comedian huffington post blogger. good morning.around the country for your comedy tours quite a bit. tell me what you think about paying extra for an aisle seat and being hit with these new fees? >> unbelievable that they can get away with this. why pay more for an aisle why d aisle seat? and they want to charge more more the windows now because of the view, apparently. but if you actually want to look out the window, that's an extra charge. but what kills me is they're charging for extra leg room. i don't need extra leg room, i only need room for my legs. >> let me talk to you about this, this los angeles dwarf theater group is irate that snow white and the hunts man hired big people for the seven dwarfs. >> any midget role that comes up, you have to be at least this tall to make that kind of a kplampbt. i can understand where they're coming from, at least they don't have to pay for extra leg room when they fly. >> another person who is angry besides this los angeles dwarf theater group is john mayer. he said the taylor shift song

professor james peterson is director of africana studies at lee high university and a blogger for the "huffington post." and here in new york, author of the book, "money and power." if i can start with you. there is no doubting mitt romney's financial successful. >> he is good. >> we can't even calculate. somewhere between $83 and $255 million. given certain investments have been dropped as he run for president. how blind a trust is this? >> look, when it come to blind trusts, one really never knows. it is the same way super pacs are supposed to be differentiated from the candidate who the super pac is supposed to serve. you can always have the trust teas, friends of yours whom you've known a long time who can have a nonverbal communication, if you will, about winks and nods. >> help the they? >> how shall we say it? they know each other well. they know what he wants. i don't know who is in charge of mitt romney's blind trust but this is an interesting coincidence that he was able to sell at that time and other stocks in walmart. mexico in a timely fashion. >> just coincidence. he rails against the pr

philadelphia, professor james peterson, director of studies at lehigh university and a blogger for the huffington post we know that this election is being fought between those he believe government should be reduced and those who think the government does have a role. isn't mitt romney also revealing he has little understanding for schools and teachers because he has no experience of public education? he went to an elite private school where class sizes were small. i mean, that's what he knows. he knows nothing about public education. >> well, that's right. i think what we are also seeing is that mitt romney doesn't really understand how the economy isn't working for the majority of americans and how government is supposed to work. right? but remember this is a guy who thinks self-deportation is an employment strategy, specifically with regard to education. i mean, think about it, martin. what are some of the things we know? our kids are falling farther and farther behind. they used to work in education in the new york city public schools. we also know that things like bullying are on the rise. in par

factor here joining me now to talk more about this is attorney and blogger debbie hines founder of legal speaks dot com also a huffington post contributor let's first talk about yesterday's ruling how big of a deal is this oh it's a very big deal it's particularly a big deal for civil rights groups because they got what they wanted which in essence was making the vote fair because in maryland the two districts where most of the prisons are located at the first in the six their majority districts and so obviously when african-american prisoners leave when they get out of jail they're not going to be voting in those districts they're going to go in back to their home address their legal address and voting so it's of extreme league. the big deal and what the state did is it basically said you know we're going to count their last you know address where they lived as the address where they live in and some other states are following suit is that right yes delaware i think california and there's probably going to be others that are going to be following now that the supreme court has ruled favorably on exactly what they've done an

bloggers get paid attention to. the become known. >> are u.s. optimistic debt -- are you as optimistic? >> i think "the huffington post" is a wonderful platform. it is the local reporters at city hall that don't get the economy of scale on the international or national level, i don't know how we will pay for them. i know that television and radio has traditionally lean on the local newspaper. somebody has to pay these people. it is not the printing press that costs money. it is the time. there has to be a way to do it. and i am not sure what will take its place. >> you have local journalists and the community involved in what is happening but in newspaper after newspaper, in city after city, editors' jobs have been cut, circulation is way down and it is a question about who will report that the lettuce at the supermarket is bad or that the mayor is abusing your tax dollars? this is not a crime in some sense. it is economics. the of economics of paper are very different from the economics of digital. you get a larger mass of information out to a larger number people. they wanted to know what was new. because of that, they subscribe to the newsp