MSNBC/Fox Blowback!

Chris doubles down on his claim that Fox News and MSNBC are essentially the same, dismissing listener pushback by comparing them to Burger King and McDonald’s—different flavors, same fast-food game. Recounting a revealing green room experience with Bob Beckel and staged lawyer debates, he exposes cable news as scripted theater, with paid contributors like Beckel arguing without expertise to push agendas, frustrating his commitment to unfiltered truth. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
As it turns out, I much have grinded some people's
gears last week when I was basically well comparing Fox
and MSNBC and basically saying it are basically the same thing.
A lot of people go, no, way, that's not prue
Fox has got this morning. That one at MSNBC is

(00:39):
off the rails. There's a lot of people out there say,
you can't make that comparison. Give it me, inciting certain examples.
How shall I put this? Well, remember Burger King, remember
their old commercial flame royal beats fry, and then McDonald's
always had their French fries, which was there. Claimed, you know,

(01:02):
Burger King of McDonald's are different. But how different are they? Okay, okay,
they're not exactly the same. You might find a couple
more libs on Fox and some people that are not
towing the company, but that they're really not that different. Guys, Listen,

(01:25):
I'm just so you know, I've been on these networks.
I know what they do. I've told the story before.
I would tell it again. Hey, my Bob Beckel's story
is again. It was years and years and years ago.
It's back when Meghan Kelly had a program on Fox.

(01:45):
There was the other guys. I forget which show I
was going on that day, but anyway, anyway, you know,
I was there to. I was there to basically, you know,
argue about Social Security and it's got a running of money.
And I'm not wrong, I'm right and it is running
out of money. We all know this. You can take

(02:07):
a look at your little Social Security teament. Neither here now.
And guess who was there was gonna argue with me.
None other than Bob, the late Bob Beckle. He was
a player. He was a one of those guys they have.
They're paid contributors. They're paid contributors, meaning they are paid
to have a certain opinion. They're paid and they're on

(02:31):
call like a doctor. Okay, we need somebody to argue
with Markowski about so security. Call Becke up. So here
I'm hanging out with Beckell in the green room, having
a grand old time. Nice guy, nice guy, you're raving
about at the time, is raving about Keith Richards's book.
Then he starts asking me about Social Security because he
had no idea how it worked, no idea he was

(02:54):
He was there to argue with me and he had
no clue. But he again, he can go out there
and you know, make snide comments and be clever and
fill his position as the opposition to my opinion. What
a bunch of bull craft. Okay, that's very same day,
very same day, there was two lawyers in the green

(03:19):
room getting ready for their spot on Megan Kelly's program,
and they are literally working out their argument, their debate
in the green room like it was professional wrestling. That
great movie The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke when they're having
that conversation before there, You're gonna do this and I'm

(03:41):
gonna do that and all the stuff that was gonna
take place. That's basically what these lawyers were doing before
they were going on. And he encouraged that. You I
get frustrated because they you know, I got to get
a pre interview. Mark Howskin, you gotta tell us how
you gonna say I didn't tell you anything you want
me on? Okay, ask me questions, Okay, I'm I'm not.
I'm not some sort of uh, you know, Marionette that

(04:03):
I'm going up there. You have to push your agenda
or to advance whatever it may be. And again, this
makes me dangerous when I go on these programs and
that's people. Okay, you find you know, you think MSNBC
is more liberal than Fox's MAGA whatever, okay, whatever, but
they're not far off. Watch Dog on Wall Street dot

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