Banana rub. Winning becoming a verb. But hell likely carry an asterisk around with him for years. The media gone overboard . Brett kavanaugh writes a lastminute oped for the wall treat journal saying he was too emotional. Hes doing it as a p. R. Move to try to convince people that no im actually not unhinged and i can control my temper. The fbi report does nothing to address concerns about misleading statements. The media cover has been so onesided and biased. There has been the presumption from the beginning that he single allegation made against the judge was true. Howie a wave of women from Connie Cheung to Kellyanne Conway break their silence on Sexual Assault. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. The media drama went down to the wire. What well remember for decades as an emotional and personal battle that turned on conduct back in high school. Kavanaugh was confirmed but the media debate and culture war is far from over. Joining us is mollie hemingway, and as much , and philippe reines, a former state department official. Now that kavanaugh has been confirmed, the Mainstream Media seemed to be deflated. Mollie you saw a lot of people tweeting on social media. It showed up in how they framed their stories and presented the issues. I saw jim acosta tweet Something Like cant you all just win graciously . Howie cnn National Correspondent saying cant you win graciously . Mollie its an admission he had a side. But there is no question journalists are picking a side. Howie this was the first question he asked Kellyanne Conway. How concerned are you given the way this went down, that Brett Kavanaugh will be seen as a tainted justice by half the country . Justice kavanaugh should not be seen as tainted. Howie kavanaugh won and we are hearing words like tainted. Susan thats a fair question. It was slanted against him in the media. And he does walk away fairly or not, kavanaugh walks away tainted from this in the same way Clarence Thomas did when he was accused of Sexual Harassment in his can fir nation process. D in his confirmation process. Howie they moved the goal post making this about drinking and yearbook inscriptions. What was the meaning of the devils triangle. Philippe i think this goes for every network. This has been a confusion and challenging issue for weeks. I think what you are seeing with the media are two things. You are seeing the standard partisan description. People could watch now and confuse that susan and molly and i have opinions. But the second thing is. This has in some way made us back to a 5050 nation which we havent been since election day. I know that sounds strange. We have been more of a 55, 45, 6040 nation. The seering moments even if they are not incredibly pro trump. How will be unprecedented for a Supreme Court nominee to write an oped piece where kavanaugh said i was very emotional. I know my tone was sharp and i said a few things i should not have said. That suggests to me the cite civil of not having the criticism of not having a judicial temperament stung. Mollie when the media talked about it they said, my my, hes emotional. The outlandish charges were never proven and not provable. The framing of that led to this. Howie he said things like this is the revenge of the clintons. Its over. Hes on the Supreme Court. Now people are saying he will be a partisan justice and hurt the court for decades. Philippe people put an asterisk next to Clarence Thomas name. Howie when somebody has been legitimately confirmed by the senate. Philippe if you see a justice doing something. I agree with mollie. Its okay to be furious and frustrated. What he did from there is not okay. To blame the clinton machine for his interactions with those senators. That was someone who in the course of trying to prove he could not have done this actually showed the exact person who could have done this. The media criticism was reflecting people like me. I would be more happy with Amy Coney Barrett who was more conservative taking the seat tomorrow rather than Brett Kavanaugh solely because of that performance. Susan he wrote that tart cal. I felt the wall street journal article was aimed at, and when he attacked the democrats undercut. He wanted to make sure he looks impartial on the court. Howie what about the media split, 10 people interviewed in total different change anything. The optics were not great. Wasnt it all predictable, and isnt the liberal and conservative media predictable . Susan thats legitimate. Legitimate thing for the media to cover. They left out a bunch of witnesses put forward by blasey ford and ramirez. And on the opposite side you had the beginning of this, they said it would be a limited scope. Now that we are learning new things about him along the way, that was a legitimate thing. Howie so much passionate on both sides. Fox fired contributor jackson who called kavanaugh accusers lying skanks. Mollie they put forth stories that have no corroboration. There were unprovable and undisprovable allegations. There was flood the media and it was done to delegitimize someone. Its to delegitimize a person. There was no daylight between democratic partisan activity and media coverage. Philippe mollie hit the nail on the head in terms of the fbi. Donald trump fired the director and wants to fire the deputy director. Now they are the most of precious institution of all time. Howie what about what mollie said about the democrats were there to protest, block and stop this nomination. Once the democrats leaked Christine Blasey fords name to the press. Philippe we dont know that. Howie we dont know who did it. I dont see how you could not cover