aggression. a country that fights when one country invades another. fights the invader. in time we were the invader, and nobody itemed, hey, this isn't our part, this isn't what we americans do, well, some of us yelled but maybe we should have done more, laid out there on the train tracks or whatever you do, to sound the alarm of protest in a democracy. we should have caused real trouble for the drumbeaters of war those who now hang back in their bogus think-tanks in endless meegts and low-grade war-hawking as if they weren't the ones who did this to the 77,000 people killed by this war and what they did to our country. that's "hardball" for now. right now it's time fortunate "the ed show" with ed schultz. good evening, americans. and welcome to the "the ed show." tonight from minneapolis. these stories are hit mighot buttons at this hour. well, the tea party movement is being brought to you by fox news. christine o'donnell admits that she has sean hannity in her back pocket. she's just one of many that use the network as a personal atm machine in the campaign season.

congressman allen grayson sounds off about that in just a moment. and conservatives are race-baiting as we head down the stretch to the midterm races. they're playing to the lowest common denominator with doctored pictures and racist billboards. house majority whip jim clyburn thinks he has the secret weapon. he'll join me along with barber lee, chair with black caucus. and "daily show" co-creator liz winsted will find the punchline. that's all coming up tonight. but this is the story that we start with and this is the story that has me fired up. america's newest supreme court expert christine o'donnell is bragging about her cozy relationship with fox news freedom fighter, sean hannity. o'donnell is, well, she's whining because the establishment in the republican parent just isn't supporting her. you think? howard fineman of "huffington post" reported that o'donnell told a grouch washington insiders "i've got sean hannity

in my back pocket and i can go on his show and raise money by attacking you guys." here's an example of her doing just that. >> we're going to start having a very aggressive campaign to let people know what that's about and that's why i am glad that i can -- talk to your listeners and ask for their support. we need to raise another million dollar in order to take out ads and do the mailings that we need to do. >> o'donnell and her buddies in the tea party have used hannity like an atm machine. no doubt about it. sharron angle makes withdrawals from the bank of hannity wherever she needs to pay for another attack ad against harry reid. this is what she said about mentioning her web -- this is what she did as mentioning her website on his show. >> when i said it on sean hannity's television show we made $40,000 before we even got out of studio in new york.

it was just -- >> tea party candidates have a platform on fox wherever they want. guys like hannity and beck push the crazy tea party ideas for hours, day after day. now, i'm just going to keep hammering on this. these are the people who fundamentally want to change nerk our opinion for the worse. tea party candidates this is what they want to do and don't forget it. let's undo the 14th amendment and now the new one is abolish public education. i mean these people were nuts. all these crazy ideas are going to make their way to washington, unless democrats turn out to vote, big time. the tea party's within striking distance of making a major dent in both houses of the congress. look at the numbers. "washington new york times"' reporting that the tea party candidates are winning or close in 33 house races in eight senate seats are up for grabs and that's how tight it is. if these radicals get in power it's going to grind washington to an absolute halt.

there's no way the republican party is going to want to reach out across the aisle to work with president obama when the tea party comes to town. i mean, millions of americans need unemployment benefits. what about the food stamp program they want to eliminate? the government needs to get money into the hands of small businesses and repair the crumbling education system. well, the republican tea party will put a stop to all of that and more seats will even embolden them more. now fox news and the tea party and the republican's folks they're all one in the same. they are on a mission to make president obama fail and america fail. base democrats are the only people who can stop this crowd, 18 days from now the choice couldn't be anymore clear. either this country will go back to the 1800s or lean forward into the 21st century. let's get your cell phones out tonight, folks. i want to know what you think about this. tonight's text survey question is, do you think the tea party has any good ideas for america? text "a" for yes. text "b" for no to 622639.

