unconvincing as you could possibly imagine. so why has this mounting mediaism cr media criticism cut across the party lines? joining us now, lauren ashburn fox news contributor and david zurich for the washington son and an anchor on the new adventure post tv. lauren, it seems to be a rare moment when liberal and commentators, left, up, right, down are united in criticism president obama. nobody wants this war even the public. look at the polls. 36% are approving of this? that is the lowest number of any of the wars. iraq, afghanistan. i think in the very beginning when we learned that chemical weapons had been used that people thought, okay, the media thought we are going to war. and then as a couple days
0 moved on and we see a video, videos of the terrible, horrible 400 children who were gassed and killed that everything changed. pundits started to say, no x we are not going to no, we are not going to do this. reporters, anchors started to have a skeptical tone. what strikes me is often when it comes to president obama you have the gang at msnbc and they are acting as a cheerleading squad, but on this one, chris matthews, ed schulz and others opposing the president on inter veption in syria and i wonder if that says we reached a moment where obama at least on this issue has no friends in the press? strange bedfellow here not only in the press, but in congress. you have people like liz cheney and barbara lee agreeing on this that america shouldn t intervene. some people call it a war and the white house is calling it a military inter veption in president of the united states i want to stay focused on the media. you say he has no moral authority. you are acting as a public dit
did. i think romney s leaning obama. [ laughter ] but where on earth is the serious press coverage of their exchanges on libya, on afghanistan, on terrorism? plus, obama s media blitz from brian williams to jay leno to mtv. what are you most worried about? malia getting a driver s license, malia going out on a date, or malia being on facebook? i worry about facebook right now even just for security reasons. you know, she doesn t have a facebook page. are the media giving the president a friendly platform? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. did you know that mitt romney engages in spraytanning before major events? that is what buzz feed is reporting and mass conjecture in social media despite a denial from the romney campaign. this is ephemeral stuff that s been coloring the campaign challenge, a challenge from media organizations that ought to focus on sbons such azerbaijas foreign policy debates. all too often we have side shows like donald tru
keith takes his case to david letterman. i screwed up. i screwed up really big on this. but is he. the media endorsing mitt romney wroosh. nothing will stop him from being the man. the race is effectively over. the only person that doesn t seem to understand that is rick santorum and newt gingrich. and, of course, the pundits are never wrong. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. we ll get to all that, but, first, breaking news this morning. we learned within the last 90 minutes that mike wallace has died. mike wallace, the legendary, and i don t use that word lightly legendary talk show host, correspondent for 60 minutes really a giant in the broadcast news industry, he was 93 years old. his son, chris, of course, is the host of fox news sunday. mike wallace has died. he has been ill for a while, but still somehow the news coming as a shock. so i m going to turn to our panel here. let me introduce everybody. david zurich sitting over here. the te
your dressing room and now that i have your hair products what is all this telling us about the network morning wars? what s the impact of matt lauer reupping at today? keith olbermann and current tv filing scorching suits against each other just days after his firing. in the court of public opinion, keith takes his case to david letterman. i screwed up. i screwed up really big on this. but is he. the media endorsing mitt romney wroosh. nothing will stop him from being the man. the race is effectively over. the only person that doesn t seem to understand that is rick santorum and newt gingrich. and, of course, the pundits are never wrong. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. we ll get to all that, but, first, breaking news this morning. we learned within the last 90 minutes that mike wallace has died. mike wallace, the legendary, and i don t use that word lightly legendary talk show host, correspondent for 60 minutes really a giant in the bro