across this guy last year. opoetzed building the ms missile of quote, following the soviet line. if you argued, as i did, that a murphed missile might be destabilization because the other side, meaning the soviets, would have to hit it in the ground to keeping it shooting its ten warheads up in space you're taking orders from the communist enme, got it? two other reasons to condemn this. newt gingrich's out selling this guy's accusation that president obama is an anti-colonialist and now the "washington post" has chose tone give space to this guy in his argument. but just to prove we're not all losing our memories, aren't we all anti-colonial? aren't we all against colonialism? aren't we all basically that way in our thinking? isn't being anti-colonial part of being american? that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. have a happy weekend for columbus day. right now it's time for "the ed show" with ed schultz.

good evening, americans and welcome to "the ed show," tonight live from minneapolis. these stories are hitting my hot buttons at this hour tonight. the tea parent's newest star, christine o'donnell, wants you to know that, uh, she didn't go to yale. she didn't go to oxford either but she's like you and me. the righteers playing games, again, folks. commentary on that in just a moment. nrc chairman pete sessions is the latest republican under fire for racially insensitive remarks. democrats have identified an ugly pattern. reverend al sharpton here to respond on all of that. and sharron angle is getting too much of that vegas sun, don't you think? she's accusing harry reid of providing viagra to child molesters? and trying to scare us that sharia law is taking over american cities? it's a friday. we've got rapid response on that one. but this is the story that has me fired up tonight. very seriously, america is in an

ideological crossroads of the future of this country is hanging in the balance. you have to admit a real bumper crop of wingnut republican candidates out there trying to take over the congress in the next 25 days, and millions of americans, the question is, are they going to get fooled again? tea party darling, christine o'donnell, released another dandy of a commercial today. let's take a look at it. >> i didn't go to yale. i didn't inherit millions like my opponent. i'm you. >> you bet you. she didn't go to yale and she also didn't go to oxford and a couple of other schools she put on her online resume. this commercial is flat out a joke. but low information republican voters, you see, they absolutely eat this stuff up. christine o'donnell reminds me of a guy who actually did graduate from yale. >> i know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully. >> american scientific companies are crossbreeding humans in

animals and coming up with -- with mice with fully functioning human brains. >> pretty close. bush got elected twice because people, you know, they just wanted to sit down and have a beer with him in the backyard and have a barbecue as well. republicans have been lowering the bar on elected officials ever since. the tea party is filling -- is just actually just totally filled up with antiintellectual candidates who want you to believe that they're just like you. the wing nuts and their ideological followers are, i think, incoreidgeal because you see facts just don't matter. they employ this kiss philosophy, just keep it simple, stupid. their answer for any problem that's out there boils down to two words, and that's tax cut. at the same time, republicans love to talk about what the american people really want. >> the american people are still asking the question, where are the jobs?

>> the american people don't want a government takeover of health care. >> shutting down discussions is not a route to achieve that, that could fairly produce what the american people want. >> i don't know who organized this, the efforts that is needed to put obsessive partisanship aside in getting in the way of what's doing right for the american people. >> that's biggest lie of them all. republicans don't have a clue what the american people want. all the polls show that the american people want tax cuts for the top 2% to expire, to be done with. americans hate outsourcing jobs to overseas' countries, and they need jobs desperately. the latest poll shows that 86% of americans are concerned about that. christine o'donnell and the other brain wizards in her party are on the wrong side of all of these issues. but she's, remember, just like you. democrats nominated the president if we could remember, i think that barack obama was the harvard law review president

and constitutional scholar and that's what we did in the last elections, but you see, republicans chose this instead. >> do you agree with the bush doctrine? >> in what respect, charlie? >> here's also known as the maverick, though. >> i'm just ask you one more time not to belabor the point, specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation? >> i'll try to find you some and i'll bring them to you. >> what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed to understand -- >> i read most of them, again, with a great appreciation for the press, for the media. >> like what one specifically, i'm curious that you -- >> all of them. any of them that have -- that have been in front of me over all of these years. >> folks, the bottom line is this, not a whole lot has changed. republicans love to appeal to the lowest common denominator when it comes to candidates.

