educating the next generation. >> this week on the journal editorial report. incumbents beware, a pair of high profile primary losses has washington insiders on edge. can senators arlen specter and blanch lincoln survive the wave come tuesday? and the nomination of elena kagan, what it means for the supreme court and what it says about the obama agenda. plus, fannie and freddie have already cost you 145 billion dollars. and the end is nowhere is site as democrats vote to keep the bailouts coming. >> welcome to the journal, editorial report. i'm pall gigot. anyone who needed prove that 2010 would be a tough year for incouple bent sure got it this week when veteran west

virginia congressman alan monahan lost a bid and primary defeat on tuesday, the loss days after the republican senator bob bennett of utah was knocked off the november ballot in the convention. and how toxic it is, this tuesday when democratic senators arlen specter of pennsylvania and blanch lincoln of arkansas attempt to fend off primary challenges of their own. joining the panel, wall street columnies, dan ettinger, jason riley, opinion journal.com editor, james. and dan, we've got an incumbent thrown out. a democratic incumbent thrown out. is there a common theme underlying this? >> i think there's a big common theme and would sum it up in one word, reform. i don't mean reform in the normal sense of the word where you say we want to change

something. i think the american political system is entering a formal era of reform, similar to the progressive movement. i think the american people have decided that the aggregation of government over a long period-- pardon? >> okay, i'll take your point, but isn't that what obama promised, reform in washington. i thought we were in that era the new progressive era. >> i completely agree. barack obama overthrough the democratic establishment. he didn't deliver what people thought they were getting. i think that's a symptom of what was to come and throwing long serving congressmen after the train left and right and i think it's going to continue until the american people get what they want. >> i think it's more than an anti-incumbent fever. i think it's really an anti-obama fever here. mo molland, for example, he lost by 12 points to a guy who attacked him mostly on the health care vote. again, bennett out in utah attacked for tarp.

these are-- >> financial. >> people responding to the obama agenda, the piling up of debt, the uncontrolled spending. i think that's what is and mating them. >> an interesting thing, what do alan malhahn and arlen specter and bob bennett have in common. the aappropriaproepropriation c and kay bailey hutchinson, texas senator who lost the gubernatorial election and the chairman of the house appropriations committee. diner dorgan, and this is not an exhaustive list. a beg part-- a big part. >> some say the defeat was a fratricide in the republican party that's going to hurt the party in november. jason, do you agree with that? >> well, the conventional wisdom is the tea party has

radicalize the republican party, but again, i think the obama administration has radicalized the republican party. >> paul: he's going to hold the seat in utah? >> probably, utah is a pretty conservative state whachlt about kentucky, dan, the race where son the ron paul who ran in 2008. an ophthalmologist, running against the candidate as secretary of state. democrats will probably say that we're elated that rand paul, a big favorite of the tea partiers, they think we can beat him. >> what they're talking about, yeah, his opponent grayson is the candidate of the republican establishment and people are so upset and so angry that they're willing to throw over a member of the establishment like that and elect a fellow like rand paul. let me give you just one other figure that i showed the depth of the anxiety. the wall street journal poll was released this week that said that republicans will be ahead. the thing that jumped out at

me was the data on suburban women. four years ago, they supported democrats over republicans by 24 points. >> paul: right. >> today, republicans are marginally ahead. a 26 point swing among suburban women, this reflects deep anxiety and i would not predict that voting for anti-establishment figures is going to hurt the republican party. >> paul: all right, we have a big race coming up in pennsylvania. arlen specter the incumbent. democrat turned republican, back democrat and has a challenger from so sestak. let's see an ad on joe sestak's. >> agree arlen specter is the real deal. specter, bush. >> here to say as plainly as i can, arlen specter is the right man for the united states senate. >> i want to say a few things about arlen specter, he came to fight for the working men and women of pennsylvania. >> i can count on this man,

