>> doctors, wonderful to get all of this great advice. thank you so much. i feel like i can take my medical boards now. >> "media buzz," is next. >> this sunday, hillary clinton thought lieu -- lewinsky was a a loony tunes. it is coming back to haunt her. private lives, what one of hillary clinton's closest friends wrote about some of her darkest hours, now public as the 2016 attacks get going. >> another sell -- set back for obamacare, is the press minimizing the magnitude the problems? chris christie is still pounded by msnbc and even msnbc

contributor axelrod says some of the network shows are pummeling the governor. one leaving the charred is racial. >> new jersey republicans using this ballooning stand california to drum up money for the party and to blame it all on the news organization whose is covered the story. >> are some outlets determined to bring chris christie down? >> from athletes trapped in bath troops and elevators to a russian gold medalist tweeting a racist picture of president obama has there ever been a stranger olympics? we will have a report from sochi. this is "media buzz." i am howard kurtz. it is hard to resist a with the phrase loony tunes

talking about lewinsky and she described hillary clinton as ruthless and how hillary clinton viewed her husband's behavior. >> this is a trial. the idea that hillary clinton is ruthless is not news. >> republicans intend to reach back two deck aid -- two decades to tear down hillary clinton. >> hillary clinton didn't think too highly of monica lewinsky. wow! >> according to blair, it was a lapse but she says hillary clinton he tried to break it off, tried to pull away and manage someone who was clearly a loony toon but it was beyond control. >> however, its was consensual

and not sex with any real meaning, stabbed up, lie down, oral, et cetera. is this news for 2016 or just a rehash by the media? we have fox news contributor who writes the top twitter column on fox website and anchor of "the hot lift" for the blaze and washington correspondent for the daily beast. how news worth they is this? >> applause to the author who wrote the story and giving us a scoop here. these are documents that have been at the university of arkansas for four years and she is the only one who thought to do it. the mainstream media, including joe klein said that it is nothing. it is really not a story. there have been many people who is played it up as ruthless, quoting blair talking about hillary clinton. >> the ruthless part is that it wasn't blair's assessment but a 1992 democratic strategy memo,

saying that the voters perceived her at that time as ruthless. hillary clinton, monica . >> and they are the words of hillary clinton fascinating saying the folks working for her husband are not mean enough and tough enough and we learned that hillary clinton's abounding contempt for quite a number of people in politic life and politics including the media these documents were available four years and not a single member of the main stream media could bother themselves to go to arkansas compared to sarah palin's e-mail, we had platoons going there to find out she wanted to buy a tanning bed. >> the documents and reporting was deemed not worthy because it came from a conservative site and the site was run by former john mccain staffer so it became as if it wasn't important.

>> while, certainly, there was a lot of insight to be mined from the papers and this was her closest friend, what have we talked about on every cable segment and website? it has been monica, hillary clinton, bill, how much energy should the media put into all of this? >> this is overblown as it is predictable. this is the clintons. they can not pass gas without it making a huge, huge media blowup . this is a great phrase and it sounds fun and looks fun but most of those in washington, dc who caught their husbands making time with other women have called the other far worse so i am not sure this is insight into hillary clinton. >> with there were insights in terms of her views of women call ing women victims of sex

harassment of pack wood, as "whineers,"," and it should have gone beyond the whole man can and bill and hillary clinton situation. >> but if we are talking about what made the big news it was lo on toon. >> and it is over blown by the media because, why? >> because it is hillary clinton. everything the clintons do this is an incredible need to pick apart. >> the impeachment of the president of the united states, people wanted to rehash that. >> who wants to rehash that? >> what is the dynamic of this marriage? she has always been described as being incrudable and complicated and to the extent the papers gave some insight into this obviously very public and trying time for this couple it was interesting. >> the most powerful woman in the world who is attempting or could be attempting, to run for

