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0 couple of weeks now, but seems to have slowed down. are the media basically trying to keep it alive? last week i defended the coverage saying this is a popular governor, he s the chairman of the governor s association. but this week, there was one subpoena that was issued and yet chris matthews, as recently as thursday, led with chris christie. and that is a problem. as we were talking about, what else could we be covering, like west virginia? what are we missing? why aren t we delving into other issues? even like nicole wallace says her network and others are propping up dawn zimmer who made the charges of political paybacking involving hurricane sandy aid. is there something to that? barbara has more hits than she got votes. if you re a new jersey mayor right now, you can make up just about anything and msnbc will put you up there. injury saying make up. are you insinuating that what they are saying is not true? i wonder if we ll be talking about christie coverage next week. but here you have a former governor, bob mcdonnell and his wife got a lot of coverage, for about 36 hours for people who haven t been following this, he and his wife got lavish gifts and substantial loans from a businessman in the state who is seeking state favors. why in the months and months that the washington post has been reporting these details has it not gotten much national attention? i don t know. because it is a great story. it is juicy. he went with her to new york, to louis vuitton, to oscar did he larenta, did lavish shopping sprees with her. she had a big hand in trying to get an inauguration gown out of him. this is maureen mcdone al? right. this is an e-mail that she wroe wrote to her staff. i need to talk to you about inaugural clothing budget. i need answers and bob is screaming about the thousands i am charging up in credit card debt. we have broke. we have an inconsciousble amount in credit card debt already and this is killing us. i need answers, i need help and i need to get this done. this is the wife of governor talking to her staff who had said that the gown that she wanted, they could not ask the businessman for. i hope you don t talk to your husband that way. i make him take me to louis vuitton. if you have that much money i mean, i thought republicans were supposed to be fiscal conservatives. much better with the state s finances. mp mcdonnell is on the dull said compared to christie. and he s not running for vp or around mid summer, this started coming out. he said i didn t do anything illegal, but i m returning the gifts. let me get to wendy davis. she has gotten a lot of attention recently. here is something that maria shriver did on the today show a couple weeks ago before a story. raising questions about wendy davis background. let s take a look. davis grew up poor and at the age of 18 found herself pregnant and married. by 19, she was getting divorced and living in a mobile home park. so jim garrity, now the dallas morning news reports there were certain discrepancies that she admitted to, that she lived in the trailer park a few months, that she was divorced at 21 is, not 19, and the fact that when she went to harvard law, her then husband paid for it. wendy davis comes back and attacks the newspaper and says false attacks which i m sure what part of it is false? you ve got to find out the fact yuls discrepancy. i won t give her too much grief about the line my opponents haven t walked in my shoes because her opponent is a parapleg paraplegic. let s assume she didn t mean to call attention to that. but it was a good investigative reporting? you re going to get secretmy of that biography. john kerry can tell you that. what is good investigative reporting? they didn t break any news as far as i m concerned. i think the discrepancy about the age all had been previously reported as far as i know. the only thing that was not previously reported was the anonymous content from a city council member who flagged her. it was ain accordance anonymous content. she admitted she has not used the right language has been overtaken. i think so. and the thing is, a lot of people who are in her position running for governor right now don t come from. she did come from a poor family. she was a single parent. she did get into tcu, which is a pretty good school on an academic scholarship. people who get into harvard law because they re pretty, you know? i mean but the bulk of the story is true. the critics are unloading on wendy davis. well, it s a campaign. what do you expect critics to do? this is how the see what the media can get to write about your opponent. i m stunned to have sharp elbows and unfair attacks in texas politics. we ll let you recover during the break. send me a tweet during the show. @howardkurtz. when we come back, did president obama play the race card in his new yorker interview? and later, why did the media lose it over justin bieber s arrest?