objected to the timing of the speech. lo and behold the president backed down. so advice to the president, if you are going to pick a needless political fight, be prepared to try to win it. >> all right. don't interfere with the start of the n.f.l. season either. all right. remember, if you have your own hit or miss, send it to us at jer at fox news.com and visit us on the web at foxnews.com/journal. that's it for this week's edition of the "journal editorial report." o l of you forthe panel and watching. we hope to see you next week right here. ♪ on fox news watch. >> my version is in my book. >> the former vice president makes the rounds on national tv. promoting his book and sharing inside details of the bush white house. taking jabs from the liberal press. >> has the media change the way they feel about him? president bush sits down with

"national geographic" to give a firsthand account of 9/11. how did the media react? >> the "new york times" put out a hit piece on g.o.p. congressman. did they have their facts checked before going to press? >> irene is already here. >> irene ripped through the eastern seaboard. creating a media storm. was the coverage overboard or subsidized? >> is this guy the right choice for the new 6:00 p.m. host on msnbc? rick perry is using social media to set the record straight. >> on the panel, writer and fox news contributor jenny miller, national review editor rich lowery. and jim pinkerton, american conservative magazine. host of the allen combs show on fox news radio alan combs.

i'm gregg jarrett in for jon scott. fox news begins right now. ♪ ♪ >> you have been called a lot of things, skillful, dynamic, controversial and divisive. some called you the most divisive political picture in the country in a century. do you think it's all political or is there something about your personality, your demeanor that inspires animosity in the critics? >> i can't speak for them. >> you left out darth varad. >> former vice president dick cheney laughing off the colorful characterizations used to describe him. is the media's perception of the man changed?

>> i don't think so. you get a weird consensus among the left and the right. even the anti-cheney, but you have even maureen dowd and george wills both attacking him. what is interesting about the book is the extent to which it brought the interim republican critics out at the fore. colin powell saying this is the -- the vice president was taking cheap shots. >> condi rice. >> absolutely. and you really saw the tension in the republican party. and that gave the press something to talk about. other than dick cheney. >> the disclosure that he wanted to bomb syria doesn't endear him to some folks probably. according to the media research center, the media treatment of cheney has not gotten any friendlier ince he left washington. jim, is the book going to change that? >> i don't think so. at all.

in friday's "usa today," the former publisher of the chain said you know cheney grew up in nebraska. and said some people out there never outgrew their suspicion of people of color. talking about colin powell. and he never hired him to be the right arm. this is nitwit commentary. they don't care because it's abbott cheney and they it up. >> i'll read a twit here. this is a tweet: cheney's memoir will be the ultimate example of criminal profiting from his crimes. what do you think? >> not an example of what jim is talking about. we are seeing a little bit of bush. just a little bit. but they will never, ever,

they will never ever be. >> not forever. >> never ever be cheney. one thing i find interesting is in the primary season especially, we are hearing that the conservatives are too religious and stupid and southern. too bombastic. here is this guy that is tremendously capable by all accounts, who doesn't wear his religion on his sleeve. he is soft spoken to a fault. but they hate him anyway. hey, this is the conservative. >> core, core, core conservatives. >> msnbc martin bashear said the following. "if your notion of leadership involves never apologizing, never offering any regret about the past, then you should get ahold of dick cheney's autobiography." >> they have that mentality of no consciousness and no ability to say you're wrong. you have no awareness of how you act, you are a perfect person to start wars.

should have called it no more mister nice guy. that is not the liberal media. this is condoleezza rice and colin powell. >> who about that? even george will took a hefty shot saying all the pages and he never apologized? for matt loauer to say some say -- well, you are leaving out george wallace, joe mccarthy and houy long. debs that went to prison as a presidential candidate. it's lack of context. they hate cheney and they will throw the kitchen sink at him. this is a media strategy. dishy book with the news in it. it's provocative.

if you are a conservative author, there is no better thing than to have a hostile interview on "today show." >> not sure that heads exploded. >> that wasn't hostile. >> only in the republican party. >> i want to move to president bush sit-down interview with "national geographic" that air an focused on his recollection of what happened on 9/11. how did the media treat him back then? >> by comparison with dick cheney, they were very kind to him now, as opposed to -- right after 9/11, of course, everybody was for bush. the fanstic moment when bush puts his arm around the construction worker. it was all downhill after that moment. compared to how they treated cheney.

>> it wasn't a challenging interview. one reason they might be nicer to bush, but bush has held his fire. >> you are crediting george bush? >> i can think in certain manner about these things. >> moral hazard that the media gives us, is bush is classic and nobody cares and cheney will come out swinging and elbowing and they are the ones that get attention. is george bush looking better day-by-day? >> there is that. >> what makes bush look better is perry. >> it makes bush look like a genius.

>> the empty boot. >> the other thing is the terrible classroom with the kids and he waited ten minutes before he got out of there and did something. he said i wanted to project a sense of calm do you buy that? >> a lot of the media did. the response to that answer has been sympathetic. he has taken flak for the comment but he got support in the press to say it wasn't bad emotion to project. >> first, go to our website and check out the watch list section. coming up next, the "new york times" gets, well, creative with the facts. >> the "new york times" runs a hard-hitting story about key republican congressman, raising question about the paper agenda and more question about bogus facts.

