he went too far again this week on his radio show with this rant against fox news's laura ingraham. > down in the gutter and used a sexist slur. msnbc president, phil griffin, to his credit, responded by suspending schultz for one week, and schultz, to his credit, offered a full and rather emotional apology. >> on my radio show yesterday i used vile and inappropriate language when talking about talk show host laura ingraham. i am deeply sorry, and i apologize. it was wrong, uncalled for, and i recognize the severity of what i said. i apologize to you, laura, and ask for your forgiveness. >> ingraham has accepted the apology but clearly wasn't happy about the episode. >> i wasn't all that surprised. this is what i think conservative women and to some extent african-american men who happen to be conservative and even latinos who are conservative routinely deal with. >> you know, griffin told me last fall that he's warned shultsz before about crossing the line. and schultz is a fiery liberal who sometimes gets burned by his own incendiary words. i hope he'll live up to his own promise to

like this right-wing slut, what's her name, laura ingraham?t. >> i want to apologize to laura ingraham. i want to apologize to my family, my wife. i have embarrassed my family. i have embarrassed this company. and i have been in this business since 1978, and i have made a lot of mistakes. this is the lowest of low for me. >> msnbc suspended him for one week without pay. let's talk about that and more in our strategy session. joining us donna brazile, our cnn political contributor. also joined by republican strategist tony blankley. he served as press secretary to the former house speaker newt gingrich. he is now with eddleman p.r. here in washington. it's clear the political discourse out there has returned to becoming so poisonous, only a few months after we thought it was going to die down after the whole gabby giffords shooting in tucson. >> it was extremely demeaning, sexist, and ed was absolutely right to apologize. laura has accepted his apology. i know them both. i've been on both radio shows. they are very passionate individuals. indiv

house budget chairman himself, paul ryan, who ought authorized this medicare plan, said this on laura ingraham'ssterday. listen to this. >> who needs a left with allies like that? >> the truth is, there is a great divide in the republican party over this. all of the republicans walked out on that limb except for a few and voted for this plan. they are afraid right now. it's not being well received back home in their district. so the last thing they need is for newt gingrich to give their opponents a bumper sticker and i was talking to a senior republican strategist in the house who said, now newt gingrich has given democrats a sound bite to use against us in the elections in 2012. >> let me play a little clip of newt gingrich and you're going to tell us what this says. >> i mean, for people to go from all of that body of evidence to say, yeah, but for 25 seconds yesterday i thought you said x, that's beyond gotcha. >> newt gingrich is trying to blame the press here on this. but the republicans i talked to said this has nothing do do with the game of gotcha. they said, you know n. watching him ov