jon: while federal officials have so far been reluctant to categorize the shooting in san bernardino, some media outlets not holding back whatsoever. the newsstand here in new york city, for example, had the post blaming islamic terror. and another pointing a finger at republicans and the nra. judith miller joining us now and lynn sweet, washington bureau chief for the chicago sun-times. little late for the morning headlines, lynn, but fox be has confirmed fox has confirmed that the wife in this massacre had been in touch with and had pledged allegiance to the leader of isis. doesn t that make this islamic terrorism? well, let me cite fox news analyst frances townsend who was on a little less than two hours ago who said that for government officials as opposed to journalists and just other
maybe we really want to realize. they didn t know what to do, is what i m thinking. and, you know, the president says he s gotten so much of his information from news. we ve been reporting on the call from the prime minister in iraq for help since january. so if he were watching fox be, he would have known that the situation were dire and deteriorating maliki specifically requested the president to strike isis bases a month before this came out, okay? that fell on tone deaf ears again because, again, they just want to put their hand up, anything but face the situation at hand. and now what s happening? again, i would ask the white house had now faced it had you faced it, what would your plan have been? they don t want to get involved. i mean, that s the bottom line. there s no sign. i don t know why they would have to but there are plenty of people, i mean, petraeus doesn t think the airstrikes are necessarily a good idea. well, that seems to be the only plan. why