and i know the american public is angry and scared but it seems like half the voters have taken a leave of their senses. i know the tea party whack jobs are entertaining for cable news shows and consumers, but let's face it, they are dangerously out of touch when it comes to knowledge, out of touch when it comes to the problems that we face as a country right now. the stakes couldn't be any higher. i mean we've got 25 days left. the democratic base needs to listen to this message and be reminded. >> shame on you. food me and can't get food again. >> fits right in, doesn't he? working-class americans, i tell you, you can't afford to get fooled again. this is who these folks are. there hadn't been any improvement at all, it's the same old policies and the choice is very clear. america needs smart leaders now, more than ever. get your cell phones out, folks. i want to know what you think about all of this tonight,

tonight's text survey question is, do you think christine o'donnell is just like you? text "a" for yes. text "b" for no. 622639, we'll bring you the results later on in the show. joining me now is jonathan alter, national affairs columnist "newsweek" and msnbc political analyst. well -- >> hi, ed. >> -- say, jonathan, that we have a -- we have a bevy, a collection of very unusual candidates this year. but the question is, will the anger, will the anger of the voters push the quality of the candidates to the side and may they focus on just the change. what do you think? >> it may be. look, it's too soon to know whether the house is going to go, republican. the sen sat not going to go republican unless something totally different happens in the next few weeks so it's touch and go in the house of representatives. i think that liberals and democrats have to be careful about making this argument on intelligence.

that's pretty off-putting for a lot of voters. there's a reason that christine o'donnell said, i didn't go to yale. most people didn't go to yale. and it's, you know, it's a cheap political trick, but you can't win an election by -- by saying, you know, we're smarter than the other side. it's just bad politics. but it does remind me, ed, of something that happened in the nixon administration when richard nixon nominated a man named g. harold carzwell to the united states supreme court. unqualified by the american bar association. denounced as having a mediocre intelligent. a senator from nebraska at the time. who said i'm from. carzwell. mediocrity deserves on the supreme court too. so there are people who do want to have somebody who is like them in public office, even if they don't think they're so

smart themselves and it's a factor that we have to kind of deal with in our politics. >> with that comment you're making and looking at the overview of what the republicans like to do, they like to talk about what the american people are thinking, what the american people want. >> it's annoying. >> what do you make of that? this is just this generic broad brush that they're projecting that they know exactly what the country needs. >> look, republicans, some of their office holders may not be as smart as their democratic counterparts but they're pretty smart politically. they know how to stag mattize the word liberalism, for instance. repeat a series of buzz words over and over again. president obama is less good at repeating phrases that stick in people's minds. and wrapping yourself in the flag, wrapping yourself in the american people, you know, you can say it's -- it's cheesy, but it does work a lot of the time. and so i don't think that there's anything wrong with --

with democrats talking a little bit more -- about patriotism, entrepreneurship, the american people. things that do resonate. do you that quite well, actually, ed. and that's why i think that you've got that heartland connection, because you're not afraid, you know, to be patriotic. so what we need to do here is -- is kind of get past the annoyance that these dumb ads like the christine o'donnell ad represent and focus on how do we get smarter in getting a more progressive messages out there. >> jonathan alter, great to have you with us. thanks so much for joining us on friday. radio cooke, radio talk show consultant who's been around the media wars for a long time. holland, you talk me a long time ago that the two most important words in talk radio is you and you're and when you're communicating with people directly face to face you want to talk about them. she comes out with an ad that does just that and i would have

to say that the commercial outdoes the candidate. what do you think? >> first of all, for the record, i am not a warlockane didn and go to yale either, but more that i watch this commercial, there was something hauntingly familiar to it, and the next time you see it, tell me if you don't get this. it's sally field. just a little younger. i am you is, you like me and it's like, sally field in the boniva commercial where she says i've got this one body, she's kind of putting herself out there to you and smiling at the camera and otherwise remains in seclusion notwithstanding the stated reason for her not being available to the national press was that she was going to be busy locally. well, she's been busy making these tv commercials. >> well, the commercial is much more polissan the candidate. she also hits on the economic strife that hits on this

