this is what it it's like to be in republican governance, not to be a republican candidate but to be a republican governor who is in office and responsible for making policy. if you are, for example, governor sam brownback of kansas and you've governed the way he has governed signing into law some of the most extreme anti-abortion measures in the country last year with more on the way this year, if you are sam brownback, your facebook page right now is full of questions like this, quote, do you have a crossword puzzle book i can have for in between pregnancies? seeing as i can't do too much walking around holding this aspirin between my knees. or this one. i just need to ask one more question. do you think it's true 100% of pregnancies in the state of kansas were caused by men? if so, do you have a proposal to deal with them? thank you so much for your time and expert tyce.

sex with me would be pointless since i am in peri-menopause. or this one, governor brownback, i have a rash on the back of my hand. please let me know when i can come over and you can look at it and prescribe medication for it. it's very uncomfortable. thank you. i look forward to hearing from you. folks at buzz feed posted a roundup of some of the best comments from his facebook page this week. these were some of my paffavori but there are hundreds of others like this. and just those are the ones the governor's staff has not deleted yet. he's not alone of having a facebook page full of satire/protest right now. here's governor bob mcdonald's page. i just wanted to let you know what's been going on. this is day two of my period.

so sometime soon i'll nead to report that an egg was denied its right to achieve personhood. is there a form or a number i should call? how about this one? how does force be women to have ultrasounds create jobs? thank you for your deep and abiding region in the nether regions of america's women. will your office be involved in gyn investigates of all women or will you be targeting only those in peak child bearing years? pennsylvania governor tom corbett is dealing with the same treatment. not all women can be so lucky. this is what it's like to be a republican governor right now. when you have governed the way this year's republican governors have governed. governor corbett of pennsylvania woke up this week to the democrats sending out a blast e-mail petition about him. it said, quote, if you're a woman who oppose mandatory ultrasounds, republican pennsylvania governor tom corbett has a suggestion for you.

you just have to close your eyes. close your eyes? does governor corbett have no shame? does blankety blank politician have no shame? it's boilerplate partisan hyperbole, right? who knows about his shame? you know, tom corbett of pennsylvania, the governor there, seriously did say that thing about closing your eyes. about how you should close your eyes if you don't want to look at the screen that's being forcibly positioned in your sight line during a state-mandated medical procedure that he, tom corbett, governor of pennsylvania, says you have to have. he wants to make this law, the force ultrasound bill that's been kicking around the pennsylvania legislature this session is one of the most extreme in the country. it includes language like -- that likely mandates transvaginal ultrasounds in most cases because of the time of pregnancy for most abortions and what ultrasound has by law for

show. it forces doctors to position the screen in front of a woman's sight line while the procedure is being performed and requires a printout of the image to be filed away in the woman's medical records even if she does not want this. this is stalled in pennsylvania. the state medical association is telling republicans to butt out of the doctor's office. since it's stalled, he doesn't have to make a decision about it right now, governor tom corbett of pennsylvania could just avoid talking about this. but no, asked about the bill this week, he just decided he was going to go for it. >> i wouldn't change it. as long as it's not obtrusive, but we're still waiting to see. >> not obtrusive? making them watch, does that go too far in your mind? >> i don't know how you make anybody watch. okay? because you just have to close your eyes. but as long as it's and the exterior, not interior. okay?

>> ladies, ladies, relax. men at work here. don't mind governor tom corbett's state government physically probing you against your will and shoving a screen in your face, just close your eyes. there is two things that are important, first thing that he says it's not -- it's external not internal. doesn't know what to do with his hands for that one. but he's wrong. it would actually require transvaginal ultrasounds. something else is important here. >> but as long as it's exterior and not interior. >> it is interior. it would require vaginal probe ultrasounds for most women. republicans in kansas -- it's fascinating, we're seeing people talk about ultrasounds, the ultrasound bills as if none of them are transvaginal ultrasounds. that is what they tried to say in virginia. republicans tried to say that

