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chief of CNN, immediately attacked us for running this video.”
“I was kind of surprised by it,”
Carlson said of the media’s reaction. “The now-president is calling the Congress racist and saying
they’re shafting New Orleans because it’s majority black. That’s a
pretty stout claim. No evidence to
back it up. I thought that was interesting as hell, talking in a way
he doesn’t normally talk. I was
denounced as racist for pointing
that out. Whatever.”
Carlson said he wouldn’t expect
conservative media’s reporting to
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get significant pick-up in the national media, which he considers
“liberal.” But he deflected questions
about whether a right-wing echo
chamber was doing a disservice to
conservatives and Republicans.
“I would flip it around and say,
what’s the total population of people who read Rick Hertzberg’s editorials in the New Yorker and read
The New York Times every day and
watch CBS News at night?” Carlson asked. “That’s a smaller universe than watch Fox and read The
Daily Caller. It’s not just right-wing
world. It’s left-wing world [that] is
also talking to itself.”
Carlson argued that The Daily
Caller, now profitable and with a
Daily Caller
reporter
Neil Munro
(center)
interrupts
President
Obama during
his remarks
about the
deportation of
undocumented immigrants.