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eric boehlert.o good ♪ ♪ come on, baby, hurts so good ♪ >> stephanie: let's dive into the right-wing world. >> i don't know what that means. >> stephanie: eric boehlert from media matters who we love. good morning, eric boehlert. >> good morning. >> stephanie: good morning. we were talking last hour about -- we all recall what some on the right did to the 9-11 -- in terms of will they stop at nothing, to make a political point. i guess the answer is no, they won't. go ahead. >> these are sort of desperate times. the larger scheme of things, background check and some of the things we're talking about -- you could argue are rather minimal. but the gun -- you know, the gun lobby hasn't seen any legislation -- national legislation in almost 20 years. so they are desperate and the headline we have at media matters right now on the front page, fox tells newtown families to shut up about stronger gun laws. they -- fox and limbaugh who called them human shields last week saying they're being used by democra

on, baby ♪ >> eric boehlert. >> stephanie: let's dive into the right-wing world. ing eric boehlert. >> good morning. >> stephanie: i love your tweet, you said great only 13 years too late. justice o'connor questions whether the supreme court should have decide bush v. gore. >> i see tweets about that this morning, too. i think "the chicago tribune" picked it up as well. that was late last week. >> stephanie: thanks, sandy. we just want to say -- >> now, a warning? >> stephanie: thanks! >> it really was one of the most painful political events ever. so now when you think about -- look at what the previous 13 years could have been like. then you go down that road and you have to stop after two minutes and you're like iraq war, climate change. it is just like thanks. but you know -- >> stephanie: like taylor swift, "i knew he was trouble when he walked in." apparently sandra day o'connor did not. we were talking to rude pundit who calls the library the whitewashatorium. >> sandra day owe canner and others on the court have come to the clear realization of the extraord

eric boehlert is the senior fellow at "media matters." he joins us from new york. back into "the war room." >> thanks for having me. >> michael: your organization is funded by wealthy progressive doneors donors. what is the difference? >> we don't pretend to be a news organization. these -- these groups that you are talking about, you know, all very nice-sounding names, center for integrity, open -- watchful government. we're going to track all of the bills that are going through the state capitol. who would oppose that? but these are basically attempts to hijack the news in small ways. newspapers that don't have enough to cover their capitol will give it to you for free and we might only have conservative sources in the news story, or we're going to run these crusades against what we call government spending when of course we know the koch brothers, what they want to do is basically eliminate government. so the that are dangling this free news service in front of newspapers that we all know are strapped for resources and money, and they are not getting media repor

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eric boehlert, we're going to have him on at the bottom of next hour.tory. you know, it is typical but house g.o.p. paul ryan cut $400 million from embassy safety funding. >> including benghazi. >> stephanie: wonder if that will give lindsey graham the vapors. lindsey graham yesterday talking about the boston case. >> after having talked to the fbi, they told me they had no knowledge of him leaving or coming back. the name was misspelled and when we say there was no broader% flight here, i don't know how in the world we know that at this early stage. >> stephanie: yeah, you know, it is hard to say. this whole thing, we were talking about the russia connection, it is a little weird. somebody was saying that you know, the russians could have done something about this as well. it is a little suspicious. it is not -- i don't know whether the fbi dropped the ball or whether -- to what degree russia was involved with this. >> sounds like certain organizations weren't speaking to each other again. kind of like 9-11. >> stephanie: could have been. >> i'm not ta

eric boehlert and democratic strategist alexis mcgill johnson, always a pleasure to have both of you. thank you for your time. what about the boston marathon as a sporting event? we'll talk to sportswriter dave zirin about the future of this consumer institution. >> john: what can a lone act of terror do to the world of sports? i'll talk about it with dave zirin, sports editor with the "nation" magazine. thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. (vo) she's joy behar. >>current will let me say anything. >> john: sporting events are supposed to be an escape. a chance for people to get away from the frustration of everyday life. but with any sporting event, there is always the chance for disaster. thousands of people crowded into a confined space for an extended period of time, makes them an ideal target for these kind of disgusting attacks. over 200 were killed in atlanta at the olympics and eerily similar to the boston bombing 14 people were killed and over 80 injured when a bomb was set off at the start of the 2008 sri lanka marathon. w

eric boehlert from media matters doing the lord's work as usual. ♪ hurts so good ♪ >> stephanie: ericnd the crime rate dove. why do they say that? we don't know if there is cause and effect. we do! >> i wrote a piece last weekend. maybe we'll talk about it. this mantra is gun laws don't work. gun laws don't do anything. we've got all of the laws on the books. more regulations don't work. the clinton crime bill is a perfect example of -- people probably don't remember but you know early '90s, '91 '92 '93, crack epidemic, et cetera a number of gun deaths was spiking. and there was this huge crime bill. the government stepped in to do something, regulations change behavior, et cetera, et cetera et cetera. what do people talk about during the clinton years? low crime, great economy. >> coincidence. if you go back and looks the other thing that's driving me crazy now is watching the corveg of the so-called gun debate in the congress and the senate. it is the 900th time -- republicans obstruct obama. the press blames obama. you know. and so there's a lot of attention. why can't they get all

rude pundit, eric boehlert as usual and reverend jim wallace live in that chair in hour number three.e've never had him in the studio. >> stephanie: he's going to bless the studio. captain america's underpants. jacki schechner. listen this is not what it sounds like but jacki schechner spent the night at my house for the second weekend in a row. i don't want to start tongues wagging. >> any p