howie: that big scary sounding intimidating washington protest yesterday, the one that supports the capitol riot defendants that the press spent weeks building up out to be a couple hundred people, outnumbered by reporters and law enforcement. had to be the most over-drama advertised event in a long time. donald trump who supported the intent of the protest is very much in the news, thanks to bob woodward. a new book by booed ward and his colleague has detonated a neutron bomb with much of the fallout aimed at general mark

milley who obviously cooperated with the book. the clash between conservative and liberal media is this. was the chairman of the joint chiefs acting courageously when according to the book he twice reassured china the u.s. would not attack because it was worried about trump's mental state and when milley told senior defense officials to check with him on any presidential order to launch a nuclear strike or was milley out of control and undermining the civilian chain of command. these are crucial questions. woodward is sometimes accused of granting favorable treatment to those who give him access. trump who is denouncing the book wouldn't speak to woodward and c of osta. once the hearings and investigations are underway, we'll see how it holds up to media scrutiny. scrutiny. i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ the press quickly divided into

two warring camps, those on the left using the book to hail mark milley, those on the right practically calling him a tray -- traitor. >> the thing that is so bracing an nerve-racking and important about this book is what it reveals about how much worse it was than we knew. how much closer we came to real disaster than we have known before now. >> we all now learn every time one of these stories comes out how much closer to the brink we were than we understood and how much we owe people like general milley and others, the few remaining adults in charge at that point. >> there was an insurrection planned around that time in washington but it took place at the pentagon and its chief architect was general mark milley. >> if this is true, general milley would be a traitor to this country, if true he should be fired and tried for treason mead. >> i. immediately. >> now they're trashing general

milley. it's just insane. this is a party that is attacking generallings the fbi, the -- generals, the fbi, the cia, the intel community, the very people who keep us safe. crazy. >> our country top defense officials secretly colluded with the top military rival to undercut the president of the united states. that's tree b son. it is a crime -- treason. howie: president biden says he has great confidence in general milley. >> i found woodward and i found his cohorts to be extremely dishonorable people. this guy is one of the most overrated guys. he's a sleaze. but i did not ever think of attacking china. howie: joining us to an a liese the coverage, mollie hemingway

and leslie marshall. mollie, mark milley has basically confirmed the book's account of his calls to china and his meeting on nuclear launch procedures. but he says this is no book deal, it's routine, part of his job. is it possible that the woodward costa book overdramatized those events. >> nobody disputes that it happened. mark milley concedes he called his counter part in china and had a conversation about military action. i think the range of opinion that you're seeing here are people who say already we know enough, not just for this but for many other problems and failures that mark milley has had, he should be fired, he should be held accountable for violating the chain of command here. the moderate position seems to be we need to know what happened on the phone calls, what was he doing. the larger perspective i think is important. the claim is it was okay to violate the norms and violate the constitution, violate chain

of command bass donald trump was going to do a nuclear war with china. that's just preposterous. the real problem with donald trump, according to the establishment, he was too resistant to military action. he was engaging in peace deals, wanted to pull out of afghanistan. that underlying argument that really he was going to do something unlike anything he had ever said or done before is what really should have much more scrutiny by the media. howie: leslie, you have media liberals praising general milley to the skies and a media conservatives saying he should be fired, he should be prosecuted. isn't it a legitimat issue for the press that the general apparently broke the civilian chain of command with back channel actions? >> i don't think he did. i think the former chief, the former head of the joint chiefs of staff said he did nothing wrong. it is actually routine to call your counterpart in china and elsewhere. howie: you don't think he did -- leslie, you don't think he

did. that's fine. i'll let you explain. but is it a legitimate issue for the press since obviously milley's actions were extremely unusual, to say the least? >> i don't think it's an issue for the press. i think the press needs to do their job and ask the right questions and we need to stop people in the press jumping to conclusions. in the united states of america, even if you are a general and a part of the joint chiefs, you are innocent until proven guilty. this man has not been found to be proven gil ticks talking of things like -- guilty, talking of things like treason, that's just absolutely ridiculous. and i would say whether this was donald trump as president or as we have right now joe biden, the jumping to conclusions and trying to ruin an individual's career and picking on some of the highest levels of the most wonderful military in the world concerns me. and it baffles me when i see it by both sides when it's used for

