this country needs smart thinking and courageous action following it up. bill clinton admits he's making the case that's good for his party. it's nonetheless a reasonable argument to make. that's "hardball." "countdown with keith olbermann" starts right now. which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? would be governors without any self governing. in new york, the paladino. tuesday, has anybody asked andrew cuomo about his paramours. last night, it's not that i was accusing him. today. >> you do believe that andrew cuomo has had or did have extramarital affairs when he was married? >> what i believe and what is factual out there we will at the appropriate time put out, yes. >> carl, you said that? what a guy! in california whitman's sampler. the letter to her husband

questioning their housekeeper's immigration status. she said they never got it. then she hinted the housekeeper stole it. then it turned up with her husband's hand writing on it. now, when she said stolen she meant maybe we gave it to her. >> you know, i haven't seen it but i suspect it probably is his signature and i suspect what he said is he doesn't remember ever receiving this letter but he might have scratched something like that at the bottom of the letter. >> don't let the bleeping door hit you in the backside on the way out. rahm emanuel leaves as white house chief of staff, replaced by pete rose? oh, pete rouse. the gop's newest platform plank. creationism. nightmare in guatemala. we experimented on living people there as recently as 194 yee. fridays with thurber. the dog that bit people. welcome to the end of his career. he says jon stewart is, quote, a bigot and tv is run by the jews.

>> to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are jewish, are an oppressed minority, yeah. >> apparently you can do this to yourself. >> do it. oh! >> all the news and commentary now on "countdown." >> it hurts. good evening from new york. we stand at a pivotal moment in american politics this week. the prevailing maxim used to be the cover-up was worse than a crime meaning if a politician got caught, fess up. don't make it worse by lying about it again. our fifth story republican tea party candidates have thrown that caution and consistency and honesty to the wind. exhibit "a" the case of carl paladino. new york republican tea party candidate carl paladino. we told you yesterday about his cone unter with fred dicker of the new york post in which he

said f-him and added he would take him out. when dicker asked if that was a threat responding watch. at issue was dicker's demand pal dino provide evidence that andrew cuomo had been unfaithful to his wife. here's the time line. for viewers with weak cons r. constitutions you might want to sit it out. tuesday who recently came forward about a daughter he had out of wedlock a decade ago told politico to ask, cuomo, quote, about his paramours. asked for evidence, he said want me to go affidavits from the women and said he knew who three of the four women were. after his dust-up with dicker on wednesday, paladino stood by his claim yesterday. >> he was asking you for proof of allegations that you made that the attorney general, your opponent, had affairs when he was married to kerry kennedy. do you have that proof? >> i informed him at that time that at the appropriate time when we're good and ready we

will furnish that. andrew cuomo has to account for all of his past and i will -- i assure you that this is just the beginning of what i will vet on andrew cuomo. >> hours later mr. paladino claimed he had not promised mr. dicker to provide evidence of any affairs. >> i respomded that -- because i didn't understand the context of the question. i responded that i would respond at the appropriate time. >> he responded that he would respond? let's go to the videotape. >> do you have the evidence or do you not? >> i will at the appropriate time you can hear it. >> i want to ask you a question. do you have any evidence for the charge you made? >> at the appropriate time you'll get it. >> nevertheless, paladino continued to insist he had only said the media should ask cuomo about possible affairs. >> let me ask you, carl, when do you plan to present the information that you say you have about andrew cuomo because that would -- >> i never said that. i said that i will respond at the appropriate -- at the

appropriate time because his question caught me off guard. i didn't know what he was referring to when he said that i have information on andrew cuomo. yeah, i said it in the context of a discussion with maggie haberman about why the press does not ask him quest like that. >> by the end of the interview pal dino was on record saying of course he was not saying cuomo had been unfaithful. >> so you're not saying, then -- i'll clear the record here. you're not saying that you're accusing him of having infidelities. you're asking -- >> why don't they go on a -- i don't have any. but they come and ask me the question. >> today he appeared on fox news. >> you also told politico that you claimed you knew of three -- quote, three of the four women who andrew cuomo allegedly had affair with and then tell "the buffalo news" you have no proof. so which is it, sir?

