tankers out of alabama. mike? new york post, showç stopper, cbs has canceled the remaining season of two and a half men after charlie sheen attacked his employers in a radio show, calling the show s executive producer a clown, among other things. we ll play you that riveting radio interview. that is painful. you know, richard, we re going to be talking this morning as are a lot of people about the investigation based on the race article with the psy-ops. you say this is the story in afghanistan. the other story is a distraction. there s rogue generals who maybe go too far, what have you. i don t know the details of this, even after reading the article i don t even know what happened. this is the real story. this puts front and center the question, can we build?
signed eliot spitzer, that s right, the disgraced former governor of new york, as a primetime host. why exactly is that a good idea? we ll ask the president of cnn, john kline. plus, a top national enquirer editor on whether the tabloids should have published a masseuse s uncorroborated four-year-old allegation against al gore. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. rolling stone may have put a provocative picture of lady gaga on the cover this week. that was rather mild compared to the explosive material inside. reporter michael hastings spending weeks with general mcchrystal and his top advisers, kwoeths them on the record and on background as disparaging to civilian leadership calling president obama unprepared and james jones a clown. the controversy utterly dominated the media and the president quickly confrontd his runaway general. after an knargs, devastating
pinkie toes. he took the set by the absurd basketball score 70-68 and winning a match that lasted over 11 hours over a span of three days. nothing like this will ever happen again. number one story of the week. the today, i accepted general stanley mcchrystal s resignation. mocking, indirectly criticizing an american president. calls national security adviser jim jones, quote, a clown. biden? did you say bite me. when your staff calls the national security adviser a clown stuck in the 1980s it doesn t go over realing with back at hg. you re with this i ll never print this magazine, right? president obama called mcchrystal to the white house and yanked him and went to the bull pen for his all-time
with him, as well. i think it s clear that the article in which he and his team appear showed a poor showed poor judgment, and but i also want to make sure that i talk to him directly before i make any final decision. i gave him the article last night. and he was angry. how so? angry. you would know it if you saw it. is removing the general from his position at least an option that he is considering? i would say all options are on the table. mcchrystal apologized and may be too late for him. look at the comments they made in the rolling stone article. an aide calls national security adviser jim jones a clown who remains stuck in 1985.
release of that article came out yesterday. the president saw it, and he was angry. why was he angry? a number of disparaging remarks made about the president and about members of the president s high level staff by very close aides to general stanley mcchrystal. want to point out mcchrystal in the article never directly criticized president obama, but a number of his staff members have said comments. for example, calling joe biden bite me. that was one quote in the article. another one calling jim jones a clown. just getting word now, could you tell me the secretary of defense arriving at the white house? i m just being told that the secretary of defense, bob gates, arrived there at the white house. it was just previous to that meeting with the president that general stanley mcchrystal went to the pentagon to meet with bob