coming up next, the "new york times" gets, well, creative with the facts. >> the "new york times" runsd-hitting story about key republican congressman, raising question about the paper agenda and more question about bogus facts. msnbc gives al sharpton his own show. was he the only choice? was he the only choice? all next on news [ male announc] walls can talk. but it's our job to make them say something interesting. soow about this weekend we learn some new tricks of the trade... then break out our doing clothes and get rolling. let's use some paint that helps us get the job done in record time and makes a statement when we're finished. let's find ourselves a new favorite color. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. get five dollars off gallon cans of our top paint brands, now through september 7th only. [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of people are oosing advil. hers one story. my name is laceyalvert and i train professional athletes with yoga. i know how myody should feel. if i have any soreness, i'm not going to be able to do my job. but once i take a

has critique the new york times so many times over the years for reporting on some of the atrocities that were committed during the bush administration and he even considered it treasonous for the new york times to report on these things so why you still had a subscription kind of blog everybody comedy relief because i recognize there have been some ads in post nine eleven america that i think honestly are kind of shameful and i think that the fake i think a new york times releasing this and i presume it's part of that well let's get to the yes or no do you accept that using nine eleven as one of the justifications to go to. the main reason i thought he was it we can do we were convinced that they had every was convinced if you close. that was tenuous at best and was used as most tangential what was the number one reason for going to war in iraq was that saddam hussein refused to show that he had gotten rid of his weapons . besse destruction and the programs that support he wouldn't let us do proper inspections and consequently when the guy standing there who shot his neighbor he says

ben "new york times" approach them with the idea of the digit a classified and use to get 1/3 of advertising revenue from classified. before graceless was born it was proposed to the near times and others to create a digital consortium to sell classified ads online. we don't have to do that. hello? i did not set out to disrupt to kill businesses but you are disrupting them you there main forward in our be better if you lean forward 10 years ago and now. >> to comments. recently nobody asked me if i am in the and. [laughter] in other comment is i pay $35 per month the contents may be free but i don't mind paying for the internet baidu have a problem i don't mind paying for this like my isp just like cable. >> let me understand you say you pay $35 a month for your broadband connection you consider that paying for news? >> no but the internet is not free. i know i pay that $35 for connectivity not myself personally but why is it that content providers say they cannot get that money? >> they can bet basically the problem is to go is providing many more readers were then a year times to do google

new york times critic janet maslin said this about "the rogue." mr. mcginniss used his time in alaska to talk to people like, one resident and a friend. he was featured on "today" in a piece by savannah guthrie. >> he described a rocky palin marriage with todd and sarah fighting and threatening divorce, something they have denied in the past. another bomb shell, he writes todd and sarah have both used cocaine in the past, a claim that was not verified. >> you talk to somebody who snorted it with her and many of todd's friends who describe him as having been on the end of the straw frequently in his youth. i'm not saying todd and sarah palin today abuse cocaine or even use it, but it is no question that they both did at one point in their lives. >> reporter: he quote friends who speak of a sexual encounter palin had with glen rice in 1987 while she was a sports reporter for a local anchorage station prior to her marriage. >> how should journalists handle the contents of the book? steve roberts, professor of journal ichl and media ethics at george washi

new york. he covers finance and business issues for the "new york times." first caller, and we look at the 17 banks targeted in this latest lawsuit. caller: this is ken. of very interesting thing, sir. t of questions, if i may. part of the problem as i understand is that the employees of fannie and freddie were paid as private individuals and made very high and cons. income tied to the amount of business that they generated. and i would like you to comment on that to see if i am accurate. secondly, there was information recently released that tells us that the first ever audit of the fed indicated that $16 trillion loan to american and foreign banks between 2007 and 2011. if these banks were to lose these lawsuits, would they not be in effect paying that back what borrowed money? it is hard to separate public money from private money these days. guest: ken has had on two good point. fannie and freddie or hybrids. they had the implicit guarantee of the federal government on the one hand that enable them to borrow money at low rates. on the other hand, they w