country. she says -- she talks about how tough it is to keep a dollar. do you think that resonates? >> i think she's playing that well. and i think that she is smart to remind the voters in delaware that her opponent is a millionaire, but she has spun her personal financial woes in a very relatable way, because who isn't sweating out the mortgage? you know, many americans are jobless. so she's kind of turns lemons into lemonade in that regard. >> what is her down -- her biggest downfall, as we always seem to talk to you on friday for the christine o'donnell weekend review. did she have a good week, or was this another tough week? >> she had a better week this week than she had last week. last week we found out that mike castle was not going to run on a write-in. that was not good for her. and the thing about the resume inflation came out. she stayed under the radar this

week but it's not going to last long. she's got a debate on wednesday night. so she's going to have to come out of the bunker, and then on tuesday, the 19th, she's going to do another debate and on the 19th, that debate is at 8:00 a.m. there's going to be no national tv coverage. but you can see or hear the debate on the 19th live, if you go to wdel.com. and i check with our friends down there, they've actually gone to a third party internet provider and added server heft so if 7 watching tonight timely want to see her have to answer a live question. their server can take a punch. so that'll be on the morning of tuesday the 19th at 8:00 a.m. >> holland cook, always great to have you with us. thanks so much tonight. coming up, sharron angle is officially a vegas freak show. she just accused harry reid of providing viagra to child molesters. we'll get rapid fire response on

that. and the tan man put on quite an act at home today pretending he cares about the working class. boehner, nobody's buying it. the only job's you're creating is for your caddies and your tanning salons. and of course, chris christie gets tunnel vision, meg whitman gets slammed and "daily show" cocreator casts her spell on christine o'donnell. it's all coming up on "club ed." e was complicated, with a series of stepped altitude changes. [ air traffic controller ] okay, 245, proceed to your next cleared altitude. [ sighs ] [ male announcer ] today, truecourse flight management systems from ge allow for fuel savings, lower emissions and less noise... ♪ ...making the old way of doing things... [ air traffic controller ] 245, you are cleared to land. [ male announcer ] ...seem less than graceful. ♪

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welcome back to "the ed show." and thanks for watching tonight. boehner, mr. tan man, back home in ohio today, trying to whip up anti-obama sentiment by pretending to be a man of the people even though he's been in washington since 1991. >> i grew up working in my dad's bar and just a few miles down the road from here. i mopped floors, waited tables, tended bar. i'm a small businessman at heart and always will be. >> i tell you what, don't you love the flannel shirt, huh? it never fails, they all go home and put on a shirt like you and i wear, right? boehner also slammed president obama on jobs, citing september's newly released unemployment numbers. last month the economy lost 95,000 jobs and the unemployment rate stayed steady at 9.6%, and

of course, boehner, he blamed it all on the obama administration. >> this coming election is about one issue, jobs. it's about jobs that were promised to the american people by the current administration that never delivered. your government is disrespecting you, your family, your job, your children, your government is out of control. do you have to accept it? do you have to take it? hell no you don't! >> my next guest is a guy who's trying to send the tan man home for good, justin coussoule, boehner's democratic opponent in ohio's eighth district. mr. coussoule, good to have you with us tonight. i appreciate your time. i want to point out that you're a graduate of westpoint and a former captain in the united states army. you've served this country extremely well. a businessman who has stepped aside to try to get into the

sector of public service in this country. congratulations. what did you think of mr. boehner's speech today? do you take issue with anything he said? >> well, sure, i take issue with most of what he said. that's the first audio from the speech that i heard. it was a private, by invitation-only event. they bust seven, eight busloads of people into that event to have a crowd there, invitation only. you know the public wasn't invited. i certainly didn't get to hear those words. so it's more of the same. more of the same empty talk points. >> so this was a choreographed event. this was a manufactured event, john boehner in his back home. almost like a bush event is that fair? >> yeah, this was a staged photo-op. this was held at a business owner who a longtime supporter of republicans, given republican candidates thousands and thousands of dollars even boehner. even ran for office in northern kentucky. it's laughable to call them local small business owners that are supportive of john boehner,