political gain. i don't think he's a hero. and i don't think that he has committed treason. i think he was doing his job. and i don't say that because of my opinion. i say that because of the opinions of people that really know that job. howie: how can donald trump who gave woodward 18 taped interviews for the last book on the one hand say the woodward book is fiction, on the other hand suggest that mark milley should be prosecuted for treason which means the book's account is accurate and is not in dispute. >> i think that's the case here. we do know that bob woodward either makes up things or exaggerates previously reported things. howie: we don't know that for a fact. >> he has a long history, going back decades of subjects of his books claiming he invents things. howie: that's not the case here. >> maybe you disagree with that. but you have mark milley admitting it. i want to go back to what leslie saying there was no problem here.

remember the media hysteria when general mike flynn called with the approval of the incoming commander in chief, his counter part in russia, his life was destroyed for that here you have mark milley who the acting secretary of defense says he wasn't authorized to make these calls which undermind our country and -- undermined our country, which made it seem like things were unstable. you have mark milley who said of the strike that we heard about a couple weeks ago, i remember the morning of media buzz, we heard just before that was going on, that there had been a righteous strike where supposedly isis-k terrorists were taken out, instead it was seven children and other people. he's got so many problems going on. yet the media are so restrained how they talk about it, wanting to give him the benefit of the doubt. they is extremely important, has nothing to do with trump. it those to do with do you have a republic, a chain of command and accountability. and is anyone responsible?

howie: flynn was charged with lying to the fbi. the charge was later dropped. what's clear from the book, this goes to mollie's earlier point, what's clear from the book is that donald trump, is milley believed that donald trump had suffered a mental decline after the election and agreed with nancy pelosi that trump was yeah. crazy, according to a transcript of a phone call, that's used to justify milley's actions by the left winners who -- wingers who think trump is crazy. >> i'll leave that up to the medical professionals and so should broadcasters and journalists. former ambassador bolton said there are numerous people on the calls, if there was anything treasonous, somebody would have reported it. two, we should not get all our information from a book that's written by he anyone.

we want to see the facts. we're hearing from people that say there's no problem with that. on january 6, many of us, a lot of people may not -- our politicians on the right admit this right now. people were biting nails and not sure what was going to happen. certainly, countries throughout the world were biting their nails and were worried about what was going to happen. he did the right thing in my opinion based on his position because he is basically saying everything's cool. you no, everything's cool. don't worry. everything's cool. that's my take away. howie: i want to come back to the media coverage. even the military types who go on tv are divided over this including alexander vinman who was a main witness against former president trump in the first impeachment. let's roll tape on that. >> even if he did this for the right reasons, he did the wrong thing and now he is toxic. >> i don't see anything that's

undermining the civilian control of the military. howie: he went on to say he thought the book's account may have been sensationalized. does the coverage come down to the people in the media who think donald trump was unstable will cheer anybody who tried to block him or undermine him or go behind his back? >> that's clearly what's in play. people say it's okay to violate norms, okay to violate the constitution, so long as it's against donald trump. and it's not just this story, it's also as you just referenced learning that the high level clinton attorney was indicted for lying about his role in the russian collusion hoax operation that did so much damage to the country, that had so much global impact. people thought it was okay to lie about trump colluding with russia to steal the 2016 election because they claim they were legitimately concerned about him. in fighting things that they claim to fight, they did the things that they were doing. it was all projection and you see that whether it's this phone

call, the russian hoax or the impeachment or things that were engaged in in recent years. howie: for all the negative add adjectives that donald trump is throwing at general milley, he's the one that appointed him. even the book doesn't say that trump was considering hostilities with china. of course, the former president denied that. don't journalists have to provide the crucial context that he is the first president since jimmy carter who didn't get us involved in another war or launch a sustained military action. >> i think the media has a responsibility to report that but we all know that it's not going to have as many clicks or as many sales of papers or listeners on radio or viewers on television. it's not the sexier headline. that sadly is part of what the journalism and broadcasting business have become. howie: can't argue with that. i've got to wrap it up.

