when barack obama took office and why she quit? the spin wars over kathleen sebelius resigning. al sharpton outed as a mob informant. does this mire the msnbc s pundit s image. is stephen colbert taking over for david letterman. this man has influenced every house after him and a few before. i do not envy whoever they try to put in that chair. can he succeed without playing a conservative bafoon. i m howard kurtz and this is media buzz. president obama was sure heaping praise on kathleen sebelius announcing her departure at hss secretary. you would never know the white house wanted her out there according to the various versions leaked to the press months after some commentators were calling for her to be fired. they worked hard to stage manage her exit with expert handling of the media. she has symbolized, personified, the catastrophic disaster that obama care has been substantively and procedural. i think he would rather have someone else at the helm. no
access, probably better than i ever have had to stories and sources and really good information and yet have almost no outlet for what to do with it. to disappoint people over and over again, to get sources to go out on a limb and convince them to come forward and tell you what they know and then have to go back to them after all of that time and time again. i said, i know i said this was a really important story worth going out on a limb for but actually nobody wants it. it is the kind of thing you can t do to people. sharyl attkisson, thanks very much for joining us. thank you. you can read her work at sharyl attkisson.com. julia louie dreyfus, the star of veep poses in a state of undress. it shows her back adorned with a fake tattoo of the constitution. lots of news outlets pounce on a factual flub. it turns out that anybody think the media from more interested
when barack obama took office and why she quit? the spin wars over kathleen sebelius resigning. al sharpton outed as a mob informant. does this mire the msnbc s pundit s image. is stephen colbert taking over for david letterman. this man has influenced every house after him and a few before. i do not envy whoever they try to put in that chair. can he succeed without playing a conservative bafoon. i m howard kurtz and this is media buzz. president obama was sure heaping praise on kathleen sebelius announcing her departure at hss secretary. you would never know the white house wanted her out there according to the various versions leaked to the press months after some commentators were calling for her to be fired. they worked hard to stage manage her exit with expert handling of the media. she has symbolized, personified, the catastrophic disaster that obama care has been substantively and procedural. i think he would rather have someone else at the helm. no
0 and that s the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction, joining us from washington, ellen who worked for president obama s 2012 campaign. and with us in the studio dr. screeny. who teaches political science. where am i going wrong, doctor? i think you are on to something here. i think in my mind this speaks to enormous division and increasing division in the democratic party. so you look and you see the attacks this hillary is getting from the left and not a surprise but i think many people predict that wall street for 2016 will be her achilles hill heel in the same way the iraq war was in 2008. something she will have a fight. if she becomes nominee and elected many on this kind of new left progressive left fear that she is going to be too close it wall street and continue her husband s moderate policy. that s a given. i don t think hillary clinton although they made a big show of being with de blasio who is about as far as left as you get and they were all raw raw and the
0 have hijacked our politics enabling them to reap all the profit without feeling any compunction to do right by their workers? as someone who has sat on the rabidly antiunion board of wal-mart for six years, the right person to restore workers rights. at a time when we are still reeling from a global financial disaster brought on by fool hearty bank deregulation, as someone who recently took $400,000 to give two speeches at goldman sachs, the person we need to rest control of the aasylum back from the banking inmates. that anti-capitalistic commentary is the far left s signature issue. talking points believes there must be oversight on banks and big business to trust them to do the right thing is foolish and naive. if you don t believe me, read a little teddy roosevelt. but many on the left want to dismantle the entire corporate system. and we are seeing the consequences of that in the obama administration. now entering his sixth year in office. the president has not been a friend t