in libya he directly contradicted the sworn testimony of the regional security director for the state department with the responsibility for libya. the camps of both candidates have expressed concern about recent statements from the moderator candy crowley. her role is supposed to be limited to quote managing the discussion, she is not supposed to rephrase questions or open new topics or follow-ups with new questions. but she recently said, quote, now, once the table is kind of set by the town hall questioner, then there is time for me to say, hey, wait a second, what about x, y, z? end quote. we ll see how far she carries that. it has created a lot of consternation in both campaigns. jon: we ll get into her role with our news watch panel coming up. thank you. jenna: the benghazi terror attack turning into really a hot topic of conversation on the
caution here. look at that. nascar taking more than an hour to sort through the finishing order for the remaining cars. no injuries are reported, luckily, but some drivers tired of crashes, tired of unsafe tactics are calling for nascar to intervene. not a good day at the track. jon: that is a couple of bubs lost, that s for sure. the mainstream media have a history of giving president obama plenty of slack, but after his performance against governor romney in their first debate there are signs some in the media could be turning on the president. let s talk about it with our news watch panel today. jim pinkerton is a contributing editor and writer for the american conservative magazine. alan colmes is host of the alan colmes radio show and he has a new book out thank the liberals for saving america. i m going to start with you first, alan because i know what you re going to say. you re going to say that the mainstream media are not in the tank for president obama and never have been.
jenna: just before noon here on the east coast, brand new stories this hour. more reaction to the big debate as the candidates hit the trail very hard. our news watch panel breaks down the mainstream media coverage of what most are calling a win for governor romney. we ll see. also, new reports of suspects in custody for the murders of our ambassador in libya and three other americans after the fbi finally gets on the ground in benghazi but stays less than a day there. we ll talk about that. and filling up the car, much pricier in some parts of this country. why insane gas prices are forcing some station owners to simply shut off the pumps all coming up on happening now. well, president obama hitting the campaign trail today in two swing states. welcome to the second hour of happening now, i m jenna lee. jon: i m jon scott. the president ending his week with a positive economic report as the unemployment rate drops to the lowest level since he took office. he is now on his wa
the optimism and the eloquence. defensive, halting and verbose, he looked tired, and that made his presidency look tired. so what about the news coverage? joining us in on our news watch panel now, judith miller or, a pulitzer prize-winning author. kirsten, do you think the media got it wrong in their characterizations of this debate? actually, for once i don t. [laughter] it was interesting as the debate was going on and it became pretty clear what was happening, that it was undeniable that rommy was winning romney was overwhelmingly winning the debate. he wasn t just doing well, the president was doing extraordinarily bad. i started to wonder, you know, if there was any possible way the media could bend this in obama s favor, but really i didn t see anybody even attempting to do that. everybody seemed to have reported it as it happened. jon: you know, i heard ann compton from abc, judy, talking
discovered down in there. they took it, sent it off to a lab, it turns out it was this particular endangered species and now the project is on hold, everything is sitting there on idle, jenna. jenna: we ll see if it does become the spider that is beneficial to humans. could be. in the meantime we ll see what happens with the $15 million project. thank you. gregg: i m surprised swub didn t just squash the spider. jenna: so insensitive. gregg: the itsey-bitsey spider i ll never sing that again. both campaigns hitting the sunday circuit accusing the media of rooting for the other side. a fair assessment? our news watch panel will be weighing in next.