new york? new york's a very expensive state that never costs the democrats anything. they never have to buy new york tv time. >> right. >> might he actually have to spend some money here and some time? >> i don't think he can take anything for granted. this is -- you know, in the same way that massachusetts, ted kennedy's seat went to scott brown, this is a seat that hasn't been democratic in almost a century. so if you're the obama campaign, you're looking at every state. >> there's a bloomberg poll out today that has all sorts of troubles in here. it shows that 46% of independents say they definitely, definitely will not vote to re-elect president obama. he has some time to change that poll. when they say i'm definitely going to do something, it scares people. only 21% say they definitely will vote for the president. those are the people who are going to decide the outcome here. 62% of americans disapprove of the president's handling of the economy. only 33% approve. the president's job approval rating in this poll is 45%. that's the lowest of his presidency in that poll. the numbers here, though, that he

a cbs news/"new york times" poll puts his approval rating at 43%, his lowest yet and as whit johnson tells us, his jobs plan is proving to be a tough sell even to some democrats. >> reporter: to sell america on his plan for the economy, president obama will need support from democrats like joshua scannell. >> he hasn't done much since he has been in office. >> reporter: a former obama '08 campaign activist, scannell has little faith in the president's new jobs bill. >> i think that it's a bad bill. i think that it's a bill that doesn't actually produce the kind of jobs that we need. >> reporter: in a recent cbs news/"new york times" poll, 47% of americans say they are not confident that the american jobs act will put people back to work still, president obama is crisscrossing the country. >> hello, everybody. >> reporter: arguing his combination of tax cuts and investments is the best way forward. >> everything in the american jobs act is the kind of idea that has been supported by democrats and republicans before. >> reporter: but some democrats on capitol hill aren't convinced. ore

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in the "new york times" story on this mess this morning, there is a paragraph saying that solyndra's ently, met at the white house at least three times with an aide to the top white house official valerie jarrett to push for loans, tax breaks, other government assistance. you remember candidate obama saying he was not going to play by the old washington rules, that things were going to be different. does this look like the same old washington to you? >> well, i don't know whether those meetings took place or what was said at those meetings. the republicans were complaining that one of the investors in solyndra had also contributed to the obama campaign. that doesn't tell me anything. they also had investors who were very active republicans. but getting contacted by a company or their representatives is approved by the constitution of the united states. we're supposed to hear from our constituents. but we're supposed to make the decision based on what were the merits. and if they weren't able to show that they were going to be successful, we shouldn't have lent them the money. >> and a

and i think that fact, which got picked up by the new york times, you know-- "young american playwright has to go to germany to have his first work done, and not even in english"-- i think that instantly made the play producible in new york city, because six months later, it was done off-broadway in english on the same double bill and ran for four years. so i quit my job delivering telegrams for western union-- [laughter] and settled in to be a playwright. now, do you speak or write german? no. no. it's a very strange language. do you speak it? no. no. you know, the verbs are at the ends of the sentences, so you can go along, you know, for a page and a half, not knowing what anybody is talking about, and then, all of a sudden, bang, at the end, there's a verb. but you had this-- this added advantage of sitting there the first time you watched it and not being able to say-- or disadvantage-- not being able to say, "you're butchering my dialogue." you didn't have a clue, did you? well, i'd had somebody who speaks german read the translation to me, and it was good, and i knew what they wer

host: this is one of the "the new york times" top stories. st: "the new york times," goes on to report -- host: a couple of other news stories, this one from "the washington post," "k street has close ties to the debt panel." host: other stories in the news, "farmers pressing gop on hiring undocumented workers." this is from "the wall street journal." host: there are a lot of jobs it stories right now. we are talking about the mitt romney plan to boost jobs and encourage economic growth. texas, what did you think about the plan? caller: the one thing that i agree with is the tariff situation around the world. we are creating a lot of problems. there needs to be a level playing field. i would like to point out an instance of this. obama, six months ago, the import duty on tires manufactured in china was raised. the order was for companies in the united states to be able to compete. the reason that they cannot compete, in china, the government gives the company's land and financial support. the field is not very level. the only way we will get b

