that is absurd. >> worth saying that breitbart's website is not abc news. >> not like brian ross hasn't been around this forever. first rule inherently uncertain information flowing around you don't go into google and throw something on the air automatically when you hit upon it. this is unthinking contempt that diffuses the mainstream media for the tea party. >> and then it went on. the controversy at abc over the mother's statement to an abc producer about whether the son was the right person. abc implyd that she somehow knew that her son was capable of doing this or planning it. >> they apparently woke mr. holmes' mother up out of a dead sleep and asked are you the mother of and exactly what she said, who knows. once you lose trust in a news organization for all the reasons we have been saying, how do you know what happened there and the additional issue of whether or not holmes is in the jail cell spitting at the prison guards. abc said that, too. and you can't trust them any more. >> i hate to keep bringing up abc but they keep making these mistakes. they said he was spitting on gu

i would consider breitbart dot com is a big media empire part of that i would consider a daily caller. d.c. fishbowl to a degree and some others that are out there that seem to have taken upon themselves to be watchdogs for the media whether or not they have the credentials to do so whether or not breitbart for example was involved in this surely sharod scandal and has done a number of things that have since been discredited they've been affiliated with some other folks who have propagated themselves as reporters but instead really have an agenda reporting is and what is that it won't and that agenda is to bully and silence. and negate basically some voices on the left and a friend of mine and i were talking about this and he he said that it's like a basketball game where you keep following a felling a foul and pretty soon the ref starts calling them because they come become so commonplace and because you can't continually stop the action to track every single incident and they kind of depend on that it's fairly organized it's got a distinct agenda which is to advance conservative cau

i think there have been some examples of racist signs signs d comments -- >> greta: andrew breitbart >> my problem with the tea party is policy. >> sean: this is the campaign of the democrats. the president says the republicans don't care about old people. >> it's couched in a bunch of misinformation. those racism-tea party is misinformation. >> sean: misinformation or a lie? >> it's misinformation and a lie to put forward a socialistic agend a. i agree with james earl jones, he's a great actor. i agree that he was taught racism. there are people and families that are taught racism, who have that problem -- but don't put that with the tea party. that's disingenuous because you don't know the tea party members. vimet the people. there are black people, there are chinese people -- there are indians. >> sean: they want to balanced budget, they want limited government -- that's it. >> i feel like he know much about the tea party. i think that's where i feel more angry about him. i feel like he's like, oh the tea party, they are racist. this is what i know about racism. i don't think he u

no shame there, breitbart. so great news organizations have prematurely associated their political opponents with horrible crimes. remember the tribune's famous headline "dewey kills truman." (laughter) so there was a ton of inaccurate information i do not have a chance to give you. but i most regret missing out on analyzing all of that no information. >> we have a lot of 20-year-olds who are living in this underinstitutionalized world, lonely, not a lot of people dealing them. at the same time a tremendous hunger for fame and you see the rise of these spectacle killings and i'd like to see a debate about that. >> stephen: yes, we need a lengthy debate in the news about how much these people hunger for media coverage. all day, everyday until we finally figure out what is driving the search for attention! (laughter) of course with a story this devastating there's not just nothing to say. evidently there's also nothing to do. especially nothing about guns. >> new legislation is a long shot, especially in an elect

journalism really has to start thinking about is the fact that these -- these people -- talking about breitbart, big media, big journalism "the daily caller" outfits like them. they are self-apointed watchdogs. they have decided to take it upon themselves to root out what they see is a liberal bias in the media. that, to me, is sort of ant i thetcal. a watchdog keeps vigilance to make sure nothing goes wrong. they are seeking it out and creating it in some ways when it doesn't necessarily exist. newspapers and journalism outfits, outlets too often testified to react to that rather than think very carefully about who were making these allegations, what their point of view is, what is their point of view. >> who does fund them joe? who funds them? who is underneath them? >> that's a good question. i mean their funding is fairly obscure. we don't really know how they make the money that they do make, if they are making any at all. and certainly the cred en belles credentials of the people watching development match up with a lot of first-year journalism students i see coming through politico. >> d

as our friends at andrew breitbart point out, back in 2003, president obama called the $300 billion deficitresident bush, quote, unprecedented and said it showed the recklessness of the bush administration. the president needs to take a good look in the mirror and republicans are now coming out swinging. watch this very powerful ad put out by massachusetts senator scott brown. [dramatic music]. >> a government that understands that jobs must come from growth in a vibrant and vital system of free enterprise. >> small business is the gateway to opportunity for those who want a piece of the american dream. wouldn't it be nice to hear a little more about the forgotten heros of america? those who create most of our new jobs, like the owners of stores down the street. >> if you have been successful, you didn't get there on your own. you didn't get there on your own. i am always struck by people who think, wow tmust be because i was just so smart. because if you have a business, you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. >> there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own! nobod

