us at ger@foxnews.com and follow us on twitter @ger. >> and thanks to my panel, especially you for watching, and hope to see you here next week @jerfnc. >> jon: on fox news watch, it was the week for republicans to hear from the party's top people to put this nation back to where it should be. did the mainstream media give the g.o.p. a fair shake? it was also a week in which a hurricane named isaac threatened the gulf region and challenged the media to be two places at once. how did the press get the assignment? what role did the white house play about the covert missions to capture bin laden, did the

media have a clue. and seal team six, how are the media treating his tale. the new york times public advocate tells the truth about the gray lady's bias. on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor judy miller. syndicated columnist cal thomas. jim pinkerton contributing editor of of the american conservative magazine and alan coles, the author of the new book, thank the liberals for saving america and host of the alan colmes show. i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. >> he's been loyal to his sons, to his country, to his employees, and to his church, well, i'm sure now that the press is going to tell you, he isn't perfect. but my friends, for the past four years, we tried the one that the press thought was

perfect and that hasn't worked out all that well for us. that's why tonight i tell you, we can do better. >> jon: former g.o.p. presidential candidate and current fox news host, governor mike huckabee addressing the republican convention this week, remi reminding america of the media role in the 2008 election, so when you think back to the coverage of 2008 and looking forward to the democratic convention this coming week, jim, has neg changed? >> oh, i think the media are being the media. the mrc, rich noise did a research. >> research center. >> yes, sir had a study of the media coverage since 1988 and every four years, showed what the coverage looks like and it's just a quaddreniam. and if case anybody thought it might change, thursday's new york sometimes chose to use

this picture of paul ryan, this is paul ryan down there little tiny guy and the black figures, presumably stage hands or-- >> nice picture in the back drop. >> look at the back drop. >> looks like the flames of hell. >> you look at the clackness and little tiny ryan there, as i wasn't the first to say that it looks like ryan and satan and his colleagues here and that's the new york times. a picture is worth a thousand words, this is worth a million. >> jon: all right. judy, you know, governor romney gave his big speech and a lot of folks in the media said it was short on specifics when you look back to the candidate obama speech in 2008 hope and change, there wasn't a lot of specifics there either. >> exactly. i think that governor romney whatever the president did clearly worked and emulate that by giving absolutely no specifics. even though we know that governor romney is unhappy with the fact that there

continues to develop nuclear capability, we don't know what he would do differently from president obama to stop iran from doing that. i mean, i think that eventually, eventually someone will ask the republicans what do you mean specifically? but it hasn't happened yet and certainly didn't happen during the convention. >> should the presidential candidate should be pressed more. of course they should. >> we don't know what president obama wants to do the next four years. >> sure, we've had him four years and he's been much more specific. and nobody presses mitt romney and-- he wants to cut everything to the 20% of the gdp. cut taxes to the rich and raise military spending and said last night, whatever, what night was it, thursday night. that he said he was going to actually not increase taxes to the middle class. that's physically impossible. how is he going to do all that and solve the budget deficit problem? >> nobody has pressed him on this. the media has not done his job and the people for the constant lies about barack

obama and the constant lies about what the plan is. >> you sound offended. >> i am offended. >> are the media going to do the same thing at the democratic convention. >> oh, no, no, here is what the media is going to do at the democratic convention. >> oh. >> they're not going to apply the same standards as the republicans. the media would ask the democratic leaders why don't you have pro-life, smaller government, lower taxes people in your party? it's all mono chromatic ideologically against democrats. when it's republicans they say we need to hear more from groups, blacks, african-americans, women, and when the republicans get the people up on the stage, martinez, rubio and others they say they're tokens and don't represent the party. it's a complete double standard and never going to hear the same questions asked of democrats-- >> you could have said race ethnicity versus ideology, they're two different things. >> not to the media. because if you're a black conservative you've gone off to mix a metaphor the

reservation. >> why they're not happy about the republican party, i wonder why, you read a lot in the media, mitt romney is too robotic and doesn't seem to have a core, that kind of thing and yet bring out a couple, pat and ted porowski, i think their name is pronounced, hard rending story he came to visit their dying son and became good friends with him and helped to write the will and got essentially not any coverage in the media. >> right, that wasn't a heart rending moment for the fomly, i think it spoke volumes who the real mitt romney is and it doesn't seem to have had any coverage because what the media really are doing, and i think that alan figured it, you're seeing the meaning coming out on the liberal press critics. jay rosen, nyu or other one saying hey, press, get tough