we'll bring you the results later on in the show. joining me now is florida congressman allen grayson who undoubtedly the progressive warrior and is also targeted by the conservatives and of course a lot of corporations, money is flowing in against you, allen. how are you combatting this? how is it going? you're outgunned. you're a national target because you're so outspoken, and now that fox is an unabashed money machine for the republican party what does the future hold for progressives? >> well, we're fighting back. the same way that we always do with the help of good-mind people, and by together truth, but it is true, my opponent bragged that when he went on fox news a couple of weeks ago he raised $100,000. he was very proud of that and he's using it like an atm is, just like o'donnell is, just like sharron angle is, that's her angle, to try to be able to put together money that she needs for a campaign but i look at these people and i say to myself, it's like seeing a bad movie all over again because i think we had a tea party

president for eight years, think about it, the same sort of beatty eyes, vacant look and where did that lead us? do we are to elect the same kind of people over and over and over again who end up trying to destroy the country? >> congressman, do you think this is just the way it's going to be for election cycles to come, that there's really no way that the progressive movement in this country and the wage earners of america are going to be able to keep up with in money? and now the foreign money that's coming from the chamber of commerce. >> it's hard. we've had almost $200 million outspent. mostly unanimous special interests. pieced together the insurance companies, the oil companies, david koch's money. chamber of commerce foreign money, we've pieced it together but they don't even have a disclosure argument. and according to politico newspaper from a week ago, 20% of all of the money that's been spent by these outside right

wing forces in the entire country has been spent against me. and i can't believe it myself. i mean, i'm a first-term democrat. i don't sit on the appropriations committee. i'm not a member of leadership and they're really, really out to get me. but luckily for us, we've had people come to our website, congressmanguts.com. over 80,000 contributions so far. 80,000 people have contributed to our campaign. so we have the ability to fight back. but they've tried to pick me off. they tried to pick off off. people like carol shea porter. people with a conscience and they destroy us with these negative ads. these blistering, evil negative ads. in front of my -- in front of my children on my tv set, they called me a liar, they've called me a loud-mouth. they said i'm a national embarrassment. and this is their idea of constructive dialogue. >> well, you know, congressman, i think you answered your question why they're coming after you. they're afraid of your guts. they're afraid the way that you speak up for the people and the

way you go right after it because you've had success in life. you don't have to have this job in the congress. you speak for the people and i think you've got really afraid. an ad that you took against your opponent mr. webster with his record in the state senate in florida. here it is. >> i'm congressman alan grayson and i approve this message. ♪ i got up this morning ♪ and i hopped into my car ♪ put daniel webster's going a bit too far ♪ ♪ web story tried to sell our roads to the shaikhs in the middle east ♪ ♪ >> yea. >> congressman, what is the message there? you're going right to the money but it has somewhat of a "soprano's" theme is that over

the top, what you think? >> the message of my opponent has been a tool for special interest for the past 28 years and a career politician who never met toll that he didn't like. opposed toll after toll and property tax after property tax increase and sales tax after sales tax increase on ordinary people and that's what that ad is all about. and it has nothing to do, ed with me versus him anymore. it's now me versus a special interest. they couldn't buy me and now they're trying to destroy me. >> congressman, great to have you with ussent to. thanks for speaking up, as always. alan grayson from florida here on "the ed show." for more bring in eric boller. senior fellow media matters for america. well, i guess it's open season for the cable shows. i know that we have restrictions on what we can do here at msnbc. over at fox across the street it's a totally different story. is this the way it's going to be, eric? >> this is the way it's going to be. fox news is now essentially a pact. they're a political action commodity. they just happen to be a pact,

mr. program's a cable channel. they've made no doubt about it, and look at the news today at news corp's annual shareholder meeting in new york city. robert murdoch was grilled by investors asking why is a public money -- writing obviously partisan million dollar check to the republican party to the chamber of commerce. what's in it for investors? this is a public company. they're supposed to be you know making money for investors and murdoch frankly didn't have a very good answer, although he said you know those donations were for the best interest of america. now imagine for a second if a public company like "the washington post" or "the new york times" was writing a million dollar checks to the democratic party or moveon.org i move heads would literally be exploding on fox news but they don't have any rules. sort of a turn key operation and they're now taking on the republican party in terms of who's picking candidates and who's in charge? >> and, eric, there's no legal ground here? there's no -- i mean, they're perfectly legal in the way

they're putting candidates on and just blatantly asking for money and then giving the donations and the checks that you just saw. >> yeah, i mean -- >> go ahead. >> more than that. i mean look at who's on the payroll, gingrich, palin, santorum, huckabee. i mean most of the people running for president in 2012 were cashing checks on a regular basis from fox news so we've never seen that. we've never seen quote/unquote news organization writing million-dollar checks to you know partisan organizations and we've never seen parade the candidates across -- for fund-raising like this. >> and of course in the last several weeks, a lot of anchors on this show, on this network, have done the story about the chamber of commerce. >> that's right. >> allegedly using foreign money on these attack ads. and so what they do is they line up and they get their talent across the street to defend and then try to raise money, which they did. here's beck forking out some bucks for the chamber of commerce. here it is.

