been used as journalism. how on earth could this have happened? deja vu on the presidential campaign trail with the pundits again denigrating mitt romney after a pair of victories by rick santorum, and many prodding newt gingrich, again, to quit the race, and what about santorum s charge that fox news is schilling for romney? plus, comedian ali wentworth on her new show. her marriage to george stephanopoulos, and how the president reacted when he heard she would be entertaining at the white house. obama said, ali wentworth, isn t she inappropriate? which in my world is a huge compliment. huge. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. it was the most popular episode in the history of this american life. public radio reported on alleged abuses at a chinese factory that makes ipads and iphones. it relied heavily on one-man performance artist mike daisy. hurz hoe ira glass put it. when i saw mike daisy perform this story on stage, when i left the theater, i had a
republicans at his stop in iowa. let s listen to the president i. know it s frustrating. the other side could have been reasonable. you don t want to you don t want to reward unreasonableness, but sometimes you ve got to make choices in order to do what s best for the country at that particular moment. you know, i don t know what that means. it sound like an apology for the debt ceiling compromise. quite frankly. you know, chris, i don t blame the president on that one. it is absolutely true that the republicans are extremists, they were unreasonable of the debt ceiling. it needed to be lifted. the country could not go into default. but beyond that, no more compromises, and for heavens sakes, let s not hear any more talk of patent reform. that s among the very small bore issues the president is offering up nap makes it ring from the rafters, patent reform. give us a big, bold plan that
him and not lose faith in his approach, because he s getting us to where we re trying to go. okay. let s go. here s the president last night talking about his plan. this job recovery plan. let s listen. i ll be putting forward, when they come back in september, a very specific plan to boost the economy, to create jobs and to control our deficit. well, there you have it. he s promised thing.ç september, we ll see you in september. here he is, august 16th, i guess we re waiting. two weeks. and he s still talking about getting the deficit under control, when actually even many republican economists are saying that s the wrong thing to talk about. we don t have a short-term debt problem. what we have is a jobs problem. that s what americans want to hear about. and, you know, there are unemployed plumbers and painters who don t want to hear about patent reform. what in the heck is that? for heavens sakes, give me a
win this thing. what this tells you though is i agree with david here, the desperation of harry reid wouldn t you go there, pat? talking about is the individual mandate and i agree it was badly stated when you got into that autism thing, what this shows you is the leader of the united states senate who got you national health care is in a campaign of desperation to save his seat against a candidate who is not a very polished candidate. can you imagine the u.s. senate made up of 100 sharon engels? you are a partisan to make that argument. pat, thank you. it is a disaster we got in this country and they for heaven s sakes this disaster was not delivered to us by the
whether it s the gulf coast, oil spill or a hurricane, total different rules are employed in those kinds of disasters. absolutely, there should be disaster relief teams that are making assessments right now of these communities that are hurting. i was in gulf shores, alabama not too long ago, the hair there, robert craft, was trying to clean up his beach. every time they would move the beach. oil would come back ashore. they re not equipped to handle the big ticket items. they need assistance, they need direction, they need leadership from the top. mike: joe, thank you very much. it s a pleasure to see you again. anytime. mike: great to have you here and i hope that we will maybe, maybe get some information to the white house and let them know you have some authority, for heavens sakes, use it. when we come back, joining me, what about the rolling stone article that brought down the general. should the general have known? we ll talk to greg about that when we return.