and glenn beck and bill donahue, president of the catholic league. bill donahue, let me ask you, first of all, you're pretty well-known hard line conservative on these matters, are you happy with the direction the pope wants to take you? >> yes, i'm delighted with it and i wish he would read exactly what he said instead of being interpreted through other people's eyes. look, he's a reformer, he wants to shake things up and i think too many people on the right and left have gotten into their comfort zones. there are tough battles about abortion, homosexuality, the poor, the environment, they've lost sight about what the catholic church is about. the catholic church is not about any of those subjects as important as they are, it's about salvation. i think what this pope wants to do is to cast it wide, get your feet on the grounds, look at the macro picture. i'm all in favor of that. >> okay. father, would you go along with that? or would you go a little further and sense that perhaps what the pope is doing is preaching an altogether more tolerant catho

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looks like the nobel peace prize winner, and our president looks like the mad killer. >> not only glenn beckust beck saying these ludicrous things. look at rand paul. we're talking about high officials. >> 12 years after we were attacked by al qaeda, 12 years after 3,000 americans were killed by al qaeda, president obama now asks us to be allies with al qaeda. >> so we're talking about linking the president to al qaeda. are we serious? a u.s. senator linking the president to al qaeda. the president who took out bin laden. are we really having this discussion while we're dealing with the seriousness of this moment? joining me now, crystal ball and jamal simmons. thank you both for coming on the show. >> thanks for having me, rev. >> thanks, rev. >> also with us, of course, angela rye, who's sitting there look at me saying i'm here too, reverend. let me get serious. cutting through this, what is the goal here to this kind of talk, crystal? i mean, because this is as extreme and bizarre as you can get, but you have a u.s. senator joining in the pile-on. >> it's propaganda, pure and simple. they

your brother or sister that is the very basis of our democracy. >> is this being fueled by the glenn becksd? beck calls for obama's impeachment forearming known terrorists in syria. but this summer we have seen the far right beat the drum on impeachment. do they have a case for impeachment? let me just be middle of the road on that and ask the question. is this a valid point that should be brought up by the american people? i'll give them the benefit of the doubt, even in the conversation. >> let's give them the benefit of the lout. that's what they are. this is grasping after a straw, anything that is extremely on the edge and the margin seems to be appealing to these folk. and the tragedy is, that enough of the people on the right who have enough reason and sense to know better won't say so. but the masses of american people understand this for what it is. this is rhetorical manipulation and chicago an re. the worst sort of manipulation of the people in the hither land who unfortunately, ed, don't know better and take their cues from people like this. they ought to know better. and as a

then i just sort of riff on them and then people grab those riffs sometimes and say wow i think glenn beck grabbed it and maybe it got a million hits on you tube or something and for me it's not my riff on occupy wall street it's not planned it's just i just sort of freestyle everything yeah if someone throws out a new story here's my opinion i thought another news story here's another opinion pick that up i guess or riley picked it up and he said you want to come in and just do a sort of weekly whatever and i said yeah sure how would you describe your politics to say he's not a conservative which i find unbelievable how would you describe yours well my politics i come from a very liberal family and i always consider myself very liberal and terms of. consentual crimes you know prostitution drug use social socially. and i always and then when it came to other issues that were political i did i never found myself to be conservative but i feel like i've been made into a conservative well because i'd say things like look. let's focus on education and let's focus on the family staying intact an

john: i happen to agree with glenn beck on this one. i don't know much.ught to keep us humble says the author of -- she grew up in algeria, and she said in this debate neither side knows what is talked about. so let's start with the left. what did they get wrong? >> i think the most important thing to know on the ground is that in every single majority country people are standing of the fundamentalism. the left is sometimes too politicall correct to recognize the danger of that fundamentalism or to listen to the voices of these people who are doing that report. john: what d you mean they are too politically correct? give me an example. >> an example would be that some on the left have tried to embrace things like bailing or the imposition of sharia. whereas on the ground, in fact, people are challenging all of those things. some on the left in the u.s. do that because some on the right and spoken out in a discriminatory way against sharia. john: you are attacked creature on the left. worked for the center for the constitutional rights a amnesty internatio

john: i happen to agree with glenn beck on this one. i don't know much.ught to keep us humble says the author of -- she grew up in algeria, and she said in this debate neither side knows what is talked about. so let's start with the left. what did they get wrong? >> i think the most important thing to know on the ground is that in every single majority country people are standing of the fundamentalism. the left is sometimes too politically correct to recognize the danger of that fundamentalism or to listen to the voices of these people who are doing that report. john: what do you mean they are too politically correct? give me an example. >> an example would be that some on the left have tried to embrace this like bailing or the imposition of sharia. whereas on the ground, in fact, people are challenging all of those things. some on the left in the u.s. do that because some on the right and spoken out in a discriminatory way against sharia. john: you are attacked creature on the left. worked for the center for the constitutional rights and amnesty internat

some right-wing radio people like laura ingraham and glenn beck are not and others like karl rove and bill kristol are. so is jesse jackson and harry reid and nancy pelosi are for it. juan, your cocktail says they may be very confused here. the people you hang out with in washington, they don't know what to think. they can't throw their guy under the bus and not support him. but they are supporting american power. whoa. you know? >> well, it's not clear that they are siding with the president yet and he's got to get that liberal democratic base on board otherwise it's not a matter of a question about how republicans politically and the pundits are responding, it will become a matter of the president unable to control his left wing. >> well, he's got pelosi and reid already. they are the leadership. and a bunch of other left wingers. eugene robinson, you know this guy eugene robinson, you can't get more crazy left, i think eugene robinson, i think people like nick and "the new york times." >> he's ready to go. >> what strikes me is what you were saying a minute ago, laura ingraham and

