and why hasn't msnbc taken any action against this guy? >>> plus, television all over the latest aggressive george zimmerman for brandishing a gun. are the media attempting to retry the trayvon martin case? i'm howard kurtz thaand this is "media buzz." >>> and we'll get to the u.s. nuclear deal with iran in a few moments. meanwhile, you know the drill. send me a tweet about the show. @howardkurt. we'll read some at the end of the hour. it's hardly shocking liz cheney running for a senate seat in wyoming is opposed to same-sex marriage. it's also a fact that her sister is gay. >> your sister, mary, who is married to a woman, put out this post. she said, for the record, i love my sister. you. but she is dead wrong on the issue of marriage. >> yeah. listen, i love mary very much. i love her family very much. this is just an issue on which we disagree. >> that interview brought a stinging retort on facebook for mary cheney who wrote there isn't a lot of gray here. you think all families should be treated equally or you don't. liz's pgs so to t

the actor had just launched a weekly talk show for msnbc which has suspended him. i did not intend to hurt anyone with my choice of words. but clearly, i have and for that i am deeply sorry. words are important. a woman that repeatedly stalked baldwin was sentenced. yesterday baldwin took to the pages of huffington denying using the slur and said he's not sure his cable show is ever coming back. >> he's just his own worst enemy. when he does these things. remember when he said that his daughter was a rude and thoughtless pig. >> she was 11. >> she was just a kid. right. i think that -- zebras don't change its stripes. msnbc knew that and they took the risk going in and this is what happened. >> you can't be shocked when this kind of thing happens. i think msnbc made the right decision to suspend him. >>> that's it for this edition of "media buzz." glad could you join us. we will continue the conversation on twitter. check out our facebook stage give us a like at our homepage. we are back here next sunday morning. 11:00 eastern with the latest buzz. >> it is monday

it's not msnbc, it's nbc news. they own it. they run it. okay? they allow it. go. >> first of all, let me give you breaking news. i'm told that sarah palin has cancelled a scheduled christmas interview with matt lauer of the shod show. he today show he is going to go up to wasilla. nbc has not taken action on this matter. secondly, i think a lot of people on nbc probably agree with bashir that she is a idiot and dunst too adjectives he threw at her. alec baldwin has a show you may not have heard about this got involved with an altercation with the paparazzi, used anti-gay slur, nbc was very quick to suspend him for a couple of weeks. >> if they are knocking baldwin off the air and he didn't each do it on his program he did it because the paparazzi are torturing him, all right, why aren't they doing it to bashir? why aren't they sending a message like we don't want to do this anymore? we have been doing it 17 years and it hasn't worked. sto. why don't they do it? >> its inexplicable by the way off the cuff remark something said on live television that they regre

here in new york is msnbc political analyst, joan walsh, editor at large for asalon. and in washington, msnbc contributor, jonathan capehart, opinion writer for "the washington post." minority leader, mitch mcconnell, says this is nothing but a power grab to advance the president's regulatory agenda. he also said, this was an attempt to move attention away from the affordable care act. is it either of those? >> no, it's neither of those. that's preposterous. harry reid has been talking about doing this for much of this year. i truly believe that it was not until this week that he had the votes to do it. you had a lot of reluctant senate democrats who didn't want to change the rules. who remembered coming to this agreement in 2005 and wanted to stick with it. but over time, they became really convinced that this is a republican party that's lawless, that's not playing. by any rules known to man. >> and do you think it was the judicial appointments that broke the camel's back, not even the chuck hagel nomination, but it was actually not a personality or a policy, it was

hence -- msnbc just issued a statement saying, quote, this is a mutual parting. richard johnson who broke the news says baldwin was fired for a combination of his anti-gay slurs and his behavior toward co-workers. a source says baldwin pissed off staffers by demanding a make up room being used by a woman with cancer who had a sensitivity to hairspray. and when he was told it was impossible he allegedly screamed "i don't give an f" if she has cancer or not. i want that f-ing make up room. i edited myself. so not like him. you know who else does president like cameras? >> finally. >> sherrod was baldwin fired or was it a mutual decision? >> even if he was fired or he left, msnbc, he made off. >> we have only done two shows. he is probably getting paid for 12. >> one more than rob ford. he is a winner. >> and it was two weeks which surpassed chevy chase. >> he is going through a lot. the paparazzi and the hot daughter i am stalking. >> that's his wife. >> jesse, when you are working and ringing up t-shirt sales do you notice a lot of customers are talking about this

