesson and that last week about civilian control of the military. that is clear in that principle has been reaffirmed. . . >> he will soon be in kabul. and he will provide the strong leadership required to meet the challenges ahead. and in the interim, the british would tunnel nick parker is the acting commander -- the british lt. nick parker is the acting commander of isaf. >host: not miss a beat, but thee will be a style difference between general mcchrystal and general patraeus, correct guest? guest: yes, but not the perceptible. general patraeus was one of the shapers of afghan policy, been mcchrystal's of superior, after all. it is not like he is going to have to come in and get up to speed. he is up to speed on a daily basis. if it would not surprise me if he is there by the weekend, assum

district, the seat there is being challenged by a business woman, angela mcglowan, who has also been a fox news host. host: as alabama at elected a democratic governor in recent memory? guest: not that i can recall, but it is interesting, if you look at the democratic primary race, artur davis, the race he is running, he has spurned the african-american, democratic power structure there, and is running the progressive-minded campaign. a lot of the african-american higher officials are upset at artur davis for spurning them and in their view focusing on others. host: haley barbour, a longtime washington, d.c. lobbyist, republican national committee chair and republican governor of that state, what impact does he have on the primary there? >> you mean the congressional primary? host: yes. guest: it is hard to say. the question is whether the establishment favorite will pick up the 50% he needs to face off against travis childress in the general election. if not, they will have to go to a primary. a runoff, rather, in june. but the question really is whether or not he is going to be able to take w

reaction at media bistro -- they write that mocked -- mike huckabee on the fox news channel called thomas' boss remarked outrageous, anti-semitic, indefensible. evans, georgia. russell on the republican line. we got in now. caller: ok, great. every time the issue of israel comes up, the true bigots and races in this country come out in droves. the anti-semitic comments by these callers this morning are incredible. but getting back to helen thomas. she is just incredibly biased and 19th. and she is hateful. anybody who knows world history knows that this mythical place of palestine was eliminated from existence in the 14th century. the palestinians are the one to the did go home, they should go on to jordan and leave the israelis alone. it is their land, where they lived. they have a modern society and they should be left to their own devices. but getting back to my main point, the left is so anti- semitic in this country it is just amazing to me. and helen thomas, she should be forced to resign. host: you are saying that the left is so anti-semitic but clearly people like lanny davis, now

now, arizona law, let's just say arizona, fox news today ran a story, they started last night about the spotters down in arizona that occupy the mountaintops along the transportation routes coming up through arizona. excuse me. now, what's going on is, drug smugglers, people smugglers, contraband smugglers occupy these locations on top of the mountains of arizona. some is volcanic. they are shaped like volcanos and come to a point and on top, whether it's a ridge, there is a pickup spot where they can see a intersection coming from two or three different directions and the employees, these are paramilitary armed personnel that are organized as a military force taking positions, strategic positions on top of mountaintops in arizona and take the stones and stack them around like a gunner placement and hunker down and will watch the tratching and they have communications equipment with scram blers so they can talk to their people. we know the free quensies. i have listened to the excited chatter as we fly towards those mountaintops to pick the people off. you can hear the chatter intensify

it is, of course, promoted by fox news. anything to get the blame on to obama. i am sure we would not have a $20 billion trust fund if obama was not in office. if bush was, it would try to be covered up and under the carpet. host: here is another tweet. if was referring to the congressional hearings. our next call comes from the gulf coast. mobile, alabama, debbie on the republican line. please go ahead. caller: i would love for everyone to quit talking about the money, who is going to get the money. we need to get that leak stopped. i spent my vacation over there last week and we enjoyed it. i know everyone is blaming bp, and it is their problem, but there is this just like the rest of them. -- they are a business just like the rest of them. host: debbie, what did you think about representative joe barton's comments? caller: which one are you talking about? host: where he said -- he called it a $20 billion shake down and then later apologized to bp. caller: i'm not sure our would take that. -- how i would take that. i do not know why he would say that and then

i think the way it has been reported through the media, say, from the right wing, fox news, i watched both channels and have taken notes. there is a feeling from the general point of view, he was disgruntled, not receiving the troops he wanted or the support or his plan put into place. but he wanted to stay in the country for another decade. he wanted 170,000 troops. the british, the russians, and the united states before have not conquered afghanistan. everyone knows this. pakistan more so than afghanistan. what took place this week when "rolling stone" released the article was something -- i can't believe a west point general for starr and his staff conducted themselves in this manner. "rolling stone" is not at fault. the reporter is not at fault. they will do their job, whether of left-wing or right-wing or what ever. but a general and his staff leadership and then having it come out in the manner it did, tantamount to almost mutiny if you were in the navy. it was told disrespect for the command structure. so, president obama was backed into the corner. i would like to thank the am

