party, it's a test to the democratic party's ability to be led. ultimately what's been clarified over the last month is if this passes, it has to be done almost entirely, if not entirely with democratic votes and that leaves them nowhere to look but in the mirror. as david said, when you have all of these outside groups who are traditionally opposed before being broadly supportive of the general election, the question is whether they can find a way to come together to bridge their differences enough to govern. and that is the responsibility of the majority party, especially in a period that is as polarized as this. whatever else you think of that republican majority from 1995 to 2006, almost always they found a way to get to the majorities to advance their agenda and now this is a test where democrats in congress can come together to do the same thing. >> and might i add what's important for presidents is that they do things. that's how they get judged. you have to be able to do something he set out to do. >> we have about 15 seconds. let me ask you, he comes to the nation tomorrow night as president of the united states. in terms of the rhetoric, language, behavior, body

language, does he sound more like he did a year ago as candidate than he has as president? >> well, i think he's got to reconnect with the leadership quality that propelled him into office. he's got to get the middle of the country, the independents of the country believing in his leadership on this issue. >> david gregory, ron brownstein, thanks very much. join us tomorrow tomorrow night at 5:00 and 7:00 eastern for more "hardball." "countdown" with keith olbermann starts right now. which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? the indoctrination has begun! >> here in america, you write your own destiny. you make your own future. >> this just in -- the republican party is now opposed to you writing your own destiny, making your own future, and especially writing your own future destiny. >> i'm george, george mcfly. i'm your destiny. >> and they don't like that either!

the conservative national review calls it the finest speech of obama's presidency, the speech to school kids praised by laura bush and newt gingrich. but the deranged head of the florida gop, who had insisted obama would defend health care reform, the stimulus and socialism, is now back pedalling pastor than a unicyclist tornado chaser. >> this was never about the president speaking to children about the importance of education. it was about the white house writing lesson plans. >> 24 hours before the president's address to congress, the majority leader of the house says health care reform could pass without the public option. while the speaker of the house says -- >> i believe a public option will be essential to our passing a bill. >> glenn beck wants the truth, whether it's true or not. watchdogs, find everything you can on cass sunstein, mark lloyd and carol browner. and when others are told find everything you can on glenn beck, he goes all messianic again.

>> this game is for keeps. this is who controls the united states of america. >> yeah, we had that election already. next question. well, wait until he hears what he found out about him. the most damning, horrible truth about glenn beck revealed tonight. and sarah palin, the excuse. pull the plug on grandma grassley speaks. >> well, sarah palin said that presumably before i said it about the death boards, but i never used the word. >> plus, $25,000 to charity for dinner with sarah and todd? i should bid, right? all that and more now on "countdown." >> thanks, but no thanks. good evening from new york. despite the right's passionate attempt to stop him, today president obama pulled it off. in our fifth story on the "countdown" tonight, the president beamed his words and images directly into the

classrooms and thus the minds of america's 60 million defenseless schoolchildren. they were instantly assimilated into the board collective. i'm sorry, i meant instantly indoctrinated. i mean, i'm sorry, i meant instantly aware that wasn't spider-man talking. the speech worked so well, some grown-ups were indoctrinated, republican grown-ups even. former house speaker gingrich after reading obama's speech over a nice, refreshing glass of kool-aid said, quote, it's a good speech. i recommend it to everybody if you have any doubts. laura bush, former teacher, michelle malkin has warned us all about the teachers. quote, i think there is a place for the president of the united states to talk to schoolchildren and encourage school children. "the national review's" jim garrity -- obama's school speech is the finest of his presidency. karl rove said the president must have changed his speech from its first draft. its first draft is evil. and florida's gop chairman revealed to his evidence that the speech was changed. >> it's an upbeat speech. but is it the one the president was always going to give?

you know, the white house should not have been involved in writing lesson plans. >> so you suspect this really wasn't the speech he was going to give? >> no, because clearly last week there was a plan with the department of education. when you ask students to write a letter to the president on how we can help you with your new ideas, mr. president, that is leading the students in an effort to push the president's agenda. >> they did change the lesson plan. but you have no information that the white house actually changed the text of the speech? you don't have any inside knowledge of that? >> no, i don't. >> no, i don't. those terrible letters in which kids were supposed to write to obama and tell him they would help him by staying in school and listening to their parents. only a handful of the perceptive, like lou dobbs, saw today's speech, secretly evil speech, was still indoctrination. but it took boss limbaugh to explain why. because urging kids to take personal responsibilities for their future, to drop their excuses and seize on the opportunity of education amounts to robbing them of their right to be losers. a right mr. limbaugh will always defend.

