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arianna huffington joins me on the return of her book "pigs at the trough." hollywood and hard times when this is happening on tv. >> an economic crisis has hit the nation like never before. >> you know the recession has taken a deep hold. and obama's beer diplomacy. his meeting tomorrow with professor gates and sergeant crowley still sparking controversy. >> this president i think has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-seeded hatred for white people or the white culture. >> the race debate. expectations on tomorrow's meeting from eugene robinson. all that and more now on "countdown." >>> good evening. from new york i'm howard dean. keith olbermann has the night off. if you don't like what we already know about the health care bill that's being worked out behind closed doors by the senate finance committee, consider this. its final deal could be even worse. our fifth story on the "countdown", some democrats say they fear the committee will take away health insurance from the 11 million children who already have it just to kee

arianna?asically draw a line in the sand and say what has to be in a bill that he will sign. that he it can't be free for all. >> and posted on the internet. these are the standards we must have for a health care reform to be health care reform. >> right. otherwise it's another note i left behind reform. >> yeah. >> reform is nothing. >> he has to make it clear he is willing to put all of that political on the line and hold members of congress if they don't vote the right way. >> that is the voters' responsibility. everybody in this country can vote two ways. >> hardball. >> with their vote and money they don't pay in taxes. how you vote you are in control of the american people need to start express more consciously i think what they expect. i think what we realize is the president is one thing and congress is another. >> 2010. >> dr. james royhack joins the conversation from the ama. doctor, welcome. i'm going through a little bit of a description here on health care and i want to help you -

let me bring arianna in on this. david said something that's interesting, democrats so afraid of failure they'll pass anything. it seems like the white house is actually banking on that as well. that they work, get behind the senate finance committee deal when there is one eventually and the rest of the democrats even if there is no public health insurance option or medicare cuts, more than they like. even if there is a tax on some health care plans democrats will go along because of failure. >> that will be a major problem and a problem with the obama style of leadership, which is let's pass something even if it does not contain what he feels most important, public option, for example. his effort and longing to reconcile everybody and bring everybody together sometimes makes it impossible to get what he needs out of the primary players here. the drug industry gave up something but they haven't given up on the negotiation for real lower prices with medicare and medicaid, and that's a major issue. >> but donna, is it

what will arianna huffington do about that?nd then dennis miller has some strong words for a gay penguin, among others. gecko vo: geico's the third-largest car insurance company in the nation. but, it's not like we're kicking back, now, havin' a cuppa tea. gecko vo: takes lots of sweat to become that big. gecko vo: 'course, geckos don't literally sweat... it's just not our thing... gecko vo: ...but i do work hard, mind you. gecko vo: first rule of "hard work equals success." gecko vo: that's why geico is consistently rated excellent or better in terms of financial strength. gecko vo: second rule: "don't steal a coworker's egg salad, 'specially if it's marked "the gecko." come on people. bill: three topics beginning with a vile posting on the huffington post. sean nelson works for that website. he said palin will be the first politician to actually try to increase the population of retarded people, unquote. nelson referring to the governor's baby trig born with down syndrome. obviously, that's despicable. the huffington post too

what will arianna huffington do about that? and then dennis miller has some strong words for a gay penguin, among others. bill: three topics beginning with a vile posting on the huffington post. sean nelson works for that website. he said palin will be the first politician to actually try to increase the population of retarded people, unquote. nelson referring to the governor's baby trig born with down syndrome. obviously, that's despicable. the huffington post took that down from their website, but we wanted a further explanation from arianna huffington. she is vacationing but her spokesperson said, quote, we sincerely regret the error and apologize for it. however, mr. nelson continues to work for miss huffington. joining us now our internet cop amanda carpenter. if you were huffington, what do you do? >> i think you cut this guy loose. this is a guy, he is a contributor, he is not very popular on the site. this is the second offensive posting he had. he had another one published a few weeks ago talking about the way that jes

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the words of arianna huffington. >> glenn: yeah, i mean, i think, obviously the point she is trying to make is widely accepted, if not widely practiced, is that many issues these days do not fit neatly into that kind of traditional left/right spectrum, and by continuing to shoehorn every issue into that spectrum, you end up with a very distorted debate, a debate that doesn't reflect what, you know, people out in the united states and out there are thrifnging about things, and so i think, you know, the type of journalism that we're trying to do at the huffington post, and there are people at mainstream outlets also trying to do this, but we're trying not to look at it through that frame, and i think the end result is a different kind of writing. i think people -- i think it's reflected in the work that we do. host: there is a headline this morning from "the washington post" "honduran leadership stands defiant as the new government scorns any international efforts to reinstate the ousted president." we have a tweet that says why not the same exposure for honduras? >> it is a very good qu

about a third of the united states population is arianna government health plan.n is, if government reshapes his health plan, you hear the government particularly the obama administration saying we will pay with us for savings from medicare medicaid. if you're one of 87 million people on medicare etiquette, one of three americans, does that mean you'll lose health benefits to give it to the uninsured? of the uninsured keep in mind a lot of those people are uninsured because they choose to be. some are eligible for government programs they just ever bother to sign up, and some 12 million are illegals, and i'm not sure we should sign him up for free health care. >> clayton: that was a measure just shot down by house republicans in this new bill which was left out. this is something americans need to know which as they tried to add this color amendment to this bill which would require illegals to be checked make sure they are not receiving this healthcare coverage. so we are paying for illegals to have healthcare coverage. the democrats shut it down took the amendmen