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in the wake of hillary hoopla, marco rubio jumped into the presidential campaign this weekend and did a round of interviews, including one on the "today" show. >> your fellow republicans have been very critical of president obama over the last six years on domestic policy and on foreign policy. and i know you've heard the chorus. some in your party said we should have never elected a first-term senator, and here you are, six years later a first-term senator. >> right. >> do you expect them to change their tune? >> well, there's a difference between barack obama and i, and i think our histories are much different. i served in local government i served in state government for nine years in the third largest
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state in the country. i was the speaker of the florida house. >> that's certainly a fair question. kathleen parker, has rubio got a modest amount of coverage this week, because of hillary, we went a day after or because his poll numbers aren't great in the presidential race and the press has collectively decided to be skeptical of his chances of winning the nomination? >> i think they're strictly hillary-obsessed and they're missing as jon stewart pointed out a very important story. and it has to do with the fact that we have this young son of immigrants, cuban immigrants, who's coming from, as you said, one of the largest states, and he's a big character in politics. not even -- not just now, but for the future. so, i mean, the fact that we have ignored him, essentially really speaks orally of the media i think. there thoufb at least a few out there who say, you know this is important. marco rubio may not become the president, necessarily, but his candidacy signifies something important. >> i would argue, he was pretty effective rubio, in positioning
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himself there, because he's sort of in between hillary clinton's first event tuesday her first event on sunday, and said, there's candidates of yesterday and i'm the candidate of tomorrow. he was doing a two-shot at the jeb bush and hillary clinton. >> also playing off of bill clinton's campaign, back in the early '90s. you know, here we are, we can't -- >> the films of yester year. >> commentators can say whatever they want. that's what they're paid to do. we showed the clip of mika bri brzezinski saying, he looks like a little boy next to -- >> if the same commentator had been made about by a male commentator about a young woman, a young, brash, talented woman there would have been tremendous pushback, saying she's too young versus some older, experienced male candidate. i think that would have been a real problem. >> yet there's been virtually no
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backlash. >> well -- >> a little bit, but not -- >> i agree. i think that was out of line, but it's her opinion. >> it's her opinion, that's fine. >> the thing about rubio, he got coverage. he was overshadowed by hillary clinton. on the other hand, all of the second-tier republican candidates have suffered. ted cruz is a young, eloquent, son of immigrants, first-term senator. >> he has that first week. let's talk about the kind of coverage, ed. rubio released a tax plan this week and it's gotten almost no coverage. what did pounce around the net was "the new york observer" getting a high school photo of him doing a chippendale skit wearing no shirt. but shouldn't we focus on issues a bit more? >> we should. and now with the internet and tweets, everyone wants to do something that's going to get a little clicks. the goofy photo of marco rubio got more clicks than the tax plan. that's unfortunate. we're not going to completely change that but we should do a better job of focusing on the substance. i should also say in hillary clinton's defense she's going to get beat around on some of
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these issues, i mentioned syria and the russian reset. but the question matt lauer asked in fairness, that's a substantiative question that a lot of these candidates will have to answer. they all have beaten up on barack obama for six years plus about no experience and they have very little experience. you can say hillary clinton did an awful job in benghazi, syria, you name, but she's been in the arena. she's got a better resume. >> that's not a quote, liberal media question. three first-term senators and they all have to deal with that. >> it's also very early. >> very early. >> the media don't want to exactly pin down these issues so early on. and you know as time passes -- >> i'll ask you the same question in six months. >> thanks for stopping by. ahead, a florida newspaper sits on a story about that guy who landed his gyrocopter at the capitol. was that a reckless decision? but up next espn's brit mchenry suspended for one of the meanest tirades i've ever seen. but should that affect her job?
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"in an intense and stressful moment, i allowed my emotions to get the best of me and said some insulting and regrettable things. as frustrated as i was, i should always choose to be respectful and take the high road." espn has now suspended mchenry for a grand total of one week. joining us now, joe concha. what's your gut reaction watching this tape, watching britt mchenry taunting this poor woman? >> i want to know why i'm only seeing britt mchenry talking in that situation. i want to see the whole tape howie. this was a conversation clearly and when the tow company was asked, are you going to release the entire unedited tape they said, no, they're not going to do it. and i think here there may be two sides to the story. now, that said, this was deplorable, the way britt mchenry acted. she represents espn 24/7, whether she's on the air or off, there's morality clauses and the needed to know that. she went over the third rail of
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insults when it came women to women. she went education, class weight, and teeth. >> i agree with you. that we've only sort of seen half the tape and you're one of the few in the media to raise that. the woman on the other side, gena michelle, put something up on facebook saying is, bottom line, she got towed she shouldn't have left her car unattended in another lot to patronize another bar. be angry or upset, you don't insult someone's looks because you're you're above them. even if gena, had been giving it back to her one works for a tv station the other doesn't. >> this towing company has twice as many complaints as every other towing company in the area combined. so they have a history of not having the best we'll call it customer service. and you're right. britt mchenry, again, has to be held to a higher standard. this woman that was working there is a single mom of three, that's the narrative that we heard, but if she was so innocent in this, why not just put out the unedited video and
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show britt mchenry going off on her -- it must have been edited for a reason, is my point. >> but we're talking about, as you say a single mom with three kids, working for a towing company. and fox ana marino said she didn't even think the lame one-week suspension should have been applied by espn, because britt mchenry wasn't, quote, on the clock. you know who else wasn't on the clock, ray rice when he punched out his fiancee in an elevator. o.j. wasn't on the clock. the late marge shot who owned the cincinnati reds, she get suspended for using the n-word. she wasn't on the clock either. if you're in the public eye and in journalism have a responsibility to conduct themselves have been when they're ticked off and we've all lost our temper, in some private situation. >> howie, those are all excellent examples. you brought illegal, ray rice, brought up marge shot that was a racial slur, ethnic slurs when it came to donald sterling. you can go on and on.
