his name is alvin greene. alvin greene is unemployed.ly discharged from the army. he's never held office before. he appears to be just slightly smarter than a rock. yet somehow they won the democratic nomination. people think he won because his name, alvin greene, was the first name on the ballot, and people just checked it off. if that wasn't bad enough, on friday, he was indicted on two felony charges. one of them for allegedly showing pornography to a teenager. on friday, a local reporter in charlotte went to alvin greene's house to ask him about this. and here's how that went. >> alvin greene didn't feel much like talking. hours earlier, a grand jury indicted him on a felony charge of showing this co-ed, camille mccoy, obscene photos on a computer at the university of south carolina. can i just ask if you're going to keep -- are you going to stay in the race? >> yes, yes, yes. >> you are? >> yes. >> how can you do that? >> leave the property. go away. go away. >> as we were leaving, greene's brother jimmy came over. >> has he told yo

cheerlkoreanclearly demint doeo have anything to do with the bizarre puppet show that is alvin green.nt lead. the absolutely objective of any political campaign is just to win and so what does jim demint gain by engaging alvin green? and frankly, if the democrats aren't going to treat alvin green as though he is a bona fide candidate, and they don't, then p why should jim demint? >> he is on 11:10 a.m. wbet in charlotte, weekday mornings. thanks, keith. >> shannon: the house majority leader says stephen colbert's testimony on farm labor did not amuse him. steny hoyer blasted the appearance. >> i think his testimony was not appropriate. i think it was an embarrassment for mr. colbert more than the house. >> chris: he was called by the democratic chair of the subcommittee. >> he was called. you asked whether the testimony was appropriate. i think it was not appropriate. >> reporter: on friday, nancy pelosi said "he is an american and can bring attention to an important issue. i think it is great. but the comedy central star's in character testimony confused some. >> turns out and i did

. >> what if she is alvin greene the knuckle head from south carolina? what else are we going to find out? >> the thing about palin's endorsement unlike murkowski in alaska that was a special case because of burr could you ski's father this is what democrats like to call a rhino, republican in name only. so sarah palin was never going to endorse him. >> even though he probably could have won it that's why biden's son didn't run against him. everybody stand by. susan i hope we can get your picture up. still more as the panel probes the power of palin. the former governor hints at a run for the white house. can tea party libertarians and social conservatives coexist? i will ask tony perkins president of the family research council who is coming up and we will investigate why the country has gone crazy for snooki she is a mmm air. snook a priest regularly performs ex or sichl this one on a woman who stomach pain believed to be caused by the devil inside her. accompanied traditional music the priests incantation built to a crescendo then in a moment of almos

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bet there's been more national media ink spilled on christine o'donnell than there ever was on alvin green, and when it was proven he wasn't a plant they ditched the story. but people like karl rove went after her and sean hannity a few weeks ago, they savaged her the night she won. i've said all along the republicans aren't going to win the senate, she's probably not going to win delaware. the republican establishment turned on her so viciously because she dared to beat their precious mike castle. they're eating their own. the humor here and the irony is the media and republicans are so focused on christine o'donnell they're not focusing on sharron angle, linda mcmahon, all of these candidates breathing a sigh of relief. >> i think the o'donnell story compounds that narrative about sharron age skpl adds fuel to that fire. the reason there was conservative concern about her winning from magazines like "the weekly standard," "reason" called her a crack pot, they knew mike castle could win joe biden's seat and that would move them towards winning the senate. they knew this would be a disaste

about it, and if we're going to talk about christine o'donnell all day we might as well talk about alvin greene in south carolina, the minee down there. >> controversial, came out of nowhere, that's one nominee and one race. we have a half dozen senate races that have surprise tea party nominees. >> all ahead in the polls. >> they're all pretty competitive because this year we have, i was joking earlier in the green room with the congressman and ken about, you know, if i showed up at the meeting and said "take me to your leader," who would it be? sarah palin was down at an event raising money for one of those tea party surprises this year, rand paul in kentucky. let's listen. >> those whom i choose to endorse and help support as we head into these midterms where we could take it back, we can take back our country. >> who is her leader? >> right now, we're just getting an organized conspiracy to get the power back. it's one of these issues where the voters are basically going to put a check on president obama. they're not voting to put republicans in as much as putting a check on that. they don'

this is -- what's so intriguing about this whole deal is it sort of reminds me of democrats and alvin greene in south carolina. it's like, where did this person even come from? what is going on here? >> well, you know, they know where she came from because they spent a lot of money trying to defeat her. today, after telling all of us we're not going to give her a dime, suddenly today, right, they gave her $42,000, which is the max they're aloud. i talked to a senior republican strategist who's doing a lot of senate races who said, look, we're pragmatists here. if she becomes a viable candidate, meaning in single digit, right, then we're going to give her money. but do we believe she's going to be a viable candidate? absolutely not. but we're not stupid because what they want to do more than anything else is win control of the senate, and that's why they're so mad at her. >> hang on one second. another thing they don't want to do is if they dump on her too much there are activists like the ones who supported her in delaware all across the country important to this election. so let's take a cl

you go, very very quickly, you're up for reelection this november and your democratic opponent, alvin greenehas said repeatedly, he would want to debate you. is that going to happen? will you debate him? >> we have no debate scheduled. i have a couple of opponents in south carolina. meredi meredith, my main opponents are at the white house and that's where i'm spending most of my time. >> that's a no. thank you very much. >> let's head to the newsdesk for the top stories. good morning. >> good morning to you matt and meredith. we begin with help that may soon be on the way for small businesses. today, the senate is expected to pass a bill providing more lending for small businesses and incentives to hire new workers. on the other hand, new figures show the number of foreclosed homes jumped in august and up 25% from a year ago, at the highest level since the mortgage crisis began three years ago. >>> the obama administration is taking a tough stand against china over trade and currency. and we have more on this. what are the details on this? >> ann, today, u.s. treasury secretary, tim geithne

time she appeared on our program because she was like the guy in south carolina, what's his name, alvin greenee. she compared her to that guy. >> he's got some porn problems. >> he's got a lot of problems. you could argue so does christine o'donnell but now, laura ingraham who is a hard right person is going to give christine o'donnell a pass and vote for her. krauthammer said her chances of election and other conservative republican pundit, but more mainstream like karl rove, charlie krauthammer said she's horrible. she's a loser. 1 in 10 chance of getting elected. but then ultimately -- >> didn't say it that way. >> he was pretty strong. 1 in 10. that was the 1 in 10 chance. >> you know what happens when krauthammer and rove keep saying that? the money keeps coming in for her. >> you know, you have just defined the tea party -- the momentum that it has. if indeed the taxpayer revulsion at government is so intense that even christine o'donnell, someone who could never run for dogcatcher in a normal year, look at her record, i mean, seriously. >> like the state chairman. >> but the republican