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else wants you to do. >> all right, everyone, we cover it all here, great to have both of you doctors, see you next week. >> thank you for watching. see you next week. >> on the buzz beater this sunday, online explosion after a tech company c.e.o. is ousted for donating to an initiative banning same-sex marriage and a gay blogger accuses them of intimidation. >> many declaring victory for the white house has they tout seven million signing up for obamacare. >> others are skeptical. >> a major victory for president obama. months of low numbers for health insurance, bovine difficult indication for the president in terms of enrollment. >> we did not necessity this was going to be the rarest of
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things, a rare presidential victory, and, yes, i did it. it works. >> six million people lost their coverage in the small. they were issued cancellation noticed. >> are the mainstream media buying the white house spin? >> david letterman has been it up after three decades. >> i said, leslie, it has been great, you have been great, the network is great but i am retiring. >> this is really, you actually did this? >> yes, i did. >> wow, can i have a minute? >> look how he changed the television culture and whether part of the legacy is administration the most openly liberal network comic. >> life as a lowly liberal in the fox den. >> i am always outnumbered but i am use to it. i get a thousand contacts a week from people saying, you commie
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son of a b... >> conversation with combat i bob beckel. this is "media buzz." >> an online protested erupted into a huge debate of tolerance and same-sex marriage, the c.e.o. of mozilla was forced out of the technical company that maked the fire fox browser because he donated $1,000 six years ago to proposition 8 to ban xxii olympic games. some employees took to twitter to demand the resignation. some outlets buried the story but did not describe this as an outrage and now there is a backlash over what the company did. >> we have fox news contributor and associate of "social buzz." and the founder and editor of
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america blog, and the anchor of "hot list," at "the blaze." >> what you is the emotional tone of the debate? >> an earthquake. a last people on the right are saying the company has been intolerant. here is a tweet as an example from the right scoop: mozilla has proved they are the true bigot. i'm done with fire fox. i wrote a column after this happened and most of the tweaks said that people were taking fire fox off of their computer right away. however there are employees who did say, like kathy mcdaniel, a developer, proud of mozilla. humbled by colleagues. grateful for support. >> john, i will read something that get a lot of attention a blog by andrew sullivan on this story. >> episode disgusts me as it should disgust anyone interested in the tolerant and diverse society. if this is the gay rights movement today, with a
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fanaticism like the relidgous right, count me out. people look to you as a. prominent gay blogger and you have a different sullivan. >> andrew raises some good concerns that we should be careful about who we go after. if we have the power to destroy, use it wisely. in this case, you have a company that no corporate america is going to hire someone who is antisemite or or racist. i was on a slow and someone said if someone was a holocaust denier, i would be fine if they were a c.e.o. i 2409, nowhere but america. >> you describe brandon as an antigay activist when all he did was contribute $1,000 to proposition 8 six years ago. >> that does make you anti-gay advocate. the position was not just against gay merge but to repeal 18,000 gay marriages that existed in california. it was legal in the state and when you start talking about repealing gay people's marriages that is different than saying, i
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may not agree about the issue. >> but it passed. it passed. >> the media reports did not include that his position was identical to the three leading candidates in the democratic party from president of the united states in 2008. >> you can talk about this but this was about gay marriage and we know that president obama said that he believed at the time that marriage was a sacrament between a man and a woman and that was based on his religious principle. and hillary clinton did, too, and senator obama and senator clinton did get the endorsement of the human rights campaign despite their position on the gay marriage issue. >> the entire debate of brandon is about something he did, contribute money in 2008, and yet -- look, president obama and hillary clinton came clean. they are not sticking with their positions in 2008. brandon is. >> we --.
