join us on the web. and that's it for this edition of the journal editor ral report. thank you for watching. i'm paul gigot. hope to see yo >> on fox news watch. >> the people of michigan looked into the hearts of the candidates and all i have to say is, i love you back. >> trying to pick up more traction, g.o.p. candidate santorum stands his ground on conservative beliefs and the media pushes back and painting the republican as an extremist. >> the general allen apologized. >> president obama makes a big apology after the military mistakenly burns korans, and outrage in afghanistan and leading to murders of four americans in the backlash. who needs to apologize now and are the media pushing for action? >> my concern now is my city. >> news of an n.y.p.d. mission

terrorists and a plot to kill americans, get negative reaction from liberals and the left leaning press. what is it they don't understand. >> we live in a 24/7 news cycle. >> the man who defended the conservative voice suddenly dies. on the panel this week, pull lidser prize winning journalist, judy miller. and radio talk show host, monica crowley. jim pinkerton, american conservative magazine and political commentator, alan colmes. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. now. >> . >> jamie: well, in what many in the mid yeah call a must win for mitt romney, landed a one-two punch. hoping to ride a win against

rick santorum. these are the headlines, romney averts disaster and chicago tribune, romney holds off santorum's surge and the boston globe, romney wins hard fight in michigan, cruises in arizona and romney's home state m michigan, tough win for romney, that in the detroit free press. jim, does it seem the media were picking sides in this fight? >> well, i think the media are sort of following the election returns here. romney having dipped substantially now, made michigan almost seem like an upset in terms of him-- certainly a comeback, and i also think that in the minds of media, not only on the left, but also now on the right, santorum sort of jumped the shark a little bit, you know, the quote about making john f. kennedy's speech making him want to throw up. as charles krauthammer in "the washington post," that's a little much. >> jon: have the media changed

their minds about mitt romney after him going two for two. i think they're beginning to have to acknowledge the obvious, which he is the front runner, he's going into super tuesday as the front runner and even conservatives like jennifer reuben in "the washington post" have said, you know, rick santorum makes social issues the issue, and then he gets mad at the media for covering him when he does that. i think that the tide has really turned on the santorum surge, and even if the headliners don't seem to get it yet. >> jon: here is another aspects of this, monica, rick santorum has bashed the media and said, look, they are, you know, misquoting me or they are focusing on the wrong things and focusing on my religion and not my economic plan. you don't hear that much from mitt romney. >> you know what's interesting, whenever republican presidential candidates go after the media, they either have success or they don't and i think that the thing that decides whether or not they're going to have success is the tone they take

in their criticism. newt gingrich blew everybody out of the water when he just full frontal went after the left wing press, very aggressively and with an authortainer kind of tone. when santorum did it, he did it more with a whiney kind of tone and not passing judgment whether he's right or wrong about it. i thinks he's right how he's been covered, but the tone came off as a little self-indulgent and self-pitying, why it didn't help him in the race or with the voters. >> jon: sally is nodding in agreement. >> i did think he was whining and didn't think it worked and agree with the quote from jennifer reuben. you make your career on social issues arn the media chooses to bring them up and they're covering this horse race, i think, accurately. right wing media has thrown everything and the kitchen sink at romney. romney has thrown everything at santorum and santorum thrown everything at gingrich. it's been ugly and the media's

covering it. >> jon: all right. that's two of you now who have brought up the quote from jennifer reuben, washington post, the paper's sort of conservative columnist. santorum has very little basis for legitimate complaint. virtually the right wing beats up on his opponent from his policy to his wealth to his rhetoric. the disciplined romney team might have a voodoo doll or in private, but the candidate rarely wastes time talking about the media. and what santorum says in his private settings, the words seem jarring, the fault is with the candidate. if they didn't could have his words, i guess he'd complain about that, too. the thrust is, is he too whiney. >> and in fairness to santorum doing the best to talk about the economic program and a piece, entitled my economic freeman agenda on monday, doesn't mention satan in the

reports anywhere in it. on the other hand, he never fails to chase after rabbit when they dangle is in front of them. >> jon: some would call that conviction. >> and it's not surprising that the liberal media doesn't like it at all. but what has changed, i think that monica and i on the right on this panel agree on this point, the conservative media has kind of turned on him, as part as george will and others said we don't think this guy is electable and rather win this white house rather than not. >> and peggy noonen, a columnist. >> jon: former speech writing for ronald reagan. >> santorum the sniping and yelling make people nervous and i think that's going on. republicans have to watch it or they are he going to hand the victory to barack obama. >> jon:. >> i think that santorum's criticism fair to this extent. speeches in 2008, when he was talking about satan and so on.

a lot of those comments were taken out of context and hes were talking with broader context. and he's talked about for years, the connection between faith and intact family and marriage and the importance of that to the economic health of the family as well as the country. those are legitimate points and yet, a lot of folks in the mainstream press, left wing press have taken this out of context text to look at him as a-- >> i'm pretty sure that he said satan made him throw up on john kennedy. >> case in point about the media. >> and the reality, is, what i find ironic, is anyone, if we're going to take santorum's critique and gingrich's kret teak criticism. anyone who benefits is rick santorum, he's the last man standing because of the press scrutiny of every challenger to romney before him. so i think it's disingenuous to whine about it.

