♪ ♪ howard: from the moment the white house got upstaged by a leak to pete williams, the retirement of stephen breyer or has dominated the news. don't buy the spin that the 83-year-old justice essentially woke up one day and decided he had enough. breyer had been under enormous pressure from democrats and media liberals to surrender his seat while joe biden still has nominal control of the senate. the coverage has been turbo-charged by the biden cam campaign promise to name a black

woman. some media conservatives now slamming the president for playing racial identity politics. it's hardly unprecedented. in the 1980 campaign, ronald reagan vowed to put the first woman on the supreme court, and he did that with sandra day o'connor. the press loves to trot out its short list, but given the racial and gender criteria, the list is much shorter this time around. there is one consensus across the media landscape, the democrats will be able to push through whatever woman biden picks, and it won't change the 6-3 conservative majority one bit. i'm howard kurtz, and this is "mediabuzz." ♪ ♪ pleasure. howard: ahead, dana perino with her take on presidents insulting the press. and, hey, is tom brady retiring or not? as joe biden talked about the high court vacancy, commentators on the right and left really went at it despite the fact that

there is no nominee. >> the person i will nominate will be someone of extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. and that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. it's long overdue. >> it is hard to overstate just how important and powerful anden inspiring a moment this is. >> joe biden is doing something very different. right off the bat he is excluding all potential candidates who are not african-american women. >> conservative media ask republicans are tear thing their hair out and retending nothing like -- from e tending like nothing has ever happened before, they're so outraged. >> all that matters is that that person replacing breyer is a rock solid, reliable vote for their causes du jour. not even cnn is pretending like this is about judicial pedigree. [laughter] >> did this man get ushered out so that the politics of the

moment could benefit president biden? >> any of these nominees who are black women are going to automatically, you know, be called the human embodiment of critical race theory. howard: joining us now to analyze, mollie hemingway, now editor-in-chief of the federalist -- congratulations on the new job -- and leslie marshall, both are fox news contributors. mollie, let's start with president biden's pledge to name a black woman to the high court. are some commentators on the right implying that such a nominee may not be fully qualified because the president would be picking from a more limited pool? >> well, i think the real media issue here is how the media tend to use cries of racism against their political opponents. they love calling republicans racist, they said that nonstop about president trump, you know, if he was trying to secure the border opposing mobs tearing down statues or instituting travel bans in the early days of the covid pandemic, he was i

routinely called racist by the media. and then this week you have a president pledging that he will not consider people for the position of supreme court nominee solely based on their race, the color of their skin or their sex. and the media were very muted about that. and it shows how they use racism as a cudgel against political opponents rather than simply commenting that we have a president who pledged to be racist in his selection. regardless of what you think about that. howard: leslie, i want to give you a chance to respond to that a, whether you consider the pledge to be racist, but also aren't some commentators on the left assuming that any black woman president biden picks beside helping him politically, which is obvious, would be i superbly qualified? isn't that flip side of this? >> well, i think, quite frankly, whether you're democrat or republican when you have these individuals vetted, they are qualified. you know, i don't care about their skin color or their gender, and i'm glad, howie, that you brought up ronald

reagan who used to be the god until donald trump took over the republican party. ronald reagan said that he was going to nominate a woman, and he did. and as a woman, i'm very grateful that he did. sandra day o'connor was a great justice. it's nice for me, my daughters and the future women to look at that court and see themselves. women of color see that in justice sotomayor. but african-american women don't see that. so what joe biden is doing is no different than what ronald reagan did and what politicians do. they look at the composite of our nation, of their voters, their constituency and of that court. this is the most important job that any president of the united states has. they take it very seriously, as does the nation. howard: right. >> i don't think that the media with, i don't think that the media misrepresented this. i think it's out there whether they're criticizing him doing this or applauding him. howard: all right. mollie, you co-authored on the ugliness of the kavanaugh battle, the unsubstantiated

