a few seconds. it's true what they say. form followed funky. here is a less sexy shot of casey and zach leaving the central park police precinct after being charged with public lewdness. zach who is making a name for himself shooting nudes in public all over new york city says, lewd, who me? >> it's not pornography. it's a pose. it's a study on the human form. >> ah, yes. the old "it's art" defense. his attorney added this. >> the museum is full of nude art, nude sculptures. i mean, to call this obscenity is ridiculous. >> he's got a point. apparently you can see this at the met and this and this, but not this. i guess when it comes to art, people see what they want to see. >> that was excellent, kent. i have a cocktail moment for you. remember your story about bob dylan doing a christmas album?

>> of course. >> here comes bob dylan, no way whammy number two. >> i am talking to a couple of car companies about possibly being the voice of their system. i think it would be good if you are looking for directions and you hear my voice saying up the mike, take a left at the next street, now a right. you know what? just go straight. i probably shouldn't do it because that's just the way i would go. i always end up in one place, on lonely avenue. >> was that you impersonating him or was that him on the bbc? >> no, no. if bob dylan told me to go someplace, that is exactly where i would go. "countdown with keith olbermann" starts right now. thank you. good night. 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-obsessed. 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 is a newly-elected congresswoman from kansas. >> republicans are struggling right now to find the great white 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 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 waited for hours to pay their

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 been 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, that's exactly what he did. hugged everyone, pet the dogs and recalling his oldest brother joe, the pilot who had been shot down in world war ii, he counselled the families of 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 hyannisport today 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 that had been important to the senator, including the kirch where his mother had been baptized and a park dedicated in her honor. nathaniel hall where they struck the historic bell 47 times, once for each year kennedy served as senator for massachusetts. and for decades and the library, dedicated to his brother'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 brothers, all whose lives had been cut short. the first whom he lost 65 years ago. and friend of 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 it got really, really bad. vicki kennedy told joe biden, you can hear we are right under the flight path from logan

airport. 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 littlest 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 groups. they are 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 them 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 hyannisport. 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 baptized and then had the funeral mass. he was so close to his mother and she 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 years, not as long as we would have wanted or they would have wanted, but not as written in "time" magazine today, did not become mythic because of his death but it was really his life that 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 written that letter to massachusetts governor patrick and state law makers, asking to have the state law changed to allow for a 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 changed 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. if the law is 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 democrats control beacon hill and democrats control washington, does that mean senator kennedy's wish is granted to have this succession law changed again and to have an interim senator appointed? >> well, it's not automatic, but i think it's going to happen. 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 governor. a person who clearly is not going to want to run for the

unexpired, full unexpired term in that special election, which will still take 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 senate. that's why harry reid, the democratic leader in the united states senate has been calling for this, and 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. she was interested in running if john kerry had won the presidency in 2004. she is 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 1962, that's been a kennedy seat since 1952. is there any indication anybody in that family wants it or would pursue it or are they getting out of the way of the heavier hitters among massachusetts democrats? >> well, here everybody's now being silent. everybody's willing to talk about this interim caretaker thing we were just discussing. nobody 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.

here's what i've been told off the record. basically joe kennedy ii would have first dibs if he wanted to try it. he was a member of the house for about ten years. he's been involved in energy policy and so forth. if 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 stephen lynch, and probably the most experienced or the most formidable would be representative ed markey, a big-time committee chairman in the house who has stayed wyeth 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 irony of the delicateness people are approaching this, given it was senator kennedy that brought the subject up

about who would replace him, it's another sign of respect. it's completely understandable. >> he would be in it up to his eyeballs in speculation as well. >> one of the sources or the frenzy. howard fineman of "newsweek" and msnbc, 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 shi 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 served on that senator mccain says none of those amendments 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 who sought to unseed the first black heavyweight boxing champ. you're watching "countdown" on msnbc. on health care reform, derailing the debate with myths and scare tactics. desperately trying to stop you from discovering that reform won't force you to give up your current coverage. you'll still be able to choose your doctor and insurance plan. tell congress not to let myths get in the way of fixing what's broken with health care. learn the facts at healthactionnow.org.

ted kennedy was born just eight years after the first 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 stepson kerwin and shriver have been joined by alma hart in standing vigil as 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. senator john mccain bemoans the lack of real negotiations for health care unlike the kind of negotiations he says he used to have with senator kennedy, the idea being that the senator's death might be a catalyst suggested by vice president joe

biden and senator mccain was asked about the 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 voted on its health care reform package in july that included 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 he is clearly against the public option, which echoing the n nonsequtur points of iowa, would deprive the 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. this suggestion that he negotiated with senator kennedy in the past on other issues, he would 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. in 1994, i was in the room when he told the president that he believes the strategy should be a democrat's only strategy and 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 effect.

