media buzz with howard kurtz is coming up next. have a great sunday, everybody. thanks so much for joining us. >>> on the buzz beater this sunday, the nation's capital is consumed by talk of impeachment. this is truly bizarre, because nobody, nobody believes that president obama is going to be impeached, but each side accu accusing the other of fanning the flames for partisan gains. >> they want to impeach president obama. calls for the impeachment of the president of the united states, they're nothing new. republicans have had impeachment on their minds since day one. >> it seems in recent days the left has become obsessed with the "i" word, you know, impeachment. maybe it's because they're using it as their latest campaign tact tactic. >> are the media enabling this bogus drama? >>> the rising death toll in gaza. the images of dead palestinian children changing the tone of the war coverage. >> i'm sorry, this is just -- this is assinine. the killing of women and children is -- >> is israel losing support in the american media? the "new york times" launches a cr

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this is "media buzz," and i am howard kurtz. >> first the leaks, unnamed officials telling the press the american military could strike isis and then the pundits pounced for the president not doing enough or threatening to do too much forcing president obama to have a news conference. >> we don't have a strategy. yet. what i have seen in some of the news reports suggests that folks are getting a little further ahead of where who are than we currently are. >> news reports, the six words unleashing a wave of media criticism. >> president says we don't have a strategy, say "we don't have a strategy." >> the 39 said he does not have a strategy for syria. >> we do not have a strategy. >> who wrote that? can someone get fired best end of the week? >> joining us to examine the coverage is lauren ashburn, and jim pinkerton and merrill. >> did president obama have any news to make on syria and isis? >> i don't think he called this to make news but to fill the void left over from the vacation. the problem comes when you do not have anything to say and you are on the world stage. it seems that

stuart: howard kurtz, great to see you again. don't be such a stranger. >> you have my number. stuart: that we do. look at this, big board, triple-digit gain, holding 16,110. very low volume but a triple-digit rally. s&p 500 holding on to the 2,000 level. never been there before. why are millenials avoiding mcdonald's. we'll ask a few of those millenials about 15 minutes from now. mcdonald's stock hardly changed. not for much of the past year. >>> look at intermine, roche buying that american drugmaker. they're betting there will be a approval for intermune's drug which treats a deadly lung disease. that stock is up 35%. >>> homebuilders down on the home building news. >>> gold going nowhere at 1277. 10-year treasury yield, still inexplicably to me, 2.39%. big move for burger king stock and tim horton's as well. burger king wants to buy the canadian coffee chain for tax reasons. >>> new high for tim horton and burger king. the story is the inversion story where u.s. companies buy foreign companies or parts of foreign companies to get a better tax rate abr

i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >>> as the envision of anchors, concerneds, commentators in one embattled missouri town hurt the cause of keeping the police? the police captain running things in ferguson says yes, some of them have. >> when a certain element, that criminal element that got out here with masks on, who wanted to acknowledge state and build up the crowd and stop with the media, the media would swarm around them, give them a platform and glamourize their activities. >> some journalists mixed it up with police, perhaps relishing the confrontation. >> i think we're about to be arrested because we're standing on the sidewalk and you said you wanted to -- move out of the way, sir. move! >> the officer who pushed lemon was later suspended over a videotape racist rant. other journalists took happy from the protesters who threw rocks at nbc's chris hayes. >> hey, hey. watch out. you know what? they're throwing rocks at us. >> and hurled verbal abuse at fox's steve harrigan. >> who is the child right towards? can you say that? right. >> cnn's jake tapper questioned the

and here to talk about that host of media buzz, howard kurtz. is anybody in msnbc management telling him it is a bad thing to do. >> msnbc blessed the role. on one hand al sharpton stirring things up in ferguson and meeting with the michael brown family and being a player in that mella drama and covering them. and politicalo this morning that sharpton is working with the obama white house and a conduit for the administration on the controversy and a direct line to valerie jared and msnbc is allowing the host to work with the administration on the biggest story in america. >> why is there not more criticism of this? why does he get a pass in the media? >> that's a very good question. i have been complaining about this going back to last year. trayvon martin, sharpton did the same thing. met with the family and the lawyer. and doing his thing on msnbc and going back and forth it seemed like he was covering himself. maybe msnbc doesn't care. but it seems to be that sharpton is getting a pass for precisely the reason no one wants to take him on for

