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Trophy, a paper decided to ruin the celebration by digging. you homophobic tweets when he was 14 and 15 years old. but he was a teenager. this was way out of bounds. a mean spirited case of gotcha journalism. this is exactly why people hate the media. big celebration, the biggest day of his life. it gets picked up everywhere. it made me ill. i'm howard kurtz. hopefully you will check out my podcast. we kick around the day's most of interesting reports. you can subscribe at apple itunes or google play or tune in at foxnewspodcasts.com. everything is moving to the net,

Sensibilities, if you will. >> your critics said this was gotcha journalism. >> you know, it's interesting. i think even republicans thought all the questions i asked were exceedingly fair, and so i think it was after it sort of set in and governor palin knew that she had not performed well that that became sort of the typical trope, that gfs gotcha questions. even senator mccain, when i sat down with him for a joint interview praised the interview i had done with governor palin. he had a very different campaign style and obviously hers diverged from his. he would calm down people who said ina...

But it's a good question for sasha barron cohen. just gotcha journalism -- >> the thing you might see on john oliver and it would fall into this category of satire/political commentary. because of the disguise element of this it becomes a little bit trickier. nobody interviews with john oliver not knowing they're being interviewed by john oliver. >> even though you may not know the person who is interviewing you and you may have gotten duped into it, these people, those are their words. he is exposing their views. >> it is interesting. >> sopan, thank you for joining us. "the new york times" c...

I don't think it's funny. and i don't think it's funny when you have project veritas and james o'keefe on the right creating false sting operations. >> dana: i agree with you on that. >> juan: but when you have them doing it, trump gave 10,000 bucks to project veritas. when they do this to planned parenthood or the right wing says this is great, we are going after the mainstream media. when in fact these guys are the fraud. >> greg: i want to respond to that. this is new for conservatism. o'keefe is deeply flawed but this is new. the left has been doing this for years. you are really good at i...

He said it was gotcha journalism. but the problem with that is, govern governor they got you. where they get you, that's not a good thing for you. you know, it's interesting. i'm not sure, i don't know how much of a parallel you can draw with trump because as steve said, chris christie has been a substantial politician, like him or not, agree with him or not, he can read a policy paper. i have heard him speak with sophistication and compassion on at least one issue on opioid addiction, for example. you know, so he's got more substance than donald trump i think has ever had. >> and steve, to th...