quote, i'm not even going to allow personal responsibility in your lifestyle. you're gonna have that dictated to you, too. that's why the speech to kids today was about personal responsibility is a trick, it's a scam. we will survey specific republican complaints about the speech presently. but first some obvious examples of passages that the rabid right wing would naturally find objectionable. for in stanks president obama shapes not just individual futures but the future of the country. >> what you're learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future. you'll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learned in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and aids, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. >> curing aids, protecting the environment. brad enough to roll out that kind of liberal, progressive agenda but he wants to do it using this science stuff. obama also rejected right wing staples such as poverty and

discrimination in favor of progressive pet causes like equality and thinking. >> you'll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. >> time now to turn to msnbc political analyst howard fineman. also senior washington correspondent political columnist of "newsweek" magazine. good evening, howard. >> hi, keith. >> did you watch today? are you one of us now, mr. fineman? >> i did, and i am. and i want you to know, brother keith, that i'm going to work really hard this fall on my reporting and my analysis, and i'm not going to quit because that would not only disappoint me and my family, but this broadcast and our country. >> good. because staying in school is apparently only a democrat -- how foolish does this look now that the speech has been delivered? and this florida gop chairman who pushed the idea, oh, this is

the second speech, when confronted, what's your evidence there was another speech earlier says "i don't know." >> you're only as good as your sources, i admit. but the white house sources i have insist that the speech was not changed. yes, the lesson plans were. suzanne malveaux said on cnn, but not the speech itself. and this isn't silly. there's an undertone of fear here among certain parts of the country. you have to look at and examine closely when you see this kind of reaction. i mean, to object to the idea that the president is calling on kids to work hard in school and be proud of themselves and do the right thing is -- is crazy, and for rush limbaugh to say that it is some how unpatriotic to say that it's patriotic to stay in school doesn't make sense, especially when back in the bush administration they accused everybody of unpatriotic

activity if they so much as dared to question the president's conduct of the war, for example. >> and going back further, of course, it was the first president bush who asked kids to write to him telling him how they could help him. and mr. greer here has shown up at schools without parental permission, without making any kind of official equality to this, has given talks that have pushed his political agenda, according to "the orlando sentinel" this included jokes about hillary clinton. so how is the right's indoctrination effort going in schools today? >> well, i don't think very well, and i think it's important to distinguish between the activist right or some parts of the activist right that really have a deep-seeded fear of this president on many levels, policy, personal, geographical, you name it. and the republican party. and leaders of the republican party, people who care about the future of the party, many of whom not only backed off but never got in the fray to begin with, and once they saw the speech as you showed in the setup were pretty supportive of it.

>> what -- that was basically what he told the kids today was a very traditional, conservative speech. it touched -- the age-old complaint from the right, poverty, discrimination, personal circumstances do not excuse failure, let alone excuse bad behavior. why can't the right not rejoice when they get what they want, especially from a democratic, even a liberal, president? >> well, it's because they're hearing it from barack obama. that's the reason. this speech was a -- you know, as you quoted people saying, from the right, from the national review and elsewhere, a very wonderful speech because it focused on individualism. it focused on family responsibility. it focused on measurable benchmarks of achievement. it focused on patriotism. it focused on the future. it focused on innovation. that was a speech that any republican president that i can think of, including both bushes

and ronald reagan, would have been proud to give. and in some respects in other words did give. >> does the republican party risk harming itself by attacking what used to be, as you suggest, mainstream american events, like the president speaking to schoolchildren? never mind the message, just the venue. and if they succeed in undermining that kind of traditionally apolitical event, how do they govern in the future, if they ever manage to return to power? >> that's why i think some of them came out making supportive statements. including laura bush, including karl rove, including newt gingrich, who are three people who cared about and do care about the institutional future of the republican party. and also, by the way, are identified with a brand of sort of big government conservativism, if you will, or a values conservativism in government. don't forget, both bush presidencies tried to lay down markers on education. they cared about education. they tried to make as mark as so-called compassionate conservatives about that. this is something that george w.

