yep the liberal administration firing its members after conservative station fox news said something bad about them now clearly the white house feels threatened by fox but i'm sorry i didn't realize fox was all that scary i thought the white house wrote them off like every other have seen person in this country so white house wanted to grow a pair wanted to stand up to fox and why don't you please do your homework next time before you just drop employees their people to you know not just some hot news story. harge i want to get a little deeper into the story what exactly is it that happened to the white house when they stop checking facts and calling out the media for baseless attacks and instead start taking the bait on everything fox might throw their way are we dealing with a spineless administration well joining me is radio host tom hartman tom and i think speaking with you live tell me this is fox news really all that powerful or is the white house just that lazy that they didn't want to do their homework. well yeah. and that's a real tragedy is that if it were news in their nam

all right now on "fox news sunday." hello again from fox news in washington. with the mid term campaign intensifying we asked two brig thinkers to discuss it. from vermont, howard dean. former governor and chair of the democratic party and here in studio, former house speaker nude gingrich. welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> good to be with you. >> chris: let's start with the case of shirley sherrod who was forced to resign because the obama administration mistakenly thought that she made racial comments. you said this. >> i often disagree with this administration but firing her after that kind of viciously racist attitude was exactly the right thing to do and the fact that we have to be genuinely color blind. you can't be a black racist any more than you can be a white racist. >> chris: was that viciously irresponsible based on an internet taken out of context? >> i was operating in the context of the secretary of agriculture having summarily fired her and therefore there was no reason to disbelieve the clip and what you see is one more example of the obam

breitbart and fox news it was all fox news? no. >> didn't the naacp condemn the remarks? >> they did and then they said they got snookered. i watched sean hannity with the blonde woman who is the darling of the right -- >> ann coulter. >> who said that andrew breitbart was set up. she is making him the victim. it is beyond comprehension on that side. >> talk about selective editing. the main news show on fox at 6:00 with threbret baier -- we did not touch the store on monday because we had no background. we touch the story on tuesday at the time, the day before, the deputy chief of staff was the commanding -- commending his staff at "politico" the quick action on the story of canning her. if you are going to have the full record here, you ought to show the full record. >> what you did is also what hannity and bill o'reilly did. >> this is not fox news story. this is an naacp story and shirley sherrod story. >> this is about a big lie that the media facilitated without checking. i don't think you should be paranoid about fox or

and fox news' advertising policies to sell ads to these guys. >> reporter: fox news says it has never received a single complaint about goldline. and on his fox program, beck said, wiener was engaging in mccarthy-like tactics and said the investigation he conducted was a joke. >> the only way to deal with a joke of an investigation is to treat it like a joke of an investigation. >> reporter: that points to the company's a-plus rating from the better business bureau. and in a statement to abc news, beck said he expects audience to be well treated by goldline. >> if you're going to advocate for buying gold, it's certainly your right to do that. but you should tell your viewers there's a dumb way and a smart way to buy gold. and very often, those advertisements are for a very dumb way to buy gold. >> no one from goldline would agree to appear in our report. but in a letter to abc news, the company said all risks are fully disclosed. there's a seven-day money-back guarantee. and that all complaints are investigated. and goldline remains a prominent advertiser on fox and other cable outlet

tonight fox news flash the g.o.p. is tonight's tool time. now yesterday we debated a list of over one thousand names of alleged illegal immigrants that was sent to newspapers and government offices in utah and that was yesterday there is now another development in the hate and fear mongering against latinos courtesy of sue myrick republican from north carolina just put the pieces together and start looking at what's happening all throughout south america into mexico on our border it really became very obvious that there are so many signs of his bowl is very active and so since and we've been able to confirm through other sources that that is the case and they are operating not only in mexico but in five other countries. see she's calling for a task force to investigate the issue by looking into the islamic militant group hezbollah to see if they're showing a stronger president's presence amid the mexican drug rings in fact she thinks this is the important part of the immigration debate that we've all been missing doub