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. >> that was glenn beck responding to a decision by the white house monday to waive part of the armst control act. the white house announcement was not to arm rebels in syria but provide gas masks and other nonlethal equipment to protect against chemical attacks. according to beck's logic, sending gas masks to save lives amounts to an impeachable offense. senator john mccain, the other target, has been more hawkish, pushed to provide weapons to opposition forces in syria. today senator mccain are speaking out against another oppressed people, citizens of russia. in response to vladimir putin's op-ed, titled russians deserve better than putin. putin and his administration, mccain writes, they don't respect your dignity or respect your authority over them. they punish accident and imprison opponents. they rig your elections, control your media. he concludes by emphasizing his beef is between putin and his comrades and not with the russian people. when i criticize your government it's not because i'm anti-russian, it's because i believe you deserve a government that believes in you and

websites bankrolled right wing candidates and politicians and media gurus like rush limbaugh and glenn beckbeck in particular uses cruz-like rhetoric to amass an $85 million fortune. >> they are terrified about ted cruz. terrified. anybody who listened to him, they saw exactly how smart he is, how stable he is, how cogent he is, how together he is. >> is the strategy a long-term winner for cruz? he could have made millions with crazy filibuster, ran one headline, as another countered cruz's filibuster could have cost him millions. back to the panel, i want to start with something molly wrote in the atlantic about this new reality for the right. the fall of the heritage foundation and death of republican ideas. outside groups like heritage have gained strength because they feed grassroots hunger for true conservatism. from 2003 to 2007, our donner base, this is holler, went from 200,000 to 600,000. folks tell us i stopped giving to rnc. the goal is to push as far right as possible. we were talking about this a little in the last block. isn't this the new reality. right has its own independen

when glenn beck or one of these draftdodgers is taking out a full-page ad in "pravda" in moscow, i wonderver there. third, i'm old enough to remember the consequences of dictator to run the whole continent of europe. i think we should stand for something. you know the old adage, if you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything. i am fully behind president obama, who is very smart and getting exactly what he wanted. when you are staring down a gun, and you are about to lose your biggest customer, you will change your tune. thank you very much. host: ann, thank you for calling in. oscar tweets in michigan, mountain, up in the north part of that state. caller: hello. i just wanted to say that there are 2 different factions in the progressive -- and the democratic party. there is the progressive faction , which i belong to, and the moderate faction, which barack obama and bill clinton along to. they consider themselves new democrats, which comes from the democratic leadership council, which is founded by a foundation that william kristol got his money from. .bama follows the dlc h

i couldn't believe that glenn beck was going to hold a rally at the foot of the lincoln memorial on the same day august 28, 2010 and do it within the context of i have a dream. martin king does not belong to me. he doesn't belong to the civil rights movement. martin king is an american icon but if you are going to associate yourself with him or even think to claim part of his mantle come could do it within the context of the truth and accuracy. i guess i got so tired of hearing all these opponents of affirmative action quote time after time i am opposed to affirmative action because i stand with dr. came. i want my children to be judged by the content of their character and not of the color of skin so mark king was -- he was one of the earliest proponents of affirmative action. he understood the need. in fact if you read lyndon johnson's speech that he gave at howard university. >> host: we shall overcome. >> guest: no i mean the ones -- you can't take the person who has been in slavery and say we are going to put them in the same position as the starting line. that's not fair. guess th

i couldn't believe that glenn beck was going to hold a rally on the same day and do it within the context of the i have a dream speech. now, martin luther king doesn't belong to me. he is an american icon. but if you're going to associate yourself with him, or seek to claim part of this, it would be within the context of truth and accuracy. okay? i got so tired of having all of these opponents of affirmative action time after time. saying that i'm opposed because i stand with doctor king. and i want my children to be judged in the content of character and not by the color of their skin. so doctor king would be opposed if it was wrong, absolutely wrong. he was one of the earliest proponents of affirmative action. he understood the need, an he understood the need, and he included this at the university. and he was giving the commencement address, he said that you cannot take a person and that we are going to put him at the same position of the starting line, that is unfair. and there are people who can't. now, i do think, and i have come to my own conclusions that race no longer be an appro

there was after glenn beck this way, rush limbaugh, sean handy.they have gone after lou dobbs, multiple people on the right by going after they're advertising base. this is one of the things we're going to be doing intruder volt, this new organization with david horowitz, looking at instances like the cma and the companies that target viewers there and say to them, you don't understand. there is an actual counter a facts to you putting up the cash so that she can shake your booty on national television like that and bobbing grind. there is an actual a factor in there will be in effect on you in terms of your store. this is what happened in hollywood. of voluntarily imposed code by hollywood. it was not government mandated. it was voluntarily imposed by hollywood because of the catholic legion of the decency. hollywood decided that they understood where the bread was buttered. it's about time for conservatives to use the market power as opposed to ignoring the power of culture to drive views and opinions. >> host: in prime time propaganda you're ri