and the, thing that's laughable is to hear john boehner talk about, as if he's the outsider. he's been in washington for 20 years. the president's been in office for 20 month and talking about how washington has abandoned the working class. i mean where has john boehner been for the last 20 years for the constituents of his districts. >> i asked our viewers tonight to make a comparison how often nancy pelosi's been home and how often john boehner's been home? come back with that story on monday. i think that you'll find it to be very interesting. justin coussoule, can you beat john boehner? you don't have the money he has, but what does it feel like on the ground when you're out and about? >> we've got the momentum building, ed, where you can't outspend your opponent. you can sure as heck outwork them and that's exactly what they're doing and i'll tell you one thing for sure we've got a fighting chance this, this race and what i do know for sure is john bane sernot nearly as popular if his home district that hinges he is. we're going to prove him wrong. >> and how much do you think this choreographed event could

hurt him today? do you think that that plays well with ohio voters? >> no, i don't, because this is as you alluded to, ed, this is an instance where he's come back to his district for the first time in months. comes back to the staged event. the voters here want an opportunity to engage with him in an open forum, asking questions, have the media ask questions. hear him make his case to be rehired. these kind of events are more of the same empty talk points that voters here are just sick of, they're tired of it. >> have you challenged mr. boehner on where he's getting his money? there's a big story all this week long, we're going to cover it a little bit more later in this this show tonight about the kmachler of commerce filtering money into campaigns with overseas' money. what do you make of that? >> i think it's disgraceful. you know the majority of boehner's money comes from out of district. it comes from corporate interests, health insurance industry, pharmaceuticals, big oil, big tobacco. now we find out this story about the chamber's seizing this foreign money. most of it goes to republicans. it's shameful to have foreign

governments and corporations buying our elections. that's exactly what's happening and the american people need to be made aware of it. >> justin coussoule, good to have you with us tonight. i appreciate you're time. all of the best to you. >> thanks, ed. coming up -- the kids over at "fox and friends" thinks that vice president biden help happens the president by putting his foot in his mouth. i'm wondering who they're trying to keep and trying to help every morning. i'm kicking them right into the zone next. [ cellphone rings ] kowalczyk. [ man ] emergency, kowalczyk. what is your emergency? the intern forgot the donuts for the status meeting. ♪ bingo. [ tires screech ] ♪ ♪ bang. [ male announcer ] that's right. we put a turbo in a sport cross. the all new nissan juke. innovation for success. innovation for all. you, dsrl.tion for success. of lick racing, starting with you, dsrl.

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welcome back to "the ed show." the battleground story tonight, well the chamber of commerce is punching back arch president obama called the group a threat to our democracy. i agree. the chamber carpet bombing the airwaves with attack ads on

democrats, claiming that democrats are bad for business and job creation. voters have a right to know what companies are bankrolling these attacks. i think it's coming from other countries overseas. you know, countries where american jobs are being shipped. a spokesperson for the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, summed it up like had. republicans voted 11 times in four years to protect tax havens for corporations that ship american jobs overseas, and now the united states' chamber of commerce is possibly using funds from foreign interests and foreign governments to influence the election. the chamber claims, anger over foreign influence in our elections, here we go, is all a big liberal conspiracy. they're blaming right wings' favorite boogie man george soros he's back at it again. the chambers vice president of communications said this "in coordinated effort is a desperate attempt is to silence those who support free enterprise and a diversion from

their lack of progress on job creation." give me a break. this is all a bunch of garbage. the chamber has no comeback. so they're resorting to name-calling. this sums it all up, folks. today the chamber hosted an event for bahrain bank association. is bahrain's money trying to influence the election and our district and if your district? don't you want to know? what is it is the wheels are just continuing to get greased to just make the american middle class nothing but road kill. joining me now is scott paul, the executive director for the alliance for american manufacturing. mr. paul, good to have you with us on tonight. i appreciate your time. >> thank you, ed. >> how do you view -- how do you view this story, the lack of accountability, the lack of transparency? here you have the chamber of commerce in the middle east today with the bahrain association bringing in a bunch of money. your response to all of this? >> well it seems really fishy to me that they would not reveal

the sources, the chamber that is, of their donors. and there is a very real possibility that these campaign attack ads against democrats who oppose outsourcing are being financed by a lot of companies overseas that have attracted american investment, and also perhaps even state-run companies, so that's essentially foreign government controlled companies that are influencing american elections. look, i welcome foreign investment when it's creating jobs in the united states. i think that it can play a very pos role but i think that there's something very shady about using a lot of offshore resources to try to influence a key election in america when one of the top issues is offshoring. >> yeah. the head of the chamber of commerce is saying that the chamber's being vilified. nat liberals are going after them and it's way off base and in a speech, he said the regulatory impact on the

