“I don’t think many people have to watch Fox to understand the—the political slant that they have,” Gibbs said. “They’re feeding an audience that they know want to see and hear a certain side of that argument.”
He cited the president’s sit-down with Fox News’s Bret Baier just before the health care vote as an example of the conservative-leaning outlet attempting to push an agenda.
“I think the uniqueness of having an interview with the president is getting a chance to sit as close as we are and getting that insight,” Gibbs told Kurtz. “I don’t think historians will look back on that interview and think, ‘Boy, we really got a sense of what the president was thinking right before such a historic achievement.’”
Gibbs said the administration has also called out MSNBC hosts behind the scenes, and that the cable news format “where people yell at each other, I’m not entirely sure what that does for people that watch. Maybe that’s why quite frankly less people are watching.”
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