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howie: there's a serious media debate raging over vaccine mandates and booster shots. it took a bizarre turn when nicki minaj warned twitter followers about the life saving shot based on nothing more than this. my cousin won't get it because his friend got it and became i'm potent. -- impotent, his testicles were swollen. the singer played the race card.

joy reed doubled down on the air. >> and people like nicki minaj i have to say this. you have 22 million followers on twitter. for you to use your platform to encourage our community to not protect themselves and save their lives, my god, sister, you could do better than that. howie: mollie, why would nickii minaj talk about her cousin's friends and testicle as if it proved anything about covid and then defend that again and again? >> well, i think first of all the story is so ludicrous, it's hard not to laugh about the actual story that began the whole thing. but i think it really does speak to a really important thing, which is the reaction to when she did tell the story was this attempt to just shut her down, to mock her, deride her. i think that has a lot to do with vaccine hesitancy. we have seen the media and public health officials lose a lot of trust in recent years and

they've lost that trust through their own bad decisions. they lie, they're hypocrite call and contradict themselves. when someone questions it, they get mocked and deride it. that does nothing to convince people about the efficacy of vaccines. what i found was interesting, they attack her and she fought back with them in defense of being able to talk about these things without being told you can't talk about stories you hear. i think that's a dangerous and unamerican ming and it's good for people to talk openly so more information can be shared about the goodness of the vaccines. howie: nicki minaj has the right to say anything she wants. this whole i know a friend who has a friend is hard for me to understand. joe reed was right and nicki minaj throws racial taunts at her. what do you make of that? >> i didn't think this was racial at all. i think what joy reed said was right now with the african-american community. we saw larger number of the

african-american community affected physically and financially from covid-19. we see a problem within the african-american community, disparity when we look at minority groups not being vaccinated. it's a crazy, ridiculous story. i wouldn't say it's unamerican. it's so american. this is what's become so american is that anybody out there would believe a rapper whose cousin in trinidad's boyfriend's claim, we have no position in -- no physician in trinidad saying i examined x and this resulted in what. we haven't heard any of that having that many followers, she is being in my personal and professional opinion, irresponsible for not just her community but people out there who are afraid of getting the vaccine. howie: nicki minaj claimed she was suspended by twitter.

not true. let's go on to what happened on friday, when the fda voted against recommending covid booster shots except for the most high risk patients, after president biden gave a speech saying all americans would begin to be eligible starting tomorrow more booster shots. are the media portraying this as a setback for the president or just bureaucratic squabble? >> of course not. because it's their friend, joe biden. they ran his campaign saying that he would be competent and that he had to be elected because trump was incompetent. have you the debacle with the booster shots. you have so many areas of problems, whether it's immigration or the economy or trying to get out of a bad news cycle by drone striking 10 innocent people in afghanistan. this is completely and out incompetence and the tone of the coverage is not accurate relative to what we're experiencing. howie: the new york times described the move as a flow the

strategy by the -- blow to the strategy by the president. president biden vowed he would follow the science and then got ahead of the scientists on this one. >> i don't think he got ahead of the scientists. one of the things that makes our nation great are agencies like the fda. some people will freak out and are probably tweeting me right now. the fda does a great job. any of us that worked in politicians or with politicians know you the get a heads up, we're probably going to have everybody have the boosters. further research shows we're going to dial back on that, we'll have it for 65-year-olds and healthcare professionals, people with severe illness. doesn't mean we won't get the boosters, we're just concerned about the timing right now and they want more time. i don't think there was a disconnect at all. it's just like we see with masks and everything, this is a fluid situation. this virus keeps mutating, delta then mu and usually when a virus mutates according to scientists and doctors it becomes weaker.

we saw that wasn't the case with delta. howie: if donald trump was president and had a disagreement with the fda it would be a huge story. you mentioned problems at the border, afghanistan and now covid. nbc's chuck todd this morning said president biden has a credibility crisis on his hands. it's striking because we hear little of that with most of the mainstream media. thought? >> it's nice that he admits the obvious, that there's a credibility crisis. s there's just no comparison to what we endured for all four years of the trump administration, where things that weren't a problem or that were completely made up like the russia collusion hoax were dominating every day of the news. here you have legitimate crises like the american drones striking people and saying that no one will be held accountable for it and standing by the intelligence and the border surge with the people streaming and the media saying we'll give a light criticism and it's all well and good. that is not media coverage.

