Ari Fleischer, Former White House Press Secretary
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Ari Fleisher is one of the most respected political analysts in the public square. And the former Press Secretary under George W. Bush is fed up with the media. He joins Michele to talk about how and why journalism has lost its way in America, who he thinks is running for President in 2024 (on both sides), and what the media can do to regain America’s trust.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to sideline sanity with me, Michelle Tofoya, sponsored by Legacy Precious |
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| 0:11.6 | legacy p.m. Investments.com. Coming up, Ari Fleischer, the former press secretary under George W. Bush. |
| 0:21.3 | For nearly three decades, she's reported the action from the sidelines. |
| 0:26.0 | She started very young. |
| 0:27.3 | She's covered the NBA, NFL, Olympics, and the college football and basketball national |
| 0:32.6 | championships. |
| 0:33.8 | And now, during these insane times in our world, Michelle Tofoya thinks we need a serious dose of sanity. |
| 0:42.5 | This is sideline sanity with your host, one of the sanest people on planet Earth. |
| 0:49.0 | Michelle Tofoya. |
| 0:54.1 | Well, I've been reading this tremendous book, suppression, deception, |
| 0:58.9 | snobbery, and bias, why the press gets so much wrong and just doesn't care. |
| 1:05.1 | The author Ari Fleischer joins us, former press secretary under George W. Bush. |
| 1:09.5 | Ari, thanks so much for being here. I appreciate it. |
| 1:12.3 | Michelle, thank you for having me. |
| 1:15.0 | I can imagine how frustrating it must be to be a press secretary and that what you've seen |
| 1:22.7 | across the media and I'm going to use my quotations here my air quotes journalism it's this was |
| 1:30.1 | supposed to be one of the pillars of America where we turned to journalists to give us the news |
| 1:36.0 | straight and as we've seen trust in the media has just sort of taken a nose dive what prompted |
| 1:42.5 | you to write this book to finally get some of this |
| 1:45.3 | just down on paper? I was just, Michelle, so fed up with reading the news and seeing how much |
| 1:51.8 | is in there that's wrong. And wrong because journalists transgressed from being objective, |
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