step two, national review blasts out this headline with a link to the breitbart piece, quote, final jeopardy, category is obama. the answer is -- fund-raising in paris. and then step three are karl rove tweets final jeopardy, how will obama be spending american independence day this week? you get it. now the president himself is going to paris for this bash. reality check, the president is spending tomorrow at a white house picnic with military families as planned all along. andrew mccarthy, national review reporter corrected his error via twitter. lol, okay, okay, i see stories says obama campaign, not necessarily obama will be fund-raising in paris on july 4. i didn't realize there was a difference. so it wasn't all a reduce to make the president seem unpatriotic leading into the fourth of july. i'm not buying it. up next, storm storms, wildfires, record high temperatures. how long will republicans keep calling global warming a hoax? you are watching "hardball, place for politics. that's a good thing, but it doesn't cover everything. only about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest

. >> the same breitbart site that talked about piers morgan exploiting the situation, puts up the headline, "joem could be re -- james holmes could be registered democrat." then update, may not be registered to vote. >> yes. people get things wrong. news organizations get things wrong, you know, in the sort of craziness right after an event like this. i think what's really missing from the coverage, however, is context. something about just how rare these kinds of shootings are. if we're going to have a gun policy debate, it probably shouldn't actually be about the kinds of assault weapons he used. 75% of all gun violence in the u.s. is actually committed with handguns. it's far more prevalent. you know, people die from gun violence all the time. chicago has seen a wave of violence. regularly has double-digit people dying over a single weekend. that doesn't get coverage. that doesn't get -- the kind of killing that happen every day that could be prevented aren't getting the kind of coverage that this gets. >> well, they certainly get local coverage. but the national media don't turn it int

step two, the national review blasts out this headline with a link to the breitbart piece, quote, finalund-raising in paris. and then step three. karl rove tweets final jeopardy, how will obama be spending american independence day this week. you get it the president himself is going to paris for this bash. reality check the president is spending tomorrow at a white house picnic with military families as planned all along. andrew mccarthy the national review reporter corrected his mistake. so it wasn't all a ruiz to make the president seem unpatriotic leading into the fourth of july. i'm not buying it. up next, freak storms, wildfires, record high temperatures. how long will republicans keep calling global warming a hoax. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. i don't spend money on gasoline. i don't have to use gas. i am probably going to the gas station about once a month. drive around town all the time doing errands and never ever have to fill up gas in the city. i very rarely put gas in my chevy volt. last time i was at a gas station was about...i would say... two month

there was a time where people had a shred of hope that a fox news or the breitbarts and these folks wouldshirley sherrod and a.c.o.r.n., they said they're a pure propaganda machine. let's be clear what they're up to. they want to stop the conversation prom being any way positive about anything. right now, the president has a proposal he's pushing forward that would eliminate some of the overcharging by banks for home mortgages. now, that's something that red states and blue states could come together, talk about. republican, democrats know that the interest rate is too high on the houses. real issues we're working on at rebuild the dream and other places, but they don't want to have any substantive discussion about what might relieve some of the pain for the american people because they can only win. they need american pain to get political gain. >> and that is the bottom line. >> that's the whole strategy. >> great to have you us. thanks a lot. lots more coming up in the next half hour of "the ed show." stay with us. ♪ america america god shed his grace on thee ♪ >> it's one of the most

we have these lovely people in our lives and they throw out fox-based breitbart facts.or it. we want to know what is your favorite dishonest talking point lie about president obama and how do you debunk it? we'll be taking your calls all morning at 1-800-steph-12. and we really want to know, the new one of course is the affordable care act is a tax. and we're hearing this all over. tony, are you getting this from your right wing friends? >> yeah, well isn't it kind of what the whole supreme court kind of said? that's what they were reporting. >> exactly. john roberts did a brilliant bit of triangulation in his ruling. he knew he was going to lose all of his friends. by guaranteeing children weren't going to die because they're denied access to care because of pre-existing conditions, by doing the human thing his inhuman friends would hate him and he would get thrown off of the mitch mcconnell christmas card list. did he something brilliant. a superb act of triangulating. he called it a tax. which the president said from the beginning it is not a tax. it is -- you could