hardly a religious, right wing publication, but look, the media are reluctant to cover religious stories unless they have a scandal attached to them. this was a great moment. i read in the fastest of all places one asked for a minister, two or three of them down there half a mile beneath the earth, experienced the conversion. so these are interesting human interests. i think this is one of those stories where the media can be a cheerleader and they can be an observer at the same time. there s no down side to this story. it rings true for everybody. so, it s a wonderful, feel good moment and i think especially our adam housley at fox did a great job, simultaneously translation while cnn was doing a voice over and work with them. jon: elliss put aside your negativity for a moment. yeah, this story i m surprised cal wasn t pulling for them to stay in the hole. oh, no!
hardly a religious, right wing publication, but look, the media are reluctant to cover religious stories unless they have a scandal attached to them. this was a great moment. i read in the fastest of all places one asked for a minister, two or three of them down there half a mile beneath the earth, experienced the conversion. so these are interesting human interests. i think this is one of those stories where the media can be a cheerleader and they can be an observer at the same time. there s no down side to this story. it rings true for everybody. so, it s a wonderful, feel good moment and i think especially our adam housley at fox did a great job, simultaneously translation while cnn was doing a voice over and work with them. jon: elliss put aside your negativity for a moment. yeah, this story i m surprised cal wasn t pulling for them to stay in the hole.
leader, talks about his tan and likes to smoke while he plays golf and critics say this is the new york times running interference for the white house on one of the political enemies. i don t think that the new york times likes john boehner and i don t think they want the republicans to win the house this november. it s a hunt. come on, this is magazine journalism today, this is the personality profile every single big person in our culture subjected to that. and fund raising and about barack obama and at least they don t smoke. boehner and obama smoke. jon: we ll take a break while elliss does the research. you ve got to check out our new website, keep an eye on the media sections on the watch list and go behind the scenes and listen to some discussions we have here during the breaks, always very interesting. up next, when it comes to religion, do the media play favorites? the pope makes a historic trip to visit the queen.
networks, abc, cbs. calling mosque at ground zero as isl islamophobia pt. they take the imam s side on this battle and every journalist in the country is said, yes, we must, and the big question, judy said, there s no evidence they have the money. the right or wrong of the thing. they re about 100 million behind where they need to build this thing. jon: elliss, let me read you a quote from christian ann ahmanpower. she said nine years later the growing hostility toward muslim americans. not since 9/11 has the country seen search anti-muslim fervor and muslim-americans are
they re on a different plane than anybody else. maureen dowd wrote about in the new york times a couple weeks how mrs. obama leaves the white house during tough times, you know, we ve editorialized about barack obama apologizing to the u.s. jon: let s ask a man of the people. elliss. it s a marvellous story, has everything it needs except facts. the two people who have now through their staff, the right way to do it you don t want to climb into the gutter with these people said it s absolutely 100% untrue and the office provided no evidence. it s an authorized biography. no, it s not. does this story have legs, so to speak? moving on. where people get their news these days, according to a new poll by the pew research center more than a third, 36% of americans say they get news from both digital and traditional sources television radio and print, just shy of the number who rely on