that foundation? reporter: well, the foundation, i think we re going to put it up at foxnews.com on the web site where individuals can donate, because they have received a lot of support. she received 261 e-mails in one day this week. back to you. jenna: a very important look for us today. william, thank you very much for that. a sering indictment and a heart-wrenching story for one family in this country. how is the mainstream media covering this story? stick around, our news watch panel will weigh in on that. rick: we are america s election headquarters, your key to political insight this election year, and there seems to be growing chatter among groups on the left that republicans are scheming to steal the 2012 election by suppressing the liberal vote. joining us to talk about this now is joe trippi who is howard dean s former campaign manager. is this a new strategy, joe? no.
scandal growing bigger by the day. the attorney general, eric holder, is now facing a vote by the entire house of representatives on a resolution that would hold him in contempt of congress, and the white house exerting executive pressure over documents requested by congress. but you wouldn t know it from tuning into the mainstream media. joining us now, our news watch panel, judith miller, kirsten powers is a columnist for the daily beast. both are fox news contributors. and now everybody s talking about this story because of the privilege claim and because of the contempt vote. but, judith, it really isn t something that has been on a lot of the radar screens of a lot of mainstream media until now. why not? well, because the democrats kept saying that this was just a political ploy, that this was a way to embarrass attorney general holder and embarrass the president, that there was no there there. and as a result i really had to watch an extraordinary thing on
for instance who fame just lee said he had the tingle go up his leg when he heard president obama speak, even some of those media people have turned on him. they sure have. in defense of the obama campaign team, you often see that you see someone ike maureen dowd that has praised him at every turn of his presidency, write a critical column and it s short of a signal to campaign strategists or commentators that they can be more out front with their criticisms. i think we ve seen some piling on. i don t think the problem for the president is so much his message or campaign tactics, or what he s saying and doing on a daily basis. i think it s three and a half years of a presidency that increasingly voters are skeptical has worked the way that he said it would. jon: we ll be talking more about his media treatment with our news watch panel in just a bit. should we expect more negative campaigning, i mean if as you say the president is not exactly able to sell his
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accounted for. and as we get more details here at fox, we ll bring them right to you. jenna: sounds good, jamie, thank you. reporter: uh-huh. jon: you might say it hasn t been a good month for president obama. he s been getting hit from all sides with job growth stalled, a big loss for the democratic party in wisconsin s recall election and a major disconnect on messaging with former president bill clinton. really just the tip of the iceberg. the once-glowing coverage in the mainstream media has dulled just a bit. let s talk about it with our news watch panel. here with us, pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter judith miller and daily beast columnist kirsten powers, both fox news contributors. you had to love dana will banks opening line in the washington post today. is he right? well, he is conservative, and he s critical of obama and has been for a long time but, yes,