Image out of my head. We live in an age where we have collectively decided kkk and black face are unacceptable. You did that as a young medical student that you should not be fit to be governor of any state. Howie why was there no Media Coverage when he backed a lateterm abortion with the cable and Media Outlets totally ignoring it. The president pounces on a war of words with his own intel chiefs. President trump and his own intelligence agencies dont seem to be on the same planet. We need to stop saying donald trump is taking a different position from them and start saying the truth. Donald trump is adopting Vladimir Putins position. There is plenty of room for scepticism when it comes to the Intelligence Community and the sourcing these outlets are using to push a certain agenda when it comes to foreign policy. Howie but the president blames the controversy on fake news. Liberal pundits and a tidal wave of journalists slamming Howard Schultz. Tom brokaw facing a backlash for his onair comments about hispanics. He apologizes but the medias p. C. Police are piling on. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. The pundits were cautious at first when Big League Politics published a yearbook photo showing men in black face and a kkk outfit. The Virginia Governor apologized but much of virginias political establishment urged him to quit. Northam vowed not to resign insisting while he had not been in the black face photo as a medical student, there was another time he did just that. I had the shoes, i had a glove and i used a little bit of shoe polish to put on my cheeks. I always liked Michael Jackson. I actually won the contest because i learned how to do the moon walk. Howie joining us, emily jashinsky, and capri cafaro. And kristina partsinevelos. Christina, northam took plenty of questions. Is there a media drum beat saying its time for him to go . Its the first time you have all Media Outlets growing on something. Every single newscast this morning led with this story. There is an agreement he should step down. The fact that he reversed his story shows a lack of trust. If you want to come out and apologize for it because race is such an important issue, lets bring to the forefront and discuss it. You have all outlets sensely agreeing on this. Howie the governor is in a position of saying i didnt pose in black face. But i did as Michael Jackson. Do you want to see my moon walk . There is a conversation, i dont think its a perfect parallel with what we went threw with brett kavanaugh. Totally different thing. I think he should resign. I dont think its acceptable. But at the same time ill say if your wife has to stop you from moon walking in the middle of an apology press conference, it did not go well. The fact that he was talking about putting shoe polish under his cheeks, it was unbelievable. Howie people are saying it was 35 years ago. He doesnt have a record of racism in office. But all the 2020 campaigns, they say he should resign. In virginia, you are only one term. If he tries to ride it out, he only has two years left on his term. This is an issue thats important to democrats going into 2020 where rains diversity is playing a large part in their platform. So democrats will come out saying we want him to resign, even though its a democrat offending for lack of a better term. This is less about the Media Coverage and more about the fact this is so egregious democrats and republicans are agreeing. Often you have liberal pundits defending a democrat. As you pointed out, even President Trump going on twitter says how did the media not discover this when he ran for governor in 2017. And why did it get leaked now . I dont think we should focus too much on that. We should be focused on wouldnt we be having a different conversation now. Saying that was somebody from the past who is no longer like that. We forgive charlottesville, even President Trump during the cam rain he says my africanamericans to a supporter in the crowd. It happened before. Race has come up. But do we forgive as a society. He lied and wasnt trustworthy. Thats the conversation we should be having. Howie this was broken by a former breitbart journalist. Somebody wanted to retaliate against Ralph Northam for the abortion comments. He was doing a radio interview talking about a bill that he supported that would lift restrictions on lateterm abortions in virginia. And he came out and said this. Lets take a look. If a mother is in labor i can tell you what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable and resuscitated if thats what the mother and family desired. Then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother. Howie the first two days, nothing on nbc, abc, msnbc and one story on the cbs evening news. This is a case study that should be held up in Journalism School as how not to handle an issue. What happens so often is the media waits until conservatives reacts, then writes stories about conservatives seizing and pouncing on extreme democrat positions. That was completely inappropriate. It was really bad in this particular case. This should be studies by journalism students. Howie look at the way the lead was. It wasnt that Ralph Northam was considering this. Virginias governor responded on a bill to the relift restrictions on lateterm abortions. As a legislator. I agreed that its not a place for an abortion debate. This ways happens when you have complex laws happening at the state law or federal level. There is no question in my mind that there is a significant