MSNBC Host Chris Matthews Blames Fox News for a Lack of Public Support for Impeachment

EXCERPT:

RUHLE: "But what is new is the way news is consumed. The poll numbers aren’t changing and we can say, 'Hasn’t anybody watched these impeachment hearings over the last two weeks?'”
MATTHEWS: "Well, there was no Fox back then. There was no Fox."
RUHLE: "But today, half the country is watching a completely different version of these events of news. How much does that impact the way all this has been absorbed? That wasn’t the case in the last two impeachments."
MATTHEWS: "No, there wasn’t a Fox, that’s different. But there was -- you know, I agree, a lot of it has to do with medium. You know, back in the ’60s, ’50s, there was a moderate Republican newspaper, The New York Herald Tribune. And when they died, the moderate Republican Party, the modern Republican moderate party died. So you do need a medium. The New York Times is for liberals, The Wall Street Journal’s for conservatives. I think you need a medium to fight your case. And the Republican right-wingers found one, it’s called Fox. It’s smart, they got one. Roger Ailes gave it to them."

(h/t NewsBusters)