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and fox news advertising policies to sell ads to these guys. >> reporter: fox news says it has neveraint about goldline. on his fox program beck said weiner was engaging in mccarthy-like tactics. that the investigation he conducted was a joke. >> the only way to deal with a joke of an investigation is to treat it like a joke of an investigation. >> reporter: beck points to the company's a-plus rating from the better business bureau. and in a statement to abc news, beck said he expects his audience to be well-treated by goldline. >> if you're going to advocate for buying gold, it's certainly your right to do that. but you should tell your viewers there's a dumb way and a smart way to buy gold. very often those advertisements are for a very dumb way to buy gold. >>> and coming up next, lindsay lohan is heading to jail this morning. >> can the hard-partying hollywood starlet learn her lesson this time around? you're watching "world news >>> welcome back. the day has finally arrived. later this morning, lindsay lohan is expected to surrender to los angeles authorities and start that 90-d

i watch fox news sometimes. i am always fascinated watching it. the stories they choose to highlight, the way they are described, and i am not even getting to some of the unabashedly opinionated parts of fox news. i do not believe "the new york times" is close to that. >> conservatives would say you went to columbia, and you may be a liberal, and you like the york city, and you think new york times is where it begins and ends, but we like fox because they look at the world differently, and they are journalists themselves. are we healthier because of femme or less healthy? region because of them or less healthy? -- are we healthier because of them for less healthy? >> you and i are roughly the same age, and we grew up in a very different world. there were three broadcast networks, and walter cronkite became the most trusted man in america, who nightly told us what the news was an haute -- helped shape that to a great extent. there were two national newspapers. it was the most influential and then " if the wall street journal -- and then "the wall s

and you may be a liberal, and you like new york city, you think "the new york times" is where it begins and ends, but we'd like fox. they look at the world differently. are we healthier because of them? less healthy? how much do people in new york blame fox for the evils of bad journalism? >> i don't know the answer to the last part. are we healthier because of that? i say this. you and i are roughly the same age and we grew up in a different media world. there were two, maybe three national news magazines. there were three broadcast networks. walter cronkite became the most trusted man in america, who nightly told us what the news was and helped to shape that to a great extent. there were two national newspapers. "the new york times" was not national at that point. "the wall street journal." it was a very different world from today. there was no such thing as cable news. there are now five broadcast networks, depending how you count them. "usa today" did not exist in that mix. "newsweek," "u.s. news" are struggling and one of them may not exist in the long run. "life" magazine, the circulation in the billions no

on fox news sunday, the reverend jesse jackson said the white house did not want to appear racist. >>out to be hit by an avalanche of news media criticism and you feel you have no moral foundation, the tendency to buckle. the reality is that the shirley sh. re. rod, the white house was wrong and that is why the white house apologized. >>> agriculture secretary tom vilsack also apologized to sherrod and offered her another job within the usda. she is considering the offer. >>> when we return, automakers opening two new auto plants in the south. why many in the auto industry are trying to put the brakes on the openings. >>> and a beautiful day around the bay area, but are we in for a change this week? we'll have the work week forecast, coming up. >>> flooding in eastern iowa has caused millions of dollars of damage to hundreds of homes and businesses. the flooding began yesterday, when the lake dell high dam failed, as rising flood waters created a 30-foot hole. small communities downstream from the dam were evacuated as water began surrounding the area. at least 200 homes and other bui

facebook movie or bristol pale and getting engaged her baby thirty and fox news has a story that they just can't let go up and i have a thing or two to say about it they tend to find out. say let's call it the c canary due to its high pitched twitter. this morning and none of this highly communicative. what's he trying to say and how can we do come to mind which. just. secrets of. the. subject every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join a small technology update on our g. well as day eighty eight of the b.p. oil spill or should i say day one of the capping of the oil spill yesterday afternoon b.p. made a statement that has kept the runaway well and updated video from the underwater camera of the leak shows no crude coming out and president obama made a statement of the public about their progress on it as well. working to determine is whether we can safely shut in the well using the new cap without creating new problems including possibly countl

