here's rush limbaugh this friday saying where he stands. here's rush limbaugh. let's listen. >> i now hope this deal fails. i say it directly and officially. let the tax rates go up. on january 1st. let them go up. wait for our cavalry to show up and deal with this the right way. >> exactly, that's what the president was worried about. what rush limbaugh beautifully put. what he wants to happen is nothing gets passed this year, the cavalry, i'm sure he stole that word from me. meaning the republicans control the house, effectively are going to have control of the senate on this issue if you count the numbers. >> we're in a situation where rush limbaugh and moveon agree with each other and on the other side newt gingrich and al franken agree with each other. this makes no sense. >> beyond the 20 yard lines in both directions people are basically not going to go with an establishment deal by nature. you're not an insurgent if you with an establishment deal. by its nature, it's a compromise. a person on either end isn't going to like an end of the road compromise.

rush limbaugh. we're all looking at the same facts. rush limbaugh susannah was just on the radio.re he is saying, i wish they didn't have a bill because i'm hoping they let the taxes go up again then the republicans come in and own the house. they are the ones that cut taxes. he called it the cavalry. the same image i used. isn't that a good argument for the progressives that the president had to do this or other wise is cavalry would come in? >> this is what you've got to respect about president obama. it wasn't about politics. it was about doing something immediately now. put the politics aside. let us move forward. do it jointly. the public wanted to see our politicses working together. i give president obama tremendous credit. >> i give obama credit, too. but i think the question is, why did the democrats do this before the midterms? i think there's a very interesting question here. >> robert, tell the guys that lost and the women that lost, if they had been able to say what's the guy mcmans, the guy from staten island. tell them. >> or the largest tax cut in history. how abou

. >>> coming up, are rush limbaugh's racist rants about to sink him? reverend al sharpton brings down the hammer with the fcc. >>> and finally tonight, rush limbaugh has a long history of using his radio platform to make racist comments. today, reverend al sharpton met with the federal communications commission and asked them to take a stand on limbaugh. reverend sharpton joins us tonight here on "the ed show." how'd the meeting go, reverend? >> i had a very good meeting on tuesday. and i think, ed, that where we will go in the beginning of the year is the push for public hearings. we had a very fruitful meeting that they could not infringe upon free speech, but they can talk about standards and can have open public hearings where radio owners and personalities and certainly we would want mr. limbaugh to be one of them, would have to come in front of the fcc and answer direct questions on direct statements and how they may be offensive based on gender and race so that the fcc can then shape policy based on the results of those public hearings. so we're

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i know somebody, you disagree, that's rush limbaugh. here he comes. this time, he's right for all the wrong reasons. here's rush limbaugh on the tax bill. let's listen. >> i hope this deal fails. i say it directly and officially. let the tax rates go up. on january 1st. let them go up. wait for our cavalry to show up and deal with this the right way. >> what do you make of that mr. capuano? he wants to be the one saying, those damn democrats let your taxes go up, here were january 15th or whatever. >> he'll be the guy leading the charge next year to cut the programs that are so important. and i don't want to do that. i think that's absolutely inevitable. they're going to do it any way and to add another trillion dollars is going to empower it even more. >> is rush right, if you don't deal with this tax issue, the bad guys will come in and look like the heroes? aren't you thinking political at that is all this? >> but i think i have to think philosophically as well. mr. fattah? is rush limbaugh right? >> they're as liberal as they come. i'm going to vo

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fatah, yous a s dis with, that's rush limbaugh. here he comes, and this time he's right for all of the wrong reasons but he's got it. and i think that you guys will agree that he's right. here's rush on the tax bill. let's listen. >> i know hope that this deal fails. i say it directly and officially. let the tax rates go up. on january 1st. let them go up. wait for our cavalry to show up and deal with this the right way. >> what do you make of that, mr. capuano? you've seen cowboy movies. he wants to be the cavalry with the white hats coming in with the white horses and saying those damn democrats let your taxes go up, here we are january 15th, whatever, and we're here to cut them for you. he wants to be that guy. >> he'll be the guy leading the charge next year to cut the programs i think that's so important like social security and medicare and senior housing and education and police and fire protection and i don't want to do that. and i think that that's absolutely inevitable. they're going do it anyway, and to add another trill

