happen with clarence thomas in a certain way, right, you know? in a more evil way, many of us have gotten comfortable because rock is in the white house, but he cannot be most effective unless we are on his ass, right? we voted, so i will go home now, and see you in four years. the republicans, the tea party, all these folks, they are on his ass, so if you believe that all that there is power in that position, and there are folks that make convincing arguments about a black face on white supremacy, so there is complications, but can progress be made? can progress be made with that position? absolutely. but while we honor and acknowledge that, we have to look at the masses of folks, and i think jamal represents the conditions of the masses that we need to be focused on. >> did you want to say something? it looked as though you were starting to say something. >> i will say, he said the same thing i was thinking. people ask me how i feel about having an african-american president. i said i had ambivalent feelings. on the one hand, i know that he is

bush before the high court just like it was important to mention that clarence thomas' wife worked in the bush transition team and was busy accepting resumes from people who would serve in the bush white house as long as her husband stopped the recount in florida which he did. and more than a year after the election a consortium of newspapers including the washington post the new york times and usa today did their own recount in florida manually counting every vote in a process that took almost a year and concluded that al gore did indeed win the presidency in two thousand as the november twelfth two thousand and one article in the new york times read all the ballots have been reviewed under any of seven single standards and combined with the results of an examination of over votes mr gore would have won that little bit of info was slipped into the seventeenth paragraph of the times story on purpose so that it would attract as little attention as possible around the nation why because the nine eleven attacks it just happened and journalists a feared that the people with the plain trut

corporations like the ones his representatives and owners regularly wine and dine antonin scalia and clarence thomas and who frankly are paying thomas' wife salary for letting the deputy o. poison us and kill off the environment also that more trans national corporate profits can be piled up and not once has our supreme court stepped up to say the treaties should not trump us or in matters of protecting consumers or the environment but when it comes to killing a human the supreme court gives rick perry the green light this is insanity just goes to show how corrupted our supreme court is by transnational corporate interests now care about human rights and what sort of danger they're putting americans abroad in because of their ruling is only care about corporate profits and since no corporate profits were at stake in the garcia case and you are damned if international law was violated. it's this swiss cheese approach to american sovereignty that is destroying our nation it's making us a slave to so-called free trade and at the same time making us a pariah in the international community because of thi

bush's appointment to the supreme court of clarence thomas. so she had a certain amount of concern. but then came the clinton and things started out kind of on a strange footing. a magazine concocted what became known as the great cookie controversy. some of you i can see nodding your heads. you remembered this. the question was, who baked the better chocolate chip cookies? was it barbara bush or was it hillary clinton? and hillary clinton sort of dismissed this and said, i'm too busy to bake cookies, you know, let's forget about this. and mr. bush said she thought the whole thing was forgotten. and then a few months later, the same magazine ran a story saying that in a taste test, people liked hillary clinton's cookies better. and barbara bush, well, that's really interesting because that's not my recipe. well, i mention it because even though it seems like a silly thing, perhaps, it garnered all of a sudden some very serious comment from reporters and columnists. and this also gave mrs. bush a certain amount of growing dis-ease with what she saw developing here. she gave a very mu

that's why dedicated it to my father who cut me off and clarence thomas at the same time. both of their guidance in my life coincided. postcode that's a good segue back to the hearing. >> guest: yeah, went from a week job and watched the hearings, wanted to root for the tape down for thomas clarence. the television side told me that this was the demand and newspapers told me it was a bad man. i remember eleanor chmiel, patricia schroeder walking up the steps in saying we're going to take a stand against this guy for harassment commit serial harassment. so i watch these hearings. i was a spectator who wanted to see somebody mauled, like lions mauling romans. and i watched day one, day two, the entire team. i went from wanting him to be taken down to wondering what's going on here? i don't understand what i'm watching. i understand the color commentary on the screen where they say this is outrageous. i didn't understand a bumper sticker is going by me on the streets saying i believe any data. i said i believe any to what? what is going on here? i don't understand that's goin

everybody probably knows this, but i listened to the clarence thomas hearings. juxtaposed that he was the worst man in the history of the world and i believe anita. a year later, the same people said bill clinton was a feminist without peer. huh? that epiphany was like bam. something is wrong here. i have to figure it out. ok, fine. maybe i am a libertarian. [laughter] i did not even know what that meant. but i just was like i do not want to be in the crowd of people that had i believe anita bumper stickers while they were defending that james carville was dragging $50 bills to a trailer park. you never know what you're going to get. what is going on? pubic hair on makeup and having state troopers go up to sorority houses and having a cavalcade? i do not get this position. -- this juxtaposition. it is weird that those events turned me into this freak. i literally say to my wife, "you remember when i was a waiter and was light-hearted and youths to go to movies -- used to go to movies?" i don't do that anymore. my goal is to take down the institutions. [applause]

when he brings up race or herman cain brings up race or clarence thomas talks about lynching, that's fine. if when we deal with cases ever legitimate race subjects -- >> this so harmful reverend sharpton. >> yes. let me let onjonathan respond, i will come back to you congresswoman. >> he came up with this the moment kroeshts controversy started. i think by bringing up the race card, he is bringing up controversy that he started. the congresswomenwoman was giving talking points against cut cap and balance, the cut cap and balance bill that they voted on earlier this week. anyone who is paying attention to the debate knows what she is talking about. she didn't call him out by name. she said the gentleman from florida. she pointed out the demographics of his district. she request questioned how he could support something like this. he gez off the deep end with this e-mail. >> she called him, what? the gentleman from florida and that offends from his honor? >> right. he has to defend his honor. i said in my piece, the dude needs a xanax after reading that e-mail. and he does. i don't kno