allegations of sexual misconduct going back to high school. when we look at the media short list headed by ketanji brown jackson, do you expect the press to use a similar standard to what we saw with kavanaugh? >> i expect a very different type of confirmation battle just because there has been a tendency on left to use smear campaigns against justice -- nominees who are nominated by a republican president. and you just don't see that on the left. but what i do hope is covered in the media is how each of these candidates that are being floated are pretty radical and demand justice, which is a left-wing sort of secretly-funded group that has been behind a lot of biden nominees, gave a lot of money and support to joe biden to become president, they have been able to get a lot of their nominees out. andpeople don't pay so much attention to federal judges, but

when it's a supreme court nominee, they usually do pay more attention. i hope we get accurate coverage about how radical this person might be because it has political implications for a bunch of democratic senators who are running in an already tough election year in tough races, that the radical nature of this set of nominees that have been put out there might be hard for them to vote for. howard: these are lifetime appointments, and anybody who gets nominated, right or left, should get media scrutiny. but i want to come back, leslie, to reagan's campaign promise that you spoke about as all well. was there racial and gender politics mt. fact that every -- in the fact that every supreme court justice before 1981 is was white, almost 200 years before 1967, was a white man? it wasn't talked about then and now we're having, obviously, a different kind of media debate. >> well, we're -- no, they didn't talk about a it as much, and there are a few reasons. one, everybody looked at the court, everybody looked at the presidency as being white men.

and i think people of color not just because of numbers in this country where whites clearly outnumbered those people of color and that has changed. and that is part of it, howie, is change. the change in the way our politicians go through this process. there used to be much more bipartisan support. if you remember, orrin hatch actually brought some names to people on left like barack obama, and they weren't people who were extremely right-minded rulers in their judgments in federal and circuit courts. right now we have a very different composite of voters, of the nation in a very different way that these confirmation hearings are being held. you know, i don't consider, like i said, this to be racist or sexist. i didn't consider it to be sexist when former president ronald reagan did in this with sandra day o'conner. of. howard: right. >> i think they look at the composite of the nation, and they're doing the highest job of president -- as president of this nation to make the --

howard: met me jump in here. msnbc put out this tweet: conservatives don't mind affirmative action hires so long as they fit their view of a demographic. it's put out there as if it were the network's official position, so is it now okay for a news network to just slam the right? >> it's not okay, but they're not really a news network so much as engaged in propaganda. but i want to point out too that, you know, for many people in this country not just the best justice, but perhaps the best american we have is clarence thomas, a black man who experienced tremendous racism in his life and continues to from the left. people like him on the right not because of identity, but because of his judicial reasoning. and that is the thing that unites all people, this belief that regardless of whether you're one of the first jewish justices or one of the first italian justices, you remember that identity has always been a part of these confirmation

battles. but what really matters is that people understand the constitution and interpret it faithfully, because that is important for all of us regardless of whether we're male or female, black, brown, white. this is what unites us as a country, is our constitution and our founding principles. and anyone can lay claim to that and should lay claim to that, and it's not about what genitalia you have or what skin color you have. howard: well, that's a good point. but since you brought up clarence thomas, it was george w. bush naming him to replace thurgood marshall. leslie, why are emotions running so high in this media debate when everybody knows it's virtually certain that a 51-50 with kamala harris breaking the tie in the senate will confirm whoever priden nominates? and just -- president biden nominates? and just as the democrats lost with the battles over merrick garland and amy coney barrett and it doesn't change the 6-3 balance of the court? >> ah, howie, one of the reasons

my over 30 years as a talk show host the phones ring when you say something that's really divisive is because people love the fight. howard: ding ding. >> and whether it's a democrat or republican, they love the fight. the media cothat, and -- do that, and everybody profits off it whether monetarily or politically. we see that now more than ever, and i would have to say that a it's sad, because i do agree with something justice breyer said in his remarks after his announcement of retirement, was that this constitution for our founding forefathers, this belief, that's what really holds us together as the experiment -- howard: i want to slip in one more thing because there's a lot of chatter about maybe kamala harris would be named to the high court. let's take a look. >> we're just having a little fun with the kamala thing, right in. [laughter] is this crazy? >> well, you know, it isn't crazy. >> what does it say about the vice president or about, i don't