that andrew breitbart created is the truth so the fact that limbaugh here is trying to call out fox news the first network that carried this story is pretty laughable they're all in bed together and his turning on them on one ridiculous story is just a joke being different just for the sake of being different doesn't change the fact that you're blatantly lying and everybody would have a brain knows it so maybe you should just try to be a little bit next let's obvious next time. now the case of the ten russian spies here in america has been sealed for weeks now there are a few lingering thoughts or remain many of the critiques about those people stemmed from the fact that they were really doing any good spy work nothing that a lobbyist or a consultant couldn't do but in that case are we underestimating lobbyists are some of them in fact modern day spies see it turns out that some extra agents are now using their influence and their connections to work as a lobbyist for foreign governments so is there a danger in that or earlier i caught up with jack rice a former cia special agent and a c

like september eleventh have much greater consequence than july twenty first ever have but sadly fox news isn't even the only guilty what a mess n.b.c.'s keith olbermann dedicated the spot on his nightly countdown to sharod but he also threw in a very lofty history lesson take a listen. we need to congratulate ourselves how far we have come we can pull a dreyfus faster than the french could in eighty ninety four. days until the son of the devil's island we did it to shirley sure forty eight hours. i'm sorry but comparing sharod to the wrongly accused french captain alfred dreyfus again just a little bit over the top but this next one here really takes the cake c.n.n. commentator david gergen shared his thoughts about the ordeal by saying the following quote i keep thinking about nelson mandela as i heard story because he had to overcome the same sort of hatred on both sides and he became there's a larger than life figure and i think we all loved him and revered him because he was able to grow like that and there is that quality about her story. that is it enough is enough we're comparing

fox news took a clear, cool-headed look at this story. >> i think this story has been thoroughly screwedporter: white house press secretary robert gibbs publicly apologized to sherrod and no less than three commentators on the conservative national review website cautioned outlets on the right to use care before rushing to judgment. >> it was wrong. the story was entirely wrong. if there's an hour-long speech or a 30-minute long speech and you're putting up seven seconds of it and you haven't seen the rest of it, you feed to say, i'm putting up seven seconds of this and i haven't seen the rest of it. >> reporter: if you're an optimist you might look at this as what the president calls a teachable moment. maybe we should all wait and see what happens next time. jeff greenfield, cbs news, new york. >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. hope you'll join us a little later for "the early show." i'm betty nguyen. later for "the early show." i'm betty nguyen. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie ma

and if i can say, this incident last week with shirley sherrod and fox news was a good example of how house seems to be so deathly afraid of the other side that they were willing to get rid of this woman before fox even ran their attack. i mean, that -- if that's really where we're at, where the majority of the country has said we want a democrat in the white house, we want a democratic house, we want a democratic senate, and we want them to do these things regarding jobs, the economy, the war, et cetera, and then they cower in the oval office worrying about what fox news is going to do starting at 5:00 p.m. and then react in this crazy-making way, i hope they got a bit of comeuppance this week with this and get back to doing the job we elected them to do. >> larry: concerning sherrod, what does that say about race in america? >> well, we still have -- we still have a big problem. that's what it says. we all know that. we know we've had a big problem for a long time. it's gotten better. things usually do get better, and hopefully this will continue to get better. our best hope really

when are we going to hold fox accountable as a legitimate news organization? i wish that people would wake up and pay attention to what they are hearing on fox because it is not true. much of what they say is propaganda. host: "now black people have to protect their first black president. the naacp jumped the gun." fred, good morning. caller: i will stick up for fox news. i watch them every day. i do not believe any other station other than fox news. they showed the entire thing that she said from the get go. host: i should point out that the entire thing is 45 minutes. caller: but he did go back to show what she said. but it was not like the thing that he said that she is talking about now. he explains why she said what she said. i am going to stick up for glenn beck. the united states had better start investigating. host: bellevue, the rest of. marvin, go ahead. caller: that caller before me is a perfect example of why america is where it is today. even faced with the facts they seem to have already made up their mind what they want to believe, so they do not