was proud of down as governor of texas. so they care about this kind of thing. that's why you're hearing people who want to position the republican party again as a compassionate force in using government to foster individual responsibility. that was obama -- obama stole the message of compassionate conservativism that the bushes ran on. >> msnbc political analyst howard fineman. also of "newsweek," of course. as ever, great thanks for your time. >> thank you, keith. as promised, more in depth analysis of today's mass indoctrination of american youth. our crackdown staff pored over an endless amount of right wing warnings, it wasn't that much but felt endless to them, and correlated their complaints with the corresponding portions of mr. obama's speech. here now the results of our analysis revealing exactly what values and ideals the right wing's media outlet of choice considers so offensive. >> thank you, everybody. all right. everybody go ahead and have a seat. >> just when you think that this administration can't get any

more surreal and orwellian, here he comes to indoctrinate our children. >> every single one of you has something to offer. >> i don't want them to take children away. i don't want him to take their minds away either. >> and i'm calling on to you set your own goals for education. >> they're using these kids as political guinea pigs for hope or change. >> your goal could be something as simple as doing your homework. >> they're capturing your kids. >> maybe will you decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity. >> this is creepy. >> maybe you'll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied. >> to many parents in particular it's a little threatening. >> and you won't necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try it. that's okay. >> this is what chairman mao did, laura. >> oh, my. >> if you get a bad grade, it doesn't mean you're stupid. >> that is something you would see out of the master leader, kim jong-il. >> there is no excuse for not trying. >> they do this type of thing in north korea and the former soviet union. >> so if you get in trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker.

>> i'm afraid he's going to try to push what so many americans do not agree with onto the children. >> by the way, i hope all of you are washing your hands a lot. >> people are rightly worried. >> you might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right. >> stand guard, america. >> you might have to read something a few times before you understand it. >> your republic is under attack. >> today i want to ask all of you, what's your contribution going to be? >> did it ever occur to any of them that if obama was actually capable of indoctrination or hypnosis or say hall of fame quality salesmanship, he probably would have saved that for tomorrow's speech of health care reform to the far less s sophisticated minds of our nation's lawmakers in the joint session of congress?

the number two democrat in the house says health care reform could pass without the public option. but the number one democrat in the house said health care reform would not pass without the public option. anybody wondering why the republicans are pressing this point like this is the armageddon?

plus today he asks his listeners to pray for him. and glenn beck is wise to do so, because we have found the awfulest of awful truths about him, and we will reveal it tonight here on "countdown."

the forum could not be any bigger. the actual question is whether the president will bring the fighting spirit to match it. our fourth story on the "countdown," 24 hours before his speech to a joint session of congre congress, still no firm indication that president obama will deem the public option as essential to health care reform or will not. this as speaker nancy pelosi and the house majority leader contradicted each other on whether the public option is politically optional. the speaker and the senate

majority leader, harry reid, met with the president today, speaker pelosi saying the house is compared to combine the health care bills, all three of which include a public option. >> i believe that a public option will be essential to our passing a bill. >> but speaker pelosi also said that what happens in the legislative process is another matter. senator reid said the senate was for the public option or something like it. and he pushed the white house argument that health care bills across the house and senate agree on most provisions, 80% to 90%. >> we want a bipartisan bill. we do not want to do reconciliation unless we have no alternative. >> meanwhile, the number two democrat in the house, congressman hoyer, today said he could envision a bill without a public option, even though he has been and still claims to be a strong supporter of the public option. and a few members of the house progressive caucus who once insisted on the public option have now indicated some willingness to support a trigger. as for the president, aides leaving no doubt that he will be more forceful and quite specific in tomorrow night's address.

but will the public option get more than a one-line message? that's how much time it got yesterday when the president spoke to the afl-cio in cincinnati. time to call in our own lawrence donell, contributor to huffington post, former chief of staff to the senate finance committee. lawrence, good evening. >> good to be here, keith. >> so which is it? in the house could a bill without a public option pass per hoyer or not per pelosi? and is the white house for or against us at the moment? >> well, the white house is for a bill, keith. the president is with the public option, but he would happily sign a bill without the public option. rahm emanuel's made this clear from the start, since january, rahm emanuel has been saying publicly the most important thing is to get a bill. that's a bill with anything in it that involves the health care sector. it does not have to include the public option for the white house. that's -- that's actually been very clear from the beginning on this thing. remember, it has to pass the house twice. it has to pass the house once to get it into conference with the

