Taken out. Howie the media conveyed a sense of national unity when President Bush grabbed the mega phone amid the ruins of ground zero. It alSo spawned controversies that consumed a News Business that was more polarized, treatment of muslims the use of gitmo to name a few. America hasnt suffered a Terrorist Strike of the magnitude perpetrated by Osama Bin laden killed by our military a decade ago. As five President S paid tribute yesterday, keep in mind 9 11 led to 20 years of dangerous War Reporting and endless arguing over forever wars and how long the united states should try to foster democracy in these tribal cultures which is why the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan Leaves such a bitter taste. The taliban back in in charge just as they were back on 9 11. Im Howard Kurtz and this is Media Buzz. Howie ahead well talk to Ari Fleischer about being in the White House on 9 11 and to Andrew Sullivan on how the media have become more intolerant and the debate over president Bidens Vac
For me he was a dear friend, we will have on the program my buddy sean hannity, we worked closely with rush, and good friends with rush, before that, i want to show you what kind of a human rush was, the salt of the earth. Going to help people, he didnt know. Over the years we would communicate a lot. We would text and email every night, every day. We shared our thoughts about life, governments, economics and the events of the day, he was smart estimate most wise person that i have known apart from my parents. I want to read you something from a book that i wrote, nothing do with politics or philosophy, rescuing is bright. I wrote this book after we had to put our adopted dog, our Rescue Dog Sprite to sleep. We never experienced that before. Since that we have done it 3 additional times, it is horrific every time. But as i was going through that. I was texting rush. I want you to hear some things he had to say. I know he would want me to share them with you. It is in the book. So as sp
For me he was a dear friend, we will have on the program my buddy sean hannity, we worked closely with rush, and good friends with rush, before that, i want to show you what kind of a human rush was, the salt of the earth. Going to help people, he didnt know. Over the years we would communicate a lot. We would text and email every night, every day. We shared our thoughts about life, governments, economics and the events of the day, he was smart estimate most wise person that i have known apart from my parents. I want to read you something from a book that i wrote, nothing do with politics or philosophy, rescuing is bright. I wrote this book after we had to put our adopted dog, our Rescue Dog Sprite to sleep. We never experienced that before. Since that we have done it 3 additional times, it is horrific every time. But as i was going through that. I was texting rush. I want you to hear some things he had to say. I know he would want me to share them with you. It is in the book. So as sp
Be free slurpy day if you drink them fast enough. People love this holiday. Theyve been doing this for 17 years now. And its much more popular than 7elevens other big promotional holiday, free wrinkled tiny hot dog thats been sitting out since the bush administration. I believe thats october 8. Todays the day you spend hours waiting in line for a slurpy for free, or you can pay a dollar any other day and get one in like two seconds, nothing against slurpies. As a general rule, i dont drink anything that has the word pee in it. We have a good show, the director of the linthe lion ki jojon favreau is here. And from the usa soccer team, alex morgan and Megan Rapinoe are with us. [cheers and applause] if your daughter wants pink hair, and we have music from Taylor Bennett. The president hasnt extended an invitation yet to the u. S. Soccer team to visit the white house. But today he rolled out the orange carpet for all his favorite wing nuts. He held a social media summit at the white house
wonderful example so assuming some social and economic provisions ought to be in the tax laws, let s think about tax credits. every dollar of tax credit saves you one dollar. it doesn t matter what your marginal tax bracket is. so if you owe a thousand dollars and you get a thousand dollar tax credit, you don t owe anything. if you owe a million dollars, you owe a million minus $1,000. now, the tax credits also should be refundable in many cases where they are social programs because a refundable tax credit like the earned income tax credit which says people who are working but don t earn a living wage are going to get extra money to help them have a living wage. and so if you make it refundable if you don t owe the income tax, you ll get a direct grant. both commissions said that about the home mortgage interest deduction, replace it by a credit. congress ignored that. finally, you might have the largest credit for people who need the help most and the least credits for pe