>> we will at the appropriate time, okay, say whatever we have in our box at the appropriate time. >> whatever he does have in his box, the world waits with bated breath to know. then exhibit "b" california gubernatorial republican candidate meg whitman. for a while it seemed she might wriggle out of the scandal having an undocumented worker working for her until she claimed her and her husband never got the letter flagging her dubious social security number. >> if there is a letter out there, i don't know how they got it. it's not in our house. and so, you know, somehow it ended up in jerry brown's hands or gloria allred's hands. so we never saw that letter. and as i understand the process, normally if that was to happen, they would have sent a letter first to the employee, then two weeks later to the employer. and i think there's a question about whether employers with less than ten employees actually

got such a letter. >> problem is the letter is ex-tant and has her husband's hand writing something she doesn't dispute but she previously suggested the letter intended for her and her husband might have been stolen by, you know, the housekeeper. let's bring in democratic strategist steve hildebrand of hild brands strategy consulting formerly deputy campaign manager for the obama campaign. thank you for your time. here's your hypothetical. the paladino campaign is on the phone for you. they want to know which version they're going with tomorrow. they are accusing cuomo and do have evidence or they're not and they don't. and you say what? >> i think i would say what my mother always told me when you lie, cheat and steal you're going to get caught. it's time to fess up. you're lying, you're cheating, you're stealing. so it's time to fess up and we'll put this behind us. the more he drags this out, the more problematic it's going to

be for him. so i think it's time to move on. >> assuming he does not get hit by the lightning bolt of logic that that suggests or implies on the other side of the equation. you're on the cuomo campaign and targeting voters so ticked off about the economy, whatever, that they don't care about the sort of serial inconsistency here. they're just in the mood to throw the bums out. how do you get those people to care about this and the implications of the dishonesty so blatantly on exhibit here? >> the first thing that we do is make sure andrew cuomo puts it out there constantly that he's been -- he has a lifelong record of fighting for middle class voters for consumer rights and that he is not one of the bums, we shouldn't throw him out. he's one ever the good ones. we need to keep him. he needs to get out there and get his surrogates out there saying that. but, keith, a piece in politics so important is trust. if we can't trust paladino to talk about a character issue in

an honest and sincere way, you can't trust him with the economy. andrew cuomo is a good, sincere, honest guy and we ought to elect him the next governor of this great state. >> the other great state. to prove this is not just a new york thing for a change. in california meg whitman does not seem to be in quite as complicated nor bad a predicament but very specific. it's right on point. she's made a big deal about holding the employers of the undocumented accountable. is this more like a direct small laser hit against her? >> well, i think what you're seeing is a pattern amongst these republican conservative candidates that are aligning themselves with the tea party. they're going farther and farther and farther to the right as possibly as far as they can get. these folks are becoming more and more dangerous. and i say that in a sincere way. meg whitman has a real problem here. she's looking weak. she is hemorrhaging.

it's hard to justify being a billionaire and not being able to probably pay for taxes and things like that. she is part of the problem in this country. but, keith, you have to point out that these tea party republica republicans, you know, in addition to the lying and cheating and stealing, they're also deceiving the american people and who they really are. these are the same people that are going to destroy social security, that are going to dismantle medicare and medicaid, they're going to take away workers' rights, they're going to repeal women's rights, they are fiscal conservatives who are going to destroy government and they're also social conservatives who are going to destroy people's lives. >> democratic strategist steve hildebrand of hildebrand strategies consulting. for the bigger tea party picture here let's bring in msnbc political analyst eugene robinson associate editor pulitzer prize winning editor of "the washington post" and author

of "disintegration: the splintering of black america." when does the book come out? >> on tuesday. >> so you're a month ahead of me. you're safe. i didn't mention in this the nevada republican party senatorial candidate sharron angle denying the harry reid claim she tried to repeal mandated insurance coverage for mammograms. while the plum line blog reported being on record with the las vegas review journal and in her senate prime rhode island debate, she literally said that she had bills that would have ended those mandates for mammograms. you've got that. you've got paladino. you have whitman. i'm sensing a pattern here or am i just a little paranoid? >> first let me respond that i intend to respond to that at the appropriate time. oh, that would be now. okay. >> i'll take you out! for a beer. >> and i'll take you out for a beer. no. you know, here in the case of