we're not requiring that. democrats called them on it and the governor weighed in and said you have to change this bill, but the republicans keep explaining they don't know what is in their bills. they're not doctors. they are not ob-gyn's, they tried to get detailed but shows the ignorance of the medical procedures they are mandating, as politicians, which is kind of the point. republicans in kansas this week dropped their own twist on the forced ultrasound, a requirement that are dids would be directed by the state to employ a doppler handheld fetal monitor on a patient even if it was against the patient's wishes and against the doctor's medical judgment. guess what kansas left in their new anti-abortion bill when they passed it out of committee. they left in a script written by the legislature that a doctor has to say to a patient, a script that includes saying that abortion is linked to breast cancer. abortion is not linked to breast cancer. so says the american cancer society and national cancer institute. why would you listen to idiots like that when you can get your cancer information from kansas

republican state representatives instead? they say there is a link. they heard that somewhere. and if and when they pass this bill and sam brownback signs it, in kansas, doctors will be violating the law if they don't read to their patients seeking abortions a false medically inaccurate script written by the state legislature. the justification for this? state representative joe patton says, quote, we want women to be fully informed. fully meaning including the false information. oh, but wait, there's more. fully informing kansas women not only means lying to them about cancer, under law you have to lie to them about cancer. but it also means lying to women in order to trick them into doing something the woman doesn't want to do. this is so strange. this new kansas republican bill would block you from being able to sue your doctor, if your doctor lied to you about your pregnancy. as long as your doctor lied to you about your pregnancy because

he or she thought that telling youg the truth about your pregnancy might make you want an abortion. in kansas it's mandatory for the doctor to lie to you about one aspect of your future health and it is legally protected for your doctor to lie to you about your current pregnancy. if you are a woman and you are pregnant. the government knows best. i don't know why they say republican policy would be so alienating to women this year. wow. it's okay for your doctor to lie to you bill is picking up in popularity among red states. in oklahoma and in a few other states, anti-abortion legislators have already made it legal for your doctor to lie to you, provided you are a woman and you are pregnant because you can't handle the truth, woman, you have to hand that over to the state government. arizona has an it's okay to lie to women bill that's passed the

arizona state senate, steaming its way through the republican legislature on route to governor jan breuer's desk. also a senate committee approved along party lines, a measure that the liberal blogs are calling the tell your boss why you're on the pill bill. while that kind of sounds like a very liberal bloggy thing to say, it quite accurately describes what the bill does. this has passed the republican-led house in arizona. this blows my mind. the bill would permit employers to ask their employees for proof of medical prescription if the employee seeks contraceptives for non-reproductive purposes. arizona republicans will make you tell your boss if you're having sex but taking precautions not to get pregnant. see what the boss says about that. it's the law. you have to say. over in virginia, democrats sent my friend governor ultrasound bob mcdonnell a letter asking if now that his state government is force virginia women to get

ultrasounds they don't want and don't need would he please consider not also forcing them to pay for it? governor's office said we're happy forcing this thing on women and forcing women to pay for it at the same time. republicans in the virginia legislature also had a chance this week to not force virginia women to pay for the ultrasounds that the republicans are forcing them to get. republicans in the virginia senate also said no. bob mcdonnell and virginia republicans want women to pay for the forced procedures themselves. bob mcdonnell is mad about it, mad about democrats suggesting there's something wrong with forcing women to pay for something that they don't want that the state is mandating. his office is putting out a statement saying this was quote partisan and petty. the statement ends with this, quote, i hope they are having a good time. you know, who wouldn't be having a good time, governor ultrasound upon learning your governor has not only ordered you to have this medical thing done to you, but he's ordered you to pay for the privilege.

governor mcdonnell's snippiness however, highlights not just his temperament but also an interesting divide by republicans on this issue. republicans in states are frankly just full steam ahead right now on this stuff. your doctor is going to lie to you by state order. you have to tell your boss in detail about your sex life. it's the law. you have to. we are cutting off access to all that slutty birth control you want to use. if you can think of it, they are doing it in republican states. at the national level and for state level politicians who want to be thought of as guys on the national level, hi, governor mcdonnell, the implications how all this sounds to women may finally be starting to scare them off, a little. maybe. "the new york times" reporting today that the anti-contraception bill, the blunt-rubio bill that republicans were so fired up a few weeks ago, that scott brown was going to run on in his race

