pounced upon by the 24/7 internet and cable news cycle. here s alex wagner reacting to the news after the new york times story was published. we have breaking news. a bombshell revelation from ex-port authority official david wildstein who carried out the lane closures on the george washington bridge. wildstein says he has proof of that governor chris christie knew about the plans to close those lanes while they were happening. the network eventually reported it more accurately, as did others, but reported like that on other major outlets at the time. on saturday christie s camp attacked the new york times for, quote, sloppy reporting and attacked wildstein for basically being a bad guy, who keep in mind christie appointed in the first place. the times says it regularly updates stories, nothing unusual happened here and quoting now they say we do not note changes unless it involves an error. joining me now is the times reporter that wrote the story, kate zernike. welcome.
of ham fisted polls whose knack of stumbling on cable news. for example, live pictures from capitol hill where you have some members of the house who held this all-day news conference opposing immigration reform. their goal which i m doing right now is to show on the 24-hour cable news cycle to get attention for their cause. and mission accomplished on that front, tamron. the point is not to pick on trent franks or anybody else but to convey a sense of frustration among republican elites and republican strategists that the party has been trying to do a number of substantive things since the election to adjust to the drubbing they got with groups like latinos women, young people and they find that whatever substantive steps they try to take and they are baby steps at this point, it s hard to do that when the public face of the party is so often someone
these hacknied words and phrases. it s truly inspirational. to that point, if we re part of the problem in the cable news cycle and all of that, has our tendency to grab for cliches gotten worse over time? have we gotten worse at just speaking in plain language? i m sorry to disan button you. i m not going to hell in a hand cart merchant. i think that the english language is in better shape than it s ever been before. i think the internet is a huge, huge boone to our common intelligence, our common love of the english language. and our desire to use it correctly. i mean, let me tell you how the banned list started was because i was watching television and i heard someone say it s the economy stupid. i just went to my blog and i said i never want to hear this again. because of the immediacy of the internet, you know, i discovered there are actually lots of people out there who care about the english language and felt
time. this week i m focused on some yard work and business things. but, look, the process will unfold in due course. and first read has the short list. pawlenty, rob portman bob jindal, paul ryan and john thune. it will probably be closer to the convention. who knows. of course, the romney people might make a decision earlier. in the daily news, new york daily news sources are telling him that they would rather do it after the trip because they don t want it to look like a knee-jerk reaction if they were to do it too soon. we were speaking earlier. you said that now that the president s campaign south carolina outspent two to one when you combine the super pacs and the romney campaign in the top ten media markets. we re talking about this tax issue on tv that will feed twitter and cable news cycle,
has a mystical confidence in its organization. ben, why are all these democratic consultants saying this? what are you guys doing wrong? well, it will come as no surprise to you, luke, we don t believe the presidential elections are determined by the ups and downs of the weekly cable news cycle. if they were, in had 2008 we probably would have lost the campaign 25 to 50 times at some point during that campaign. the feeling around here has always been this was going to be a close and competitive election, given the historic challenges that our nation faced when the president came into office. and the president gave a speech last thursday about breaking the stalemate between two economic visions and ultimately, we think it s those sorts of questions that will decide the election. do you believe we should continue to reward the wealthiest with special breaks? that that will trickle down to the middle class? that we should remove oversight for the big banks and polluters and that the mar