>> i'm not going to bash rush limbaugh or any other host.either or stephanie or anybody else. rush is a master of, you know, making it about himself as far as talking. you know, and making the argument about his show which is great. that's why he makes millions of dollars and set the stage for all of us. we're thankful for that. >> he didn't set the stage for a lot of talkers, but he likes to take credit for that. here's -- i guess the way i view is it he claims the president is engaged in character assassination. now, stephanie, i find it ironic that this is a guy who has ripped apart obama on the airwaves countless hours for the last several years. what do you think? >> well, you know, it's like a parallel universe, ed. obviously rush limbaugh is the one engaged in character assays nation. you know, with the name calling and wants the president to fail. i don't think anybody, even if you don't agree with the president, believes he's involved in character assassination. heidi, i spend my entire show bashing you. >> i wish you would, stephan

i can't stop limbaugh from using the word regime. can say it plays to something bad in this country. no matter who's using the word, right or left, no matter why he's using it. why? because it's not an affirmation to disagree about politics, it's the rejection of that right. it rejects our right to debate politics, which is what we do in this country. like play baseball. that's "hardball" for how. catch us again tomorrow night at 5:00 and 7:00 eastern. "countdown" with keith olbermann starts right now. >>> which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? here goes the judge? as supreme court justice stevens mulls retirement, the republicans might filibuster even stevens. >> i think the president will nominate a qualified person, i hope, however, he does not nominate an overly ideological person. that will be the test. >> meaning what? no liberals or moderates? the sometimes rumored nominee says to justice stevens wait until next year, after the elections. >> after a year passes there's a much better chance we could come to

it's not a regime or junta, as rush limbaugh says it is.can majority got in there because the supreme court -- on the supreme court majority gave the electorate vote to george w. bush in 2000, it was the bush administration and it was president bush, the chief of state, the representative of our republic. this use of the word regime by limbaugh is obviously his way to cause trouble, to agitate, provoke. other people have used it on occasion. byron york, the columnist discovered i used it myself once in 2002 with a conversation with al sharpton. it's just not the right word. whatever the motive, whatever the circumstance to describe the government of our country. in the current environment a place those who believe the president is somehow illegitimate, that he or his philosophy is less american than his critics. rush limbaugh is using that word to deny this administration's political legitimacy. i can't stop limbaugh from using the word regime. the guy knows his audience. it plays to something bad in this country, no matter who's using the

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now the war of words between former president clinton and radio host rush limbaugh.his week he spoke mashing the anniversary of oklahoma city bombing. leading that the rhetoric could lead to something worse. limbaugh then jump on it the today president clinton sat down with jake tapper and responded to these words from limbaugh. >> you have just set the stage, for violence in this country. >> any future acts of violence are on your shoulder, mr. clinton. >> do you have any response? >> doesn't make any sense. the only point i tried to make was we ought to have a lot of political dissent, political argument. nobody is right all of the time. but we also have to take responsibility for the possible consequences of what we say. >> president clinton went on to warn against demonizing government and spoke of his worries about threats against president obama. you can see all of jake's interview with the former president tomorrow morning right here on "this week." we are going to turnover seas where iran's supreme leader blasted the united states calling the u.s. the world's

i want you to respond to this statement made by rush limbaugh today.s responding to what we just saw. president obama calling for the young people and minorities and women especially to get out and vote this year. here is rush. let's listen. >> we have to reconnect young people, african-americans, latinos, women for 2010 in a video put out by the dnc over the weekend. this is the regime at its racist best. what's the regime doing? it's asking blacks and latinos to join him in a fight. what is a campaign if not a fight? he's asking young people, african-americans, latinos and women to reconnect to fight who? who's this fight against? >> there you have it. the tribalism has been encouraged there by rush and what do you make of it, governor? he says the president is a racist basically for getting young people and minorities to vote. >> i think, first he didn't listen to the video. i don't think anybody takes rush limbaugh serious on stuff like this. he's an entertainer trying to get a headline. here's what the video said. >> keep dreaming, governor. he's

i think rush limbaugh is the leader of the republican party., you're a smart guy, you're an elected official. can you name a single person in this country that stood up to the leadership of rush limbaugh. if they make a faux pas, they aid poll jazz to their knees in the next 24 hours. he's the leader of the party. he's tribal. >> they're trying to stoke that up. anybody who stood up to rush, 15 names. and they caved within five minutes. he's trying to whip up that kind of feeling. mark is right. mark assessed this pretty correctly. >> using race? >> are they using race? >> they're using a lot of emotions and a lot of motions out there. here's the good news. the republicans are not negative angry people. in the time of concerns, they want can-do people. if it's health care, arresting taliban leadership, they're going to reward the rules team. >> up against a ferocious team. thank you. when we return, we'll have thoughts about america's image in the world that's getting bert all the time. you're watching "hardball" on msnbc. s, or preservatives.