that's important, a firm ally when it matters most. >> arlen specter casts the deciding vote in favor of recovery act that helped pull us back from the brink. >> i'm proud to tell you, i think he's earned another term as united states senator. >> he's going to fight for you, regardless of what the politics are. >> i'm arlen specter, i approved this message. >> i'm ar men specter and i approve this message. >> tremendously effective ad, it was run on youtube not by the sestak campaign, but this shows perhaps there are limits to political opportunities? >> well, specter was questioned on another talk show the other day about his past presidential votes and to bolster his democratic credentials he said he'd voted for adelaide stevenson twice in 1952 and 1956 so we've got stevenson-- >> were either of you guys alive when that was-- >> i was not. >> stevenson, george w. bush, obama, this guy knows how to pick a winner. >> what if sestak wins, what does that say about the state of our politics?

>> it says a lot about the power of youtube i would say, but it's nice to see someone who has been so opportune ifk for so long finally get their comeuppance, but pennsylvania is a very interesting state. it had been trending democrat for some time now, but the murtha seat is up, for example. >> paul: which is a very important seat because if republicans can pick that up, jack murtha, who died in office. >> yeah. >> paul: democratic congressman trying to be succeeded by high school former, by his staffer. >> right. >> paul: and up against a republican businessman. if republicans win that seat which democrats have about a 60,000 voter edge, that will be a very big signal that maybe we are seeing a wave coming here this year. all right, when we come back, the president's pick. what elena kagan would bring to the supreme court and what a selection says about the

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respected for achievements, but her temperament, her openness to a broad array of viewpoints. her habit to borrow a phrase from justice stevens, of understanding before disagreeing, her fair-mindedness and skill as a consensus builder. >> paul: that was president obama this week touting his pick for the supreme court, solicitor general, elena kagan as an independent thinker and consensus builder. we're back with dan henninger and james, editorial member dorothy rabonwits joins the panel. >> i think a good choice and say quickly and get it out of the way, that this business about barring the military from the campus, as the rest of us say-- the hard vard campus where she was dean. >> i would resign before that. >> paul: because of gays in

the military. >> no one think she's anti-military and at all time harvard did provide access to the military via another means, veterans. that said, anybody who watched her during the five years knee was dean of the harvard law school knew she was immensely open and avid in her protection of free speech and dissent and in a campus that had been living in darkness prior to her arrival, political campus ran under elena kagan, an end to.... >> do we know, james that her, anything about her judicial philosophy? do you think it will be any different than justice stevens, the justice she's replacing. >> she thought that she thought the court ruled the right case in which stevens was in dissent and first amendment she argues and that's the only difference i can think of. >> so on every other issue she would be a down the line

liberal vote. >> i suspect that on his contentious issues she would be a liberal and what do you expect from president obama, that's what we're going to get. >> and a factual example, in her long article on administrative law which has been cited hundreds of times she gets into the line item veto case in which the supreme court overturned the 1960-- 1996 line item veto law with dissent from briar and scalia. they favored the line item deal. kagen said that their dissent demolished the majority opinion. who wrote the majority opinion, justice stevens seemingly suggested she might favor executive authority to execute a line item veto so a little bit of unpredictability i would say. >> paul: dorothy, pick an issue, do you think there's any issue, any other issue where she would disagree with the four liberals on the court right now? >> i think that in the independence and free speech, i think that she is not a down

the line, first amendment. she argued of course the solicitor general against the animal cruelty video act. that being said, the important thing is we are now living in a country and have been for some time, with political correctness is choking us off at every turn, including the protection of the nation, to have someone as ambitious as elena kagan in free speech, on the supreme court, argues very much for her presence and let me say this for all the attacks on her ambition. i think somebody as eventually as am bish shus as elena kagan will be a political hack. she'll be ruling for the ages to distinguish herself. >> paul: she came out and said, she opposed the argument on citizens unite this had year, a landmark supreme court free speech decision. she said she would have voted with the four liberals in this case, restricting corporate and union free speech in election campaigns. that to me is a significant

