me or you can t use this unless i agree. suddenly with holder, it is like, i am just shocked controversy during the bush administration is the president tried to have an off the record barbecue at his ranch down in waco and we could report on what food was served but not on the type of conversation. sure, this is a perennial issue and i don t think there is a right or wrong. times off the record and i don t think this is a clear case of this. this is just a clear case of the justice department and eric holder with a self-inflicted injury. this is something he didn t have to have happen. a lot of stupid accusations leveled against him and the justice department every day. this one is very real. he didn t have to have it happen and he, he and the white house have really lost a lot of good will and a lot of benefit of the doubt among journalists in the other cases, too. deborah, republicans or some of them, i should say, are making the case that eric holder lied to congress when he
something sounds really suspicious and some media outlets jump on it, a little too quickly at times. this is one of the liabilities of our 24/7 cycle and one of the more famous cases is poor shirley sharrod. decided to write one snippet of a tape and it ruined her career and got her fired. this was not inaccurate but the spin was. deborah saunders, at the same time, the administration didn t immediately clarify what those visits were for, but was this a little too overheated in suggesting, insinuating, implying that it was reinvolved in the white house complex. the atlantic had written that he was approved for visits through security. you don t always go, even if you ve been cleared by secret service. that s correct. but, you know, let me just say mr. shulman, you should check things out.
joining us from san francisco deborah saunders and dana mill bank and with us louise from politico. should the news organizations have refused to sit down with eric holder because he s saying you can t report what is going on in the meets? a useful dialogue that had to happen. i don t fault anybody for going or not going. people had to do what they needed to do. i just don t understand the justice department s thinking on this. i mean, we re dealing with a very serious press issue at a time when transparency is essential. why have them off the record when you know they re not going to stay off the record? they re never going to stay off the record. the rules were a little relaxed. dana millbank. from the journalist point of view, i don t see what you get out of it if you can sit and get the benefit of the attorney general s thinking and you can t tell your readers. you can t tell your viewers.
0 the same day as his and dyed the same day as his grandma. dead spin looked into this and found out nobody died that day. there was no record by the social security administration of that person. we called stanford. they never had a young girl by the name gretchen: not only that. she was never born. there is no record of this woman having a birth certificate. my question is: who s that woman in the picture? brian: that is a friend of someone who is a friend of manti. gretchen: there is this guy friend of the football player who apparently contacted that woman who is really not lennai and said will you send me a picture with these words on it to go up on facebook for a particular reason. she didn t know what it was for. apparently it was for something related to this particular scheme and scam. you got to wonder through all this publicity of losing grandmother and girlfriend in the same day last fall, sports illustrated was doing on this, espn was doing stories on this. every
night for the first time since he and wife maria shriver separated. he told a an aude glens los angeles that had hope they can reconcile. how much of this is exactly the med media s business? joining us in san francisco, deborah saunders. columnist for the san francisco chronicle. in washington, sally quinn, co-founder of the washington post on face blog. michelle, washington correspondent for newsweek and the daily beast. the good wife 2012. sally quinn. she leaves, marries another guy, comes back. she marries her husband. how or why is that a front page story? you know, that s going to play really well one way or the other with the evangelicals. this is a whole issue i think people haven t figured out. should it be an issue? with these people it is an issue. you know, hillary clinton once said, you know, hi hoped there would be a certain zone of privacy when i got to the white house. forget it. there is no such thing as a zone of privacy.