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wash limbaughism. host: from "the wall street journal" minutes released from a recent federal reserve meeting. and reflection of that, said fear -- raising rates too soon. naugatuck, connecticut. on our democrats line. eric, talking about yesterday's decision by the fcc and what it means as far as regulating high- speed internet. caller: can you hear me good? host: yes, sir. caller: on a similar aspect, what the tax raises and and everything -- people have to understand, this president inherited such a great amounts of different types of things. now he has to do what he has to do to, in my opinion, to get this country back on track. it is unfortunate the american taxpayers have to pay a lot. i myself and a american taxpayer. i don't have state assistance. i work for my money. i feel good about this right now just for the simple fact that something good may come out of it. host: "the new york times" -- massachusetts, republican line. jim garde caller: good morning, c-span. -- jim. caller: good morning,

as far as rush limbaugh and glen- black i have an an arm t armageddon view. gays in the military is something that should have been changed a long time ago. also coming back with education and leading world in education and getting our kids back to the level of education to compete with china and japan in the fast growing markets. look at the accomplishments heed made. yes he's in the process of closing guantanamo bay, also the improvements in afghanistan and the procedures of pakistan. host: let me jump in and get a response from stephen wayne. go ahead. guest: two things. sometimes we make adjustments on the basis of history that we wanted but a history that didn't exist. a lot of times people are looking at a fiction and not a fact. your certainly right, change is scary for people. particularly older people and particularly people who have an orientation that think that america has gained it's greatness from individual initiative and private enterprise, and a limited government activity. the fact of the matter is. president obama has a different view of go

i'm not included in the right but my criticisms parallelled rush limbaugh and others.said that president obama, being a little bit soft on terrorism, no waterboardinging, no gitmo, this, that, and the other thing, would make it easier for the terrorists, perhaps, to attack the united states. so i did exactly what bill clinton is doing on the other side. now, i sincerely believe that, that if you dismantle the bush-cheney anti-terror policies, it is going to be easier for them to attack. am i doing the same thing that clinton is doing? >> no. wait a minute. >> bill: let mary katharine go and then you can go. go ahead, mary katharine. >> look. i think there is a distinction to be made here. i was at the tea parties. okay. the people he is connecting timothy mcveigh to -- >> bill: i got that my criticism, mary katharine, to bill clinton is about a possible terror attack. >> well, i think that certainly the chances of an al qaeda or radical islamist attack are more present, i think, than a domestic militant threat. i think it's fine to keep an eye "on that kind of thing. h

bill: also a war of words between president clinton and rush limbaugh, have you seen this. >> i'm in a state right now, if there is a future incident such as oklahoma city, the blame is squarely on the shoulders of bill clinton and barack obama. >> after that, bill clinton was asked about it eve the -- over the weekend. you'll hear what he said about it, how the comments about antigovernment sentiment sparked this debate. march minister they say spare the rod and spoil the killed. why one school district wants to bring back the paddle. we're serious. next. martha: news alert out of cape can after value, florida, this crossing -- canaveral, nasa is postponing the discovery's return to earth until tuesday, they're dealing with bad weather in cape canaveral, they're expected to leave at 7:23 tomorrow morning, that's the scheduled time. we'll keep you posted. bill: something tells me those guys enjoy the rides! >>> he said, she said, brewing over iran as report of a secret memo sent by secretary of defense robert gates from the white house, warning the white house that it look as clear s

