chocolate. >> on the treadmill burn enough calories to assume wine. we. >> and watch super bowl while you are on the treadmill. >> one glass. >> on the buzz beater mitt romney hammer by the media for exploring a third presidential campaign decides not to run again. >> you had this sense there wasn't momentum there, there wasn't a lot of anything there. he wanted to be the nominee the it is clear he did not see a path to get the nomination. >> did the barrage of negative press push him out? >> sarah palin was so popular and is pounded by conservative pundits for suggesting she might run for president and delivering a rambling speech in iowa. >> the man can only ride yeah when your back is bent so strengthen it! then the man can't ride you and

america won't be taken for a ride. should the media take her seriously as a presidential contender? we will have a focus group on whether the 2016 coverage has been fair. >> do you think you are getting an honest look at the politicians based on what you see in the media? >> no. everything is boiling down to soundbites and snippets and individual reporters where the buyy comes into play if they don't like a canidate they bury him. >> today supervise super bowl showdown taking place under the shadow of deflate-gate. have the charges of cheating become the dominant story line if the big game? television goes crazy over a big storm taking aim at new york city. >> blizzard of 2015. >> ferocious blizzard. >> record breaking snowmagedden.

>> pointing fingers when only new england gets hit. what explains this blizzard of fear? this is media buzz. >> in mitt romney was tasting the waters for a bid the reaction was from eye rolling to outrage house estimate. >> i feel like i'm taking crazy pills at idea of mitt romney again. it is a terrible idea. >> romney is like a loafer, a casual sweater. i want someone who is persuasive republican who wants to win. >> romney pulled the plug on friday and the pundits or various explanations the consensus was it was smart to stay out and another campaign did not make sense. >> after much back-and-forth mitt romney decided not to run

again. it was a stretch for even loyal republicans to picture romney making a third try. >> this is not going to be a good race for him. it was going to hurt the party. >> he knows he could never be a candidate for the middle class because of his history. can't change who he is. >> joining us to examine the impact of the unfavorable coverage on mitt romney and sarah palin editor and chief of rollcall, and political consultant and former bush white house spokeswoman fox contributor. >> it was relentless criticism. did the press play a role? >> this is self infixed wound. he climbed a big ladder and jumped off on to the trampoline. he did not need to climb the ladder. he has been in politics no a long-term and he knew every move would be cover and it is the fundraisers and the donors and the voters who are signals they

are interested in something different. >> i think the press is too narrowly focused on this many donors wanted to move to jeb. he get taste media environment from conservatives there was not a lot often enthusiasm. >> it started with rush limbaugh back in august of 2014 when he came out and said he cannot win the nomination in 2016. if he could not pull it off when the president had huge disapproval rating, the economy was plummeting and he could not win, believe me he cannot win in 2016 and we saw the choir of the individuals coming out of the opinion leaders like peggy noonan who supported him saying he was yesterday. we need to look into tomorrow. >> did that surprise you? people were saying don't, or making fun. >> everyone was if agreement he

should not be running, it would not be third time is a charm. the problem is the candidate himself. it comes back to the exit poll, does he care about the people and did he relate to people? if you cannot connect to the voters you cannot win and the opinion leaders were clear on that message. >> but he was going to be authentic. >> liberal commentators and some conservatives, to roll the tape and relay all the mistakes from last time 47 percent i like being able to fire people, was that a factor if reminding people what 2012 was like? >> romney nailed him, how many times does someone have to say they don't want to go out with you? this is like and aan an -- azlai stevenson re-do.

this is not just the republicans but, independents and democrats you cannot continue to reinvent yourself every time and expect to come back and win the primary election. he said this time he would be authentic. he is so focused and a creation of himself that he has no authenticity to give. >> people were getting on the phone with him and his top close advisors and saying there is not an an time. >> remember all of the interviews where, are you going to run, are you going to run and he would say, no, no, no, and his wife said "we are done," and the press was anxious to get nhl he said he might and then when the press towns on you... >> it would have been great to cover. >> he was looking at the tea leaves and saying this will not work when your own conservative opinion writers are going after

you, even people lake missile -- like myself saying, we trade and it didn't work, we need to move on to the next generation as he suggested, the press had an influence. >> the question, half an hour best conference call on friday when he told the supporters who told the rest of us big headline "mitt romney running for president," according to sources by the daily beast. >> some did not get that far but they got the further saying i expect him to run. this is why it is so difficult to cover a presidential campaign because you might have one good source you trust and that person might be reading the tea leaves wrong or have the wrong information and it is huge risk and does not help a voter. >> the reason it is huge if you are right you got the story 20 minutes before he announced and