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>> wait. wait, the same community now going after brandon's scalp. >> wait, wait, wait, wait. >> an editor want on bbc and compared this position on traditional marriage to supporting the kkk. i would like to tell that business editor, senator robert byrd, was a former member of the kkk and i never heard the editor denouncing the democratic party or trying to run him out of office. >> the issue at hand is no one was attacking brandon in 2008, and, today, brandon eich wants to run a large american corporation with calls for the repeal of 18,000 marriage. president obama knows, because i have written about it, we beat that man on his position on marriage so don't tell me we didn't hold obama accountable. >> wait. wait. hold it. john, john, john . >> would you have the haul --
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holocaust denier as the c.e.o. of a company? >> wait. how do you compare gay rights with the holocaust. >> it is outrageous and you said under no circumstances should a c.e.o. not get his job because of political positions. >> i think we agree under some circumstances he should not get the job. >> now, on the coverage, "new york times" put this on the front page and many other news organizations played it down and the network newscast did not have time to talk about this and i have to ask you, what would the coverage look like, or have looked like if the c.e.o. of mozilla was ousted, topples pushed out the door by employee revolt because he was in favor of same-sex marriage and
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contributed money to an initiative on that side. >> let's just give another example. what about abortion? what if this happens about abortion? the left would be going crazy. we would see this wall to wall on msnbc. >> what you does it say about liberal coverage? >> that we have a liberal media on social issues, gay issues, abortions, other issues in front of the supreme court court like religious freedom. >> when they cover the issues we are told it is the liberal media but i would say it is not liberal because they didn't care as gay man we had a great success. to me, that shows they didn't care and i don't think that is a good liberal thing. >> you consider the firing a great success, a scalping of this man and ruining his business life, his career and his reputation because of a position he held --. >> i think as we all -- excuse
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me, the president of the united states was not for repealing the gay marriages. >> stop. stop. stop. stop. >> he was . >> >> let me answer the question. >> let's let her finish. >> you make the point that he had the same position. he spoke out against proposition 8 in 2003 and liberals with myself taking the lead ripped him to shreds and my blog got the president to add pit he would evolve because we held him face to face. >> john, i am old enough to remember when gay people mostly stayed in the closet because they were concerned they might lose their jobs. barney frank ran for congress and he did not say he was gray. i would think without is a special sensitivity. is it your position that no one who holds the traditional position which is still the law in most states, not the 17 that have adopted, that no one who holds the traditional position that marriage is between a man
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or woman should be able to be employed or run a company? >> no and i wrote that. i would not oppose a c.e.o. who does not agree with gay marriage. from the gay community perspective, it is something different when you go and are trying to repeal civil rights which is what prop 8 was. it want just being against gay marriage. people were outraged because they literally took rights away from people. >> so --. >> brandon eich, if three stood up and said to the world i am against gay marriage you would fault call for his head? >> if he had not given the money. >> wow have been less outraged. but in this case the staff and board revolted. i would follow their lead. >> prop 8 was an initiative to overturn a judge's decision and enforce california law at that time. it defined marriage as define a man and a woman and there are many, many catholics all around
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the world --. >> it repealed gay marriage in the states. judge's decision. >> look at what a spirited debate we are having right here and you said the "washington post" buried this story. that is exactly the point. >> he did not do much to defend himself in the press, just a couple of interviews and said he didn't want to talk about his personal believes because he kept them out of mozilla for 15 years and didn't think they are relevant. this debate is making them relevant and i aappreciate at chance to have a discussion about this. >> we will talk about the coverage of obamacare and san me a tweet during the show and we will read some of them a little later in the program. also, bob beckel on the frustrations of trying to defend the obama white house. use 've talked to the white >> i have said to the white house, why don't you give us something, anything to work
