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Thats what ameriprise financial does. thats what they can do with you. thats how ameriprise puts more within reach. ♪ all political commentators seem to believe that hillary clinton will run for president in 2016. theres absolutely no doubt whatsoever that conservatives will be there to challenge her each and every move. so last night as she spoke to a packed auditorium at the university of buffalo, mrs. clinton was met with heckling, benghazi, benghazi, you let them die. the gentleman shout...

Republicans, jon stewart. >> glitches. >> glitches. >> glitches. >> snafu. >> the bugs, the kinks. >> whatever you want to call it. >> glitches. apparently the healthcare.gov website has 99 problems but a glitch is all of them. >> but the mounting media criticism is no laughing matter. on msnbc which usually supports president obama, there have been accusations that the administration is withholding information, even lying and comparisons to war and natural disasters. >> just like on katrina whe...

The white house owe the country a apology for this problem? >> why not delay them? you will charge them a fine for not enrolling. >> were three weeks into a six-month enrollment period. jon: howard kurtz, host of media buzz on sundays on fox news channel. what do you think about it? is there a change in tone, howard? >> there is dramatic change in tone, jon. you saw it at the white house briefing with jay carney. you see it in the newspaper headlines. "washington post" this morning say the whole...

Raised money. >> i dont think they were the inty -- instigators. >> couldnt it be said that the media profited from this with a lot of the cable ratings up? >> absolutely. listening to the news radio, they had countdown to breakdown or whatever and it is endless. we talk about the politicians going crisis to crisis, the media goes crisis to crisis and the ratings go up. >> and thed advertisers are happy. >> let me play a couple of interviews by news anchors, not professional commentators. one is...

Federal workers out of work and caused problems for tourists and the business who depend on them. >> president obama weighed in with a swipe 59 his loudest defactors. >> all of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyist and blogers and the talking heads on radio and the professional activists who profit from conflict. >> was the coverage unfair to the g.o.p.? rush limbaugh says it was a debacle. >> the republicans have done everything they can to try to make everyone like them. what they have done...

Crazy is the new normal in washington. this is a news magazine. >> with ed, for one thing, i think its a real take one to know one moment. but, look, i think this is a given on the right. we go into these situations knowing that it is -- were less allowed to be loud as ted cruise is in the senate. why is he talking so much they get so up in arms? you are going to be called crazy, you are going to be called racist quicker. conservatives know when they speak up that they are going to get these kin...

Online and raised money -- >> no, no time. i dont think they -- and bill clinton. >> i dont think they were the instigators. >> let me move you off of politics. couldnt it be said that the media profited from this snipt became a deadline and cable ratings were up. >> absolutely. i mean, it was -- even on radio, you listen to the news radio station, they had, you know, countdown to break yoen or whatever it was. it was endless. and i think it does. we talk about the politics going crisis to crisi...

Think it is necessary let incorrect. brian williams goes a little far for a newscaster in my opinion. >> he probably should not have said the republicans started it. >> the media pretending as it is negotiating is unprecedented or shutting down the government is unprecedented, it has been shut down under a unifyied government but it is unprecedented that the government acts like no one negotiates. >> what about president obama saying the politicians should stop listening to bloggers and radio ta...

About economics and health care, but about culture. a persistent theme of conservative intellectuals and commentators in print and on fox news is the cultural decay of the country. but compared with almost any period in u.s. history, we live in bourgeois times in a culture that values family, religion, work, and above all private business. young people today aspire to become mark buckzuckerberg. they read the twitter feed of big gates. even after the worst recession since the great depression, t...

At the end of his 1961 speech that launched his political career, ronald reagan said -- >> if you dont do this and i dont do it, one of these days you and i will spend sunset years telling our children and our childrens children what it was once like in america when men were free. >> but the menace reagan was warning about, medicare, was enacted. its provided security to the elderly. there have been problems regarding cost but thats hardly the same thing as killing freedom. after all, the right ...