>> 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 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 with plenty of republican amendments, 160 in this case, but no republican votes. it would seem a fairly easy equation to determine the 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 at 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 cross-references 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. this nun does not need a ruler.

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hope," and she can name three of them. watch out representative baughman, up you've got 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 to a spokesman, we're pretty sure it's going to stop. dateline washington number two, steele trap steve inskeep, michael steele 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

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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. jeffries 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 suddenly 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 we've got a bright young star in eric cantor, our whip and his deputy whip -- kevin mccarthy from california is a bright young man. >> congresswoman jenkins from hiawatha, kansas, talking about the next leaders of her party. cantor, mccarthy, ryan, brownback 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 within the party."

the congresswoman herself said i was unaware of any connotation. in i offended anybody, obviously, i apologize. the old conditional apology. it's your fall if you are 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 probinance 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 at what i've seen. are we going backwards or forwards now? at 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 relieved she wasn't named one of

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sarah palin stood up another group which thought had a speak eck commitment from her. and mark sanford twitched from e-mail to snail mail. we found out how wrong the congressman was when he found out the audience thought was satirical. you're watching "countdown" on msnbc.

sarah palin stands up another group that believes in her. believed. that's next. and the worst person goes to billo the clown tuesday night on msnbc. someone said that people that 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

fixed news migrated over to serving propaganda, tin hatters, spann conspiracy theorists paranoiaias, racists, is not a news organization. mr. o'reilly is upset and has a right to be. tinfoil hatters, paranoias and racists. i'd like to apologize. i left out loons. fox noise is only in the business now serving propaganda tin foil hatters, conspiracy theorists, racists and loons. oh, and pinheads people who watch fox news thinking this news is it. conspiracy, loons and pinheads. our runner up, so are many of the hosts like beck here with a two-fer. about the advertiser protest after he called the president a racist with a deep-seated i had rest of white people, they are now up to 46 advertisers who bailed out. take my job and wealth, that's okay, even if the powers to be right now succeed in making me 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. when you put yourself up there, you can never drive in the last nail yourself. part two, if you watch msnbc i contend you will see the future because they are laying the groundwork for a horrible event that will -- what they are laying the ground for -- anything from the right there -- some awful event and i fear this government so much framework already prepared they will seize the power overnight before anybody can give it 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 meeting, bert said. videotape finally surfaced. >> i have been known to say things fishy. i have been known to even attend takeparty.com 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 partier. the congressman herger, still thinks he should have been in the asked to throw the term around, he's blaming the obama administration.

herringer's office administered another memo, with 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 therefore, he is a great american. the congressman doesn't at all regret commending him for expressing his free speech rights and a concern liberals in washington are taking our country. except, no liberal called him unamerican. that was a 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 right wing militias might attempt to indoctrinate veterans just back from afghanistan or iraq. mr. stead clearly is not just back from afghanistan or iraq. mr. stead can be excused for not

knowing any of this or choosing not knowing any of it. 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, he is fomenting violence, and if he will not speak out in favor of law and order in this country, he should resign his seat. wally herger. congressman, california second district. "countdown's" worst person in the world. taking its rightful place in a long line of amazing performance machines. this is the new e-coupe. this is mercedes-benz.

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call or click today. 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

doing dog sled train. and trying to stay relevant, 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 advertisers to 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. monday night he asked us to invite one friend to watch. 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 speaker for weeks, organizers of an alaska-family council event were left scrambling after 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 you later. sanford fired back with his own letter. to escape the glare of television cameras and reporters 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 escaped 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 fans of mine in the first place. for future governors, just because folks might be frenzied up or frightened and other things in the general assembly, it does not mean it is the right time to fold camp. >> comedian christian finnegan. >> huzzah, good sir. >> 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 old tent? except employees much wash

hands. >> that and the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. i've done research, keith. the current poet laureate of south carolina is marjorie heath 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 intercontinental booty calls and it would be appropriate because he is just 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. the governor held another press conference today just 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 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. feels very awkward and uncomfortable. yo