no one remembers but if you are wrong, it is dewey gets truman. >> most did not know until they got the evening news. like an average person, they don't care who broke the story. >> the larger story, a year out from iowa, does it matter that romney decided if he is running or not? >> it does. it does. it does. it does for people like us and those who cover this. it does for people who are donate money and who are activists. the average person is focused on the super bowl rather than he is running. >> new to the super bowl segment. i want to get to sarah palin because she gave the speech in iowa which is a similar pa eastern, a lot of conservative commentators leading the charge "disjointed," "sad," "tragedy," a dissent into farce from

charles cook. >> things must change for our government. look at it. it isn't too-big-to-fail. it too big to succeed. it's too big to succeed so we can aford no retreads or nothing will change with the same people the same policies that get us in the status quo, and i love that word, status quo and it stands for, man the middle-class every americans are getting taken for a ride. >> this isn't about one bad teach but places like "national review," that cheer her on in 2008 are cutting her loose. >> it is taking the conservative media too long to realize the sarah palin problem. she has been getting same type of speeches for eight years which is, go after the left media, little on substance little on solutions and at that point when there was a time

before after the convention where she gave this wonderful speech and you had the liberal media attacking her saying the it comments about her and her family they defended her. when she comes out this past weekend or last weekend in iowa and they said, i am seriously considering running and gives a speech like she is at a cocktail party in iowa, it doesn't work. this is the same type of speeches she has been giving forever and they are coming to the reality. >> there is a fox news contributor but i said i take her seriously when she gave up the fox contract like ben carson and huckabee. liberate commentators are enjoy ing this. >> are think anyone took her seriously. did anyone think she would run for president? never. she would never give up the money or reality. people like her and donald trump go to get publicity to public

their projects. >> she needs to be taken seriously in that she has an ardent following. >> so does donald trump. >> she can raise money. she did a tease in 2012, i might, i might i might, and then she doesn't so the question for you is she more of a pop culture figure? she is long a pop culture figure and a reason i do what i do is because politics is about choice and part of the conservative back lack against that speech is suddenly you saw her up against five six, seven actually qualified articulate and seriously considering running and not just raising their speaking fees and trying to write the next book or get the next television show and they relays the republican party has a lot of great closes and we will decide between them and not this person we defended when we felt she was attacked this 2008. >> i am in no way defending the media mockery and dragging her

kids and it and more recently when the cnn anchor apologized for mocking brace -- bristol palin when she got in the brawl. >> she spent the first ten minutes of the peach in iowa talking about left wing complain ing about the media. >> she went on o'reilly show and the hannity and complained about fox. >> it is like she cannot take the criticism. if you cannot take the heat get out of the kitchen. you have to move on. she cannot do that. she is causing fox a quasiconservative outlet and it does not work. she is in a tough position and needs to figure out her role. >> boston globe has a story on jewish' bush when he went to around over and he cooperated with the peace and said when he was a student he smoked pot and

hash and denied a bullying incident rather than let it develop. stick around. we have to have a break. i read the e-mail so send them to us. stay tuned.

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nbc correspondent turned to the fill him american sniper and the reporter unloaded on kyle. >> people described his racist tendencies as he was going on some of these killing sprees in iraq on assignment. so i think there are issues -- >> wait. killing sprees some chris kyle was going on killing sprees? >> what everyone thinks of the movie, it's been a controversial movie, how sdwdoes an nbc news reporter accuse him of going on a killing spree? >> to criticize chris kyle who was defending our country killing terrorists to ensure they don't kill other u.s. soldiers, first of all, he has no credible source at all. he just throws this out in. that is fundamentally wrong. >> he was referring to chris kyle saying the iraqis he killed were savages and some twisted it

saying all iraqis were savages. but his assignment was to go after the enemy. >> i haven't seen the movie so i'm reluctant to talk about the movie itself. but -- >> people want to say it's a terrible movie. >> i don't think he was randomly standing on the street corner ky killing random people. whether they were legitimate targets or not is not his decision to make. he was carrying out orders. >> one of the reasons this is a terrific film is because it brings out the inherent ugly tenk tensions of war. so it allows us to have this conversation. and we have a country where there is freedom of speech. and you can have this conversation in america. that's a good thing. and that's part of the point of what our soldiers are fighting for.