angle and paladino, what you have -- and i'm just going to be frank here -- is crazy people saying crazy things that are not true. i mean, you know, let's face it. these are really erratic candidates who often don't make a lot of sense. in the case of meg whitman, you have something a little different. you know, you have -- she has a real problem in that she's tried to portray herself as tough on employers and hire illegal immigrants and she employed one for nine years and she's -- and here's the proof and she's trying to get out from under it. >> but which is more true of these two choices? and if one of them is incorrect, supply the correct one. that these candidates represent some sort of flaw -- fundamental flaw in the way people in the tea party think or that these are growing pains of a young party that has no system of vetting their candidates and no bar to understand as cynical and

jaded as professional politicians are. some of them can tell you when you can get away with something and when lying six different ways about the same subject might get you into trouble. is it one or the other or is it both? >> well, this is not an either/or construction. this is a both/and. is there something wrong with the way they think? well, if you think that you can say something -- just come out and say something that's demonstrably not true or say something that directly contradicts something you said the other day, i think that's a flaw in the way you think. and yes, this is a movement or whatever you'd want to call it that doesn't quite have its act together in terms of fielding professional candidates who would -- who would have -- you know, who would know how to handle these sorts of situations and like stick to their story. >> to that point the one detail we lech out in the recap of the whitman thing. i played the tape at the open. she said last night, you know, i

haven't seen the letter -- wills the whole crux of her problem -- but i suspect it probably is his her husband's signature and i suspect what he said is he doesn't remember ever receiving this letter but he might have scratched something like that at the bottom of the letter. in some ways that's -- is that worse than the paladino thing? because it just -- the paladino thing, the guy is just going back and forth saying whatever he thinks is appropriate for the given moment and it changes by the hour and he's crazy. he's just nuts. but this woman has been taken seriously as a businesswoman, as an innovator, as a giant in her own field and she's now saying, we never got this letter and the housekeeper stole it but, yeah, that's probably his hand writing on it. that's an attempt to just push a pile of bull past people, isn't it? >> you know, i think it is. that's why i kind of separate out the whitman case because i really think this is a serious problem for her. certainly for the image she's trying to project.

it's a really, really bad thing if this -- you know, this close to an election you're offering to take a lie detector test, which she -- which she is offering to take. and this sort of shifting, creeping story about what actually happened and what the truth actually -- there is no letter, you know, the housekeeper stole it. oh, you mean that letter. oh, you mean that husband. signed it. you know, it's really bad. and so you're left with just a few possibilities, all of which are pretty bad. either she's just a flatout liar, she's just lying. or at a minimum, she is the sort of person who employs someone in her house for nine years and doesn't bother to learn even the most basic details about this woman's life. >> and later accuses her of stealing a document that it turned out her husband obviously

had. i mean -- >> and said, according to the housekeeper at their parting, i don't know you. you don't know me. so real sweet. >> pulitzer prize winning columnist gene robinson. thanks for your time. i'll take you out! >> i'll take you out! >> to congratulate you on the publication of your new book. >> and yours coming up. could changing chiefs of staff fire up the base? or does it reflect a slight change in a lesson learned a little too late by the white house? what will it do for the newest candidate for the mayor of a top three city? xarture as chief of staff is that an indication that the obama administration is moving back toward progressives? re/max agents know their markets, and they care enough to get to know you, too. nobody sells more real estate than re/max. visit remax.com today.

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you've got staying power. would it make a difference in substance or perception as president obama nears the halfway mark of this term? will it bolster the enthusiasm of progressives going to the midterm elections now 32 days away. these are the only questions about which anybody outside the white house should care when a president's chief of staff is leaving but all the more so in this case since this personnel change is not happening in a vacuum. if the obama administration has learned any lessons from the past two years have those particular lessons come too late

for what the president may face the next two years? today it's official, white house chief of staff rahm emanuel is now former and running for mayor of chicago. the new interim white house chief of staff is pete rouse. he became the chief of staff for then senator obama six years ago and before that the chief of staff for tom daschle who was both minority and majority leader. he was known as the 101st senator in part for the wide reception that he works well across party lines. roust helped create the new consumer protection memo. elizabeth warren became the senior adviser for that. that may cheer progressives. he once described rouse as ego free. as for the other obvious differences between the outgoing and the incoming -- >> obviously, these two gentlemen have slightly different styles. this is a couple of years ago i

