political mediocrity. they said we could do better. despite human frailties they called us to a higher and, yes, nobler cause. >> all three men, wherever they may live, are citizens of berlin, all free men, and therefore as a free man i take pride in the word ich bin ein -- >> everyone here will ultimately be judged, will ultimately judge himself on the efforts he has contributed to building a new world society. >> it is the glory and the greatness of our tradition to speak for those who have no voice, to remember those who are forgotten. >> reporter: the four kennedy brothers all died in the service of our country. joe in world war ii, jack as president, bobby fighting to end a war and teddy fighting for

national health care. we'll remember them by how they made politics, government and our national life itself so much grander, so much more exciting, more vital. yes, they were tough, and yes, they made a difference and for the longest time, they took our breath away. >> ask not what your country can do for you. ask what can you do for your country. >> for msnbc i'm chris matthews. thanks for watching. which of these stories will

you be talking about tomorrow? another kennedy, another memorial. another weekend of sadness mixed with warm remembrance as the senior senator from massachusetts travels through his beloved state for a final time. and momentum builds to get his state and his party an interim successor, perhaps one with a very familiar name to democrats or one with a very familiar to the tabloid. in ted kennedy's memory, a cool in the temperature of the health care debate the rule on both sides. there have been moments of utter tastelessness. like this morning. >> there's been no real negotiations. that's not the kind of negotiations that i did with senator kennedy on a number of issues. >> and even worse. lynn jenkins, as newly elected congresswoman from kansas. >> -- to find the great wide hope. >> the spokeswoman apologized for the word chase saying there may be some misunderstanding

when they talked about the great white hope. since the phrase great white hope was coined during the search for a white boxer to take the heavyweight crown back from jack johnson in 1910, there really isn't a lot to misunderstand here. worse -- the california congressman and the clown who thinks this was satire. oh, there's tape of this now. >> i'm a proud right wing terrorist. >> amen, god bless you. there's a great american. >> turns out the guy's also a birther, still congressman herger defends him. congress ma you maybe you should introduce this paranoid to congresswoman great white hope over here? all that and more now on "countdown." >> amen, god bless you. tonight at the jfk library in boston, the crowds having wait ford hours to pay there respects to edward m. kennedy,

the man they sent to the senate nine times who served them in that capacity for nearly five decades. good evening from new york. one year ago this month undergoing a chemotherapy treatment senator kennedy read in the newspaper about two servicemen from the same small town in massachusetts who had brn killed in iraq and afghanistan respectively. we are going down there, he said to pay a call on the families. when treatment had ended despite it just ended, sthats exactly what he did. hugged everyone, pet the dogs and recalling joe, the pilot shot down in world war ii, he counseled the families on getting through their grief. the first year is the hardest. the first birthdays, holidays, the pain will never go away but it will be easier to bear. our fifth story in the countdown, the kennedys of hyannis port had the senior senator of massachusetts to pay a call on them. the day beginning with a private mass for the family after which an honor guard carried the coffin of senator kennedy to the hearse. the casket traveling the 72

miles from the cape to boston. the motorcade, 85 members of the kennedy family winding around city landmarks important it senate including the church where his mother had been baptized and the park dedicated in her honor. the city's mayor rang a historic bell 47 times once for each year kennedy served at senator for massachusetts. and for decades and the library, dedicated to the brothers's presidency. ahead of senator kennedy's arrival, one man taking off the boston red sox cap from his own head telling a reporter that "it just seemed appropriate to leave a cap in honor of teddy's favorite team. the funeral mass will take place saturday at our lady of perpetual help basilica in boston, buried in arlington national cemetery outside washington near the graves of his brothers. senator kennedy having told friends recently he was looking

forward to a reunion with his seven late siblings especially his three brother, all lives cut short. he lost the first one 65 yearation. and friend ever the senator's telling the "new york times" when he gets there he were say die it, i carried the torch. i carried it all the way. lots to talk about tonight with our own andrea mitchell in boston. thanks for being with us. good evening, andrea. >> reporter: you bet, my pleasure. it's an extraordinary moment here at the kennedy library. >> is it probable base and how quickly that moment has been reached and how precisely that the senator had a hand in planning the events we are now seeing unfold? >> reporter: oh, i think so. they had plenty of time, plenty of warning. up until the last week and days he was really active. he was reading materials. then. got really, really bad. vicki kennedy told joe biden, you could hear, right under the flight path for logan airport, as she said to the vice president, he was ready to go.