for re-election, that the republicans would see sail through the house of representatives which they control, that is dead. at least for now. republicans have decided not to move on it. quote, it has been picked up to the leadership and they want a cooling off period. yes, i would imagine they do. analyzing the back pedaling talking points memo brings this reporting, one gop strategist pegged the problem to rick santorum, who has become a national poster boy for right-wing views on women's health. quote, we have definitely failed to make the contraception fight into an advantage. i think debbie downer being the primary guy out there talking about this is part of why. debbie downer is an adorable nickname for rick santorum but here, come on. you guys may think this is a rick santorum problem but you wish at this point. this is in every red state in the country problem. if rick santorum did not exist, god forbid, you would still have to be trying to explain bob

mcdonnell and kansas forcing doctors to lie to women about breast cancer and arizona trying to force you to tell your boss why you're on the pill or pennsylvania and their forced vaginal probe bill. this is not a rick santorum problem. this is a republican problem. this might be the republican problem of 2012. joining us is jan schakowski of illinois, great to see you, thank you for being here. >> thank you, rachel. i have a great idea. i think every woman voter should be required to see these 13 minutes of what you just said before you vote. what do you think? >> this is why i will never run for office i would be the kind of tyrannical governor, i will make you watch, that is the law. >> it would be free. you wouldn't have to pay for it. >> that would be the moderate thing about me. >> that's right. >> in terms of what is happening in washington, do you think that at the federal level

at least, and for state level republicans who have federal ambitions, do you think they are changing their mind about this, they're having second thoughts? >> well, i think there certainly has been a backlash. i don't know if they're getting e-mails quite as clever as some of the governors you read from wonderful women writing those clever things, but definitely think that women have been expressing themselves in no uncertain terms that they are not going to accept going back, they're not going to accept these ridiculous restrictions. imagine the idea of having to tell your boss that you are using birth control, not to control birth but for some acceptable medical condition. it's ridiculous. so women see on the horizon at the federal level, too, that this may just be the beginning and we have to stop it right now. and republicans are beginning to get a little scared. >> it is really interesting, to

see the divide between republicans in the states and the kind of, i think, republican awakening that you are hinting at there, certainly that we've seen in terms of republicans backing off some of these issues in congress. the jan brewers and bob mcdonnells and tom corbetts of the world they are really steaming ahead with this. sam brownback said when asked about this current bill going through the legislature, if he would sign it and he said i haven't read it but i'm sure i will. i'm paraphrasing, i said i would sign anything pro-life that got to my desk. i wonder, do they have a different calculus on these things? >> for the moment, they do. but you've had on your show and others have some of these wonderful state legislators, women, who are speaking out and i think that what you see happening at the federal level is going to catch up with these governors at the state level as well. the absurdity of some of these proposals and laws now, we have many of them enacted in law.

when women have to be subjected to these kinds of non-medical, the suddenly we've got ob-gyn legislators telling doctors what to do. i really do think there will be a backlash at the state level, too, that is going to -- i think unelect some of the legislators who have proposed these crazy laws and i think the governors, too, will feel the heat. i can't imagine anything else. >> i know this morning i was told you were at a protest with planned parenthood supporters outside of mitt romney's campaign stop in rosemont, illinois. what was that like? that is in my district, we decided to help greet the romney supporters, if not romney himself. we had the president of planned parenthood of illinois and myself and about a dozen women holding signs that says, keep your mitts off our birth

control. and lots and lots of media out there, out there with us, just to continue to send the message that women are simply not going to go along with mitt romney who said that, you know, he's just going to stop funding -- what did he say? he's going to end planned parenthood? get rid of it. those were his words. just a flip comment -- oh, yes, that he was going to get rid of it. that he was defund the $75 million, that's 0.002% of the federal budget from planned parenthood. >> heading in the illinois primary, it has been strange to see mr. romney try to out flank rick santorum on the right, saying he's too liberal on the issues like reproductive rights and mitt romney wants to be seen as more right wing than rick santorum on these issues. what do you think that's going to do to the illinois vote? the problem for mitt he

needs to double down on this, in 2002, he actually sought the support of planned parenthood when he was running for governor. so i think he feels like he needs to prove himself by even moving more to the right. it will be very interesting to see, rachel, how this plays out in illinois. we have a somewhat of an upstate down state difference in the voters, but the other thing about illinoisans and chicagoans, they like authenticity, we're a pretty straightforward bunch here. i'm not sure if mitt romney with the fakeyness that he projects will be attractive to the voters here. >> democratic congress woman jan schakowski of illinois, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> not all friday nights are created equal. a candidate for the single most ridiculous upside-down paranoid attack on the president of the