that. Philippe this comes down to he saidshe said. But there is a difference in motivation. If you dont believe him, you are attributing certain understandable factors to that. Maybe he didnt remember. It was a long time ago. Maybe he was drinking. He wants the job. He dont believe her, you are saying this woman is just an outright liar. Mollie in this country you are innocent until proven guilty. Susan they left out covering the problems with her testimony so it made it look like she was 100 believable. Weep just said believable, believable, and social media strong it out and showed how there were big problems. That called into question whether she was telling the truth or not or misremembering. The Mainstream Media did not cover that fairly. Philippe to impugn her credit it you had to say she worked for the clintons. Mollie people need evidence. Howie a female journalists howie the press has been acknowledging that President Trump was essentially restrained in talking about Christine Blasey ford until he unload at a rally. President trump what neighborhood . I dont know. But i had one beer, thats the only thing i remember. What the president did last night is sickening. Maybe we should only be surprised it took him so long to do it. The media were saying President Trumps words about ford for an attack. I dont know if he thinks its useful to rid couple a woman hop says she was sexually assaulted. Or if he thinks it was fun. But the president of the United States thinks its appropriate. You are attacking victims, you dont have any empathy. No, hes making a series of common sense conclusions about fords very shaky claims and differing accounts. Howie given thats Sexual Assault victims dont remember the details mollie people kept saying he was taunting or mock or ridiculing Christine Ford. What he was doing was pointing out what anybody could see when they watched her testimony. There were major flaws and contradictions. I thought the media should have been pointing this out themselves. You didnt see the media look at her story which changed multiple times. They spent all their time look at ice throwing and yearbooks. Howie the political system is going to scrutinize the nominee, lets look at the accuser. Susan it was about the tone and the problem with the tone. All the things you are saying, mollie, is 100 true. But hes speaking to women who believe her and who have had their own experiences. That is one of the problems with President Trump when he addresses problems like this. Mollie he previously said he found her credible. Susan he was mocking the New York Times reporter. It doesnt sit well with a lot of people. Howie the president telling judge jeanine i had to even the Playing Field when he did that. Mollie hemingway Sarah Sanders is lying. Howie why do you call it a lie . She is defending her boss. Philippe mollie is conflating a legitimate conversation about this situation with donald trump enjoying himself unnecessarily taunting someone. Mollie there is an issue where a lot of people dont understand Donald Trumps appeal. He says things you are not supposed to say. It was almost silly how much deference people gave where ford when there is no substance was for her story. Philippe just because something is appealing to a crowd. Mollie you should be able to say true things and not be condemned for it. He wasnt even using a mocking tone. Philippe like donald trump wasnt mocking the reporter with a disability. Mollie donald trump did that mocking with that reporter which he has done with many people it was portrayed in the media that he was mocking the reporter because of his disabilities. He used the same mocking tone with people who dont share that disability. Howie susan, there is a cultural war debate in which the president is talking about its a scary time for young men and they are in danger of having their lives ruined by uncorroborated allegations. Susan its another gap in the coverage. The metoo movement. There is a lack of due process. We have seen it with highprofile cases and cases not reported in the media but reported on smaller blowings. That carried over to this where you have one person being accused and being found guilty before any evidence is laid out. That debate will continue. Its interesting the Mainstream Media, but happy with lisa murkowski. Mika brzezinski ripped Kellyanne Conway for saying she is a Sexual Assault victim. Howie grudging criticism of the president for striking a deal with mexico and canada. He staged a rose garden victory lap, then he started acting like the reality show producer that he was. President trump question . She is shocked i picked her. I am not thinking about President Trump i know you are not thinking, you never do. In a tweet you said its incorrect to say you are limiting the scope of the fbi investigation. President trump i dont mind answering the question. It had to do with the other headline in the news which is the kavanaugh nomination. Howie we are still in the a block. Well get to kavanaugh, we are still doing trade. And he stuck to that ask cnns Kaitlan Collins. President trump dont do that. Excuse me. Do you have a question on trade. Well do one or two more questions on trade. Dont do that. Somebody is before you. Howie he made Kaitlan Collins pass the mic to another reporter and stay with the topic until as promised he took questions about the kavanaugh battle including from her. The New York Times, 8 full pages saying donald trump inherited far more money than he admitted from his father and they committed tax fraud by creating shell corporations. But neither he nor the white house disputed a single attack. Even