0 history. it s happened with hillary and bill clinton. it s happened when roger clinton, billy carter s brother bill clinton s brother? right. billy carter was jimmy carter s brother. we love it. newt had a gay daughter. rob porter had a gay son and came out and changed his position. let s be clear. the democrats have a platform that s pro-gay marriage. there s a democrat governor candidate in south carolina who is not for that. we don t even know his name. people don t report on him. he s a candidate for governor. he s not the vice president of the united states the cheney family is a bit like the kennedys to the sense to the republicans, i think, they re a hugely important family. to families in the republican p party gay marriage issue in america. when it s affecting the republican party personally that s an interesting story. what about the point mary cheney made an issue, therefore journalists don t have much of a choice but to acknowledge it in a senate rac
minister benjamin netanyahu slams the deal calling it, quote, historic and a mistake. because he says it leaves iran in reach of making an atomic weapon. he says israel would not be bound by the deal saying it reserves the right to defend itself. at the top of the hour former israeli ambassador to the united nations, dan gilliman joins us. now back to media buzz and howie kurtz. the media turns friday into a national day of mourning, november 22nd, being the 50th anniversary of the assassination of john f. kennedy. fox s cal thomas remembered the day. there are things called teletypes then where the news was printed on these rolls of paper. i ripped it off and gave it to the correspondents in the washington bureau and managed to save the initial stories that said, flash, president kennedy dead. that was a long time ago. david, what did you make of the friday television coverage?
sanctions. a powerful winter storm hammering the western states already blamed for eight deaths, heavy rains, snow, sleet, causing hundreds of crashes, leave drivers standed with the storm on the move to the southeast and threatening to create big problems for thanksgiving travel this week. . now back to media buzz and howie kurtz. the media turns friday into a national day of mourning, november 22nd, being the 50th anniversary of the assassination of john f. kennedy. fox s cal thomas remembered the day. there are things called teletypes then where the news was printed on these rolls of paper. i ripped it off and gave it to the correspondents in the washington bureau and managed to save the initial stories that said, flash, president kennedy dead. that was a long time ago. david, what did you make of the friday television coverage?
said. my words were wholly unacceptable. that part, i wholly agree with. joining us now here in washington, david zurich, television and media critic for the baltimore sun. and joe concha. msnbc has put out a statement saying martin bashir has taken responsibility public for his offensive commentary and it kind of pushes it off on bashir. we re harndling this mat earn intern matter internally. they couldn t have handled it worse. after that apology was made by martin bashir on monday, hours later the msnbc twitter feed promoted the segment from friday where the comments were made. after the apology if you re promoting the segment, that s a big issue. that goes up to management to allow that to happen. a day later joe scarborough goes
hr about what s going on in his head when he says this kind of stuff. more importantly, what about the culture of msnbc? somebody put those graphics up. is there no editorial backstop on this thing? that s right, david. it s outrageous. these were scripted comments, howie. exactly. there s a vetting process that goes into this. before it goes to a tele prompter, copy editor, senior producer, saw that. their boss says, we re trying to be provocative. ratings went up 60% from friday to monday. friday the comment. monday the apology. go on the twitter feed of msnbc. the promotion of the segment is still up. all the ginned up controversy to get people to watch a show that otherwise nobody was watching. let me jump in. speaking of twitter a few people have complained about me for making an issue saying i m defending sarah palin because she s a contributor at fox news.