difference in the conservativeleaning media and Mainstream Media are covering this issue. Whether they talk about it as infanticide on the right or fake news and try to downplay it on the left. We are getting past the facts and core aspects of the bill. Howie New York Times headline, republicans seize on lateterm abortion as a 2020 issue. Washington post, ill acknowledging republican missteps they double down to pay the Ralph Northam and democrats as radicals hop favor infanticide. This will be a partisan issue no matter what. You just listed immediate lanes. You mentioned the word Mainstream Media. More and more we have to stop using that term. We are on media. There are a lot of people who watch fox. But regarding just the headlines you are mentioning right now. When it comes to abortion you will have democrats who wont want to bring it up because its too sensitive. You have republicans calling the democrats baby killers. And the democrats saying you are painting people pass antifeminists, essentially antifeminists. No matter what you will get the sound bite. Howie whether you are prolife or prochoice, a lot of people who support abortion rights would be uncomfortable with third trimester abortions. It was a 2minute clip that went viral. It wasnt edited at all. The clip that went viral was 2 minutes long. It was not edited. Northam defended his position the next day. The content of the policy is what was covered, not the reaction from left to right. When they are not coupled with serious stories on the policies in question is the problem. Howie the politics often dominates. There are only 15 who support abortion at any time during pregnancy. Why are the liberal pundits out to stop starbucks Howard Schultz from running as an independent . Ah, the old crew remember when we all used to go to the cafeteria and just chow down midday . You mean, like, lunch . Come on. Voted most likely to help people save 668 when they switch. At this school . Didnt you get caught in the laminating machine . Ha. [ sighs ] box, have a great summer. Danielle. Ooh. Danielle, control yourself. Id like to slow it down here with a special discount for a special girl. Danielle, this ones for you. With a special discount for a special girl. Unstopand its strengthenedting place, the by xfi pods,gateway. Which plug in to extend the wifi even farther, past anything that stands in its way. Well almost anything. Leave no room behind with xfi pods. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Click or visit a retail store today. Howie with a flood of airlines about President Trumps chief intel chiefs disagreeing with his stance. The intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive with it comes to the dangers of iran. Perhaps they should go back to school. When it was over trump blamed it on the media. It was taken out of context. I suggest that you call them. They said it was fake news. Howie the testimony was widely covered. Does he have a case . When he says mix quoted he doesnt have a case with. Maybe misinterpreted, i dont know. Maybe there is room between trumps position and what Joe Scarborough was talking about. That trump is wildly out of line with them. I think was more frustrated with the narrative the media created after he met with gina haspel and the Intelligence Community. Howie narrative doesnt equal fake news. These arent shadowy sources. There were cameras, there were spotlights, we have video and the transcripts. Right. So it makes it difficult for the president to blame the media. We have dialogue between the president and the chairman of the federal reserve, constantly putting the blame there if the market is going down. If you are in a power of leadership position you need to take control, not control, take the blame every once in a while when things dont go your way or when you have leaders in your organization who say north korea and isis could still be a threat, and work together. Howie coats said north korea is likely to retain all of its nuclear weapons. Howie let me play a sound bite having to do i want to get into the tribal equality of these debates. One of the president s strongest media supporters is lou dobbs. He said this after dan coats testified on the hill. What the hell is wrong with the dni . He has no political judgment. He has no sense of proportion. What in the hell is he thinking about . Howie wasnt dan coats doing his job with an honest assessment. Its not for the dn toirks have a political instinct in this. Lets remember this is not the first time President Trump and his administration have publicly disagreed. This isnt the first and probably wont be the last. But what strikes me is because the coverage was so on the record, on tape, transcripts, President Trump thinks he can say fake news, the concept of fake news has taken such hold in our debate that you can do that in juxtaposition to physically being on record is amazing to me. Howie the president made this point in the super bowl. Intelligence chiefs are not always right. But what fueled this particular media fire was the president s own tweet, passive, naive about people he appointed. Its reminiscent to some degree. Fighting the fbi, saying its doing a lousy job. Apparently differing views. He named them. Hes not taking responsibility. Lets put the blame on the media. Thats the most of concerning part. The fake news,ed the media is always wrong. We need journalists across the board to do the digging and hold people accountable. I was covering midterm elections in florida. I