332 electoral votes, there is widespread denial and shock among a lot of folks in the conservative world. and what happened was, i think election day finally prompted a lot of younger conservatives to go public and say what joe s been saying for some time, which is we ve got to get out of the bubble. you know, and you had a great article on this last week where you quoted somebody that said republicans live in an era where they can basically, they can buy on-demand reality. right. we saw this day in and day out, and it made me so angry during the campaign where a pollster, a certain pollster would put out a poll that just was disconnected from reality. and then a big website would pick it up, and then a cable channel and talk radio stations would follow it. and they created this every single day. so two weeks ago, you actually had republicans thinking, mitt romney was going to win 400 electoral votes.
back for some people to win governor walker took that call he thought was from a koch brother. he may not tell the truth to the people of wisconsin, but he does speak the truth when he is talking to someone who is a billionaire or who he thinks is a billionaire. right. john, what s the impact of all of this on the recall election because it s obviously approaching. there s an enormous battle going on in wisconsin. what s the likely consequence there? this story has gone wall to wall today. even right wing talk radio stations have been playing the tape or playing some of this on their news shows. everybody in the state is going to be a ware of this. that term divide and conquer will be a big part of the dialogue. he said he wanted to heal wisconsin. here you have him talking about
conference because he didn t like a question about fast and furious, that s an indication that at least some of the coverage is starting to get to them. ellen, would be appear to be a big story, fox news has covered this ten times as much as cnn. i thought that fox s article was the most balanced. the daily caller to the right. on talk radio stations i m on and we do many hits a day. every single one of them, right, left and center has been asking me about this. you know, jim, cheryl akerson of cbs made some phone calls to the white house and got screamed the at, she says, because she was asking about fast and furious, here is what david of the baltimore sun had to say. the obama administration is in full campaign mode when it comes to answering questions about fast and furious and they prefer the media organization to come on bended knee, like nbc. do you think there s truth to that? i think there is, there s an emerging sub plot on this
like a question about fast and furious, that s an indication that at least some of the coverage is starting to get to them. ellen, would be appear to be a big story, fox news has covered this ten times as much as cnn. i thought that fox s article was the most balanced. the daily caller to the right. on talk radio stations i m on and we do many hits a day. every single one of them, right, left and center has been asking me about this. you know, jim, cheryl akerson of cbs made some phone calls to the white house and got screamed the at, she says, because she was asking about fast and furious, here is what david of the baltimore sun had to say. the obama administration is in full campaign mode when it comes to answering questions about fast and furious and they prefer the media organization to come on bended knee, like nbc. do you think there s truth to that? i think there is, there s an emerging sub plot on this
judge napolitano: when the fairness doctrine went away there was an explosion of new media including the cable channel we are on now, and other cable channels, hundreds of talk radio stations, and news tended to migrate away from the broadcast channels which he and the fcc control, into this freer medium of cable and satellite. all the while a government pure create losing control. shepard: but the control was, it makes sense in theory, that the government should protect what is the property of the people and allow people to use it if they are acting in the public interest. that s for the broadcast channel judge napolitano: the pun of the act of 1934, the law he is talking about, is to assure that people use the broadcast channels to broadcast, not to prevent others from doing so. it is not to give the government the power to control the content of the broadcasts. shepard: she want more control but not just there and