i used to love getting "newsweek." then i grew up and i worked in government. they're not even trying to hide it anymore. >> greg: true. >> dana: liberal bias is right there. the thing about this cover when i first heard about it, i thought it doesn't help. they think they are helping president obama. it doesn't help them. the picture makes it look like they are con desendin con desceo people. >> bob: i don't think this is different from the "weekly standard" or right wing newspapers. i think "newsweek" made it clear they're a liberal newspaper. i think obama's critics are dumb. i mean dumb in a nice way. >> greg: nice and stupid >> eric: the centerfold is double page picture of barack obama. what they are talking about the right calls him a socialist. the left says he sucks up to wall street. the left is dumb. independents think he is a wimp. so independents think he is dumb but he will outsmart the right, left and independents. >> dana: you know who is brilliant? >> greg: the ultimate hypocrisy here, kimberly, sullivan is calling critics dumb when in fact he

joining me now is "newsweek" columnist, andrew sullivan.is website is andrewsullivan.com, and also joining us, bay buchanan, republican strategist and senior adviser to mitt romney. wow, this has gotten a lot of attention, andrew. there you are, writing your blog, and then this happens. >> kaboom. >> first of all, the headline on the cover of "newsweek," did you write that? >> no. i found out monday morning. >> so you in your article are not saying that all of obama's critics, left and right, are dumb? >> not at all. i just say i think they're wrong, in my view, they're wrong, and here's why. and i make a pretty reasonable, i hope, fact-based argument for that. i love to have a disagreement about it, and i'm beginning to have that with people, but you won't find the word "dumb" or "stupid" in any of the text of the piece. >> essentially your argument is that president obama, sort of unbeknownst to his critics on the left and the right, has actually been waging kind of -- his version is more long-term. how so? >> i think from the very beginn

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we can assess the situation. >> did they know your background at "newsweek?" but i'm not sure how familiar they work with my work. i was not expecting any access. whenever you are doing this, you always call and ask. >> you're coming out of "rolling stone" magazine. define that. >> "rolling stone" is 40 years of rock and roll journalism. no-holds-barred, kick down the doors. toss the hand grenades. he is one of the great names of publishing. he supported me 110%. >> when was this? >> 2010. >> your in your 20's. >> yes, it does happen in april 2010. in february or march, i went into the "rolling stone" offices and pitched them the story. they told me to write a more detailed one. i did so. i got in touch with mcchrystal's people. >> we're in the early part in 2012. this was 2010. how long from the time he got the idea until the time that general mcchrystal was dismissed from the army? >> probably three months. >> why did they let you? >> this is the public relations strategy that general mcchrystal had pioneered. i call it "petraeus envy." they are all trying t

news organizations and the and what i saw especially at a place like newsweek was this idea that the media was actually part of the establishment that it was it was it was that the american people were to be guided more than even informed it seems most american media are so used to talking wars that went after a decade of the inconclusive war in afghanistan the white house announced the necessity to negotiate with the taliban you have to have a political solution at some point the message and the words political solution came out a somewhat alien peace talks with the taliban it's come to this tell us more about these proposed peace talks and that may sound a little weird to some of our viewers it seems that warrants a political solution don't belong in the u.s. media of accountability two main reasons one moring and second some very powerful people are behind a kind of trigger happy pro-war journalism too many times in history the media did the bidding of war profiteers we can go back more than a hundred years and look at how the american public was primed for war with spain over cub

he's the editor of the dish and a columnist at "newsweek." andrew, thank you for joining me. my friend, here is your opportunity. an opportunity. a soliloquy is at hand. i don't mind you engaging in one. on the same day the bureau of labor statistics released new numbers showing 200,000 jobs were added to the economy, mitt romney criticized the president's economic policy. i want you to respond to this. >> he not only wasted government money, he made it more difficult for entrepreneurs to come up with new ideas of the future. this president doesn't understand how this economy works. it's time to get a president who does. >> as this chart shows, the u.s. economy was well into a huge job loss. this started under president bush. we all know that. people keep forgetting it. our economy was losing 750,000 jobs a month. he halted the collapse and the unemployment rate has been dropping steadily since august. your thoughts about what really happened. i want you to take on the right here. >> well, i think that obama has governed as he said he would as a sensible pragmatic centrist. h

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. >> we want to talk about newsweek's cover story. it's getting slammed on the right.facts about president obama's jobs record and i think newsweek is getting slammed, if you can see it, the title "why are obama's critics so dumb." when we look at the record the president has, he's created 2.4 million jobs. in 2011, 1.9 million private sector jobs created. 280,000 government jobs were lost. romney's saying more americans have lost their jobs under president obama than any president in modern history. is he bending the truth and also benning the truth when he talks about bain capital and the fact he was able to create jobs when the fact was that was just a by-product? >> he's not bending the truth on either. >> so bain capital was out to create jobs not make money -- >> bain was out to make money, but it also created jobs along with making money. mitt romney does not need to or should not run away from his record at bain capital. also a successful in the public seg tor. those numbers he has put o oout -- romney left bain capital, so what you're looking at here is obama