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the complete debacle of the obamacare rollout which was so heavily covered? >> it certainly depends on your point of view if the administration did make ground when you consider 6 million people lost their coverage under obamacare and we don't know how many of those people were driven on to the exchanges to reacquire health care. >> do you think the number of people who lost compared to the people that signed up has been missing? >> i think it has been missing. so i think it was self-serving propaganda for the administration to reach this 7.million inspect goal that the health and human services committee rolled out last fall. >> all administrations point out self-serving propaganda, john, but don't the nay sayers have a point that we don't know how many of these 7 million have paid, they had their insurance canceled? >> the full story will always remain untold. but what we know from the media narrative is three weeks ago we
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were told by the ap that it would be a quote/unquote miracle if we reached 7 million. we were told a week ago on fox by what's his name, karl rove, carl had his whiteboard out and did this whole analysis. you would have to have 8 million in order to get 7 million. it was never going to happen. and as amy or lauren said, the coverage of the website debacle, i ripped them apart on the website. it was a disaster. there has been ample coverage of obamacare to suggest the media is bias about it is strong. they got their goal. when you want to haggle up the numbers, whether it was right or wrong, the bottom line is nobody thought they would get the goal of 7 million and they did. >> lauren. >> i think there's still a lot of unanswered questions. you can say, they can say this is a victory, but there's a lot of things that are wrong, not the website, not just the website, but if you look at maryland's exchange, right? up the street here, it was a complete failure and they're using connecticut's system. so at the press conference that president obama had, he said to the media, hey, there are going
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to be a lot of problems. >> oh, i have that in reserves. >> i wouldn't describe it at the press korns because didn't take any questions. here st a president with the victory lap. >> well, press just want you to anticipate, there will be some moment when the website is down and i think it will be on all your pages. it's going to happen. it won't be news. >> i'm sorry, we will decide what's news, thank you very much. >> will you address that to the president? >> president obama, we will decide. >> let's get to the point that there are still unanswered questions. what do you need, a magic eight ball? we have reporters who are supposed to get down to those questions asking the questions of the administration. >> and we haven't been? there's been to critical coverage of the obamacare in the, los angeles last three years? are you kidding me? >> and to ask -- >> actually, what -- >> hold on, please. >> finish because i want to respond. >> and to ask the administration
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the 7 million number of enro enrollme enrollments. enrollments in this case is a squishish term. aren't we moving the goal posts when what obamacare was supposed to do was to cover the uninsured? >> obamacare promised to have 7 million people covered and it did. secondly, we keep hearing stories of people who got basically screwed over. we heard it from the state of the union and found out that story was wrong. we had three people on hand talking about how their coverage got destroyed. we have had story after story after story. i don't know that there's a single obamacare horror story that ended up being true. we have had ample coverage. do we need more? sure. >> on the cable news, 6:00 p.m. thursday, shootings. msnbc and fox, gop still out to repeal obamacare. >> i just want to take the last
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half minute to talk about something, that is the general motors scandal, which is an absolute outrage, a failure of both the company which covered up these ignition switches for ten years, i'm surprised it hasn't been more of a cable news story. maybe because there's no clear villain, mary barra just took over gm, because the "new york times" did a good job reporting this. it deserved more coverage. i wish we had more time. thanks very much for joining us. up next, david letterman says he's giving up his desk. what's his television legacy? and is he the last of the late night liberals? and later, an nbz sclc excl. george w. bush interviewed by his daughter. >> congratulations, dad. this is pretty exciting. >> well, it's -- yeah. who would have thought it? i procrastinated on...
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he was a kid, really, when he debuted on nbc's late night, lost out to jay leno for "the tonight show" and jumped to cbs. david letterman became known as a quirky guy with a smile and for his political views. he had to apologize for this joke about a ball game. >> one awkward moment for sarah palin at the yankee game. during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by alex rodriguez. >> wow. and he likes sparring with bill o'reiley. >> so working your way up, does that really apply to fox? >> joining us now from new york is mariesa guthrie. the media critics love dave, just like they couldn't stand jay leno. what would you say was dave's impact on the whole late night