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must endure what i, the athletes at this table, and the countless others who needlessly suffered under nasser's guise of medical treatment. >> the agent just kept diminishing my abuse and telling me that, you know, he didn't really feel like it was that big of a deal and maybe i should drop the case. howie: incredible. joining us now from new york, kat timpf from the gutfeld show and fox nation. it was painful to watch and impossible not to watch. i'm glad the media played it up. my concern is it's feeling like a one or two day story, everybody shakes their heads and moves on. >> right. that's a shame. no, sir jut for the women in this -- not just for the women in this story but men or women who are victims of things like that. the overriding narrative was that these women were so brave to get up there and tell their stories. that's true. they really were very brave to do this.

i cried a little bit. an important take-away is this isn't the first time they had to do this. you listen to michaela mulroney say i already told this story to the fbi and it wasn't enough. they didn't do anything. she did this in order to protect other little girls from going through what she went through and it wasn't enough. i think whenever this sort of thing is in the news a lot of times people say why didn't they say something sooner or why don't women speak up about this right away. that's exactly why. sometimes they do and it's not enough. howie: the level of the fbi's failure is breath taking. agents who didn't care, didn't investigate, didn't write a report, thighed the bureau, salary jenkins said there should be a special prosecutor to probe the coverup. one agent convene lent -- conveniently fired the day before the hearing. >> we already know about larry

nasser, he's already in prison for the rest of his life, that doesn't mean that the way this happened was okay. because he is the one who did this but because of what the fbi failed to do, there are dozens more little girls who are victims that didn't have to be. that has to matter. not just for those little girls, but for people everywhere because if this could possibly happen, this is wrong. this has to change. howie: and larry nasser preyed upon another 70 or possibly as much as another 120 young girls after the fbi was told by a couple of these brave women, originally back in 2015. the media are good about short-term outrage. the pain of the abuse by the team doctor never goes away. i'm just wondering why there isn't more of a he focus right now on what happened at the fbi because it's a colossal failure. >> it is.

and simone biles is absolutely right. everybody who is outside of it gets to say, wow, this is disgusting and move on with your lives. if you're one of these people that has gone through this it's something that affects you for the rest of your life. there will be certain things that trigger you for the rest of your life. it changes your life. there was a piece in the guardian too saying what happened with the fbi did here was horrible but it wasn't shocking. we talk about how stuff like this, sex crimes like this, they're often under-prosecuted but they're also under-investigated. which is a what a lot of these women went through which is acceptable. howie: much more coverage with simone biles pulling out of the olympics. next we'll talk about afghanistan, covid and a more with chris wallace.

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howie: a week after the new york times reported civilian casualties from one of the last u.s. missile attacks in afghanistan, the biden administration made this acknowledgement late friday. >> senior pentagon officials admit a drone strike, the white house celebrated at first as a major victory against isis, actually did kill almost a dozen civilians. howie: joining us now, chris wallace, the host of fox news sunday and author of the new book, countdown bin laden, the

untold story of the 247 day hunt to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to justice. welcome. i understand the fog of war but the new york times reported a week ago that civilians were killed, seven were children. for the pentagon to wait that long to do the about face, how much does that had hurt the administration's credibility. >> i don't know that the timing will matter a lot but the fact is going to matter dramatically. joe biden is justifying the pullout from afghanistan, talked about we don't have to have books on the ground, we have over the horizon capability, which means we can fight the war on terror from hundreds of thousands of miles away. well, this was the last strike by the u.s. military before we pulled up stakes entirely in afghanistan and it was a tragic, tragic error. it not only -- not only did it not hit isis-k, it hit 10 people, seven children, and the

target was an aide worker. howie: you told stephen colbert there were certain republicans you didn't want to put on fox news sunday because you don't want to hear their unproven claims of a stolen election. is that a difficult call? >> i think it kind of got misinterpreted. what i said was i'm very concerned about the people who continue to spread what i consider to be the big lie, that the election was stolen but there are certain people in the republican party who were obviously of such news importance that i would have them on, for instance, i had on house republican leader kevin mccarthy. but i told colbert in that searing interview that if i have them on, i'm certainly going to ask them about that and grill them on why they continue to say or if they don't continue, why they did say that joe biden didn't win the election fair and square. but frankly, there's some other shows that have just had a ban