. >> and tina brown -- >> "newsweek". >> "newsweek" worked with an avowed conservative in peter schweitzer who tried to approach this from a bipartisan level. and so while the new media often acts as an insurgency and acts as the sticks part of the, you know, carrots and sticks back and forth, there is a carrots part of this, and the media has done a pretty good job up to this point. but when you were using the analogy of the major league baseball team and a reporter telling the truth ant what's going -- about what's going on, it's happening to you right now. i mean, you are a boy scout in all people's eyes. everybody knows that peter schweitzer's a good guy. you have created a firestorm on the hill that has caused them to react. there's multiple pieces of legislation that are being pushed in an emergency fashion, there are hearings that are going on right thousand, and there's one elephant in the room, and that is the fact that peter schweitzer has not been asked to testify. >> right. >> and the reason why is because you are the reporter who has named names and said the reason why this te

you wrote the cover article in the january 23 newsweek. it says why are obama's critics so dumb? are you always that good at is a deucing -- seducing the opposition of agreeing with you? why not just call them ugly, too. i'm in opposition. reasonable rae republicans are in opposition to barack obama. why are we dumb, smarty. >> i didn't say you were dumb. >> stephen: andrew sullivan don't blame anybody else. >> i take full responsibility. listening to the republican debates all the reasonable republicans arguing and did he baiting rationally with one other and with substance, i didn't recognize the picture they were painting of this president either domestically or in foreign policy. >> stephen: he is a complete nail your. he has fish -- failure. he has accomplished nothing. they have a vegetable garden and that is it. what he has done? >> the issue was the wars. he promised to the end the war in iraq and win it in afghanistan. he has done both. that's i big deal. >> stephen: excuse me, i know you want to applaud for me but is the afghan war over, sir? >> what we can say is 200 o

you have andrew sullivan out there, you saw the big cover piece in "newsweek." and successes of this president. is your party doing as good a job selling his record as this independent voice did? >> you know, there's always room for improvement. i think we need to continue to make sure that people understand that there is a dramatic contrast between the two directions we could go. after november 6th. the direction that president obama is taking us including the affordable care act, which made sure millions of americans will remain on their parent's insurance. 2.5 million young people are insured who weren't before. thanks to the affordable care act. seniors in my state and across the country have the prescription wage gap closed and beginning to close so they don't have to choose between medicine and meals. there are countless examples we'll be talking about as opposed to the direction the republicans would take us, which is to keep the wind at the backs of the people who are doing quite well. >> thank you so much. as always, u.s. congresswoman debbie wasserman

the cover story of "newsweek" this week is about margaret thatcher.n see that meryl streep is addressed as margaret thatcher. iron lady opens this weekend. is the movie trailer. >> one simply has to maximize. the leader you could be. >> i want authority. i want conviction. >> no, no, no. >> i've decided to run. didn't are you saying you want to be prime minister? >> me, the children, we can all go to hell. >> where there is discourse, they will bring harmony. >> host: and now joining us from our new york studio is author of the "newsweek" cover story, historian amanda foreman. ms. foreman, why is your article in "newsweek" entitled the new thatcher era? why is she back in popularity, or back in? tracking the "newsweek" team felt very strongly that the issues that helped to bring thatcher down, ironically, are the very same issues that confronting europe today. so most important of all is the question of european integration. as you know, the euro is sinking as a desperate attempt to keep it afloat among the countries called pigs, portugal, ireland, sp

"newsweek" magazine cover asking this question -- showed up on newsstands across the country.mb? the -- arguing president obama in taking a long view approach to achieving his goals outsmarting critics on the right and left. some are here on my panel. as republicans circle in on choosing a nominee or not, the president makes his state of the union address on tuesday. here is a preview sent out tellingly by his campaign organization. >> tuesday night i'm going to talk about how we will get there. i'm going to lay out a blueprint for competent that's built to last. american manufacturers, more good jobs and products stamped with made in america. american energy, fueled by homegrown and alternative energy sources. skills for american workers getting people the education and training they need so they are ready to take on the jobs of today and tomorrow. most importantly, a return to american values. fairness for all and responsibility from all. >> giving a preview of what the message will be. you are an economics reporter. one of the things i think really is interesting in the dyn

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the cover of this week's "newsweek" calls the president the man with the plan.ave you here. as we talk more on specifics about this, andrew sullivan writes this this piece describing attacks on president obama as wrong. the repeal of don't ask don't tell as two of the biggest successes in the president's first term. the president has a reputation for being quiet. he's a calm guy. not into tooting his own horn, but in a situation like this where he's facing this tough re-election battle, is that going to work against him? >> well, andrew who writes "the dish" and writes for "newsweek," makes the case that obama is in this for the long run. the long-term. that he's really thinking an eight-year term in the way he's handled many of the problems facings the country and given the stylistic issues you just talked about that could imperial his ability to have eight years in it, but what he's doing in his piece is really articulating why both the left and the right are wrong about obama and his record. >> you talk about the long game. so, the article discussing the pres