>> another person who got into trouble on american sniper is howard dean, former democratic presidential candidate turned msnbc commentator. he said all people going to see the movie are angry and some are tea party members. ed a on hard ball, he had this to say. >> i haven't seen the movie. i i talked to a lot of people about it.say. >> i haven't seen the movie. i i talked to a lot of people about it. i make no apologizes to the right wing nut jobs. >> i haven't seen his comments on bill maher where he said you were angry if you were seeing the movie. so he starts off i really apologize, i don't do that very often. but he said he hate and threats and ugly conversation back. but it's a film about a dramatization of somebody's real life story that they told true their own lens.

>> if you if . >> if you're going to say you're sorry, why take a shot at right wing nut jobs. >> welcome to the twitter universe. my problem with this, why criticize a movie that you haven't seen. i'm not going to criticize it, i haven't teenseen it. >> say you're sorry and move on. thanks for joining us. up next, why did some it go crazy after a big blizzard but lose interest after it spared new york city? and later patriots the villains of super sunday. thank you for being a sailor and my daddy. thank you mom, for protecting my future. thank you for being my hero and my dad. military families are thankful for many things. the legacy of usaa auto insurance could be one of them. our world-class service earned usaa the top spot in a study of the most recommended large companies in america.

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if you were watching television during the run up to the winter storm heading for the northeast this week, it sounded like the apocalypse big, badded a ready to devastate new york city. >> prepare for something worse

than we have seen before. >> the northeast braces for a crippling winter storm. >> breaking news life threatening blizzard that could affect nearly 60 million people. >> breaking tonight nearly 60 million americans are hungered oig town waitingdown waiting for the white hammer to fall. >> cnn's blizzard mobile is out showing what you is happening in manhattan live as it happens. >> blizzard mobile? settle down batman. it's a ford explorer. >> but while the storm did dump 3 feet of snow across new england, new york city got about 6 inches at which point the media lost either/or questioned local officials had overreacted. joining us now david zurawik. why did division go todefcon one? >> media loves snow. as soon as you say there is a

big storm coming weather blog is through the roof. grocery stores make money. everybody gets ratings. they love it. and i've seen it more in the last five, six years. we see more and more warnings of huge storms coming that never come. and so this one is buried on new york, media capital. >> because manhattan is threatened, everybody was at an extra level of drama and interest? >> absolutely. somebody tweeted it's because the media is full of narcissists. of course. it's not a -- people in oklahoma have tornadoes to worry about. i grew up in wisconsin. 2 feet of snow is like, okay, we'll play hockey outside today. but not in new york. it's the end of the world. and then afterwards, i mean you have boston and connecticut and all those states in new england buried. and the headlines are well it's kind of a bust. >> forget about it. we're going about our business. the other thing, they can defend

it journalistically because you're supposed to give people information good information that they can use. so even if you overstate it, you can't be criticized too much. >> but then there was this whole the media were wrong. and i won't beat on up on them because forecasting is not an exact science. but the new york politicians werereacting by shutting down the city. very few journalists said maybe we overreacted. >> of course. you do have to say it's kind of bad leadership when you go he this this could be the greatest storm in the history of new york. are you kidding me somehe this could be the greatest storm in the history of new york. are you kidding me some. let's switch to the big game. you wrote a column saying you you won't be watching the super bowl on nbc. first time since 1967. why? >> big deal. it's because of the way television has let itself become in the last few years objected by the nfl. and it's because of those

lucrative prime time contracts like the one nbc has on sunday night. hundreds of millions of dollars in the coffers. not only now won't they criticize the nfl, they now have become publicists for the nfl. and i saw that in the playoffs game between the ravens and new england. when the camera showed roger goodell and chris collins worth and al michaels talked about his great integrity in handling the ray rice matter, talked about the investigation, quote millions of pages of documents were examined that cleared him. and it was paid for by the nfl. that's why is something -- and they read a prepared statement like in a totalitarian government. that was the moment when i said i can't watch this anymore. look it's -- >> so turned off that you'll deprive yourself of the big game? >> if something happens it will be online in four seconds. i got a batchup plan. but it means nothing.

they will probably get higher ratings than ever. but morally after all these years from 1967, i said this is too much this year. i really can't take it. al michaels chris collins worth, you do not have to pinch for roger goodell and the nfl. just broadcast the game. >> there you go. david zurawik, thanks very much for joining us. coming up brian kilmeade oig standing by in arizona to help us break down the super bowl hype. and later donald trump goes after chuck todd for dareing for most people, earning cash back ends here, at the purchase. but there's a new card in town. introducing the citi® double cash card. it lets you earn cash back when you buy and again as you pay. that's cash back twice. it's cash back with a side of cash back. the citi double cash card. the only card that lets you earn cash back twice on every purchase with 1% when you buy and 1% as you pay .

