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>> bill: yes, please. >> you better not speed on your way home. >> bill: glenn beck, everybody. you can fill in head if you like. [ laughter ] in a moment, the dumbest things of the week. a bizarre scene on theview that did not include me. what is going on here? right back with dumb. (announcer) we're in the energy business. but we're also in the showing-kids- new-worlds business. and the startup-capital- for-barbers business. and the this-won't- hurt-a-bit business. because we don't just work here. we live here. these are our families. and our neighbors. and by changing lives we're in more than the energy business we're in the human energy business. chevron. and at holiday inn express, you always can. holiday inn express. stay you. and stay rewarded with the hit it big promotion-- earn up to $500 dollars at over 300 retailers. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight, dumbest things of the week starring juliet huddy and greg gutfeld, author of the book "the bible of unspeakable truths." new study out of germany say women will die if they date younger men. sounds dumb. >> it's

also our pal glenn beck thinks i'm desperately wrong about how in-to-how to interrogate captured suspectsck and i will shoot it out. that's >> bill: personal story segment tonight, some political observers believe that attorney general eric holder is not long for his job. as you may know mr. holder has taken a huge hit promoting civilian trials for people like khalid sheikh mohammed. rather than being milk toast about the war on terror in general. yesterday eric holder was drilled by the house judiciary committee especially about his avoidance of the islamic terror description. >> do you feel that these individuals might have been incited to take the actions that they did because of radical islam? >> because of? >> radical islam. >> i mean we are in the process now of talking to mr. shahzad to try to understand what it is that drove him to take the action. >> but radical islam could have been one of the reasons? >> a variety of reasons. >> was radical islam one of them. >> there are a variety of reasons why people do these things. some of them are potentially religious. >> all i'm asking

glenn beck, you know -- he's got serious problems that i'm not equipped to diagnose. i don't really know what he thinks. he's really a puzzle to me. but they clearly -- they're getting wealthy off betting against this president, riling people up, making people think this president is making us less safer, rather than more safer. again, as senator leahy said, they have foiled many plots. but, you know, they can't ever give him credit for anything. they never will. and it's just up to the rest of us to call them out on it and focus the country on the things that matter, which is, you know, we're fighting this, we're never going to be completely safe. but they are apparently doing a very good job to this point. >> joan walsh, editor and chief, salon.com. thanks for your time tonight. >> thanks, ed. >> coming up, the whack owes across the street are playing dirty politics when it comes to the gulf oil disaster. i'm taking on caribou barbie at the bottom of the hour. and it's going to be easy, too. >>> and the rightees are making headway. you won't believe how many america

that is what sarah palin's and glenn beck -- sarah palin and glenn beck do. they proliferate. using more newscasters doing that. -- you see more newscasters doing that. they are on their sunday show, but they are tweeting 24/7. you have to do that if you're going to reach audiences. >> i would like to follow-up on that a little bit. you mentioned that in a future election, maybe not the 2010 election, maybe 2012, there will be a lot of people who will be getting their information exclusively from social networking technology. that is all little bit hard for me to swallow. -- a little bit hard for me to swallow. there is an information gap between people who do not have access. is it possible we could be making decisions in this country and in others on the basis of only those who have access to the fast-moving, portable technology, and that people who are writing the dinosaur -- riding the dinosaur are going to be left out of the political process? >> no. if you are a political campaign, u know there are people you are never going to reach digitally. you have to go to their do

somebody like john mccain and somebody the new right, the new libertarian right in the form of glenn beck, does that split map with that old grudge against miranda rights in the conservative movement? >> yeah, i think so. this is interestingly knotted ideological space. i do think one of the things you have seen is the influence of this libertarian streak, particularly the campaign of ron paul has sufficient fused the tea party movement and the right but only the parts of the argument with the state's use of economic power. all the critiques he makes of american imperial impl have been jetsonned because the neo conservatives control the foreign policy apparatus. the question is whether that can be pried apart. there have been increasing concerns in conservatives i follow and read about encroachments of the state in these kind of civil liberty situations. there is a potential for a fissure there. i don't think it is developed. >> chris, this proposal by lieberman to strip citizenship on the basis of affiliations with bad people. is this the sort of thing that joe lieberman might sort of ru