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culture? >> well, i think dave was the most incisive interviewer since johnny carson. i think that's why he'll be missed, within of the main reasons he'll be missed. you see the late night hosts now, what they're doing is things that go viral, the guest interview is sort of an after thought for them. for dave, the guest interview was the thing. and he interviewed, you know, people of all political stripes. it's something you just don't see in the broadcast late night shows now. >> well, he did do stupid pet tricks. >> and stupid human tricks. >> and stupid human tricks. but my next stupid human trick, i will ask you about the political edge that dave often seemed to have, not just with sarah palin, but he always felt comfortable i think being a new york liberal, he talked about gun control after newtown. what's your take on that? >> and don't forget the interview he did with john mccain when mccain was running against obama. i think you can do that in new york and that was so much of
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dave's style was to sort of, you know, take the you know out of people, out of guests. and i think for him, i mean, his political bent, as you said, howie, was not a secret. so you knew if you were john mccain and you got in that chair, remember that interview he did, mccain canceled, said he had to fly back to washington but then he didn't have to fly back to washington doing another interview. >> and he was taunting him every night. >> and that is the comedian's way of, you know, stick thing it to somebody in the audience. the guy who shows up late for the show. so i think that that's -- if you gave dave an in like that, he would take it and run with this. >> i don't think any of the younger comics who followed him, whether it's conan, jimmy fallon, jimmy kimmel don't seem to have that edge to talk about politics on any part of the spectrum. maybe they think it turns the audience off. now, in all pieces i've read and i've read a lot of them about
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david letterman, i didn't see mentioned something i spent a lot of time covering in 2009. that was the sex scandal that he was embroiled in. he would have been the target of a $2 million extortion plot. let's take a quick look at what letterman said to his audience when he revealed this. >> the creepy stuff was that i have had sex with women who work for me on this show. now, my response to that is, yes, i have. >> and those women included an intern. how was it when so many other politicians and corporate leaders are brought out with this sort of thing that dave was ultimately able to escape? >> he's a comedian, right? i hope we don't hold comedians to the same standard as politicians. maybe we should. i think dave is -- >> but he's also a boss. he's a employer. >> he's also a boss, he's also a employer, but he's a comedian. i think dave's brill yantance
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and the reason these didn't become more of a pornl indictment was because he went on his showed and talked about all of them. he brought the scandal out in the open. he brought the audience into it. he explained it to the audience. i'm not saying it was right. and i -- but i think that that's why he got away with it. he wasn't engaged in this cover-up. he didn't go on his show the next day and pretend like nothing happened. >> right. and he made an apology a few days later after some people thought he had taken it too lightly. now, the big question has been, who is taking over the show next year. odds on favorite is stephen colbert. his name has popped up. do you think he would be a good fit? do you have your own candidate? let's join the game. >> i know bs has been looking hard at stephen colbert. they went off john oliver for 12:30. craig ferguson has not emerged at dave's heir apparent after
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several years being in the 12:30 slot. so i think colbert would do it. i think he's willing to do it. he may want to do it. he would have to, i think, drop the news -- the obtuse news anchor persona in order to satisfy the sort of broad kind of show that cbs would want to do at 11:30. i think he'd be great at it. >> not -- we won't be seeing the steven co steven colbert on comedy central. >> we'll see. >> thank you for joining us from new york. ahead on "media buzz," bob beckel on verbal combat with the five and some physical combat outside fox headquarters. and later, how jenny mccarthy and sherry shepherd gave their audience quite a view.
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and a company will try to determine if there was a pinging sound coming from a malaysia airlines black boxes. a ship from the navy will head out after they picked up another sound from the indian ocean. >> brother russian demonstrators seize add building in easternure crane after taking government buildings in other two cities demanding a referendum on joining russia. ukraine blamed russian president vladimir putin for orchestrating the seizures. >> now, back to "media buzz," with howard kurtz.