limbaugh flinked after two semesters in summer school. could you tell?inner, beck, with a quote that speaks for itself. let me tell you something, you are the key, not me, or people like you. millions of people like you. they're not afraid of me, they're afraid of you. like gandhi, like rosa parks. it wasn't rosa parks, it was the millions of people that were inspired by rosa parks' movement. the guy who used to sing "miss america," bert parks. lonesome roads beck. today's worst person in the world. national car rental knows i'm picky. so, at national, i go right past the counter... and you get to choose any car in the aisle. choose any car? you cannot be serious! okay. seriously, you choose. go national. go like a pro. i can download files up to 10x faster than 3g... outside. i can stream the movie "airplane" to my cell phone... at the airport. i can have a crystal-clear videoconference with my clients... ...muffin basket or something... ...while working offsite, or share five high-speed connections for online gaming... while enjoying the great outdoors

i began the book with a quote because most people remember after the election rush limbaugh infamously helped set the tone we've seen the last several 15 months or so he said i hope he fails. okay. 40, 50 years ago after john f. kennedy won the election john wayne committed conservatives said of this i didn't vote for him but he's my president and i hope he does a good job. how we fallout from that idea? how do we convince ourselves that was a statement? that is a principled stigma that puts patriotism and partisanship. that is where it should be. that is a reminder that we've lost sight of politics right now to the great detriment. >> this brings me to an issue i found fascinating and that is the consequences of wingnut behavior and use it just there are differences, quite stark in terms of consequences for democrats versus for republicans. you say about the democrats, quote among liberals who want to ignore the populist anger of the tea parties and the town halls do so with their own political peril but you said just the consequences are more grief for with the republican wingnuts ar

rush limbaugh upset the tone in the last 15 months or so. he said, i hope he fails. okay. you know, 40 or 50 years ago after john f. kennedy won the election, john wayne committed conservative said this. he said i didn't vote for him, but he is my president and i hope he does a good job. how did we fall from that idea? how did we convince ourselves that that is a square statement? that is a principled statement that put patriotism over partisanship. that is where should be. that is an important reminder that we have totally lost sight of our politics now. >> this brings me to an issue that i found fascinating and that is the consequences of wingnut behavior and use of just there were some differences here and quite start differences in terms of consequences for donna rats versus consequences for republicans. you say about democrats, liberals want to ignore the populist angry tea parties at the town halls do so at their own political peril but you suggest the consequences are more great for what republican wingnuts are involved in. they are benefiting from all this anger in

if rush limbaugh would not be -- was not popular, he would not be carried on major outlets everywhere. it sells, that is why it is out there. >> journalists have to get audiences and when some guy on the news starts to shout and people start to tune in, others said that or for him and they tried and they shout and people to men. that will continue until people start to do now. >> people have discovered last 10 years this ability to generate ratings and make money from opposition forces, from arguments, deli, reticule. once they decide that that had enough of this and audiences dwindle, we will look for something else that sells. my hope is that solid rational information. >> been a nationwide poll, 80% of americans said they say instability is a problem. in a separate study, it has been shown that americans have become less and less trusting of mass media since 1972. >> so many people at this point point get what they considered their news from outlet providing not as the commentary. >> it is easy to find the people that will reinforce your opinions and never listen to the other side.

the republican leadership has been -- >> what about the walrus under water, rush limbaugh? calling this a regime to a d.c. newspaper? he called the government a regime. i've never heard that. this is not stalin or a junta. we don't have regimes in this country. we have franklin roosevelt, we have harry truman, ronald reagan, administrations. to use the word regime suggests to me, like kill the nazis, regime change. >> it certainly does. i'm not sure that republican leadership can stop these if they wanted to. john boehner. >> what about waving the don't tread on me flag? >> they appeared before an audience shouting nazis and referring the democrats and obama and they didn't stop it. they didn't say don't do that. they didn't say anything the next day. they actually got the permit for the crowd to appear and do that. it seems at least it's implied acceptance -- >> they should condemn the rhetoric. i'm not sure john boehner the member of the tea party -- >> let me follow you up on the post here. why do you think the president, let's spread this around a bit. we had this miche