. >> that's it for this edition of media buzz, i'm howard kurtz.z, and we'll respond to your questions. and you can e-mail us. we're back here next sunday, >>> i'm chris wallace. africa's biggest ebola outbreak ever has health officials scrambling as one american infected with the virus arrives in the u.s. for treatment. >> it will take at least three to six months to get this outbreak under control, even in the best of circumstances. >> with no cure, could the disease spread here? we'll ask dr. tom frieden head for the centers for disease control. >>> then house leaders delay their recess and pass a bill to address the flood of children across our borders. >> doing something is better than doing nothing. >> they are not trying to solve the problem. is that message bill.

i am howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >> a signature achievement, getting the united states out of iraq. avalanching airstrikes again the terrorists, he took questions from reporters to emphasize the limits of the decision. >> how do you assure american people we are not dragged into another war in iraq? >> i have been clear we will not have combat troops in iraq. we are going to maintain that because we should have learned a lesson if our long and immensely costly incursion in iraq. >> has this triggered the same familiar media debate the united states again being entangled in the problems in iraq? >> if you get in, get in big decisively now. if you go in, increment alley, you do not have the effect you want. >> it will lead to no good. in 24 hours we have gone from, there are going to be linted airstrikes, this is no end date to the air strikes. >> examining the media coverage in minneapolis, is lauren ashburn. in new york, amy hall anchoring the hot list, and in los angeles, leslie marshall, fox news contributor. lauren ashburn how have obama shaped the knavive here? >> well,

i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. >> the looting and violence that erupted in missouri came too late for the sunday morning papers, but they added to the sense of chaos that kicked into a higher gear on friday when the troubling tale of just why a missouri officer shot and killed michael brown emerged. videotape shows michael brown intimidating a convenience store check and running off with cigars. it wasn't until a press conference hours later when reporters got the police chief to admit this had nothing to do with the fatal shooting. >> you're telling us that when the officer stopped michael brown the first time, he was not aware that brown was a suspect in a robbery? >> no, he didn't. i was walking -- >> that had nothing to do with the stop? >> he had nothing to do with the stop the. why at this point -- at this point, why didn't you stop michael brown? >> because they were walking down the middle of the stwreree blocking traffic. >> fox news contributor lauren ashburn joining us, jim garrity, contributing editor at national review and joe tribity. how has this video of the s

host of fox's media buzz, howard kurtz, looks at how the media is already making nice with a possibleidential candidate. >> "the new york times" front page headline was nothing short of breathless. is this island big enough for clinton and obama? the island? martha's vineyard. the excitement factor. when i heard hillary was going to be here, a 17-year-old girl told the paper, i literally started crying. the back story? hillary clinton's much touted plan to hug the president after she made some critical remarks about his foreign policy in an interview with the atlantic. that has prompted a potpourri of punditry. was she just rusty or was this a poke in the eye? >> hillary clinton wants to divorce herself from barack obama whose popularity on foreign affairs is too far. >> is this really such a political earthquake? it's hardly unusual for a potential white house contender to distance herself from a president she worked for. and clinton also praised obama in that same interview. she did take a swipe at the obama slogan, don't do stupid stuff. clinton said without naming names, that the