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>> anyone who wants "the five" knows that bob beckel is outnumbered on the show. i spoke with him in new york. >> welcome. i can't help but notice your happened is bandaged. did you get head up and take a swing? >> someone gave me heat. i got a disloathed finger. a jerk outside talking about my politics, can not stand it, so i have that all the time but he pushed me and pushed me and pushed me so i gave him a tap. that was it. i dislocated my fingers. i am too old for this. no good. >> do you get a lot of heat on e-mail because obviously "five" is four against one. >> i get used to being outnumbered. i have a thick design. i get a thousand comments a week
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saying, you commie, b...and i answer back, thank you, did your father marry your cousin or your mother marry your cousin? >> saying you my favorite liberal is not a compliment but what makes the show work we have good comb city and we don't carry it off the set or scream at each other. it is not crossfire format, and people are tired of that. they want to hear people differ but they don't want to hard people scream about it. >> we are one-on-one so the odds are even. you are cast as being a defender of president obama. do you feel at fox news he doesn't get the benefit of the down? >> i accepted that in the beginning. look, i have -- on the other hand, obama has a lot of this on
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his shoulders because i have to defend himfulry day and sometime i feel like i am the only fire plug at the westminstering do show. i have talked to the white house saying, give us something, anything to work with us for us in the trenches. there is also something, like health care, today is a if day for then, they have seven million people, right? that was friday. and, then, this is big deal, but, it has been sold badly. they have no message that is worth a damn as far as i can tell. >> you talk to the white house regularly? >> i used to talk to them more than i do now. >> they are not big fans of fox. we know that. more her than him. michelle obama. i saw friends, around democratic politics a long-term and i still have contacts. we are his per -- they are whispering to me. >> the last year the president hasn't gotten anything through the hill and problems with syria and russia and, of course, in
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crimea, it must be hard to be in that role. maybe you don't feel like --. >> i don't go by talking points. i can criticize obama. they have -- for someone with such a good message campaign, two of them, the messaging from the oval office is not as good as it should be. i an surprised a guy as articulate as that cannot express himself or, besides that, get behind the emergency. that is the point. it wasn't just fox and the conservative blogs, it was mainstream media jumped on him on health care saying expectations are high, and --. >> mainstream media jumped on the president because it was a debacle. he deserved it. >> i agree. i am saying he doesn't get criticism just from the right wing but at a last them, this ws to own. >> a lot of people at fox think that the mainstream media are
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still swooning over the president. there was a last that in 2008. >> sure. >> i admit that. in the second term, is he getting gentle president? >> not at all. because they don't criticize him as were as people at fox, as sean hannity, suddenly they are treated with kid gloves, that is not the case. look at syria. he has been beat up a lot. at the love it he brought on himself. i accept that. look, the fact is, they say don't compare him to bush but the fact is more people are working, we are not in a recession, there are a lot of things going right and in the end, the big mistake is to make medicare the central part of the campaign, the republicans. that is a mistake. >> you sometimes say controversial things, for example, after the boston bombing, you said that students from muslim countries should be denied visas and and it sounded like you were trying to minimize the rape on comments. >> rape thing i regret the way
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it was interpreted. on the muslim thing, what amazes me, whether after boston marathon bombing or other terrorist acts i never heard someone in a muslim country, head of state say it is the wrong thing to do. i have been tough on them and they are tough on me, contacted fox and i get -- i made the front page of saudi arabia and iran and iraq, so i said 75,000 muslim students in this country on visas which are naughty -- not at all difficult to get and 15,000 never showed up so i said find them because we give anymore diseases. i got hit from every direction. they don't say they are sorry. >> you was serving as mondale's campaign manager in 1984 for our
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younger viewers and lost 49 states. how did that experience shape your views as a commentators because you have been in and out and that is a campaign obviously you got into. >> put it this way, only in america can you manager the largest loss in the history of american politics and get on air as a political analyst. so, i think i did all right. i did 100 --. >> you survived the reagan landslide. >> anyone who thought reagan was stupid, believe me i have his license plate tattooed on my head. >> but some pundits, it is easy to criticize from the armchair and know what it takes to run a campaign. >> democrat or republican on television, political strategist, if you did campaigns, you have a right to talk about it. if not, no different than talking to your great uncle. you have to be out have do it. i can talking about it with authority. you may not agree with me, but at least i know how it works.
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the people, including anchors, and i know you know about the blog politics because you would bug us but a lot of the press people don't go out and experience politics and they are not informed and don't have a history of it, to ask good and solid questions. >> it is more the situation where the reporting is done through e-mail and twitter rather than being on the bus. bob beckel, that is correct you for joining us. >> coming up, cnn all over the missing plane story and every sighting of debris. what super poligrip does for me is it keeps the food out. before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. [ male announcer ] just a few dabs is clinically proven to seal out more food particles. [ corrine ] super poligrip is part of my life now.