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representativ -- represental issa asked for retraction after some say they ran a hit piece on him. the story accused him of using official powers as the chairman of the house oversight committee to enhance the personal business. the congressman hit back pretty hard saying the story was full of errors citing 13 erroneous statements and asked the times to issue the front page retraction. take a look at the title. it's entitled a businessman in congress helps his district and himself. with a title like that you have to get the facts right.

>> there is an inhelicopter disparity in the cases because they put you on the front page with a headline and correct on page a-2. if this had just been a story saying he is unusual for congressman because he is a businessman. that is one thing but they said he is working to work on his business interest. two examples were flatly wrong. >> i want to go to one example of it. the "new york times" wrote this about a piece of property that issa purchased. "the congressman bought the complex in 2008, soon after securing the first of two earmarks for the two-mile project and unsuccessfully seeking millions more. the assessor now values the complex at $16 million, 60% appreciation." it turns out it wasn't true. issa fired back with the following. "the property in question was not purchased for $10 $10.3 million. as the miami reports but for $16.6 million. the appreciation is roughly

zero." >> right. they got it wrong. i have to say this about it, the reporter is extremely meticulous thorough reporter. i'm very surprised that some of the facts. >> he says, the "new york times" said that came from the san diego county assessor's office. >> not an excuse. >> they are explaining where it came from. erroneous information that you got from the sources you trust is not. they made the correction but said here is what the information. >> but the question, should they retract the story and not offer -- a slow-mationing taking back pieces of it. >> i think he should be called formerly known meticulous and careful reporter. not currently. issa communication operation center did a great job of this. they even caught most interestingly of all an alleged incident of plagiarism against the fellow named lee bang who worked for the center

for american progress. liberal think tank who tweeted himself, this is lee tweeting. "a lot of your story looks familiar because i had it first." those are serious allegations. the "new york times" ought to investigate. something tells me that they are not going to. >> rich, it begins in very first paragraph of the story. on the third floor of a gleaning office building overlooking a golf course. it goes on and on. well, the san diego union tribune shot the video afterwards there is no golf course. it overlooks a busy highway. how can the "new york times" be this irresponsible? this reporter wasn't careful enough. again, the thrust of the story is that issa is corrupt. if you put that on the front page and played it with a big headline, you have responsibility to take it back. >> the times public editor is now investigating. do you think it should be retraction of the story? >> i think they should retract

specific things found to be wrong. you have to hand it to the times. they have a public editor and have someone with the due diligence on the publication and they retracted it three times, three pieces so far. maybe more to come. >> are they retracting the facts they got wrong or the premise of the story, which is that what is damaging to congressman. >> let's talk about the premise and the context. that is, issa is investigating the obama administration. he has the job that henry waxman, the congressman from california once had. left is aware if issa pursues a gangster government agenda against obama, obama has trouble. they are trying to take him out. the "new york times" is happy to be part of that. >> the "new york times" is consciously protecting obama doing that? >> i do. >> you think it's a conscious effort. >> conscious effort. >> we are going to do a smear job on issa to protect the president of the united states? >> they represent a real threat. there is no evident that they are purposely smearing someone. >> i didn't say there is

evidence. i say i think. >> we'll leave it at i think. [ laughter ] time for another break. if you see something that shows evidence of media bias, e-mail us. news watch fox news.com. coming up next, media coverage of hurricane irene. >> cleaning up after hurricane irene continues. but was the coverage too much? or just right? >> now all of a sudden it's silliness. >> is this man the right choice to be the new anchor at msnbc? answers

the journalists were reluctant to admit that because they are playing in the danger. they missed what really happened because there weren't cameras on the coast or vermont. >> massive. 600 miles wide. it was bearing down on the entire east coast and max mayfield, the former national

hurricane director said this is my worst nightmare! when you got a guy like that saying. >> i don't disagree with the need for constructive warning. we expect in vermont you will get real devastation. but let's not let the news media off the hook. chuck scarborough of nbc made unguarded moment, "we're in the news business. we deal in doom." they love it. >> yes. if it floods, it leads. if it doesn't rhyme the way it bleeds and leads does, but the same philosophy. we needed the media out there when we thought the storm would be very large to convince people to take precautions that probably did save lives. >> one media critic said it was overhyped by the media for ratings. that ignores that the networks lost millions in revenue because they kicked away all of the commercial breaks. >> also, numbers in some places go up and you can use down the road for the sales purposes. so maybe the revenue will come

back and credibility. if indeed what you are reporting is accurate. >> if it's a flood, as good as blood. >> oh! >> wow! >> that is pretty good. >> send your e-mails to him. not me. moving on. he has gone from minister to civil rights activist. to television anchor or host depending on your point of view. msnbc naming al sharpton the new host of their new 6:00 p.m. program. judy, what do you think of this? >> look, in an era of opinionated journalists, al sharpton is a man whose political moment has come. he is preaching out there. we've discovered how as he said himself, that you know the screen is as powerful as the pulpit. and he is working it. >> you so far have been subdued, boring, he gets lost reading the teleprompter. >> some say if you are an actual talk show host you are overqualified for the job. but he is a dynamic personality and he will learn

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