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racial, ethnic slurs is you're gone. that's it. if you do something illegal, yes, you're gone, that's it. but if one person is mean to another person, and we don't know whether both sides are being mean to each other, does that go into a gray area that i don't know if we want to go into. your personal life is your personal life. and if you're being mean to somebody we don't know whether she was provoked, is my bottom line. >> i don't think britt mchenry should lose her job over this. >> "chicago tribune" says she should. >> lots of people can weigh in on this. i just think i don't care if the other person was being mean. you're being paid biesten. every time she goes on the air now, people will look at her everyone will think, lose some weight, baby girl. that's a damaging thing to do when you are somebody who makes a living in front of a camera. >> and she wasn't a very big name at espn. now she's branded herself as the girl from the video with the towing company. i think she's learned her lesson. she's certainly not going to do but this shows video is everywhere, particularly with
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phones. these aren't just phones anymore. they're cameras and they're satellite uplinks and you can destroy a career in eight seconds, thanks to youtube. a million people have already viewed this video on youtube. >> joe concha, thanks very much. ahead on "media buzz," sarah silverman wound up peddling a false story. but first, the media yawn as president obama takes cuba off the terror list and congress acts on the iran nuclear talks. why aren't these major stories?
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it was a striking headline in "the new york times." obama allows congress say on iran. excuse me. the senate foreign relations committee with every single democrat joining the gop voted to ensure the congress can review and act on any nuclear deals that the administration reaches with tehran. white house did get some language softened, but the network newscasts blew off the
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story and the limited coverage on the morning shows didn't treat it as all that controversial. >> the white house says president obama is ready to sign a compromise bill, letting congress vote on a final deal nuclear deal, with iran. >> a potential nuclear deal with iran has resulted in a rare somehow of bipartisanship in washington. washington. >> joining us now, fox news contributor and former foreign policy spokesperson for the bush administration. rick, how can this senate committee vote be treated as either a nonstory or not a controversial story? >> look, the iran issue is very complicated and it's probably too complicated for most of the political reporters. i don't think they're understanding all of the implications. look at the news this week of russian s-300 missiles being sold to iran. the yemen peace plan that iran has now given to the u.n. which
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is a joke. even today the iranians are poking fun. all of these issues really directly relate to the iranian deal but the media are missing them, because i think we have d.c. political reporters that are really reporting on this, and they don't understand the nuances. >> you also have new york executive producers making decisions about what to put on the air. so julie, this was a big confrontation between president obama and congress over what say capitol hill would have in any final deal. it was kind of diffdy fused by a bipartisan compromise. maybe the media are bored by bipartisan compromises. >> as you used the expression, leading blood on the floor is much more interesting. what they missed is there was blood left on the floor and it was barack obama's. the president drastically opposed congress having any say on this. it stattered with senator menendez, a democrat, former chair of the senate foreign relations committee. that mantel was picked up by ben cardin, who took over for him, whose democrats really stood up to the president on this.