in new york, marianne rafferty, fox news. >>> you can find continuing coverage of the disaster in the gulf by going to ktvu.com and clicking on the tab at top of the page plant a heatwave in phoenix has claimed one live and sent hundreds to the hospital with heat-related problems, including burns to the body. >> it would be 140, 150 degrees just on that pavement. >> phoenix fire officials say a man, believed timber a transient was found dead with blisters on his body from heat exposure. a man discovered second-degree burns to his feet while walking barefoot outside of his home. witnesses say he tried to crawl home on his hands and continues ands to avoid the scorching asphalt. >> he was on his hands and knees and he was trying to stand up and he was falling back down. >> the unidentified man is being treated at maricopa county bern unit. temperatures in phoenix are expect soar to more than 107 degrees again tomorrow. >>> coming up, how the issue could change the medical marijuana and those who grow it. >>> senator clinton is in pakistan, working to shore up support for the war in afgh

thank you i will before we go tonight we have our tweet of the day said earlier we spoke about fox news how they've created three stories that actually cause people to leave their jobs in the federal government so what would fox news tweet about today after all of the revelations i bet they'd say something like damn who know the dems in the white house actually watched glenn beck that's change you can believe it are we will have a nother tweet of the day for you tomorrow well that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in to make sure they come back tomorrow but in the meantime they'll forget to become a fan of the lotion on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any of tonight's show or any other nights you can always catch it all at youtube dot com slash the ilona show we post the interviews and the show in its entirety coming up next is the news with the latest headlines from the u.s. and around the world. wealthy british sunny all. the time to explain the let's go. around. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger no hold

last night, fox news took a cool clear-headed look at the story. >> i think this story has been thoroughly screwed up. >> reporter: today, white house press secretary robert gibbs publicly apologized to sherrod and no less than three commentators on the conservative national review web site cautioned outlets on the right to use care before rushing to judgment. >> it was wrong. the story was entirely wrong and if there's an hour-long speech or a 30 minute long speech and you're putting up seven seconds of it, then you say "i'm putting up seven seconds." >> reporter: if you're an optimist, you might look at this as what the president calls a teachable moment, but maybe we should wait and see if we've learned anything the next time, katie. >> couric: certainly a cautionary tale. jeff greenfield, jeff, thanks so much. overshadowed by all this is the financial reform bill the president signed into law today. it's designed to prevent another economic meltdown and the white house believes it's too important to fail. here's sheryl attkisson. >> reporter: the new law is 880 pages, packed with regul

thank you for joining us on ktvu fox 2 news. i am dave clark. >> and i am pam cook. time now, 6:30. >>> and the city of oakland could become the first city in the whole country could authorize large-scale marijuana farms. people are at city hall right now with the details on the controversial late night vote. we have claudine. what happened? >> reporter: the votes came in 5-2 in favor of the ordinance. what that means you could be looking at the brand new world when you are talking about marijuana growing operations. this is a history-making vote at city council chambers. it is certainly getting both sides passionate on the debate. there are moneys of small growers currently that support ply marijuana dispensary. this is a big industry. last year they sold $28 million in marijuana. oakland has a pot tax already that city council members wants to raise. what does this new ordinance mean. it take it is business of growing pot up a bunch of notches. we are talking about four permits, going to industrial- sized operations, each with $211,000 in permit fees, 8% in sales t

propaganda -- or fox news propaganda, that there is a struggle in our country between not the democrats- the new left party, pretty much a socialist party, and also the conservative movement, which is the tea party republicans. the two differences -- conservative tea party go where our country is funded, at 76, given rights by god rather than fight government and karl marx. -- than by government and call marks. it is making everybody do an examination, the founders, that declaration of independence, but also making people read "the communist manifesto," marx, lenin, saul alinsky, and if you look at "rules for radicals" by alinsky, the left is demonizing the opposition. we are seeing the two different schools of thought. it is going to be an awakening for the american public. they will vote at the ballot box, and hopefully, we can change some of the national ization programs, which have produced personal rights in this country, introduced by the new -- reduced personal rights and this country, introduced by the new socialist party -- host: i will stop you there. guest: you are right. the

it is being upheld by fox news. a lot of people are waking up to the fact that the republicans and fox news are doing what of the can to take down the president. it is hurting the country in the long run and they do not see the damage they are doing. i just hope we can work together to get a jobs bill passed. the reason it is not is politics. republicans want to take down the president, even if it her to america. quick protecting fox news, thank you. guest: you told us you were a republican. this economic crisis does not discriminate. it has affected all parties, though without party affiliations. we are asking the public to communicate to the senate this is not a partisan issue, this is an issue of justice, fairness, economic opportunity. people need an opportunity regardless of who they are. hopefully, people will wake up and let their senators know that we have to pass this bill. host: on fox news, there is a media writer from "the washington post." he talks about fox news. he writes -- she had received a phone c

