Corporate Media Is Thriving By Selling Division In America

The American public is hugely divided on every issue – according to the media. But the truth is that the public actually agrees on MOST issues. The media sells you division to juice their ratings and make more money. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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The American public is hugely divided on every issue according to the media. But the truth is that the public actually agrees on most issues. The media sells division to this country. They do it to juice their ratings. They do it to make more money. This is all about money. Let's divide the country and we're gonna make more money doing it. I'll tell you what, this was handled by, I think one of the most, by a formidable progressive, wrote for Axios.

Yeah. And what's interesting about this is obviously they did what Les Leopold had also done, they're looking at the numbers. They're stripping politics away from it because yeah, politics is divisive. But when you look at what people actually think, what they want and what they believe, pretty much everybody agrees on almost everything. Huge majorities left, right, and center agree that, hey, it's okay to let immigrants come into this country. Hey, it's okay for people to own guns. Hey, it's okay for you to have your own religion, whatever.

Or to be gay. Yeah, that's what most people believe. But the media takes these talking points, and this is a media creation. They take these talking points from these fuzzy thinking hysterical fringe types. Well, on the left, it's the snowflake fringe. Everything they read on a headline, they're gonna accept. On the right is the snowflake fringe that buys into everything. And here's what we miss. These are people that watch either Fox or they watch MSNBC and CNN. That is all they live by baby. That's all they understand. Fortunately, it's less than 2% of the population in America, less than 2% of these snowflakes are out there watching MSNBC saying, oh my God, this is the new talking point. And it just perpetuates itself. Right?

And look, the problem is with these networks that, again, only 2% of the country between the two of them actually watch.

By the way, between the two. That's right.

But the problem is the people who make the decisions about our daily lives, those folks in Washington, DC, they watch these.

Yes.

And they get fed the division, and they help spread the division. Right? Your Republicans are going on Fox, your liberals are going on MSNBC, and each side is saying, these people are evil over here. No, you're evil over here. And then when these networks push their agenda, whether it's to help their advertisers get another war contract or help big pharma kill legislation, those lawmakers who only tune into those programs, they buy into it. So it is a small portion that watches this, unfortunately, it's the powerful people.

But they're the loudest. If we do a show, the big mouths, the real snowflake big mouths will show up in the comments. If you look at the comments compared to the likes, the likes are huge. But the comments, you may have a hundred people who are just rabid. They can't control themselves. They gotta, I've gotta respond to this. And the response generally is being driven by what they've seen on either Fox for when you do a show or when I do a show, it's what they watch on the MSNBC and CNN. You know, Papantonio's a Trump guy. Farron is a crazy communist because this is what the media tells them to say. The only good news, the only good news is it's less than 2% of the population that fall into that, what I call real, real snowflake class. I mean, when we get the reports from our folks that follow this, yeah, you don't even have to read the comment. The first two lines you understand, oh, yeah. All right. Yeah, they're watching MSNBC, CNN, that's all they're watching or with you, they're watching Fox.