traitor? even jon stewart is making fun of the media s lack of interest in ron paul. what gives? a new york times columnist throws his weight behind the creation of a third party. tom friedman on beltway gridlock, the economy and why the coverage of politics reminds him of epsn. yahoo! digs up allegations that money, cars sex were improperly provided to university of miami athletes. i m howard kurtz and this is reliable sources . he s an instant front-runner in some polls, but he hasn t had an easy ride in his first week as apartment candidate. he drew plenty of attention from veracious political pundits, most of it negative, especially true when he said if the fed chairman keeps printing money and said that would be almost treasonous. isn t perry crossing the line with all of this talking about treason, talking about black cloud over the country? isn t this way over the line? bad way to start. you don t want to accuse the federal reserve chairman of being guilty of
doesn t look supercomfortable in front of the camera. he doesn t. he s very, very shy. he s doing a press conference today in newark which is actually unusual for him. but we ran into him yesterday outside the facebook offices. and he literally looked straight ahead and kept walking. he does not he s not a press guy. no. not at all really. but the idea of being and because he s coming forward, are there others going to feel the pressure to start donating? the big time billionaire kids out there? i don t know about the kids. but in the paper this morning names have come out. these are more normal names in the land of philanthropy. ray chambers from newark, bill gates from microsoft. i ve gotten on board with zuckerberg because hiss grant is not only $100 million. but its a challenge grant. he s looking to raise another hundred over his. as you know, there are a lot of people that talked about the timing here and that it s a bit interesting because of this film, the social
i think president obama is enjoying his life very much right now. ion though there is criticism, i m sure he is being perfectly protected and insulated. these pompous idiots have absolutely no balls. it is easy to say this, you know, radio studio. i would dare him to go up to the out of work machinist in north dakota who has to ask his best friend if there are odd jobs he can do to make some money, then he is spoiled. he could never do that. so pony up and say it to real america and not the three listeners you have outside your radio studio. yeah! was that appropriately outraged? get the outrage glasses. gary, do you agree that we are a spoiled country? that we expect too much from our leaders? i am not going to go and screw this press guy, let me say that. but i think this is court
this candidate in a really deep way. remember, the campaign statement said this is a result of aggressive behavior from a liberal reporter. here is the account from fox news journalist who was in the room with a producer and photo journalist preparing to interview gianforte. she wrote the guardian reporter, ben jacobs walked into the room with a voice recorder, put it into his face and began asking if he had a response to the newly released cbo report. gianforte said he would get to him later. jacobs persisted. he told him to talk to his press guy. at that point gianforte grabbed him by the neck with both hands and slammed him to the ground. she and her team watched and gianforte began punching the reporter. as gianforte moved on to be of jacobs, he began yelling something like, i m sick and tired of this. jacobs scrambled to his knees