2016 all information is valid. if you look in there, there are big discrepancies not just about whineers but bosnia so she didn't think we should go into bosnia because they have been fighting for 900 years but publicly she stated that, yes, she did advocate early intervention. there are inconsistencies and there is a lens into who this woman is. >> everything is fair game when you are contemplating a run for president. it seems to me at the same time -- this was a legitimate story, no question. some were grudging in the credit and would not mention the washington freebie -- free beacon but what someone says in their own time, a decade later is it fair, politicians do not always say what they think. let's ask if she runs for budget. these are worthy questions to ask potential presidential candidate. i would agree, though, that the

resolution covered this with a sense, almost, of immediatous obligation. here we go again, having to cover hillary clinton and the clinton soap opera rather than asking pointed questions such, for example, when hillary clinton is reported to have supported single-payer although publicly she said she never had. there is more to the papers than sex scandals but will the press ask the questions? i have my doubts. >> tedious obligation...do you think that is because of an effort to protect hillary clinton? >> yes. >> or is it because the country went through this spectacular scandal, saturation coverage for two years and feeling that we already know most of this but some of her private musings. >> it is clinton far technique and the obligation to protect hillary clinton. >> what about bill clinton? he figures promise thanly and there was a liter back to 1996

where he was setting up a meeting with a woman whose name was not revealed. is it fair to gather that information? he could be back in the white house as the first man. >> rand paul would like to excavate that. >> he keeps bringing it up. >> you are both making the biggest point which there is stuff in there interesting that would have a big bearing on her fitness for action or her trustworthiness but that has to do nothing with what she thought of lewinsky. >> she can handle this. who can roll with this? if you are talking about whether it matters...in the press...okay, maybe. but does it matter to her? veries very doubtful. >> part of this is she is in a weird limbo. everyone assumes she is running, or will probably run or most likely run and all the horse race coverage assumes she is the

democratic nominee. at the same time, in comes out and because she is not a candidate, she is not in contact with journalists and does not have to respond so there is this situation where we debate it for her. >> if she responds we will attack her. if she -- what are we going to do? the poll numbers for her will go down as soon as she announced and starts running. >> i will quarrel with your use of the word "tedious," because if it is tedious there is a lot of it. the media in a search for ratings are more happy to talk about this than the debt ceiling fight in washington, dc, where speaker boehner rolled over and democrats avoided another government shut down or they danced around the government shut down. this is a lot more fun. >> but it did not attract the attention that chris christie and bridge-gate has been getting. when i say "tedious," you look

how it was framed to dismiss it and marginalize it because it gave them a conservative website by many of the networks. second, it gave the press the ability to frame it as coming from a conservative website and now put our own spin on it so rather than introducing the information contained in the letters and diary, how will it affect hillary clinton run in 2013? >> i think it was the opposite. the express embarrassed because what they want to talk about is sex. in part, it is so much more fun than talking about the debt ceiling and it get are more hits and clicks. i am saying the press is embarrassed they are doing this, they are, again, going into this well. >> then they can go, look, we have to do this, we are being forced to draw attention to it. >> before we go to break we will talk about something not about

sex but should get and hasn't gotten so far the coverage, a report this morning from saturday, 200 illegal workers, miners, in south africa, they are trapped, and there are efforts underway to rescue them. i contrast that with reports in british and australian reports with oscar pistorius, the athlete from south africa, a one year and was of the killing of his girlfriend and he is facing trial for that, that is getting more than the miners would get. >> he is a mini celebrity and we cover that more than tragic accidents. >> with that crime, a crime passion, something going on emotionally which grabs people. but i would like to know more about the terrible tragedy in south africa. >> hopefully we will have that information soon. >> remember to en10 us a tweet about our show during the show