like this, and libertarian conservatives in that we are seeing people that i think most notably glenn beckday, a host on fox news channel saying it is important that these suspects are read their miranda rights. we can't shred the constitution just because it is inconvenient. to see a split between somebody like john mccain and somebody that's sort of the new right, the new libertarian right in the form of glenn beck, does that split map with that old grudge against miranda rights in the conservative movement? >> yeah, i think so. this is interestingly knotted ideological space. i do think one of the things you have seen is the influence of this kind of libertarian streak, particularly the campaign of ron paul and his views, have sort of fused the tea party movement and the right but only the parts of the argument that have to do with the states' use of economic power. all the critiques he makes of american imperialism abroad and other issues at home have been jettisoned because the neo conservatives control the foreign policy apparatus. the question is whether that can be pried apart. i d

cial repo" now back to glenn beck. ♪ ♪ >> glenn: last weekend i was in new jersey and speaking in frontoup and there were several pastors in the audience. about 1,000 people there. i started to talk about the guy we're talking about tonight, george whitefield. and i started to talking, telling the story about who this guy was and what he taught the american people. when i finished, an african-american pastor, evangelical got up and he was going to say the closing prayer. he got up and he looked at me and he said, "i am never going to preach the same again. i know exactly what i'm supposed to be doing now. it all make sense to m me." i think george whitefield is a man for today. he's complicated and controversial. we'll get to his views on slavery, which were bizarre, but a man of his time, i guess. he was a man years before the revolution, was teaching colonists they could have a relationship with god, they could stand up to authority, he's the man that laid the groundwork for the revolution. he's the guy who taught america stand up for yourself as an individual. whitefield. if there wa

this very year we've heard glenn beck kind of resurrecting coolidge's philosophy and persona. and on his tv and at cpac. so i think the timing might be right for a coolidge boom. people are looking at this. and as i quoted him quoting the founding fathers we see a lot of similarities in that philosophy. and we are seeing so much interest in the founding fathers where this might carry over. and we have in coolidge a distillation of that philosophy which is so pure and in implementing it so effective -- you know, one of the ways i was going to start this speech, then i said, no, no, you know, politicians stand up in front of you every time they want to be elected and they say, well, you know, i'm going to cut spending and i'm going to balance the budget. and i'm going to reduce the debt. and i'm going to cut out all the waste in government. and they never do it. they never do it. calvin coolidge did it and then we say he didn't accomplish anything. he spent four years and he never did a damn thing and he did what every politician promises to do. so that is not too bad an act to

glenn beck does. they've become media conglomerates. they've got their books, they've got their tv interviews. they've got their websites. and i think -- and you see more and more newscasters doing that. where, you know, whether it's david gregory or -- they're on their sunday show but they're tweeting 24/7, okay? and that's what you have to do. >> i'm going to follow up on that just briefly. and i would like to ask -- whoever wants to answer. david, you mentioned in your opening remark that in a future election, maybe not the 2010 election, maybe 2012 or 2016, there will be a lot of people for whom the exclusive source of information about the campaign will be coming from these kinds of -- what we're calling social networking technologies. that's a little hard for me to swallow. and steve mentioned the information divide. the gap when people don't have access to this. is it possible that we could be making decisions in this country and perhaps in others as well on the basis of only those who have access to the fast-moving portable tech

that is what sarah palin's and glenn beck -- sarah palin and glenn beck do. they proliferate.sing more newscasters doing that. -- you see more newscasters doing that. they are on their sunday show, but they are tweeting 24/7. you have to do that if you're going to reach audiences. >> i would like to follow-up on that a little bit. you mentioned that in a future election, maybe not the 2010 election, maybe 2012, there will be a lot of people who will be getting their information exclusively from social networking technology. that is all little bit hard for me to swallow. -- a little bit hard for me to swallow. there is an information gap between people who do not have access. is it possible we could be making decisions in this country and in others on the basis of only those who have access to the fast-moving, portable technology, and that people who are writing the dinosaur -- riding the dinosaur are going to be left out of the political process? >> no. if you are a political campaign, you know there are people you are never going to reach digitally. you have to go to their do

but i also find it troubling that glenn beck becoming our advocate. he's our support. [laughter] >> you know, nobody nobody -- he misread us completely. that's nothing new. not the first time, won't be the last time. but ironically, he's right. he's right what he says. it's hard to do this. don't these people know that there is no comparison? and there are no other voices and that is very -- almost almost -- the only ones out there. everybody in this panel agrees. but, you know, nobody comes out there and says what are you doing? we saw is it in health care. we're seeing it now in immigration. and so the only reasons i see is ignorance or lack of memory and in some instances, it's insensitivity and it's because of bias. but most of it is just who cares? you know? >> abe, i mean you think you raise obviously a very important incentive point. and that issue of holocaust imagery, nazi imagery, in most instances is inappropriate. let me offer a different take. i know mahoney from los angeles. he's a caring, enlighted, but deeply religious individual who is very troubled ab