Joe Concha is one of the most visible faces on Fox News. In December 2021 alone, he appeared more than 70 times on Fox News and Fox Business, including on top-rated shows including Hannity, Fox & Friends, Unfiltered with Dan Bongino, Watters World, Justice with Jeanine Pirro, Outnumbered, Kudlow, Varney & Co, and Mornings with Maria. He also is a rotating co-host on The Big Saturday and Sunday Show and has co-hosted the #1 show on cable, The Five. Concha is one of the most-read media and politics columnist for The Hill, a leading political publication based in Washington, D.C. In additional to television, Joe has also served as a drive-time talk radio host on 710-WOR in New York City, the country's #1 market. Guests in his Rolodex included Donald Trump Jr, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Eric and Lara Trump, Kayleigh McEnany, Greg Gutfeld, Pete Hegseth, Ben Shapiro, Bill O'Reilly, Piers Morgan, Adam Corolla, Russell Crowe and Jim Nantz, among many others. Concha has also frequently guest hosted for Sean Hannity on his nationally-syndicated radio show, reaching 625 stations, before covering the media industry, Joe was a sports columnist for Fox Sports and NBC Sports. He was also a producer for Time Warner's NY-1.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from wor Here again is Larry
Minty with the WR Saturday Morning Show. Welcome back. Have
you noticed that the media has been subdued, almost sedated.
They aren't as rabbit as they used to be and
their hatred of Donald Trump? And there's a reason for that,
(00:20):
according to Fox News contributor Joe Kancha, Hey, Joe, am
I wrong about this? Or it has the mainstream media,
which would normally be an attack mode subdued.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yes, you're exactly right about that when you compare it,
Larry to twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, after Donald Trump won,
the only narrative we heard is that the Russians hacked
voting machines and he was installed as president by Vladimir Putin.
And we heard that for three years. Quite frankly, we
saw protests in the streets. Remember as inauguration, I mean
(00:51):
Washington was trashed. I mean it was horrible. Now you
look at his transition numbers, for example, do you approve
of Donald Trump's transition team, for example, and you see
numbers like fifty six percent, nearly sixty percent, Hey, do
you approve of Donald Trump in general? For the first
time ever, Larry Real Clear Politics average that's like an
average of all the major polls. His stavorable rating is
(01:13):
higher than his unfavorable rating for the first time ever.
In twenty sixteen, he was thirty eight points underwater. So
just the perception of Trump is that there is a
nostalgia that people understand that from twenty seventeen up until
the pandemic, things were quite good in this country. We
had peace, we had prosperity, we had mean tweets. Fine,
but now that's baked into the cake. So I think
(01:34):
now that he's won the popular vote, which I think
was so important because that show that truly he won
the election in every way you could, electoral college, swing states, whatever.
Now people are seeing what he wants to do in
terms of cutting government spending through the Bake Ramaswami and
Elam Musk and in Doge and all the people he's
appointing to secure the border and down the line. They're like, Ah,
(01:56):
this is the way a government should be run and
not the train wreck we've witnessed over the last three
and a half years.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, but the effect on the media so far has
been profound. Even the view they look like they're reading
hostage videos all the time because they do. I mean,
it's they don't want to say what they're saying, and
you can see themselves, like Anna Novarro just shutting herself up.
So this must come from on high. They must be told,
(02:20):
guess what, America's not with you. Our ratings are sliding.
We've got to change.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, you're right, and that's ABC right, ABC News. The
view falls under the AC News umbrella, which is remarkable
to me. But you saw just what happened over the
weekend where George Stephanopolis on ten occasions in one interview,
said that Donald Trump was found guilty of rape. That
is not what that jury concluded, and Donald Trump said,
a right, I've had enough, all right. That's defamation sued
(02:48):
and they settled because they were afraid of what was
going to come out in the discovery process. Larry, I mean,
that's that's obvious. And discovery means like emails, text directives
from on high, down low. And remember ABC News is
from by woman named Dana Walden who she she's Kamala
Harris's dearest friend, her neighbor from Brentwood, California, the girl
who set up Kamala with Doug m Hoff. She runs
(03:09):
ABC News. So we see what ABC News has become,
and they realize that we're gonna lose if all this
stuff gets out, or at least get killed from a
public relations perspective, so they had to settle that suit.