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chris christie made a fundraising speech in chicago this week as new figures show a healthy haul that he made. he continues to draw fierce scrutiny from outlets as the "washington post" and "the new york times" and on msnbc one contributor, former bush aide nicole wallace, pushed back at the saturation coverage when chuck todd questioned whether christie had a good day in

chicago. >> what's the definition of a good day? >> on till 9:00. >> we're doing a feed i frenzy on somebody who we're not sitting back and you know -- we're overdoing it now. i think everybody is -- >> overdoing what? oh, my god. so much time has been spent in four weeks covering every teeny minuscule breaking non-news event in this. >> not on my show. >> well, on the network on which you appear and i appear. >> i like the water drinking the best. >> amy holmes, msnbc has a problem with a contributor. saying it's going haywire on chris christie. >> msnbc has been mining this because it's good for their ratings and they know their viewers are enjoying this story. they are up. >> i agree with chuck todd it's been a feeding frenzy. he's trying to distance himself

from it saying he hasn't been covering it in this exorbitant way. >> chris christie can't buy a good headline. >> especially from msnbc. >> i think it's a legitimate story, multiple investigations, subpoenas. when i flip around the champnne, i see a lot of msnbc doing this. >> we talked about the hillary obsession. let's talk about the christie obsession. >> twofold here. he was the 8 hundred-pound gorilla. that is not a pun. in the republican race. he was the presumed front-runner. the presumed having the best chance. but he also had a reputation as being above politics. this is why the political media liked him, it is why moderates and independents like him. he was seen as not doing politics as usual. so this kind of scandal feeds into the idea that he's just another politician and corrupt one at that. >> what about the daily drumbeat or the hourly drumbeat? >> they want to keep it going.

their audience craves this sort of thing. >> even there was a headline comparing chris christie and hillary clinton and saying, well hillary might be a bully but it's a different kind of bully. a private bully, not the kind that chris christie is. he's a jlegitimate bully. >> that's interesting. there was a long piece about christie and his scandal and history. it was this photoshop photo illustration as it was identified where the governor's head, i'm not looking at that. there -- out of order. let me back up. leave that picture up for a minute. we'll get it together, folks. chris christie's head and tony soprano's body. if we can go to the mugshot of al capone, rachel maddow had likened him to al capone. >> come on. she said fiscal conservative that led famous individuals in our history to pay very low taxes for years until they didn't anymore. and then up came al capone.

this iso has been realing against republicans for a long time. it is not unexpected that something like this would happen. but i think the al capone picture, a criminal, goes a little too far. >> a murderer, by the way. >> he was only convicted of something else. >> it's totally irresponsible. it's clearly trying to smear chris christie, create this cartoon ahead of 2010 to make him unacceptable to the public. >> i understand the soprano's reference because it's new jersey. what about italian stereotyping between capone. >> that's why we're getting it here. we're mob baiting. >> are we saying he's a mobster? come on. >> you're saying that's the inevitable conclusion to be drawn. >> yes, of course. >> given that this investigation is going to unfold and that there will be legitimate news to cover here everywhere, including

on fox, does it desensitize the public when there is so much coverage every single day? another christie story and it becomes old news. >> people will eat this stuff up. keep the story rolling, chum the water with whatever you've got. like when a small child goes missing or when hillary clinton does something, there are certain issues that people want more and more and more of. >> i do think, though it's a niche story. i think it's of particular interest to msnbc's audience and to liberals and democrats who fear a chris christie campaign. >> i just have to quibble with you. i don't think that it's just because there's a feeding frenzy. and i don't think that it's going to go on and on and on. when there is real news, we're going to see a lot more of this. >> amy holmes, michelle, thanks very much for joining us this sunday. in our press picks, this media fail has this for a transition. it's a correction that could have only taken place in new jersey. the new york star ledgers

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joining us to talk about this is elise bee back, reporter who covers health care for the hill. >> did the media overplay or underplay this delay? >> there was a range of coverage options for the media. they underplayed it. >> because? >> itwe're talking about what i means for the white house, for politics, what it means for congress, what it means for the rollout of the health care law overall. >> one of the needs for politics seems to get a lot of attention. the more complicated questions are hard to answer, correct me if i'm wrong, seem to get less? >> yes. they seem to get less and then do get less because as a journalist working on a print deadline, it's very difficult to put all of that together into a story within a couple of hours or 45 minutes is what we had before the announcement this week. it's very difficult. for a reporter working on deadlines, you're just not going to get very far with the larger questions if you're trying. the media ultimately underplayed it.