the family, though, i have to tell you, this has been so beautifully organized, and the fact that they would come out and walk this line. we saw caroline kennedy exchanging you know, thoughts and thanks and prayers with people along the line. bobby kennedy jr., all them, down to the little left grandchild and great nephew and great niece, are thanking people along this line as thousands have lined up waiting to go in. you don't see a big crowd behind me, because they come up in group, sorted up in groups to go inside. and when i was here at the opening of this great library, and memorial for jack kennedy when we had jackie kennedy onassis and john jr. and caroline and, of course, teddy, and now all but caroline are gone. >> certainly the sadness is not absent from the family, but there seems to be an intent, as you implied there, to make it a real celebration of the senator's life.

is that also part of his planning for this? was that, are those his final marching orders to him about what to do in this situation in public? >> reporter: i think so, and i think that they so understand him that, you know, vicki kennedy, who really is the love of his life, knew that he wanted to be in hyannis port. he wanted to be sailing, he wanted to be with his dogs and children and grandchildren in these final weeks and final days. so she organized, really, the care and then when the care was clearly not going to change the outcome, the final days that were really more of a hospice situation, frankly. but he was where he wanted to be when he finally went. but, you know, there will be a lot of sentimental moments. you pointed out the landmarks and passing saint stephens where his mother rose was baptize and had the funeral mass. so close to his mother and shep was such an extraordinary influence on him. this has been overwhelming in

the public celebration of a life, the only kennedy brother who lived a full life of 77 year, not as long as we would have wanted or they would have wanted, but as was written in "time" magazine today did not om nipic because of his life, defined him. in talking to some of the nephews and the children and grandchildren, the kennedy family members that i've known here, siblings, this is very, very painful, for jean smith and ethel kennedy. jean, the last surviving member of that original family. this is a period of mourning. they are grieving deeply. >> andrea mitchell in boston who has answered all of our questions and anticipated so many more. great thanks for that, and for this insight into this extraordinary day. talk to you over the weekend. thanks. >> reporter: you bet. before senator kennedy's death everyone loathed to raise the prospect of filling the senator's seat after he was

gone. perhaps that's why senator kennedy was the one who broke the ice raising the question of succession himself. the senator having writ than letter to massachusetts governor patrick and state lawmakers asking to have be state law changed to allow for quick and temporary replacement upon his death until a special election could be held. the letter written last month, revealed last week days before his death. in the wake of his passing the matter taking on more urgency, of course, if the law was not changed, already changeed by democrats to avoid the prospect of a then republican governor getting to pick a successor to john kerry had kerry beaten president bush in 2004. in the law's not changed again the seat will remain unfilled until january at the earliest. governor patrick addressing the succession this morning. >> i think that the senator's made a very, a very reasonable request. i support the idea of a special election, provided for in our current law and the senator did as well. having said that, i have to say that our first thoughts today are on the life and the

extraordinary achievements of the senator. >> to that subject that governor patrick sort of side-stepped there and our own correspondent for "newsweek" magazine. howard, good evening. >> hi, keith. >> first, the question of when succession will happen. if democrat control beacon little and washington, does that mean senator kennedy the wish will have the law changed again and van interim senator appointed? >> not automatic but it's going to happen i think. talking to friends of mine in boston and sources in boston, they're not always the same, by the way, my sense of it is that the house speaker in boston in the state legislature is going to go along with this, and i think the president pro tem of the senate and deval patrick is for it. that mean there's will be a caretaker appointed by the govern a person who clearly is not going to want to run for the

unexpired, full unexpired term in that special election, which will still pake place in january. the idea would be to get a second senator in there as a caretaker and place holder and more important, a second voice for massachusetts and very important to base and more important than that, a 60th democratic vote in the snoot. why harry reid, the democratic leader in the united states senate has been calling for this, i think patrick and the democratic leaders will be able to get it done. >> so that would be the reason that the republicans might stand down on opposition on the understanding this would not be a five-month jump-start on the special election for whoever got appointed? does that -- and does that mean, then, it's more likely -- less likely to be the prosecutor from the infamous nanny case, martha coakley and more somebody like governor dukakis? >> yes, absolutely. if it were to be the attorney general coakley who wants to run, interested in running if john kerry won the presidency in 2004.