sign that she's not going to disagree with the left. and it's an absolute scandal that liberals are against free speech, dependence political free speech, the core of our free speech protection for corporations and unions, but it's not a scandal that implicates kagen any more than any other. >> paul: so she's running something of a stealth candidate, but if she's declared what she thinks to some of the senators what she thinks about citizens u neat united, how can she say i'm not going to talk about row vchv wade and others, can she get away with that in the hearing. >> i think she can get a way way it. she's written a famous article on these. >> paul: they should be more forth coming. >> her articles are apparently extremely analytical, describe one side and the other side completely and i think she'll herself be very skillful at having a conversations with these justices in a way that

will be interesting to listen to and in a way that will kind of make it hard for them to try to pull her out. that said, one of the most interesting things about elena kagan, when she was in the clinton white house as deputy counsel, apparently one of the most hyper political individuals inside that white house and the old saw, the justices follow the election returns, i think elena kagan will watch politics when she's making her decisions. >> paul: briefly, jane what, about the issue the president kept stressing, consensus builder. is sounds leike he thinks she can pull kennedy over to a liberal majority. do you think that's possible. >> i think that justice kennedy keeps his own counsel and if president obama suggests that justice kennedy is that, it may work against him. how much government and mortgage giants fannie mae and

freddie mac have cost taxpayers.

>> 145 billion dollars, that's how much department of the owned mortgage giants fannie mae and freddie mac have cost you so far and there's no end in sight to this unlimited taxpayer bailout. this week the senate had a chance to stop the madness. by the way with an amendment to the financial regulatory reform bill offered by senator john mccain, the amendment would eventually transform fannie and freddie into private companies with no government subsidies or shut them down completely. it was voted down 56-43. with senate banking chairman chris dodd leading the all democratic opposition, assistant editorial page

editor with the gory details. >> i thought bailouts with unpopular. >> you would think. >> paul: why did democrats not take this opportunity to stop one. >> because i think they've recognized what they have here is the permanent stimulus plan. >> how so, explain that. >> 787 billion in the stimulus. imagine if they erased it and written whatever you wanted to spend and that's where we are with fannie and freddie, this is a vehicle to redistribute wealth by the housing system. >> everybody thinks that, when i think of fannie and freddie, these were losses from the boom that turned to bus, the housing loans, so-called liar loans that they purchased and now those are moving through as losses to the giants. that's happening, but you're saying there's something else here? >> well, i think what democrats in washington are hoping, people will think that this is, these are the problems of '08, but the sins of the past we're paying for. >> they're not? >> no, no, they're not run as businesses they're being run to lose money. >> these are being used just

so people understand, these are now being used, the money, as mortgage mitigation. >> foreclosure mitigation. >> foreclosure mitigation. >> we're spending more and more of your money to fix mortgages, to basically, when people decide-- they defaulted if they think it's too much and borrowing too much we're lowering their principal and their rates and finding a way to keep them in houses even if they shouldn't be there, because they can't afford them. >> paul: what kind of magnitude are we talking about? >> it's huge. just look at fannie mae shall they reported their 11 1/2 billion dollar loss, 11 consecutive quarterly loss. first three months of this year, 7 1/2 billion. >> of the losses. >> in impairments just due to the obama mortgage modification program. similar story to freddie mac, so the losses and the problem are getting bigger and important that people understand, this is not like aig or any of the other companies, the big banks we loan them money and nurse them back to help and aig we might

actually make out there. at least, you know, not lose a lot of money and these are ongoing losses being generated because they're following a policy to keep people in homes-- >> how many of these mortgages, once they're redone end up defaulting again, redefaulting? >> you can't be optimistic. you look at what fannie said about the first nine months of last year, of the ones that they modified, only 47%, six months later had either been paid off or were current. meaning most the people within six months are late on their payments again. >> how can you call, if you're the democratic party and say you're reforming the financial system and you have to do it right now, but you leave off the two companies that are the-- were the very heart of the scandals, say we'll get to that later? >> well, it's so interesting, we're sitting here trying to struggle to figure out how this can be. and the way i think you can best understand it is by looking at the democrats, it's kind of like a lost tribe in "star trek" and if they voted against this stuff they'd be

