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Was so disproportionate. there was no outrage about what he was actually saying, the idea of iran having a nuclear weapon, was nonoffensive, but that cartoon, seriously. rick: judy, you liked the speech. what about the coverage of the speech? i thought the new york times played it as the news story of the day. i think for obama, it was a very tough speech. he did talk about the importance of american values and commitment to first amendment which he really hadn t emphasized before so i think that the press in gener general, said most of them chose to forgot it. many covered it at great length. i hope some are listening to the speech for whom it was intended, iran, but i don t think they did. rick: you talked about the prime minister. the wire services, the news agencies and reuters and p a sending out a picture of the prime minister at the podium ....
Accountable for that and a report on drudge on friday that links the potential of a budget cut for security at the state department with what happened in benghazi. they don t want their fingerprints on that one. rick: kirsten, if the goal was to change the subject as jim suggests, did it work? did they throw the media off the trail? the media was never on the trail. there s nobody to throw off. you know, the thing about it is, there s only been a few reporters who have been really on this story, you know, and i think that what s interested, what was in the diary in the journal to be specific, it wasn t just the instance of an attack, he was concerned about al-qaeda and that s something that now eli lake has reported on the daily beast and fox news reported they knew within 24 hours, according to multiple intelligence officials that this was linked to al-qaeda. so that s why there was such a heavy this was trying to just crush this story to make sure that no other reporter would ev ....
A the victim. we know one thing for sure, if it had been a republican president it would have been called for an independent counsel, there would have been investigations by congress and the suffix gate would have been affixed to libya. rick: there s still time for all. and some are talking about benghazi-gate already. and coming up next on news watch, the replacement ref fiasco. the goofball is gone, replacements sent packing, the real refs on the job. do the media force them to end the lunacy on the field? we ll tackle that next on news watch. [ male announcer ] every car we build must make adrenaline pump and pulses quicken. to help you not just to stay ale. but feel alive. the new c class is no exception. it s a mercedes-benz through and through. ....
Would any other news organization have done any differently? no, i mean, i don t i do not begin to understand the white house s and the state department s indignation over the reporting of obvious news, every news organization would have done that. and i understand this, as i was about to say, kirsten, they were trying to change the subject, and they wanted to make it about cnn and not about their, what looks now like incompetence or intelligence failure or a failure to respond to an obvious threat. rick: in the meantime, jim, we just heard james reporting on the correspondence between one of hillary clinton secretary deputy assistant deputy secretary of state. what kind of way is that to have an interview with a reporter. and dana millbanks says this is what you have now, every secretary of state department has had a cadre of loyalists who see themselves ....
And great cartoons, but, yeah, no debate here. rick: kirsten was this political pandering, all of these politicians right before election day coming out and rallying around, i guess, so of a no-brainer cause? it seems no-brainer, i don t ever pretend to know anything about sports or related to sports. i don t want to give analysis. oh, let s pick up on that, time magazine called it the pander bowl in terms of obama s remarks, he never answers shouted out questions, but there there s something good out of this. i think we ought to consider replacement journalists, anchors and networks new york times, washington post and get the replacement reporters in there and see if they re better. we already have them, they re called bloggers. you re seeing the power of social media, this was in some way a tweet driven story, ....