What the White House Press Corps Has Kept Hidden from You | Ari Fleischer Interview

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.5 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer about the reasons that mainstream media abandoned objectivity, the dangers of relying on conservative media, and why liberal media coverage of Biden has suddenly gotten critical and why it won’t last. First, Ari discusses what it was really like to deal with hostile White House press briefings under George W. Bush. He also explains the two major factors that caused news outlets to embrace political media bias. Next, Ari explains why most journalists seem unaware of the declining credibility of the media in most viewers' minds. Finally, Ari discusses why the media has suddenly turned on Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.5	I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me today is a former White House press secretary, a Fox News
0:42.0	contributor and author of the new book I've got in my hand right now, Suppression, Deception,
0:47.6	Snobbery and Bias, why the press gets so much wrong and just doesn't care.
0:53.4	Ari Fleischer, welcome to the Rubin Report.
0:56.2	Thank you for having me.
0:57.5	Ari, I feel like you wrote this book for me personally because this basically gets to
1:04.0	the heart of everything that I do, every hour that I spend working on this show, that
1:09.8	the media is sort of a bigger problem than almost anything else at the moment.
1:14.8	But before we dive into the book, you have a really interesting backstory and all that
1:19.9	stuff.
1:20.9	How did you get involved in politics?
1:22.6	What eventually got you to the White House and then we'll get into all this stuff?
1:25.5	Well, to put it in, and nutshell, it was totally an accident.
1:28.8	I graduated from college, I moved home to play baseball and a friend of mine, had a brother
1:33.7	who was managed in congressional race, they needed a press secretary.
1:37.8	I did nothing and I got the job, which tells you how little you need to know to be a
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