happened, just as the cold war was the prism during those areas. the washington post had to apologize for some of the early coverage of the lack of skeptical coverage they gave the iraq war going in. we found ourselves snookered at times, journalism did, being cheerleaders and insufficient skeptics. osama bin laden after those attacks, nearly 3,000 americans killed, he was public enemy number one. we wanted him dead or alive, and then the coverage of osama seemed to fade. why? when they didn t get him, i wouldn t want to be asked the question, when are you going get to him? hillary clinton said obama was nai naive. he dropped after because the democratic movements coming forward in egypt and other places, you don t see them cheering for them. he killed a lot of muslims in the middle east.
be triumphant and be leak seen to be gloating about this. that s a fair point. i also think, look, the prism through which we viewed the world and young people celebrating who have known no other world before 9/11, i would have liked to have seen some time for celebration a little bit. not gloating, but celebration and unity before we gt to this point. ideas do have consequences, and i think at some point it is fair. we may, in fact, some of the information we obtained approximate from the raid of bin laden s confines, we might find information that would allow us to get a high level terrorist. we have a real world question, do we use enhanced interrogation or not? it s fair to look at shake mohammed, but he lied after he was water boarded. this was just a muddle. it s ambiguous. in this case the media is behaving worse than the
the information i have to you, first of all, resistance does not require a firearm. but the the information i gave you is what i can tell you about it. some things you acknowledged yesterday have changed as the information came in. is the fact of a firefight we heard the account i read yesterday. and that is information that i provided, and i m just simply saying i m not going further than na. talking about reporters on sensitivish use is p.j. crowley, the top spokesman at the state department. do journalists go overboard when the administration changed its stories about the details of the raid. at one level the bottom line is osama bin laden sded and the american people are happy and the rest of the world is relieved. this nit-picking on the part of the press corps? it is nit-picking, but by the same token from 30 years of
president is responsible for more deaths than bin laden. the old bush has war criminal rhetoric. but he also said this. that s right. this radio host is suggesting that a special operations unit might want to kill bush. it s important for media to call hate speech on both sides so, kudos to washington post columnist cobi king for hiling his offensive comments. didn t think much of this one. georgia s gainesville times didn t report the arrest of its executive editor for driving under the influence. he wasn t deemed enough of a public figure to be newsworthy. right. so he was exposed saying he should have insisted that the paper publish it. fox news put on the first debate of the 2012 presidential campaign this weekend. it wasn t an all-star affair. beside tim pawlenty, ron paul, pizza mogul herman caine and former governor gary johnson.
this chips away at a neighbarra that plagued him for deck raids. if his poll numbers hold up. if he s up, we give him better coverage. that is very depressing, so if the so-called balance in the polls ends, suddenly we say back to the same old obama? when obama was at 80%, we were celebrating this whole he can walk on water thing, and then conversely when he gets down near 40%. he s delivered the goods in terms of his actions, but if he portrays himself or acts sort of wimply, in some ways that means more than delivering it. further evidence of the poll-addicted press corps. thanks for stopping by this morning. up next, a conversation with p.j. crowley about the white house and the press butting heads over the death of bin laden and why he quit as the state department s sttop spokesman. thank you.