so lola, how did whoopi and joy and barbara walters and the rest do with the president? you know, it s easy to write the view off as this frivolous show that a bunch of women just sitting around chatting, but these women really took him to tass sxk they asked him some tough questions. they asked about bp. they asked about shirley sherrod. they asked about why he doesn t identify as biracial and why he only identifies as african-american and they let me stop you there. that was barbara walters question that elicited a very interesting answer. and it s the kind of question you wouldn t have heard on meet the press. exactly. i agree with you. and i think you had an interesting mix. you had everything from mel gibson to president obama talking about the stimulus package. and i do think the view provides that type of forum where the conversation has breadth and it s allowed to range. i ve got one minute left. i want to go ahead, aaron. you nailed it, howie. this is why
but wikileaks had help with this week s disclosures from three of the most prominent brands in journalism the new york times, britain s guardian, and germany s der spiegel. they coordinated in publishing what some are comparing to the pentagon papers back in the nixon years, a move that drew a sharp blast of criticism from the obama administration. mr. sange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an afghan family. that was a reference to julian asange, the head of wikileaks, my question is should newspapers have teamed up with these shadowy groups in releasing this sensitive material? i spoke earlier with bill keller, executive editor of the new york times, from his manhattan newsroom. bill keller, welcome. thank you. any hesitation, any uneasiness about working with wikileaks, which so clearly has an agenda of being opp
time for our media monitor. in the thumbs down cater for, dana perino trying to blame the obama white house for the scottish decision to release the infamous lockerbie bomber. he was let out on grounds he had terminal cancer but he s still very much alive. here s what the former bush white house spokeswoman had to say. i thought the most interesting development over the weekend was the report that the white house actually supported the release for the terrorist into scotland on compassionate grounds. they just didn t want him to go to libya. this absurd tee got started when they put up a headline white house backed release of lockerbie bomber linking to an article in the newspaper why the the australian. here s what the letter actually
in but culturally it s light years away. if you live here you lose power when it rains, as i did for five days this week. let me turn to president obama going on the view. that was an interesting decision by the white house. let s play some of, that beginning with a question from joy behar. ahmed, what is your assessment of how wikileaks okay. we ll come back with that clip. obviously, that was christiane amanpour and her pakistani guest. but let me ask you, aaron barnhart. there was this, i don t know, controversy about why should a president of the united states go on daytime television? i don t understand why it would be seen as undignified in an era when presidents go on leno and letterman and the daily show if you re a candidate. you almost wonder if it s a little bit of a double standard by gender because after all, the late-night talk show hosts are men. you know, we re in this funny setting where news and entertainment just constantly shake hands with each other
published material that drew denunciation of the white house. plus an anchor known mainly for her overseas exploits joins the sunday morning line-up. our report on christiane amanpour making her debut at abc s this week. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. it s not that the criticism is not legitimate. the media did perform badly by and large in the sacking of shirley sherrod. liberal journalists did say some awful things about conservatives on that off the record discussion group. conservative commentators did accuse the mainstream media of schilling for obama, by not getting exercised about that new black panther controversy. there are serious questions about what rolling stone s michael hastings did with general mcchrystal. but never in my professional lifetime has the media bashing been so deafening, so personal, and so much of it carried out by some pundits against other pundits. here s just a brief sample. for weeks fox news and its friends have been whippin