there's larger relevance for the rollout of the health care law but very few people asked what it means for the businesses and the employees of those businesses which is really the real story here. >> when you're work og on this story and another delay in the mandate for a large group of companies, do you get pushback from the administration officials? >> immediately after we posted our story, we got an e-mail from the treasury department to me and to another reporter working on the story and they were quibbling with our headline which is common in washington, d.c. if you're writing about the news of the day, you're going to get pushback from one court or another. it was fascinating because it was the media. we shouldn't be calling it a delay, first of all. they wanted us to call it phased implementation. which is such a wonderful bureaucratic term, isn't it? when you think about it, there's no way to fit that in a headline. >> it is a delay for those companies. >> it's a delay. they also wanted us to make sure we referred to it as partial in the headline which i think is fair. this isn't a delay of the employer mandate in the same way we saw it delayed last year.

this is a partial delay for some businesses. doesn't mean it's not big news. >> they're arguing about the headline, not the story. >> that's right. >> conservative commentator is saying that president obama is being lawless here, going too far, repeatedly changing this law. is that a legitimate debate. >> it is. certainly, it assists republicans in campaign season because it allows thome put together all of these issues. they can talk about how they don't want to do immigration reform because the president is lawless. they can sneak around argument and put it out for the voter. all the delays and changes to obamacare's rollout aren't getting into the public's mind the same as in washington, d.c. >> don't follow the story every day. >> many people don't know that obamacare is still the law. many people are confused about the basic facts of this. republicans are in a strong position to make that argument because it allows the public to put together all of these bits and pieces of what they've been hearing. >> one other piece of this is a couple days after the delay or

the phased i am plemtation, excuse me. >> yes. >> the administration to more than 3 million people will have now in total enrolled in obamacare. that led to upbeat stories, maybe a little too positive snoo. >> perhaps too positive. >> how so? >> the administration deserves credit. here's why. the fault was a complete and total disaster. it was like covering a car wreck. that's how it was. the rollout in october, november, december. when you think about these rollout numbers, it was the first time the administration had beat a monthly target it had set for itself. of all of the media outlets that had said in the fall, oh, they're not meeting their monthly targets, isn't this terrible, the administration can't meet expectations, i think it's a fair and sportsman like thing to say things are getting better. at the same time, the press is eager to tell a different story about the rollout. people have health fatigue, congress does, and we're ready to hear a different story. >> the press was pointed out that 20% of those people counted in the 3 million, they haven't paid premiums yet.

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killers admitting to a pennsylvania newspaper that she and her husband not only killed a man they lured online last year but 22 others across the united states, the f.b.i. now is looking into those claims. now back to "media buzz" with the headlines. this is fox news. it is no secret sochi has had a share of problems but the coverage of the winter olympics is suffering from something deeper and it is beyond the usual time zone problem when we get the results long before the results air. i spoke with a spoke commentators from abc news, from sochi. christine, i am sure you are caught up in the excitement but over than the united states hockey team beating russia on saturday, i cannot remember an olympics that generated so little chatter. why? >> that is a great question.

bottom line, there have been a lot of disappointing performances for the united states athletes and some expected performances snow boarding, a sport we own, the x game sports where the four gold medals have been, but vonn never made it, and bodie miller did not do well. any household name or close to a household name isn't making the headlines. >> so no break out stars and sometimes television can create new stars but it doesn't seem to have happened and you have the monster time delay and people have complained about nbc airing these so much rather than they take place and in these days i can already see the results on your twitter feed. >> that is the problem for any network like nbc televising this. package it and have it be most and up close and personal stories prime time but the world of twitter and social media is

absolutely against that. for us, for me, it is great. i have never had the ability but the last two olympics to tell the story and breaking news because, of course we didn't have twitter or facebook. so i love social media and being able to get the work out and tell people the story. i have noticed a lost us, and i have been doing this, sending still pictures because people get a kick out of what it looks like while it is happening live. >> between that and nbc which has paid billions for the rights of a number of let pick games being restrictive has this become less of a shared event? >> i think so. without a doubt. of the recontributions, as you mentioned, it is much more of a hit or miss thing if that makes sense. when we remember as kid sitting down and you could not wait for 8:00 and the music to start and you were off and running. that is not happening anymore.

