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so that's andrew sullivan., or is it tina brown, the well-known editor of newsweek just pushing people's buttons? >> i would say it's a complete harmonic convergence of a desire to sell magazines and get attention with a kind of outra outrage just and strictly speaking untrue cover, and then also the kind of inordinate affection that the media have for gay issues and now president obama. when he talks about tears running down your face it's right up there with tingle down your legs if you're chris matthews a few years ago or robin roberts who interviewed this announcement by president obama last week, she said the thrill. these reporters are obviously unable to fully contain themselves unless their enthusiasm for obama and it shows not only on what they say on tv but what they write in magazines. >> this is not about a liberal conspiracy, this is about selling magazines. robin roberts got a great gig. there is not one reporter who wouldn't like that interview. they say the liberal media is out to get them and i

i love andrew sullivan. not in that way. >> he does have the gray beard. >> if a bulldog more -- morphed into a human being that would be weird. >> it reminds me of the days of mad versus crat. >> it looks like it is getting crazy. that is like u.s. news and world reports. >> you bought crack when they were out of mad and bought crazy when they were out of crack. >> it is interesting that this whole thing was forced by joe biden running his mouth. and it is cool because let's talk about it now instead of waiting for it to come out. i think we always knew that is what he thought. wink, wink, we can't come out and say it. biden who is like a drunk friend at a wedding. even if you agree with him you are like, can somebody shut this guy up? >> he is the guy that says stuff about your past in front of your wife. remember that time in bangkok? no, no, she doesn't even know i was married back then. remember when clinton was called america's first black president, and then you have the "time" cover with the woman br

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article is written by a prominent political writer and an outspoken member of the gay community andrew sullivan. the story delves into president obama's past -- >>> it is likely president obama will discuss same-sex marriage when he appears on "the view" tomorrow 10:00 right here on abc7. >>> pedal power happening now. sky 7 hd is live in san francisco where you can see word's best are competing in the amgen tour of california. you are looking at the -- the second stage just got underway. wayne freedman is live at the starting line at the marina green. hi wayne, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. seven minutes ago right here it was bicycle heaven this was the center of the universe for anybody who likes biking or racing. here's how it looked a few moments ago from in spot as all those bicyclists from 16 teams, 128 riders from 22 countries, set off on a 117 mile journey. you can see them going through the presidio. they will see the bridge, angel island, south on highway 1 through daly city and pacifica to devils slide. then they turn inland to the scenic bonnie dunes in san mateo county.

i read what andrew sullivan wrote in "the daily beast" earlier in the week which was a very eloquent-felt article. i haven't read the "newsweek" article yet because it hasn't been released. i think i get what they mean. it's kind of like we called bill clinton the first black president, so -- >> you might call him that. i'm not going to. >> that's what people said, but judging from what andrew sullivan said about gay kids who were bullied and gay people who finally have some degree of validation maybe for the first time because of what president obama said, i think that's what that cover means. that's just my interpretation. will, go ahead. >> well, first lz, i would say that's the first i heard of george washington and abraham lincoln. you're teaching me some history tonight. i would say the rumors have been flying about james buchanan for about 150 years so i don't mean by any measure obama qualifies as the first gay president. look, for anyone, and that would include both lz and myself who supports gay marriage, this is a good symbolic moment and the president deserves a round of

as andrew sullivan says, the key to the gay rights movement is the normalization of gay rights, gettingregular marriage is really no different. we've long known that being friends with gay people is a strong predictor of supporting gay rights. but you don't have to actually know gay people to get to that. let me explain why. the mind doesn't totally distinguish between real and imagined events. that's why you can read a good book or watch an intense movie and feel like you're immersed with the feeling they present with your heart racing. andrew sullivan found that knowing gay people via tv has the same impact as watching gay people in real life. it's called parasocial interaction. tv is such a medium in your home while you relax, that when we allow gay people inside our home like will and grace or the rachel maddow show, then we're having the illusion of a positive face to face interaction and the less problem you have with them. tv has been incredibly influential for gay people who have become like friends in our head and changed the way we see gays forever. the vice president said tv

