well, if you look at the figures and you know somebody will correct me if i ve heard the wrong figure but whether it s $300,000, or whatever, it s a tiny part of the overall budget of the u.s. chamber of commerce. it s minuscule compared to the level of the ad campaign and they have a very big ad campaign underway. huge. you re exactly bright that. but, ed, we have political messages coming from all other places. let s take, you know, the networks, nbc, is not alone in this. all of the political messages that come through network programming, we don t have a lot of disclosure about what s going on behind the scenes of that. i have no idea your show has a lot of political positions. ernest if you watch the tv shows where they take political positions. wait a second i will not let you trash the network here, the bottom line here is that i have no idea what you re talking about and you don t have any proof of that. look part of the media the sitcoms and the drama s
this, there s night full breakdown of where the foreign money goes. and you ve gite general fund that places ads against democratic candidates. what s wrong with the transparency? well, if you look at the figures and you know somebody will correct me if i ve heard the wrong figure but whether it s $300,000, or whatever, it s a tiny part of the overall budget of the u.s. chamber of commerce. it s minuscule compared to the level of the ad campaign and they have a very big ad campaign underway. huge. you re exactly bright that. but, ed, we have political messages coming from all other places. let s take, you know, the networks, nbc, is not alone in this. all of the political messages that come through network programming, we don t have a lot of disclosure about what s going on behind the scenes of that. i have no idea your show has a lot of political positions. ernest if you watch the tv shows where they take political positions. wait a second i will not let you trash
the administration. this guy is obsessed with labeling people, for instance, he mentioned bill crystal, who has never been a part of this george bush administration, and the idea that this is a guy obsessed with counting who is ju irn a jewish and hispanic. he doesn t talk about fareed zakaria. i can jump in here? i would say that absolutely his apology was ridiculous. i m sick and tired of i m sorry your feelings got hurt apologies which we keep hearing over and over again. the unfortunate thing about, this however, is that rick actually was making a legitimate point. i mean because what he said was so offensive and stupid that got lost in there. george trying to point out elizabeth vargas occasionally appears on prime time, which is not considering part of the, making her a nightly prime time host is sort of like saying we have black friends. i mean the real sit anyone who has eyes and has a television knows there s a lack of diversity on major network