public and gave reaction and speaker pretext, basically if the president doesn t say this, that and the other thing. kind of don t want to hear anything else he has to say. republicans want to hear specifics from the president. perhaps if he doesn t touch on the key topics, spending cuts, entitlement cutbacks, et cetera, they will hear, blah, blah, blah. i think it will sound a lot like charlie brown s teacher in peanuts. wa, aw, wa. republicans think they have already raised taxes the way barack obama wanted them to. they agreed to a major tax hike. there are tax hikes in obamacare which the white house keeps denying. they think the tax hike part of all this has been done. arthel: okay. and so when barack obama says we can t do anything until we basically close loopholes which he means, raise more taxes, that s a dead letter to the republicans. and so . arthel: let s hear, you know, some of the by all indications coming out of the white house the
the guardian. how much is the press being spun by the president and the republicans. i m howard kurtz. this is reliable sources. the murdoch media empire is in all-out damage control mode as the scandal at the british papers continues to spread on this side of the atlantic, the fbi opened a preliminary investigation on whether phone hacking took place in the u.s. and the dizzies pace of developments has made headlines around the world. mps finally forced murdoch to withdraw his bskyb bid. his empire has cracked, but is it broken. following breaking news in london where the embattled chief executive of murdoch s newspaper has resigned. news international will issue a statement to say that rebekah brooks has resigned as the chief executive of news international. more damaging details are emerging in the phone hacking scandal. other news corp properties are being implicated in the growing scandal. rebekah brooks resigned leaving the fight for news international s