know, anything, the press corps or us that the vice president is even a question here? >> i mean, it's b.s. howard: i'm going to give you each 20 seconds. many mollie, she wouldn't even be able to vote to confirm herself. >> right. i think this is really a function of people understanding that cam rah a harris is a bit of a political liability. she is not considered someone who club will succeed -- who will succeed president biden just because of her weaknesses, but it's not going to happen because she couldn't vote to confirm herself. i think that's debatable, but she probably couldn't, and that would lose the tie in the senate. the democrats lose as the tie breaker. howard: leslie, and then the country would spent two months debating and congress would have to approve the new vice president. quick thoughts. >> it's not going to happen. the president has said kamala harris will be on the ticket in 2024, and she will. she is the vice president. i think it speaks to the shallowness of some in the media

who can't do their research and see that there are many african-american women who are qualified to be vetted and nominatedded for this position. howard: okay. >> it doesn't have to be kamala harris or michelle obama. howard: we have some agreement, not going to happen. ahead, dana if perino on why this president, and he's hardly the first, keeps snapping at the press. and when we come back, a showdown between neil young and joe rogan and spotify. ♪ ♪

♪ -- and nixon coming. ♪ we're finally on our own. ♪ this summer i hear them coming, four dead in ohio ♪♪ howard: neil young has always been political which is why he tried to intimidate spotify.

the veteran rocker threatening to remove his songs because he doesn't like joe rogan and his controversial handling of covid and vaccinations as in this interview with a doctor who was talking about mass hypnosis. >> i find very bizarre about tribal aspect of this is people want me to get vaccinated, and my friends who have been vaccinated want me to join the team. like, go ahead, get the tattoo. howard: the musician said they can have rogan or young, not both. not a hard choice for spotify which is paying rogan about $100 million. the streaming giant promptly removed young's catalog expressing regret over his demands. i like young's music and i like crosby, stills and nash's, but where does he get off demanding that this giant streaming company kick rogan off its platform if it wants to continue playing his songs? >> if it's terrifying to see how

much of a censorship regime that we live in, and it's not just neil young, it's many other people on the left up to and including president biden who has asked tech companies to help democratic parties with their cent orship -- censorship goals. and it strikes me as deeply un-american, more reminiscent of what you might expect in the soviet union of my youth than what you want to that happen in this free country. because if you disagree with someone, you simply point out where and how and why. and we've had corporate media engaged in massive amounts of disinformation and misinformation in recent years whether it was the false and crazy conspiracy theory that donald trump was a traitor who colluded with russia to steal the 2016 election or whether it was misif information related to the covid -- misinformation related to the covid virus, where it came from, the efficiency of different treatments and what not. and yet what you do, what you should always fight for is more

information being shared and not censorship of your political opponents because you're scared that they're not towing the party line. howard: well, leslie, joe rogan has said i'm no medical expert, at one point saying i'm a blanking idiot, yet he does have guests saying things that appear to be false or misleading, yet he's the most popular broadcaster on the planet. why do some liberals in entertainment and elsewhere think censorship is the answer? >> oh, i don't think it's censorship, i think a few things. one, meehl young has the choice to have -- neil young has the choice to have whatever music he wants on the platform, and it's rumored foo fighters are next, and that really hurt spotify. i'm a talk show host, so i can speak to this clearly. i also have have a mother who's in the hospital with covid knew mow ya, people including my mother who took ivermectin, and it actually made them sicker.

you can't have people giving out information that can harm other individuals, and that is the concern. whether it be left or right, whether people like joe rogan or not, it is that. they don't want that information. and spotify does agree with that part because they have removed, they've removed numerous, dozens of episodes where joe rogan is providing and giving out misinformation. so i don't consider it censorship, i consider it choice. and if you want to talk censorship, read my twitter feed. every time i'm on tv there are numerous people asking for me to be canceled and fired. howard: sorry to hear about your mom. spotify did say it removed over 20,000 podcast episodes since the start of the pandemic, so it does say we take out misinformation. but it's not applying that, by and large, to joe rogan. >> which is why it's interesting because, as you note, i've been very bad on this throughout the last couple years caving to pressure to take things off because their friends don't want

them on. but i want to also point out what is much more important disinformation. this week bret baier had an a explosive report based on his reporting showing that dr. anthony fauci engaged in an attempt to coffer up discussion -- cover up discussion of the possible origins of the coronavirus from the wuhan institute of virology and whether gain of function research was involved and how people who sort of helped in that effort ended up getting these massive grants. at the end of that, it was a really interesting report. but you think back to how our government officials, including anthony fauci, the world health organization, really worked to suppress if key information that would have mattered and affected the lives of millions of people if he had better and more accurate information -- howard: i did, i did a follow-up on that. let me come back to spotify with our remaining second, leslie. neil young says 60% of his music streamed online is on spotify, so this would hurt him and the other musicians who are joining.