on fox news sunday leaders both parties spoke about what they believe voters are look for in november. >> i really do believe what we are seeing is an absence of leadership by the administration and as the elections approach this fall the american people are looking for men and women who are committed to those timeless american principle many preponderances. >> it's a tough climate but we are tough people and we are going to take our contrast and comparisons to the american people. >> that includes the president. the campaign committee chair for the democrat said the president will continue to hit the road and campaign for his party's candidates in this tough political climate as the midterms heat up with so many seats in play. in washington fox news. >> thousands lace up for the yearly aids walk. >> a new study giving hope to people living with aids. as thousands of walkers beat the pavement to raise money for the cause. >> getting a flu shot may soon be easier. a new needle that isself given and comes in the mail. >> trying to save -- how it could save millions of lives. . >>> thous

that is the fox news. frankly there is criticism in the film. it is not up-to-date. i am not a journalist. but there is a lot of criticism of him in the film. the truth is that they would not be happy unless the film came out against you go chavez. i do not understand that. in the long run of history, this man has done wonders for his country. not to everyone's liking, but all of the other presidents have as well. the u.s. has knocked off so many reformers. except for castro, they all went down. guatemala, panama, chile. this is the first time we have not been able to do anything. hopefully it will stay stable. right now we are actively fighting. >> you like to shake things up, do you not? >> no. >> ,. >> if i did i would be more political, over. >> this is not a political war over? >> i love it future movies, as you know. the documentary's are fresh. they keep me humble. if i can contribute light of the world wide cause, i think that would be doing some good. you are out in the field, basically rushing and under and comfortable conditions. they are not generally luc

fox news. >> the president had some hard word republicans in his weekly address. he called on congress to pass a bill extending unemployment benefits. >> think say it costs money. after years of championing policy that turned a record surplus into a massive deficit including a tax cut for the wealthiest americans they finally died decided to make their stand on the back of the unemployed. >> reporter: it'll come for a vote on tuesday. the president said republicans have be blocking it for months. democrats could have enough votes to pass it. the west virginia governor has appointed a replacement for senator byrd. >> county da has decided not to file hate crime charges against two teens accused vandalizing a high school. they arrested the 18-year-old on suspicious of burglary and vandalism. a 17-year-old was also arrested but his name hasn't been released. authorities say they broke into the high school, stole property and spray painted racist grafitti. police had first called it a hate crime but officials now say the evidence doesn't support that charge. >>> oakla

sherrod's actions, quote, shameful, but have since backtracked, saying they were, quote, snookered by fox news and the conservative blogger who first published the video. >>> well, english prime minister david cameron says he understands american anger over the gulf oil crisis and said it's bp's responsibility to clean it up. at a joint news conference with president obama yesterday, cameron also insisted bp had no role in the controversial release of the lockerbie bomber. brushing off calls for an investigation, cameron cautioned, quote, let us not confuse the oil spill with the libyan bomber. >>> meanwhile, bp has acknowledged it posted an altered photo on its website that exaggerates the activity at its houston command center. a spokesman says there was no ill-intent and the company has since put up the original photo. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton was in south korea today to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the korean war. secretary clinton and defense secretary robert gates visited the infamous demilitarized zone, the armed border that has divided the korean peninsula for the

as kate thompson reports tides is well known by those who watch fox news anchor glenn back who frequently attacks the organization. >> the organization is often the target of attack on the quebec show appeared on this clip from youtube back in rio grande educational video that he believes is misleading that was produced by tides. >> room made it. rob the tides foundation. it's neat how would all ties together doesn't. >> deck rail against the organization leaking into criminal activity. >> the apollo alliance that's the one that wrote the stimulus bill dan jones is on the apollo allied board. jeff jones to the we have that great picture jeff jones to put up there in case of a scene jeff jones i love this. we have his fingerprints to only because his organization is stored in the '60s was ball in the pentagon. >> this statement tied ceo drummond pike says it should be the obligation of every american especially those whose voices are amplified by the media, to foster civil discourse in dialogue among those who may disagree about public matters. " one does not win an argument by inviting on