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. >> joining me now, host of msnbc's "up with steve" on the weekends and msnbc analyst, eugene robinson. i thought the president answered major garret's question very well. i thought it made perfect sense but i'm not the test audience. how do you think that sounded to voters out there, who just aren't quite sure what's happening this week? >> i don't think ended up not being accurate was possibly the best phrase he could have used. but actually, i think it probably came off pretty well to average voters. everybody loves a good mea culpa. i think he was officially contrite. at the same time, sufficiently resolute in saying i'm not going to turn my back on 40 million americans who don't have health care insurance. we're going to move this forward, fix it. right now we're going to fix this one problem and maybe there will be other problems we need to fix. we certainly need to get the website fixed but we're going to move ahead with it. i think people will be more receptive than not to that sort of measure. >> steve, i think i may be too steeped in legislative language and the difference be

. >> i don't spend much time on msnbc. >> a lot of people think when msnbc has done by doing left is set out to copy fox news, only on the other side. >> they are not making any money. i mean, they are not doing very well. their audience is going -- is very low. so i don't know. they can do what they want over there. look, the only thing that i don't want is personal attacks designed to injure. if i see that over there, i will dip in a little bit. chris matthews saying why doesn't he write a book "killing o'reilly." he is just kidding around. i'm not going to make a big deal about that. they do what they do. we do what we do. who wins? >> you measure everything by numbers. fox news is on top. >> that's right. bottom feeders want to feed down there, that's fine. it is not even close. it is not even close. like the denver broncos and the jacksonville jaguars, that is how far apart it is. >> your view that most of the mainstream media lean left. was that forged in part by the years you spent at sxrbs acbs a? >> absolutely. >> working reporters saying nomar, "new york times" editorial pa

do like msnbc and democracy now. the style section of "the washington post" takes a look behind the chore -- behind a journalist behind the benghazi story. here is the headline -- the apology for the story was on sunday. [video clip] we and the broadcast with a correction on a story we reported about the attack on the compound in benghazi. in this story, a security officer working for the state department told us he went to the compound during the attack and detailed his role that tonight. after our report air, questions arose about whether his account incident report surfaced. it'll a different story about what he did the night of the attack. he denied having anything to do with that incident report and insisted the story he told us was not only accurate, it was the same story he told the fbi when they interviewed him. night, when we discovered the account he gave the fbi was different than what he told us, we realized we had been misled. it was a mistake to include him in our report. for that, we are very sorry. mo

sarah palin responding for the first time now to the nasty comments made by msnbc. they called her an idiot among other things, a vile form of punishment. he apologized, but she accuses the liberal media for condoning these remarks. here she is on "fox news sunday." speaker that is the executive hypocrisy so prevalent in the media elite bubble where it depends on the target of the vile rant, it does not depend on what the rent itself actually is. conservative women are a target of them. bill: lets analyze that. how are you, good morning. >> good morning, bill. bill: it was an interesting interview. she hits on four different things. executive hypocrisy, the elite media bubble, depends on the target, and conservative women. what did you think of her comments? speaker you can't argue with sarah palin saying there is some sort of double standard going on at msnbc because all you have to do is look at the comments about the altercation with a photographer for the antigay slur, msnbc bounced him for a couple of weeks, not clear if he is coming back. he did a lot more tha

he might see the errors of his ways, grow up and go to msnbc. [laughter] he could go to harvard law school. and another one always look for this in all kinds of crime statistics where they'll combine things that are very unalike to create a completely false impression be many your head. so, for example, every six seconds -- and usually the numbers, they'll change every time you hear it, it's every three seconds, every four seconds, every six minutes -- a woman is murdered by her husband, intimate partner -- [laughter] boyfriend. could we separate out husbands? because i'm thinking a lot of husbands aren't killing their wives, and, of course, they aren't. that's some tiny little percentage. and it's like, you know, every six seconds someone is killed by, in a car accident or by a cute little puppy. [laughter] well, how many are the cute little puppies, and how many are the car accidents? [laughter] every six seconds a woman is raped, spoken harshly to, asked to speak more quietly -- [laughter] you'll always notice the string of things where they'