cutting off their oxygen supply. housing is like an alternative industry for the democrats. you've got construction unions, you've got developers, you've got local housing authority. this is something they control. this is the source of patronage, a source of contribution and they simply are not going to kill it. >> on the other hand this mortgage, this foreclosure mitigation prevents the housing market from finding a bottom in some sense because it means that people are not-- they're anticipating the banks are anticipating that maybe some of the houses will be back on the market in six months. >> exactly. it's not a long-term strategy to have a housing rebound. it's a short-term strategy to avoid the pain and it could get a lot worse, even fannie shall the world's experts on mortal hazard they warn in the recent quarterly report, you know, this could be, this could be a problem. the more people decide it's socially acceptable not to pay their mortgage. >> just to put a number on it. cbo, congressional budget office says the losses and their cautious estimate 389

billion dollars. cost to the taxpayer. >> over the next decade. >> before it's over. >> paul: that might be an underestimate. we have to take one more break. when we come back, our hits when we come back, our hits and misses of the week. [ female announcer ] "i heart dalmatians" made a cup of delicious starbucks via ready brew. she shared it with "i heart chihuahuas" and "i heart labs." she even shared it with "i heart cats." premium starbuck via ready brew. now available whever you buy groceries. ♪ now available whever you buy groceries. can you believe how fast kids grow these days? that's why there's new danonino. new danonino has twice the calcium of milk, ounce per ounce, with vitamin d. so it's power packed for healthy growth. yummy! new danonino from dannon. power packed to help kids grow.

>> time now for our hits and misses of the week, jason. >> wal-mart just announced it's pledging 2 billion dollars in cash and food for the nation's food banks. that's more than a billion pound of groceries to help people make ends meet at a time when the employment rate is pushing about 10%. i think it's nice to see the private sector step up to the plate this way, especially when we have an administration in washington who seems to think that more government intervention is the answer to everything. >> paul: all right, and i would just add, we need to spend more than 2 billion to make up for their support for obama care. james. >> this is a miss to the football writers to voted brian cushing of the houston texans to the ap defensive rookie of the year award.

a revote after the news came out that he tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. a four game suspension, this is not a crime against humanity, but shouldn't be throwing a party and giving him an award. a wrong message for the kids. >> paul: james. >> mr. president obama as we campaigned about 24/7 media environment with ipods and ipads and xbox and playstations and too much information is distraction. he was senator obama was young, hip. and president obama remind me of "saturday night live," what are they doing with the newfangled things and-- >> i must be a grumpy old man, too, i think i agree with him on the gadgets. >> you never got 70% of the youth vote, did you paul. >> paul: no, never have. believe me (laughter) >> all right, thank you. that's it for this week's edition of the journal editorial report. thanks to my palm and to all of you for watching, i'm paul

gigot, we hope to see you all gigot, we hope to see you all here next week. captioned by closed captioning services, inc. >> on fox news watch. >> i think it's on the website, if you want to see it. the obama white house takes another step in side stepping the press acting as its own news service, with videos, pictures, opinion and twitter blasts, all positive and unfiltered. has the mainstream media ignored the issue? the president's supreme dom knee makes her rounds with lawmakers and mum to the media yet, this picture gets some in the press crying foul, really? five california teens take heat for their pride in the red, white and blue. did the media coverage add to the controversy? efforts in the gulf continue as the oil spill blame game played out on capitol hill. is the president playing along? and an old man and his old men's magazine try to stay relevant in the internet age.