you could not say, well, we had george will and then we have rush limbaugh. george and i are good friends. we will leave it at that. i have great respect for him. >> back to charlie parker, is there anything political about him? did you find a political connection? >> he was not a guy that had much interest in politics and other than the fact that he was put up by the racism of the period like everybody else was. what i mean is, i have yet to see any black people who lived during that era who said, things were fine and dandy. i have not met them yet. they may be out there somewhere. >> you find that fine and dandy anywhere now? >> probably not. but the other thing is, fine and dandy might be overrated, like everything else. what i mean this -- my orientation is more blues- influenced, in that i expect things to go wrong. i don't expect to be overwhelmed by them going wrong, but i am the kind of person who i believe it is like playing baseball. when you go to bat, the odds are against you getting to first base every time you go to bat. life basically treat you

why engage rush limbaugh go after glenn beck? he's the president of the united states.doesn't seem to know how to wield power at a statesmanlike presidential level. he keeps stepping into the brawl that accounts for some of his loss of numbers. >> he knows how to wield power. he is obviously really bothered by pundits the president of the united states with due respect to us, you shouldn't be that bothered. >> you don't want to picture your president sitting in the oval office and west wing reading over the blogs and worrying about his press and i'm going to get that rush limbaugh tomorrow. that's kind of the image that he's not this grand figure that was presented to us in the campaign. now he's going after his enemies in an lbj-way that no american likes. >> what i think has gone on with the tea partiers has been outrageous. there's an incident before the vote where african-american lawmakers walked into the capitol alleged they were spit upon and called the n-word. with a little more reflection turns out there is no documented evidence whatsoever. do you believe it h

they specifically identified rush limbaugh and glenn beck and sarah palin and they were, as you saidng off the same hymnal. whoever they see as an vehiclive voice that's who they attack. the bigger issue in all of this is what is happening in washington? what is the government doing under the obama administration this is serious. when you have the obama administration, for instance in this new financial control bill, financial services, suggesting that the federal government should decide who gets credit in the future having permanent bailout authority in the future. people are opposed to this. they want to ram this bill through, just like they rammed through health care. the american people are saying no dice, we don't want to play in game any more. >> sean: thing i find most interesting in the "wall street journal" today you have the president of the pew research center the general public wants government reform and its power curtailed. what i think has happened, tell me if i'm wrong. i think conservatives have won the argument on health care. they forced it down our throat any way

michael steele apologize to rush limbaugh because rush limbaugh threatened to tell his followers to notund the national committee. whenever they do anything to upset him, as long as that condition -- so many elected republicans fear rush limbaugh, there will be a continual no to anything that the democrats want to do. for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. the democrats are going to overreact and you will see divisive behavior on behalf of the democrats. host: a couple of the primaries coming up, "the open senate seat in kentucky will be that of trade race and -- trey grayson. rand paul is challenging mr. grayson, taking credit for being a member of the tea party ." while there are other -- "with frame -- with the name recognition and fund-raising prowess, no one else has been quite such a product of the tea party movement. if dr. paul wins the primary on may 18, the tea party will have to prove its appeal beyond the republican right." looking at the race of blanche lincoln, a senator facing a battle in arkansas, this piece says "the very definition of the democratic

limbaugh.eruption was god protesting reform, worst again, he lied about the tragedy at the upper big branch mine, blaming it on unions. unions must have frightened him as a child. there were union worker there's so united mine workers should have been yore seeing their safety. united mine workers of america, there were union workers there. they say that's a nonunion shop. that ceo got rid of all the unions. at some point you're going to have to learn, pardon me for this sandwich. if you go up against me on a challenge of fact, you're going to be wrong. it's just that simple. no. the only thing simple is you lose the challenge of fact. there were 85 union coal miners brought back by massey energy, the owners of the mine, but not to the upper big branch mine, the one that exploded, they brought them back to another massey energy operation, mammoth mine in smithers, west virginia, 50 miles away. rush was wrong by 50 miles. that's actually real good for him. rush "wrong on the facts again" limbaugh

i do not support rush limbaugh. it has gotten to the point where i am upset with tavis smiley. let's support obama. let's support what he is doing. there is a lot of stuff that has not made us look too good lately. i want to say that i support obama. finally, he is doing something. for the people that are against obama, let's look at it. why were you not against george bush? host: kathy. caller: good morning. i was a democrat. i am now an independent. i want to say that this will kill the democratic party. they are planning a defensive in can heart. i am telling you. i have had it with him. i have had it with mr. obama. i have had it. a lot of people by now have had it with all of these wars. host: is that what you're hearing from the constituents? caller: i am de -- i am a county committeewoman. it goes on and on. we are war-weary. i have a friend that is an independent. he voted for obama, too. i want my vote back. host: we will leave it there. "usa today" this morning -- host: birmingham, alabama and our line for republicans. go ahead. see, my name is tiny. i may republican.

