they conveyed something stronger than the truth. >> joe concha? >> i looked at the usage manual as i often do, one rule they have in there is anonymity is the last resort. it seems more and more at "the new york times" you hear from u.s. officials and unanimous sources say. that leads to one problem. the other is twitter. we need two editors in every publication. one for standard newspaper which they all have but then we always see again and again a tweet going out that they want to pull back. unfortunately it's like toothpaste. you can't put it back in the tube. we saw it a couple weeks ago with chuck todd with navy yard shooting. he put out a tweet saying it was wrong. did chuck todd have to go with the same test so i think this is twitter striking again and a race to be first instead of to be accurate. >> this is one of the big problems. a race to be first whether you are tweeting or on the air or writing a blog or a story. you have so many demands as a journalist now. you're at the daily beast. you do this. do you have someone editing every tw

is this just a case, joe concha of the "new york post" doing what it does, going for the headline, or a slide back to a proxy, attack obama at any cost. >> the "post" is owned by rupert murdoch. he owns fox news. that sends to be right of center, if i can be forgiving of it, and they attack the president more than most publications. you can attack him on healthcare.gov, and asa, and every other acronym. to start going after the obama administration for hats, that colonel nathanson of "a few good men" wouldn't approve at. and, you know, ahh, look at the girlie hats. it's quite comical. >> there's the temptation to dial up the headline. did this get to the point of distortion fundamentally? >> who say the hats necessarily look girlie? who says a unisex hat is a girlie hat? that's the problem with the story, that seems like a distortion. >> that's a good point. in the nfl, they're wearing pink cleats. >> that's a good work. >> i'm with rosie. i don't see anything particularly girlie about the hats. they're just hats. i imagine it's a cost-saving measure, you don't have to design differen