JON SCOTT (CO-HOST): That was President Trump celebrating his first major legislative victory, even as you heard, thanking the media. But the mainstream media not exactly returning the favor in their coverage of what happened yesterday.

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Lynn, on the major evening news programs last night -- ABC, CBS, NBC -- all of them dwelled on the fact that [the Republican health care bill] has -- this thing has passed, but nobody knows how many people are going to be thrown off the insurance rolls and so forth. That was a big focus. It's as if the president managed to do something really bad in his first legislative victory.

LYNN SWEET: Well, I don't think it was -- I don't agree necessarily that that's the interpretation. I see that as this is a work in progress, and there's a lot of questions to be had on this. So that seems a reasonable question, especially since as this issue heads to the Senate, it is unlikely that the Senate is just going to embrace whole cloth what the House passed yesterday. So this seems kind of the coverage that is routine in the course of any big complicated piece of legislation. And I think because this is so serious for so many people and so many of the viewers, the focus here is on the policy, how it's going to affect people and their families and their insurance, rather than showing a celebration at the White House, which is certainly part of the story. But I think here the information about what people care about, “Will my plan be available, will my coverage be cheaper or more expensive, and will my deductibles be more or less? And if I have pre-existing conditions, will I be covered?” Health insurance is something that is very personal, and people use their own common sense and experience to weigh.

SCOTT: But Tammy, when you think back seven years when President Obama signed his law -- well, the Obamacare law -- into law with the little kid standing next to him at the White House, the coverage was, seemed to be universally laudatory. And, of course, there were the promises about how you if like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, that sort of thing. 

TAMMY BRUCE: Yeah, well that's what we saw. And I think if the coverage today stood on its own, it would seem like, well, that's just fair reporting, but it's not. In the context of what's happened when this has occurred before, the media in fact was laudatory. They approached this as a monumentally important change, something that was going to enhance the value of people's lives. It was going to lift up people who did not have insurance, and everything was going to be great, and everyone would have a unicorn in their garage. And we know that none of that happened. They also carried the claims of the president at the time that you could keep your doctor, you could keep your plan and your hospital. We now know from Jonathan Gruber that all of those things were actually contrived, deliberate, misleading statements -- specifically knowing that the media would carry it -- much like the Iran deal. That whatever they would tell the media, it would be moved. So when you look in the context of what the American people have been told, it's very difficult for them, and this is why the trust in the media has gone down so much. It's difficult for them to trust the nature of what's being said. Now look, stories are all there's -- whether you agree with Obamacare or what the Republicans just did, information that you can trust so that you can draw your own conclusions is imperative. And the legacy media here has failed us, not just now. But it proves, if there was any doubt about bias and the throwing in of their lot with one side of politics, the coverage of both of these events, I think, prove it quite clearly.

Previously:

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