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
congressman cheney is standing up to donald trump for the sake of the institutional vitality and, indeed, survival of the republican party itself. i think here was the beginning of something much larger than being one of 435 members of the house, one of 535 members of congress. the language was remarkable. and to have celebrate sated herself elevated herself to this point where not just people in her own party, but people in the democratic party listen to her, consider her a leader howard: this is a total flip prosecute cays that days that many dismissed her as a warmonger in the hold of her father, the former vice president. and liberals were happy to remind us of liz s past record. the president is operating outside the bounds of the constitution. he thinks he s above the law, and if the republicans, conservatives don t stand up and night against it, as i said, we re going to lose fundamental values and freedoms. howard: talking there about barack obama, and m
the police were summonedded lee years ago by a family member who said the high school dropout had lettenned to kill everyone. threatened to kill everyone. the officers seized 16 knives, a cager and a sword, and that s about it. how is that possible? they could have arrested them for the threat, they can have slapped his name on a no-gun purchase list. instead, he was able to to legally buy 5 guns, a glock pistol and without that failure those seven people in a parade on independence day would still be alived today. what s more, the mass shooter posted violent rhetoric and images online that apparently went undetected by the cops and social media companies. look, the police have a tough job. no law is going to stop is every crazed shooter, but combined with what smells like an unraveling police cover-up of the school massacre in you value uvalde uvalde, everyone s got to do a better job of spotting these potentially heinous killers. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz
pictures of gay couples kissing and embracing under the headline equal dignity. the culmination of decades of activism that set off jubilation and airful embraces tearful embraces. many a times follow-up, there was revelry is and soul searching on gay pride day. such cities as new york city and san francisco promised a sort of social catharsis of bicoastal toast to the nation s rapid shift on gay rights and an extended curtain call for the movement that drove it. now, the washington post front page story said the decision rewarded years of legal work by same-sex marriage advocates and pointed to the vexing challenge now facing republican presidential candidates and the gop itself, how to get in step with modern america. we also looked at the coverage of the original 1973 roe v. wade decision, and while it was overshadowed by the death of lbj, it reflects that newspapers mainly took a just the facts approach. the washington post quoted the majority, then the minority