Now Trump's going to sue sixty minutes. He's going to
sue a bunch of other places as well. The days
are over where we could go on the air and
just lie about stuff, call somebody a Russian agent or
Hitler or a fascist, those days are over. And from
(03:32):
a litigious standpoint, from an economics standpoint therefore, especially if
the ratings aren't coming in there for the advertising revenues
coming in, these people are holding back because they know
that they could be facing serious consequences. No, by the way,
no one's listening to them anymore. I'll give you one
more example. Larry Kamala Harris when she became the Democratic nominee.
ABC News, the first one hundred stories they've done on
(03:52):
Kamala Harris were all deemed positive. That's according to the
Media Research Center, So one hundred out of one hundred.
Bad Dad Bob's even watching this saying, hey, guys, you know,
maybe you're landing on a little thick here, one hundred
out of one hundred, the same kon yang. But apparently
it is so. And look, after all that positive coveras
that Kamala got, not just ABC, CNN, ANDSNBC, CBS, NBC,
(04:13):
she's still lost in an historic landslide. So yeah, that
tells you nobody's listening anyone.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, I'm so glad you brought up the George Stephanopolis
lawsuit because in any other industry, in any other company,
he wouldn't survive. So what's going to happen to him
anything at all?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Well, that's the thing I remember back in twenty I
want to say fourteen Larry, where it was discovered that
George Stephanoppolos was donating, you know, one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars to the Clinton Foundation. Wait a minute, you're
supposed to be the chief news anchor of ABC News
and you're donating to the Clintons. Oh, that's right. Used
to work for him, and nothing happened. In fact, they said,
(04:52):
we fully support George, he apologized when we're moving on. Okay,
So if he wasn't fired for that, or at least
suspended reprimanded in some way. Then guess what, nothing's going
to happen to him here either. I'm sure his contract
is far more than that fifteen million dollars. They don't
want to have to pay that out. So and we
saw what happened on Sunday, Larry. He had Adam Schiffon
as as his first guest. Like, we learned our lessons. Hey,
let's sit on the biggest liar in Congress of the
(05:14):
ship's talking about Donald Trump being a Russian agent. They
never get it. They keep three on the same people.
Drives me crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Hey, how refreshing was yesterday to have a president not
only that's coherent, but a president that took every question,
didn't call on selective reporters, and just riffed for over
an hour about topic after topic after topic. I think
America forgot what that was.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Like, Oh well, they the numbers, the back that up, Larry.
Donald Trump's final year in office twenty twenty, he did
thirty five solo press conferences. You know, nowmate, Joe Biden's
done in his final year in office zero point zero
to quote Dean Warmer an animal house, none. He's guys
in president. He couldn't even go to Notre Damp for
every opening, he says, Joe Biden there, who's given Trump
(06:01):
the I if you know what I mean. I mean,
it was so embarrassing that Donald Trump now is the president,
even though he's not in office all Joe Biden, you'll
find him pull side at mar Lago before you see
this guy in front of a microphone again, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
But he was able to just talk about everything. But
he was intelligent when he talked about everything. It was
the fact that I'm even stunned by that shows how
numbing the last four years was.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
That's so true. And Natalie, I'll tell you this. Before
he did the press conference, Donald Trump gave me forty
minutes for my next question coming out. And yeah, I
asked him everything and anything, and he had the most
intelligent answers. I'll give you one before you have to go.
My nine year old wanted me to ask him, how
are you going to lower the price of cheeseburgers? Because
I want more and my dad keeps telling me they're
(06:48):
too expensive to get more than two? Like who he's
more than two cheeseburgers? This kid does, apparently. So I
asked him the question, and you know, he laughed about it,
and then his answer was, well, it all comes down
to energy, Joe, that's the whole ballgame. Lower the cost
of gas and heating and electric, then the cost of
food begins to come down because the people who drive
the trucks and the people that run the franchises won't
(07:08):
be paying as much for that, so they could give
the savings back to the customer. I'm like, wow, that's
an awesome answer. I couldn't realize that, but yeah, he
gave me did my little Joe content forty minutes by phone?