. >> thanks in part to noted geologist rush limbaugh. >> oh, no. ♪ >> scientists may think they knowcelandic volcano eruption, but clearly they're not familiar with the new limbaugh theory. >> a couple days after the health care bill had been signed into law, obama ran all around the world, hey, the earth hasn't opened up. i think the earth has opened up. god may have replied. >> health reform, brought to you by nancy pelosi. >> earth has opened up, i don't know whether it's a rebirth or armageddon. >> when god wants to punish america for its social excesses, he unleashes hell in iceland? meanwhile, in iran, a senior cleric has a bold new hypothesis about what causes earthquakes. many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray and spread adultery in society which increases earthquakes. and all this time we've been chasing tectonic plates. hemlines, not fault lines. scientists now believe the gradual warming of the earth, and the flowering of dormant plants is not caused by a seasonal tilt of our planet toward the sun. the coming of spring is actually caused by mitt romney.

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. >> clinton helped himself to get he reelected by blaming oklahoma city on rush limbaugh and trying to do it again to help the democrats in 2010. transparent tactic. nice to see abc news and jake tapper will be there with him every step of the way. >> the tea party movement is what she seems to be talking about, tantamount to blowing up the federal building? >> i think that's the subtext of what she was saying. i don't have any specific quarrel with what she was saying or what former president clinton was saying. because i think we have to be careful about the language we are all using and hearing. we see these threats against congressmen from the left and especially the right. and we have to be careful. remember, a lot of this can end in violence. >> this is interesting to hear in the 80s when conservatives argued there was a connection between sex and violence in the media and acts of sex and violence, rape, beating up people, the left said, oh no, there's no connection at all. ted bundy the serial killer interviewed said pornography was the cause of his decision to violently abus

they're able to talk across what ever part of their head has the rush limbaugh or other tapes tracking. i'm wondering if you might comment. perhaps even some sort of government service for all young people, whether military, peace corps, civilian corps. >> that factor of service, particularly world war ii service for a lot of the senators that were of that generation that we saw was a common bond. it is less common now. it was interesting when senator sole was engaged in his search for vice-president, and looking by and large a younger generation, he had a preference for people with military service. i would say the majority he looked at did not have that kind of service. he was particularly interested in governor rich who had been a vietnam veteran. -- gov. ridge. he was not ready to be considered at that point, but it was interesting to me when he said he would have a preference for someone who have had service, and when we started looking at the candidates it was not that common bond you are referring to. there were three members to serve with who had all been in the same hospital.

limbaugh flunked after two semesters in summer school. could you tell? our winner, beck, with a quote that speaks for itself. let me tell you something, you are the key, not me, or people like you. people like you. millions of people like you. they're not afraid of me, they're afraid of you. like gandhi, just like rosa parks. it wasn't rosa parks, it was the millions of people that were inspired by rosa parks' non-movement. what you're doing can be compared to what rosa parks did? the guy who used to sing "miss america," bert parks. sorry. that's insulting to bert parks. lonesome roads beck. today's worst person in the today's worst person in the world. regular moment can become romantic. and when it does, men with erectile dysfunction can be more confident in their ability to be ready with cialis. with two clinically proven dosing options, you can choose the moment that's right for you and your partner. 36-hour cialis and cialis for daily use. cialis for daily use is a low-dose tablet you take every day, so you can be ready anytime the moment's right. >

creating a regime as rush limbaugh calls it. now he's imposing socialism. anybody who lives in a socialist country, whether europe or any place else would be laughing at this as a notion of socialism. there is a -- this -- this has become the battle front for people who are worried about the very nature of this country. i think a lot of the worry isseisser is irrational. >> steve? >> one thing i think we've got to keep in mind, this didn't start with health care. remember the 2008 campaign, the fall of 2008, where you had people showing up at obama rallies, republicans showing up there or republican crowds at mccain/palin rallies calling him a socialist, calling him a marxist, saying this is the beginning of communism in the united states. that was before he proposed health care, let alone pushed it through congress. one thing we try to understand the motivation on the right, i think what ties together health care now, medicare in the 1960s, social security in the 1930s, all these great progressive advances and the reaction from the right, i think what ties