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now, i was positive this was the week we wouldn't be talking about the coverage of the missing plane. most news organizations have largely moved on from flight 370, but not cnn. >> by the time you get to the bottom of the indian ocean, anywhere out here, you're going to be so deep that there is really no life whatsoever. it's going to be flat out dark down there. and in those environments, you cannot look the way you do from a ship or from a plane. >> well, that shed light on the story. look, i know this constant coverage has been very, very good for cnn's ratings, but i don't get the obsessive focus. we've seen this elsewhere, as well, on pumping up each
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verdict. the "today" show billed it as an exclusive with george w. bush talking about his first ever art exhibit and the nbc correspondent who got this scoop, jenna bush hager, talking to her dad, her mom and her grandmother. >> so you started off with a self-portrait. >> yeah. >> you think you got to the soul of you? >> you're going to have to ask other people who know me better, such as yourself. >> is this something you ever thought ten years ago would have happened? >> no, no. if you would have said to me that, one, you'd be working for nbc and, two, that i'd be having a gallery full of paintings, i'd have said neither. >> come on! what do you think, did he get to the soul? >> i think maybe he did. >> bush's paintings were fascinating but all this giggling and the stuff about gamps, kind of a family affair. i don't know what this was, but
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it wasn't journalism. >> what's wrong with you? it's a morning show. it's sweet, it's cute and these paintings are cute. it was on the front page of "the new york times" on saturday. >> which means a reporter not related to the former president of the united states should not have conducted the interview. >> it would not have been the same interview if matt lauer had done it. we got much more personal info. >> chelsea clinton also works for nbc. should we interview her mother? >> i don't think so, because he's not in office. >> i'm giving this a two. >> i'm giving it an eight. it was really interesting television. and it was an eye-catching moment on "the view." jenny mccarthy and sherri shepard were moaning about how lena dunham gets all this attention for taking off her clothes again and again on the hbo show "girls." they played a clip of thed star came back on camera. >> lena gets cred every week for being naked. we're jumping on the bandwagon.
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wait a minute, why is my big black box so much bigger than yours? >> oh, my gosh! >> you've got a cube and i got a rectangle box. >> take time to enjoy our view. >> okay. how's this? >> you don't need a black box, you're fully dressed. put those down. >> but it's -- it's cheap. it's a cheap stunt to do a tv show naked. can you imagine barbara walters doing this? i don't think so. >> oh, so you're not in favor of this fifth of frivolity. >> no. and jenny even said we want more ratings too, and then she said "enjoy our view." >> we've seep plenty of jenny mccarthy. she's been in "playboy." it was sad, it was cheap, it was tabloidy. it was a desperate cry for ratings and i'm giving it a 10. >> i'm giving it a 2. >> all right. still to come, your best tweets
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out, at 66 years old. >> and three cannot fight with leno anymore, the host entertaining thing is to watch them snipe at each other. and enjoy, our press picks on obama care which has drawn plenty of flak, there were six million people that signed up for health insurance and the administration's announced goal was 7 million but the bar showing seven million loomed fares far higher than the six million. follow corrected this with a new graphic the next day. >> and this media fail, there was a feature on the tesla model and this is what it sounds like. >> it is fast and smoke-free. the tesla model s is powered by 7,000 battery cells linked to an electric motor. no engine, no transmission, no tail pipe. ought problem is the electric
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engine produces a quiet noise. the sound was add by cbs, and a spokesman said that our video editor make an error in our report of elon musk and we regret that error which is corrected. this is not a minor flub, no artificial sound effects should ever be added. >> this is the bad news for cbs after a logan controversy over benghazi and the drone puff piece on amazon and then, it does not look good for the network. they keep having the stumbles. >> i think a lot of people say, well, so they put in sound they thought it was cool. but the whole thing, it was about a quiet car that runs on batteries. >> that is it for this "media buzz." we hope you like our facebook page and check out what you may
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have missed on the home page and will for us on twitter. we are back here next sunday morning at 1 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. eastern with the latest "buzz." mr. bush turns 90 in june. when he turned 72 -- i'm chris wallace. pulssignfromp in t >> pulls deep in the india ocean offer hope for the hunt of the malaysia airlines and searching for a moist after a soldier opens fire at ft. hood. again. >> there are multiple gunshot victims. >> we believe that the media precipitating factor was more likely an argument in the unit area. >> investigation is now focused on a dispute with other soldiers and the shooter's psychological history. we will have a report with the latest and discuss the security on military bases with a chair of
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