fox news says it has never received a single complaint about goldline.ine remains a prominent advertiser on the network, despite the ongoing investigations in los angeles and by congress, which now plans hearings in the coming weeks. george? >> brian, thanks. >>> we're joined by the executive vice president of goldline, scott carter. thanks for flying in for this. >> thanks for having me. >> let's begin with the two allegations at the heart of the investigation. that your salespeople made false and misleading statements during the pitch. a and that that steer people to buy the gold coins instead of bullion. brian ross talked to someone who said that's how they're trained. >> that's not accurate. we sell tens of millions of dollars of not only gold bouillon, of coins of collector value. and the ultimate decision is to the consumer that is calling us. there's features and benefits of coins with collector value that's of interest to them. one, they're made by governments, not private mints, which is important. they're easily recognizable, whether they're br

in washington, jennifer davis, fox news. >> an official announcement is expected out of bp later today on the fate of ceo tony hayward. he angered mappingy u.s. residents during the gulf oil with some of his comments. and today published reports say bp will likely make a decision about hayward at a meeting tonight and that hayward will likely step down at any time before that announcement. the company is expected to name bp's managing director bob lud deas his replacement. he grew up near the gulf of mississippi and is london for that meeting. if chose especially he would be the first american to lead bp. >>> more than a dozen lightning sparked fires are burning in california today, about 15 fires are burning in remote areas. the largest has burned 200 acres in an area near trailer lake. the fire started after storms and lightning came through in the area saturday night. no homes or buildings are threatened by the fires and there are no reports of any injures. >>> let's check in now with our meteorologist steve paulson. i have not heard too much about fires this season, have we? no, we

really gave the white house a lot of crap because i think this is embarrassing they actually fell for fox news and the made up news that they were trying to sell to them yet i feel even worse for just white people in general just because this if there was ever an opportunity to keep her position and pull the race card just he just failed you know even in a time like oh you don't want to give me money is because i was a white car and they just you know i just we could have some kind of white reverse reparations and we just all failed we failed obama fail white people i apologize going because right alex i am white knight and even say that he failed me yeah well if you tell you how you actually are you allowed to say how you felt like you know that alone like a man alone i'm telling you try to pull the race card one day you think the doors that open when you pull that you know fast food restaurants now mcdonald's is amazing when i pull the race car by the way i'm black when we get that double cheeseburger it's amazing. to start figuring out of you is my i'm telling you telling your call surely y

that part was edited out by a conservative bloger and played on fox news. after demanding her resignation earlier this week, the white house begged for forgiveness. >> this is a good woman. she has been put through hell. i ask for shirley's forgiveness and she was gracious enough to extend it to me. >> this shouldn't have happened. it took too long, but it makes me feel better that the apology is finally coming. >> shirrod has been offered a, quote, unique opportunity at the usda. she says she has to think about it. >>> a lot more to come here tonight. a piece of san francisco folk lore is whole once again. that story is just ahead. and governor schwarzenegger gives tabloid humor a try. but first, a rare interview with the bay area's mark suckerberg. -- mark zuckerberg. >> when you give people power it ends up in a good place. >> facebook's camera shy ceo sit down with diane sawyer. x xñ >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to >>> he is one of the bay area's best known and certainly most camera shy entrepreneurs. but today abc's dian

on fox news a lot. >> andrew breitbart, welcome back. >> thank you, sean. >> reporter: rallying the tea party faithful in appearances across the country. >> i want to tell you that there is a beast out there in hollywood that does not allow for this to happen. >> reporter: launching the websites big government, big journalism, big hollywood. and lobbing grenades of controversy, like his most recent revelation this week of an old speech by obama agriculture department official shirley sherrod, in which she con ffesses that she was once deeply reluctant to help a white farmer who needed her aid. >> i was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farm land, and here i was faced with having to help a white person save their land. >> reporter: sherrod resigned under pressure, and then, it turned out, breitbart had released only a clip of her speech, which distorted her real meaning, that she was wrong and had learned from her error. the controversy continues to breitbart's delight. >> this is the standard if you want to talk about people clapping racist behavior that'