don't think the internet should be regulated, but i do believe something needs to be done about rush limbaugh and glenn beck. i would donate to a national fund to get them off the airways. host: why is that? caller: i don't feel they have the right to spew hatred that they do and draw a huge paychecks for it. i think it is an american. host: is it not a free-speech issue then? caller: that is the problem. it is a free-speech issue, but when they spew facts that are not true, people believe it because they say it over and over again. it is a complicated issue. i just don't think they have the right to tear down the country the way they do. host: arkansas on our independent line. there, go ahead. caller: good morning, sir. myself, i have been a network engineer for about five years when i was in the marine corps. if i did not have the open content, i would not have access to the internet -- information i needed. then a time, may have been correct internet access help to me say a lot of marines lives, and information like that. if you start restricting it, how can i get access to stuff i need to

of the various units and so on and they are able to talk across whatever part of the hid has rush limbaugh or keith olberman tips tracking and so on. and i am just wondering if you might comment on what you understand in that respect. perhaps even some sort of government service for all young people whether it's a lottery, peace corps, civilian etc.. >> well, that factor of service particularly world war ii service for a lot of the senators that were of that generation that we salles was a common bond and is less common now. and it was interesting when senator dole was engaged in his search for a vice president and looking at by and large a younger generation he had a preference for people who had military service but i would say the majority of people who looked didn't have that kind of service. i mean, he was particularly interested in governor ridge who had been a vietnam veteran and lost some of his hearing in vietnam, and governor ridge wasn't ready to be considered at that point. but it was interesting to me when he said i have a preference for somebody in that service and we started

>> rush limbaugh once said would we really want hillary clinton growing old before our eyes.s if she's on television every day as president, would we really want to see this woman growing old before our eyes? tucker carlson, i think, on msnbc every time on hillary clinton on hillary clinton on tv i cross my legs and everyone equated her everyone's first wives standing outside of probate court. they were overtly sexist things that were said about hillary clinton. at the same time it's not clear to me what effects this actually has on the outcome of an election. this sort of goes to your question which is that if i'm a democrat and i'm hearing rush limbaugh saying these things are hillary clinton does that make me more likely or less likely to want to vote for hillary clinton? you know, if i'm a democrat and i'm hearing this person beating up on someone whom i'm weighing, i would think be more inclined to vote for hillary clinton. now, that doesn't account for the fact what my unconscious biases might be about sexism. so that's why i try to come back at all times of the idea of

rush limbaugh inflicting untold damage on this country. governor palin, it is like a kid you punch me and i won't retaliate, a line that -- >> i think from gingrich to palin they've laid out the indictment against this administration. the direction in which it has taken this country on foreign and domestic policy. the battle we have now and when i say that every god fearing conservative, republican out there and independent around this country, this is a chance for us to move this country in a new direction. it is not about michael steele not about an individual, it is about a nation that -- >> sean: let me ask you this. we saw stories this week where people were saying, health care where do i sign up for my free obama health care? we saw stories, 50% of american households no longer pay tax. what does that mean for america if you have a voting electorate that is not paying any taxes? >> how do you sustain yourself going into the future if you are giving more government welfare, encouraging more people to be dependent on government instead

whether it is rush limbaugh, whether it's g.o.p.urnalists who don't agree with him, or whether it is the protesters, or even pollsters, who brought bad news about the president's polls, all get mocked by the white house press secretary and others speaks for the administration and i think if we'll encourage dissent the white house ought to be the magnanimous one and open up the dialogue with those who criticize it. >> juliet: first of all, critics of the left say the democrats are the last, being hypocritical and go back to george w. bush and you mentioned this in your talking points about producers and i wanted you to elaborate on that. >> sure. the actual talk of violence and demonization was -- has been nowhere close to what it was when george bush was president. and, he still is branded by many on the left as a war criminal, and, there are talks of still trying to arrest him, and, you know, by someone, from the far, far left and of course there was a movie would you the assassination of george bush -- about the assassination of g

rush limbaugh inflicting untold damage on this country. governor palin, it is like a kid you punch me and i won't retaliate, a line that -- >> i think from gingrich to palin they've laid out the indictment against this administration. the direction in which it has taken this country on foreign and domestic policy. the battle we have now and when i say that every god fearing conservative, republican out there and independent around this country, this is a chance for us to move this country in a new direction. it is not about michael steele not about an individual, it is about a nation that -- >> sean: let me ask you this. we saw stories this week where people were saying, health care where do i sign up for my free obama health care? we saw stories, 50% of american households no longer pay tax. what does that mean for america if you have a voting electorate that is not paying any taxes? >> how do you sustain yourself going into the future if you are giving more government welfare, encouraging more people to be dependent on government instead