went to a ron desantis rally. Rudy giuliani took the stage, booed the media, everybody turned in such venom. The camera guy got spat on. The fake news concept taking hold so much, its dangerous to the institution of journalists. And the fact that the American Public totally lost trust. It was not a good month for the press. There are fair and legitimate concerns. Coming from buzzfeed. Howie its been a lousy month for the press and it can be totally negative toward this president more than i have seen. Not supporting the booing and viciousness. But you had a polite to some degree between the president and Senate RepublicanMitch Mcconnell supporting an amendment that passed the senate expressing disapproval of the quick withdrawal from syria and afghanistan. Its purely symbolic but i dont think its fake news to report on how this looks after the shutdown. Thats a split i think the president s reporters are glad would open up. Howie all right, emily jashinsky, capri cafaro and kristina partsinevelos. Tom brokaw says hes sorry for his comments. Is the media going too far. The sniping over two new books targeting trump world. The fact is, americans move more than anyone else in the world. On average, well live in eleven homes. And every time we move, things change. Apartments become houses, cars become mini vans. 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The only one to combine a safe sleep aid, plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. Im back. Aleve pm for a better am. Howie if you have a book out and its about donald trump, Chris Christies book is largely sympathetic to trump but he blames jared kushner. He says kushner bears a grudge because he once prosecuted kushners father. It was one of the most of disgusting crimes i prosecuted as a district attorney. Howie steve bannon said he hated working in the white house but he was doing the lords work. In the beginning he had a group of people like steve bannon and like omarosa. What the hell was somebody like omorosa doing in the white house. Howie the president not pleased about the people writing about him. Sit back and look around and say, gee, im in the white house and they are not. Then former communications aid. We are creating what amounts to an enemys list on people i felt were disrule to them. Howie he has tonight for Kellyanne Conway painting her as a big leaker. I think publicly yes, there is a lot of evidence she is not. You say unkind things about Kellyanne Conway that has gotten a lot of press, so you are willing to burn some bridges on your way out. I didnt look at it that way. I never heard her denigrate the president even off the record. Potus punched back. Cliff sims wrote another made up book. He pretended to be an insider when he was nothing more than a gopher. Gofer. First, the liberal media declaring war on Howard Schultz for pondering a white house run. Howie Howard Schultz may have built a fabulously successful business with starbucks, but hes hardly a household name yet. Imagine a billionaire as president . Hes getting trashed in the more liberal precincts with the press. Why not have that debate in the Democratic Party of which you were a member. I would have to be disingenuous to be a democrat. I think his entrance into the political stage has been catastrophically misjudges. These guys are billionaires and they think they can do everything. One thing he can do is hand the election to trump. More Howard Schultz, they got in their way so they have to crush him. Howie Howard Schultz is testing the water for a run. What do you make of all these liberal commentators saying how dare you run . In any other context i think they would be receptive to Howard Schultz running. Hes socially liberal, fiscally conservative. We are told thats representative of where the centrist thought process of this country ought to exist. In this year this is a situation in which the left which is overrepresented in our media nationally, feels they have the right to every empty donald trump vote. They believe he could take away 3 to 5 of the antidonald trump vote. Thats what makes him inconvenient. I think its very interesting. I dont just say that as a person who was a starbucks barista. That was my first job. I think thats ridiculous. The guy i think his positioning is really out of touch with the kind of person who could actually beat donald trump. Christian anderson has a great piece on the real way to go after donald trump is someone who is a populist when it comes to Economic Policy and traditionalist when it comes to socialist policy. Thats why i think hell have a problem being a significant candidate in the end. Howie Kamala Harris did a cnn town hall and came out for medicare for all. And jake tapper pressed her on how it would work. She said we dont need people going through insurance companies, lets eliminate that. Lets just goat rid of peoples 150 million private insurance. Once you start running as a president ial candidate, a lot of these slogans and ideas thrown out as a member of the u. S. Senate are going to be judged under new light. How feasible they actually are. In the case of medicare for all. We have seen time and again multiple states going down the road of a Single Payer Program and they can never make the math work. I think this is one of the this well see develop over the course of this campaign. A lot of people are going to roll out these idea and have a new level of evaluation they are going to live up to. Howie we talked earlier in the show about Virginia Governo