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mostly women and children, has hired an attorney to defend him. >> it's a very close-knit, very loving family. his wife is an executive. she's an intelligent person. kids are normal, no domestic violence, no critical financial problems. i do know he had a concussive head injury, that often brings on ptsd. i know his two tours in iraq were horrific, and he saw people killed literally standing next to him. >> the army staff sergeant accused in this case has been flown to the united states from kuwait. his name ways made public this evening. but even before the release of his name there was a frenzy of reporting about who he is and what about him might explain why he allegedly did this horrific thing. the coverage of this incident has been intense in this country and it's been focused on him as an individual, his whereabouts

after the crime. he was air lifted out of afghanistan and allegedly flew him to kuwait. he was then thrown from kuwait to the united states. his personal history, three deployments to iraq, this was the first to afghanistan. spent 11 years in the army, 38 years old, wife, two children, where he grew up. we have learned about his injuries, his combat record, unnamed military officials are describing what about him specifically on this night specifically might have led to this specific crime. from the perspective of the american public learning about the crime and trying to make sense of it, for us is reflected by our media, it has been all about the suspect as an individual. in afghanistan it seems to have been almost exactly the opposite. in afghanistan it is not about what are the particulars of this one soldier that made this happen. if afghanistan what has been seen about this crime is not what is important about this one individual. in afghanistan, frankly, they do not even believe that he acted

as an individual. >> the story of the village elders is entirely different. they believe it's not possible for one person to do that. in his family, in four rooms people were killed, children and women were killed and then all brought together in one room and then put on fire. that one man cannot do. >> u.s. officials insist it was one man acting alone. in the first reported pieces from the scene of the massacre, villagers who survived described there boeing helicopters and maybe other americans at the scene. reporters talking to those witnesses right after this happened, interpreted that as probably describing americans who had showed up to investigate and respond after the incident happened. there was confusion whether this was a lone wolf incident. that tiny smudge of fuzziness has now become the whole story in afghanistan.

this is what americans do. this wasn't one rogue person. this is what americans are doing here. as hamid karzai put it, this is the end of the rope. >> it is by all means the end of the rope here. >> end of the rope? >> end of the rope. this form of activity, this behavior cannot be tolerated. it's past, past, past the time. >> americans also say this can't be tolerated. since the massacre, karzai says he wants american troops to be withdrawn to bases and essentially not interacting with civilians by next year. that could be feasible if the united states decided to do that. would put troops in the position u.s. troops were in iraq in the last year of the conflict when they were still in country but mostly they were packing to leave. they were still in danger but mostly they were preparing to go, mostly preparing a

logistical exit which is a really big deal when you've been there with that many people for nearly a decade. now, anything that hamid karzai says should be taken with a giant grain of salt. president karzai, frankly, makes grand statements and pulls them back, he is seen as somewhat unpredictable and somewhat untrustworthy by americans with whom he negotiates, it's thought as soon as troops do leave afghanistan he may be overthrown, so his loyalties and his interests are complicated. but what is perhaps more important here is not what he thinks or what he says. but what americans feel and what americans are starting to say about the war on which we are focused on the individual alleged perpetrator. we are focused on the soldier, this troop -- excuse me, this veteran. we are focused on the human cost of deployment in four combat tours. the human cost of brain injuries of year 11 of combat in afghanistan.