pointed out that rahm when he was a kid had lost part of his finger in an accident and it was his middle finger so it rendered him mute for a while. pete has never seen a microphone or a tv camera that he likes. >> also from the president, quote, there is a saying around the white house let's let pete fix it. let's see if we can get richard wolfe to fix this. msnbc political analyst and author of quoif renegade: the making of a president." did this have anything to do with how quick' he emanuel was an anathema to progressives? >> no. if this was about his ability to insult progressives, his tenure would have been much shorter. this was in the first instant about personal ambition. rahm was always more comfortable

seeing him as a principal, not a staff. remember this is a president who has always really not chosen to pander or lean towards fro degrees ivs if if he was going to do so he'd have done it in the primaries. he didn't do it then and not done it in government. pete rouse while he has taken a progressive line on some policies, he's known as this guy who reaches out for bipartisan compromise. actually rahm was the guy who liked to run at the republicans. this cuts both ways. >> did this have anything to do with the president's criticism of fox news or the kind words that bill burton had for me and rachel on monday? is there a tonal change or is saul of it temporal coincidence? >> i don't doubt that that was sincere what bill burton said. >> nor do i. i was just wondering if there was anything morton it than it happened in the same week. >> the tonal thing is important when you understand how the white house is approaching these midterm elections. they need to get the base up and fire up progressives. but the coincidence of timing i

think is just that. it's not that they shifted the politics. pete rouse is a guy who is used to the senate. you have to cut across the other line to do that. ironically, rahm was the guy who in the house was known as being very aggressive. i just don't think that the politics are going to change as much as this week or the needs of the next months suggest. >> is there any indication that the president or anybody in the white house recalculated the formula about what to dorell tiv to the base relative to the middle of the road and that constant negotiation with a group the president was on record admitting he realized he couldn't negotiate with as of january 27th, 2009? >> there have been a lot of re calibrations here. and the question here -- this is a sort of a hypothetical -- looking at where the selection may be headed, maybe what rahm scales -- his ability to look at

the differences, slugging it out, the kind of dynamics you have in the house more than you want a pete rouse right now. the problems they had in the senate were really the things that blocked them from getting where they wanted to go on health care. maybe if pete rouse would have been better earlier and rahm would have been better now. this is where they are because people are burnt out, because they thought rahm would be aggressive and go-getting. in the first instance i think you have to separate what they're trying to do now, get the base to vote because that's going to decide the midterms with where this president, pete rouse and rahm emanuel are in the longer term. that's in the center ground. >> and pursuant to that, if there's a slight shift in advance of trying to get the base out for the midterms in 32 days, is it cosmetic and only good for 32 days or does the president see things differently going into the prospect havinging a mixed bag with both not in his hands? >> they have clearly realized the idea of getting significant numbers of republicans isn't going to happen. they realize that fox news is

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the newest republican issue creationism. amazingly creationism creates lower income levels. first the sanity break and the tweet of the day from emppalp. hey@keith olbermann. i hear you've been telling people i look like rupert murdoch. why the low blow, man. sorry. it's the haircut and attempt to take over the universe. let's play "oddball." we begin on the internet. since the "oddball" too adorable for words video of the week. not sure why this cat is so tired or why it's attempting to sleep in a tea cup, if you like cats in tea cups. if, say, you're not allergic to cats as am i. what the heck! this is just not fair.

cats. i have pet wildebeests. time for a check on the local news. anyone on the east coast is well aware there was a little rain this week. crack meteorologist bill evans is on top of this. seems like he's gotten really good news on the subject. >> oh, hello. >> yeah, it looks like our friendly weatherman is a bit of an austin powers fan. though it should have been obvious he when gave the weekend forecast sunny with a chance of being shaggadillic. paris, france. how much would you pay for a hat? fedora wore by michael jackson went up for auction. as you know people are not wearing enough hats. apparently the king of pop threw it into an audience. where are they selling this? the person who caught it held on to it to now. ended up being sold for $24,000.

the seller made away like a smooth criminal. time marches on. we prosecuted german scientists for conduct of this nature. american medical experiments on living people in guatemala in the '40s. and the gop and creationism. it's not just pandering to the stupid anymore. it's spreading stupidity. next. hoo? omnaris. [ men ] omnaris -- to the nose! [ man ] did you know nasal symptoms like congestion can be caused by allergic inflammation? omnaris relieves your symptoms by fighting inflammation. side effects may include headache, nosebleed, and sore throat. [ inhales deeply ] i told my allergy symptoms to take a hike. omnaris. ask your doctor. battling nasal allergy symptoms? omnaris combats the cause. get omnaris for $11 at omnaris.com.