36-24-36 with a couple of extra dimensions. president obama began the week by introducing his nominee for supreme court justice to the nation and to the press. elena kagan, spent time with members of congress and ignoring the media. she did sit down and answer some questions on camera. >> public service has been an opportunity to take my legal skills and to take my legal training and work on tomorrow of the really important public policy issues of our time and i did that both in the white house and or in the administration of president clinton and justice department as solicitor again in this administration. >> jon: that interview was not conducted by a journalist, but by a white house staffer. posted on the white house website. making concerns that the obama administration is making every effort to side step the press to put out an unfiltered message

that tries to make the president and his people look good in every circumstance. josh, a white house reporter for politico.com joins us now from washington. josh, this has been a recurring theme of ours on news watch and i know you've done a lot of work on it as well. the white house takes its own photos and puts out its own videos and twitter feeds. where is the transparency? >> well, john, you know, i really have no problem with them putting out their own photos and doing their own interviews if they want to. the issue is really do the regular press, the independent press get access to the same thing and are able to present it, the way they want to present it? in this case, with the supreme court nominee, elena kagan, that was emphatically not the case, she's off limits to interviews from the press which is usually the case with most supreme court nominees and all we have is sort of official news portrait from the white house. >> jon: well, there hasn't been an official white house press conference by last summer,

countered that saying they've done all of these individual interviews. do they counter balance? >> yeah, i don't know if the press conferences are actually all that important, but what really seems some of the regular white house reporters is that president obama really doesn't take questions on a day-to-day basis. you know, most presidents, even president bush who wasn't incredibly transparent usually took questions every day or two while he's at the white house in the course of his regular event and president obama does not like to do that. i don't know if it's press strategy or just personal preference. the white house staff has said that they feel it slows things down to have to bring the press pool in and out, but at any rate, the president shies away from that and as a result you have reporters feeling like they don't get to know what the president's thoughts are really on the news of the day. >> jon: does that mean they're busy trying to manage the message they're not living up to the transparency promise? >> i think, you know, in some ways they live up to it. they put officials out to do web chats.

if you take the new media stuff as part of that transparency in terms of the number of online discussions, the number of blog posts they put up. there's an element of transparency to that, but it isn't totally independent transparency, there's no sort of third party person checking what they're doing or making sure that other questions are asked that they might not be comfortable with, so more of an official news. >> jon: that's precisely the point. you know, it's stretching the point, but pravda use today put out the soviet news. if the american people aren't getting it through an independent journalist, what are they getting? >> well, you know, that's a byproduct of the internet age anyone including the white house can put up what they want to put up. the question are the filtering journalist, the legacy media or even members of the new media

getting the same level of access to ask the same questions and i think at times that's been lacking and i know the white house claims they're working on it, but certainly, this in-house kagen interview was a step in the wrong direction. >> jon: josh, thank you. and judy miller, syndicated columnist cal thomas, jim pinkerton fellow new america foundation and news day columnist elliss henican. here is a little about how the media did cover nominee kagen. >> accomplished poker player, opera lover and given that nickname that justice marshal gave to her, she's five foot three, brian. >> she's long been a five foot three powerhouse. >> her interests reflect her openness, she loves softball and poker. >> jon: my mom was five feet so i guess i know from whence she comes. you were shaking your head during josh's interview about the white house and

transparency, you don't seem to agree? >> no, i mean, especially because josh himself has done much of the reporting that supports the view that this white house is really trying to micromanage news in a way that we haven't seen recently and their numbers speak for themselves. 46 q & a's by this president, versus 147 with president bush and 252 with bill clinton. that's, that says all i need to know. >> jon: in the case of elena kagan, jim, we're about to, at least nominate or maybe appoint to the supreme court a woman who could be there what, 30 years or more. shouldn't we get to know her a little bit. know more about her? >> with well, the press would have to be a lot more curious about her than they are. they were all over clarence thomas and his personal life 20 years ago. and yet, the press seems perfectly content to just accept that kagen is a fine person and that's that. >> jon: why is that, elliss?