there is that element of it not being a shared event. the sports are no longer as unique as they used to be. we see hockey all the time the so men of the sports stations now have all the sports on the air almost is nothing special about watching tennis in the summer olympic you see them at wimbledon and the s.u.v. -- u.s. open. the novelty and excitement is less for the viewer. >> do you think, too, it is evershadow overshadowed by the problems in sochi and people do not like putin, the russian hosts, the warm weather and low attendance and, maybe, to me, the event that breakthrough was the bobsledder who had to breakdown the bathroom dune for get to his event. >> going support him byes of now 15 in a rei have covered i have never seen one we had more of a run up about the news and not

sports and serious news, security, terrorism, putin's antibay propaganda law. that took up all of the airspace and all of headlines for months leading up to sochi. i have never seen games where we have focused less on the sports going into the games. i would saast welcome we have made that turn to sports. you make the point and it is well-taken, then, where are the superstars. we don't have huge names to talk about. absolutely there is now doubt the run to sochi will affect how they are looked at for the future. the way history will look at the games and it did take away from the sports' impact because there was so much news. >> nbc ratings have been the same as the last winter olympics but i measure in terms of how much people talk about it in the states. during the women's downhill skiing, the commentator said that they do this all the while in a suit and maybe a little bit of makeup, that is grace under

pressure. he caught flak for that. is there a double standard for female athletes, vonn posed in a bikini and they have to look good and be competitive on the slopes or on the rink. >> we have talked about this before. there is still that element. it less lessens every four or two years. women's hockey, no one is talking about their makeup. they will probably be playing canada for the gold men a terrific game and packed and people cared very much about that. absolute limit as long as we are in a male dominated sports world and men are make the executive decisions in most cases for the companies and the networks and sports companies we will have this kind of conversation. maybe i am a pollyanna but i think it lessens. the fact that compensate was noted and brought up and i heard about it immediately on twitter, that is good.

that means it created news because people found it offensive or wrong and i think that's a very good thing. >> it has been fun following the coverage on twitter. thank you very much for joining us from sochi. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> we appreciate christine standing out there in the dark. >> new york was socked by a foot of snow and did a today show star off at the events in sochi delivered the icy twitter blasts when the mayor decided against closing the city schools. so now my school is let out early? is it worth putting kids' safety at risk? or, talk about a bad prediction, long-range de blasio forecast: one term the writing off the mayor a month into the term? he could have ignored the nbc weather man but, instead, he stirred up a tabloid storm. >> i respect the reporter a lot

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it's one of those lines that generates taunting headlines across cable news and the web. even though everyone knows it's a harmless joke. it happened when president obama was showing francois hollande around thomas jefferson's place in monticello. >> we're breaking protocol here. that's all right. that's the thing about being president, i can do whatever i want. >> obama can do whatever he wants. not as chief executive but on this minor protocol matter. even more tantalizing was the sub text of the french president's visit which was catnip for the american media. >> yeah. there's also a little bit of a scandal here coming along with french president francois hollande because he is here in

the u.s. without a date. >> the state dinner at the white house in honor of french president francois hollande. he's going alone. >> a french magazine had disclosed that hollande was donning a motorcycle helmet to secretly visit an actress which led to the breakup of france's first lady who was scratched from the guest list in washington. the people in paris usually take these things in stride giving the rich tradition of high level dalliances. the french newspaper quoted a photographer as floating a spectacularly inaccurate rumor that obama is having an affair with, wait for it, beyonce. claimed that the "washington post" was about to break the beyonce story which is flatly untrue. the fact that this was obviously bogus didn't stop a lot of american websites from trumpeting the false report. not taking it terribly seriously but putting it out there. they couldn't resist the notion that obama was having as much fun as the french presidents and their mistresses.