. >> i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >>> first came the leak, unnamed america might strike isis in syria. then the confirmation that america is conducting surveillance, then we're not doing enough or threatening to do so much. all that media prompting president obama to hold a news conference prompting this question from chuck todd. >> congress's approval to go into syria? >> we don't have a strategy yet. i think what i've seen some in that folks are getting a little further ahead of where we're at than we currently are. >> the news reports, those six words unleashing a tidal wave of media criticism. >> when the president says we don't have a strategy yet -- >> saying, quote, we don't have strategy yet. >> the president did say he does not yet have a strategy for syria. >> we do not have a strategy to deal with isis. >> who wrote that? can somebody get fired before the end( of the week? >> joining us now to examine the coverage, lauren ashburn on the fox social website. merrill isthon of national public radio, presidents are supposed to hold news conferences to make news. d

media buzz with howard kurtz is coming up next. have a great sunday, everybo >>> good evening, everybody. the house just moments ago voted to authorize house speaker john boehner to move ahead with his lawsuit against president obama. a lawsuit that accuses the president of abusing his authority and illegally delaying a key portion of obamacare. the measure passed in a largely party line vote, 225, 201 after some heated speeches on the house floor about how lawmakers should be spending the final few hours they have before they leave on a five-week recess tomorrow. >> the entire republican majority in this house was built on opposition to the affordable care act, and yet it stands. and the fact that it stands makes the republican leadership do desperate and irrational things. >> the republican house is about to go out for five weeks but first they're going to sue the president and hope that we don't pay attention toissues in this country. >> my point is that we shouldn't be so callous and short-sighted as to not defend our article o

tonight fox news media analyst and host of "media buzz" howard kurtz looks at one you may not have considered. >> reporter: it was a mutual lovefest when hillary clinton was leaving the cabinet. >> this has been just an extraordinary opportunity to work with him as a partner and friend. >> reporter: but one question could cast a shadow over the former secretary of state in 2016. will she be viewed as running for barack obama's third term? clinton can do a bit of distancing as she did recently on foreign policy but she would still be asking voters to give the democrats control of the white house for 12 years. and that kind of winning streak has happened only once in the past six decades. >> read my lips. >> reporter: ronald reagan's vice president, the elder george bush managed to succeed him in 1988 but others fell just short. richard nixon as ike's vice president lost his 1960 bid against jfk by less than 0.2 of 1%. then there was this guy. >> just moments ago i spoke with george w. bush and congratulated him. >> reporter: al gore won the popular vote in 2000 but lost the cliff-hanger florid

joining us from washington lauren ashburn, howard kurtz from the fox news program "media buzz." howard i understand you've been critical of the nbc/sharpton alliance. >> bill, this is a travesty. you have sharpton delivering pretty political speech at the funeral today. you have him meeting with michael brown's family. you have him talking about it on msnbc. interviewing the family on msnbc. and now, you have the acknowledgment by sharpton that he is a conduit, he is the go-to guy for the obama white house on ferguson. it is amazing to me, this just weeks that msnbc thinks this is acceptable. >> well, why isn't a compliment to sharpton that he can deliver to msnbc exclusive stories from the white house, and from the family, of the slain boy? i mean that's what reporters are supposed to do, get exclusives. >> right. but, phil griffin -- >> no, no, no, laura, laura, laura -- >> are you cutting me off already? >> already. i'm challenging howard's opening statement. why isn't that a compliment to sharpton to be able to deliver that stuff? >> because you can't be a player and cover t

here is fox news media analyst and host of fox's "media buzz" howard kurtz. >> reporter: journalistsering the chaos in ferguson are increasingly clashing with police and with protesters. >> i think we're about to be arrested because we're standing on the sidewalk. >> move out of the way, sir! move. >> the people out here are feeling like they are occupied on their street. >> reporter: television cameras may be part of the problem. >> there's a certain element, criminal element that got out of here with masks on who want to agitate and build up the crowd and was stopped in front of the media. the media will swarm around them, give them a platform and glamourize their activity. >> reporter: even some normally even-handed journalists seem to be taking sides. >> these are armed police with machine -- not machine guns, with semiautomatic rifles. now why they are doing this i don't know, because there is no threat going on here, none, that merits this. there is none, okay? >> reporter: coverage of michael brown's death also becoming increasingly pole rigz when an autopsy found that officer