an african-american so she's probably not, obviously, a racist by any stretch, but, and even andrew sullivantrongly pro obama, this is obviously a case the chronicle caved into pressure and unfairly firing someone. >> jon: it was suggested that maybe she was fired from the chronicle of higher education simply because the readers of the chronicle of higher education didn't like the views that she wrote in her 500 word blog post. >> i think that's perfectly legitimately. she crossed the line of liberal dumb, you don't tug on superman's cape and don't spit in the wind and liberal women, african-americans and gays, that's it, you touch any of those and you're out (laughter) . >> jon: kirsten, follow that one. >> well, i don't know about that. but, look, i find it troubling that we now live in a word where people cannot hear opposing views and that people need to be able to just respond. the person doesn't need to be fired, just have a debate. >> jon: up next on news watch, a journalist, other job gets her fired. ...... fore! no matter what small business you are in, managing expenses seems to...

article is written by a prominent political writer and an outspoken member of the gay community andrew sullivan. the story delves into president obama's past -- >>> it is likely president obama will discuss same-sex marriage when he appears on "the view" tomorrow 10:00 right here on abc7. >>> pedal power happening now. sky 7 hd is live in san francisco where you can see word's best are competing in the amgen tour of california. you are looking at the -- the second stage just got underway. wayne freedman is live at the starting line at the marina green. hi wayne, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. seven minutes ago right here it was bicycle heaven this was the center of the universe for anybody who likes biking or racing. here's how it looked a few moments ago from in spot as all those bicyclists from 16 teams, 128 riders from 22 countries, set off on a 117 mile journey. you can see them going through the presidio. they will see the bridge, angel island, south on highway 1 through daly city and pacifica to devils slide. then they turn inland to the scenic bonnie dunes in san mateo county.

the cover story written by andrew sullivan, an openly gay political blogger. last week, he wrote the president's support of gay marriage literally brought him to tears. >>> two months to the olympic games in london. if you think it is too late to get in on the action without breaking the bank, think again. the olympic torch is on the way to london for the summer games. travel experts say maybe you should head that way, too. >> there are tickets, there are hotels. you can even get into the games. >> there are still bargains on flights to london, plus transportation to and from olympic venues. it is free, provided you have a ticket to the game. even if you can't or don't want into the games, bbc is setting up big screens for free viewing. nbc bay area is your home for complete olympics coverage. visit our website any time, nbcbayarea.com, for in depth articles and insider stories. just search olympics. >> the count down is on. >>> let's check in with meteorologist christina loren. a chilly start to the day. looks like we're warming up a little? >> warming up a l

join me and andrew sullivan, and henderson for a great roundtable. david gregory. >> coming up, after news of jpmorgan's lost, there are questions as to whether wall street is truly transformed and how something like this could happen. and joining me is ceo, jamie dimon. the vice president came out in favor of same-sex marriage and president obama followed suit in a couple days. with me this morning, the republican party chairman, plus our political roundtable with analysis. all coming up this morning on "meet the press." and then after the program on "press pass," you can see my full energy with jamie dimon. >> a lot to watch. but moms probably want to get out. >> yesterday, plenty of sunshine, and even with the clouds increasing later this afternoon, i think we will be within a whisper of 80 degrees today. be ready for the rain, but not today. >> thank you, chuck. >>> we hope that everybody enjoyed the broadcast and all the moms out there, happy mother's day. >> don't forget to

president obama with a rain bow-colored halo over his head and refers to the article written by andrew sullivan. an excerpt shows sullivan defending the president's announcement of support of gay marriage as the culmination of three years of policy and not an election year stunt. >> tony morrison called president bill clinton the first black president back in 1998. >>> mitt romney may expect to have an advantage once he shifts the focus back to jobs and the economy and away from the issue of gay marriage but the obama campaign is out with a hard-hitting new ad that focuses on mitt romney's time with bing capital. the two minute spot is set to air today in five battleground states. iowa, virginia colorado, and ohio. it is online now. you can see it if you don't live in those states it features former employees of steel who lost their jobs, pensions and health insurance as bain capital ran the company into bankruptcy and cashed out with millions in profit. >> they made as much money off it as they could and they closed it down and filed for bankruptcy without any concern for the families of the c

