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jonah goldberg says my problem with that piece is no one on the hit list got hit, according to the article. so is it news that a politician staff is keeping track of who has been friendly or unfriendly or endorsing in 2008 or not endorsing? >> not whatsoever. i think it is -- and first of all, this is a woman who used to keep people in her ploy who were professional hit list keepers. the idea that hillary clinton keeps a hit list is as unshocking as partisan politics in new jersey. and i think male politicians, female politicians, they all keep lists of their friends and their enemies. >> but calling it a hit list suggests there's retaliation against those who cross them. everyone knows the clintons run a very aggressive political machine. but as the piece says, not keeping such lists would be political malpractice when you're trying to figure out who your supporters are. >> i think politico was probably trying to get some clicks. >> right lane? >> but i think they were, though.

i guess it's interesting that she codified it into something more written or whatever. >> right. all politicians -- >> you could be graded from one to seven on how bad you were. >> yeah. but when i worked in the senate, we didn't keep a list, but we knew who gave and who were big campaign supporters. i was aware of who were the special constituents. that's politics. >> this "time" magazine cover, let me hold it up here. "can anyone stop hillary?" ashburn, what do you think of the stiletto there? >> come on, we have to move beyond gender stereotypes. there are a lot of aggressive women in politics and in business who sometimes are seen as -- i won't say the word -- >> does it begin with a b.? >> yes, as very hash. this fuels that. i can't understand why nancy begins all gibbs allowed this to happen. >> she, of course, the managing editor of "time."

>> yes. now, what about the fact that two years out, there is a whole cover story on hillary clinton and this goes back to what we tauld talked about in the first segment, 2016, rather than focusing on the problems of 2014, with christie and hillary, the media are starting the race now. >> well, it doesn't matter. these are public figures. we are going to start this early. we did it last time. we're doing it now. political reporters are bored. they want to do something that is going to pop. and this cliched image of domineering woman is ridiculous. >> i know you're going to bring this up. so there are a couple of paragraphs about benghazi and hillary staying with secretary of state. but this is will she run, maybe she won't run, was your take on the hillary object session at the moment? >> my problem isn't that it's offensive to women. i find it incredibly a boring and cliched cover. this is an image that goes back

40 years now. although i was a big fan of the attack of the 50 foot woman, the spy movie. that's it. my point was simply that in terms of intensity and passion, what's interesting here about all of this, is that this shows how barack obama has entered his lame duck phase already. the media is bored with him for good reasons and for bad. and they are much more interested. when was the last time anyone listened to barack obama give a speech the way they do the chris christie? people are interested in chris christie. people are interested in hillary. and they're not interested in what's going on in the actual white house any more. >> friday's speech on nsa surveillance and reform got a fair amount of media attention. but jonah goldberg says basically people are tuning out the last two years of the obama administration. >> if you talk to the obama people, they would love for the media to stop talking about

obamacare's failures and start talking about its successes. but benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. news flash, of the of the country doesn't find it to be a story. that's why you're not seeing the coverage there. i think on hillary, yeah, we all agree it's sexist and it's clee share the way they're treated. an interesting story, they called her like a legal late trick about this woman who has risen to an amazing height. the media -- >> the woman was hanging on to a man's wing tip, there is there would be an explosion. >> thanks very much. still to come, michelle obama turned 50 and the media are filled with gushing tributes. and later, do journalists criticize a woman for tweeting about her battle with cancer?

michelle obama turned 50 on friday. she had perfected a mean forehand working on her yoga poses, dishes with girlfriendes and bruzel sprouts and dirty martinis. people magazine has a first spread in which the first lady doesn't rule out using botox and cnn made it a special titled extraordinary first lady turns 50. joining us now, julia mason in washington who hosts the press pool on sirius/xm radio. isn't the tone of some of this a little over the top? >> howie, she's turned 50. this is a huge milestone. and let's face it, michelle obama attracts eyeballs. if you want to sell people, if you want people to click on your site, put michelle obama up there and your page is looking

fabulous at 50 and you're going to move product. maybe that's why everyone is doing it. the first lady is popular, she's a mom. not taking anything away from her. there wasn't even skepticism. >> no. and there's plenty to say about michelle obama. she's much more complex than that. sure, should he she's not an elected official, but she's an important public figure. she's made some public missteps. you can take issue with her policy agenda which is pretty light for someone with her influence. >> on that point, she di what i thought was an important speech about encouraging low income students to go to college. but even that was brushed aside from for all the stuff about brussel sprout and bow ties. >> it's a disservice to her. >> what do you think about that? not to mention what she wears. >> i think that's a legitimate concern. i think she is a woman with tremendous substance and i wish