but after looking at the full tape of those remarks, added it had been snookered by fox news and the conservative blogger who first posted portions of that video. brian? >>> another story involving race and politics. it's been gaining traction and attention. this started with amateur video of two men standing at the entrance of a philadelphia polling place during the last presidential election. one of them was holding a club, many of those who have seen the video see it as a clear case of voter intimidation at a polling place. the justice department did not. they dropped the case without saying much about it. more on that story tonight from our justice correspondent pete williams at the justice department tonight. pete, good evening. >> reporter: brian, this does involve a case of what some see as voter intimidation outside of a predominantly african-american polling place nearly two years ago. the issue is what the justice department did about it. a video shot by a mccain campaign volunteer on election day 2008 in philadelphia shows two members of the new black panther party in para

deficit but don't pass unemployment insurance if it impacts the budget so he was interviewed on fox news this is john kyl minority whip are you going to pay the six hundred seventy eight billion dollars just on the tax cuts for people over making more than two hundred thousand dollars a year you should never reduce taxes in order to cut taxes surely congress has the authority and it would be right to if we decide we want to cut taxes to spur the economy not to have to raise taxes in order to offset those costs you do need to offset the cost of increased spending and that's what republicans object to but you should never have to offset the cost of the deliberate decision to reduce tax rates on americans you can't increase the deficit by thirty three billion to extend unemployment benefits without increasing. oxes he's saying but you can keep the bush tax cuts that did more than anything else to increase the deficit under bush because he cut taxes without any corresponding cuts in services and the fact he increased them because what is war but a welfare racket that's right you know america

-- >> reporter: there's the new black panther party controversy, given wall-to-wall coverage on fox newshiladelphia haranguing people outside of a polling place. >> the new black panther party -- >> reporter: conservatives are accusing the obama administration of failing to pursue voter harassment charges aggressively. there's supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor saying a wise latina may have advantages over a white judge. conservative commentators say the mainstream media all too often ignores these stories. glenn beck has called president obama -- >> a racist. >> reporter: rush limbaugh has called liberal policies a form of reparation. there have been plenty of controversies that paint conservatives as racists. senate candidate george allen calling an indian man this name -- >> macaca or whatever his name is. >> and more recently allegations of racial epithets hurled at black members of congress during the health care debate -- >> have been called the "n" word, have been spat on. >> reporter: and allegations of racist signs held aloft during tea party rallies. a presidency hailed by m

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organization have actual numbers for who is watching what networks and what broadcasts, and for fox news, the number's like 34% classify themselves as democrats, so would you agree with what chris is saying? >> no, i would not agree with what chris is saying. i actually--we just released some research the beginning of last week based on focus groups that was fascinating toe as we brought in a bunch of news consumers and news creators to talk about what they valued in news, how they got their news, how they interacted with the news, and in every single group, they mentioned the bbc. every single group. in none of the groups did they mention abc, nbc, cbs. cnn was mentioned, but it was quite surprising to me, and what people said to us is, you know, it's really nice to hear news from the bbc because we get an entirely different picture of what's going on in the world than we get from our own media in the united states. >> we'd like to show you now courtesy of the newseum archives the very beginning of cable news. it was june 1980, cnn's first broadcast. the 24-hour news cycle was about to

and went on a lot of fox news and other republican type programs, and there, the real issue still is government so big, and can't they do anything right? and that sort of thing. it resonated. >> i'm wondering about something different. you implied that all the secrecy has one tactical or terrorist level made us safer probably. i guess the question i'm curious about, is big government itself, 1,500 secret agencies, itself going to be a bigger threat? i mean, even paranoids have enemies as the joke goes. at some point, is big government just a danger in and of itself? and do the people you talk to actually raise that question? >> you know -- >> some of them do. but the question there that gets raised is the domestic issue. whether this government apparatus has started to cross line into domestic surveillance. and knowing everything about you which by the way they do. in terms of all of your records and things like that, they're stored in big vats, big data centers, so there is a lot of that worry, too. that just goes against the grain of addition trustful americans. >> and why we have