all right it's time for tonight's jewel time award and it goes to arianna huffington who made three hundred fifteen million dollars after selling huffington post to a.o.l. earlier this year has decided to add a new feature to the web site that she still runs now offers a blog concierge service that you might be asking what the hell's that arianna says the service is for busy celebrities who just don't have time to sit down to write a blog so they can call in and dictate a blog to an editor of the phone and then the blog just magically appears on the site are you serious ari i mean come on most celebrities are spoiled rotten ego driven media acts of their every need it catered to so why they need a blog a concierge service if they're going to write something that they want the public to reach and they actually be required to write the damn thing i wonder if our own is going to pay these celebrity bloggers as we've discussed on the show before she doesn't pay most of the hard working men and women who actually made her site popular not at all but that got us thinking today which liberties wou

replacing bill keller has been publicly very distainful of websites like the huffington post and arianna huffingtonbusiness model to piracy. do you agree websites like the huffington post actually hurt journalism? >> i wouldn't go that far. i think that, you know, the aggregation of pieces of journalism that other news organizations have paid dearly to get the story, get it right, tell the story behind the story, is, you know, poses a threat to us in some way. but i respect the fact that an awful lot of people like to read that way and in some cases i think the huffington post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well. so, you know, i don't see myself -- i've known arianna huffington since the early '90s in washington. she is an inventive person. i certainly don't want to be in a war with her. >> i detect a change in tone at the top already. jill abramson, we wish you well. thanks for being with us. >> thank you so much. >>> sarah palin's one nation bus tour rolled into new hampshire stealing somewhat the political spotlight from mitt romney. coincidence or on purpose? we'll try to fi

book that i have read recently which i like very much, that's called "third world america" by arianna huffington. it's a very readable book. she's a good writer. she touches on, you know, the trends that we've been seeing for a number of years in the terms of the physical infrastructure, in terms of education and in terms of health care that frankly if we do not reverse and this is her point, we are going to end up looking like a third world country. what that is about is a friend of mine came back last year from china. he was in an airport in china, flew into the united states, while he was waiting for a plane, you have to be sitting on a plane. he was wondering which was the third world country, the united states or china? a lot of ominous trends in the country moving us in the wrong direction in terms of physical infrastructure. more and more people without health insurance and growing gap between the rich and everybody else, the dominance of big money interest in wall street. i think arianna's point is we have to get our act together. so that we become the great nation that we know that we c

candidate i have people talking about because they already have some celebrities on their side arianna huffington tom hanks and even georgian president mikhail saakashvili decided to put out a video. for the codes or else i want to something else and i talked about john. night's show because he's great so he went on fox news with chris wallace and i think a lot of people would agree just totally destroyed him but just take a look at the reasoning and like the research that went into wallace's mind for this taking. place in forth how did you physically have sex with tommy lee. if you put him in front of my face i wouldn't know what they're actually seated. so nothing cycling masterpiece theater you're working for you're damn right and i think i am perfectly poised i think that is my that is worthwhile her balance so that you know i know that i have i don't. care for this i had to prepare i had to go through episodes of south park i had to see cartman's mom is a slot parts one and two actors i don't know if work you know nine one one says i'm not about those guys they are brilliant guys are you sug

was another book i read recently which i would like very much called third world america by arianna huffington. it is a readable book. she is a good writer. she touches on the trends we have been seeing for a number of years in terms of our physical infrastructure, in terms of education, in terms of health care but frankly if we do not reverse and this is her point we will end up looking like a third world country. what that is about as a friend of mine came back last year from china. he was in an airport in china, flew into the united states and when he was waiting for a plane back to vermont he was sitting on the floor and his plane was delayed and he was wondering which was the third world country, the united states or china? a lot of trends moving as in the wrong direction in terms of physical infrastructure, more and more people without health insurance and the gap between the rich and everybody else, big money interests and wall street and her point is we have to get our act together and reverse those trendss to become the great nation that we know we can and should be. another book i am

third world america by arianna huffington was a very readable book. a very good writer. touches on the trends we have been seeing for a number of years in terms of our films physical infrastructure in terms of education and health care that frankly if we do not reverse and the this is her point and we will look like a third world country. a friend of mine came back last year from china. he flew into the united states and sitting on the floor, playing was delayed. he was wondering which was the third world country? the united states or china? moving elson the wrong direction, physical infrastructure and more people without health insurance, growing gap between the rich and everybody. and a big interest in wall street. and the point is we got to get our act together and reverse those trendss to what it should be. another book that i am reading right now is a book about the life of somebody i had known for a number of years, a good friend i have known for many years and that is willing nelson and the book is called willie nelson:an epic life by joe neck hopeski. it is not t

he performs that function weekly by moderating a national radio program featuring arianna huffingtonand marry a merry fellow. at harvard law school he edited the civil liberties law review is a public interest lawyer, an elected public advocate for new york city. author of a mere 22 books, including the bestseller, who runs congress back in 1972 and a more recent, losing our democracy, published in 2006. mark green has been a frequent tv radio commentator and an op-ed contributor to leading newspapers. it is with keen anticipation that i turned to proceedings over to mark green to start this first in a series of national debates on taboo subjects. will the debaters come up? >> good morning everybody. to my right is norman ornstein. to my left is fred smith. we will avoid the clichÉ references, but i especially on behalf of all of the debaters and the audience wanted thank ralph nader for pushing our imaginations when it comes to taboo topics, a series beginning today. how many times can talk shows and columnists debate budget deficits when there is such a deficit of conversation abou