you know why you don't hear a lot from or about limbaugh anymore? because he's gone crazy.oo many cherry blow pops. >>> our winner is -- is bill o'reilly still talking? his most recent quote, entitled, keep christ in unemployment. this comes a time when compassion can cause sdpafrlt. if you open your home to scores of homeless folks, you will not have a home for long. there is a capacity problem for every noble intent. there are millions of americans who are not responsible. the cold truth is that the rest of us you cannot afford to support them. congressmen like mcdermott don't support them. for them, the baby jesus wants to provide, no matter the circumstance. being a christian, i know that while jesus promoted charity at the highest level, he was not self destructive. the lord helps those who help themselves, does he not? >> i don't know, pal. because the phrase the lord helps those who helps themselves is not in the bible. which is one o'reilly has to assume he is getting his rant. here are two things independent bible. luke 14:12. when you give a feast, invite the poor

people were not happy. >> people like rush limbaugh took over much of the conversation even after that. that is why the bill is viewed that way. it is more negative than it is positive. the country has been very hard on president obama. president obama has not done a very good job. david axelrod was the senior adviser. i think it is more political and more involved in looking at how the world sees the president and wanting to change that. it was more of that effort to get the president out of that bubble. they tried to do away with some of -- this president and cabinet are not listening to businesses and that is why business is not hiring and not investing. in new research and new facilities. i think that some of this change is coming. the media is part of the story. there is so much liberal media. oftentimes, people tune in to hear what they want to hear. >> how much do you think there might be between those coming into the house that were elected because of the tea party? especially long term members? >> in terms of a jump boehner's view, i think that a lot of the incoming freshmen r

c-span: ...rush limbaugh or any number of national call-in programs which weren't there, haven't been there but 22 years or something like that. >> guest: right. c-span: larry king started it all in 1978 on a national basis. that's not discussed in your book and i wonder--that's a community. we all--we have all formed communities where people are involved, albeit in--in many cases, alone. >> guest: sure. c-span: but they're talking to a community. what im--wh--what impact has that had on this, you know--and is the water cooler thing better for us as a country or worse for us, that we all watch the same thing and talk about it the next day? >> guest: well, if we actually did talk about it with people we--we--in a--in a face-to-face setting in which we really know one another, it would be fine. i don't see anything--there's anyt--you know, nothing bad about talking about "survivor" anymore than talking about the--you know, the local bond issue or whatever else you talk about with friends. i do think the face-to-face connections are really important; that is, i don't doubt for a second t

>> you bust rush limbaugh. he learned there is a fourth amendment to the constitution.seriously, how do we do it? i am not sure. one of the things that i struggled with, in particular, in robert blake's case, when i got into the case, i was determined not to get caught up in the media and to be the same person at the end of the case as i was at the beginning. i think of lawyers need to be lawyers, not try to be entertainers. you would know better. >> just so you know, i covered him while he was trying that case and desperately tried to get him to come to me during the case. i felt it was so important for the public to understand the constitutional issues that were coming up, but he rightly wanted to remain focused on the client and case at that time. so how do we educate the public while remaining true to the cause of the work? >> i was going to have a hard time controlling these guys. >> you have a panel of lawyers and you are telling them to shut up, and you are not even wearing a black robe. [laughter] by the way, putting a black robe on a suit does not give you a go

. >> rush limbaugh call for a terrorist yesterday -- on-call her a terrorist yesterday on national radio. >> i did not think you lack a sense of humor -- >> let me talk about richard holbrooke for a second. he was larger than life. he loved the press. he was always trying to influence and shape it. the original spinner. this is a man who made a lot of money in the private sector but his vocation, mission, passion, was public service. he was making money in new york -- he looked at it as an interruption. the dayton accords -- he did it in dayton, ohio, and it was brilliant, to bring people to dayton, ohio. not paris or geneva, but where they were determined to achieve a breakthrough. >> "time" magazine names person of the year. it is not the wikileaker. >> take down the content by taking us down, the organization, and taking me down. >> that is julian assange. he has been released on bail. he was under arrest and being held in london, possible extradition on sexual assault charges. can the justice department get to him? >> the old law requires it to show that he herded the united states.