>> you might add to that list, barack obama. time for a break, up next, media division over the president's apology for the burning of korans. >> the accidental burning of korans in afghanistan trigger widespread protests against u.s. troops forcing the president to apologize. >> the reason that it was important is the same reason that the commander on the ground, general allen, apologized. >> sparking a fiery reaction from the media. is the outrage justified? and despite a major blowback from politicians and the justice department, are the press taking sides on the [ phelps ] two things i need before the race. sic. and the confidence to win. [ male announcer ] head & shoulders active sport with the high-performance hydrazinc formula, helps lock in scalp moisture for hair that's up to 100% flake-free. head & shoulders active sport for men. wash confidence in.

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troops who are there right now are not placed in further danger. it calmed things down. we're not out of the woods yet. >> jon: president obama defending his decision to apologize to hamid karzai for the accidental burning of korans at an air base in afghanistan. the incident, as you probably know, sparked widespread violence resulting in the deaths of at least six american soldiers. and the calm has not entirely returned yet. so, judy, what about it? was the president right to issue that apology? >> well, i think what's really happened was that the president's apology has triggered a debate, john, about afghan policy in this country. and the left and the right are just going at it, and i think that the person who called this apology derangement syndrome is accurate. the commentator who did, because, what's really going on here is an effort to save the lives of the men and women serving in afghanistan and as

dana perino, fox news said, who worked for president bush, she stood by the president on the apology, it was an appropriate thing to do, practical thing to do, as long as we're in afghanistan. whether we ought to be in afghanistan and for how long is a separate issue. >> jon: monica, let me get your take. >> well, when the president said the point of the apology was to calm things down and prevent more violence, clearly, it failed on that score because, remember, more americans were killed as well as other civilians and afghanis and did nothing to do to calm the situation. i think the media for the most part has fallen down on the job not telling the truth what led to the outbreaks of violence that the korans were being used, passes between islamicists and jihadies and terrorist plots and our troops, inadvertently, two sets of troops one saw that the korans were used for that purpose and they apprehended them and a different set of

military personal burned them. almost inadvertent burning of the koran. the truth of the story has the not told by the media, left wing media and point out, jon, the media has a responsibility to say, why is the burden always on the united states when outbreaks happen in muslim world. the burden should not solely rest on the united states, those should rest on those who are killing our people. >> jon: there seemed to be, sally focus on the burning of the korans, as monica said was inadvertent. newt gingrich was on gretta the other night pointing out what monica says, they were being used. the inmates themselves had apparently, under the dictates of that religion, defiled the koran by writing in it, shouldn't be doing that. >> doesn't mean the american troops should make it worse. and we don't know what happened definitively. let's be clear about that. the larger issue, i'm not

going to rehash afghanistan policy, but what i think is a proxy for what judy said, is you know, yet another reason for the right to attack obama and where i would disagree with monica, i think the media has fallen short not pointing out the nine times when he was president, that president bush apologized to heads of state, including hamid karzai, including china, including japan and yes, including right at the end of his presidency for the-- for u.s. soldiers shooting, using a koran as target practice, he apologized to the people of iraq. look, karzai can't control the people of afghanistan, and our command ner chief has to apologize for-- >> i think this is going to quickly segue into the debate, should we be there or not. and i think that barry mccaffrey said it's a watershed moment. if the people of afghanistan think this way about us, we shouldn't be there. and interesting cal thomas picked that up the column,

saying, look, we should get out of afghanistan, a much more important debate than to who burned the korans. >> and the media points to the continuing problems between the n.y.p.d. and muslim communities. that's coming up. >> the new york city police department under fire for monitoring websites run by muslim students and prompt widespread criticism in the press. and we remember conservative how can you get back pain relief that lasts up to 16 hours? with thermacare heatwraps. thermacare works differently. it's the only wrap with patented heat cells that penetrate deep to relax, soothe, and unlock tight muscles for up to 16 hours of relief. that's 8 hours while you wear it, plus an additional 8 hours of relief after you take it off. can your patch, wrap, cream or rub say that? so if you've got pain... get up to 16 hours of pain relief

