Ken Berwitz
JOE SCARBOROUGH: All Iam saying to you, and you can\’t doit and nobody here can do it: name the single Republican that has hosted aSunday show, that has been an anchor of a news network for the big threenetworks over the past 50 years: you can not do it! So weRepublicans, what I\’m explaining to you we\’re told to sit back. —
MARK HALPERIN: TonySnow.
JOE: Tony Snow, did hehost, what, Fox News Sunday?
HALPERIN: Yeah.
JOE: Fox NewsSunday. I just said ABC, CBS, NBC, you can\’t do it and nobody out there, nomedia critic can do it.
HALPERIN: I agree withyou 100%. I\’ve long said —
JOE: Well okay, youdon\’t sound like you agree with me.
HALPERIN: I\’ve saidfrom [inaudible]. There\’s hugeliberal media bias. Not just in the examples you\’ve given but inless prominent people. All I\’m saying is find the few people who don\’t fit inthat category and get objective journalists.
JOE: You can\’t.Because they\’re all Democrats. Thepeople that run the Sunday shows are all Democrats.
HALPERIN: I agree.
JOE: I\’m not justtalking about today. I\’m talking about for the past 50 years.
HALPERIN: I agree.
JOE: The people that have run the networknewscasts —
HALPERINL: I agree.
JOE: — the nightly newscasts have been allDemocrats.
HALPERIN: Iagree.
JOE: The networkexecutives have been all Democrats.
HALPERIN: I\’ve agreedall along.
MIKE BARNICLE: If the Republicans got their wish ofimpartial moderators, impartial reporters asking questions, the Republicans would lose one of theirbiggest issues, which is running against the media.
