the terrorists for rachel cory and all those who were idealists and who actually believed that they could make an effect and social change. the terrorists who lives amongst us is not you, the terrorist who lurks in the shadows of our crowded city streets isn't me. he's not a demon with bulging eyes, a twisted mouth full of dirt, a crooked mouth, fangs driping blood. it's not the savage guner waiting for our school on their way to school. no, this heinous replica of satan doesn't look like a jew. dopt make a habit of supplying the motives of sin with colors of skin because it's skin deep. a student with dreams of statehood or a teenage girl driven by desperation and fear or a dentist or an apprentice of a dead soldier, who crouches in the wounds of the dead and the dying, who hurls stones at tanks and encroaching soldiers, who stands unmoved before a roiling tank, who stares with barbed eyes. the enemy is never one who kills for no reason. the enemy is never one who must be vanquished at all cost. it is not so easy to kill from the inside, a shifting corridor of blame. not so easy to trace

the rachel cory case again a very left wing activist who went to this territory to help the palestinians and to demonstrated against israel. she was -- i don't remember all the details of the story but i gather she was told to move and whatever. in any case, this is the sort of thing where somebody whether or not who wants to show that the u.s. should not be friends with israel brings up a couple of examples of things where you know that this should undermine our entire relationship. you can give chapter and verse of examples of israelis billion shot at, blown up, having 10,000 missiles fired at them into civilian neighborhoods on a daily basis. and so if you want to have at this time for tat about thing that is have -- tith for tath about human rights abuses and so on regarding vis-a-vis israel and the palestinians, i don't think the palestinians come out better on that scale. host: you write regularly about your jewish faith and incorporate that into your columns. guest: not that regularly. host: sometimes. guest: how do you make choices about taking in personal elements versuss depers

but i want to play what cory booker said to our own rachel a maddow last night regarding what he sees as gop manipulation of his words. >> here they are plucking sound bites out of that interview to manipulate them in a cynical manner to use them for their own purposes, and that slogan is really what had me and basically my entire staff really fit to be tied. in the beginning i think i use the metaphor my staff is going to have to hold me back. >> is it fair? we've asked whether bain capital record of mitt romney is fair. cory booker filed his complaint, fit to be tied, but does that convince voters who have heard his words and the rnc who chooses to use his word? >> i think in some ways folks aren't paying attention in this level of detail to cory booker -- >> i don't know. he was the second most googled person yesterday nationally. >> that's true. that's true. and i think in some ways he's crying foul here in the sense that he's saying, oh, people are cherry picking his words, but that's what happens in politics. that's why when you go on david gregory who has been able to get many

i want to play another clip from cory booker and the exclusive interview that rachel had last night. >> today to the gop i said, i welcome you to stand with me for moving america forward, don't stand with me for the kind of things that mitt romney's advocating that are going to further bankrupt our city, close off opportunity, discriminate against gays and women and do the kinds of things that i can are sending america in the wrong direction. >> booker coming out forcefully against the romney campaign. richard, is this believable and after putting the message on youtube on sunday, after tweeting all the endorsements of "i stand with president obama" with booker get the genie back in the bottle, so to speak? >> i think every day we spend talking about cory booker, we're spending talking about bain. and that's a very good day for the obama campaign because of what bain stands for, buying these companies, piling on debt, looting them and having very rich investors walk away with tons of money while the workers are out jobless, no health care, no penchant. that's what romney he's said he

rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening. i'm looking forward to the cory booker interview. that's the interview in politics in the world right now. >>> thank you. that's an incredible segway. i'm looking forward to it. >> glad you're back. >> thank you. i appreciate it. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. if you go to the homepage of republican party right now, if you type gop.com into your web browser, the front page of the national republican party's website comes up and today it looks like this. i stand with cory. i stand with cory? with cory booker? i don't think i need a spoiler alert here if i let you know this the republican party in reality is very unlikely to actually stand with cory booker. mr. booker is the democratic progressive firebrand mayor of newark, new jersey who supports president obama's re-election. the republican party is making a big show of saying they are standing with him because they say cory booker is a victim who needs people to stand up for him because he can't stand up for himself. because it's the republican party, o

remarks with a campaign called i stand with cory from the rnc saying it stands with the democratic mayor of newark, new jersey. he appeared on msnbc with rachel last night to push back at republican attempts to raise money off his "meet the press" comments. >> anybody who watched the entire show saw not only was i defending obama's positions on numerous issues, but i also talked about super pac money and the negative campaigning and my outrage and frustration was about the cynical negative campaigning, the manipulating of the truth and so here they are plucking sound bites out of that interview to be -- to manipulate them in a cynical manner and use them for their own purposes and that slogan is what had me and my entire staff really fit to be tied. >> mayor booker went on to tell rachel he agrees with the president's position that romney's record at boehner capital should be fair game. this election season, he did say on "meet the press" private equity serves an important role in his tate's economy. >>> a new poll out finds the president and romney in a statistical dead heat. according to a "washington post" poll, the president is up three p

rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening. i'm looking forward to the cory booker interview.ank you. that's an incredible segway. i'm looking forward to it. >> glad you're back. >> thank you. i appreciate it. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. if you go to the homepage of republican party right now, if you type gop.com into your web brow

cory booker. he made it comment on rachel that no -- rachel maddow saying he did not approve that added the republicansut out. another thing out like to say. they criticize the president that he is a community organizer. yes. he had to get everything together for people to make sure that everyone was in line, trying to find jobs, and help people. they talk about romney being a job creator. if he was that good, why didn't they re-elect him in massachusetts for governor again? they set out all those ads, lined, and not telling the truth. he does not care about us and he never will. thank you very much. host: in a rare statement, bain has addressed to the added. this is an "the washington post." 3 habib a republican in a bethesda, maryland. welcome to the conversation. go ahead. caller: first of all, you make comments earlier -- you made a comment earlier about romney's and defending his record. that is not really true. he is defending what he did with bain capital. but moving on, president obama's comments, just being interested in earning money for companies, that is what they are all about. you have to

i did watch the entire rachel interview and the sound byte you cited was actually cory complaining aboutthe context of g.o.p. when they threw him up on the banner page of their site saying i side with cory. the context he was correcting. >> bill: right. but it was -- >> caller: i do agree. he stepped in it. >> bill: it was the entire -- the way the g.o.p. used his comments -- actually in several forms. mitt romney put out an ad right with cory booker's actual words from "meet the press" and then the republicans put up that -- on their web site, the banner ad and everything. the point he was making, he was trying to say i didn't mean what i said. why did he say it? all right. thanks for hanging with us. larry is in new britain connecticut. >> caller: good morning, bill. >> bill: what do you think? >> caller: it is -- cory booker he's a surrogate for bain capital while harold ford is for morgan stanley. >> bill: yeah, well, both of them, you know, that's right. that's where harold ford works. i like harold ford. i wish he was still senator from tennessee -- i wish he was senator from tenne