>> i want you to go to glennbeck.com -- where is it, donate to the u.s. chamber of commerce. i would like to have this the largest day of fund-raising for the chamber of commerce, ever. i am donating $10,000 to the chamber of commerce now. >> now, eric, the bigger picture here this goes off of radio where he's allegedly on 400 stations. is this a misuse of the airwaves. all those radio stations have to be licensed in the public's interest and here he is raising money for the chamber of commerce which is running political ads against democrats. i mean wha the hell's going to here? >> it's a nice operation, isn't it? i mean if a journalist ever called glenn beck a populist again they should retire. i mean this is a guy who literally worships at altar of big business. he's having on-air pledges, fund-raisers, for the chamber of commerce because at&t and verizon and ibm don't have allowed enough voice in washington, i mean for glenn

beck and his media operation to now be urging people to spend their hard-earned money and send it back to their employers, back to corporate america, every day brings an amazing revelation and the fact that fox and their employers are fund-raising for the chamber of commerce of all people, it's just amazing. >> great to have you with us. >> and writing million-dollar checks to the chamber of commerce, of course. >> it's absolutely nuts. they've got some political operatives who work in the political arena that have run for office and thinking of running for office because the republicans wouldn't even let me think about running for senate in north dakota. >> that's right, that's right. >> and all over on msnbc and i had to disavow it right away it's a circuit. great to have you with us tonight, eric. coming up, nut job sharron angle challenged her ay reid's manhood last night. you know what that shows me she, number one, has no plan, no credibility and will go in the gutter.

roophost mike papantonio sounds off on that from las vegas in just a moment. and rand paul doubles down again on the crazy. he wants to abolish the department of education so schoolchildren won't have to learn about gay people. well, we're goi to take care of him in the zone. all of that plus crazy carl paladino's alleged pornography -- surface. it's friday. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] every day thousands of people are switching from tylenol® to advil. to learn more and get your special offer, go to takeadvil.com. take action. take advil®. [ ted ] for years, i was just a brewer. until one of the guys brought in some fresh bread that he'd made from our pale ale. and from that first bite,

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welcome back to "the ed show" and thanks for watching tonight. senate majority leader harry reid and sharron angle faced off in the only debate of the nevada senate race last night. angle tried to show that she was the tough customer. she went after harry reid's manhood? >> man up, harry reid. do you need to understand that we have a problem with social security. that problem was created because of government taking that money out of the social security trust fund. >> actually, we do not have a problem with social security. it is solvent for decades to come. just a little fact there. cheap shot like that just proves that she just doesn't know what

in the hell she's talking about. reid manned up when it came to passing the most sweeping healthcare reform bill that this country's ever seen. >> and insurance companies don't do things out of goodness of their hearts, they do it out of a profit motive and they've almost destroyed our economy. 20% of all costs prior to our passing our health and insurance reform was because of health care costs. my opponent doesn't like any insurance companies to have do anything. she's against mammograms, colonoscopies and heard lately, insurance companies cover kids that have autism. that's really extreme. >> now, i think those are two very telling sound bites. there you have a challenger saying you got to man up, making an accusation and then harry reid coming back with a handful of facts that are undeniable. was he wrong about what he said about the insurance industry? you know, harry also helped bring this country back from the brink of another depression,

passed wall street reform, how about equal pay for women. sharron angle, is she okay with that? and we can argue the stimulus bill until the cows come home. the fact is we're not peeling off 700,000, 800,000 jobs a month the way that we were when president obama took over. sharron angle wants to destroy all of that. she's a tea partier. in many respects in my opinion she's antiamerican. for more let's turn to mike papantonio. host of ring of fire radio show. now we may have a difference of opinion here, mike. i think harry, hands down when it came to substance, he was far superior to sharron angle. i will admit that he was kind of policy wonky washingtonite but he did have far more facts than she did. >> i wish he had talked about the facts a little bit more but what we're seeing -- what harry reid is up against. all the money that commerce of money is getting from dictators in china and royal family kings

