as he covers hillary clinton s presidential campaign? jeb bush kicks up a storm defending his brother s invasion of iraq and ignoring the key part of the question. on subject of iraq, i know it is controversial knowing what we know enjoy would. authorize the invasion? i would have, and so would hillary clinton and so would almost everyone that was confronted with the intelligence they got. how did the former governor bobble the question of what we know now and will the media pressure him to disavow his brother s policies? president obama said the reporter need to do a better job of certain segments of society. letterman about to hang it up with a parade of all-star guests. we discussed this, maybe it is easier for a man to be more effective out of office? you are about to find out. i take that as a challenge. how did dave transform late night tv&can stephen colbert hang on to the cbs audience? i am howard kurtz and this is media buzz. george stephanopo
students at penn state who raised money for cancer research. after the suspension, owner map said he was sorry. joining us now, marissa guthrie.map said he was sorry. joining us now, marissa guthrie. he has a history of picking fights. what do you make of this? well, look, he s admitted that it was stupid. and it s pretty hard to win that battle when these are students doing something so selfless as raising money for cancer research. and he knows that he was wrong. but espn hired him because he has strong opinion, he s very skilled at relaying them for anto an audience, so he will occasionally go over the line. they have a lot of people like
admitting they get a much harder time than the democrats. obama insider says the president felt worn out by the whole cable thing. and defending obama s sunshining at fox. i wouldn t necessarily sing aloud news organizations that way. fox news at least some elements of it have come to represent the voice of the right on cable tv. i ve got some questions for david plus the will i be tearlibertarian known as kennedy. i ve always been kind of a misfit and that s where i m more comfortable. it wouldn t be authentic or right for me to adopt a convenient set of beliefs from either side. i m howard kurtz and this is #mediabuzz . more journalistsen ever before and this year s conservative gathering. and i asked reporters how cpac became such a media mecca. is the presence of all these media people the cameras bloggers writers, magnify the importance of cpac? that s the irony. yes, of course, a lot of cameras and reporters making any guys smi magnifies their impact, but
interview, so to speak, he said you know what? i probably alienated many potential view erts, but i think jeff zucker looked at the lineup and said my clean up hitter is batting under .200 and he s triking out a lot. numbers led to this decision that it was time to let piers go. he was getting beaten by this network and rachel maddow, as well. let s not lose sight of the undisputed fact that the ratings were not doing well and were sinking. but marissa, coming back to the question of personality, when you re on the air in prime time every night, your on personality is why people tune in or click away. his on-air persona, not exactly warm and cuddly. no. and i think that he was thinking that, you happen, everybody on cnn has become more opinionated. i think that that is something that jeff is promoting. but i think that with piers jeff zucker.
marissa guthrie and joe concha. let s try not to have an unbelievably stupid conversation. piers morgan telling the new york times that a big part of the reason his show was canceled by cnn was because of his crusade on the issue of gun control. is that true? no, i don t think his problems started when he started banging on, as he would say, about gun control. i think for piers the show was all about him and not his guests. you have to sort of make that subtle distinction where the show is actually about what the guest is saying. and it was all about piers, it was about his enthusiasm, his opinions, his british accent, and i think ultimately viewers just didn t cop to that. certainly it didn t help that this was a british guy lecturing americans about their loss. absolutely. we had a british guy, as you said, pontificating about american culture, politics and gun control. by his own admission in his exit