the times acknowledged the irs never challenged the trumps on any of this. And its hardly a shock that rich people are very aggressive when it comes to minimizing their taxes. Politics and entertainment. These folks, they dont have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps. Com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the Amazing Services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps. Com tv and never go to the post office again howie female journalists are speaking out about past Sexual Assault. The spotlight has also fallen on Kellyanne Conway who told jake tapper she, too, has been the victim of a Sexual Assault. But when she testified the president she drew a tougher view from one of her colleagues, mika brzezinski. Tell us your story. Who is your attacker. Who broke the law. Who hurt you. You were really uncomfortable. Just say i am a victim of Sexual Assault. I say that as a victim of Sexual Assault myself. So i want to ask why cant you be the faceboo be the egg anl your story. Howie mika took a lot of heat from some pundits over her criticism. Your take on the criticism . I think it was deserved for the most of part. You can kind of follow her logic. If you are going to cover for his president you cant use your Sexual Assault to give it more credibility than it is. Howie kellyanne says she was talking about the process of questioning dr. Ford. If she is being treated like a fabrege egg, you should come forward. What people hate about where we are right now is the way its gotten so nasty. It was an unfortunate moment, i thought. She told me she would never push a woman to describe her Sexual Assault. But she is saying its not easy to do it before the cameras. Thats how i heard it. But the social media blowback started right away. I think enemy today brzezinski realized she had not worded it the way she wanted to. She went back on the show and tried to make the point she was trying to make a little more clearly. Howie in this interview she told me about her Sexual Assault. She was riding a horse in the woods in virginia, she was pulled off the horse, he mauled her and he pistol whipped her. She was covered in blood. Its a horrifying experience, but she realized not everyone is comfortable talking about that. And karen, you went online and described an assault when you were a child. Karen require wachild. The president raised the point if this assault was as bad as Christine Ford said it was, surely she would have told her loving parents and there would have been a police report. That spawned a hashtag, why i didnt report. That to me struck home. Not just in this context, but from the context of the catholic church. Why are these reports coming out now so long after it happened. What happened to me when i was 9 years old, i was at a Birthday Party, at a riding stable. The man who ran the table sort of pulled me away from the little girls at the Birthday Party and molested me. Even though my parents who were loving parents, i do not know i could have come forward on this if my parents were still alive. Even though they had had the conversation with me, i somehow thought i must have done something wrong for this to have happened to me. So i kept that as my secret. I have got to tell you. 9yearold karen felt she couldnt tell anybody. 20yearold karen was very remorseful that i hadnt told anybody. I realized, a riding stable, those are full of little girls. And this man did this to me, he must have done it to so many other little girls. By the was not something my 9yearold brain could process. So when we have people as powerful as the president saying it cant be as bad as these women say it is because they didnt report it, it doesnt understand what happened. Howie a number of women have written pieces. Lets start with Connie Cheung. I, too, was sexually assaulted. Not 36 years ago, but 50 years ago. The molester was our trusted family doctor. Am i sure who did it, oh, yes, 100 . I internalized the idea because i had gone the drunk it was somehow my fault. I passed out and somebody molested me. It wasnt really considered Sexual Assault at the time. Howie is it healthy for the debate that women are talking about what happened to them . Or do you think some of these confessions were an effort to turn Public Opinion against Brett Kavanaugh. Not only is it healthy, but its critical. This remind me of the first wave of metoo. It took so much strength for so many women to share. The prevalence of this problem is what was originally spotlighted by metoo. The second point, i think every woman has a right to do what she wants to do with her own story. A lot of women who came forward probably dont support Brett Kavanaughs nomination. I dont care. Thats perfectly fine. Howie karen, you made the point you dont remember some of the details. Talk about the reaction you got on twitter from other women. Karen it was extraordinary the number of women who replied to my tweet saying almost the exact same thing happened to me, except it was my grandfather or an older man at a barn. Howie some say they were 20, some say 15, some were as young as 5. I think even here at fox, Chris Wallace talking about how he had these conversations with his own daughters for the first time. Even if you are a diligent airport, these things can happen to your children, to your young adults out there. And its not an easy conversation to have. Howie which is why anybody willing to do it, you said even your own brother was shocked after all these years. 