bill from the senate. and then it has to pass the house again in final passage. it might go through the house with a public option the first time if nancy pelosi feels that her troops demand that. but i don't see any way it will go through final passage with the public option. i have strong doubts that the house -- that even with the first passage that nancy pelosi will insist on the public option. >> we also keep hearing that the white house has been frustrated that the public option has gotten far too much attention in its opinion in this entire debate. how did they misread this? it seems that the public option is the hinge on which forcing insurance prices down exists or does not exist. >> well, what they misread, keith, was how much uproar this would cause on the left. and they were using the old playbook, the 1994 playbook. and what you have to remember about 1994 is, there were no blogs in 1994, and for the --

for the 15-year-olds out there, i hate to tell you, but msnbc did not exist in 1994. so when we were legislating this in 1994, we did not worry about risking the wrath of the left if we were trying to move the bill towards the middle because we knew the left would have to be with us in a vote when we actually get to the senate floor and the house floor. that's the normal formula, that the democrats don't worry about left. and that is the formula that they're using this time. nancy pelosi firmly believes that when the moment comes, she can gather her caucus together, tell them that she fought harder for the public option than barack obama did, than harry reid did, than any senator did. no one fought harder for it than nancy pelosi, and she is now telling her troops they're going to have to go forward without it. that moment is going to come. >> but there's still -- there's a calculation here in the other direction that doesn't add up either. assuming no republican votes in the house.

the speaker can only afford to lose 38 democrats, 23 blue dogs said they will not vote for the bill as it now stands, there's 60 to 100 democratic members, progressives, who might vote without a public option. doesn't both sets of math fail her? >> they do, but what she believes is, and what they always believe in the democratic party, is when it comes down to the actual legislating moment, they will get those 100 liberals in the house to go along with this more centrist position. they will give up on the blue dogs, and they will simply talk to that 60 to 100 voters on the left in the house to be on board with this and be on board with this president. and it will work because it always works. >> is it going to work this time? >> i don't see how it wouldn't work. if nancy pelosi gets it to the point where the only way to get this through is without the public option, and she gathers her caucus together and she tells them that in one of those

hold hands, prayer meetings in effect. and charlie rangel, who's been very strong on this, and chairman of the ways and means committee stands up and says we've got to do it this way, because that's what chairman always do. chairmen want to get a bill in the end and they will basically hold hands and say let's do it this way. >> and what happens then on the left and perhaps in the middle and to some degree on the right when a bill passes that doesn't have a public option and thus basically forces more people to buy over-the-counter insurance from insurance companies that are not seriously regulated because there is no public option? what do we have then? protests in the streets? >> and -- and does not provide universal coverage. what's been lost in this discussion all year is that none of the bills that have come out of any of the committee provide universal coverage. so in the end what the left would have been fighting for all year that ends up being a bill

that supports and expands the business of the private insurance companies does not provide universal coverage falls short by 10, 15, possibly 20 million people. that's when we see the explosion that we would get on the internet as something we had never seen before in our politics. as i say, at these legislative junctures in the past, the internet did not exist. >> we will see what the internet can do to change the equation but i think we still have to meet at the barricades one way or another. lawrence o'donnell from msnbc and the huffington post. as always, great, thanks. >> thank you, keith. all of the times you dreamt of a politician saying, okay, let me make this easy for you. let me draw you a map. senator al franken draws us a map. look at that. and apparently the first real obama kenyan birth certificate she produced was not real. now, lori taitz has a second real obama kenyan birth certificate. there's a problem with this one. too. also, somebody stepped on it. "worst persons" ahead next on "countdown." with zyrtec-d®,

