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Walter cronkites, americans felt they were getting a very straight forward presentation of the news. i believe and i would never presume to speak for governor palin but she's saying there's a certain -- >> how old are you? are you 22 years old? everyone in america liked cronkite and knew he was a liberal. >> everyone in america knew that he was a left winger, but they respected the integrity of what he had to say. i think there are a lot of folks on these cable outlets that are more opinion pieces than they are trying to give the news. >> she's not? >> she's not what? >> she's not a point of v...

>> the american media here is very far out of the main stream. in the years past when you used to watch the tom brokaws and the walter cronkites, americans felt they were getting a very straight forward presentation of the news. i believe and i would never presume to speak for governor palin but she's saying there's a certain -- >> how old are you? are you 22 years old? everyone in america liked cronkite and knew he was a liberal. >> everyone in america knew that he was a left winger, but they respected the integrity of what he had to say. i think there are a lot of folks on these cable outlet...

What it is that they are reporting. >> well, it's a powerful piece of communicating there, ron, she has the ability to moderate her voice, she gets serious when she wants to, she raises her voice when she wants to be sarcastic, but what she is saying? that the american media is doing what now? what is her latest charge? >> the american media here is very far out of the main stream. in the years past when you used to watch the tom brokaws and the walter cronkites, americans felt they were getting a very straight forward presentation of the news. >> everybody in america liked cronkite and everyb...

And robert gibbs said i'm not paying any attention to it. >> it's because it's a fluid story. at fox and other outlets it's a much bigger story. megyn: we dragged the media kicking and screaming to it. finally "the new york times" wrote something a week after the allegations first surfaced. but they have not wanted to go to the story, steve and you know that is true. >> right "the new york times" is starting to right about it, ap and some cable outlets are starting to cover the story as we know this bi-partisan panel that could be sending a letter asker lease a wednesday. megyn: the u.s. commi...

But you have to admit that there is a fringe element that builds off of that, and i think uses the tea party as a way to push into the mainstream what are really and have been fringe sentiments. and i think, frankly, the volume of channels, whether it's blogs or facebook or, you know, various cable outlets, amplifies a voice that would previously have been unacceptable, i think, in most mainstream. that's not, again, all of the tea party, that is a fringe that i think uses the tea party as a way to make sound normal what is very fringe and dangerous. >> have you talked to anybody in the admini...