very ambitious. that would scotch the deal right there. it would have to be somebody like mike dukakis, talked about a lot. certain historic justice from a democratic state to have a former democratic standard bearer take that job and mike dukakis policy is up on the issues, would be perfect for the job. that's the kind of person that would have to say i'm not in it to run in five months. >> other than ben smith who was considered to be the place holder until ted kennedy got old enough to run for the seat in 1960, that's been a kennedy seat since 1952. any indication anybody in that family wants it or would pursue it and are they getting out of the way ever the heavier hitters among massachusetts democrats? >> well, here everybody's now being silent. everybody's willing to talk about this intertrim caretaker thing we were just discussing. no up there that i talked to today wants to talk about the unmentionable, which is who is going to run? ted kennedy not been buried yet.

nobody wants to talk about it. i've been told this off the record. basically joe kennedy ii would have first dibs if he wanted to try it. was a member of the house ten years involved in energy policy and so forth. it he were to say i wanted to try to do it, it would be very difficult for anybody else, whether it's martha coakley or any member of congress, to get in the way of joe kennedy, if he were to say had wanted it. that said, there are lots of other very, very worthy possibilities up there. there are other members of congress. including michael kapuano and probably the most experienced and formidable, ed markey, a big time committee chairman in the house, has statewide name recognition. if he wanted to get it, it would be formidable, but nobody wants to run against a kennedy if a kennedy wants to run in massachusetts. >> the delicacy of this, given it was senator kennedy that brought the subject up, who

would replace him, it's another sign of respect and completely understandable. >> he would be in it up to his eyeballs in speculation as well. >> one of the sources or the frenzy. howard, as always, great thanks. >> thank you, keith. remarkably one of the most vociferous corner cutting anti-reform astroturf groups has suspended its advertisements about health care at least in part out of respect for senator kennedy's passing. not that one of his fellow senators managed such a level of respect today, and yet he will in turn get lost in two tsunami-like videotapes where the stupid just keeps watching over you. that california congressman calling the self-described proud right wing terrorist a great american. turns out all that was on tape and then the kansas representative who now says her party is, this is a direct quote, struggling right now to find the great white hope. why don't you just get a hood?

the committees served on, senator mccain says noun none were "significant." he says that now, now that senator kennedy is dead. later, video surfaces of a california congressman's moment of truth when the constituent declares himself a proud right wing terrorist. more video of the kansas congresswoman invoking the battle cry of the racists of a century ago too to unseat the first black heavyweight boxing champ. you're watching "countdown" on msnbc. every day, transitions lenses are there to help care for my sight. announcer: transitions lenses adjust to changing light to reduce glare and help protect your eyes from uv damage so you can see better today... and tomorrow. live your vision. transitions. healthy sight in every light. show us how you live your vision and you could win $10,000, plus transitions will donate $10,000 to the charity of your choice. enter at transitions.com.

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radio coverage of a national party nominating presidential convention. that would have been in 1924. he was born in 1932. his death is greeted by a twitter feed from his family, and we were notified that the senator steps and joined by alma hart in standing vigil at the senator in repose at the library as you see live there from boston. there will be many who invoke senator kennedy's name particularly when it comes to health care if only they, each and every one of them, were required to displace intellectual honesty about it. mccain bemoans unlike the kind of negotiations he says he used to have with senator kennedy's idea that the senator's death might a be a catalyst suggested by vice president joe biden and senator mccain asked that that possibility on the "today" show. >> well, you'd have to changed