. >> jon: cal, new york times, david brooks, labeled himself an obama sap for believing in all of of the hope and change promises. have the liberal media lost faith in this president? >> i think they're starting to lose faith, but they haven't lost faith in liberalism and that's a very important distinction. let's go back to what david brooks said, the big setup for the 2008 campaign. he went so far as to say that obama had the best crease in his pants that anybody had and therefore, he'll make a great president. i'm thinking of investing in a dry cleaners. this is totally over the top. they completely abandoned any rational, and i hope that, as we enter now the next campaign, we start running some of those sound bites and excerpts from some of these columns that journalists who were in bed with the president and have a lot to apologize for. >> jon: kirsten, steve chaplain from the chicago tribune wrote a column, when ronald reagan ran for reelection, morning in america and for barack obama, it's more like midnight in a coal mine and the piece was titled "why obama should withdraw",

. >> meanwhile, the front cover of "the new york times," they had this story about how democrats are new york and across the country about the president's re-election chances fortunate . apparently, they surveyed two dozen democratic officials and there's a sense of concern because a few months ago, they thought the president is going to have a challenging time getting re-elected but he'll get but he'll get re-elected. w, they're saying that the unemployment rate won't go much lower than that for re-election, he's going to lose. >> a democrat from maryland, you would never thought this would be his quote about president obama. "i think we know that there is a barack obama that's deep in there. but he's got to synchronize it with passion and principles." ne in other words, he's even questioning now. could it be a setting of the stage for lower expectation? >> on top of it, the congressional race for anthony weiner's seat is a heavily democratic district. guess where it's going, to the republican. bob turner, he's a professional politician and was respectable against weiner and now he'

when you took your independent 538 blog to "the new york times," did you worry that it would leases pizazz carefully? >> i think with "the new york times," you're writing for a wider audience. and i assumed that people might come from the front page and read the piece. you know, the blog's targeted at a general -- like a high interest in politics audience. a literate audience, right? an audience that i'm not assuming is a partisan audience. if i make an argument saying this side is doing better than the other, it has to be framed in a way people can be sympathetic to and agree to. one thing i look at is who is following me, re-tweeting me and debating against me in a respectful way. seems like we get equal traffic from liberal and conservative blogs. >> you were keeping -- keeping your personal political opinions out of it? >> well, the easy thing with this is that we're mostly looking at the numbers, and, you know, i mean, last year it was clear that democrats were going to get slaughtered in the election, right? >> no way to spin that. >> there's no way to spin that, right? it's clear th

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. >> when we talk about the mainstream media "new york times," "washington post," etc., etc., what's been their success or non-success on the internet? >> i think it's important to understand first that most of the news consumed on - the traditional what was media. cnn, nbc, i know that doesn't last but everyone's like yahoo! which is quite some majors or the washington post. what they are doing is aggravating and then read posting the content originally created for print. so yahoo! for example an awful lot of wireless news. so in terms of the total number of people who visit of least one over the course of the month, the on-line news category looks pretty healthy. the hundreds of millions of americans visited on-line news at least a few times a month. again, the issue is the overall traffic is quite small and we have to be careful about reading too much into the fact of obama news when a love of the visitors to the dahuk for example are looking at that point just a few minutes a month. >> the drudge report. >> for the drudge report it is an interesting insight partly because it's imp

host: that is "the new york times," this morning. sen louis, missouri. what do you think? ller: there was a time when we had a media and it was possible that we could have been fixed. since the media are bigger coward's than anyone, since 9/11, we need to start from the ground up. it is finished. host: chris, republican, spring hill, florida. caller: the only way that it can be fixed is by cutting entitlements. by getting this budget crisis under control. spending no more than we take in. they will have to completely overhaul their entitlement programs. in the 1980's, 80% of what they spent was the entitlement programs and the military. the military was about half. host: you are breaking out, there. you trailed off there, a little bit. caller: the military is about half, entitlements were about half. now it is only 20% for defense. it is obvious that it is growing out of control. anyone who looks at a map, they will see that there is no way that they can sustain it. increasing taxes, even the president has been coming up with programs to put money into the private sector to

i think that's the lead in the "new york times" tomorrow, i would bet. >> jon: oh, "the new york times rick perry will be serious will their -- furious with their editorial board as he per ruses it over -- [ laughter ] he destroyed his candidacy in the ponzi scheme comment and the part where he says social security is broken and must be fixed even though most people voting in the republican primary agree with him. this is not a race for the presidency of pubditytown. media you are thinking about this with the wrong part of your brain, the brain part. [ laughter ] they were sure that perry made a devastating conceptual error and the audience would rebuke him for his gaffe. reagan library ain't a reading library. >> a question about texas, your state has executed 234 death row inmates more than any other governor in modern times. [ applause ] >> jon: the biggest applause line of the night was the mere mention that rick perry had executed 234 people. [ laughter ] holy (bleep) ball! by the way, like some of them may be innocent but look at the crowd. they are not yahoos. this is not your t

