behind it is president obama s deliberate attempt to do class warfare as part of his campaign strategy. it s president obama who decided to divide the electorate down those levels. he has said that we have to get more out of the rich. he condemns success. he tellsed the job creators they didn t build it. now myth romneys quantity guys it at 47-47 and the liberal media says that s the story. the story is in all of my life there has never been a president who uses class warfare as aggressively as obama. he used race warfare against hillary clinton and she said shame on you obama. mitt just put the numbers on the table. megyn: the problem with governor romney s comment is he sounds like he bought into the class warfare. he describes in the video 47% of the american people as quote
a blog post attacking phillips segment with kohl by. colby. devoted to exposing media bias, however, it s founder david brock has characterized the group s mission as the waging of war on fox news. the justice department declined to comment for this story. a spokesman for media matters told me the group would comment only if it was offered a chance to appear live on this network which request this reporter was in no position to grant. megyn? [laughter] megyn: thanks, james. will anyone in the justice department be held accountable for this? jay sekulow is the chief counsel for the american center of law and justice, he also served a at the united states department of justice. jay, welcome. so, you know, media matters is going to it s designed to, you know, bring down fox news. how s that going? right. [laughter] megyn: but this is the department of justice.
news programs that, in fact, they believe these were not preplanned attacks and that the spark for all this was that anti-muslim video, that has been contradicted as you noted by the libyan president, other intelligence sources. jay carney today left the door open to the idea that the administration s story on this can change was he said because he said this investigation is still ongoing, but he still maintained today it is their belief at least in the preliminary stages of this investigation that the attack was not preplanned, megyn. megyn: ed, thank you. well, as the white house responds to questions about the attack in the libya, there is a new book out today that almost predicted these recent events. the book is called spring fever: the last illusion of islamic democracy. and the author is andrew mccarthy of andrew c. mccarthy.com. great to have you back on the program. great to be here, megyn. megyn: so this is an e-book, they can download on it on their kindle. you say the
for the bin laden raid, for three full days he and everyone else no one thinks about this as the most offensive tin eared kind of awkwardness, no one writes about it that way. had mitt romney done anything like that you would have heard for days, left and right about it. and so we see this going forward. it s inevitable, i suppose. we have that mainstream media. what do you make of it, ed rollins. do you think it is worse this time around? i do. i think they thought it would be a competitive race. every four years those of us who love politics, this is our olympics. to a certain extent they thought romney would be a better candidate than he turned out to be. now they are jumping on the process part of the story as opposed to the substance. megyn: in the olympics you have
sometimes reaching out with her own whereas for stories. it is clearly a pure attempt to lie about the news. in one case we have the spokesman from the justice department e-mailing media matters and saying, in effect, why don t you do a story on this? i just saw something on fox, and why don t you attack it? i m sure they re watching this right now, there s no question about it. six months ago she, indeed, watched america s newsroom. in that segment phillips made the claim vision rusely disputed by the obama administration that fast and furious was conceived to help usher in, quote, gun control laws. wide reporter: by that afternoon media matters web site featured