see him on msnbc. you never do. there's a reason for this. >> he has to be angry about that. one more thing about palin. >> quickly. >> the super pac is not -- i did respond. sarah palin has not. i think you see maturation on her part. she used to just jump right in and thin skinned and if she responds personally, that gets the story more and more legs. >> i think sarah palin is used to people beating up on her fairly and unfairly. beyond the pale and i know he apologized. it was a long apology and it seem to be full throated but is that good enough to cross the line to this extent? >> really quick, may not have been written by martin bashir. according to joe scarborough saying i don't think he wrote that. you know what happened happen? >> yeah. next time on the set, caution -- i'll be gone. >> vacation now instead of next woke. >> good to see you. >>> more than a million people kicked off the insurance plans found out tonight the president's so-called fix won't do anything for them. [ male announcer a

what msnbc decides to do is completely up to them. let's reflect back that in 2008, david shuster was guest hosting for msnbc, and he made a remark that was offhand and distasteful about hillary clinton and her daughter, chelsea clinton. he was put on suspension and eventually after acrimony, left the network. >> i would like to pushback just a bit and note that glenn beck accused president obama of being a racist. later reconsidered his words. apologized. people moved on. shouldn't martin bashir get the same sort of consideration? >> i don't think the remarks compare. i can't speak for glenn beck. you can make your decision about what you think about the president's racial outlook. what martin bashir did was cast himself in the role of an 18th century slave owner who suggested that sarah palin be treated to what we agree is vicious, vulgar punishment. >> erik, you said his apology should be enough and went to a book signing by chris matthews and asked him to comment on it. he wouldn't talk about it. if that apology isn't coupled with

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with us onset we have msnbc and "time" magazine senior political analyst mark halperin. how is it going? >> good morning. >> double down. >> and national affairs editor msnb chris political analyst john heileman. they're co-authors of "double down." we're going to begin on a somber note. the absolute devastation from a super typhoon in the philippines. overnight the first u.s. relief flight loaded with water and generators arrived in one of the harder hit areas. marines and sailors are also helping with the search and rescue operations. up to 10,000 people are feared dead in one province alone after one of the strongest storms on record.

sarah palin, cnn and msnbc. it all started about two weeks ago. sarah palin compared the national debt to slavery. >> obviously you don't literally mean it's like slavery which cost millions of people their lives and there was rape and torture. you're using it as a metaphor, but don't you ever worry that using that kind of language you risk obscuring the point you're trying to make? >> there is another definition of slavery and that is being beholden to some kind of master that is not of your choosing. yes, the national debt will be like slavery when the note comes due. >> after that statement, msnbc's martin beshear told his very few viewers that perhaps someone should assault governor palin in a gross way. beshear has since apologized but has not been suspended. then a few days later, cnn's chris cuomo said this. >> if you know what slavery is, this should happen to you. then he spent the last minute telling the terrible things that happened to slaves. do you think he was trying to be vicious to sarah palin? >> yes, of course. >> you don't think

stay with msnbc for all of the latest news as it develops. but for now, thank you so much for watching. coming up right now, "the ed show" with ed schultz. >>> good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show." let's get to work. >> your buddy ed schultz over there, eddie schultz is back and frothing at the mouth. >> certainly, you're punching up, in my opinion. ♪ >> this knucklehead, this idiot. >> so sean hannity goes to name-calling on big eddy. >> the suck-up and head of the you know what award. >> the special edition of sean hannity, george w. bush's ranch in crawford, texas. >> the suck and head

he is also an msnbc analyst. msnbc analyst. david axelrod, former senior adviser to president obama. steve, what is your read of the virginia outcome? everybody thought it was a blowout. would be called. and that was not the case. had it not been for the decision to pick the nominee at a convention, if republicans had an inclusive process, let voters determine it. it almost certainly would have resulted in a nominee who would have been the governor elect of virginia as we sit here at this hour. and -- the bottom line is -- the wrong message will be received by the tea party in the sense that, it will once again be a conspiracy on the part of the establishment, where they have been screwed and wronged and, it's not the fact that this was a person fundamentally out of step idea logically in a state that republicans could win. i do thing it is true that -- when you look at the depth of terry mcauliffe's difficulties. his flaws as a candidate. and you look at the spending patterns. had there been an investment of money. cuccinelli

joining me to talk about it, former atf special agent in charge and msnbc analyst jim cavanaugh. hey, jim, good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> the former lapd head bill bratton has been clear about what he thinks should change immediately. let me play what he says. >> the quickest and best way to go would be more police presence at those baggage screening areas. >> and in fact the union representing tsa screeners says the shooting does show a need for armed security officers at every single checkpoint at airports. what's your take on what happened and what it should tell us about airport security? >> well, we have to review it. administrator pistole said he's going to review the procedures and all the airport police chiefs across the country have a great association and i know they'll be looking at it. here's the issue. there's two missions here. the tsa's mission is safe travel, to secure the aircraft and the passengers so there's no bombs, guns, you're not hurt when traveling. the airport police mission is to secure the terminal.

