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Republican folklore has its kind that president obama says americans are lazy and they will say it as long as the media allows them to. >> the republicans have proven adept at myth making. this is the party that put the -- out there that president obama wasn't born in the united states. with the lazy thing, they are trying to say that president obama is anti-business, something they have long sought to cement in the minds. and fundamentally outside of the united states and anti-american. he doesn't understand what goes on here and is not representative of our democracy and our needs and can't ...

Trip was all that important to him at the time. quote, he never said anything about if it. he never discussed it. this whole my political career started in france on vacation at the age of 15. that's part of newt gingrich's myth-making? building himself up into an important guy by the book. he told other orthopedic engine myths about himself where he ended up in politics reluctantly after abandoning his dream to be a zoologist. that's what he tells when he's photographed near adorable animals or when he was trying to sell himself as an environmentalist. do you remember when he was an environme...

They had to take care of dropping the body off in the arabian sea. so i do think that's understandable. but i do think we, the media, should hold this white house to account, especially at a sensitive, historic moment like this. we have to do our jobs and recognize that, yes, these are politicians, they do want to put themselves in the most favorable possible light, and during times of war that can mean creating some sort of myth making. and i'm not saying that exactly happened here. i do think there are obviously issues here and trying to sort of transmit what happened across the world. but i...

I mean, the media along with everybody else played into this myth making that completely was anathetical to who your son was, but also what happened to him. >> i won't disagree with that. we tried to get quite a few of the major media organizations involved in it. basically spoon fed this stuff to a lot of people, and we got -- we call them fluff pieces. we got -- it's a cold, blustery day stuff. and they refused to address the points we wanted to address. the primary one being there was a homicide investigation that was falsified. >> not only falsified, but for months and months and months, i...

The record is being set straight in a devastating new documentary called "the tillman family, will be released in theaters around the country. i talked with pat tillman, sr. in the big 360 interview. i would like to start by apologizing, after watching this documentary, and reviewing the media coverage of your son's death and the aftermath of it, i feel like every member of the media should apologize for the role this the media played and basically supporting the bush administration and the military's cover-up. i mean, the media along with everybody else played into this myth making that compl...