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Howie she barked off the gang rape allegation. But swetnick originally said she saw kavanaugh spike the punch at these parties, in the interview she says he was near the punch. Why didnt nbc and other Media Outlets say swetnick is backing off these allegations. Sara why didnt they do it . There seems to be a media fileon. All the media want to qula moreo clamor around it. Howie is some of that context lost when sound bites are played and she did change her story . Sara when it was first reported she said there were differences in her written statement and what she said in the interview. You take sound bites and play them on other shows, that that context is lost. Howie i think it media were played by michael avenatti. Second accuser Debra Ramirez said Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a yale party. So the only source other source that ronan farrow had was saying he heard this from someone else. In a followup piece, they named the source, and that classmate said he had no memory of the incident. Sara it tells us there is credibility lacking with that original piece. If you are the new yorker, you want to make sure you are getting the story out. But if you are not telling it in full context, then the meaning is lost. Its really causing credibility problems for the first story. The new yorker will have to find a way to tie this together to get the due context that there might be some holes here. Howie i think while the new yorker was transparent about the holes. But it was run under great pressure because kavanaugh was on the verge of being confirmed. Sara so many news outlets want to get on top of this story. But sometimes you have to take a step back. Howie the New York Times got a huge amount of attention about a 1985 bar fight where kavanaugh threw ice at a guy. The guy was bleeding because a classmate threw a glass at him. Was this worry of a news story. Sara it might be worthy of a news story if it points to his character. But it shouldnt have been howie anyone ever been in a bar fight is disqualified . Sara anyone who wants to come forward with more stories to tell about his personality, i get that. I dont get why you have an opinion writer contributing a news story. Howie the coauthor is a liberal oped writer for the paper. She is a lecturer at yale and makes no bones about it. She says hes a fifth vote for a hardright turn on Voting Rights and so much that will harm the democratic process. She occasionally writes opeds. In retrospect editors should have used a news room reporter for that assignment. Sara there is never answer incident where an opinion piece writer should be writing a news story. Howie i think it was an effort to chip away at kavanaughs credibility showing he has a drinking problem. Sara the bar fight, it could be questioned whether it its worh publishing. Howie leading conservatives complain to the Washington Post that one of its leading columnists isnt conservative. Is this a big problem in t t t t i dont know whats going on. Ive done all sorts of research, read earnings reports, looked at chart patterns. Ive even built my own historic trading model. And youre still not sure if you want to make the trade . Exactly. Sounds like a case of analysis paralysis. Is there a cure . Td ameritrades trade desk. They can help gut check your strategies and answer all your toughest questions. Sounds perfect. See, your stress level was here and i got you down to here, ive done my job. Call for a strategy gut check with td ameritrade. Howie Jennifer Rubin billed as a center right Opinion Column nest are strident lip antitrump. Every president reminds you of someone. This guy reminds you of your abusive exhusband. Howie the conservatives are saying to stop labeling rubin as a as a conservative. Mollie when there are almost no conservatives at the Washington Post they would call Jennifer Rubin as a conservative. She has reversed her conservative positions whether its the iran deal or jerusalem being the capital of israel. Conservative justices. She has turned against donald trump because she is strenuously antitrump. But to be build as a conservative columnist when she is not is frustrating. Howie people like Mark Theissen and hugh hewitt. When you look at the Washington Post opinion pages. Smart people, dont like the president. On msnbc nicole wallace, Joe Scarborough are antitrump. What does it say about the way in which the opinion media deal with it. Mollie whether you are looking at tv shows or newspapers, if they are build as a conservative contributor they are never trumpers. The vast majority of republicans are supportive of President Trump. Hes one of the most of popular republican president s in recent history. Howie you are saying there are no serious conservatives in america who dont have concerns . Mollie they are overwhelmingly happy with donald trump. Even on this network you see way outweighing their actual numeric numbers. You see a lot of the weak thinking and weak writing in the antitrump movement that does get published. I publish hundreds of people all the time ranging from never trump to trump supportive. Howie Jennifer Rubin on her twitter page calls herself a conservative. Mollie there are people who identify as conservative who oppose donald trump. And most of of them you see on tv and newspapers. Howie why is there such a misrepresentation of a chunk of conservative opinion through the opinion Media Outlets. Its not represented in much of the rest of the country its overwhelmingly represented here. Hes a Disruptive Force not just for d. C. , but for the conservative women as well. Howie thats it for this edition of mediabuzz. Check outmy podcast. 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