on anybody who they feel has -- is an election defire. i think that's moral -- denier. i think that's moral posturing. if the news is important enough, i'm not going to say our viewers can't hear from them. howie: because they can't hear from them on any other subject. >> exact hi. howie: how do you deal with people who are anticipate anti-. i'm not talking about the biden mandate, which is a legitimate subject, people who just say the vaccine doesn't work, isn't safe, people shouldn't take it, would you put somebody like that on the program? >> if that's one of many things they say and i want to talk to them about other things. would i have someone on the show to deny vaccinations? absolutely not. and i've been really strong on this since covid first came out. this is about the science. i have not seen any credible information that would indicate that the vaccines are not a tremendous good, not saying

there can't be public health or side effects or whatever but -- so to put somebody on who conceivably is going to stop people from getting a vaccine that can save their lives, no, why would i put them on television. howie: that is the question, you give them a platform. facebook and other of outlets had to deal with that. the bob woodward book started a big fire storm in washington with general mark milley on the hot seat. milley said the calls to china very routine, nothing to it. you've had woodward on your show every the years. do you think there could be a case that perhaps what milley did was a bit over-dramatized in the book? >> i have mixed feelings. people who bet against bob woodward have gone broke in this town. almost everything he has said, almost everything, really, has turned out to be 100% true.

people that denied it ended up with egg on their face. no he question that milley did it. howie: he confirmed it. >> right. the question is, was it over the line. you know of, i was looking at the part of the book, he says secret phone calls. if secret means see considerate from us, of course they were secret from us. but the implication is secret from the people inside the pentagon and that just doesn't seem to be true. the first call he made in october to the chinese, october of 2020, was in conjunction supposedly with the defense secretary, mark esper. the second call he apparently had 15 people in the room including translators. so secret in the sense that he was off the reservation, i don't see that yet. howie: that he was going rogue. obviously he's getting a lot of criticism. it's become a beltway ritual over decades for former officials to talk to woodward and he gets to channel their

inner most thoughts. we've written books where we construct scenes based on interviews that we do. when they do it that way, do they have a form of protection in that they're not on the record but their version of history gets out and is widely accepted? >> yeah. actually, with milley, i have a bigger issue. it isn't one in the woodward book. it's the fact that i have and some would say i should get a life, i read a lot of the post trump books. milley is in every one of them, talking about how he disapproved and felt he had had been drawn into the photo op at saint john's church and a how he felt about trump in the final days. i can't tell whether it's him talking directly to the authors or him talking to somebody who clearly had authority to talk to the authors. you kind of wonder for a chairman of the joint chiefs who is supposed to be apolitical, he seems to be awfully public and awfully political in the things he's saying and i think that's something that in that hearing, in the senate next week, the

28th, is going to come up and i don't think he's going to look so good. howie: he's not some former official, he's the top military officer in the united states. donald trump denounced milley as an idiot, he called bob woodward a sleaze. trump still take shots at you over the first presidential debate says you didn't have control. >> i would say for a landlord, i'm grateful i'm allowed to occupy so much space in donald trump's brain rent-free. you know, i'm not talking about him but, yes, he still wants to talk about the september 29th, 2020 debate. you know -- howie: to the extend it got out of control. where does the fault lie on that? >> we sent some poor unfortunate fox intern who looked at trump interrupted biden, important, me, doesn't matter, 145 times in 90 minutes. i think that's a world record. i think guiness should write him

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it didn't last very long. why did everything, including the media coverage, become so polarizing after that moment of national celebration. >> because a that's who we are and, yes, it lasted for a while and one of the scenes at the end of the book is after the president announces to the nation, leon panetta leaves to get in his car to get home and he hears the crowd chanting, usa, usa, cia, cia, and he remembers all of the attacks on the cia over the years, domestically, and said that was the proudest moment of his career. but we move on. we seem incapable, i don't know, we seem incapable, howie, of focusing on what unites us and we seem to just want to pick the scab of the things that divide us. i think it's one of the saddest thing in our politics, in our media. howie: how much does the press contribute to that? those are the kind of things that excite the base and get ratings and clicks.