>> well, listen, lazy reporters. i'm tired, i've got to tell you, about reporters belly aching about this stuff. now what, it's the white house's job to try to sell her and the media's job to go and find out stuff about her and the relationships have ever been thus, we're never satisfied with the access and they always party after party, cal, want to give us-- >> this is like an infomercial, the video that they put out. i expect billy may to come back from the other side and say, buy this product it's kaboom and everything! this is propaganda. they said with yuri and drop-off, he loves jazz and listens to the voice of america, what does that have to do with the supreme court or the law. >> jon: and something else, makes you wonder what it has to do with the supreme court. the wall street journal ran this photo of elena kagan playing softball earlier in the week. it was criticized by doing so launching questions about her sexuality. the journal responded saying the allegations are absurd and the

attempt was not to make connections between her sexual orientation and the photo. what's going on there? >> well, shame, shame, shame on andrew sullivan for raising her sexual preferences whatever they may be. i want to know things about her, her judicial philosophy, not specific things about her, the positions she would take on the court, but her judicial philosophy. the new york times was prevented from sitting in on a class in hunter high school with her brother. another cousin was chided by talking about the fact that the family liked to debate at the table. the white house is trying to shut all that off. you're right, elliss, we do have to do more. >> jon: all right, we have to take a break and you can get more on the stories that we cover. log on to foxnews.com/fox news watch and see and hear some interesting things you won't see here on tv. up next, why did wearing the american flag cause a mainly controversy in california and the media.

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>> jon: all right. it's an emotional issue, did it get the kind of coverage that it deserved? >> the media should have been asking, why is the school in the united states of america observing a battle between mexico and france? the supreme court has ruled that burning the american flag is legitimately protected speech, but wearing it on a t-shirt is not? how come the reporters aren't asking that. why are you laughing? >> well, of all the issues you could find in that story. >> yeah. >> celebrating cinco de mayo appears to me-- >> it's mott not american for heavens sake. >> let's eat burrito's together. believe me we have a diverse culture and celebrate a lot of stuff. that's not the issue. there's pandering on both sides of this, a symbolically potent issue. nobody has the clean hands. kids did it to make a point and school district can it to make another point. >> you're saying the kids who wear the american flag are culpable for doing something

wrong. >> they did something to poke a finger in their classmates' eye, probably have a right to do it, but not a sweet thing to do. >> and i'm just fascinating by this, the principal violates their constitutional rights and kids express the constitutional rights and in your mind both are bad. >> why don't we nice to each other, kids. >> is it so evil to wear the american flag? >> you have a right to do it. so what do you prove. >> she says. >> you're a patriot? >> roger eber-- >> on the big day. >> jon: roger ebert the film critic, known for point of view. tweeted thursdayly, kids to wear the american flag on the 5th of may should join those who wear a hammer and sickle i'm for school uniform. have a small--

everybody wears the same thing and we won't have the problems. >> is this effectively the school clamping down on free speech. if so defenders of the first amendment ought to be-- >> sure you'd think they'd be all-- this began in 1969 when the sprek in tinker versus des moines decision, kids have a right to wear protest uniforms against the vietnam and main street media said, this is great we know that all protests will always be against the evil conservative establishment. now, they've discovered, there's kind of a counter establishment of conservatives protesting liberals and can't allow that. >> that sums it up. can't add anything to that. >> that's good. >> i'll bet the t-shirts though are made in china, check the labels. >> very busy, and-- >> they have a right to do it, but let's also be nice, how about that. >> thank you, rodney king. >> kumbayah to you, too. >> should that be a media issue with everything going on today. should we focus on this? >> and michelle has said that--

>> a journal i could think of courageous enough to regularly photographs of and maps of american with mexico annexed on, free speech. >> the media should be interested in what the real agenda is-- >> i am not turning to michelle for ethnic understanding, i'm afraid. >> elliss will defend to the death your right to say it. >> jon: is the cleanup hindered or help the oil spill. >> congress looks for the answers to the gulf oil spill and everyone points fingers in the bill spill blame game. is the media playing along? and the president gives advice to new graduates. >> information becomes a-- >> information becomes a-- >> is hisfemale announcer ] if you're using the leading sensitivity toothpaste, you may be missing some of the protection you need.