and now the bill hicks is still ahead of his time clip of the week. >> you ever notice how people who believe in creationism look really unevolved? eyes real close together, big furry hands and feet. i believe god created me in one day. looks like he rushed it. >> something from the late comedian and transcend and commentator of bill hicks. that's from 20 years ago and still as fresh as today's headlines. our third story on the "countdown" headline. creationism as political platform. in all the talk about the tea party takeover of the republican party much of the focus is on the alleged fiscal discipline the tea party wants to restore specifically reining in

government spending while paying for tax cuts for the rich. but the dirty little secret is it didn't arrive from nothing. many leaders and candidates emerged from a previous political movement the religious right which spent the last few decades trying to undo the constitutional separation of church and state and outlaw abortion to force their god into people's schools, to deny gay people their rights and to deny an entire generation and generations yet to come of american students the fundamental right of knowledge and understanding about the cornerstone of the entire science of biology, about the most fundamental thing in the world, how they came to be. that's right, the tea party wants to deny our children the right to understand evolution. the irony even they do not see is that their fight against evolution has failed so miserably with the public and in the courts that they may have to adapt it, mutating, evolving, and so now they fight for teaching all theories including shocker intelligent design which of course evolved from straightout creationism. the theory which first appeared

in the scientific journal the book of genesis that god created humanity. in 2008 the presidential candidates for the republican side were asked at a debate whether they dispute s. the scientific fact of evolution. three sam brownback, tom tancredo and potential 2012 nominee mike huckabee raised their hands. candidates for the highest office in the land rejecting a cornerstone of science. with the rise of the tea party the ratio of scientific literacy to illiteracy for candidates for national office appear worse. florida senate candidate marco rube yoe tried to undermine the teaching of evolution in in schools of his state. christine o'donnell said evolution is a theory. creationism is believing that the world began as a bible and genesis says god created the world in six days, six 24-hour periods and there is just as much evidence supporting that. nevada senate candidate sharron angle, quote, we weren't there. we can't see and hear for ourselves and say this is how it

happened. when we try to raise logical thinkers we have to give them every argument. not to mention the 2012 favorite that ran for vice president with one of the last leaders to admit he believes in evolution. on that note let's bring in a professor who researches language and cognition in harvard and author of the blank slate. denial of human nature among other words. what are the implications for kids of having a growing number of creationists in position of power in congress, senate, state houses around the country? >> well, it doesn't auger well for a science education. we're the world's richest country. we're the world's most technologically advanced country. you would think our students understand science at the highest level of the world. in fact in tests of scientific understanding, other countries regularly beat the pants off of us. it means instead of perfecting our science curriculum so that we have kids who are more scientifically literate the

politicians who want to insert bible stories instead of the best possible science. >> why does it matter if kids understand biology or evolution? i don't have to dissect frogs to do my job. >> there are practical reasons. some of the great advances of the next few decades are going to be in the biological sciences and you can't do biology unless you understand evolution. there's going to be a race between us and the super bugs, the viruses that are going to attack us. their big weapon is that they can evolve fast. if we don't have a generation of science students and scientists who understand evolution, we're not going to be able to understand our worst enemies. also, great advances in diseases like cancer and alzheimer's and parkinson's disease are often going to come from research on other animals because you obviously can't give cancer or parkinson's disease to a human. you can to a mouse. we have to understand what the relationship is between a mouse and a human in order to interpret that science.

scientists have a credo that nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution. if you are in confusion about evolution you are in confusion about biology. that's the last thing we need in the economic and tech moe logical advances that we face. also what could be more fundamental than knowing where we came from? the theory of evolution is one of the most magnificent intellectual accomplishments of our civilization. it's a tragedy to deny children of the evidence, the line of argumentation that led to this magnificent achievement in this essential bit of knowledge to understanding who we are and where we came from. >> i eluded to this broadly earlier. does accepting creationism have broader social consequences? is there indeed evidence that the more a country embraces creationism the less likely it is to have what we consider an advanced society? >> it's certainly true that among industrialized modern societies, the two countries that are lowest on the scale of