the story was written by andrew sullivan, an open gay blogger. >>> the start of national police week begins with a tonight vigil at the national law enforcement officers memorial to honor the thousands of men and who woman -- and woman who has fallen in the line of duty. they read the names of 162 fallen officers that died in 2011 including baltimore city police officer william torbit. >> we honor their service and sacrifice and although they are missing from the crowd of heros, in memory and spirit they are with us. >>> a public hearing will be held in the prostitution scandal involving secret service agents. the hearing will take place on may 23rd. secret service director mark sullivan will testify been the homeland security. nine agents were already fired. >>> the gh summit is coming to maryland. police agencies want to be paid for it. they say they may not be reimbursed. federal officials have not designated it a special national security event. that would have triggered automatic funding for local agencies. we will bring you live coverage this thursday and friday. >>> jp morgan

judging what andrew sullivan said about gay kids who are bullied, because of what president obama saidthink that's what that cover means. will? >> well, first, lz, i would say that's the first i have heard of george washington and abraham lincoln. rumors have been flying about james bu can nan for about 1r50 years. but, look, for anyone and that would include lz and myself who supports gay marriage this is a good symbolic moment. i don't think we should cannonize him. we shouldn't carve a portion of mount rushmore. >> at least not this time. not this time. >> right, right. i don't know how this evolution thing works. we will have to see about that. >> you know, he said his views were evolving on marriage. call me cynical, but i wasn't sure that his views on marriage could get any gayer. >> there were lots of laughs there for ran paul's comments. you know me. i have said this to you. i think the worst thing is for someone not to have a sense of hum humor. there is context for everything. it was a funny joke and i probably would have laughed at it unless it was meant in a demeaning way.

we knew with andrew sullivan writing, and he's one of the chief intellectual officers with the idea that same-sex marriage is actually a conservative idea. we know that this piece would mean a great deal to andrew personally and professionally. what we were trying to do in capturing that kind of intensity in the argument, the writer was to have a column -- a cover image that would also be intense in the emotions that it evokes. it's an allusion to toni morrison's piece. in the new yorker that bill clinton was the first black president. >> but that wasn't on the cover, as i recall. that was something that was within. it wasn't on the cover. it wasn't out there and in your face. >> no, but, you know, as you know, the new yorker covers are quite different from what a news magazine cover would be. >> let me ask you this -- it's definitely provocative. i certainly get the message. i live and breathe news every day. i understand the innuendo and the ar cain aspects to these covers and these stories. are you at least a bit concerned, the person who is busy, has kids, walks by the newsstand and

it's written by andrew sullivan.ut we now have that cover. it talks about what was behind the president's decision and what it really means and it comes after a weekend where you saw across churches in the country, african-american churches, ministers really struggling with the president's decision to come out and publicly endorse same-sex marriage. these ministers, some of them pulling back their support from the president, others saying that while they disagree with mr. obama, they will still support him, so there's still that division there among african-american ministers. expect this conversation to continue. the president heads to new york today, where he'll visit barnard college. he'll be delivering the commencement address there, also receiving that school's highest award, which is the medal of distinction, along with the president, a prominent gay rights advocate will also be receiving that award, and then the president appears on "the view" and will be attending two fund-raisers, one of them will be hosted

andrew sullivan was a pioneer and using his audience to teach him and excerpting e-mails and comments. a lot of people who reading or super smart. you.business will wheear on now you have criticism at how you deal with that. host: matt lewis, thank you for being here. here's our schedule coming up -- to mark, michael steel -- tomorrow, michael steele. host: that is our show for this memorial day. here's a shot from arlington cemetery. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> live pictures this morning from the tomb of the unknowns at arlington national cemetery. we will begin our live programming today starting in about 45 minutes. we will have live coverage of president obama laying a wreath at the tomb. the president will make his way for the -- to the epic theater where he will deliver his remarks -- the amphitheater. more live coverage from the vietnam war memorial. we expect to hear from general martin dempsey beginning at 1:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. the u.s. air force academy in colorado springs hos

this weekend on the chris matthews show, andrew sullivan's emotional reaction. see the president's new stance on gay marriage. >> to tell you the truth, i didn't realize how important it would be until it happened. beforehand, i was kind of steeled. i was like, i don't care, he's going to disappoint us again, and then i sat down and watched our president tell me that i am his equal. >> wow, it's just as emotional as that, as you see. more to see on the chris matthews show. why is the white house talking trash about joe bidden so openly with the press? i know why they're mad. he jumped the gun. how math and science kind of makes the world work. in high school, i had a physics teacher by the name of mr. davies. he made physics more than theoretical, he made it real for me. we built a guitar, we did things with electronics and mother boards. that's where the interest in engineering came from. so now, as an engineer, i have a career that speaks to that passion. thank you, mr. davies. not in this economy. we also have zero free time, and my dad moving in. so we went