accidents in which civilians have been killed have not changed americans views of whether or not this war should be fought and how much more of of it should be fought. but this incident in which civilians were allegedly deliberately killed by an identifiable person who we want to know as much as possible about, may be changing the course of the war forever. joining us is paul rieckhoff. he's founder and executive director of iraq and afghanis n afghanistan. let me ask you if anything i said seems wrong or off or you think -- does any of that rub you the wrong way? >> there is a lot in there. >> yeah. >> we have to understand it's a complicated situation, very emotional situation, a terrible situation, and coming at an incredibly complicated time so what i and a lot of other veterans and military folks are encouraging people, especially in the media to do, take a big deep breath, let's think about this, let's understand the facts, not jump to stereotypes.

we're still unpacking this by the minute. news is coming in. i think it emphasizes a lot of cleavage that exists between the military and population, it exaggerates the differences between us and the afghan people. we don't know what's happening. it's not going to be a short sto story. this is going to go on for a while. >> right out of the gate you and i were are very clear that there should not be stereotyping of iraq and afghanistan veterans as if having served in the wars means you are damaged or unstable in some way. were you anticipating that people would do that or do you see people doing that, do you think it's already happening? >> it's already happening. the "new york daily news" here a couple days ago had a headline said "sergeant psycho" an incident folds in those pre-existing stereo types the country has about people they don't understand. so we're pushing back and saying whoa, we don't know if he had a brain injury, we don't know if he had ptsd, even if he did,

that doesn't excuse any of this. that doesn't necessarily explain any of this. a lot of rampages have happened in other places and you may never know what happened here. i think we have to understand like the shooting in fort hood or even what happened with gabby giffords, we may never know what happened here. we have to go in the conversation thinking about that. what do you think about the fact this is getting a lot of peoples's attention, resonating, there are a lot of incidents in which and it's not a good thing, there are instances where afghan civilians are killed inadvertently and we apologize. it's good to have the nation paying attention we're at war but does it worry you that this is the reason why? >> it's about time did it need take this to understand what traumatic brain injury is or people are going for multiple tours. i know guys who have done four and five tours. they've come back and they're going to school and in jobs and doing well. this is really unleashed a lot of attention around our community.

but did it really have to take something like this before people realize how much our people are going through over there? maybe that is something that can start a bigger conversation. understand, this is not your average person. it's a very small, you know, maybe even only one person of a larger population of .3 million people who have served in iraq and afghanistan. we have to push back against the easy stereotypes that people are sometimes jumping right into. >> how do you toe the line before advocating for the concerns about pptsd without encouraging stereotyping, how do you make that case? >> you understand it. there is a guy on our staff who stood with the president. he's been such a success story. bob woodruff has traumatic brain injury, incredible family man, doing great things. there is not necessarily a cause here. let's understand ptsd, understand ridiculous demands we're putting on our troops and their families, and that can be a good thing but separate the

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gave an interview published in a newspaper called "the illinois daily herald" talking about his work and a quote has sent the right wing in all caps omg not l'ing ol hysterics, this is the proof they've been searching for for years that barack obama, obviously, hates america. the 22-year-old quote was posted by a blog, but rocketed around the right wing. look at the headline. face it, he hates you. obama in 1990, we're going to reshape mean-spirited and selfish america. or this one, young obama at harvard, transform mean spirited america. this one, 1990 obama interview, america is mean-spirited. obama in 1990, america too mean spirited on race. you get the idea. this is awful for obama, right?

this quote, they say it's so bad, this must be how you get bingo in a game of barack obama hates america bingo. do you want to know the awful thing president obama said 22 years ago that's ruining his chances for re-election? brace yourself. ready? "hopefully more and more people will feel their story is part of the larger story of how to reshape america in a way that is less mean spirited and more generous. this is the smoking gun? apparently this is the smoking gun. as commenter steven straka noted at our maddow blog today, according to the right when america asks president obama why should we vote for you? president obama can re my, well off the top of my head i saved the auto industry and took out bin laden. well, yes, but you once said you wanted people to be nicer to each other! seriously? this is what they're all upset about? yes, seriously, this is what they're all upset about. actually, even though it's the right wing blog world that is upset the fox newschannel