way that the things have been done, and that is the fact that there's been no real negotiations. there have been a bill before the committee which i said the health committee was done by democrats and no amendments were agreed to have any significance and so that's not the kind of negotiations that i did with senator kennedy on a number of issues so -- >> are you willing to reach across the aisle, senator, are you willing to reach across the aisle on this issue as in the past senator kennedy worked with you and former president bush on education and immigration reform? >> i'm more than willing to. there's been no opportunity to do so. >> point of fact, the senate health committee vote and its health care reform package in july including 160 republican amendments. 160 of them. but no republicans on that committee including mccain voted for the bill. so when mr. mccain says no amendments were agreed to have any significance his must be the thinking of kind, significant

amendments that would gut the bill of any real meaning since she clearly against the public optioning owing the non-sequitur points of iowa, "would deprive people of choice." turn now to a post contributor lawrence o'donnell. good evening. >> good to be here. >> we touched on this earlier in the week but we've got to revisit it since senator mccain insists on doing so. the suggest suggestion that because he negotiated with senator kennedy in the past on other issues whoa have been able and willing to do so on health care. dissect that for us. >> well, there is a history here that we went through this before, in 1993 and 1994, and senator mccain did not negotiate with senator kennedy on health care at any point. and the same thing with orrin hatch making similar sounds these days. orrin hatch is a member of the kennedy committee both during the clinton crusade in '94 and today, and neither one of them

have seriously negotiated with chairman kennedy on any of these things. now, they've certainly done business on other subjects. that's true. but absolutely never on health care reform. never. and senator kennedy, by the way, is not an easy compromiser on health care reform. 's in 1994, i was in the room when he told the president that he believed the strategy should be a democrat's only strategy and that we should not be trying to reach out and get republican votes. so the kennedy strategy as enunciated the last time we went through this is exactly what you've been hearing from a lot of these sharper critics on the left in the congress this year. >> and the actions of republicans thus far in this debate also suggests mirroring that perfectly, that whatever senator kennedy might have been willing to compromise on, if there was indeed anything in this bill he would have been, it would never have been enough for those whose purpose is to dilute the bill beyond recognition or having any affect? >> absolutely.

the mccain position is essentially sure, if we got amendments in there to remove all the things ted kennedy wanted then we would have voted for the final product. that's really what this is about. no republican on that committee has ever voted for a ted kennedy health care reform bill. none of them vote voted for it this time. they did get amendments accepted, not the amendments, they weren't enough to make any of them vote for it. >> another pet peeve of anybody paying attention to this, the bills which get out of committee, is 160 in this case, no republican votes it would seem a fairly easy equation to determine democrats are the suckers in this deal. was this pointed out to them by senator kennedy or was it at such a distance he chose not to do that? >> well, this is where, what senator mccain is saying is more true than you might imagine. meaning these 160 amendments are largely technical. they are written by expert republican health care staff members who are very good at

this. and what they have found are small things that they want to put technical refinements on. the democrats look that. chairman chris dodd in this case, looks at that and thinks that's perfectly reasonable. that might make this a little better. this subject is so massive, these bills are so massive, that getting some controversy referencontroversy -- kross referen crossreferences is very helpful. that's what those amendments were for the most part, and the committee had the wisdom say, yeah, that's a perfectly good adjustment, let's do that. but chris dodd and ted kennedy never once considered compromising any of the central aspects of this bill in order to pick up a single republican vote on that committee. >> lawrence o'donnell of the "huffington post" msnbc, as always on this subject in particular, thanks for your insight. >> thank you. hey, sister mary elephant. uh-oh! we can't say that.

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the amount of ash spun into the air, temperatures dropped by 1.2 degrees. the eruption so changed the landscape when they made a movie about it in 1969, it was called crackatoea. let's play "oddball." >> ain't making that up either. we begin in china, for two years, this woman lived the life of a buddhist nun, making keeping her day job, kung fu master, a bit difficult. her hair gives her special powers. like the ability to cut paper in half. but in order to be officially recognized by fellow nuns, she needs to shave her head, forbidding her three-foot braid good-bye, she decides one last trick. to pull eight cars with her hair. attached with connecting rope and she managed to yank all of them about 100 feet. the ceremony to shave her head -- i don't know if they

just didn't wait for it to pull off. and no barbers injured duringed procedure jshs to london, the nights lonely for the female gorilla at the zoo. without a male companion. had the zookeeper bring back gorilla porn. the pinups, future male companion who currently revise at a zoo in france oo-la-la, a french gorilla, meant to whet the appetite of the ladies get them acquainted. love at first sight. evidently not. love at first bite. all three of the lady apes greeted him by chewing on it, the picture. while the eldest of the bunch is not quite warming up to the idea of having a man around the habitat, zookeepers are confident she'll find his accent irresistible. so the rookie congresswoman from kansas said republicans are looking for a "great white hope "and she can name three of them. watch out representative bachman, you have competition.