could this be a publicity move and two months from now neil young quietly comes back to spotify? >> no, not with this particular artist. as you have mentioned, neil young has been active in politics and spoken his mind since the '60s. no, i don't see that. i don't think neil young is, you know, crying and screaming for attention being the pick me guy, please pick me, pick me. i don't think that at all a. i think he is very strong in his convictions. he has shown that for decades, and i think this is part of that. and also -- howard: all right, gotta go. >> -- he might lose money, which i think proves that. howard: we'll see what happens. it would be hard to go back quietly to into thefy now. thank so. -- thanks so much. sarah palin gets covid delaying her libel suit against "the new york times." finish. ♪ ♪ this whole thing wouldn't be a thing. yeah, dad! i don't

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begins this week after being delayed because of covid. >> i don't know if i'm the only one who tested positive, but i did and, yes. but, you know, okay. that is what it is and moving forward i think what we all need to move forward on is allowing people to hear truth and science when it comes to this virus. howard: joining us now from from new york, mercedes colwin, a lawyer and fox news contributor. now, even palin getting covid was controversial because she's unvaccinated. "the new york times" pounced on her for going to eat in a manhattan restaurant without showing a vax card. as a public figure if, doesn't sarah palin face a pretty high bar with this libel suit urn supreme court precedent? -- under supreme court precedent? >> exactly right, howard. going back to sullivan v. new york times, a 1964 case which really scoped out the standard in actual malice. it is a very steep hill, and already we have signs she has

lost by the district court. it then was appealed, and the court of appeals remanded it for trial. so so there's already evidence that that steep hill is not something she's going to be able to overcome. it ultimately seems that the new york times will win, but it all depends on the jury. eight jurors will ultimately make the decision. howard: right. this is a new york times editorial of 017. the paper had to run a correction in the next day or so saying it was incorrect to say there was a link between sarah pay lain's political rhetoric and this awful shooting in arizona that killed six people and wounded congresswoman gabby giffords. turns out the crazed government never saw this political map that palin put out -- the crazed gunman. you look at it and say, hey, that sounds libelous. >> it's not. one, it's an opinion. this is an opinion. these are aren't facts, number one. number two, and exactly right, there was correction done by the op-ed. they did it within a very

relatively short period of time, and the essence of a defamation case is not only does it have to show that there are facts being embedded or facts being set fort that are -- fort that are false, but, two, that there's injury. i think it was corrected in 24 hours, maybe even less than that, that they did correct the editorial that had since made that -- said that she had invited the shooting. obviously, that's what the entire case is really focused in on. what does it mean to have incited the shooting. does it really mean that the new york times obviously knew that the editorial board person who was running it was very experienced, someone who knew the rules of engagement, presumably had known not to put many words that were inflammatory that could be taken out of context. but at the end of the day, you have this incredibly high bar which is actual malice. number two, you have an opinion so we know that these are not facts, these are an author's opinion and, three, what's the

injury here? if the crux of the defamation case, we have to show injury. howard: right. let me jump in -- >> is she actually going to show, sarah palin actually going to be able to show she was injured by this op-ed piece? howard: that might be questionable, but the question now i is, is this going to to be an embarrassing trial for "the new york times" even if the times prevails? because you had the then-edittorial page editor james bennett if, who was later fired over the tom cotton op-ed, adding these incorrect facts to the editorial. last thought. >> well, presumably, but that's like james benefit -- james bennett, not so much "the new york times." what's really going to be problematic for zaire la palin is making a mockery of the rules here in new york city. you need a vax card, you knowed need to show that you are vaccinated. it's a mockery when you talk about new york city, we were ground zero for such a long