I mean, I thought that was very congratulations.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
When are we going to hear that?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That will be Actually in my book it's called the
Greatest comeback Ever. Inside Trump's Big, Beautiful campaign, unburdened by
what has been and that will be out after the inauguration,
but before Easter. How's that sound?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Fox News contributor Joe Conta.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
This has been a podcast from WR
This is a podcast from wor Here again is Larry
Minty with the WR Saturday Morning Show. Welcome back. Have
you noticed that the media has been subdued, almost sedated.
They aren't as rabbit as they used to be and
their hatred of Donald Trump? And there's a reason for that,
(00:20):
according to Fox News contributor Joe Kancha, Hey, Joe, am
I wrong about this? Or it has the mainstream media,
which would normally be an attack mode subdued.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yes, you're exactly right about that when you compare it,
Larry to twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, after Donald Trump won,
the only narrative we heard is that the Russians hacked
voting machines and he was installed as president by Vladimir Putin.
And we heard that for three years. Quite frankly, we
saw protests in the streets. Remember as inauguration, I mean
(00:51):
Washington was trashed. I mean it was horrible. Now you
look at his transition numbers, for example, do you approve
of Donald Trump's transition team, for example, and you see
numbers like fifty six percent, nearly sixty percent, Hey, do
you approve of Donald Trump in general? For the first
time ever, Larry Real Clear Politics average that's like an
average of all the major polls. His stavorable rating is
(01:13):
higher than his unfavorable rating for the first time ever.
In twenty sixteen, he was thirty eight points underwater. So
just the perception of Trump is that there is a
nostalgia that people understand that from twenty seventeen up until
the pandemic, things were quite good in this country. We
had peace, we had prosperity, we had mean tweets. Fine,
but now that's baked into the cake. So I think
(01:34):
now that he's won the popular vote, which I think
was so important because that show that truly he won
the election in every way you could, electoral college, swing states, whatever.
Now people are seeing what he wants to do in
terms of cutting government spending through the Bake Ramaswami and
Elam Musk and in Doge and all the people he's
appointing to secure the border and down the line. They're like, Ah,
(01:56):
this is the way a government should be run and
not the train wreck we've witnessed over the last three
and a half years.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, but the effect on the media so far has
been profound. Even the view they look like they're reading
hostage videos all the time because they do. I mean,
it's they don't want to say what they're saying, and
you can see themselves, like Anna Novarro just shutting herself up.
So this must come from on high. They must be told,
(02:20):
guess what, America's not with you. Our ratings are sliding.
We've got to change.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, you're right, and that's ABC right, ABC News. The
view falls under the AC News umbrella, which is remarkable
to me. But you saw just what happened over the
weekend where George Stephanopolis on ten occasions in one interview,
said that Donald Trump was found guilty of rape. That
is not what that jury concluded, and Donald Trump said,
a right, I've had enough, all right. That's defamation sued
(02:48):
and they settled because they were afraid of what was
going to come out in the discovery process. Larry, I mean,
that's that's obvious. And discovery means like emails, text directives
from on high, down low. And remember ABC News is
from by woman named Dana Walden who she she's Kamala
Harris's dearest friend, her neighbor from Brentwood, California, the girl
who set up Kamala with Doug m Hoff. She runs
(03:09):
ABC News. So we see what ABC News has become,
and they realize that we're gonna lose if all this
stuff gets out, or at least get killed from a
public relations perspective, so they had to settle that suit.
Now Trump's going to sue sixty minutes. He's going to
sue a bunch of other places as well. The days
are over where we could go on the air and
just lie about stuff, call somebody a Russian agent or
Hitler or a fascist, those days are over. And from
(03:32):
a litigious standpoint, from an economics standpoint therefore, especially if
the ratings aren't coming in there for the advertising revenues
coming in, these people are holding back because they know
that they could be facing serious consequences. No, by the way,
no one's listening to them anymore. I'll give you one
more example. Larry Kamala Harris when she became the Democratic nominee.
