This is the Mark Simone Show on the voice of New York 710 W.O.R.

Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Eric, Morristown, New Jersey. Eric, how you doing?

Good, Mark. Good morning. You know, in terms of the media, we define the media in the late 90s, early 2000s as biased.

Now we're saying they're corrupt, but isn't a more appropriate term?

It's a state-run media.

I mean, it really is unbelievable how criminal they are.

Without a independent free press, we can't hold any of these guys in check.

Yeah, some people wonder how you continue a democracy without actual media. It was always biased. You can go back to any period. And they were always left wing. You know, that's why Kennedy's sleeping with Marilyn Monroe. They covered up. They don't mention this affair. They say, well, it was a different era.

Yeah, it was a Democrat.

If that were Nixon, it would have been on front page the next day.

It happened all, even Bush, well, it got worse through the years.

There were always some bias, you know, just choice of adjectives they would use in the writing, that kind of stuff.

And then Bush, they got a little more, a little more, it was more than biased.

They were like starting to fake some news.

You remember they fake this whole Halliburton scandal?

There was some sort of scandal with these Halliburton contracts.

You know, they never mentioned to you.

The Halliburton contracts were inherited from Bill Clinton.

They were his same contracts.

As soon as Bush and Cheney left, Obama kept all the same Halliburton contracts.

Suddenly it wasn't a scandal anymore.

So they were always playing games.

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