was through the media so it's the media that's telling people things it's just like people reading wonkette and thinking that i'm a russian spy. they really do and they also are obsessed with you p.s. read the comments it's intense they're in love but yeah it's ridiculous i'm like what media crazy a.o.l. for words from your racist grandma like what media i mean i don't know i've never seen even on fox news or i've never seen them do a report like is obama really muslim no i mean i think his father was but his father was apparently a very small portion of of his life and i mean it's just i think i'm actually being sabotaged by by the right wing right now i think they've invaded by earpiece somehow but i don't understand it's so absurd to me it makes me really angry because there are so many other things to be upset at obama about why why pick this why make up something ridiculous and if he was a muslim who cares i with you on that one i say who cares but if you look at the polling from americans i mean it's really scary because clearly this entire you know there is definite environment of ha

so here to discuss it from our new york studio is sarah burton kos a radio host and blogger for wonkette no sarah i want to begin with the fact that according to this latest gallup poll like i said no more than twenty five percent of americans have a lot of confidence in their newspapers and their television news are you surprised about that at all. i am a little bit surprised that it honestly makes me sad i remember when i was a really excited young journalism student i was so excited about how about getting to find and report news and i was so thrilled to learn about people who worked at the paper of record the new york times and in the many many years since then unfortunately it seems that consumer confidence has fallen greatly and it makes me a little sad as a news junkie but why do you think that happened what is it that has just made people not trust the most trusted name in news supposedly. well i suppose over the past fifteen years we've had a few big scandals at the boston globe the new york times these were formerly some of the most widely respected papers in the country if not

political left of being on drugs and what that professional left had to say to that radio host and wonkette blogger sarah betting casa will join me for that discussion and then we're going to take another in-depth look at our economy the fed says we're in trouble so after weeks of speculation is this confirmation that we really are doomed well as business insiders gregory white for his opinion on the state of the economy and all be joined by relationship expert diana falzone i'll get her opinion on everything from snooki cozying up to john mccain to eminem angry on his new music video which some say glamorizes domestic violence that's all the end of the show now let's move on to today's top story. just a week after obama gave a speech touting the end of the iraq war and the on time withdrawal of american troops comes news that al qaeda is already in that and according to the guardian has already begun enticing former sunni allies to rejoin their forces by paying them more than they currently receive from the government and those particular forces are known as the sons of iraq the same group