ABC News, the first one hundred stories they've done on
(03:52):
Kamala Harris were all deemed positive. That's according to the
Media Research Center, So one hundred out of one hundred.
Bad Dad Bob's even watching this saying, hey, guys, you know,
maybe you're landing on a little thick here, one hundred
out of one hundred, the same kon yang. But apparently
it is so. And look, after all that positive coveras
that Kamala got, not just ABC, CNN, ANDSNBC, CBS, NBC,
(04:13):
she's still lost in an historic landslide. So yeah, that
tells you nobody's listening anyone.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, I'm so glad you brought up the George Stephanopolis
lawsuit because in any other industry, in any other company,
he wouldn't survive. So what's going to happen to him
anything at all?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Well, that's the thing I remember back in twenty I
want to say fourteen Larry, where it was discovered that
George Stephanoppolos was donating, you know, one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars to the Clinton Foundation. Wait a minute, you're
supposed to be the chief news anchor of ABC News
and you're donating to the Clintons. Oh, that's right. Used
to work for him, and nothing happened. In fact, they said,
(04:52):
we fully support George, he apologized when we're moving on. Okay,
So if he wasn't fired for that, or at least
suspended reprimanded in some way. Then guess what, nothing's going
to happen to him here either. I'm sure his contract
is far more than that fifteen million dollars. They don't
want to have to pay that out. So and we
saw what happened on Sunday, Larry. He had Adam Schiffon
as as his first guest. Like, we learned our lessons. Hey,
let's sit on the biggest liar in Congress of the
(05:14):
ship's talking about Donald Trump being a Russian agent. They
never get it. They keep three on the same people.
Drives me crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Hey, how refreshing was yesterday to have a president not
only that's coherent, but a president that took every question,
didn't call on selective reporters, and just riffed for over
an hour about topic after topic after topic. I think
America forgot what that was.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Like, Oh well, they the numbers, the back that up, Larry.
Donald Trump's final year in office twenty twenty, he did
thirty five solo press conferences. You know, nowmate, Joe Biden's
done in his final year in office zero point zero
to quote Dean Warmer an animal house, none. He's guys
in president. He couldn't even go to Notre Damp for
every opening, he says, Joe Biden there, who's given Trump
(06:01):
the I if you know what I mean. I mean,
it was so embarrassing that Donald Trump now is the president,
even though he's not in office all Joe Biden, you'll
find him pull side at mar Lago before you see
this guy in front of a microphone again, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
But he was able to just talk about everything. But
he was intelligent when he talked about everything. It was
the fact that I'm even stunned by that shows how
numbing the last four years was.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
That's so true. And Natalie, I'll tell you this. Before
he did the press conference, Donald Trump gave me forty
minutes for my next question coming out. And yeah, I
asked him everything and anything, and he had the most
intelligent answers. I'll give you one before you have to go.
My nine year old wanted me to ask him, how
are you going to lower the price of cheeseburgers? Because
I want more and my dad keeps telling me they're
(06:48):
too expensive to get more than two? Like who he's
more than two cheeseburgers? This kid does, apparently. So I
asked him the question, and you know, he laughed about it,
and then his answer was, well, it all comes down
to energy, Joe, that's the whole ballgame. Lower the cost
of gas and heating and electric, then the cost of
food begins to come down because the people who drive
the trucks and the people that run the franchises won't
(07:08):
be paying as much for that, so they could give
the savings back to the customer. I'm like, wow, that's
an awesome answer. I couldn't realize that, but yeah, he
gave me did my little Joe content forty minutes by phone?
I mean, I thought that was very congratulations.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
When are we going to hear that?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
That will be Actually in my book it's called the
Greatest comeback Ever. Inside Trump's Big, Beautiful campaign, unburdened by
what has been and that will be out after the inauguration,
but before Easter. How's that sound?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Fox News contributor Joe Conta.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
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