period of time -- howard: right. >> i know, i'm from the city. i'm telling you, this is so problematic and outrageous to have that a type of behavior when you have a public trial with a jury that knows this type of behavior took place, obviously there might be this discussion by the judge. great judge. we'll have to see what ends up happening -- howard: i just want to make the final point "the new york times" may win this case but may take hits to its reputation, in my view. mercedes colwin, thanks so much. next, dana if perino. and later, is espn right that tom brady retiring or not? ♪ ♪ hello, for the last few years, i've been a little obsessed with chasing the big idaho potato truck. but it's not like that's my only interest. i also love cooking with heart-healthy, idaho potatoes. always look for the grown in idaho seal. liz, you nerd, cough if you're in here!

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plenty of media criticism. >> do you think this is a political liability ahead of the midterms? >> that's a great asset. more inflation. what a stupid son of a [bleep] >> the dignity of the presidency. but what i appreciate is that he called and he apologized. howard: not quite an apology, but it's hardly the first time this president has insulted journalists such as those from cnn and cbs. >> how does that account as a constructive meeting? >> [inaudible] howard: doocy brushed off the incident saying biden got in touch with him that evening. >> he called my cell phone, and he said it's nothing personal, pal. and we went back and forth, and is we were talking about just kind of moving, moving forward. he cleared the air, and i

appreciated him. howard: that led me to someone who's seen these suits from both sides. dana primo, co-- dana perino if, co-host of "the five." dana, welcome. >> thanks for having me. howard: why would president biden go the stupid s.o.b. route in response to fairly straightforward questions about inflation or in the case of fox's jacqui heinrich a couple days earlier about putin and ukraine? >> one of the things is it shows he's just like us, right? if he has emotions and thoughts, and presidents are not robots, they are human. and, obviously, he's under a lot of pressure. the russia-ukraine issue is obviously front and center for him, but they have so many issues, and they're looking at these poll numbers, and they're really tough. and everyone knows, yes, of course, inflation is not good for a president. and so instead of keeping that thought to himself, which is one option, or doing something i think he should have done and all a presidents can do, if you're given a shot, take it.

right? so doocy said is inflation going to be a problem for you in the midterm, and instead of saying we are concerned about it and that's why i'm doing x, y, z, in fact, peter, that's why i'm having this meeting today, and i'm top of it, and then you wouldn't have had any of this this. howard: one of 27 ways he could have handled this. i know you remember when george w. bush, thinking he wasn't being heard, called a new york times reporter call -- >> but the best part of that exchange was he said it to dick cheney, the vice president, who looked over and said, bigtime. howard: i remember that. >> we dealt with that for years. obviously, the president felt bad about it. eye thought president biden and peter doocy handled it perfectly. make a call, blow it off. howard: yeah, i'm glad that widen called him -- biden call

canned him, but let's stipulate that donald trump waged a four-year war on journalists, and i repeatedly criticized him. but trump was operating in a very hostile media environment. joe biden has mostly gotten sympathetic media treatment, maybe until the last couple of months, so why is it do you think questions are getting under his skin? >> partly i think it's because what president trump would do is take that shouted question. remember in those exchanges when reporters would continue to shout questions because president trump was likely to look for the question he wanted and nail it, and that would drive a news cycle. president biden, as we've reported, does not have a lot of interactions with the press. one of the things he wants to do, apparently, show up at the press conference and in this past week he has said he wants to do more press interaction. i think that would be great, right? let's have a little bit more of that. it would help americans understand where he's coming from rather than having him give a speech that keyes kind of lackluster in these co-- a

speech that's kind of lack luster and turning around and not taking questions. americans want to know what their president is thinking, and it would help him because even if americans would say i don't agree with that, at least they would know where he's coming from. i think more opportunitieses would be good, but i think there's sometimes that the press office decides it's not good for him to be out because it might screw up their news cycle. if they could get any more screwed up. howard: right. if the exchanges were you even -- routine, i don't think there'd be as much trauma about each one. i believe these insults make the president look petty, but if you were magically tomorrow white house press secretary again, what would you advise president biden to do even if the questions are, as is sometimes the case, unfair, obnoxious or, yes, grandstanding for the cameras? >> i think that he has to show a little bit more ability to be nimble in a a situation. and even if he didn't want to ask -- answer the inflation question, you know what? i'm glad you brought that up, and to be able to pivot to