. >> joining us with reaction from washington the host of media buzz howard kurtz and prosecute minneapolisy the media is an a absolutely inflaming the situation. what do you mean? >> this media invasion in ferguson i think is inflaming the situation because all the agitators want the exposure they see the bright lights, they see the correspondence. some of them are making a name for themselves or openly siding with the protesters and lauren it's become a nightly reality show for tv. >> howie, i'm sorry, what are they supposed to do? not do their jobs? reporters are sent there to cover the story to cover both sides of the story. sometimes even at risk of their lives. yes, there are some cable pontificators who are pitting both sides against the other race, white, back, there are journalists on the streets who are doing a good job feeding us video. feeding us information. we never would have known, howie about the police officer who didn't know that michael brown was a suspect in a robbery unless a reporter had questioned the police over and over about this. >> howie? some doing a good job?

media buzz with howard kurtz is coming up next.t sunday, everybo >>> good evening, everybody. the house just moments ago voted to authorize house speaker john boehner to move ahead with his lawsuit against president obama. a lawsuit that accuses the president of abusing his authority and illegally delaying a key portion of obamacare. the measure passed in a largely party line vote, 225, 201 after some heated speeches on the house floor about how lawmakers should be spending the final few hours they have before they leave on a five-week recess tomorrow. >> the entire republican majority in

media buzz with howard kurtz is coming up next. have a great sunday, everybody.r joining us. >>> on the buzz beater this sunday, the nation's capital is consumed by talk of impeachment. this is truly bizarre, because nobody, nobody believes that president obama is going to be impeached, but each side accu accusing the other of fanning the flames for partisan gains. >> they want to impeach president obama. calls for the impeachment of the president of the united states, they're nothing new. republicans have had impeachment on their minds since day one. >> it seems in recent days the left has become obsessed with the "i" word, you know, impeachment. maybe it's because they're using it as their latest campaign tact tactic. >> are the media enabling this bogus drama? >>> the

i'm howard kurtz, and this is "mediabuzz." >>> the president cast it as one of his signature achievements, getting the united states out of iraq. so after launching air strikes against the isis terrorists, obama took questions from reporters yesterday to emphasize the limits of his decision. >> how do you assure the american people that we're not getting dragged into another war in iraq? >> i've been very clear that we're not going to have u.s. combat troops in iraq again. and we are going to maintain that because we should have learned a lesson from our long and immensely costly incursion in iraq. >> but has this triggered the same familiar media debate about the u.s. again becoming enmeshed in the bloody strife in iraq? >> if we're going to get in, get in big and get in decisively now. if you go in incrementally in this way you don't have the effect you want to have on isis. >> personally, i think that these air strikes are going to lead to no good. in 24 hours we have gone from they are going to be limited air strikes to there is no end date to these air strikes. >> joining us now to e

i'm howard kurtz, and this is "media buzz." >>> the looting and violence that erupted in ferguson, missouri, early this morning with one person shot and seven arrested in confrontations with police came too late for the sunday morning papers. but they added to the sense of chaos that kicked into a higher gear on friday when the troubling tale of just why a missouri officer shot and killed michael brown took a bizarre turn. ferguson police released a videotape showing the teenager, michael brown, intimidating a convenience store clerk and making off with some cigars. now, this ran in an endless loop on cable news, but it wasn't until a press conference hours later that reporters got the police chief to admit this had nothing to do with the fatal shooting. >> you're telling us that when the officer stopped michael brown the first time, he was not aware brown was the suspect in a robbery? >> no, he didn't. he was walking -- >> it had nothing to do with the stop? >> it had nothing to do with the stop. >> why did you release the video? >> at this point -- at this point, why did you stop miking b