in saudi arabia and india and panco panco wherever they're getting their money to bring money to the united states that money is being spent right here in nevada in some form or fashion, i can promise. and most of that money, ed is going towards reinventing sharron angle and reinventing the tea bagger movement. we're not seeing anything in the ads about the fact that sharron angle for years has talked about how she wants to abolish social security, entirely. she wants to do away with medicare, she wants to do away with the public education system and let corporations take that over. she wants to do away with the epa, and tell us in some bizarre, odd plan that she has, that corporate america is going to police themselves on an honor system, like we saw with bp. so the truth is, harry reid has a lot to talk about, but he's being overwhelmed with an ad every ten minutes where we see this voice for the tea bagger movement trying to say, we aren't as crazy as you thought we were. >> well, she's raised $14 million in the last quarter. i mean, people around the country are getting behind her

and this narrative that's out there that the democrats weren't tough enough i think is hurting harry a little bit with the base and whatnot. but fact is the hispanic vote can make a big, big factor in this race in that state and when you're talking about abolishing the healthcare reform which is going to help millions and you're talking about minimum wage and public education i mean it would seem to me the minority vote would go right into harry's account. >> you came from search light to the senate with very little. now you're one the richest men in the u.s. senate. on behalf of nevada taxpayers, i'd like to know, we'd like to know how did you become so wealthy on a government payroll? >> senator reid? >> rich, that's kind of a low blow. i think that most everyone knows i was a very successful lawyer. i did a very good job of

investing so her suggestion they made money being a senator is simply false and i'm really disappointed that she would suggest that. >> mike, how does that play out with the public? what do you think? >> interesting suggestion. when you consider that the tea bagger republican is the party of the wealthy. this is a party, ed, that i promise you, i've said it before they would be happy building a big gate between most of america and themselves. they would gladly build something with the koch family and the haves running everything in this country to where we would have something to look like sueto down in south africa. >> no doubt. >> the truth is -- >> yeah? >> what nair trying do is they're trying to overcome this image of these old gray hairs who some reason are lining up with corporate america but really when you drill down to what it is, what's happening with this tea bagger movement, why are they so motivated, it's a generational issue, ed. you have old tea baggers who don't want to pay for education anymore because their children

have grown. they don't want to pay for the things, the roads and the dams and the rivers the pretection of our environment because they've lived their lives. so the hell with the next generation and that's what's coming throughout here as i watch the campaign develop. in generational divide that is alive between the tea baggers and the rest of the world. >> and i think harry reid won that debate last night. you're not supposed to get style points. you're supposed to have some substance and he had plenty of it. mike papantonio good to have you with us tonight. >> thank you. >> thanks so much. coming up, rand paul thinks the government should get out of schools so kids don't learn about gay marriage. the guy's out of the his mind.

and in "psycho talk" tonight, kentucky fried tea party candidate rand paul, the leading candidate to win the senate seat, the blue grass state, debated democrat jack conway last night. here's one of the crazy ways that rand paul thinks that abolishing the department of education is a good thing. >> i don't like the idea of somebody in washington deciding that susie has two mommies isn't an appropriate family situation and should be talked to my kindergarten in school. that's what happens when we let things get to i federal level. >> wow, you think i heard something like this on this show last night. here's carl paladino's former favorite rabbi, ye huda levip. >> if your child was imprisoned in the public school with after raising him before going to the bathroom and they can't opt out

of sex ed and some sex ed curricular that starts in kindergarten where heather has two mommies, if you don't think that's indoctrinating and brainwashing and then i think that you have to have your brainwashed. >> hmm, it sounds to me like rabbi may have brainwashed rand paul all the way back in kentucky. now i know that rand paul isn't big on equal rights but wanting to eliminate the department of education because of a book that teaches tolerance to kindergartens is immature psycho talk. coming up, president obama addresses racial tension in america. he says our tough economic times have led people to have a tribal attitude. i'll talk to house majority whip jim clyburn about that and congressional black caucus chairwoman barbara lee in tonight's battleground story. also, crazy carl paladino's alleged pornographic e-mails they've come out. this guy he's a walking, talking freak show, isn't he?