accepting evolution are the united states and turkey. and we do have to ask ourselves the question do we think that our country should be a lot more like turkey? is that the neighborhood we belong in. not to insult the nation of turkey. but it's not clearly the direction that we obviously want to go in. the basic question is do you want to convey to our kids that the way to understand the world is to ask questions, to study it honestly, to go where the evidence takes us or do we want to understand the world by what politicians tell us and what they legislate in their -- in acts of congress instead of what the best scientists figure out? >> dr. stephen pinker, professor of psychology at harvard. thanks to adding to the discussion. james thurber's theory was that dogs were just about to evolve to speech and reason but were holding back because they didn't want to have an argument. an example tonight in "the dog that bit people." the friday night news dump indeed. you know the sad part about his

firing. now we'll have to start explaining who this guy was. and when rachel joins you at the top of the hour what happens when democrats go on offense and hit republican tea partiers on their extreme views, those extreme views magically disappear.

the national institute of health calling today's revelation an appalling example from the dark chapter in the history of medicine. american doctors on behalf of the united states ran tuskegee style experiments on hundreds of guatemalans without their permission. 64 years later o. poll jizing. a professor revealing findings from an unpublished paper written by a u.s. health service physician. under cutler's direction nearly 700 people, prons stuts, mental patients, soldiers were infected in guatemala with syphilis and

gonorrhea. injecting them with the diseases into their skins, genitals spines. the u.s.'s goal to determine the effect of penicillin in treating sexually transmitted diseases. guatemalan authorities let them have axis in exchange for the supplies. according to her, thomas paaran saying, quote, you no he we couldn't do such experiments in this country. later dr. cutler would oversee the equally shameful tuskegee, alabama study two decades later. today secretary of state hillary clinton and the head of hhs, kathleen sebelius issued a joint apology to those affected and their families. late this afternoon this photo of the president on the phone with the president of guatemala expressing deep regret for the experiment on behalf of our nation. we'll be back.

fridays with thurber and memories of mugs, the dog that bit people. get out pitchforks and torches. joe brandon jr. attorney for the bigots suing the city of murfreesboro over the expansion of the islamic center about. supposedly about the failure to hold open meetings as the law requires. instead his questions to city witnesses thus far have included are you aware that all the plaintiffs wanted from day one is to know whether this was a religious institution? where does tolerance meet sharia law. what tolerance are you asking the plaintiffs to swallow? did you do anything to determine this was a religious meeting place? and about the burial of two members at the center on the

private property, are you suggesting you would give approval to a mosque with a connection to jihad or without any assurances bodies are buried deep enough so they don't stink? the stink, mr. brandon, comes not from the graves but your clients. but it is refreshing to see a bunch of islamophones go into court and proudly admit their bigotry. my back-up host from cnn. not anymore after this interview on sirius xm in which he called jon stewart, quote, bigot. >> people who are not minorities understand that those of us who are -- and very few of us will say the things that i have just said -- are actually more complex than they think we are. >> stewart is a minority as much as you are. >> come on. >> very powerless people. >> whoa! >> you're such a minority. please. what, are you kidding? >> he's -- you're telling me that -- >> i'm telling you that everybody who runs cnn is a lot like stewart.

a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like stewart. to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are jewish are an oppressed minority, yeah. >> oh, boy. the old the jews run tv stuff again. bye, rick. fired at 6:00 p.m. rupert murdoch, news corp that already donated a million dollars to the association and had its news poodle chris wallace compliment the association on its fund-raising has made another one million dollars contribution to the u.s. chamber of commerce another radical right organization. it's uncountable but hidden here is something extra. the chamber says it plans to spend $75 million on the 2010 election, nearly all of it on behalf of gop candidates but still has more than $68 million left unspent. and with fox stations up and down the country ready to sell them tv ad time, that's not just a donation. it's a kickback. as rupert says -- >> i am the senate.

