Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron York show.

If you listen to this at all, you know it is the No Chit-Chit-it chat podcast. We want to get straight into it. And today we're going to get

straight into it with our guest, Tom Bevin. Now, you've probably seen him on Fox News, but if you haven't you have read his creation, which is real clear politics, a website that I go to all the time and pretty much anybody who's interested in politics goes to all the time.

Tom, welcome to the Byron York show.

Great to be with you.

Glad to have you here.

I thought I would ask to begin with about real clear politics a little bit of its history

When it started why you know why did you think it might be useful and in all of that

Well, it's great to be with you.

I appreciate that.

So we started Real Clear Politics in the year 2000.

So this was way before everything. I mean before the blogosphere, if anyone even

remembers the term blogosphere, before iPhones and iPads and social media and all of that.

And the genesis of it really was, our background,

John McIntyre is the co-founder.

He and I were rooming together in Chicago.

We had gone to graduated Princeton same year and ended up living together in Chicago.

But we were not involved in journalism or politics professionally.

He was a traitor and I was in advertising, but we had this sort of shared affinity for politics.

And we started talking about, I was sort of the late 90s when we were talking about the fact that you could wake up in the morning and read what was being written in the New York Times and the LA Times on the same day.

And that was sort of the aha moment where we thought,

wouldn't be great to create a space for people like us who follow this stuff

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