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welcome back to "the ed show." the "battleground" story tonight, the impact of race in the midterms. democrats know it is critical to get the new voters from 2008 back to the polls in just a few days. on msnbc on thursday, majority whip jim clyburn said, turning out the african-american base could be the democrats' secret weapon. >> looking at these voting patterns in as many as 20 districts the black vote, the turnout may be decisive. >> it -- that's exactly right and i really believe that that

what's going to be the secret weapon here. two years ago to change the guard at washington they're going to go out that time to guard these changes i'm very pleased with that and i think that's what's going to occur. >> but of course the conservatives are playing to the lowest common denominator in some places in this country, that means race. here's a republican mailer sent out to arizona voters can you believe this urging them to vote against congressman ral. that is low rent. then there's the hispanic thug featured in sharron angle's campaign features the ground zero mosque demagoguing taking place. port reag president obama as ia pimp and a terrorist. the incidents of race-baiting in this election cycle, my friends, just go on and on and it's no coincidence, yesterday at an mtv townhall a young voter asked

president obama about the deteriorating state of race relations in this country. the president, i thought, had a very interesting answer, tying it all to the economy. . >> if everybody's working and feeling good and making money and buying a new house and a big screen tv, you're less worried about what other folks are doing, and when you're out of work and you can't buy a home or you've lost your home and you're worried about paying your bills, then you become more worried about what other folks are doing, and sometimes that organizes itself around, kind of a tribal attitude. and issues of race become more prominent. >> joining me now is south carolina congressman jim clyburn, the house majority whip. congressman, we've come so far yet we still have so far to go when you see those billboards and you see some of the mailers that are being sent out around the country. free speech has got a hurtful price, no question about it. what's your response to that

when you see that? and what should the response be from the democrats and those who are attacked? >> well, we should use that to really redouble our forces. the fact of the matter is that two weeks ago i saw these numbers indicating that only 6 in 10 african-americans were engaged in the process. now they're saying there's about 8 in 10. now i do believe that over the next two weeks, they will all -- we will all be involved in this process. and i know from my own experiences when we see the kinds of things that's being done, the kind of money that's being spent out here in these districts, we are going to really respond with that thing that we have which is the almighty vote. we may not have as many dollars that they have to spend but we

will equalize ourselves in that voting booth and i think that's what's going to happen. our response ought to be, don't ever get angry, just get even. >> and you get even with the votes. and do you think that that is the secret weapon? that the black vote and the hispanic vote in this country could save the democratic majority in the congress? what do you think? >> absolutely, i do believe that. the joint center for political and economic studies recently, i think on yesterday, issued a report that indicated there are about 20 congressional districts where the african-american vote could be the difference in democrats winning and losing, and i do believe that the same thing exists in a got of gubernatorial races. the republican governors are now projecting that they will win a plus ten seats up around 33 or 34 governors after this is over. i do believe that is only if the african-american community does

not get engaged. in ohio, for instance. that could be the key in ohio. i know it will be the key here in south carolina. nobody's watching this tate. i predict that south carolina could be the upset of this political season. >> congressman, great to have you with us tonight. i appreciate your time. thanks for speaking up. for more turn to california congresswoman barbara lee the chair of the congressional black caucus. i want to play this sound cut from president obama. he was talking to young people yesterday and he was talking about change. here it is. >> the journey we started in 2008 was not about putting a president in the white house, it was never just about getting to election night, it was about every day after that and building a movement for change that endures. so i need you all to keep on fighting. i need all of you to knock on doors. i need all of you to talk to your neighbors. i need all of you to make phone

calls. i need all of you to commit to vote. >> barbara lee, the president is engaged. that was audio from -- and video today. the president today speaking. he's at a fever pitch right now, isn't he? >> yes he is. and so much is at stake with these elections, and i'm very pleased that he is speaking directly to the american people, directly to young people, directly to all of those who voted for the first time for his presidency and for the election of him for president and so i think between now and november 2nd, what we're doing will work. we have to make sure that each and every vote is cast. each and every vote is counted. and in fact i do believe that the minority vote could be that secret weapon when you look at 20 states where the african-american vote is the -- >> yeah. >> the margin of victory. i think we're going to win. i think we have a really great road map to winning and i think the president is out on the

trail, as is our first lady, to making sure that each and every vote is cast and counted. >> congresswoman, is there going to be an organized message talking directly to the black community of america that this is it? you have to get out and vote. we hear about, talk about the turnout, but is the congressional black caucus going to make a formal statement to the black community in this country that you must do your duty? is it going to come in those terms before the election? >> it has and will continue to come in those terms. the african-american community knows what's at stake. first of all when you look at unemployment rates 16.5%, unacceptable. when you look at the fact that we are to create jobs and the democrats have moved especially in the house, our job creation efforts over into the senate. the black community knows that a lot is at stake in terms of our economy and in terms of job creation. the african-american community knows what we have done -- what

