we ll examine the frenetic coverage of the movie theater shooting. conservative commentators join the call for mitt romney to reduce his tax returns. is there right in revolt against the republican candidate? plus, yahoo! taps google executive marisa maher as its new ceo and it s been downright adoring. google geek to yahoo! ceo, and she s going to be a first-time mommy. with so few female bosses in silicon valley, is the press putting her on a pedestal? i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. perhaps the single worst thing that news organizations do after a crazed gunman opens fire on a crowd is rush to judgment about the affiliation or beliefs of the shooter as abc news did. there s a james holmes of aurora, colorado, page on the tea party site, as well, talking about him joining the tea party last year. we don t know if this is the same james holmes. but james holmes of aurora, colorado. it turned out to be someone with the same name. and abc and
tax returns, release them. we need this campaign to be about obama s records. reporter: he needs to regain control and do that today in battle ground ohio. back to you. thank you. we are already seeing an outcry to release information or a national review publishing an editorial a conservative publication. he is a politician running for the highest office in the land and his current posture is unsustainable. in all likelihood he will not be able to maintain a position that looks secretive and is a departure from campaign conventions. that s what it s about. the lack of what appears to be transparency. people don t want opaqueness shrouding a candidate. who cares about taxes? you know, it makes people think there is something there. there s something there. if there is nothing there, release them. speaking of hiding, he is so tight-lipped about the v.p. choice, there can be decoys
every entrepreneur, every innovator in america. but romney s fiery rhetoric has been blunted by growing calls by fellow republicans to release his tax returns. romney told the national review s robert costa yesterday, quote, i m simply not enthusiastic about giving the obama campaign hundreds or thousands of more pages to pick through, distort and lie about. but the conservative magazine s editors were apparently not convinced, writing, quote, in all likelihood, he mitt romney will not be able to maintain a position that looks secretive and is a departure from campaign conventions. the only question is whether he releases more returns now or later. texas governor rick perry, who has released his tax returns dating back to 1992, was quizzed by reporters in austin yesterday and issued a general call for transparency. i m a big believer that no matter who you are or what office you re running for, you should be as transparent as you can be with your tax returns and
position looks secretive and is a deparcher from campaign conventions. he s not just taking criticism from his own side, from within his own party and from over conservatives, it s not just that all of these key conservatives are off message or uncoordinated on this issue. it s not that surface. the problem is deeper than that. the problem is that all of the questions around mr. romney s personal finances are considerable and substantive questions and they re not being answered. this is not a name calling thing. this is not a political chor choreography problem or a messaging problem. this is conspicuously unanswered problems. and the thing is they become more acute the longer they go unanswered. and mr. romney is not getting any closer to answer these questions. in his interview today with the national review, this was his answer to why he hasn t gotten rid of his offshore accounts specifically, quote, all of my
should release the tax returns tomorrow. it s crazy. you have to release six, eight, ten years of tax returns. if something is going to come out, get it out in a hurry. i do not know why given that mr. romney knew the day that mccain lost in 2008 that he was going to run for president again, that he didn t get all of this out and tidy up some of this offshore accounts and all of the rest. tax returns, should he release the tax returns? i would. the fact is there are a couple years where he may not have paid any taxes at all. maybe he s concerned about that. maybe he s concerned about offshore accounts. but if it s going to come out, he needs to get it out now so he has a couple months to explain it. there s obviously something there. put out as much information if you can, even if you don t release 12 years, at least three, four, five. today, the national review conservative magazine also in an editorial called on mr. romney to release his returns, saying his position l