business community is pervasive, insidious and needs to be exposed, it's suffocating the entrepreneurial spirit. is this expected? >> i think that it is. and you notice, ed, they didn't denied the allegation at all. they called it a diversion and they tried to do a little bait and switch. but the reality is that when you go on the road and you go into these communities where the chamber's running these ads, local businesses agree with us about offshoring. they don't want to see jobs offshored. they want to see china held to account and they definitely don't agree with the national chamber of commerce on this issue. so in a lot of ways, they're working against the interests of their own businesses on main street in these towns that are suffering from offshoring. it just kind of baffles the mind and then you don't see a single republican call up and -- and try to get the chamber of commerce to be much more forthcoming about this one. they were all over the issue in the 1990s when it was the other

party that was being accused. the democrats were being accused of having foreign money into the campaigns. it's just a big hypocrisy as well. >> well, you're exactly right on where the american people are on this. we can gener like eegenerically. 86% of the people agree. 12% disagree. but there really is nothing -- no mechanism in place, scott paul, to stop this funding at this point. and they are outgunning the unions 26-1 financially. the special interest groups are out doing the democrats who support manufacturing jobs by 7 to 1 at this point. how is this all going to play now the your opinion. >> well, even in some races, ed, these groups are outspending candidate. it's quite remarkable to see that in our american democracy. the thing that advocates going for us and people want to keep jobs in this country is the real grassroots. and when you look at that poll

that you just showed, it's not only democrats, but it's the republicans and the independents, who think that our trade policies are off, who don't support offshoring, who want to hold china to account. when they look at where both parties are on this issue i think that they can draw a connection. but i think it is also very difficult to compete against that kind of money. it's hard to dominate the airwaves but we're going to do it the old-fashioned way, go out with shoe leather and go out and tell the truth. >> scott, thank you for your time. >> thank you. tea party sharron angle's just thrown her campaign against harry reid i guess you could say into psycho overdrive. i want to get rapid fire response on her action. she claimed sharia law is taking hold in the united states, including in texas. her latest commercial accuses her ay reid of voting to give viagra to child molesters. and her pastor is attacking harry reid's religion saying, the mormon church is a cult.

that does illegal things. with us tonight, laura flanders, author of "blue grit" and host of blue grit tv on free speech tv. and heidi harris, radio talk show host in las vegas who is our sharron angle expert talker. i tell you what, you have got so much material out in las vegas, you could do a six-hour show a day. what is this about harry reid allegedly giving -- supporting, giving funding of viagra to child molesters. i mean how is that playing out there, heidi. >> tom coburn tried to put an amendment in the health care bill. people who were not imprisoned, child molesters, convicted sex offenders from potentially receiving viagra because he felt that it wasn't clear in the health care bill that they would not be able to get it. her ay reid voted against it, so that's what sharron's saying in her ad, and that's clear. >> here's the ad right here. hold on a second.

here is the ad. the sharron angle commercial linking reid to the child molesters with viagra, here it is. >> do you want to know just how out of touch harry reid is? spending $787 billion on a stimulus that failed is a start. or reid votetology give illegal aliens special tax breaks and social security benefits, that's another big clue. but here's the kicker, reid actually voted to use taxpayer dollars to pay for viagra. for convicted child molesters and sex offenders. what else could you ever need to know about harry reid? >> they're very cleverly tagging an amendment where tom coburn was trying to stop health care. heidi, you're right about that. what about this, laura? >> well, no voting for is the point here. the complete of what you might call, lie. what happened were the democrats tabled the vote on this tom coburn red herring health care scuttling amendment. and that's what angle is apparently getting at, but there was no vote for, money to go to

molesters for viagra. that's complete lying and anybody who says different is crazy. >> politics, i love politics. >> heidi? >> i love politics. obviously, he did not vote against it. this is something that he didn't think was really worth his time. this kind of thing goes on all of the time. >> it doesn't happen? there was an amendment that was intended to do something else that they tabled. didn't even vote against. this is not the same as voting for, and sharron angle's constituents deserve better. rather than to be treated as complete idiots they can tell the difference. >> well you know what the facts are, politics is the way it is and people will poll things, take things out of context at times and pull things out of context that you said at events and vote also that have taken. they will parse the votes. sharron angle was accused making when you look into what actually happened it was entirely different than the way that harry reid was trying to characterize it. >> there was not ray vote for viagra for child molesters. >> when he tried to say that she voted not to protect the women

