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#396 w/ Chris Stirewalt "Fired by Fox, Fixing the News, Eating a McRib"

The Fifth Column

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Weak Parties, Strong Partisanship

Tucker Carlson brought Ted Cruz on his show and shamed him like a dog. That wasn't good for Republicans at any level in any way or any branch of the Republican Party, but it was fascinating television. People say that Fox is Republican or that MSNBC is Democratic. But when the press is doing the work that parties are supposed to do, primarily that is candidate selection and issue vetting, right? Where do we stand on this? where's the internal policing?

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