let's see, roughly, this is an article from fox news, anyway, quoting from the article, roughly 3,500 acres of the buenos aires national wildlife refuge, about 3% of the 118,000 acre park, have been closed since october 6 of 2006 when u.s. fish and wildlife service officials acknowledged a marked increase in violence along a tract of land that extends north from the border roughly 3/4 of a mile. federal officials say they have no plans to reopen the area. we just got to let the illegal violent people have that property and u.s. citizens can't use it. it's being closed. article said elsewhere, or began pipe cactus monument, a 32-mile stretch, visitors are warned on a federally-run web -- federally run website that some areas are not accessible by anyone. quote, due to our proximity to the international boundary with mexico, some areas near the border are closed for construction and visitor safety concerns. the website reads. we aren't going to fix the bump in the road, we're just going to put up a sign that says bump. why don't you spend the money from the sign to stop the problem? and

the guests on fox news sunday include an brought allen, mississippi republican governor haley barbournd israel's ambassador to the u.s. on face the nation, you will hear an admiral allen and florida democratic senator bill nelson. on cnn's state of the union, guests include thad allen, charlie crist, and ahead of tuesday's arkansas democratic primary runoff, blanche lincoln and her challenger lieutenant governor bill halter. is pre-meet the press"" empted by sports coverage. you can listen to that on the radio at 90.1 and on the web at cspanradio.org. >> everyone has an agenda. as long as you know what it is, that is the story you can write about. street journal" investigative reporter brody mullins has written a piece on the trips taken by lawmakers oversees a funded by taxpayers. >> david cameron fields questions as head of the coalition government, tonight at 9:00 on c-span. today on book tv, a legal scholar martha nussbaum. she has written or contributed to more than 20 books on liberal education, ethics, sexism, and legal justice. join our 3 our discussion on the n c- tv's "in de

caller: i was watching tv and listening to the news on fox network. host: ok.ople on the left, democra are saying that this is an issue by fox news, by the right. respond tohat? caller: how can we stir something up? there's a big mess in the gulf of mexico. there's rightly so, people were outraged that the chairman of bp went yachting yesterday. where was our predent? where was he? he was out on a golf course. now, can you tell me that this is better to go out and play golf and not know what's going on or to be on a boat and not know what's going on? host: what about his comments related to the jones act? guest: let me p be perfectly clear. clean up this oil more than the u.s. merchant fleet. vested as more of a interest. and he oil is cleaned up hopefully it will be sooner than will take, we will be here. will those foreign flag ships still be here? will our tax money have gone and our wages have gone offshore? we have never objected to a specific waiver for any vessels in this case or others when ere was a lack of u.s. capability. that mean you have objected

host: in the past season of the series on fox, "24," they were using grounds to follow the good and bad guys on nework city. they would get information back like the lettering on license plates or what color jacket the person was wearing, shoes, very detailed kind of things. how much of this is based in fact and how much is total fiction? guest: there are some unmanned aircraft that can fly 60,000 feet and had the capability of identifying objects the size of a milk carton from that height. [laughter] you can do a lot with them. host: 1, oklahoma. go ahead. -- lawton, okla. caller: what i am worried about is the imaging. is any of the cancer causing? does this have anything to do with with the sec tried to open the bandwidth for? that high range of band width does cause cancer. military equipment has never meant to be friendly to whoever it is being used against. it just makes me think of an issue of profiling here. it is not ok for law enforcement, but the military is already doing that. that belongs somewhere else. not here. guest: i understand the privacy concerns. i am not aware of any health c

new health care law saving $10 billion. whether they want to terminate exchanges in the whaling and trading partners program, another merely $90 million in savings. i ask for an extra minute. mr. fox: i yield another minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. price: or you could vote to terminate taxpayers' subsidized political party conventions. that's right that's right, mr. speaker, we spend tens of millions of dollars paying for democrat and republican party conventions. that's crazy. or you could vote to require collection of unpaid taxes from federal employees, $1 billion we could save there. or terminate the funding for the ndic, $440 million. mr. speaker, this debate is not just about whether or not we are acting spobsably here. it's -- responsibly here. it's what we are doing with the hard-earned taxpayer money. we are talking about money here and this bill that you are talking about spends an extra $33 billion that we do not have. in fact, there's money appropriated aaready through the tarp program. over $500 billion of money available. you could use some of that if you wanted to be fiscally responsible. but, mr. speaker, we haven't seen that kind

one person came close to ridiculing fox news. i thought he was a conservative republican senator from oklahoma. perhaps he has a safe seat. do any of the things that wasn't random acts of kindness? was there some design going on in terms of moderating the party? >> bipartisanship in both questions. >> i think it was a tactical move. people were saying no one is really watching this. the audience was really congress. we want to demonstrate certain things. we had a narrow tactical purpose. i think there are some republicans -- there was a particular set of circumstances. i think cockburn is a fascinating guy who collaborated with senator obama. they had different objectives. it surprises me. whittstock but how ferocious it is, but there are still relationships that form. you can disagree, but it does not make them a contemptible person. an appealing person cannot be in the slightest.emptibl republicans are saying that we want to work with the president's. nancy pelosi and the president of getting in our way. that has changed. these