if you go back some time ago to the clarence thomas nomination there was a consternation among much ofthe black leadership at that point when he was nominated about whether to criticize him or not, with the people would stay quiet in the hopes that he would be something he hadn't demonstrated he had any inclination to be. i don't think that is healthy and whether or not i agree with all of cornell's criticisms he has the right to criticize and i don't think there's anything bizarre about that and it is healthy. >> you do talk to a number of people in chicago from the left who do complain or say that barack obama can go to egypt and give a speech or give a speech on the middle east and the world talks about the middle east for the next week so why hasn't barack obama come to the west side of chicago or gone to d 4 and talk about urban america? he missed an opportunity to put those issues which it is fair to say -- >> george bush ignored on higher plane? >> barack obama has a set of issues a white president doesn't have. i don't know what he is going to do if he gets a second term. when

if you go back some time ago to the clarence thomas nomination, there was a consternation among much of the black leadership at that point when he was nominated about whether to criticize this guy or not or whether people ought to just stay quiet and in the hopes he would be something they haven't demonstrated that had any inclination to be. whherr not i asall of cornell's criticism is beside the point. he certainly has a right to criticize them and there's nothing bizarre about that and i think it is something very healthy about it. >> i did talk to a number of people in chicago, black-and-white from the left who do complain and say that barack obama can go to egypt and give a speech or he can give a speech in the u.s. on the middle east and the world talks about the middle east for the next so why hasn't barack obama come to the west side of chicago oregon to detroit and talk about urban america? has he missed an opportunity to you think to put those issues which i think it's fair to say george bush ignored that on a higher plane? >> barack obama has a set of issues the white presi

it's the same thing as covering the same thing as thurgood marshall and clarence thomas.onservative black injurist. a difference of night and day the way they've been covered. she threatens the liberal establishment. just like sarah palin. >> here is another even more creative attack actually. chris matthews going after her, really harkening back trying to make an attempt to even pull religion into this. take a listen. >> we have to recapture the founders' vision of a constitutionally conservative government if we are to secure the promise for the future. >> what is this, a prove san antonio reformation, somehow we're going back to the purity of the original christian church, we're going back to the original perfection of slave holders and how perfect they were and government is the enemy? >> he is going after her perspective on the constitution, saying that there is some sort of religious angle involved here. i mean, what's your take on his statement? >> number one, she's right. number two, that's a personal attack on his part. you would never do that to hillary clinton.

. >> he clearly had the resources, again i think you look at things like clarence thomas, these programs you say. >> you advance by a federal program you get there to the top you want to get rid of it, that is a problem. >> a friend of mine who is a friend of press corps, if you want to be president, decide at age five and run your life accordingly. [ laughter ] >> you are on stage. >> heather: thank you. controversy surrounding and famous actress. julia roberts. was he is looking a little too pretty. that is coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪ i switched to a complete multivitamin with more. only one a day women's 50+ advantage has ginkgo for memory and concentration, plus support for bone and breast health. a great addition to my routine. [ female announcer ] one a day women's. dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic center recommends the custom-fit orthotic that's best for your tired feet. foot-care scientists are behind it. you'll get all-day relief. for your tired achy feet. for locations, see drscholls.com. thank you... it all happened so fast. it was clearly too late for me to do anything as my mercedes co

i want there to be the andrew breitbart that sought the clarence thomas hearings and saw that something was wrong. we cannot keep preaching to the choir. we have to bring in new people. [applause] i have a special project, and i want to end -- do not share this. this is off the record, friends. [laughter] i have a special project that i am working on. you're going to think it is unbelievable and you're not going to believe that but this is one under% true. i am working on operation alan colmes. i am going to convert him. [laughter] i am going to convert him. [applause] it is just a symbolic act. if i can convert talent colmes, we can convert the world. is there anyone more reflexively liberal on tv where you are saying, while, i never thought that one could defend anthony weiner at this juncture. [laughter] and so here is the e-mail that i received -- well, if you believe my reporting. [laughter] at 7:30 p.m. this evening. i just saw and video of the sky shouting questions at you. assholes like that give liberals a bad name. you handled it well. alan. [cheers and applause] ladies and ge

everybody probably knows this, but i listened to the clarence thomas hearings.anita. a year later, the same people said bill clinton was a feminist without peer. huh? that epiphany was like bam. something is wrong here. i have to figure it out. ok, fine. maybe i am a libertarian. [laughter] i did not even know what that meant. but i just was like i do not want to be in the crowd of people that had i believe anita bumper stickers while they were defending that james carville was dragging $50 bills to a trailer park. you never know what you're going to get. what is going on? pubic hair on makeup and having state troopers go up to sorority houses and having a cavalcade? i do not get this position. -- this juxtaposition. it is weird that those events turned me into this freak. i literally say to my wife, "you remember when i was a waiter and was light-hearted and youths to go to movies -- used to go to movies?" i don't do that anymore. my goal is to take down the institutions. [applause] i thought -- i really did think that i was an idealist when i thought i was lib

justice clarence thomas last week called upon john locke as well as others to figure out what the constitutional basis for one of the cases is. thomas consulted john locke and rousseau and examined jefferson pose a demanding schedule for his own daughter. two justices looking to different parts of history to find what they believe to be m.iginal in sis let's go to an independent scholar in flint, michigan. good morning, leonard. caller: happy holiday. i don't pentecost titian matters anymore. the don't think constitution matters anymore. no matter what, they changed their minds. we are supposed to have the right to own land. that's all i have to say. host: juan writes the following on twitter -- but look at a story today about votes happening in the house or not happening. modesto, california on the democrat line, arlene. caller: i don't think the constitution matters. they do what they want and make changes to fit them. i'd think we need to rewrite the constitution. because blacks were not included. i think it needs to be written to say that "we the rich people get what we want and we don't wan