the story written by andrew sullivan, an openly gay political blogger who when the blog posted last weekrote that the support of gay marriage brought him to tears. "newsweek's" cover comes just days after "time" magazine's controversial cover featuring a mother breast-feeding her nearly 4-year-old son. >> a lot happening overseas. a peace plan in syria appears to be unraveling. >> janelle wang joins us today with our international headlines. >> the arrival of mother military observers doesn't appear to be doing anything to quell the violence. rebels killed nearly two dozen. it happened where control has been slipping in and out of government hands. that's about 100 miles north of the capital city of damascus. about 250 u.n. monitors from all over the world are in syria to enjoy the fragile ceasefire announced by kofi annan last month. the violence is spreading including to neighboring lebanon where supporters of the syrian regime are now fighting. there is some promising news in the middle east tonight, a nearly month long prison hunger strike has ended. israeli and palestinian leaders f

a conservative and openly gay blogger andrew sullivan wrote the online story about the commander in chief's decision to support gay marriage. >>> 9 wants you to know about a story at 11:00 tonight involving a disturbing trend among teenagers. you're cameras are on the scene once again as police busted up yet another underage drinking party, but this one was different. it was in the woods and the differences don't end there. andrea mccarren is here with a bit of a preview. this is just bizarre. >> it is, derek. we keep hearing young girls are drinking more. this is the first time we've seen it. an anonymous tip leads us on a wild walk through the woods wading across a creek under a bridge. >> they started approaching and they start running. >> teenage partiers leave behind a backpack and beer cans in their rush to get away. >> we had a younger female hop the fence. we had to go after her. >> police surround the woods on all sides so the teens have no place to run. under arrest, six teenage girls, students at frost middle school and quints orchard and gaithersburg high school. yes, you heard

when i first wrote about it back in the anyone 90s it was a column on andrew sullivan's lovely book virtually normal. i was on the other side. i said i'm for gay rights laws but too much to ask people to redefine marriages. i came to the conclusion if we as a society want to promote fidelity and commitment in relationships, how can we deny this to gays and lesbians. politically i think there's one thing the president did here that could be very important in the long run. as i understand it in the course of this interview he talked about the protections in new york's gay rights -- gay marriage law for religious traditions that didn't want to perform gay marriages. it was basically a set of provisions that said religious traditions that don't want to be involved in this don't have to be. the government can't force them. i think that's going to make it easier for the president to make his case because some traditional people who are not strongly against gay marriage but have their doubts i think mostly are worried about what the government would do with various religious groups. i think that wil

and andrew sullivan is reporting last week on a conference call that was supposed to be in response to joe biden, grenell was told to be quiet. he was specifically told to be silent on the call while this, kind of, blows over. so what eric fernstrom just said, doesn't match up at all. >> chris kofinis, you've run staffs. how out of the box is this and out of the norm is it to handle a situation like this? >> it's pretty extreme, to say the least. i mean, i think what's really bad here for the romney campaign, it just builds on this narrative that they are so out of touch. and on top of that, that they're kind of beholden to this extreme right-wing agenda, and this is kind of a bad hangover from a republican primary that went really far, far to the right. >> chris, do you think that mitt romney has said enough on this? >> i haven't heard him say anything. at some point, he's going to have, if you will, for lack of a better way of putting it, a sister souljah moment where he'll have to stand up and say to the right, these are not my values, i don't believe in what you're saying. he hasn'