more of the conversation was focused on all that she's done as first lady. that said, it's her birthday week, so we can can all talk about all that she's done and influencing policy next week. this week, let's just have a michelle obama party, okay? >> no, no, no party. >> you can be my plus one, julie. are you sure? >> is it the media's job to be part of the party? >> no, absolutely not. and that's what i'm saying. there are country tooen technique toes be made and they rarely get made. it's almost like a princess diana phenom with michelle obama. >> the only -- she gave during this period was the one with "people" magazine. >> we push all the time for access from the white house. >> you used to cover the white house. >> and i covered the eat wing, too, which is a real pressure cooker. here, the white house gives no access except to "people" magazine. where is the incentive for us to

provide us with interviews? we undermine our own message here. >> michelle obama is a role model because she's the first avenue can american in that post. i don't remember laura bush getting anything like this coverage when she turned 60. when hillary was in the white house, she turned 50 and she was on the cover of "time." i think michelle obama brings eyeballs. i think if laura bush or hillary clinton brought eyeballs, they would have gotten the same attention. michelle obama is a pop culture phenom and that's why she's getting all this attention. i've interviewed her twice over the years, howie. she is a rock star. if you travel with her, people come out in droves in the streets. i've seen it in pennsylvania and i've seen it in south africa. she's bigger than a political figure. >> the news media has in part made her a rock star. laura bas burn was an incredibly popular first lady. i don't remember the media celebrating her in the same way

they celebrate michelle obamoba. >> michelle obama is very interesting. media savvy -- >> dynamic character. >> she goes on jimmy fallon or ellen and dances and does a lot of schtick. but at the same time, because she's popular and drives ratings, it does raise questions of fairness that if we're in position of celebrating her and she's a democrat and a republican first lady didn't get the same treatment, that troubles me a little bit. >> and she is deserving of critical coverage. where is the agenda? the high turnover in the east wing. some of her missteps get glossed over because she is so popular. >> you would give her a pass this week because turning 50 is such a baby boomer thing we should all resolve in vel in it? >> that's exactly what i'm saying, howie. she should be looked at because of the policy work she's done. she's a brilliant woman. and i think more of the focus should be on her brain and not

her beauty or her brawn. that said, this week, let's focus on the other "b," her birthday. and next week, julie, next week, next week you can take her to task for not allowing you to interview her, okay? >> oh. >> every day. i'm on that every day. >> one of the penetrating questions in the "people" interview was is it a lot of pressure to keep your arms so toned. >> it is anti-feminist and she should speak out against that. >> no. >> you want to look good, but that is 00% of the coverage, hair, makeup, celebrity. >> look, i've got my arms out. i think michelle obama liberated a number of women in the news. we didn't have to wear the blazers and the card begans and the shrugs any more. you're working out, she is a billboard for her own message. she believes in health, she believes in eating well, what better michelle than michelle obama's arms.

she's given us a right to bear arms and i like it. >> thank you so much for joining us. after the break, robert gates said his book about president obama was hijacked by partisan. really?

christa freeland is a lifelong journalist who is a familiar face on cable news. she gave that up last year to return to her native canada and win a seat in the parliament. in a piece for politico magazine she writes much of the media is based on stark and writes about what much of the culture is about how vial political leaders are. how snarky is the media culture and weren't you part of it for many years? >> of course. and i wrote about that, howard. and i do want to start off by

saying i don't mean -- and if you read the whole piece, i hope this will come across as some sort of self-righteous scold or come across as holier than thou. but my main point was -- and as you know, this was sort of taking off on a debate that has been raging in the blososphere about snark and which is the right approach. and the main point in the blososphere is that smarm is rose colored glasses and not about real life. and my argument was we need to have more of a culture of what the ceo of pepsi called positive intent in our political sphere, more of a belief and a focus on the things that we can come together to do to get things right rather than -- >> if i can just -- >> yes, do you want to stop me because i'm too kumbayaish?

>> not in a snarky way. but when you were on my show or any other cable show, you were expected to pop. you were expected to say something spikey. >> i was watching the show today and i heard someone say no one is interested in what happens in the white house any more. no one is going to be interested at all. and i thought to myself, you know, that is so sad. and people need to focus on the positive and focus on the projects and the work politicians are doing, not just on the horse race element. and then i thought to myself, oh, no, that would probably not sell very many magazines. having said all of that, i think we have to collectively try to move in that direction because at the end of the day, what this is about is can we have effective democracies. >> right. but by being snarky, to use your term, some people would say skeptical, doesn't journalism

sometimes expose political spin and political cover-ups and political nocinations. >> absolutely. and as you know, howard, one of the points i made in the piece is there is a fundamental distinction between jobs that you would call the job of the critic or the prosecutor and the job of the builder. and if you're in a critic role, which a lot of journalism is in that critic position, then of course, you have to be a prosecutor, an investigator, uncover what's going on. but my argument was we also really need a space. and i would say particularly in a political arena where we focus on building, where we talk about constructively what can we do. and i was actually, as i was thinking about talking with you today, howard, i thought a little bit about the difference between political journalism and business journalism, which as you know, i've done a lot of. and business journalism, i think, actually tends to focus less on the personalities, more on what business does. of course, it needs to be

