major news outlet breathlessly reports that donald trump is on the verge of a big endorsement. we don t expect him to say he is running for president, but politico and others are saying he is ready to back newt gingrich. hours later the donald backs romney. how did the press get it so wrong? plus, facebook files for a monster public offering. is sharing information with your friends now more powerful than the mega corporations of the media? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. at a time the votes were counted in florida this week, the pundits have decided that mitt romney had all but wrapped up the republican nomination. newt gingrich might keep the race interesting, or so they hope, but have no real chance to win. romney hit the television circuit for what was supposed to be a victory lap, and the man who once said i enjoy being able to fire people, did it again. or did he? here is the exchange on cnn. by the way, i m in this race because i care about am
as to the cost of the war, the time frame involved or the degree to which the proposed partners will stay seated in the vehicle and focused. i can never remember a time when a u.s. president launched a military action in a foreign country and didn t speak that evening from the oval office with a sober explanation of what, why, how, how much and how long. this action was announced by the secretary of state while the commander of chief bud r busied himself with a trip to rio and with meticulous attention to basketball brackets. maybe he s lost interest in the job, but next year we can fix that. the job for which he seems better suited might be a professor, where he can contemplate, articulate, educate and ruminate and never have to make a real decision or a conclusion. writing books taking a new direction in fiction since much of the budget proposals and solutions for stimulating the economy with pork belly spending and drowning deficit health care plans are the stuff of fiction or maybe
our supposed partners will stay seated in the vehicle. focused? i can never remember a time when a u.s. president launched military action and didn t speak that evening from the oval office with a sober explanation of what, how, and how much and how long. this action was announced by the secretary of state while the commander-in-chief visited in rio and meticulous attention to basketball brackets. maybe he s lost interest in the job. nex year we can fix that. he might be better suited as a professor and educate and contemplate and never have to reach a conclusion or writing books and perhaps taking a new direction in fiction since much . budget proposals and solutions for stimulating the economy and deficit drowning health care plains are the stuff of fiction. or maybe, maybe he would like
tomahawk missiles into a place, knock out some air defenses and then at the same time telling your enemy, we re not going to do any more than just this? it seems to be kind of crazy way to go about this. heather: do you think it s significant or do you think it will have an effect on his reputation that france has taken the lead here in libya? oh, over the last two weeks, whether it s going off to play a round of golf or filling out basketball brackets or going to rio, president obama has absolutely abrogated his role as leader of his role leader of the free world and abrogated it to france. it s astonishing on several levels. i m sure that politically it s very wise of him not to commit ground troops to the ground right now.
we know the history. it s a very conservative republican electorate. so was south carolina following it. how much is this going to make the republican race more complicated? well, i think bill mcinturf, he used to think that the republican nomination is like ncaa basketball brackets and the different people were competing for different brackets. i would argue for the folks who think president obama s a muslim or some foreign agent, they are competing in a bracket that s not where a tim pawlenty, a haley barber, a mitch daniels, john thune, they re competing for different niches. that group s over there, but item not sure that s where the fight s going to be. really going to be fought. but i agree with stu that electability is in the eye of the beholder, but i think