. >> they hold up andrew sullivan, the guy who came up with this bizarre conspiracy about governor palin son, trig. just absurd. >> it was not her child. it was bristol's child, not sarah palin's. shameless. and read the article. and andrew is known as a firm proponent of gay marriage, and he lets the proponent in him overwhelm his background as a journalist. but even he puts in there the reason the president did this is to get votes young young voters and they said they were sitting on their checkbooks. >> if reverend wright in fact, and i will get the audio tapes tomorrow, if reverend wright, i will say if for now. if he was offered money by the obama campaign for his silence, does he have himself a campaign contribution potential violation? is there an ethical issue there? >> i would have to know more about it. but i'm not certain he necessarily does, but it would run counter to president obama's claims of transparency and, you know, of changing the tone of politics. it would be a chicago-style pay off. >> all right. karl rove thanks for being with us. i know you have a little bit of

it was written by andrew sullivan. sullivan is openly gay.livan talks about the political calculation involved in the president's announcement on all of this. still he said personally, it was -- psychologically transformative moment. even given the strategy behind this why was the president raes endorsement of marriage equality so powerful? >> good morning. thanks for having me. i think what andrew says, and i think this is correct, when you actually have the president of the united states come out and support something like this, make that personal statement, as andrew wrote, it has the power to shift the conversation and i think it was -- clearly for andrew, particular very powerful moment since he has been working on this issue and writing about it and one of the chief intellectual authors of same-sex marriage equality as a conservative idea. very -- just a very powerful moment for him. >> this piece also delves into joe biden's role and all of this saying the president had planned a more strategic rollout and chuck todd was reporting earl

when andrew sullivan came out having aids, they raised a letter to him to say.aids. i think it speaks to the fact that you can disagree on the level of policy. there's a human element. >> for the human rights campaign that's when the group's that set out to i have to to -- buchanan's words check him on the statement to great to gays, lesbians, transgendered people all over the world. i just. i said i believe the practice of homosexuality basically is unnatural and immoral and that is my view. now that's the view of the catholic church. it is a view that i believe, and there is no question about it. when you say that i'm sure it is hurtful to some people. these divisions would come out of the 50's and 60's. they are irreconcilable. i have to either give up my q% marriages find and a lot of folks like me are not going to what i see now is this whole cultural revolution that you are succeeding there is no ground to the co dhaka it's gaining ground. when it was over we lost. there is the case that can be made, but i don't know how you come back together when there's

the cover story written by andrew sullivan, an openly gay political blogger. in a blog post from earlier last week, sullivan wrote the president's support brought him to tears. >>> "the new yorker" showing the white house with rainbow-colored columns. the artist behind the cover says it's a celebratory moment and tries to capture that. >>> it is 6:17 right now, we check back in with meteorologist christina loren to tell us about a monday and a look ahead. >>> we've got a good-looking week shaping up. one of the cooler days of the whole week. temperatures only maxing out in the low 70s, even in the warmest cities across the bay. this is the reason why. high atop san bruno mountain. a full deck of clouds. and not just by the water. mostly cloudy conditions all the way from your inland cities to the coastal cities. 54 degrees in livermore, 55 degrees in sunnyvale. heading toward the 70s as i said before that's inland. at the coast, temperatures in the mid to upper 60s and the low 60s in the coolest coastal cities. something that is still relentless. those high po

. >> i will leave our viewers on this note from andrew sullivan writing i think one of the more movingieces i read on this decision. he says just this. the interview changes no law, it has no tangible effect. but it reaffirms for me the integrity of this man we are immensely lucky to have in the white house. the reason this was a big problem for president obama is because it is the first time i think a vast majority of the american public really questioned his character. and i think he responded very strongly yesterday. that is my opinion of course. we'll leave you with that. into the break, some key members of congress are offering anything but an endorsement of same-sex marriage. will they wind up being on the wrong side of history? we'll discuss that next. they employ hundreds of high school and college age employees. and they learned managing this generation means you have to speak their language. for more watch your business. [ male announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually

special intensity, and i think the most recent, the most recent impetus for the debate, um, was andrew sullivan who's actually a former colleague of mine at the new republic. andrew wrote a cover story that got a lot of attention in "newsweek", and the premise was basically the premise of a piece schmidt wrote years ago which is obama at times looked like a complete disaster politically. but, in fact, even those moments when he looked like he was at his weakest, he was executing kind of a master plan, part of a long game as andrew referred to it. and be i'll just quote a bit from his piece. what liberals have never understood about obama is he practices a share-don't-tell long game form of domestic politics. what matters to him is what he can get done, not what he can immediately take credit for. this kind of strategy takes time, and there are long stretches when obama seems incapable of defending himself. so, you know, this is an important question. you know, obama's running for re-election this fall, and if he happens to win re-election he will probably face the republican senate, and there a