Curtis Houck - Media Research Center Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six twenty two hour time here on Houston's Morning News.
All Right, a site dedicated to fake news is pointed
out by the White House has been launched. Caroline Levitt,
the White House Press Secretary, making that announcement Friday as
an example of the they put up that. You know,
Democrats have been the six Democrats who did that video

(00:23):
telling the troops to basically disobey the president if if
if he's if they're they're given an illegal order. Well,
one of them was asked to name one illegal order
the President Trump has done, and they couldn't come up
with one. Dose surprise there. Curtis House joins US Media
Research Center. I guess the premise is to shame these folks, Curtis,

(00:46):
But can you shame somebody who has no shame into
changing their behavior?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well that's a good point. I don't I don't know
if these guys actually are capable of shame, but I
think this is I love this. I'm a huge fan
of this because it's not just simply like listing an
outlet and saying you suck this one. The White House
on their page white House dot gov slash media bias,
they run down and they have it cited. They currently

(01:11):
had thirty one entries, and they list the claim, they
list the publication, they list the reporters, and they even
have it sorted into categories. You know, my favorite is,
you know, they've got misrepresentation, omission of context, the lie.
But for certain people like Whoopee Goldberg, they just label
it left wing lunacy, which is my personal favorite, and

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I'm personal because they cite they've cited NewsBusters in some
of these, but they run through the offense, the facts,
key points and links to back up their points, not
just simply saying these reporters are wrong, which I think,
you know, kind of goes with how we do things
at Doucebusters.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, and that's perfect if you are trying to reach
an audience that's really interested in that. In other words,
the people who are in the middle, who have not
made up their minds, who want to know all sides
of the story before they do make up their minds,
to provide them with something other than the mainstream media narrative.
The problem is is that we've just become so partisan
by nature that at least a third of us will

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buy into whatever the left is saying. A third of
us will buy into whatever the right is saying, and
it's that I guess you're just trying to reach that
one third that somewhere in the middle that hasn't made
up their mind.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well, yeah, I mean that certainly is true that we
are kind of stuck in a partisan thicket, so to speak,
and that's definitely not changing anytime soon. However, I do
think that, you know, if we're fighting, if we say
we're going to fight for every voter, because as we've
seen a lot of these elections have come down to
the wire, you don't actually have to cite the White House.
You can cite the links that the White House supports,

(02:47):
because I think that's why this one is prettycularly helpful.
You don't have to push back by just simply saying, oh,
the White House shows this thing that the liberal media
right about them isn't true. They provide sources to explain
why they're not true, and they're more you other liberal
outlets to debunk said liberal points, which I think is
particularly interesting. So it's kind of a randomout way of

(03:07):
using the White House to kind of get your point across,
and you know, I think it's fun. I don't think
it's particularly harmless and it's fun to take a pin
to these people that just have such inflated egos.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
You know, there's a buzzword going on in the media,
write now, and I know you've heard it a million times.
I want to see what you think of it. It's
called affordability crisis. Everybody's all the mainstream talking about affordability crisis.
They obviously want to tell you that here we have
President Trump and you can't afford to buy things because
he was going to fix inflation. But he hasn't fixed inflation.

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Of course, what they don't tell you is the Biden
years of inflation that led up to where we are
at right now, and the price is really stabilized, but
they don't go backwards, and if they do go backwards,
that's a bad.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Thing, right exactly. Yeah, it's more about slowing the rate
of increase. You know, gave me Klobachar tweeted that over
the weekend, Like I forget it was like electric bills
or just general inflation. It was this huge thing and like,
look how high it is under the president, whereas the
entire spike came in the Biden presidency. I mean, this
is what Bernie Goldberg wrote about when he wrote his

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book Bias, you know, twenty thirty years ago, talking about
how during the Reagan presidency, CBS News and the like
discussed that, oh my gosh, there's homelessness in America, but
they didn't really do an energie mc carter or you know,
anybody else, or Bill Clinton. So it's very similar here.
They're playing ketch up. They're playing ketchup. But you know,

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I think people see that gas the national average is
now three dollars a gallon, which is something we even
had in four years. That's like tangible results that I
think the Americans can point to.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
All Right, Curtis, thank you as always appreciated media research Centers.
Curtis House