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Drug use last week. tell that to dr. drew who is on cnn every night and then did bill maher friday night, talking about addiction. drug use was in all of the coverage last week, except mine. ill explain why to bill oreilly, later. and next, robert reich joins me with some inconvenient truths that you will not be hearing on the presidential campaign trail. ok, guys-- whats next ?

Newspaper column was, "the media has no bleeping clue how to cover the death of whitney houston." every sentence after that refers to drugs and alcohol. and the oreilly essay ends with this instruction to the media. "once a person enters the hell of addiction, there is no easy way out. and thats how the whitney houston story should be covered, as a cautionary tale. another life vanquished by substance abuse." thats not the way ive been covering it, but it is, in fact, the way the rest of the med...

Gayle collins of "the new york times" joins me. and robert reich will guide us to the truth. and in the rewrite tonight, i was going to respond to what politifact said about me, but rachel just did a much better job than i could ever do. weve got a few minutes, so lets see if i can come up with something else. and later, why bill oreilly is wrong about the media coverage of the death of whitney houston. oreilly really hated my coverage of whitney houston last week. and hes going to hate wh...

Coverage of whitney houstons drug use last week. tell that to dr. drew who is on cnn every night and then did bill maher friday night, talking about addiction. drug use was in all of the coverage last week, except mine. ill explain why to bill oreilly, later. and next, robert reich joins me with some inconvenient truths that you will not be hearing on the presidential campaign trail oh! [ baby crying ] ♪ what started as a whisper ♪ every day, millions of people choose to do the right thing...

Last week talking about addiction in the whitney coverage and im glad he did that. but i was in no mood for it. and i know im not the only one. i was in the mood for a wake, not for lecturing. i knew, contrary to oreillys imagined media coverage of whitneys tragic end that everybody else would be with talking about addiction. i knew i didnt have to and i didnt feel like it. when one of miss best friends from st. brennans elementary school drank himself to death while still in his 30s, we had a h...

>> robert reich, thank you very much for joining me tonight. everybody should read your piece, "manufacturing illusions." thank you very much. >> thanks very much, lawrence. next in the "rewrite," now that politifact is checking the accuracy of msnbc tv ads, i actually saw one today, on msnbc, the that just cries out for the politifact treatment. and later, bill oreilly is very angry at the media for the way we covered whitney houstons death last week. he says no one was talking about drug a...