we are going to "the new york times," david brooks.writes in part this, some problems are exasperated by government regulations and could be eased if government pulled back. cultural trends and the nature of technological change. republican haves done almost nothing to grapple with and address the deeper problems. tackling them means shifting the model away from the entitlement spending and more toward investment mitigating wealth and nurturing instead of broad based on tunety. >> sam stein i listened to them and they sound like they are out of 1994. the same thing we have been saying for 20 years. it's just like i said earlier this morning, we are undergone a structural change. you can cut all the regulations you want and all the taxes you want. we still have greater challenges out there competing against china, an ageing population, entitlement programs. david brooks is right, isn't he? >> yeah. there was a really interesting debate after 2008 when it seemed the republican party because of demographics and the victory of obama, they

here with reaction author of new york time best seller "revolt" dick morris. numbers are not good. article after article, democrats are abandoning him, especially after last week new york 9. democrats want distance themselves from his own plan. dead on arrival, everywhere. he's still out trying to sell it. >> the interesting thing about those "new york times" numbers historically, obama's personal favorability has been 10 points above his job approval. now it is four points below. which means that he's not only taking flak based on policy and performance, but on things like weakness, vacillation, reversing, flip-flopping, vacationing, stuff like that. >> sean: we have 1.25 -- 1.5 trillion that the super committee is supposed to handle. now another 1.5 trillion. he extended the bush tax cuts. now he's doing the opposite. he will be the only president since mondale, running on a campaign slogan, that he's going to raise taxes. how well did that work for mondale? >> presidential candidate. he was never president. i think that one ke point which is how i look at this, worse than a tax i

for someone like me who has been a reporter for years and years and respects the new york times thathat i'm trying to do is get the american people to understand what is really going on in our education system. it is not about money. >> sean: are you convinced that the conservatives like myself, that have been so critical of the "new york times". i just read their editorial pages, slant in their stories. do you think now this experience -- i'm not looking for validation here, do you think maybe we are more right than you thought? >> certainly in this context. when it comes to questioning this union, which is a very powerful union, i have to agree you are right. i'm a reporter, i like to take things one by one. not try to make a generalization. it is tempting to make a make a generalization when you have this kind of experience or when the website slate reviews the book the only other negative review by any reputable publication. and it turn out the reviewer works for a think tank which all the board members are heads of unions, randi weingarten is on the board. the teacher's union do

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, although the book would you say in the front of "new york times". he pulled the carpet on her. that kind of thing. you could leap on that and say, well that says it all, doesn't it? one of the things i learned about writing about family is there aren't answers to so many questions. it is a mistake in a family to think every question has an answer. one of the questions i had going into the book was, do we pass sibling relationships down? was the fact that my father had such a difficult relationship with his older sister, was that the thing? going into writing this book i would say there it is, it is passed down. the fact is my brother and i were with able to get passed this. my brother would say you have so many damned theories, just go forward, live your life. don't be with so obsessed with the passed. he turned out to be a guru figure for me. sometimes you don't get to understand everything. >> what turned, finally? i mean he is on some levels, cranky, right up until the last day, so what changed for you and would this have happened if he didn't

(laughter) thank you so much paul krugman of the "new york times." we'll be right back. thank you so much. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thank you. welcome back to our continuing coverage of tonight's show. (laughter)ç folks, there are so many great choices in the republican presidential field, who can pick? (laughter) it's like going to the kennel and wanting to bring home all the puppies before governor perry has them put down. (laughter) but i have an especially soft spot for an underdog and friend of the show ron paul. he finished a close second at the ames straw poll and he's polling nationally in the top three ahead of michele bachmann with a margin of error of plus or minus "let six people die." (laughter) and yet i'm the only pundit willing to admit to having an incurable case of ron palsy. everybody is talking about the other candidates who have wracked up some high-profile endorsements. minnesota governor tim pawlenty has thrown his baby egret like weight behind mitt romney and just yesterday rick perry secured the backing of curre