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i've had this dispute with rush limbaugh, but using the word regime again and again. it does play to the black helicopter notion that somebody's coming to take over your country and you. >> there isn't a whole lot that's new about this. we live in an era where we have to technology to document all the episodes and instances like this and publicize it and get it out there, but imagine if we had the technology we do back during reconstruction. imagine if we had it during the debate over social security. every major sort of progressive action, every piece of progressive legislation, really in american history has been met with this kind of fierce, emotional backlash from the right. during reconstruction, that's where you had the birth of the ku klux klan. what's different now is david alluded to it, you've got guys like glenn beck out there who have been the platform on television, through the internet, on the radio, where they can reach millions of people and can rile them up. when you look at what this law is going to be, this is a very modest, incremental sort of pro

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the crowds in your party are now on the heads of sarah palin, michele bachmann, glenn beck, rush limbaughoday on daytime television we saw the wing team dream team of palin, bachmann and hannity. they have the star power, not the backroom schmooze of capitol hill. >>> plus jeff davis republicans. cries of secession and nullification got men killed in the 1860s. cries of states rights got us fellows like jim crowe and

difference as well as say i'm more ethical than my neighbor because compare my footprint to rush limbaugh's household footprint, for example? should that be done to, again, focusing on reality? >> i'm all for the getting the corporations out of politics, totally. i'm all for being more vigorous and disruptive, totally. definitely the times call for that. i'm not for the ethical superiority, and the reason is i believe that the problems that we face in terms of how we live right now are structural rather than individual. i think it's not individuals that are choosing to put endocrine disrupters in the baby bottles, it was the head of dow chemicals or monosantos. it wasn't these individuals who decided to rip up the railways in this l.a. some people are making individual choices that are really bad, like the heads of exxon, the heads of disney, those are the guys whose individual choices are crewing up the planet. -- screwing up the planet. our individual choices are not. the structure right now is set up to facilitate us acting in aless environmental -- a less environmental way. and the best

michelle backman, glenn beck, rush limbaugh and shawn hannity.wing team dream attempt palin, balkman and hannity. they have the star power not the backroom schmooz of capitol hill and davis of republicans. cries of succession. got 600,000 men killed back in the 1960s. like jim crowe and george corley wallace. what the world needs now more of this talk, virginia's new republican governor bob mcdonnell has declared april to be confederate history month. to read his proclamation you would think that the war was a joyous war of independence. great stuff all around. got overwhelmed by too much firepower up north. not a word about slavery being the issue or the election of abraham lincoln causing succession. former governor doug water of virginia says the confedate history month stuff is mind-boggling. we're going to talk about what just happened. >>> and will the real john mccain please stand up? never considered himself a maverick. could someone please remind him that he boasted about his

detractors of this administration, barack obama, on several occasions, has called out by name rush limbaugh, glenn beck, sean hannity. doesn't he elevate their stature when he does that? >> well, their stature is largely evaluated by the people who listen. again, it's one of those things where if you're not -- you have, in all, i think in a lot of different phases of the media, people can make statements that aren't checked, right? the media in some cases covers the food fight, but doesn't necessarily check who started it and whether they started it for a reason that was legitimate or not. >> so you want more fact checking, more accountability? >> well, i think you -- i think instead of covering the food fight, covering whether or not when people say is, in fact, right or wrong. >> on that point -- on the that point, i gragree with you. president obama has not held a full-scale news conference since last july. and i know your stock answer, >> howard, what did you -- here's my question for you, what do you think he did last tuesday afternoon at the nuclear security summit? >> he took some qu

