his resume was largely fiction. the press card. no surprise that he is enemies of york times. coming to smear his good name. this week he admitted the times report on this fabricated background was true. journalism 101. graduated from new york s brook college. he said he worked for goldman sachs and citigroup. neither company had heard from them. he and his family on 13 real estate properties. there are records showing he was evicted from two queens apartments for not paying rent. which it makes it even more mysterious that he loaned his house campaign $700,000 for company with no clients and has no website and no linkedin page. none of this would ve come out of george santos had made his second try to win the house c. leaving him struggling to defend what he calls mere embellishments to his resume. i am howard kurtz and missus media buzz. my thoughts on the passing of barbara walters. twitter pressured into spending journalists and experts for contrary views on covid. ge
Rises to 66 and for trump voters, 98 . These are mostly selfinflicted wounds. Sensationalism and serious mistakes have decimated public trust in the press especially on the right. Now, for some pokes in this hyperpolarized era, threat to democracy may be a pox city for i just dont like the media or i think theyre ooh nice to the other side. And the trumpstyle pressbashing has taken its toll. Im not going to sugar coat it, we have lost our role as a fair umpire of political disputes. The gaps want to throw us off the field. Even the Fact Checkers believe its partisan. I hate that so Many Americans now view my profession as a threat to them can crass, but i cant say im shocked. Im howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. Howard one sign just over two to weeks before the midterms that the election is moving in the republicans direction is that even liberal pundits and news outlets are conceding the point. The party of woke scolds and Gender Studies grads knockout now realizing the momentum ov
electoral college, armed guards will throw them out. i m the president [bleep] i m challenging all of it. [laughter] challenging all of it. violence. [inaudible conversations] shoot to kill. see an antifa, shoot to kill. howard: and the other networks kept replaying the footage of the veteran gop operative and donald trump pal. clear that in some sense roger stone was a go between. the actual election didn t matter to stone. the vote didn t matter. roger stone, some of his words are quite chilling. don t know how they ll hold up in court, but they do indicate a lot. howard: but then the hurricane forced the committee to cancel the hearing, rennering all this old news by the time the session is held later this month. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. joining us now to analyze the coverage in saratoga springs, new york, brian kilmeade, cohost of fox & friends weekend excuse me, cohost of fox & friends and host of one nation with brian kilmeade. and in
the media kept touting each ballot as a crushing defeat for ken mccash think kevin mccarthy, although he was winning 95% of house republicans. that was especially true late friday night when after flipping most of his opponents to his side, mccarthy lost by one vote. you could see he was stunned as he walks away there, and one ally, mike rogers, made a beeline for matt gaetz who had taken a half step by voting present. not until the early morning our hours yesterday did mccarthy win. some of the talking heads predicted mccarthy would drop out. i suspect that when they come back after dinner that mccarthy is going to end up withdrawing. oh, i think his goose is very much cooked. i don t think we re going to see a speaker kevin mccarthy. howard: only in the final late night drama did journalists say, hey, shocker, mccarthy, who we all branded the biggest loser, might actually win this thing. of i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, my exclusive int
was struggling. i always thought i was pretty empathetic, emphatic. i think i was very, excuse me, empathetic. you know, that s an example of the stroke, empathetic. before having a stroke. but now after having that stroke is, i really understand, you know, much more kind of the challenges that americans have day in and day out. what you saw and heard there, the auditory processing challenges, the speech challenges howard: the nbc correspondent also shared this observation with her viewers we did find that in small talk before the interview without captioning it seemed it was difficult for fetterman to understand our conversation. howard: this prompted a fierce backlash. podcaster kara swisher called burns account just nonsense. maybe this reporter was just bad at small talk. new york magazine offered up a cover story on fetterman saying his comprehension is not at all impaired. he understands everything. burns didn t suggest otherwise, but plenty of stories have r