just have about a minute half left chuck and i want to get it all in as possible how come the new york times didn't include this information your article today well it either buried it or wanted to mislead because the new york times is is carrying out the message they didn't talk about h.r. thirteen fifty one which is stephen lynch is a litigator legislation there's one hundred eighty three coast for. that would basically solve this problem it would take the overpayment into the retirement fund and move it into the obligation with the future retiree's health benefits it would cost the taxpayers anything and it would be basically free up five point five billion dollars a year for the postal service to do its job which is to protect universal service for everybody who needs it and to deliver the mail or this is a problem two hundred thirty six years and in fact is one of the only institution that is actually defined in the constitution so this is a problem that has a solution the solution is in legislation the legislation is in the house i'm guessing that the republicans are not going to be re

"the new york times" reporting this morning that president obama will call for a new minimum tax rate for millionaires and will dub the proposal the buffett rule in reference to billionaire warren buffett who has advocated that the superrich should pay their fair share taxes. what are the prospects among republicans? what sort of plan is realistic in the midst of this election cycle. here with us forwo live interviews, the republican leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell, and former president of the united states, bill clinton. leader mcconnell, let me start with you and ask you whether this president's planon a million nash's tax rate is something that you could support? >> well, you know, we had that vote, david. a couple of years ago, when the democrats basically owned the congress. they had overwhelming control of the senate and the house, and it was defeated then. so i would simply go back to what the president said last december and signing a two-year extension of the current tax rates is a bad thing to do in the middle of an economic downturn. and of course the economy somewhat

that is "the new york times" this morning. first up on our phone call, route from d.c., on the republican line. caller: normally i don't agree with the spending, but the country is in deep trouble and they got to do something. i would prefer he would start something with the energy, a network out there for energy efficiency and make us a much more efficient country. but what i am looking at, i am listening to the debate on the republican side and what i am hearing from perry is nothing but more tax breaks. we are going under and these guys are talking about huge tax breaks and criticizing the funding for npr and stuff like that, which is $1 million a year. the well is being consolidated at the top and the less we stop this and start taxing the right people, and including myself, this ship is going down -- the wealth is being consolidated at the top. host: what did you think of the proposal last night? caller: i think the president's speech and plan hit it right on the mark. i would like to see the republicans get off their sea

the "new york times" "sunday" magazine reports that some texas republicans feel burned by "b" and wouldn't no part of hour cow buy-booted g-dropping governor and no book has gotten under the skin of the obama administration than the book by ron suskind. tonight some pushback. let me give you the choice president obama has to make, please the base or aim for the middle. we start tonight with howard fineman, msnbc political analyst and joan walsh of salon.com, editor at large. i want to start with the big crying story that hasn't quite been told. if they are so horny for christie, if they are going crazy about this often overlooked character from jersey, now they are in love with a guy they don't actually know, but they know he's car safetyic, doesn't that tell you they are crying in their sleep, that these people, you know, can't get no satisfaction. they hate the list they have been given. they keep looking for somebody to relieve them of the boredom of running with romney, the frightening possibilities of rick perry and whoever else they get stuck w.they don't like their list. >> well, i

on twitter the other day as far as -- i'm a naturally born smart ass and i twittered the new york timing did a book review and i twittered, i don't understand this. "new york times" did a book review but the last three times they wrote about me i was on the front page and i'm not on the front page this time so markoff, who this wasn't directed towards actually responded one or two days later well, maybe that's because it wasn't written well. kind of like a dig. and so

because while wayne ford was pounding the pavement, "the new york times" was following their tweets. all the way to georgia. where they found a story they could read, rewrite and publish themselves. that is why we need old school reporters like wayne ford. >> i felt like i uncovered the truth that day. >> and i want to tell you a story. >> stephen: to tell us a story in black and white. >> that's the hottest day i ever seen. (laughter) >> stephen: thank you, wayne. we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you very much, everybody. folks, welcome back. folks, it was a tense weekend across the country. on thursday another terrorist threat had new york city on high alert. plus this weekend two different airplanes received fighter jet escorts amid reports of suspicious activity by passengers. on one flight the trouble was three passengers who made repeated bathroom trips and on the other two people spending an excessive amount of time in a bathroom. folks, this is why i have long called for removing bathrooms from airplanes. if you can't hold it