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at me from the safety of 20,000 feet and one story away, bad news are hoisting and now the dominos will fall. in the candyland world of racism dressed up as anything else, they will believe anything about the president and they will believe any rationalization, no matter how transparent, that what they're feeling is not racism. for example, death panels, presidential indoctrination of school kids only their protests prevented, and the idea fascists con communists are the same. and simpleists, too. the white house green jobs adviser van jones resigned in the middle of a storm in a tea pot over the holiday weekend. most of the storm was about jones' founding in 2005 of the group color of change, which is thus far stripped 57 advertisers from the glenn beck show. beck retaliated, never once mentioning to his audiences that his enmity to jones was not on behalf of the nation but his hiny. he unveiled it was on the earth

and calling republican holes. and they denied this. wow? how? next up, beck has tweeted to his zombies, quote, watchdogs, find everything you can on cass sunstein, mark lloyd and carol browner. do not link before burning to disc. sunstein is the harvard law school professor whose job is to run the office of information and regulatory affairs is in limbo in the senate because of republican obstructionism. ms. browner is assistant to the president for energy and climate change. this led me to dailykos.com to find everything on glenn beck, his radio producer and roger ailes and we promise we on this program would announce a dedicated e-mail address to send tips on them. on that, more in a moment. first, let's bring in the washington editor of "the nation" magazine, chris hayes. good evening, chris. >> good evening, keith. >> a former chair for the ella baker center for human rights

john ada has said what many are thinking here to quote it, it struck me why go after this guy. he's a minor player. he has no power, no budget. why take him? it's because he looks like obama. he has all of the same astra buttes of being well educated and he's an electrifying speeches with an elite education. the line of racist attacks against the president, sometimes poorly described as birthers or deathers or whatever, is that what's in play here principally? >> well, first of all, one can never read the mind of glenn beck, nor would one want to. so i don't know. it seems absolutely the case that race is playing a major factor. in fact of the three names that were tweeted today, i wonder which one will he go after the hardest? but, no, the fact of the matter is clearly, unambiguous racism is playing a big factor in this. and you need to look no further than beck's program where he has jeremiah wright footage on one side of the screen and van jones' footage on other side of the screen and he's mugging for the camera, look, huh, another angry black guy.

i think there's no question that was motivating a lot of it. >> is there a way in telling when you're dealing with blatant racism, when the idea is so absurd that if you have a brain, you laugh. but other people take it damn seriously, you know, the idea that van jones is key to the obama administration or obama's going to indoctrinate our schoolchildren when it does not pass the craziest person's smell test but yet it is embraced by these people. is it not because they will take anything that leads them to believe that, that emotion they're feeling is not -- not racism? >> i don't know. i think the psychology of all of it is super complicated. i think people have all sorts of animosity towards the president. a lot has to do with race. a lot has to do with his politics, his name. people have been led to believe all sorts of insane things about him from the beginning. very very beginning he emerged on the national scene, people have been fed this steady diet of crazy misinformation about him.

what the source of this misinformation, this bizarre mythology that's has grown up around barack obama, i can't tell. but i do know the fact at the end of the day, glenn beck's viewers, no one -- very few people know what the council on environmental equality is. people haven't heard of van jones. they are just hearing this kind of scary person conjured out of the ether and it plays a role in this mythology that does not have a tether into reality. >> he's a czar. he's a romanoff. he's a rightful czar of all of the russias. beck said today on the radio, this game is for keeps and he asked his audience to pray for his safety, and he's got sean hannity and boss limbaugh right there with him. but do they mark up another win here unless the white house stands up to it next time, whoever it is, whether it's carol browner or somebody else? >> well, i don't want to -- i don't want to help his self agrandizing too much. we are talking about a low level staffer.

i think one lesson from the clinton administration is you cannot apiece the gods of reaction with sacrifice. they only grow angrier and hungrier. in the end bill clinton himself found himself on the altar being shipped up the side of a volcano. and i think that's a really useful lesson that this won't go away unless they're stood up to, absolutely. >> so does this close now, no defense of this man and the noises from the beck jungle are victorious and, look, we got the biggest one of the bunch instead of a -- you know, a small fry? >> i don't know. we'll see where this goes. they're going to go after cass sunstein. to me that just shows how untethered from reality their world view is. cass sunstein is the opposite in politics in almost every way from van jones. this is the guy who is the heart of the american intellectual establishment. this is a guy whose politics, who has reached out to conservatives his whole life. if they're successful with that, then there's no boundary to it. >> something just popped into my head. we'll have to look into it when there's more time. i was just thinking all of the