and our favorite car wreck governors making news. insisting he will not resign. the story's is ahead. first time, the best persons in the world, dateline new york, the "wall street journal," columnist mark penn that mark penn, wrote about camping companies. then his p.r. firm started to drum up business from the companies penn had just written about. despite a conflict of interest bordering a bunko game, not firing him. according ta a spokesman, we're pretty sure it's going to stop. dateline washington number two, steel trap stephens mpr, michael steel wasn't completely anti-regulation. there are issues in the insurance market, he said, we can regulate a little better. boing! wait a minute. wait, wait. >> you would trust the government to look into that? >> no. i'm talking about the -- talking about -- >> citizens of -- >> talking about something that should be looked into.

>> i'm talking about -- well who regulates the insurance market? the government. >> wait a minute. hold on. you know, you're doing a wonderful dance here trying to be cute. >> there. runs rings around you logically. number one best taste, anti-reform astroturf group conservatives for patients rights run by an ex-hospital honcho suspended its pub lisly carpet bombing "with the sad news of senator kennedy's passing, suspending our ad campaign for health care reform out of respect to the kennedy family as well at the senators, colleagues and supporters too whom we extend our condolences." yeah. they save the money they can spend bet are later. even if it is just expedient good taste, at least it's good taste. welcome to the now network. right now five coworkers are working from the road using a mifi-- a mobile hotspot that provides up to five shared wi-fi connections. two are downloading the final final revised final presentation. - one just got an email. - woman: what?! hmph.

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few are the elected republicans left who do not self-identify as birthers or

deathers or tp-ers or beckers. sarah palin endorsing a comedian who calls the president a racist. a new category still small. freudian slippers. our third story in the countdown, the phrase was coined when prejudice against black people was still the law of the land, in 1909, in 1910, when whites here and other countries sought somebody, anybody, to take back the heavyweight boxing title from the african-american jack johnson. the phrase was the great white hope. a 1969 play and movie base and johnson's life was even titled that. there is no ambiguity about what this meant. the man, the bigots of 1910, finally found retired champ james j. jefferies said i'm going into this fight for the sole purpose of proving a white man is get better than a negro. funny a congresswoman should sundayly use the phrase seven months into the first term of an african-american president and then play dumb afterwards. freudian slip? >> -- to find the great white

hope, and i suggest to any of you that are concerned about that, there are great young republican minds in washington. and of course the ones i'm most familiar with are on the house side -- and woov got a bright young star in eric cantor, our whip and his deputy whip -- >> congresswoman jenkins from hiawatha, kansas, talking about the next leaders of her party. stanley and the last three -- sorry. a spokeswoman said "the congresswoman wanted to apologize for her word choice, and to emphasize she had no intention of expressing herself in an offensive manner. there may be misunderstanding when she talked about the great white hope. what she meant, they have a bright future, they're bright lights with the party." the congresswoman herself said i

was unaware of any connotation. in i offended anybody, obviously, i awe apologize. it's your fault if you're offended that an active politician in 2009 should use the most demeaning of racist phrases vintage 1909. joining me now, congresswoman maxine waters. thanks for your time tonight. >> welcome, welcome. delighted to be back. >> let me start at the end rather than the beginning. say this congresswoman really didn't know what that phrase meant, really had never heard of jack johnson. what kind of apology would be appropriate? if i offended anybody ones, is that good enough right now? >> well, she has attempted to take back her words and to apologize, and like you said, it was probably a freudian slip, but you know, one of the things we can't do is, we can't let them distract from what we are all about, and what we're trying to accomplish. we are trying to keep the focus