whatever it is that you want to talk about. look, i think jen psaki does a great job for the president, but a lot of this, howie, it comes from the if top. this is president biden's decision. he has to decide how he wants to interact with the press corps. i think he should do it more. i think longer form interviews would probably be a good idea as well. i think the shouted questions doesn't work as well for him. howard: the sound bite age that we live in. >> yeah, that's true. howard: biden has been caught on hot mics before. does he not know or care whether he's cursing or insulting somebody? >> well, it's interesting you bring that up, because i think a lot of democrats thought that him getting picked up on a hot mic saying that about obamacare thought of him as a great hero, right? that was something they thought, yeah, it is a big f-ing deal, right in they were all so excited about it. and there was this article in politico this week that said this exchange with peter doocy and his newfound fighting with

the press was really going to turn president biden's presidency around, like it was going to help him in the georgia polling. i thought that was one of the worst takes i've read about it. i think the bottom line is president biden was caught in a moment where he was feeling hot, he was irritated, maybe he was tired. he popped one at peter doocy, his press office said, hey, they all heart that. he said, let me give him a call, peter doocy said, no hard feelings, i'm going to keep asking tough questions. howard: i understand the debate about president biden promising to name a black woman to the supreme court, but it seems like the media rhetoric has gotten really heated on both sides despite the fact that we don't yet have a nominee. >> well, i think part of that's been because you've seen how really heated all of these supreme court nominations have been for the last many years. i would even go back to john roberts, sam alito, those were the ones where i was the spokesperson. but even then going forward to obama with kagan and sotomayor and then the big one was

kavanaugh. because that changed the ideological makeup of the court. and so it is very high stakes. and republicans, really this matters to them a lot. democrats say that it matters to them a lot, but they've never been able to show from a grassroots perspective that they care so much about court that it will change things even sick months down the road in the midterms because this nominee will not change the ideological makeup, i don't think you going to receive as big a battle. but i do think she will have to answer a lot of tough questions, and she will want to earn this on the perfects as well. howard: certaintyly, the atmosphere has changed since the confirmations where even some republicans would vote for democratic nominees and vice versa. dana perino, thanks for joining us. >> have is a good day. howard: after the break, tom brady is retiring. or is he?

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muck. howard: the media world just went crazy yesterday with espn reporting based on unnamed sources that tom brady is retiring. but just as he was being hailed as the nfl's greatest of all time, ap reported brady hasn't made his mind up yet, and now the whole thing is mired in media confusion. joining us now, mike gunzelman.

mike, when espn reported that tom brady, after 22 seasons, 7 super bowl rings, was retiring, the network didn't absolutely have it nailed down? >> well, here's the thing, i mean, i thought i was going to have a relaxing saturday yesterday, and all of a sudden the news broke, social media losing their minds, the sports world going absolutely crazy. do we really think that tom brady is going to have espn break the news that he's going to retire? if i think that's a jump the gun just a little bit. he said it's going to be based on his family. it would come as no surprise if he does retire, but it's only been one week. we obviously still have the championship games happening, i don't think he would make the decision right now. he doesn't want to be a distraction, and on top of all that, howie, he's set to make $15 million on february 4th. so he's not making the decision before -- [laughter] to tell us that he's not going to come back. howard: but that may explaining plain why they're kind of

hemming and hawing because after that ap report, there was no flat denial from brady's camp, to oh, no, no, no. his company took that down, so maybe this is like justice stephen breyer, wants the control the timing of the announcement. but it doesn't mean that the story isn't true. >> it doesn't mean that it's not true, it's just the timing seems a little kind of suspect. what did they get out of this? why now? he's the greatest quarterback of all time, let it be on his accord. i personally hope he sticks it to espn and comes back for another year. does he come back? i would say it's 80-20 that tom brady retires. they're going to rebuild the buccaneers' team. he doesn't want to deal with all that once again. what's crazy though, howie, this past season he led all the nfl in touchdowns and passing yards. he's 44 years old. he's better now than when he was younger, which is absolutely, like, it's just wild.