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>> here we go again, the midsection of the country getting hit and millions of americans from the midwest they new england are in the path of a

winter storm. now wires are reporting thousands of people without electricity across the chicago and across illinois, particularly, the whole state. blizzard conditions are hitting the midwest where more than 1' of snow is expected to fall. the storm has forced cancellation already of 1,500 flights in the midwestern airports. it is nearly impossible to get and if you are trying to do so by air or scar. look at the system hitting the center of the countries. as the sells do, fill head to the northeast later this evening. new england was just hit by a blizzard days ago and they will brace if this round. back to howard kurtz. >> the usual media hype surrounding the super bowl between the seahawks and new england is full of deflate game. the nfl is said to owe the team an apology if no evidence

confirms they deflated the football. >> this would be in direct contrast to the public discurse which has been driven by media leaks opposed to data and facts. >> joining us from outside the super bowl in glendale, arizona is the co-host of "fox & friends" and from new york a columnist. brian, it sounds like people are having a good time and you are at the center of sports universe. how much chatter is there about deflating of the football? >> the chatter on the streets is not about that but mostly seattle 24 my unscientific study but when you talked about this topic, we had experts fans watching this game, football fans moderate smarts fans to people not beginning to watch the super bowl everyone policed with this locally and nationally on news channels and this was so far beyond sports i think this

is the highest tv-rated games because of inflate game. wherever you stand, deflate-gate rather. wherever you stand on it whichever side you are on you are talking about it and you do not have to be the uncle of tom brady or related to russell will senator. we talk abut it every hour on fox news as the other channels. >> everyone is talking about it. gentleman, i think #een talking to some women, talking about tom brady and his girlfriend and this is the dome not store line is it not? >> absolutely. they are married now, she is now mrs. brady so we make what clear. >> what a relief. >> by the way if you look back on history, a villain is always good for television. sports or otherwise. you have j.r. in 19 gait and that was the most watched television she of all time.

with sports in now measure nancy kerrigan and tanya harding. then he compete on a four hour tape delay in the olympics in figure skating and more people watched that event on cbs than any of the 48 super bowls so i agree with brain this will be the most watched super bowl, yes, because of a defending champion up against the best team the century and the number one offense and against but because you have two villains, particularly tom brady with the perfect life with the perfect wave that you could root against. >> not to pension bill check. if that is how the media is framing this is it fair? are we at a situation now, where the whole country outside of massachusetts is going to root against the patriots? >> i am glad you brother that up. a lot of people think this is media hype and people are against the patriots. they are dealing with what the yankees dealt with since the 20's, the most successful

franchise around and when you are that successful people come after you look around at fox news and google us you will see a fraction of the support we should get. we have been vilified. having said that, when you think, well, people want to pound on them, you have guys like akin say they have a problem and others saying the knelling negative patriots are guilty and other people, important people, in the game saying, i have a problem with the special treatment the patriots get and how belichick always bends the rule. a track record for those in the game and a pattern somewhat, along with the success most are jealous of. they and the spurs the most successful team in sports the last 20 years. >> he is right. >> joe, pick up on that particularly in the case of

belichick holdses the bleed in disdain. i felt there was a certain level even joint in the media pounding the patriots over the scandal and it is overblown but it is something of a scandal. >> absolutely, he is probably going to be blamed if the fog behind the shot right new, belichick, that is. >> it is unbelievable the fog. >> the roof is closed because of the fog. >> belichick is obvious obviously truculent with the media. >> joe let me jump in, link is not a big fan of answering questions as we saw in the many news conferences. >> i am here so i don't get fined sow can ask me all the questions you want but i am here so i went get fined.

i am here so i went get familied. i am here so i went get fined. >> gentleman some probably love that but he is paid $78 million a year because there is television and journalists who make this into the national sport and obsession it is. >> but new we have twitter that athletes do not need the media to get to the fans they can go right to them. i am rooting for the seahawks today and i fell you why. say lynch goes for 130 yards and three it wases and winned m.v.p. and he says all the winners of the 3569 i am going to disney, does he not say anything? does he say, i am going to disney is i am not fined? that is one thing to root for today. how will he handle that? >> back to arizona, the hype and the ads and everything that is surrounding the super bowl, does it evershad dethe game? >> a little bit but you look at

something that makes it salable so you cannot even get a scalped ticket for less than $9,000 and the two number one teams. if there is no power problem like new orleans or other issue beyond anyone's control it is about football. but what is most interesting the players say it is not like any other game because of the breaks and the commericals. harbaugh said what stands out coach of the ravens, we have to feed our player as full lynch at half time. they are starving to death because the half tame is too long, pregame is too long and these are big guys. it is more different for the players than anyone else. enjoy the game thank you for joining us. our focus group does not trust media coverage of hillary clinton and other 2016 contend ers.