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time now for the digital download. new york times writer teddy wayne went on a detox largely unplugging from all his devices and asked to see if that would simplify his life. >> i'm sorry, what were you saying? and that made most of us with multiple devices start thinking. should more of us go on a digital diet? and is that a realistic option in this twitter age, howard kertz? >> it is totally unrealistic because you're expected to be available all the time now.

did you get my e-mail? did you get my text? did you hear what happened 15 minutes ago? >> and don't you get annoyed when people don't respond to you? >> yeah. >> you are right. let's talk about what he did, he actually allotted himself to 15 minutes a day, but a lot of people can actually link this kind of stuff to addiction. and they say that, oh, come on, no, it's not, okay, are you more anxious when you're not texting? well, do you text while you drive? a friend of mine, matt mendleson, facebook'd a great picture of a beautiful beach an seven kids all inside on a device. >> the first thing i say is take the tv out of the home, read one newspaper a week, it's the same news repeated every day, excuse me, that's mronic. nobody has any respect for news information. so then that person says, well,

you don't need all the devices. >> you can't do it, but there are a lot of people out there who, you know, probably could. maybe their job doesn't rely on the news and they just have to look at the weather. >> i'm all for taking the more moderate approach and we don't have to be tethered to the devices all the time, and maybe multi-tasking is not good when sitting around writing books and poems, but clay sharkey says being on your device is like seco secondhand smoke. it affects everyone sitting there. >> so there's a pew research center sud did we want to show you, couples and technology. 25%, 25% have texted their partner when they are both home. and someone in the makeup room said, yes, her husband said, hey, honey, can you bring me a beer? >> that is so romantic. >> isn't that great? 9% resulted in argument online or by text. they must not like to fight. >> it seems to me that maybe

it's a good thing to resolve an argument because it kind of takes the emotion out of it, but this notion you're in the same house and sending each other a text, i'm sorry, that is weird. >> you have never done that? >> maybe once. >> come on, so you're just calling yourself weird. give me a break. >> but it does kind of underscore this wired world we live in. so to say, you know, how many times have you gone out to forget your phone and feel like you missed all these important e-mails? it was a nice gimmick for "the new york times," but it is not terribly realistic. >> i do. i want to quote bill neil who is one of my twitter followers. he says to enjoy each day to the fullest. i think if you're going to do that, you can't have your nose in the screen all day. >> give me that, give me that, take it away. >> no. you can follow me and read top twitter talks. still to come, our mistake about the beatles leaves one family member very unhappy.

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all on "the factor" your life will be better if you see it. here's some of your top tweets. what about the press reporting on hillary clinton and monica lewinsky? media should be diving into papers for breaking news. media shouldn't use as excuse to rehash old news. kirk allen says, ask yourself what the media would do if the papers were instead about the palins. and the subdued interest in the sochi olympics which i talked to kristen brennan about. and i am usually an olympic junkie but not this year. reasons, lack of stars. tape delay. schizophrenic coverage from nbc. and another, social media spoilers plus tape delay. 80% of the time i know the results before it's aired 16 hours later in the u.s.

>> i don't get it. there are the x-games sports in here, i don't get it. >> i would explain it to you but i don't get it ear. some sad news to report to you. >> the long time former anchor and very good friend of ours, tom brokaw is undergoing treatment for multiple myeloma, a former cancer affecting blood cells in the bone marrow. he was diagnosed thismeate games last week as i was celebrating the beles0 >> not everyone likes the beatles, a big percentage --. >> who don't? >> my dad. >> so in the interest of equal time, i have an e-mail from

lauren ashburn from pittsburgh who says he has been getting calls. what? where did you get the idea i don't like the beatles, i must have 20cd's on my shelf and your mom was an official beatle's booster, loved them back hen and loved them now. dad. >> your response to this disgruntled viewer? >> as much as this pains me, dad, i am so sorry, we talk here all the time about media people who screw up and make their apologies known and i just want to say i'm sorry and i love you and do you love me? snow he loves me, yeah ♪ >> what i have learned if you going to make a mistake about a you view we, make sure it is not your family. your dad. >> never report unless you have it in writing. that's it. i'm howard kurtz.

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