crazy stories i was told about fdr, same things he was -- >> totally. >> jewish descent from some other country, hadn't been born here. i have to go look through this and pile it on later in the week. >> the liberty league again. >> there you go. father cogran, he's on every day at 5:00. chris hayes from fox. chris hayes, washington editor of "the nation." thank you, chris. >> thank you, keith. now gathering interesting info on beck and his enablers. david carr blogged something in "the new york times." while mr. beck may be serving as a proxy for the party of the opposition, his targets are members of the administration, a rugged game to be sure but not one that attempts to investigate journalists and commentators for having contrary opinions. what might mr. olbermann do if somebody digs up dirt on him, who work in the entertainment industry and have been elected by no one. once the game of oppo research on the press begins, it's hard to tell where it might stop, no? it's kind of admirable naivete that the

opposition is dawning on the horizon in the news business. fox, mostly through the co-owned "the new york post" has been running that opposition research program on me since date i left newscorp's employ in 2001. the post once printed an old address of mine. it sent a goofus to stand at my house and shout at me about seven-year-old, three figure tax disagreements with the state of california that had been resolved five years previously, it printed made-up quotes, questioned my sexual prowess and mocked me when the new york police ordered no a hospital to make sure that the fake anthrax sent to my home really was fake anthrax. this is called opposition research, and not even accurate opposition research. in fact two years ago, when he still worked for cnn, beck retaliated against my criticism by going on a rant about where i wrote my scripts, where i kept the questions during a show, and the fact that there was an old prop mailbox outside of my office. info that was supposed to terrify me into submission because it only could have come from an employee or ex-employee. this too is called opposition

research. so my idea was hardly a new one. it's underway right now, and the over/under on the dying "the new york post" printing something bizarre or beck calling me joe mccarthy again is ten days. but mr. carr's point begs a great question, do i really want to be like glenn beck? do i really want to be like fox news and "the new york post"? i don't mean i would stop calling them out for their unanimity or the next time beck sounds that desperate dog whistle hope that somebody might blow up rockefeller center because it's full of fascist, socialist, symbolist art, even though he works in rockefeller center 2. this is about having or not having a blind lead box on these people and vetting information that arrives there. i don't know. i will reserve the right to summon the baker street irregulars, but i don't think so. i have some things mr. beck does not, a conscience, respect of my colleagues and self-respect. besides which, in just the last ten weeks, beck has fantasized about poisoning the speaker of the house of representatives. he has agreed with a guest who

advocate ed advocated advocated a bin laden terror attack on this country and already called the president of the united states a racist. what could we possibly find out that would be more humiliating to glenn beck, more embarrassing to glenn beck, more destructive about glenn beck than this one fact -- he's glenn beck! dinner with governor sarah palin is up for auction. oh, i should place a bid, right? and in "worsts" sean hannity complains that liberals -- i can't even say his line. a liberal -- liberals are going after republicans with a 20-year-old thesis he wrote. whose 38-year-old thesis did hannity try to use against them last election? and when rachel joins you at the top of the hour, the white house czars. how the far right is conveniently forgetting their invented by nixon and perfected by ronald reagan. this is obama's real birth

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repeats the bs. but first tonight's "worst persons in the world." the bronze to orly taitz, the first, the actual obama kenyan birth certificate she produced was apparently a forgery. we say this because she now produced another actual obama kenyan birth certificate. uh-oh, somebody stepped on it. see, you can tell it's really obama's birth certificate because the baby's footprint is black. this one is so much worse than even -- than even the serial birther, jerome, cortzi, pronounced ate fake and said the guy taitz got it from tried to sell one of his two kidneys. the two biggest mistakes, it says mumbai british protector of kenya, and yet the dates are offered in american style rather than the british style, day, number and then month. and mombassa was not in kenya in 1961, when mr. obama was born. he was born zanzibar. i would give her the benefit if she would echo the ad, eat all you want.

we'll make more. the minnesota congresswoman announced while the ratio tax payments to earned income can now hit 50%, it was only 5% in 1950 and this is slavery, nothing more than slavery. constitution provides freedom. the top tax rate in 1950 was 84%. you're off by 79. the current rate is 35%. it is lower than it has been for all but five of the last 77 years. she just made the numbers up. which is it, is she crazy, is she stupid, or is she on something? but our winner is sean hannity. listen to this self-righteous humbuggery about the governor's race in virginia. there's been an all-out war declared by "the washington bob mcdonnell, a solid conservative. and the effort to smear, besmirch and demonize the election is under way. a lot of that has to do -- well, they went through this great effort to dig up a school thesis he wrote saying that hoax sexuality and abortion was detrimental to american families. that was -- let's see, 20 years ago. we'll go back to opinions that he might have held at a time