critical and certainly post 2008, a lot of financial journalists said we have to be more critical than we had been. but there's more of an ability to, say, think about the steve jobs apple coverage and celebrate and say, wow, these guys have come up with something great and new. >> i read a lot of stories about marissa mayer, yahoo! and various other tech titans. but i guess i want to come and close on this. was it in part disillusionment with journalism that prompted you to leave what was a pretty nice job in new york and go up to canada and run as a party member? >> not disillusionment, but it was a desire to move into the world of being a builder. and trying to do contractive and positive. so yes, that -- >> as opposed to tearing things down? >> no, moving -- no, not so much that, but as you pointed out,

there is an element of being a critic and certainly an observer, which is an essential part of being a good and honest journalist. and i really think there's some big problems we faced right now. as you know, my work has focused a lot on the hollowed out middle class and the way the 21st century economy is working differently. and i felt maybe there was something i could do to help come up with a solution. >> a good note to end on. thanks very much for j checking in with us from toronto on your new life. >> pleasure. coming up, a former "new york times" editor and his wife hit with a huge backlash for questioning how a woman dying of cancer is chronicling her story. our digital download is up next.

time now for our digital download. bill keller this week challenged a woman who was dying of cancer, questioning whether she should be tweeting and blogging about her excruciating pain and -- >> twitter and facebook erupted with outrage that the former "new york times" editor took on a woman who is sharing her cancer journey with the world, an outpouring that force onned the paper and keller to respond and how it forced lisa adams, a prolific blogger and tweeter to respond by saying this. worth repeating to @new yorktimes keller, i am alive. do not write me off .make statements about how my life ends until it does, sir. and another tweet from her, the fact that he got wrong about me only required actually reading my tweets and blogs. >> i found bill keller's column and of his wife to be insensitive and tone deaf, but

they were crucified online as if they had attacked lisa adams. i have been astounded at how utterly misconstrued it has been. >> then he shouldn't have written it the way he wrote it if it was misconstrued. it seemed to me that he attacked a woman who was busy, going on her journey, going about her business, talking her way through her cancer treatment. >> he says in his own paper that he respects her choices and seems to believe anything short of an unqualified write on lisa is inhumane. my take would be if he is bothered by what she's saying about her stage four cancer, nobody has to read it. >> and nobody has to write about it in this way, either, saying it's too much information, and who is she to be talking about death like this? i think this is part of the keller again rigz wish social media, it has a broader scope

here. and it is that that generation thinks you should keep things quiet. our generation, my generation and those younger than me say we're going to share. this is our prerogative. we have the tools to share. twitter, facebook, and that's what we want to do. >> right. everyone lives online now and if they want to share, i don't have any problem with that whatsoever. and that is the therapeutic, i think, probably for somebody who is going through such a terrible struggle and has three kids. >> but that's not what keller or his wife, emma, said in "the guardian." >> "the guardian" took down her column after this criticism erupted. she made a partial apology saying given lisa adams' health, she should have given her advanced warning in the article saying that she was going to quote from private messages. i regret not toing so. >> all journalists will gasp at

that. you can't do that, under the guise of talking to someone as a friend then quote them in "the guardian." >> but bill keller point out that his wife has been a double mastecto mastectomy. >> are you saying you think it's well deserved? >> no. she's a mother of three going about her own business who is at stage four cancer. when this happened, she was going through the worst radiation treatment she could have. and now has to defend her on twitter and on facebook. how insensitive. she should be focusing on her care. and i admire emma keller for apologyizing and i think bill keller should do the same. >> obviously, he thinks he was misconstrued. >> obviously, a lot of people don't. and attacking a young woman who is trying to deal the best way she can with her life seems not

just to be ignorant of what is happening in the world, but also to be mean. and she has one other tweet that says everyone has a right to die how they want. i am exactly the one who will refuse treatment when it's time to, but that is not now. >> we'll be back with a buzz word of the segment in just a moment. you test

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duck dynasty with a&e suspending would produce monster ratings when the show returned. but the season premier was down 28% from last season. they did alienate some duck fans along the way. finally, a new documentary is out called mitt, mitt romney sometimes laughing and sometimes frustrating through the ups and downs of campaigns ending with the candidate watching the 2012 returns with his family and realizing he had lost the race. >> i just can't believe you're going to lose. >> yeah. >> so what do you think to say in a concession speech? >> by the way, does someone have a number for the president? >> it's a glimpse at the -- that romney never could provide on the public stage. >> and you have to admire a man for doing this, you absolutely do, for allowing cameras into such a personal moment that could have been a very awkward for him. i remember at the republican cover vengz, ann romney came out

with a wonderful memory about mitt romney and his sons in his kitchen playing pranks. and it is true, a lot of people think you never got to see on the trail. >> people thought of him as plastic. >> people are liking this movie. let's continue the conversation on twitter, @mediabuzzfnc. we'll respond to your xhoendz facebook. we'll be back here next sunday morning as we are next sunday morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern, 5:00 p.m. eastern, back at you with the latest buzz. >> it is monday january 20th. safety at so muchi. the sight of the winter games could be a target for terror.

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