democrats have done in terms of education. just look at how we've increased pell grants, how we've taken the middle institutions out of the financial services institutions, out of our loans so that young people can get money. we brought in 60 million more in terms of student loans so i think the african-american community understands we've increased historically black colleges by $2.5 billion. so lots at stake, healthcare reform we did and yes, i think the black community really understands that and the black caucus is working to be sure this message is communicated. >> congresswoman lee, can you unequivocally say that if the tea partiers, if the republicans get the majority, that the minorities in this country stand to lose the most? is that going too far or do you believe that? >> i'm confident that that will happen. we have moved forward too far. we can't go back. when you look at just the last eight years of the republican administration, not to mention the history of the

african-american community in the country, and the tea party and what it stands for is not in the best interest of the african-american community and it's not in the best interest of our country. everyone has the right to a decent job, affordable healthcare, a quality education, a safe place to live. we're going to make sure that each and every vote is cast from the black communities, from the latino community, from all of our communities, the asia-pacific communities so democrats will win. >> congresswoman barbara lee, thanks for joining us tonight. i appreciate your time. now let's get some rapid fire response from our panel on these stories tonight. i want to know what they make of sharon angle's telling harry reid that he needs to man up during last night's debate. does attacking his manhood prove that she is ready for the senate? disgusting chain e-mails allegedly sent by crazy carl paladino have been posted online. they include racist imagery of the president and the first lady, bestiality and porn sent

from a government account. and sarah palin is comparing the democrats to unicorns. with us tonight jack reich, criminal defense attorney and radio talk show host. and also heidi harris radio talk show host in las vegas. well, heidi, if i can ask you first, objectively, who won the debate last night? >> oh sharron angle clearly won the debate last night. i'm wearing red in honor of sharron angle last night and i'll tell you why she clearly won because she had more to prove than harry reid did. a guy who's been in congress 28 years and he look liked a doubtering foul last night. trying to find a closing statement. the thing was pathetic. all she had to do was hold her own and that was a win for sharron angle. that she did very clearly. something else she did a couple of very smart things. first of all she said, man up, harry reid, which everybody left and right websites all over the country, everybody's quoting that so you have that takeaway from the event. >> well -- >> let me say one more thing. when she gave her opening statement she mentioned that he listened to ritz-carlton.

you know that i know that. a lot of voters may not have know that. ha, he lives where? and when she said that in her opening statement she fired the first shot across the bow and let him know she was not going to rollover and play dead at that debate. >> well, if sharron angle wins, it'll be interesting to see if she lives in government-assisted housing. i mean, come on! i've been a million times. they all live in nice places in washington. jack reich, what do you think? >> you know, ed, very, very clearly here i think harry reid won for this reason. he actually used actual information, actual facts. she's great at sound bites here and she's used them but the problem is what we've missed is the meat of what we really need. and yet what we didn't talk about was her willingness and desire to get rid of social security, get rid of medicare, deregulate let's see oil, gas, the healthcare industry, the banking industry, and yet this is -- >> she was the lightweight and you know it. >> she was the lightweight, heidi.

you know it. >> no, no, no. >> she had no substance whatsoever, come on. >> did they get into as much substance than i would have liked to have? no. but you have to remember only 30 seconds to answer the question. the moderator didn't give them a long time. which is fine. it's his debate. my point is, you said did she win the debate? yes. because all she had on do was hold her own against this career politician. that's what she did in that context she won. she asked harry reid, how did you get so rich? so people over in america are looking at this especially in nevada and went -- and they're saying hey you know that's a good question. how did he get rich? >> heidi, heidi -- jack, you're an attorney. do people understand that attorneys make money and here she is playing class warfare in the debate. what do you think? >> actually it's a great point. i mean that's really the sad part of this, she has absolutely nothing behind this. what she does is she tosses this out there. if this isn't class warfare hearing there thfrom the tea baggers the entire time oh look at what the left is doing. if this isn't that this is the irony of what this woman is, an

empty suit in about every sense the word but you know what she's great at the sound bite. she's great at the sound bite. >> one comment about -- jack, one comment about carl paladino, do the pornographic e-mails mean anything to voters, what do you think? >> stick a fork in this guy, he is done pyguess he'll get sexist vote and the homophobic votes too, those are his. >> what do you think, heidi? >> i think anybody who send e-mail forwards out of his shot, i'm tired of all of them. don't we all get too many of those. >> do we agree again. >> yeah. >> heidi ican't take it. >> it can't be used against you. a lesson for everybody, stop sending us e-mails forward we don't want them. >> whatever you do, heidi, don't shoot anybody on this program. i don't need the bad press. i've had enough. good to have you with us, both of you, jack rice, heidi harris. coming up, we have got alaska has been a breeding ground for a lot of psycho talkers, but not everyone up there is just like sarah palin

