three conservative journalists off his plane and then tried to keep fox news out of the press pool. he went on fox regularly and i don t want to go into prehistoric or ancient history. it is not prehistoric. it was the last election. president sat down with bill o reil o reilly. i would love to see romney sit down with rachel maddow or the equivalent. mitt romney knl even deal with a fox interview. you saw how brett handled him. if i m his campaign staff, i don t let him go on these programs either. he gets so uncomfortable whenever he has to go off the skrip. whenever he is challenged at all. he can t deal with it and he bristles. they have to keep this very tight control whenever he is not being fed talking points or reading a teleprompter. to krystal s point, even when he was sitting next to people and eating cookies, he managed to be disrespectful to the cookies and sneering toward
a sympathetic figure and the media descended on sandra fluke giving her a high profile platform to fight back. what does it say about the college co-ed susan fluke who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex? what does that make her? it makes her a slut, right? it makes her a prostitute. what was your first reaction when you heard the comments? well, i think my reaction was the reaction that a lot of women have had when historically they ve been called these types of names, and that really i think a lot of women across america have had to this, and that was initially to be stunned by it, but then to quickly feel outraged and very upset. joining us now to talk about the echos of this media and the twist in the presidential campaign, julia mason, host of sirius s the press pool, david prom from the daily beast and an analyst for cnn and dana millbank, columnist for the washington post. david, you are a kwifsh who
but in terms of a president, we need a leader. will this media blitz change the coverage as romney tries to catch gingrich? plus, we ll meet the 22-year-old college student who unearthed a devastating old romney video. it was a risky move when abc hired christiane amanpour from cnn last year for the sunday morning program this week. but now she is out. continuinging as an abc correspondent while launching an evening newscast for cnn international. what went wrong, and is bringing back george stephanopoulos the answer? tim tebow is winning all kinds of praise as the denver broncos quarterback. the entire team believes in him. the city is captivated by him how about the country. the country is coptivated by him. okay, so why are the media harping on his public displays of christianity? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. it s been a very long time, more than a year and a half in fact, since mitt romney appeared on a sunday show. he was the republ
he went back to the 1967 issue, explained it in full, echoed what many experts had said in the wake of his speech, that this has been the basis of negotiation for a long time, and he emphasized the fact that it would be based on mutually agreed upon swaps, using the 1967 borders, which prime minister netanyahu objected to so strongly, saying that in some places israel, according to those borders, is only nine miles wide. but president obama insisting that this was the time, the time for procrastination is over, with all the changes sweeping the middle east, with the demographics of the arab world skewing so much younger, with technology being what it is, facing new challenges for israeli security and the consequences of that new technology and those impacts, that this was the time now. we understand from the pool report, mind you, there were some 10,000 people in that cavernous room. alex, you and i have been in that room for other functions together. there are one or two people we re
video of phone protesters embarrassing the president. she was kicked out of the press pool. someone showed up at abiden fundraiser and they locked him in a closet. who thinks that way? i ran campaigns. i handled candidates. i have a reporter we ll lock in the broom clothes and tell him he can t come out. you don t treat people like this. in 2010 he said we are going to reward or friends and punish our enemies. i want woodward and bernstein to check this guy out. this is nuts. martha: is there evidence that they are fighting for equal access for the paper again? remember when the white house declared war on fox news and they would make officials available to the pool only they