on the republicans, hash tag romney ryan. >> why didn't romney mention the fact we have 48,000 troops in a war right now and acknowledged, and bill crystal couldn't believe what was lack. >> for every bill kristol, and they'll be-- >> and accusing the republican national committee of race baiting and the l.a. times had a headline, republican national convention puts a brown face on a white party. is this race baiting by the media? >> i was struck by the coverage of nbc, and m. snbc, how unabashedly biased it was. has a point of view and clearly came out on the coverage whether it was tom brokaw speaking about backward looking speech, about a man who is less inclusive than his

father, to saying things that made joe scarboro and miss brasinski uncomfortable on morning joe. >> and got the opinions through. >>, but they're supposed to have straight coverage of a convention, hard to find that on nbc. >> and david challion, the former, now former head of yahoo! news, washington bureau, who was overheard on an abc webcast saying the romneys are happy to have a party as black people while black people drown, referring to the hurricane, referring to the hurricane hitting the west coast-- i'm sorry, gulf coast, he got fired for that, but a guy political director for abc news, and political director for the pbs news hour. >> he got fired not for what he said, but for letting the cat out of the bag. because that's how a lot of them think. and there's nothing, there's no difference, alan, between an african-american liberal,

hispanic liberal, a female liberal, they're all liberals, but the left wing media tries to draw this distinction that all blacks, all hispanics, and virtually all women ought to be liberal if not they're somehow-- >> he got fired and let him go and if he wasn't, screamed bloody murder. >> i think he got a bad deal and shouldn't have fired him and a hot mic and suspended him, punished him and useful illustration of more-- as mrc during a speech by susanna martinez, cut away from a hispanic broed casting plasticed an i way republicans nor not being inclusive. >> up next on news watch, did the media use isaac to upstage the g.o.p.? >> coverage of the g.o.p. convention gets complicated when hurricane isaac takes aim at the gulf. did the liberal media spin the storm's threat as a bad omen

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>> both republicans and democrats we should point out have a challenge, with the approaching storm especially the republicans, nobody can easily foerg the iconic picture of president bush on air force one, looking down at katrina. they're not going to forget that. >> we came here to tampa of course to cover the republican national convention and then the storm through threw the entire schedule up in the air. if the storm rams into the gulf coast with a lot of destruction ab causes and puts americans in peril, republicans here do not want to be seen as having a big time while other americans are in peril.

>> jon: that's how the big three networks covered the threat of hurricane isaac and the one day delay to the republican convention due to that threat. was it the perfect storm for the media? >> nice, nice analogy, that's good, john. this is why you get the big bucks. look, i have sympathy, i used to cover hurricanes when i was a local reporter in houston along the gulf coast and other things going on and it's very difficult and i do have some sympathy and easy to say, it would have made the media happiness if there was a direct hit on the form. where it's held and i won't say that in deference to, what's your-- >> in fact, but, yeah, i think it's a very difficult story to coverage and by and large did it well, at least a few of them are glad it was delayed a day. >> i'm a former republican candidate robertson and two times in a row, '08 and now. >> jon: there was that headline in "the washington

post," did god send isaac to punish republicans? i mean, what are they thinking? >> and jennifer granholm made the same in a tweet, former governor of michigan now, a current tv to the left of msnbc somewhere, look, i think that the press legitimately thought it would be a big story sort of a harmonic conversion of juxtaposition and didn't work out the way that anybody would. the storm didn't hit tampa and didn't hit new orleans like katrina hit new orleans for sure. and peggy noonen's blog they debuted it how the republican convention went from nervousness and fear the first couple of days to a much happier outcome by wednesday or thursday. >> andrea mitchell mentioned the photo of president bush flying over and not landing in new orleans during katrina. he later said look, anytime a president goes anywhere you have to have all kinds of motorcade coverage, you have to police, and emt's and it's

just a logistical nightmare and that's why i stayed away, but that doesn't get covered. >> welcome, i think it is being covered because president obama has just made, had the same decision with respect to a visit down there. >> he's going there monday. >> he's going there on monday. >> and says he wants to give things a chance to cool, to settle down. exactly, and i think that people do understand though at the time, it was not the fact that president bush flew over that disaster area, as much as the fact that it was such a disaster earlier because fema and the people who are supposed to do their jobs in the federal government hadn't done them and people died, a thousand, over a thousand people died. >> i thought the best, which was rush limbaugh who said that the national hurricane service purposely tells you where the storm is going to scare people about the republican convention and because they work for obama, this, they did it on purpose and that was the best coverage. >> well, i mean, do you think that it was a distraction, give the media a chance to