who were domestic violence victims, that was incorrect. this is what happened -- >> heidi, would you admit that this -- heidi, would you admit that this ad is a flat-out lie. >> no. >> they don't need the money. there's no money for viagra to child molesters. >> no the point is that tom coburn was trying to make it very clear because the law doesn't say that you can't give these guys viagra. that's the whole point. if it's not clearly prohibited, then potentially taxpayer money could be used for child molesters. >> the point, sharron angle voters will is have to get up and say you know what, we're smarter than this. this is an insult and you can try to get around it all that you will but you're tiptoeing around the reality that it's a lie. if you want to say other people don't tell the truth in their campaigns, that's no kind of different. >> the sound cut from sharron angle on sharia law. here it is. >> in dearborn, michigan. under unconstitutional law. not sharia law and i don't know

how that happened in the united states. it seems to me that there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our united states. >> laura flanders, is that psycho talk? >> well you know it almost makes you feel sorry for the woman. maybe this was a got you. the comedian asked george w. bush if he had ever heard of the band, taliban, yeah i think it's a band. or something like that. such a got you silly comment but it doesn't come as a surprise that sharron angle would believe conspiracy theories. i mean, come on, this is a woman who got the power as much as she's got by hanging out with folks who think obama is you know foreign born so it's not exactly new but it is worrying. >> well, i don't know what she's talking about, about actual sharia law. but we live in a country where somebody could go to work to

disneyland and force disney to wear a hijab. that's ridiculous. muslim pray time in america, that's ridiculous. >> sharia law -- heidi, come on. >> no, no, no. >> sharia law allowed to practice your religion is a little distinction there. >> no, no, no another, ridiculous for anybody who is a muslim to come to this country and work at an american company -- >> we live and attract to people in this country by the fact that we have freedom of religion. >> yeah but you don't have the right to sue your employer. no, no, no. i don't ask my boss to give me a break so that can i go pray as a christian. >> you are saying your right to pray in the work is equivalent to sharia law, come on now. >> those are aspects of it that people see creeping into our culture. >> sharia law in texas cities and in dearborn, michigan, that's what sharron angle was talking about. >> i understand that. >> but that's what she said. >> great to have you with us tonight. laura flanders, heidi harris, always a pleasure. thanks so much. coming up, texas republican pete sessions is under fire for

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and in my "playbook" tonight, on the lighter side since it's a friday, if charlie crist doesn't win his election in florida i think it's pretty safe to say that he isn't going to be playing baseball anytime soon. he's not going to have baseball to fall back on. it was kind of a rough day at the ballpark for the florida governor. he threw out the first pitch in game two of the playoffs between the texas rangers earn the tampa bay devil rays. holy smokes, his pitch was high and it was just a little wide. wasn't it?

but don't feel bad, charlie, because you know, what we've seen worst. i've hit the dirt in the florida marlins game a few years ago and a couple of other dandies. how about mariah carey, the singer, oops. martmowry cincinnati mayor, how did he do? mark, throw it in there. he hit the water boy on that one. 'here, oh, president obama, he's a lefty and the wind-up. well, that's not too bad. now we don't have a text poll on this one but i think that you probably have to say that president obama could outpitch charlie crist, don't you think? and paul krugman slammed new jersey governor chris christie for halting construction on a major rail tunnel under the hudson river. krugman said, it's arguably the worst policy decision ever made by the government of new jersey. he argued that jersey would lose huge matching funds from the

federal government, and simply delay a project that new jersey definitely needs. after getting beat up, christie said, well, he'll rethink his decision. i think he should. jobs are a good thing. and the california race has just gotten a little bit uglier. an aide to jerry brown thought -- you see he had hung up his phone after leaving someone a voicemail, well he didn't. a private conversation was caught on tape. take a listen.

