it s clear that this had nothing to do with my column. i d written very strongly worded columns about people before. he never had any problem with it. so i don t know what he could say. but to the best of my knowledge, he hasn t said anything. speaking in more broad terms, how would you define senator reid s legacy in this his final term? i have to tell you, there s probably never been a politician as influential and powerful in the history of nevada as harry reid has been. he s brought untold millions maybe even millions of projects to a little state that never would have been able to have that before. and he s prevented projects from coming here. of course the celebrated nuclear waste dump that bill was passed in 1987 nuclear waste was supposed to be here in 1998. it has not happened. i think going forward reid will do more of that in his final 21 months. what s really interesting about reid this has to do this goes back to the whole romney story.
how they have been covered charlotte, the removal of jersz from the statement by the party verses the huge amount of coverage that republics were given over the abortion language, look the way the media have covered the bump in the road comment which romney had made would have been a story for a week verses how they covered the romney statement when the cairo embassy issued this statement about free speech and then the video the coverage he got on his gaffe was minimal. it was almost ignored. the romney story lasted for three days at a time when u.s. policy in the region was in collapse. which is almost entirely ignored. i think but we saw in the poll how people conceive this is
the coverage that obama got was major. minimal. almost ignored. the romney story lasted for three days. at a time when the u.s. policy in the region was in collapse, which is almost entirely ignored. i think what we saw in the poll and how people conceive this is right. they watch. they see. it s quite obvious which way the bias is going. in 2008 you could excuse it as saying they were in the euphoria of the obama campaign. the idea of historic advent of the first african-american of the presidency. what is the excuse in 2012? bret: jonah, what about polls? there is an angst about polls. they re waited toward the democrats. the fox poll was democrats plus three. pollsters explain it different ways. people are upset it s
let s be honest, when you work in the media the tapes show up and we don t know where the tape came from from the mitt romney, don t you have a level of resistance before you put these things out there? sure, but the standards have to be the same regardless. that s only fair. look, the romney tape, we were presented with it and everybody ran with it. all the media ran over and over like a continuous loop, but we didn t have the complete tape and story of who was behind it. we now president carter was in part behind it, only 24 hours later that mother jones put up what they said it was the full video. it wasn t the full video, missing a critical one to two minutes, what was in that one to two minutes, was something taken out of context, the romney story completely legitimate. no questions asked as they were asked in previous tapes,
political pundits. joining me, my panel. including dorothy rabinowitz. you wrote a scathing report on media bias. they are deluding themselves. today with this little story about mitt romney having said some questionable things now. if the iranians bombed paris the mainstream media would lead with the romney story. it s total preoccupation with this sense of mitt romney as awkward, rich, distant, tin eastward, incompetent at reaching people. that s the picture of him that emerges everywhere. whereas barack obama goes to his convention, takes full credit