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and i think that's the story in the left, that's talked about in the media, the more people are missing the fact, this is pretty unprecedented during the six years of barack obama's tenure. people really on democratic side did stand up to this president and said, no, congress does not want say on something in something congress did not want him involved in. >> but if they said the president's blood is left on the floor, how is this not a story for the network newscasts. you say political reporters don't understand the nuances of it but just in terms of the sheer politics of it it seemed pretty significant to me. >> and they actually got it wrong when you look at it. they were saying there was bipartisan support in congress for the iranian bill. many of them were just getting this confused. there was really bipartisan support to say we want to have a say. and actually, our say is different than the president's say. look, i have a difference of opinion because i think it's really dangerous to have the congress trying to get involved
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in foreign policy. i'm against the iran deal, i think they should do everything they can, but i actually support the executive branch's ability to put forward. they won the election. elections have consequences. they should put forward foreign policy. however congress on the sanctions, congress owns the sanctions policy. to permanently get rid of sanctions, that is congress' business. i think that should have been their plan. >> just briefly julie, i want to move on to our other topic. does the press just not like or care about these sort of squishy congressional compromises. and of course it has to go to the senate floor and play itself out. >> i think it's more than that. i think we've been talking about this iran deal for so long now that people are confused and rick has a point as to what exactly happened. look the reality is we don't even have a deal. the deal may or may not happen at the end of june but people act as if we already have a deal and the reality is we don't. i think part of it is confusion. i think part of it is exhaustion, i think part of it as rick pointed out, a misunderstanding of what's going
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on. >> let me play a little bit of the network coverage of the other big foreign policy for this week, involving president obama and cuba. >> we are witnessing tonight another historic step in thawing relations wean the u.s. and cuba. the white house announcing that president obama will remove cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. >> four days after that historic handshake with raul castro, president obama took another step today toward normalizing relations with cuba. >> so, many in the media describing this step as historic, not controversial. >> yeah, and i think -- look, the europeans have never been -- the europeans have been engaging with cuba. they haven't been doing the blockade. so there is this huge nuance that the media are missing in terms of the united states is the only one that has been blocking cuba and having this sanctions policy. if the engagement process hasn't worked before why should it work now? there's a whole bunch of nuances that they should be reporting
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on, and it is controversial within the united states. that is a very big story. let's hear from the ancubans. let's hear from people who have been dealing with in the negative parts of this. >> but the media treats this as non-controversial because the mainstream media have largely embraced president obama's normalization of relations with the island. >> well it's not just mainstream media, it's pretty much the american public. if you look at poll after poll it shows that most americans are speaking of fatigue, fatigued by our cuba policy and don't put cuba in the same policy as you would sudan or anybody else. and so -- or for example, syria or iran for that matter. so when you have the vast majority of voters saying, enough is enough, and you have the vast majority of media probably agreeing with them and saying, enough is enough, this has been going, as barack obama said, since before he was born, it becomes a story that most people just want to move on from. cuba has not been in the news for many years now.
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>> well enough is enough for this segment, because we're out of time. thanks for stopping by this sunday. >> thanks. after the break, with hillary clinton assiduously avoiding the media how does that strategy compare to what other presidential candidates have done? and later, is it a newspaper's job to call the cops when a protesters wants to call his gyrocopter into washington's no-fly zone? you know your dentures can move, unlike natural teeth. try fixodent plus true feel. the smooth formula helps keep dentures in place. it's free of flavors and colorants, for a closer feeling to natural teeth. fixodent. and forget it.
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how different is hillary clinton's carefully choreographed rollout in iowa from those of other candidates? unioning us now from san francisco, jeff greenfield, a political analyst who's worked for abc, cnn, and cbs. and jeff, you've covered a lot of campaigns in your time. how did you feel watching all this media chatter about the scooby doo van and chi poelt laypotle and all the other craziness? >> my first impression was to escape this for 18 months where there was no e-mail, tv or newspapers. there was a certain farcical element to all of this. but if it is possible to have any sympathy for any politician,ing ayears ago when hillary clinton went to iowa, there were huge crowds. it was is a big rollout and she was criticized for the regalness, the kind of neskt
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inevidentability. and this is not the definition of her campaign. your guests were quite right. she is not going to be able to spend the next year or run-up to the nomination just meeting, quote, everyday people and avoiding hard questions. it's different fundamentally, though, a, because she is the presumptive democratic nominee. that may be wrong. and second, she is one of the best-known people in the world and has been for decades. >> let me jump in and ask you this. this whole idea of sort of having -- politicians like to say they're having conversations with ordinary people. a lot of candidates -- is that even really possible in an age when lots and lots of cameras are following you around and everybody's on twitter and all of that? >> i think it is inevitably a contrivance contrivance. did ronald reagan spend a lot of time sitting down quote, everyday people? did john kerry and franklin roosevelt? it was a different era. politics and the web have made