that, you know, there is a lot going on right now that feels preoklahoma city, then of course rush limbaughm and said it's all on your shoulders from here on in. what do you see today versus what you felt in the days, weeks, months leading up to that horrible tragedy? >> donny, with all due respect to president clinton i as a former fbi agent, i was the first ranking u.s. attorney confirmed and supervised most of the federal law enforcement establishment from the secret service, customs, atf, u.s. marshals and the like at both justice and treasury so i see a larger sweep. i mean, the tax protest movement, obviously that was a significant, remains a significant source of anger and frustration. back in the '70s when i was an fbi agent in san francisco there was nothing more violent and angry than the sds, the weather fugitives and underground. those people wanted to destroy the united states as well. so you always have an american history, a common denominator, anger and hostility at tax collectors and government. but you rarely cross the line into violence. that's when legitimate first amend

we are exhausted in the office day after day trying to determine whether it's going to be you or limbaughsycho talk." and i'm sorry you're getting your ass kicked by those two guys but they're off the charts. >> i'm trying. i'm fighting back. i'm fighting back. >> i still consider you at least somewhat reachable. okay? >> okay. all right. so let's go to this. now, look, many, many times with many, many presidents or actually people holding office at various levels someone will say, let's send these guys home, you know? meaning at the end of their term, let's vote them out. send bush back to texas, send carter back to georgia, clinton back to arkansas. i was talking about sending them home and i said, if home is where michelle obama says it is, which she said it was kenya, who am i to argue with her? you know, she's the one determining. you should be yelling at her for bringing this up because i'm just referencing what she said. >> tom, i have to tell you i think that's a racist remark. president obama is an american. he was born in hawaii. and you know he was born in hawaii. >> i didn't s

we see who the great idea people are, the ones who pretend to be -- glenn beck, rush limbaugh, all theut as good as it's getting, so they don't have a buckley or irving crystal or someone like that to call them out. there's another difference too, rachel. people like buckley and crystal thought part of the job of conservatism was to persuade serious liberals, if not to agree with them, at least to rethink their own ideas, to raise the level of discourse. that's not what the extremists do. >> sam tanenhaus, author of "the death of conservatism" thank you for coming in. >> my pleasure. great to be here. >>> coming up, keith investigates the claim that aliens could be out to get us, but first on this show, george w. bush of all people gives democrats a boost heading into the november elections. coming up next. ♪ i am stuck on band-aid® brand ♪ ♪ 'cause band-aid®'s stuck on me ♪ [ female announcer ] moms trust band-aid® brand to heal the hurt better than store brands. ♪ i am stuck on band-aid® brand ♪ ♪ 'cause band-aid® helps heal me! ♪ ♪ take things as they come? i've got an idea. or impr

>> rush limbaugh once said would we really want hillary clinton growing old before our eyes. as if she's on television every day as president, would we really want to see this woman growing old before our eyes? tucker carlson, i think, on msnbc every time on hillary clinton on hillary clinton on tv i cross my legs and everyone equated her everyone's first wives standing outside of probate court. they were overtly sexist things that were said about hillary clinton. at the same time it's not clear to me what effects this actually has on the outcome of an election. this sort of goes to your question which is that if i'm a democrat and i'm hearing rush limbaugh saying these things are hillary clinton does that make me more likely or less likely to want to vote for hillary clinton? you know, if i'm a democrat and i'm hearing this person beating up on someone whom i'm weighing, i would think be more inclined to vote for hillary clinton. now, that doesn't account for the fact what my unconscious biases might be about sexism. so that's why i try to come back at all times of the idea

republican leadership did you have me, eric cantor republican whip, leader banner, and then there is rush limbaughbrush called me earlier today from the doctor's office in costa rica. [laughter] speaking about health care, you have to admit it was a controversial bill. some of the provisions in that bill were just on tellable to the republican leadership. come on, nancy. you had to know that john boehner was never going to stand for that tax on tanning beds. [laughter] i get it. they pass the bill, president obama bills like he's got some momentum going, so he is trying to coopt some of our initiatives. the one that surprised me recently what the president's proposal for offshore drilling. i just never thought he really understood the concept. not to drill in part, but for a guy who walks on water, the whole concept of offshore would be difficult for him to understand. [laughter] i know you think republicans would be discouraged by this but i am not. as i travel around the country, i was ashley here in washington for the 9/12 rally on the national mall. i had a chance to speak there. another repor