. >>> also, alec baldwin goes ballistic after getting canned from msnbc. and is kanye west the dumbest man in america? you'll want to hear what the rapper has to say about president bush and president obama. >>> but first, the biggest travel day in america. tens of millions of people are heading home to see the family. how's the weather and how are the airports? for an update we're going to go right to rick in the fox extreme weather center. >> not the best, but it could be worse, i guess. areas across the new york city area delaling with delays. if your flight was delayed earlier on, that ripple effect has big account kbas for a lot of people. philadelphia, you had a delay earlier today of about two hours. that's down a little bit at about an hour and a half. for the most part, at least down across the south, the front is through. take a look at this, though. tonight temperatures plummet. we're talking about temps into the low 20s across parts of the deep south, mid-20s from

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here in new york is msnbc contributor joy reid who is the managing editor of thegrio.com and also my stand in, and in washington msnbc political analyst david corn of "mother jo jones" magazine. >> a republican wins a 22-point election in a blue state and conservatives act like a baby seal, he needs to be clubbed for their coats. what's happened? >> i think it's clear chris christie cannotgate rig get rig he asks to see the president's birth certificate. he got that obama on him. oh, my god, he touched him. the thing about chris christie is he is a master of self-marketing. he spent $25 million to do gauzy commercials about how awesome he was after sandy. and he spent another $25 million to make sure that cory booker wasn't even in the state when he did his re-election. that's really great for padding your margin of victory and making the really desperate republican establishment feel like you might be the guy to save them from the tea party. so up to now he's done everything right in terms of getting establishment support. the problem is the base of the republican party is really si

you're watching msnbc. we're also following another developing story this afternoon. iran right now, six world nations plus iran are working on a diplomatic deal to freeze that country's nuclear program. where do those talks stand right now? we're live in geneva. >>> also ahead, big league bullies, the new conversation happening all over this country. what happens when adults bully? >>> plus, treating our wounded warriors. on this veterans day weekend, a look at new advances being made to help our injured veterans on the homefront. >>> and the citypak project. more than half of americans don't have a place to live or places to keep their stuff. but that's changing in today's "big idea". >>> we start with the developing news out of the philippines where typhoon haiyan has killed at least 1,000 people so far. the country's president says he expects that number to climb substantially.

both are msnbc contributors. jonathan, it's not every day you hear a president say i'm sorry. evaluate the weight of that apology and its effectiveness. >> i mean, it was something the president felt he needed to say for that narrow sliver of americans who are in the individual insurance market in terms of the overall insurance market. those are folks, you know, who felt a little betrayed by the president's assurances that said they'd be a i believe to keep their plans if they liked their plans, but it also speaks of a president who probably feels weary that this big thing they, the affordable care act, has

but up next, rand paul blames msnbc's rachel maddow as he responds to allegations of >>> msnbc's rachel maddow had a contentious interview with rand paul and she's bl been at it again accusing the senator of lifting lines from a movie no one has heard of. >> in the not too distance future, engistics is common and that line appears almost verbatim in the wikipedia entry. >> paul dismissed that and a second allegation involving wikipedia as a technical matter, criticized maddow and he let loose on abc's "this week." >> do you concede at least this is pretty sloppy? >> the footnote police have been dogging me for the last week. i will admit that. and i will admit sometimes we haven't footnoted things properly. i take it as an insult and say people cannot call me dishonest, misleading or misrepresenting. i have never intentionally done so. if dueling were illegal, but i think i'm being targeted by hacks and haters. >> but then another issue, the website washington times reporting that some of the language had been verbatim lifted from "the week" magazine. mandatory sentencing began in respo

every week day on msnbc. i want to ask you about the battle over the affordable care act, the name of the republican game seems to divide and obstruct when it comes to this. in no uncertain term, gop maps out waves of attacks over health care. the house gop's obama care playbook and the republicans plan 2014 around obama care chaos. republican national committee chair reince priebus taunting democrats over their plans to run on obama care in 2014, priebus taking aim at the vulnerable dems whose party leaders have vowed that they would stand tall on obama care during midterm elections. take a listen. >> we will make 2014 about obama care, and yes, we will tattoo obama care on each of their foreheads and that will be what 2014 is all about. they want it to be about obama care, but we'll make it about obama care. >> effective strategy? >> there's something new here and there's something old here and it's sort of like those "fast and furious" movies, like where people are, like, are they going to make another one

