i don't want to overlook what larry klayman said. what he said was also very offensive.dea -- and i'm stealing from colin powell here. but the idea that this president is muslim that that's something wrong. he's not, but the idea that would be an insult and disqualifier and offensive is bizarre. there are plenty of moderate american muslims in this country. why that should be an insult to someone for someone who worships by the koran is bizarre. that's equally offensive to the muslim population in this country. i don't think we should brush it to the side. >> why do you think they call him a muslim when he cedes he was raised christian. he took a lot of heat for going to one particular christian church. >> because it presents him as someone who is somehow un-american and exotic in some respects. i have no idea. but it's obviously hurtful and the fact that the speaker at the rally, not someone just attending, but a speaker at the rally did that should trouble a lot of people. >> i think they're trying to delegitimatize presidency. get rid of his accomplishment on health c

joig us now is larry klayman of freedom watch and james peterson, associate professor at lehigh universitytributor. welcome to you both. mr. klayman, you, of course, are affiliated with a different tea party group. we know that. but in your book, why and how i came to fight the establishment, you write this. i have never engaged the services of a prostitute. but i have encountered a lot of whores in my career, people who sell out for money, power and fame. so who is the whore, in your opinion, is it ted cruz or mitch mcconnell? >> well, that was with regard to people in washington generally. you know, it was thomas jefferson who said, martin. >> i understand that, mr. klayman. i was wondering if i could take your very words and ask you, which of those two, mr. cruz or mr. mcconnell, is, in your opinion, a whore? >> in terms of how i would characterize it, mitch mcconnell has sold out the american people. i does not represent the interests of the conservative movement, the libertarian movement or any other movement. and whether it's mcconnell or whether it's president obama or whoever, they

. >>> tea party activist larry klayman is defending his speech from a tea party rally just over one weekw ruled, quote, unquote, by a president who bows down to allah. demand that this president leave town, to get out, to put the koran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come up with his hands out. >> our president bows to allah? come up with his hands out? now in a new blog, he's calling those comments metaphorical and blaming the liberal media, quote, pouring over the speeches that day primarily the liberal media picked up on my metaphors and broadcasted disparaging statements about them to try to discredit the tea partiers that were present that day. i'm sorry. i'm just not understand bing how the liberal media so s to blame for this. >> we are now ruled, quote, unquote, by a president who bows down to allah. demand that this president leave town, to get out, to put the koran down, to get up off his knees and to figuratively come up with his hands out. >> how dare the liberal media spin this? he went on to write, quote, ironically my references were intended to be metap

larry klayman is a nut job. way back to days of crossfire, we've had him on.ince back then. the idea that people are afraid to criticize this president, goldie is right. no president has been subject to the level of personal attacks that president obama has. and part of it is -- i wrote a book about it. part of it is because they've never accepted him as president of the united states. these people who were out at the world war ii memorial, they go back to the tea party town halls. what were they talking about? they had obama in white face, they said he wasn't born in this country. and they said he was a muslim because he's black. it's all the same ugly rhetoric. >> and the guy may be a nut job, but he was standing there with senators, elected officials, and vice presidential candidates of that party. i'll have to leave it there. thank you for your time this evening. >> thank you. >> thank you, reverend sharpton. >>> if you can't beat 'em, cheat 'em. wait until you see what ken cuccinelli is doing in virginia. next. bold has a huge imagination. a playground of

you heard larry klayman what he said to that same group of people.wants a president that worships to the foot of allah to walk out with his hands up as if he's a petty criminal. now, he doesn't have to call barack obama the "n" word. he doesn't need to. it's just as overt as anything i've ever seen. >> this is abstract language and we know it. remember mal con x said if you live south of the canadian border, you live in the south. but the reality is this. i'm going to tell you what the next step is going to be. they're going to lose on this obama care. they're going to lose on the default. the next step -- and i made a point this morning -- the next step is going to be articles of impeachment. that's going to be the next step that they're going to use. >> well, they're already beginning the rhetoric of impeachment, but i think it is interesting that we've seen atwaterism -- >> but atwater apologized on his death bed to ron brown for making that statement. >> yes, he did. >> here's where they're going to try the impeachment thing. if we do the default

in fact, we saw it on your oh show last week when larry klayman exhibited gross racism.ederate flag was waived in front of the white house by tea party fanatics. >> sure. i accept what you're saying, sir, but on the night of june 21st, 1964, michael this werner, james cheney and andrew goodman were lynched by the kkk near philadelphia, mississippi. how many young black and white civil rights workers has the tea party lynched? >> martin, i have given a reproduction of the painting of that incident to our local african-american history museum. i am well aware of what you're describing. sometimes analogies are imperfect. but the fact remains -- >> so do you -- do you accept that that may have been an inappropriate analogy? >> no, and i'll tell you why. because the modern-day torch bearers for the civil rights movement, the naacp, three years ago, implored the tea party to remove the racist from their midst and they failed to do so. and two years ago, another african-american congressman said specifically, you and me, they would like us hanged from a tree. and yet still, eve

we heard some outrageous comments front larry klayman of freedom watch.ur reaction. listen to this. >> i call upon all of you to wage a second american nonviolent revolution to use civil disobedience and to demand that this president leave town to get out. to put the quran down, to get up off his knees and to figuratively come out with his hands out -- up. >> when you hear that kind of language, what do you think? >> i have a visceral response to that, and i repudiate it. it doesn't reflect my personal values. my 0-year-old father right now, ike rigell is listening right now and he raised me to say it's always the president, the president of the united states, we respect the office and that type of language is harmful to our country. and it's what's pulling us apart. civility is not weakness. i refer to the president as the president in my home and my office and in my district. and i think this needs to be done all across america. it's not about an individual. it's about the office, and this is the fabric that holds us together as americans. >> well said.

. >> now, we reached out to senator cruz' office to see how he took larry klayman's rorkts yet, his spokespersonc., to urge their government, to fund veterans, whi senator cruz continues fighting for. >> meanwhile, the effects of the government shutdown, they are spreading and spreading. many people are feeling the pain. cnn's renay marsh is working this part of the story. what are you learns? >> you said it at the top, 14 days and counting here. some furloughed workers say they can't feel their families without help. some in the heartland say they can't get the federal disaster help that they need. we are talking about the ripple effect of an ongoing government shutdown. >> i'm not essential. >> reporter: the day before the gov shutdown, cnn med dee alexander, a secretary at the department of agriculture. >> you don't know how long it's going to last. >> reporter: two weeks later, the shutdown is still in effect and alexander has stopped paying her car loan. >> you decide that i'm going to have somewhere to live ought or do you decide to pay your car note? and you also have to figure out what a