business thing, their business subchannel, was trumpeting this quote as far back as november. they were using it as exhibit a for why president obama, had 0 according to them, lost independent voters. remember, this is the smoking gun. he's asked a question about racial minorities and race relations in america. his response was hopefully more and more people will feel their story is part of the larger story how we will reshape america that is less mean-spirit and more generous. that is what the right proves barack obama hates america. if you're thinking that quote maybe reminds you of something else, it may be this famous saying by america's most famous revolutionary. >> we've come far, but i think we need a new harmony among the races in our country, and we're

on a journey into a new century and we've got to leave that tired old baggage of bigotry behind. where is it written that we must act if we do not care, as if we're not moved? well, i am moved. i want a kinder, gentler nation. >> kinder? gentler? is he saying we're ungentle and unkind? remember how mad everybody was when george h.w. bush showed how much he hated america with that kinder, gentler nation stuff? the he hates america outrage for george h.w. bush was dwarfed by the further outrage when that radical son said basically the same thing. >> so today i'm outlining the next steps of welfare reform. the next actions we must take to build a more just and generous nation.

>> come on! why does america have to get more just and more generous? we're unjust now? we're ungenerous now? why are you trying to change everything? why does george w. bush hate america so much? remember the outrage against them? remember the face is, america, he hates you headlines against the bush family when they said stuff like that? yeah. maybe the great comedian lewis black remembers that. he's here tonight for the interview. that's next. i'm going to... drink this... on the porch! ♪ give me just a little more time ♪ [ female announcer ] mops can be a hassle, but swiffer wetjet's spray cleaner and absorbent pads can clean better in half the time so you don't miss a thing. swiffer. better clean in half the time. or your money back. and for dry messes big and small try swiffer sweeper vac. so i wasn't playing much of a role in my own life,

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snapshot from progressive. plug into the savings you deserve with snapshot from progressive. last night in the part of the show we call the interview we were lucky and excited to have oklahoma republican senator james inhofe here. that was the interview and then some. tonight we're very lucky and excited probably in exact the opposite direction, tonight the one and only lewis black is here. his newest comedy rant, "in god we rust" lewis black, very nice to have you here. >> thank you. >> president obama in 1990 said that he wanted to move -- wanted to work toward a world, country that was less mean-spirited, more generous. the right says that means he hates america. i think it sounds like i want a kinder and gentler america which is kind of what george h.w. bush said.

>> that is a different republican party because we have moved on, there is a new republican party, and they seem to have -- that language doesn't work for them. it's a new republican party. i think of it as like, if you're in the communist party, toe the line. here's what we think. that's the deal. screw him. that's the deal. you can't -- you're going to use those words? well, those words don't work. whatever words he uses don't work. >> do you think we're at the point some -- i feel like it's not that weird, wouldn't be that much of a joke for a republican candidate to come out and say we need a less gentle, meaner country because we need to be because that's what -- >> in a way, when eric cantor, he's the one who really gets to me, when cantor said that we're going to -- we're not sending money to help vermont after the hard case -- >> oh, yeah. >> until we take -- reduce the

budget, that isn't the way we work. america works exactly, you know, we kind of have to remember that. you know, because even if the government forgets it, whatever they do that when something horrible happens, all these people get in their cars and drive there to help other people. it's astonishing. republicans don't have a leader. there hasn't been anybody since george w. bush who has emerged as the person who will lead the republicans. they've had trouble with mccain. is there somebody who is the it of the republican party, like you see it? when newt gingrich or rick santorum talks, do you feel like he's speaking for this new republican party? he is the one who -- >> there's like this -- they're speaking to a -- i don't think either of them -- they're speaking to the people that they think really are kind of like the baseline.