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politics in my view too much a sense of personality driven, as opposed to getting up and telling people what you intend to do as president. no i vividly remember being in new hampshire when pat buchanan was talking to one poor soul on a freezing street, somewhere in manchester, surrounded by maybe a hundred reporters. it is inevitably inevitably, i think phoney. >> you know, there's also the question of, who controls the message. if reporters had had a crack at hillary, certainly someone who you have said she had declined to answer back in 2012 when a congressional committee asked her about did you use a private e-mail everybodier is when you were secretary of state? at the same time you say candidates -- a lot of candidates have done this, but not usually in the first week of a rollout, when you say hey, folks, here i am running for president. >> look i think the campaign was trying to figure out a way not to make her seem like the kate mckinnon caricature on "saturday night live," which, by the way, is far less friendly as
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amy poehler's was, as this power-driven person. >> devastating. >> yeah, but i still want to make this point that two things. one depending on where you are politically, people can either look like they're power mad or asserttive. you know, ted cruz got to the senate in 2013, began running for president before he knew where the light switches were. but if you like ted cruz that's not a criticism. and i do think by the way, there is a whiff of a phrase i normally don't use. there is a whiff of a sexist attitude about when a woman seeks power. but the most important thing is, in my view, if you're a reporter and don't want to spend your life explaining what the order was at chipotle what do you do? i was struck by a really interesting piece in politico by a writer named michael cruz who went to this chipotle and interviewed not hillary but the workers, and did an interesting piece on, what is it to work at
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a place like this? can you make a living? that's a way you can creatively use on what a politician does without focusing on her pantsuit. >> that's a good example of enterprise reportaround jeff, because coming up should the "tampa bay times" have held back their story about the man who risked his life flying his
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the contraption about an hour before the gyrocopter descended onto the hill. montgomery dedeadlined our request for an interview but he's defending his handling of the situation. >> it's not my job to pull the plug on somebody doing something like this. >> do you think that the pilot understood that he could have been killed doing this? >> oh, yeah. he knew that was certainly a possibility. he was ready for that. >> jeff is still with us. how does the tampa bay times not alert them until a half an hour before this man lands? >> i can understand what they did, but i think it was the wrong call. they are told all the time of impending events, some of them which are i legal. as a general judgment, it's almost like the rule that applies to someone like a psychiatrist. if you are told of something that's going to be imminent
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danger, your job as a citizen trumps your job as a journalist. if he said he's going to drop a device, i don't think that he would have had any problem. if the mailman said i'm bringing 50 people to the capitol and we're going to protest citizens united i think on that score you go the other way and you're with them. the fact that the air space in and around washington is so protected and guarded should have tipped off the reporter that there was a real danger to mr. montgomery, i mean, to the mailman and to other people. at that point the judgment should have been this is too dangerous for us to just let it go. >> that is exactly the point. imagine the conversation we'd be having now if law enforcement had shot down doug hughes and his contraption as he told the paper he thought very well might
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happen. everyone would be saying the newspaper was reckless. >> yeah, but, see, where i have some ambiguity is take a reporter who wants to imbed himself in an urban street gang to understand what it's like. there have been reporters who have done that. if you do that you know you'll be part of things that aren't right. it's a little bit more complicated than saying we have to alert the authorities. in this case, i just think it was a bad call. but i understand why the reporter thought he could do it. >> it took place of the paper. the secret service was aware of this guy but no one knew when he was coming. i think the tampa bay times did it because it wanted to preserve its scoop. thanks for joining us today. great to see you. still to come, your top tweets. why newspaper jobs are bad news
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remember back when robert red ford made working for a newspaper seem cool? that was a long time ago. they say the newspaper reporter is the worst job of 2015 behind lumber jack and soldier. i say you don't go into newspapers for the money or the prestige. it's a calling. time for your top tweets. how would you describe the coverage of hillary clinton's rollout in iowa? the media are like teenager girls in a bieber concert with hillary entering the race. another one, a clown car chasing
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the scooby van. left wing media thought it was a success. typical partisanship. i think sarah silverman is funny but she made a video for a group and told a specific story about how the owner of the new york comedy club once paid a male comic more money than her for the same work. >> todd somehow brought up that he mentioned that he got $60. he just got $60 and i just got $10. we did the exact same time back to back in the same show. and so i went back inside, and i asked the owner al martin, and i said, al why did you pay me $10 and you gave todd $60. it was perfect. he goes did you want a $60 spot? >> except it didn't happen that way. the other comedian had been
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formerly booked and she was a last-minute fill in. she apologized saying her own tale is hardly an example of the wage gap and can only due that very true reality a disservice if she were trying to make it one. and she said to the maniacs who want to use this as a chit against women's issues, i ask that you please don't. sorry sara, you don't get to call other people maniacs after you say what you did was false. that's it for this edition of media buzz. i hope you'll like our facebook page where we post a lot of original content. we have a in each called your buzz. you ask the questions. i provide the responses. check out our home page as well. all our videos are there. you can dvr the show and you can write to us.
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media buzz. we're back here next week at 11:00 with the latest buzz. two big stories we are following. first a tragedy at sea. you can see it there on your screen. pope francis is leading the world in prayer right now. people killed and hundreds more missing after a smuggling boat trying to reach europe capsized in the mediterranean sea. italy's coast guard said the boat was coming from libya when it was sinking. a rescue boat saved about 30 people. at least 700 people were on that boat. as i mentioned, the pope praying for those quote, brothers and sisters who were simply looking for a et abouter life. we're following this developing story and will have a live
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