on comprehensive universal health care reform, and they're going all over the place. they're desperate. they don't have leadership. they don't really know what to do, and so i think we're going to continue to see a lot of crazy things happening. like all of the outrage that is being demonstrated at these town hall meetings. like the kind of statements that congresswoman jenkins made, and we've got to let them define themselves. let them reveal who they are. the american public needs to see that. >> this is -- the context of the town halls is -- is really critical to this i think, because obviously. >> yes. >> the probe nance of this phrase, and it's not just that and it's not just that we're seven months into the term of the first african-american president, but also these town halls have not just been witches kitchens of racist sentiment but an attempt to thinly veil them in basically excuses that permit racist thoughts to be expressed

and acted upon as if there were not going to be any consequences. shouldn't there be some consequence to this congresswoman, other than being -- being exposed as somebody who either doesn't care that are she sounds racist or doesn't know what this very famous phrase really actually means? >> well, let me just say this. as you know, the president and the white house are very, very careful not to let arguments and disagreements disintegrate and to raise this confrontation. and so what we are going to do is, we are going to attempt to allow her to defend her remarks in any way that she wants to, but the truth will come out. they will define themselves. they can't help it, and i think what we should do is sit back and watch them so that the american people can see what we're really up against, and i think the president would like it that way. he would not like to engage them

in the discussion about their racist remarks. that's not the way he handles things. >> do you think politically we're going backwards on this issue? because there's so many things in the last seven months that have made me as a white guy ashamed, absolutely ashamed, a what i've seen. are we going backwards or forwards now? >> well, i'm concerned. i'm concerned about some of what i see and some of what i hear, and i hop that they don't trigger a response from people who want to, you know, get at them and show them that they can't get away with that kind of discussion, that kind of talk. so i'm concerned. i'm very much concerned about it. >> nice to hear your counsel, calm and let them talk their way out of this if they can. a lot of us, i don't think, are as calm as you are. representative maxine waters of california, always a pleasure. thanks for your time and coming in. >> you're so welcome. thank you. you wonder if sarah palin is

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sarah palin stands up another group that believes in her. believed. that's next. and the worst person goes tuesday night on msnbc, someone said that people watch fox news are paranoid and racists. that should tell you everything you need to know about the entire nbc situation. pinhead does not even begin to cover it. that would have been me. i said that. that quoted exactly since the news migrated over to serving

propaganda, spawn spearsy theorists pair noise and racists is not a news organization. mr. o'reilly is upset and has a right to be. tinfoil hatters, pair noise and racists. ryde like to apologize. i left out loons. fox noise is only in the business now serving propaganda to racist and loons. oh, and pinheads 7 people who watch fox news thinking this news in it. conspira conspiracy, loons and pinheads. our run you areup, so are many of the hosts like beck here way two-fer. after he called the president a racist way deep-seated hatred of white people, 46 advertisers bailed out. take my job and wealth, that's okay, even if the powers to be right now succeed in make meeg poor, just a worthless loser, which i'm just about that much right now. i will only be stronger for it.

hey, glenn, there's great wisdom in that tasteless joke. you put yourself in there you can never drive in the last nail yourself. part two, if you watch msnbc i portend you will see the future. lying the groundwork for a horrible -- anything from the right there -- some awful event and i fear this government so much framework already prepared they will seize power overnight before anybody eve be give it is a second thought. this administration has a comfortable majority in both houses and still hasn't been able to show the ability to seize health care. when you say stuff like that you don't just sound crazy, you sound really poorly informed and crazy. that horrible awful event from the right has already happened. it's called "the glenn beck show." our winner again, wally herger of the second district of california still defending his actions and those of that guy at

his town hameeting, bert said. videotape finally surfaced. >> i have been known to say things fishy. i have been known to even attend tea party dotcom protests. and i want to say that i'm a proud right wing terrorist. i didn't come prepared with a lot of notes tonight. i left them actually at home when i was looking for -- while i was looking for my birth certificate. >> amen, god bless you. there's a great american. >> well, now we know mr. stead is a birther, too, and a tea partying. the congressman, herger, still thinks he should have been in the asked to throw the term around, he's blaming the obama administration. nobody's name attached this time. mr. bert stead is a taxpayer and