you know, kind of started with the tea party and that's the drum beat. and so newt kind of speaks to them and santorum has always been on that kind of whatever it is he's on, that social issue thing where, you no he, we have to -- you know, he wants a free america but you better do what he says to do. >> yes. the social conservative thing took a surprising step to the front of the stage. nobody thought -- everybody thought this was going to be the economy election. even before the economy looked for sure like it was getting better, they started talking about contraception and all the abortion stuff that's going on in the states, they are running with this stuff like no time since roe versus wade. i don't know why this stuff has come up for them now. the political calculus of why to run with this doesn't make sense. it has to be something else. >> i think some people have acid flashba flashbacks. they're having flashbacks to before everything got out of

control and women became empowered. what they're doing -- what they don't understand -- i think it's a great thing -- is they're literally, you know, the point that women reached and now what they did was open the pandora's box again. ha, ha, ha. good luck now. you're coming up with this stuff now? it's like we can't go back. >> yes. >> no. this is stuff -- i've been through this for the last 40 years of my life. we're not doing it again. i'm not going through this again. >> how does this end, though? i mean, i keep thinking it's over, they've woken up to the fact that they've gone too far. you open the paper, it's a new thing every day. arizona, a new law on the way to the governor that will force you to tell your boss what you are using contraception for by state law. >> no. >> yes. >> it's not passing. >> it's passed one house of the legislature in arizona, republican controlled in the other house, republican governor. your boss has the right to know. >> there may be -- you know, if

possible, if there is a god in heaven and they do pass it, then that building will be struck down. there will be a thunderbolt. you can't do that. imagine how many bosses are really going to do that. >> yes. >> people don't care. they're fighting a wave that -- it's too bad, more people kind of like want people to do whatever they want to do as long as you don't bother them. that's what the country is based on. that's why we left the other neighborhood. that's why there's immigration. it's like, i can't take this anymore. i have to go some place where people aren't going to bother me. now they started to bother people again. >> you know what else this country is built on? cocktails. i'm going a cocktail moment at the end of the show today. would you mind having a cocktail? >> you have no idea. >> lewis black. the ever insightful lewis black. cocktail moment is next. go away, i have to get ready. go. i have to get the stuff. [ male announcer ] we asked real people if they'd help us with an experiment

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boy, are we overdue for this! "cocktail moment." it's friday, it's st. patrick's day eve. it's almost time for prisons. all great reasons for a cocktail. in this case, with irish whiskey because of st. patrick's things. lewis black is here. we're going to make a cameron's kick. you don't haze whiskey, do you? >> no, not after this week. no, i don't hate whiskey. >> i have a new rule now that i'm old, no spirits on school nights. >> i agree with that. >> because i'm now old and i can't process cocktail information the next morning. >> but imagine there was that time when they just drank that night and then woke up the next morning and started again. it did work! >> yeah. >> i'm sorry i missed that. >> the three martini lunch thing. like, i understand like the golden age of drinking at work or whatever, but were all of those people 22, or was there just nothing of use done in the afternoon?

>> or they just, like, you know, plowed on through it and didn't -- you know, they kind of got through their work really quick. >> plowed being the operative term. okay, so, what this is, cameron's kick, it's an ounce of scotch, in which case we're using a nice pd scotch, ardbeg. >> nice. >> you can use anything you like, depending on whether you like that smokey flavor. equal amount of irish whiskey, in this case jamison's, which is delicious, and it's because we're on st. patrick's day. so an ounce each of both kinds of whiskey. then you want a half ounce of lemon juice and a half ounce of a crazy ingredient that's very hard to pronounce but is spelled o-r-g-e-a-t, orgeat, or something french sounding. anyway, it's almond. >> is it really? >> yeah. it's great, actually. it's really, really good. it's the kind of thing -- you know, french people drink it as soda. they put a glass of ice and dump some stuff in there and soda water on top.

anyway, it's almondy. in this case, it's all homemade, so it's gooey. >> ooh, nice. >> oops, i've gone over a little. i have to go back to -- oh, there we go. there we go. and so, that gives it the sweetness, the lemon gives it -- here's skirvy. and then whiskey gives it the reason to live. there aren't very many good scotch cocktails. do you drink scotch on its own? >> i drink scotch on its own. it's not -- it's like, it's not cognac cocktails. it's drinking liquors that just don't work -- >> that are harder to mix than others. i don't know, if you're into scotch at all -- let's see. >> wow. >> this is from the savoy cocktail book, so it's a classic. >> wow. >> and i think i'm running out of time, so i can't get the rest out of the shaker, so quick. if i wasn't running out of time i'd put an orange twist in it. but we're out of time. we have to go to prison. lewis black, thank you for being