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>> coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombard us with all kind of content and exposes us to all kind of arguments, some of which don't always rank that high on the truth meter. and with ipods and ipads and xboxes and playstations, none of which i know how to work. [laughter] >> information becomes a distraction, a diverse, a form of entertainment rather than a means of power, emancipation. >> president obama warning graduates about the free flow of information. did we hear the leader of the

free world correctly? he said, cal, that information can be a distraction and a diversion. what are we missing? >> right, what the administration wants to tell you, unfiltered by anybody else. the dirty secret he's talking about fox news channel, limbaugh, levin. he wants to listen to him only. >> this is a parent that doesn't have enough hand to carry the gadgetry. he had the national security administration give him the special blackberry. >> as michael sheerer of time magazine pointed out he does know how to use the machines and has used in the past. i can only agree with cal the perspective of being in the white house has so persuaded him that anything other than what he's telling the american people ought not to be trusted, even the mainstream media isn't reliable enough, that's why they go to our threaten in-house video operation.

>> jon: does it come back to the fact he wants to manage the media 24/7. >> he's smart enough to know he winter do it even though every president wants to. and chutzpa, is that the word, the man, whose technology is responsible for his election in part. he used this new technology better than anyone and the idea he's now having second thoughts about it is interesting. >> i'm not going to try to manage her pronunciation of chut pa. some of the people across this table from time to time. if we're going to be smart media consumers we have to filler silliness out. and this is a guy that had to contend with the allegations of birthers and-- >> on nbc. >> fair enough we don't have to embrace it all naively. >> let a thousand flowers bloom.

>> agreed. >> jon: let's move on to the blame came in capitol him. the guys in charge of british petroleum, tolds spill was caused by the failure of a safety device that company built. and that company said bp was in charge and a third company hired to plug the exploratory well didn't do it right and president obama said something about it on friday. >> bp is committed to pay for the response effort and we will hold them to their obligation. i have to say though, i did not appreciate what i consider to be a ridiculous spectacle during the congressional hearings in this matter. you had executives from bp, halliburton falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else. the american people could not have been impressed with that display and i certainly wasn't. >> what about media reaction to what the president had to say there, elliss. >> kind of well said, right? most people i know blame the

companies that dump the stuff in the water and we've got to divide among the three who did exactly what. but let's make sure we get some ability to pay for that stuff. don't hire 75 million dollar bailout, get rid of that. >> the new york times had a front page story which exposed this administration for granting a lot of rights for drilling without approvals, without the proper licensure. now, if this were the bush administration doing something like this, the media reaction would have been like its reaction to the bush administration's failure on katrina. it would be orgasmic, over the top. obama is basically getting a free pass. >> no, he's not. in fact, i was impressed with the president's remarks on friday when he said there's more than enough blame to go around and some of it is right here in the federal government because of this agency which has been out of control and not, cal, just under obama, but for a long, long time. but judy, if this had happened under the bush administration, i believe that all three networks

would have been there permanently in louisiana covering every oily bird there and instead, it's one more story from washington. >> give it time. >> jon: when we come back, 3-d technology isn't just for the movies anymore. >> a new feature in playboy magazine may make some want to reach out and touch. that's next on news watch. [ woman ] dear cat. gentle cat. your hair mixes with pollen and dust in the air.

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>> jon: according to box office, filo.com, "avatar" is the top >> also. the number one 3-d movie ever, a format we'll movie. a format we'll be seeing in the future. producers are racing to create products and programs to put 3-d programs in your home. and now, playboy magazine is trying 3-d as part of a promotion with hbo and an effort to help it's sagging sales. it comes with 3-d glasses and for those fans that only buy the magazine for the articles. they have a new website called the smoking jacket.com. playboy says you can see everything from the magazine my nis the stuff that will get you in trouble at work. that is a wrap on