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and in my "playbook" tonight, we all know there is a whole lot of crazy coming out of alaska in the last few years. tea party nut job joe miller, senator lisa murkowski of course, and then there's carry but -- barbie but for the first mine a while i think that there is a very strong senate candidate that probably doesn't get a whole lot of attention nationally. this is a guy that can restore honor from the northern frontier. scott mcadams is a former mayor of sit ca, alaska and the democratic nominee for senate in the senate seat in alaska. check this out a conservative think tank poll has mcadams six points off joe miller. he was got a real shot at winning this thing. joining me now is alas -- from alaska is scott mcadams. scott, you're a big guy from a small town. that's what the information says on you. you're a former football coach. you were the president of the

association of alaska school boards, a former commercial fisherman. you know what it's like to work with your hands and you've got the labor folks behind you. can you win this election now that there's a write-in candidate in murkowski? what's the landscape? >> ed, thanks for having me on the show. yes we can win this election and we will. when you take alook atla,,as ca first of all share with your audience that this state is far more reasonable and rational than it might seem from look outside. i tell you alaska while we do tend to vote republican often in this state, this state has the third highest concentration of union employees in the united states. we have the highest per captia concentration of nonprofits in america. all over alaska there are reasonable and rational people, both moderate republicans, independents and progressives who recognize that the tea party express is far too to the right for alaska and rerknize that lisa murkowski's engaged in a writing campaign that she can't

win. >> you're the most undercovered national candidate, senate candidate in this country i would say and you have got an interesting situation. does lisa murkowski write-in campaign help your cause even further? will this put you over the top? >> you know i believe that we're the campaign is gaining great momentum. if you look at the poll that you've just mentioned we've risen 7 per in the last two weeks. joe miller's dropped about the same measure. right now it's going to be whoever gets the biggest third. this thing's wide open, but i can tell you, ed, every day we grow. we gain great momentum. we've outfund-raised. making calls all over the straight. we've got a strategy to win. i've got some of the best people in alaska working on my campaign. we've got a great team and we fully report into win in november. >> scott mcadams, we're going to have you back. some other things out there they think are more than interesting with the way that you're doing

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welcome back. if it's friday it's time for "club ed" with "daily show" co-creator liz winsted. liz, we have to start with this one since you're a minnesota girl and you love the vikings, it's been a rough week for brett

favre. this is what happened to him at practice this week. he took one in the groin. ow! ow! >> ed, that is the absolute definition of being ball sacked, right there, you witnessed it. >> what is that. >> they've got the cowboys coming up. i hope he's ready. >> i do, too. >> the big debate last night, the big debate last night, harry reid and sharron angle, who won, how did it go? how do you score it? >> we all lost. first of all harry reid is running against possibly the scariest person ever to run for the u.s. senate an he chose not point that out. i mean it's incredible. he's like the electorate whisperer. you know he just stands there, apparently bored, bored at his own debate, and she offered nothing. she was stumbling through what she had to say, and she nailed him with that whole, you live at four season thing, like anybody expected that harry reid, where does she think he lives in the

unibomber's cabin? i mean please. >> what did you think in the other debate, we have a new supreme court expert in o'donnell. >> oh, yeah. coonsby crazy lady? i think that she should have known. she was trained by palin's trainers and she should have known something and i guess they forgot to add that in and she doesn't have a supreme court decision that she's unhappy with but she did have a judge judy decision she was very upset with, which is the one where the roommate actually -- got to -- he won -- and the agreef guy wo broke the flat screen tv. very upset about that judge judy ruling. >> oh that's good. too good. >> crazy. how do you say, look at my website on that? i mean can you imagine her in sfwhed oh i'm there, i'm almost there? i'm almost there. oh check my website. awful. >> lizz