veteran like so many others is rightfully fed up with being called un-american, extremist or a political terrorist by liberals in washington for simply exercising his first amendment rights. mr. stead served his country and there is a great american. congress doesn't have any regret him standing up expressing free speech and a concern liberals in washington are taking our country. except, no liberal called him un-american nap was lie. it was a misquoting the speaker of the house designed to give people like stead an excuse too get out his don't tread on me paranoia and no liberal called him an extremist or political terrorist. that was a report from the department of homeland security. commissioned when george bush was still president, noting evidence the ring wing militias might attempt indoctrinate vet trens just back from afghanistan or iraq. mr. stead can be excused for not knowing this or choosing not to

know. he's been spoon fed this crap from the right for seven months at least. if congressman herger doesn't know this or is choosing not to know it he is violating his constitutional responsibilities, if he will not speak out in favor of law and order in this country, he should resign his seat. wally herg congressman, california second, california's worst person in the world. i'm racing cross country in this small sidecar, but i've still got room for the internet.

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mark sanford has run out of new catch phrases to introduce. no more hiking the old appalachian trail. now he's falling back on the oldie but baddie about being railroaded. the invitation you sent sarah palin to speak at your event must have got lost on the

dogsled chain. trying to stay in office, despite everyone and another trying to stay relevant in spite of herself. first up, alaska blogger sarah palin weighing in on the color of changes call for advertise toers boycott glenn beck. beck's latest attacks on the group's co-founder white house adviser van jones. 46 different advertisers, fox news glenn beck is doing an extraordinary job, behind the scenes of 1600 pennsylvania avenue finding out who is running the white house. i invite all my friends to watch. that's one. right? it's martians. martians is actually running the white house! meanwhile, after promoting palin as the star speak e for weeks, organizer of doctor-organizers of an alaska advertising account left scrambling learning the governor would be a no-show. palin spokeswoman claiming this is the first we ever heard of a speech. this, the saga of the governor of south carolina continues with

as lieutenant governor saying, resign now or the legislature will impeach. in the midst of a media frenzy would not be far from some form of heaven on earth. my dad taught me a long time ago two wrongs don't make a right. nor are in his case do 37 wrongs make a right. naturally, sanford es sdaped the glare of the tv cameras by holding a news conference. >> i'm not going to be railroaded out of this office by political opponents or folks that were never friends of mine in the first place. >> for future governors just because folks might be frenzied up or frightened and other things of the general assembly does mean is-it-is the right time to fold camp. >> comedian christian finnegan. >> good evening. >> governor sanford brought us sparking, remember that from e-mails, inspired hiking the old appalachian trail. is he out of new phrases, can he railroad and fold the omd tent?

except employees much wash hands. >> that ends the roof, the roof, the roof son fire. the poets lauer yaut is named marjorie heat wentworth. i'm sure doing a bang up job. the role, step aside and let the governor move in. he can build a state for the booty calms and it would be appropriate. he would just be working on material. >> this letter writing campaign between sanford and the lieutenant governor, the idea of correspondence has been, you have to give governor sanford credit. correspondence has been reborn thanks to this man. is there something wrong with e-mail? he couldn't rely on the -- oh, forgot. sorry. >> yes. governor sanford is strictly quill and parchment. he has to be careful. last year he actually stuffed the wrong letter in the wrong envelope and a week later had the state comptroller saying,

governor what did you mean, you ache for me? >> shhh! if he kept his quill just on the parchment none of this would have happened. >> i see. >> that was a pun. i'm an amateur doing what i can in the company of professionals. another press conference to make sure we all heard him about not being in the public glare. should he ask friend governor palin ho to use facebook so the rest of us can go about our day and check in on him when we feel like it rather than when he feels like it? >> caught for using e-mail for the wrong reasons and can't seem to understand this is what a cc list is for. not like he and the lieutenant governor are corresponding to each other. they're like the two guys in the bar touk talking loud because there's a table of girls sitting next to them. i don't think i need to resign. you need to resign. keep it going, dude, they're looking at him. i'm going to get in my bmw and go home now. feel the awkward and uncomfortable. >> over to