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take life in. with jeb bush all but jumping in to a presidential race against hillary clinton, how are the media treating the growing group of 2016 con ter tenders? frank luntz put to a focus group. >> i don't think the immediate are a lets everyone know who is running. i think everyone here can't even name every candidate running for

president. >> plus it all depends on what network you're watching. cnbc it will be pro democrat and if it's fox, it will be pro republican. >> how does the media cover hillary clinton, do you think they treat her fairly? >> if you look for the most part she's the media darling. they have already practically core row natured her as the winner. >> that is not true. they have pictured hillary in bad lighting. >> i would respectfully disagree. mrs. clinton gets a free ride. >> i spoke with him earlier from phoenix. we hear she's being coro this. ated no she's been shown in bad lighting. what do you make of that is this. >> a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. if you like hillary clinton, you think that the president isn't giving her a fair shake. if you dislike her you got a completely different point of view. the problem is that the public wants to be affirmed rather than informed. and that's allege beenways been the

challenge for the media. what is different with hillary, they look at the camera angles and how she's dressed. no other candidate who do this they take into account of what is going on outside of what she's saying and that is an asset to mrs. clinton, but always liability. >> so i hear people in your focus group saying cnbc, probably meant msnbc, is democrat. what i hear from you is that if they have strong opinions about politics, not so much. >> well, what they say and what they actually respond to are two different things. i'll give you some specifics. two points. they want to see things side by side. so let me see what the candidate said four years ago and what the candidate is saying today. or let me see what canned dad a is saying about the issue and then let's see what candidate b is saying.dad a is saying about the issue and then let's see what candidate b is saying. give me that side by side comparison and you're giving me substance.

do i trust them and do i i agree with them. that side by side coverage which is rarely done on any news network, rarely done in print that's what the public is looking for and it's just not p happening. >> when you talk -- when we heard one of your focus group people talk about everything is reduced to sound bites and snippets, in other words, it's very superficial, not everything, but i think the media have to plead a little guilty here because we do get caught p in theup in the embarrassing sound bite gaffe and that sort of thing. >> and in fact polling which affects my profession. if i produce a poll that show as long shot suddenly in the lead everyone will report it. and it's just one simple poll. i think you have to make a judgment what genuinely informs people. but the danger is when the media takes a single polling result are or snippet and then blows it out of proportion. items the reason why the media

has lower credibility today than at anytime in recent history and it's a lesson for them before 0 2016. get your act together now before voters are paying attention. >> this really sounds like a flashing red light for those of us in the political coverage business going in to what is sure to be a very deviseivisive and important campaign but at the same time if every single thing will that we put on the air could be weighed on a scale some of your people would still say they're giving hillary a free ride, no, no, they're being tough on hlry or mitt or jeb or and oig. >> some of this is the public's own fault. some of it is that they're not sophisticated so they don't know the issues. the person who said cnbc, they probably don't know the difference between cnbc and msnbc. but in the end we can only judge what we know based on what you tell us. so it's even more than a flashing red light. it is wake up. you have a responsibility.

it's an awesome responsibility. but you got to get it right. it is better to err on the side of substance than style, better to give us more than a little less. and remember that in the end, whatever you give us is how we'll decide how we'll vote. >> good advice. and strong responsibility for the media here heading in to this campaign. frank luntz, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you you. . frank is going to the super bowl. after the break, lachbsnce arm strong shows no remorse for lying about his doping. and donald trump says maybe he should be the moderateor of "meet the press" just to get rid of chuck todd. i'm angela and i quit smoking with chantix. my children always wanted me to quit smoking but i resigned myself to the fact that it wasn't going to work. but chantix helped me do it. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it gave me the power to overcome the urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts

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get rave reviews for his speech at last weekend's conservative cattle call in iowa. one pundit really got under his skin. >> it can't be mitt because mitt ran and failed. he failed. the last thing we need is another bush. >> nobody's going to mistake donald trump for a presidential candidate. i don't think, other than donald trump. >> the donald struck back by ripping chuck todd on twitter. word is that nbc news is firing sleepy eyed chuck todd and his ratings on "meet the press" are setting record lows and he's a real loser. he wasn't done. so many people have told me that i should host meet the press and replace the moron who is on now. first of all nbc isn't replacing chuck todd. the notion of the donald hosting meet the press is more ludicrous than him running for president. we all hope he jumps into the race because he's so entertaining. but chuck is right does anyone really think he's running? lance armstrong lied to the

world about the illegal substances that he took in winning seven tour de france titles. he lied to plenty of journalists. and he lied to me proclaiming his innocence in two separate interviews. now he's been asked about his cheating in a sit-down with the bbc. >> when it comes to the doping, would you do it again? >> you know if i was racing in 2015? no. i wouldn't do it again. because i don't think you have to do it again. if you take me back to 1995 when it was completely and totally pervasive, i'd probably do it again. people don't like to hear that. >> no remorse. no sense of shame. armstrong seems to have no idea how many people he let down. he wants to get back in the public eye now and we're just supposed to forget about his youthful transgressions. any time he television the kyron under his face should say, lance armstrong cheater. still to come your top tweets.

al jazeera english tries to whitewash the word terrorist. and katie couric and bryant gumbel reunited for the super bowl. welcome back to showdown! i'm jerry rice here discussing the big race between the tortoise and the hare. my guest is stephanie branton. jerry, i'm going bunny. shocker. not really. you see, the hare's "thoracic limbs" allow for greater extension and elongated strides. look for the hare to leverage this advantage. ok. you drop 40 grand on a new set of wheels, then... wham! a minivan t-bones you. guess what: your insurance company will only give you 37-thousand to replace it. "depreciation" they claim. "how can my car depreciate before it's first oil change?" you ask. maybe the better question is why do you have that insurance company?

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al jazeera has tried to moderate its image in this country by launching al jazeera english and al jazeera america by hiring big name journalists from cnn, pbs. but they obtained a memo telling journalists not to use words such as terrorist, islamist and jihad because he writes one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. really the butchers who behead hostages on camera, the creeps or thugs who killed the staff of "charlie hebdo," they're not fighters, they're cold blooded terrorists and oklahoma city bomber timothy mcveigh isn't a militant as the memo said. he's a mass murderer. al jazeera calls the criticism subtle mccarthyism and released this video. >> we don't mean to label

islamists, for example or extremists who usually let the group's actions speak for themselves. >> journalists are supposed to make distinctions about what killers do rather than sugarcoat the evil committed by terrorists. meanwhile an al jazeera reporter on his way after more than a year behind bars in egypt. officials say australia peter greste was put on a plane today. he was arrested following the overthrow of mohamed morsi in 2013 and spent seven years in prison. your top tweets at the media helped push mitt romney out of the race. media gave more of a tap than a push. desertion of money was swift kicks. i think romney saw the writing on the wow mickey miller gop's lack of monetary support mitt has it right let's hope for fresh faces like walker, rubio, carson, cruz et cetera and joe i think trump helped him out of the race the donald will like that since he's taking credit.

there's one super bowl ad that caught my eye playing off this 20-year-old conversation on the today show katie couric bryant gumbel trying to figure out this new thing called the internet and how those addresses work. >> i wasn't prepared to translate that. the little mark with the "a" and then the ring around it. >> at? >> that's what i said. katie said she thought it was about. >> i never heard it said. i've seen the mark. >> there it is @amfeedback.com. what is the internet anyway? do you write to it like mail? >> can you explain what internet is? >> now katie and bryant reunited to help sell a new bmw electric car which is a tad unusual for journalists of their stature. but hey the commercial was funny. well that's it for this edition of media buzz. i'm howard kurtz. we hope you'll like our facebook page. we post a lot of original contlent and videos in responses to your questions. we're talking this week about blogger andrew sullivan a pioneer in the businessing giving up daily blogging after

15 years. and what it means for the business. we're back here next sunday 11:00 and 5:00 eastern. check us out with the latest buzz. coming up next. >> have a great day. >> take÷qvq care. i'm chris wallace. islamic extremists continue their march in the middle east.5÷ does the president have a real plan to beat @rf&xthem? actively name the movement as radical islam and we have no strategy to stop it or beat it. >> what is it we are out to accomplish? >> we discuss the strategy with three experts that have firsthand experience. senator kelly ayotte, four star general