>> i think there's a tribal element to our country today and it's beyond just politics. it's politics, culture, where you lib, your view -- live, your view of faith h it's all kind of stuff. obviously, there's clicks and money to be made in playing to one of those tribes. it's not all of us. i think we're following, not leading. but we certainly add to it. howie: i would say we're contributing. you have he detailed scenes with pinetta finding out about the intel that bin laden may be hiding in a home in pakistan. you have him briefing obama. was it easier to get people to talk about this 10 years after the event. >> no doubt about it. first of all, it's not as classified. i talked to almost everybody, hillary clinton, bob gates, mcraven, two of the seals, they were justifyabley proud. it was a great moment, a great intel operation, a great political process, a terrific

military operation. they're justifyabley proud of it. you start with people lower down who are more likely to talk to you. once you persuade them that you're serious and want to tell the whole story, you build up, almost like an organized crime investigation, you start with the small fry and try to get to the central figures. howie: the book is a page-turner, as was your last book on the atomic bomb. is it hard when so much is written about this and everybody knows how the story ends? >> yes, but i tried to write it as a thriller. my feeling -- this will sound presumptuous -- i think history is written wrong. we know what happened, now let's talk about why or how it happened. in the moment it was happening they didn't know what was going to happen so when pinetta gets the lead about bin laden might be in the compound, he doesn't

know if it's true or not. when obama makes the decision to launch the raid, he said it's no more than 50/50. you have the seals on the helicopter, they think it's a one way suicide mission and they'll end up dead. if you can transmit that, it seems to me that the biggest compliment somebody paid, i know how the story ends but i was on the edge of my seat the last 100 pages. howie: you had a top navy seal in the operation promised his mom he wouldn't get involved in any more risky efforts like this. >> he said i'm sorry i made that promise to my mom, he's the one that killed bin laden we stayed in afghanistan another 10 years. that let to the debacle in recent weeks. that's a story that shouldn't go away. chris wallace, thank you for stopping by. >> thank you. howie: still to come, jimmy

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howie: time to try the beat the clock on the buzz beater. go. abc's jimmy kimmel is ripping the washington post for allegedly twisting his comments about patients who take ivermectin, telling howard stern. >> it's disappointing when what are supposed to be real newspapers like the washington of post completely misrepresents what you said. howie: well, let's go to the videotape. here's what kimmel said. >> it doesn't seem to tough to me, vaccinated person having a heart attack, come back in. unvaccinated guy who gobbled

horse goo, rest in peace. howie: the post went further than that, suggesting the talk show host suggested hospitals shouldn't treat patients who prefer to take ivermectin. stephanie grisham is coming out with a tell-all book, paints her ex-boss, melania trump as dismissive, defeated, detached. she said the breaking point was the charge of the rigged election. the former first lady dismisses the book as an attempt to redeem herself, after a failed personal reof layings ship and unprofessional he behavior in the white house. a source tells me the personal attack shows that team trump is afraid of the book and engaging in character assassination. the source says grisham spares no one in the book. an expose says facebook doesn't

enforce rules for celebrities and journalists, calling it a breach of trust. another document admits that on facebook's instagram we make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls. the company says the paper cherry picked the findings for lopsided reporting of. piers morgan needed a next act after walking out on a british morning show over criticism of meghan markle. now he's siding -- signing with fox where he will do a show. he will write a column for the new york post and london sun. fox has bought the gossip outfit tmz. you know by now gavin newsom beat the california recall in a blowout and larry elder conceded. a national press assault helped the governor make the radio talk show host the issue and elder may have contributed when he

backed off from saying joe biden legitimately won the white house. >> i don't believe telex was won fairly and -- believe the election was won fairly and squarely. i believe it was full of shenanigans. howie: talking about a rigged election in a two to one democratic state, probably not the best strategy. let me sneak in one more here. does news max aloss any criticism of donald trump. the host cut off joe sabo who i trying to get people out of afghanistan when he said multiple administrations were at fault and the trump administration's efforts were fairly weak. >> cut him off now. you're not going to blame this on president trump on my show. don't come on this program and take the talking points of the left and blame president trump. howie: so much for giving even a few seconds to another point of view. that's it for this edition of media buzz. i'm howard kurtz. we hope you like our facebook

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