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>> we're going to continue to do what we have to do to make certain that to the best of our ability that we don't have another catastrophic event like we had in 2001. >> that's new york city's police commissioner defending

a counterterrorism program that keeps tabs on the muslim community and police are conducting surveillance undercover at mosques, businesses and college campuses throughout the region, even outside new york city. and media critics are calling this operation profiling, others say the tactics are necessary to uncover possible terrorist activity by muslim radicals. judy, i'm going to go to you again because you know a lot about this world. what do you think of that? >> i think that the ap stories and there have been about three dozen of them, are, i hate to say this, but they're really aimed at this point at kind of prize winning and they have just won the award for these investigations that basically stem from one set of activities between 2006 and 2007. and the only, only support they've got that really, i think, is a matter of really genuine news is when chris christie said that he found-- he was troubled by these allegations and the n.y.p.d.

says they're not doing this. the demographic and mapping is a part of law enforcement that they've used, the internet, to gather a lot of this information and that they're abiding by the decree which governs this kind of investigation. i don't think there's any way to stop it now. i think we're headed toward the independent commissioner and inquiry and this story has legs. >> jon: jim, imagine the headlines if there's some kind of terrorist attack fomented in new york city by muslim radicals. >> why was the n.y.p.d. aslope at the switch and even the ap story all over this, said, it might have been a place where some of the 9/11 killers worshipped. and if so, there's plenty of good grounds for solid police work to go look around. >> and police investigations operating within the confines of the law, but also operating with common sense. in order to track down terrorists before they can carry out a terrorist attack, you actually have to go where they are and islamic terrorists are not lurking in

baptist churches. >> there are white supremacists in idaho who are being infiltrated right now by the fbi. >> there are, unfortunately in the last several months and years we've seen violence not coming from other communities, but look, without commenting on what i think is the heinous heinousness of the surveillance that's happening. it has legs and chris christie and others didn't seem to be aware of the scope and is something troubling and. >> jon: you may be the first panelist to use the word heinousness. and moving on. al al alan dershowitz, that white house staffers held meetings on campaign strategy and dershowitz plans to make it an issue for president obama's

reelection. aj rosen berg responded on his twitter feed, quote, best way to tell dershowitz to hell, one, picket his classroom or two, tell your friends to follow me on twitter. judy? >> well, you know, it's just such a self-congratulatory message from that man. look, this is a problem for media matters. alan dershowitz is a leftist, self-declared democrat who voted for barack obama and he says that the man that media matters has hired to direct them on foreign policy and meaden foreign policy is an anti-semmite and going around the country saying that. and i think that barack obama will have to deal with this and put distance from heed yeah matters or media matters will have to reexamine the relationship with mr. rosenburg. >> mr. rosenburg apparently doesn't like a lot about the state of israel. >> a lot of people don't like

the state of israel, but few use the word like terrorists to describe the prime minister of israel and go to hell terrorists, the loaded talk that makes this story has legs, let's face it, it's juicy language automatically gets attention. >> and alan dershowitz is relentless and outspoke anden could be barack obama's worst nightmare. >> i think this is a tempest in a teapot, i don't like what he said. but the fact it's coming out before a-pac, attempts to sneer barack obama and we know he's very pro israel. >> no, we don't all know that. >> jon: one more break. a there was some [ phelps ] two things i need before the race. sic. and the confidence to win. [ male announcer ] head & shoulders active sport with the high-performance hydrazinc formula, helps lock in scalp moisture for hair that's up to 100% flake-free. head & shoulders active sport for men. wash confidence in.

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>> jon: andrew breitbart played a big role in feeding the news cycle over the past few years has died at the age of 43. >> it's driangd in the last few years, conservatives used to take it but we're not taking it anymore. >> andrew breitbart was a best selling author and took on the community activist group acorn and was behind the investigations that led to the controversial firing of sure ri sherrod and also anthony weiner. it was the oner case that he came before his defense congressman said he was not the one that told the truth. >> everything came to be true.

the dwreed says breitbart lied, give me one example of a provable lie, one? journalists, one. put your reputation on the line, one provable lie. >> he helped change the way we know social media and the news. websites he started reach about 20 million people every day, but he also helped start the huvg ton post and was no for his long time work on the drudge report. he kept a busy schedule with speaking engagements across the country. in his recent book, he wrote, quote, i love my job. i love fighting for what i believe in and having fun what i believe in. i love reporting stories. i love fighting back. i love finding allies and family us only, i enjoy making enemies