when he wrote the thesis. you see how abusively biased the media can be? it's unbelievable. sure is, sean. july 1, 2007. chapter six, the thesis, he said as he read from hillary rodham clinton's grad school thesis. it's a 38-year-old document that's been rumored about. 90 pages, steeped in intrigue in mystery. hillary's thesis, elevated to mystical status from years of secrecy. it allows readers to decipher the true mystery. the true thinking of the former first lady and now 2008 presidential hopeful. you see how biased the media can be. it's unbelievable. it's unbelievable. wait a minute, i can't say that now. i contradicted myself. i just pooped my pants. sean "the ages for hypocrisy" hannity, today's "worst person in the world"!

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unemployed and for now lacking a talk show, the ex-governor of alaska repeats her death panel lie as senator chuck grassley blames her on the whole pull the plug on grandma his sterria. the number one story, death panel reducts starring sarah palin, plus live bidding. later this afternoon, sarah palin defending her original comments on death panels, testifying on the chairman and palin posting this on facebook. palin posted this would be testimony on facebook. a great deal of attention was given to my use of death panel, after such rationing, despite my many attempts to many in the media to dismiss the phrase as a myth. the fact is that any group of government bureaucrats that makes decisions affecting life or death is essentially a death panel. you know, like the president sending troops into pointless wars. meanwhile, chuck grassley said

don't blame him for the whole pull the plug on grandma panic. blame her. >> well, there's another political leader higher up in the hierarchy that used that than i did. and then "the washington post" or some newspaper later on said something later on about sarah palin. well, sarah palin said that presumably before i said it about the death boards, but i never used the word. >> and yes, it gets better. if you would like to discuss the death panels with the former governor with say a nice glass of piano grigio or mountain dew, the first family is offering a din are for five with the governor and first dude. it will benefit an auction called ride to recovery, a program that helps wounded soldiers. opening bid is $25,000. organizers say the winner will most likely have to transport themselves to and from alaska to participate in dinner with the palins, but as the listing on ebay reminds us, the value is priceless. joining us now from the

huffington post, shannyn moore. >> good evening, keith. >> i should bid. what would happen if i bid? what would happen if i won? >> you absolutely should. you could invite david letterman, tina fey, myself, maybe levi johnston. and one of two things would happen, either we could all just not show up. >> right. >> which she tends to -- not show up. and we could stomp out halfway through dinner. >> or we could just not show up and give the money to charity. i'm going to do it, okay. >> go ahead. >> it's just opened and there are no bids. i know you're looking at this upside down. that's the governor's face right there on ebay and i've already logged in. i just put in a bid for just slightly more than the minimum. i mean, i'm hoping to get it cheap. let's find out what happens now. attention to paypal -- confirm bid and preapproval required. i must be preapproved by the seller. that idea's out the window.

ask the seller and preapprove list. we will take care of that off the air. you see what happens when you do live tv. the death panel talk is back. the governor unaware of the death panel we currently have, insurance not covering a pre-existing condition, or whatever technicality they can dig up or the death panels, these are the functions of the very free market principles she claims to want. as she not made that giant logical leap from one to the other? >> i don't think she realizes how expensive the free market has become on the american people by any stretch. but, you know, i think it was april 16th, 2008, she had other own sort of health care decision day that she came up with, that she declare td for alaskans that it was health care decision day. and so, you know, i don't know what the difference between sitting down with a health care provider and talking about how you want the end of your life to look with dignity is different than what she declared for alaskans when she was governor.

>> so, in other words, this was approval of -- if she had read this, that somebody else had done this somewhere, she would have concluded that it was leading to euthanasia and death panels and for all we know executions? >> yeah, what does she have against, you know, children in asia? you know, i'm not sure. it was really obvious in reading her facebook today, and i did post it on the huffington post, reading this, that she didn't write this. there were no therefores,alsos, you knows, you betchas. and what made me support this, what i really did in alaska when she was governor, her health care discussion day. i think it's very important for people to have those discussions. it made me wonder if she knew what she was doing then or if it was someone else. >> what does it say now about the current state of sarah palin and its clout in the republican party, that chuck grassley to defend himself threw her under the bus? >> well, i think i heard him right. she said it first.