howard: yeah. >> also wants to be able to see his family grow up. football's on his mind every single day. if i wants to step away, let him is step away on his own reasons. howard: the press doesn't necessarily respect that. >> of course not. howard: let me move to another nfl quarterback, aaron rodgers. he had this to say on a podcast about whether or not the media have been turning football fans against him. take a listen. >> there were a ton of people tuning in rooting against us for one reason and one reason only, it's because of, you know, my vaccination status, sickness, and the media plays a big role in that. the form that is paid out day after day, i think, causes a lot of strife and stress for people. howard: look, he may be right that the people were rooting against him because of covid, but what do you make of him saying fear porn about the media when he misled the world about where he'd been vaccinated? --

whether he'd been vaccinatedded? >> he does have a point, but i would put it more so in some political leaders that have made it this way. they're the the ones causing everybody to be in a frenzy. when you have family members not talking to each other, friends groups have broken up all over covid in general. is it the media's fault in i'm not rodgers' isn't happy he's the headlines. fans were actively ruthing -- rooting against him. he was up for mvp -- howard: let me jump in. one more before we go to overtime. antonio brown let go by the bucs, e now tells hbo the bucs wanted to pay him $200,000 to, quote, go to the crazy house. any idea why that would be the case? >> well, i mean, antonio brown has had some issues. it's kind of sad that a we're seeing him kind of deteriorate in front of our eyes. he's one of the greatest wide receivers of all time, hall of

famer. he took off his clothes, started running around shirtless during a football game on national tv. that's not normal behavior. ever since he got there, antonio brown -- [inaudible] burrfect, he got hit in the head 2016 is, he's never been the same. check it out on youtube. howard: gotta that blow the whistle here. still to come, an msnbc reporter tells people to get their weapons. and bill maher to fox? the buzz meter is next. inflammation in your eye might be to blame. let's kick ken's ache and burn into gear! over the counter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. those drops will probably pass right by me. xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. what's that?

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about host tiffany cross urging liberals to do this in the battle to, you know, save democracy. >> we have to keep our eye on the war, and everybody needs to ping a weapon and get -- pick up a weapon and get involved because this is for the safety and lasting of the country. howard: war? pick up a weapon? doesn't that sound disturbing? and media people say, oh, she's just speaking metaphorically should examine whether they're using a blatant double standard for left-wingers. if democrat lawmakers want to attack fox news, so be it. fox host griff jenkins was interviewing a new york police sergeant about a fright ifenning incident involving corey bush. >> when now we see corey bush from st. louis, missouri, saying on twitter that her car was hit with bullets, her car was shot. no one was in it, fortunately, but will these lawmakers change their tune? >> we need them to be victims,

we need them to understand when the worst possible situation hits them. howard: griff jumped right in. >> joe, we, of course, would never wish any harm whatsoever on any american, let alone a politician that we disagreed with. howard: that prompted the congresswoman to tweet fox news is literally out here advocating for me to face violence. i'm just going to keep working to get justice. look, griff jenkins said exactly the opposite, and labeling against comments as fox news is distorting real estate. robert f. kennedy jr., a big anti-vax crusader, is apologizing for a holocaust analogy by saying anne frank was better off than people getting vaccinated because there's she could hide -- at least she could hide. after fierce criticism, he apologized. to the extent my remarks caused hurt, i i am truly and deeply sorry. also his wife, actress cheryl

hines, tweeting the remarks were insensitive. she's right. it never ends well. i've always sort of liked bill maher's caustically independent streak. here he is on his hbo program explaining why he's increasingly mocking liberals. >> it's not me who's changed, it's the left. who's now made up of a small contingent who have gone mental and a large contingent who refuse to call them out for it. but i will. that's why i'm a hero at fox these days. [cheers and applause] which shows just how much liberals have their head up their [bleep] howard: maher was responding to dana perino floating him as a possible presidential candidate. i think he'll stick to mining comedy gold from both sides. beat the clock. that's it for this edition of "mediabuzz." i'm howard kurtz. i think we'll know by next sunday whether tom brady is, in fact, retiring or not.

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