with alec baldwin and msnbc, this was probably inevitable. imagine being the person -- here's the pitch from alec baldwin. he wants to host a friday night talk show. you know he's got a long history of offensive remarks and random incidents that tmz loves to feast on. well, you probably knew this was going to happen. in this case, he was yelling at a photographer, allegedly using anti-gay slurs. msnbc took the show away for a little while. it's clear now it's not coming back at all. they've decided to go their separate way. >> to be clear, do we know, was he fired or did he quit? >> that's the initial rumor. the word fired came out a couple hours ago. that was from "the "the new york post,"" the same publication that's bathed in in bad news about baldwin for years. other reporters are saying it seems more like alec baldwin didn't want to do it anymore. msnbc sure didn't want him to do it, so they went their separate ways. i think he probably quit, but if he hadn't quit, he probably was going to feel the shove sooner rather than later. >> in t

both are msnbc political analysts. i want each of you to answer a simple question. did the president deny or admit right there in that answer to chuck todd that there was a poll taken and focus groups delivered and organized to find out whether it would be a good idea to dump biden and bring in hillary. was the answer yes or no from the president there? >> well, i'll jump in and say yes, the president admitted that in a very oblique and round about way. he said he doesn't delve into polls. that doesn't mean he doesn't read them. he said if they had come and asked me shall we get rid of joe biden i would have said no. that doesn't mean that they weren't percolating the idea around. and i also love the 2 million employees excuse. i mean, that was pretty funny. i got to say. and, you know, the fact is he did talk to joe biden about it. they had it out. i think they genuinely like each

msnbc's adam soris has succin succinctly summarized the opinion. quote, corporations have religious beliefs too, my friends. so what happens if conservatives successfully expand the definition of corporate person hood? >> it's a very bad thing for american women. corporations are people, women, not so much. that's the take-away. today. you know, this -- this is bad news for women, but ultimately, it's going to be bad news for republicans, because they are, as you said, make sure the culture war is not over. and these are the issues that are driving women out to vote. >> now, just as a bit of an aside, on this issue of the filibustering of the president's nominee, when we went through this, when the nation went through this earlier in the spring or summer, a deal was worked out. >> right. >> in the senate to allow a whole bunch of the president's held-up nominees to go through. now folks are actually talking about the so-called nuclear option again to get this court nominee through and some other folks through. do you think that that is something th

he's been let go apparently a mutual decision, most people believe it was more msnbc's end than his. so his show's gone off for a few weeks over these alleged homophobic rant at a paparazzi. alec baldwin's record on things like gay rights and support of gay marriage and so forth, the guy is not homophobic. he lost his temper with the paparazzi and said stupid things, he contests some of it. how will hollywood react to this? the love alec baldwin but this hits a sore nerve with people. >> i think hollywood is very familiar with alec baldwin's outburst. i think this is just another bump in the road for him with that community. whether the wider public will feel that way is to be determined. >> does it damage him in the long run or is it just alec being alec do you think? >> i think it damages him, certainly in the short run, i think the question is obviously has these political aspirations. what will that do for those down the line? >> you made an interesting point i thought which was that martin bashir, a fellow briton air at msnbc got into hot water over a comment he made attacking s

she appears on msnbc to campaign against the marriage amendment. >> jon: oh, my god she appears on msnbc that's basically the gay bath house of cable news. [laughter] that makes what she said on the network gay squared. [laughter] but that was a chance for liz cheney to have a defining moment to stand up not only for her sister but for equality. >> i do believe it's an issue that has to be left up to the states. i do believe in the traditional definition of marriage. >> jon: you know remember when dick cheney retired and we were worried there wouldn't be a cheney on television saying all of things -- awful things? there lives another. but the cheney's are not alone in facing a bit of fuss these days. >> hallmark's new holiday sweater ornament uses a lyric from deck the halls don we now our fun apparel. they used the word fun to replace the word gay. >> jon: first of all how many people were sitting around that (bleep) table? second of all this is happening so much like when congress changed the name of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on japan so the anola fun less offensive

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