>> getting tough out in california. brown's campaign apologized to meg whitman for using such salty language. and sharron angle's pastor is attacking harry reid's religion, saying the mormon church is a cult that does illegal things. for more on that laura flanders and heidi harris back with us tonight. the mormon church is a cult. heidi, what's happening? i mean, she's -- sharron angle is pulling out all stops hitting every angle for a lack of a better term. how's this playing out in nevada. >> well, actually mormons wouldn't appreciate that kind of conduct. we have a lot of mormons out here, let's be honest sharron didn't say it. a guy that she hasn't gone to church to in six years. he said it. of course they're trying to make it stick like the old obama/wright thing. sitting in churches who say get pregnant out of wedlock so not everybody listens to their pastor. sharron has denounced this,

sharron never said it. >> what about that, laura? >> just like the jeremiah wright thing. i can hardly wait. do we really think like it's going to be the jeremiah wright thing? >> i doubt it, you think that we'll hear conservatives all over the country saying exactly what heidi just said. she doesn't listen to anything he says. you know the point here is that it was a very strange campaign move, so close to the midterms. nevada has, i think,s third largest population of mormons of any state. you've got about 14 million mormons in the country including, well, glenn beck, mitt romney. maybe she needs to go back or give herppastor that nice speech that mitt romney gave her about how mormon is not a cult. >> well, he's not her pastor. that's the whole point. he used to be and he's not anymore so let's not pin that on sharron, that's the whole point. >> i look forward to checking of what you said about barack obama and jeremiah wright. >> well that's the point, if you're going to blame barack obama for what jeremiah wright, then fine. but if you're not then you can't. you can't pin that on sharron

angle. she's never said that mormon was a religion cult. >> i hope that your archives are up on your website. >> what about chamber money going into sharron angle's campaign? >> well, this is a huge story. >> playing out there. >> it's a big story, ed, and i'm glad that you're on this chamber story. we've got a big investigative report on exactly this coming out on grit tv this coming week. >> okay. >> we don't know where the money is coming from sharron angle. >> we don't. >> or anyone else's. and that's the problem. we've got to i think go to publicly funded campaigns so that we can get out of this mess. >> that's for sure. laura, heidi, great to have you with ussent to. thanks again. coming up, christean o'donnell wants you to know that she did not go to yale. she came up with that theory about mice having humans. you know, what all on her own. "daily show" co-creator liz winstedt. we'll teach her a lesson in "the zone."

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welcome back to "the ed show." it's friday it's time for club ed daily show co-creator liz winstedt. >> hi, ed. >> gosh, it's been an interesting week again for christine o'donnell, sharron angle, and even lou dobbs. let's start with the candidate from delaware. she didn't go to yale and she's just like you. what do you think about that? >> well, couple things. of course she didn't go to yale. she didn't go to any colleges that she said that she wanted to. i mean really? she didn't go to yale, she went

to fail. she went to fail university. it sounds the same but that's where she went and then the whole chinese thing honestly to think that christine o'donnell has information on the chinese takeover and if you swallow that heaping pile of chinese plate full of nothing and an hour later you're going to want more crazies so that's what happens. >> all right. sharron angle and this viagra thing, she says that harry reid voted for an amendment that would fund viagra for child molesters. >> first of all i think it's fair to say of all of these nut bags sharron angle may be the cream of the crap. i really believe it. now, to say that harry reid funded viagra, we know isn't true, because we don't want to giveex offenders in prison. we want to give them scientology massages, second of all we know that harry reid -- it wasn't sex offenders that he wanted to give tax-funded viagra to, he wanted

to give illegal immigrants to a mosque at ground zero. that's what he voted for. >> all right. and how about lou dobbs, mr. illegal immigration, lo and behold the story by "the nation" saying that he hired just that, undocumented workers, although he claims that he went through a company and they didn't check things out. so how does this play out? >> yeah you know what, it plays out the same way that all of these antigay people plays out. you know these rabbit antigay people and then the rabid anti-immigration people always seem to end up in bed in the same people that they reel against, isn't that interesting? >> lizz winsteady, always a pleasure performing in denver on october 15th and in asheville on october 22nd. details are at lizzwinstead.com. always a pleasure. >> thanks, ed. tonight in our text survey i asked you, do you think that christine o'donnell is just like you? 10% of you said, yes. 90% of you said, no. that's the "the ed show."