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i'm very proud to say next monday night for reasons largely beyond my ability to comprehend them i will be involved in the presentation of the thurber prize for humor. the finalist chancy dunn and rhoda jansen. they have a lot to live up to. this week james thurber takes us back to his youth and to the origins of the thurber dog. his drawings of them seem more to offer a bloodhound but in point of fact as the story

suggests the thurber dog had not a breed but awareness bordering on becoming human. "my life and hard times" from 1933 and i'm reading from the american library "thurber letters and drawings." the dog that bit people by james thurber. probably no one man should have as many dogs in his life as i have had, but there was more pleasure than distress in them for me except in the case of an airedale named mugs. gave me more trouble than all the 54 or 55 put together although my moment of keenest embarrassment was the time a scott terrier named jeannie who had just had six puppies in the clothes closets of an apartment in new york had the unexpected and last at the corner of 11th and 5th avenue. during a walk she had insisted on taking. then too there was the prize-winning french poodle, that great big black poodle, not the untroublesome white

miniatures, who got sick riding in the rumble seat of a car riding with me on the way to the green itch dog show. a red rubber bib around her throat and since a rain storm came up halfway through the bronx i had to hold over her a small green umbrella. really more of a parasol. the rain beat down fearfully and suddenly the driver of the car drove into a big garage filled with mechanics. it happened so quickly that i forgot to put the umbrella down. and i will always remember with sickening distress the look of incredulity mix with hatred that came over the face of the particular hardened garage man who came over it to see what we wanted. when he took a look at me and the poodle, all garage men and people of that intolerable stripe hate poodles with their curious haircut especially with the pom-poms you have to leave on their hip if you expect the dog to win a priz. but the airedale as i have said, it was the worst of all my dogs. he really wasn't my dog. as a matter of fact, i came home

from vacation one summer to find that my brother roy had bought him while i was away. the big burly dog. he always acted as if he thought i wasn't one ever the family. there was a slight advantage in being one of the family for he didn't bite the family as often as he bit strangers. still in the years that we had him, he bit everybody but mother and he made a pass at her once but missed. that was during the month when we suddenly had mice. and mugs refused to do anything about them. nobody ever had mice exactly like the way we had mice that month. they acted like pet mice, almost like mice somebody had trained. they were so friendly that one night when my mother entertained at dinner, the free aletteras, a club she and my father belonged to for 20 years she put a lot of dishes with food in them on the pantry floor so the mice would be satisfied with that and wouldn't come into the dining

room. mugs stayed out in the pantry with the mice, lying on the floor, growling to himself. not at the mice but about all the people in the next room that he would have liked to get at. mother slipped out into the pantry once to see how everything was going. everything was going fine. it made her so fine to see mugs lying there oblivious of the mice, they came running up to her -- that she slapped him. and he slashed at her but didn't make it. he was sorry immediately, mother said. he was always sorry, she said, after he bit someone. but we could not understand how she figured this out. he didn't act sorry. mother used to send a box of candy every christmas to the people the airedale bit. the list finally contained 40 or more names. nobody could understand why we didn't get rid of the dog. i didn't understand it very well myself. but we didn't get rid of him. i think that one or two people tried to poison mugs. he acted poisoned once in a while. old major moberly fired at him

once with his service revolver on east broad street but mugs lived to be almost 11 years old and even when he could hardly get around he bit a congressman who had called to see my father on business. my mother had never liked the graeme. she said the signs of his horoscope showed he couldn't be trusteded. he was saturn with the moon in virgo. but she sent him a box of candy that christmas. he sent it right back probably because he suspected it was trick candy. mother persuaded herself it was all for the best that the dog had bitten him even though father lost an important business association because of it. i wouldn't want to be associated with such a man, mother said. mugs could read him like a book. we used to take turns feeding mugs to be on his good side but that didn't always work. he was never in a very good mood even after a meal. nobody knew exactly what was the matter with him. but whatever it was, it made him irascible especially in the mornings. roy never felt very well in the morning either especially before breakfast. once when he came downstairs and

found that mugs had moodily chewed up the morning paper he hit him in the face with a grapefruit and then he jumped up on the dining room table scattering dishes and silverware. mugs' first free leap took him across the table and into a brass fire screen in front of the dpraet. but he was back on his feet and in the end got roy and gave him a pretty vicious bite in the leg. then he was all over it. he never bit anyone more than once at a time. mother mentioned that in his favor. she said he had a quick temper but didn't hold a grudge. she was forever defending him. i think she liked him because he wasn't well. she's not strong, she would say pit pityingly. but that was inaccurate. he may not have been well but he was terribly strong. the dog that bit people part one. we'll do part two for you next week. by james thurber. that's october 1st. it's the