ignore the republican convention. >> well, sure, but look, it is what it is, it's a major storm and people are afraid of these things and legitimately so. they have to be prepared. so it's a difficult situation, everything is political. you can't have a natural disaster on politics. one thing that andrea mitchell didn't mention was that during katrina you had a democratic governor of louisiana, a democrat i can mayor of new orleans, bush repeatedly asked do you want me to send the troops in the governor said no so his hands were tied. >> and sam of cnn quoted as saying, you know, we're a news organization, we can walk and chew gum at the same time and i think that news networks are supposed to be able to handle more than one story at the time. >> the republicans didn't want a split screen of the storm and the republican convention. >> at least one was news. >> we'll see if god sends a hurricane to punish the democrats. first, if you see something that you feel shows evidence of media bias.

e-mails us at fox news watch.com. >> up next, did hollywood producers get top secret details from the white house? >> did the white house leak key details of the covert bin laden mission to hollywood producers? are the media pushing for answers or are they protecting the president? that's next. on news watch. ore out your still-beating heart? ok, how this gonna play? try manly [ screams ] [ male announcer ] eew, ok, just do your thing. hey! hey! [ male announcer ] definitely a little bit epic. stride.

>> the white house was as involved in making available information to these film makers as the ceo and the pentagon and it wasn't done in a vacuum. >> the watch dog organization, commenting on zero dark 30 about the covert mission to capture osama bin laden.

and they say that e-mails that they obtained, that the white house was involved in the producers, and white house thought that zero dork dark 30 was would be a winning horse and gave direct briefings to kathryn bigelow, and mark bowles and the question, who was supposed to benefit by this? >> clearly the white house was supposed to benefit. it's not going to benefit now because the movie-- has been delayed after until the election, but i think it does raise questions about the way in which the white house has attempted to spin an obviously good story. i mean, the killing of bin laden is a great triumph for the white house and for the country, but the fact that this has now become fodder in an election campaign is really mislandling by the white house. >> and the new york times, maureen dowd, the movies are getting top level access to

the mission in history and people in jail for leaking classified information in the bush administration. it's clear that the white house had outsourced the job of manning up the president he is an image to hollywood and that, even that bit of her column was actually leaked to the cia by somebody else. >> and the entire-- >> it never stops, look, the group special ops, which is a group, woring about leaks and so on and accusing the administration by the news and killing of osama bin laden and inside information, they think to help president obama get reelected is pointed to this example, saying why are we in trouble over that book, no easy day, when the administration is clearly, as judicial watchers demonstrated leaking out stuff to help hollywood make movies glorifying the president. >> isn't that the group that went to swift boat, obama and whether it was clinton or whether it's obama.

i'd like independent verification that it was leaked and the group themselves decided after the election, they made that decision. >> and documents uncovered by a group you obviously don't like. >> no, a group that has a partisan interest. >> and documents are documents. >> let's get independent verification and why the producers delay the release of the film. not releasing it before the election. >> what's interesting, the relatively new elements and michael moore and fake shooting of george w. bush and they include things that advance their political viewpoint and ignore other things-- >> at least they interviewed obama's brother. >> and the worst saying he was a lousy brother, they met each other once and tried to coerce the guy into saying horrible things. >> and he lives in a hut. you would think that the president that would say our brother's keeper-- >> this is the type of -- they

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>>. >> jon: why on earth would you want this job? that is the question posed by "new york times" arthur brisbun. he also called a flufl whether he noticed the inherent bias of the gray lady. that the world view bleeds through the fabric of the times. as a result developments like the occupy movement and gay marriage seem almost to erupt in the times, overloved and under managed more like causes than news subjects. on the factor earlier this week, media critic bernie goldberg says the "new york times" has a liberal bias. >> no you have the "new york times" saying there is a liberal bias. you have jake taper of mainstream abc news that the

media went easy on barack obama four years ago. you have mark hal prirn of "time magazine" saying the media tends to cover the kinds of stories that the obama campaign wants them to cover. you have kirstin powers who is smart open-minded liberal saying there is a double standard and reporters treat democrats betterer than they treat republicans. good news is that all these people are coming out and saying this. that is good. the bad news is, nothing is going to change. >> jon: bias the "new york times"? >> and arthur observing from the belly. liberal beast to say it was a quote hive of like-minded liberal thinking. >> how many papers have a public editor and holds them to it. >> it's think the "new york times" rebuttal, saying we