you have frank rich on the left, enraged by what mark is doing, rush limbaugh on the right, enraged.ve the luxury of never actually governing, never being a president, never being a senator, never being in congress, realizing that you actually have to, at the end of the day, sit down and deal with people across the aisle. you want to talk about magical, childish thinking, frank rich and the left have had a year of magical thinking right now. they believed they could get absolutely everything they wanted and when they didn't get it, they become petulant, went off in the corner. what did that end up getting them? about 80, 85 newly republicans elected in the leadership. there's not a pendulum swing ideologically in america. america stays in the middle. when you go too far left they slap you back and when republicans go to far right, they slap you back as well. >> what does he do to actually make the politics difficult for republicans now? it hasn't been that difficult up till now. >> this is what's ridiculous and this is what president obama has experience on the streets of chicago rea

getting away from that with so many political pundits, people from my part of the world, like rush limbaughwho instead of speaking to us at a level of speaking -- seeking greatness and thus are motivating us by fear and hatred. it frightens me. it frightens me for the country because i feel like even the greatest leaders, even when we were really down, during the reagan times, people followed him because the words he were using -- the words he was using, even though unemployment was less than is now. i think it is so important that we demand the greatness and our leaders that we deserve. and not allow that kind of rhetoric to take over and become what would qualify as leadership. tavis: let me connect that back to the project, the new record. he talked about the fact that words have meaning and the art -- you talked about the fact that words have meaning and they are powerful and is the message that resonates. not that every one of the lyrics in your songs have to be substantive, sometimes they are just pawns, everything does not have to be socially redemptive, but how much thought you give

. >> that was the message of rush limbaugh yesterday, calling her one on national radio. i did not want to put you in the same category of the echo chamber. >> i would not normally say you lack a sense of humor. >> i don't see the humor. let me talk about richard holbrooke for a second. richard holbrooke was larger than life. first of all, he loved the press. he loved what was written in, was always trying to influence it and shape it. he was the original spinner. this is a man who made a lot of money in the private sector, but his vocation and mission and passion was public service. he looked upon the time he was making money in new york as an interruption. let me point out one thing, the dayton accords -- he did in dayton, ohio, and that was his decision, and was brilliant. to bring people to dayton, ohio, not paris or geneva, but to achieve a breakthrough, and they did. >> "time" magazine names the person of the year ended is not the wikileaker. >> there were obviously serious attempts to take down the content by taking us down as an organization, taking me down as an

>> so this means that limbaugh would have to step up or maybe one of his representatives or the people that carry his show and explain that it's okay to say racist things on the air. >> and explain why some these statements are not racist, which i would love to see them have to explain that. >> it's going to be an interesting year. reverend, good to have you with us tonight. >> thank you. >> thanks so much. >> all right. >> you bet. >>> tonight in our telephone survey i asked, do you want house democrats to keep fighting this tax compromise? 88% of you said yes. 12% of you said no. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. 88% of you said yes, 12% said no. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schulz. up next, "first look." >>> end of the road, the long nasty battle over tax cuts reaches its conclusion with a late night vote. >>> a free man for now. the man behind wikileaks is released from jail and pledges to expose more secret documents. >>> and bus brawl. fists go flying on a washington bus with a pregnant teen caught in the middle. good morning. i'm lynn berry. those stories and more straight a

about rh rush limbaugh. you can disagree with presidente obama.you don't have to call him and ignoring jackass, which rushed did last week pretty don't have to call him the amnon child. the connotations of that. say that barack obama wasn't blackie would be nothing morebe than a tour guide a in t honolulu today. you can disagree with the the politics, disagree with the policies beauty don't have to go that far. g i don't think it serves this dot atuntry well when people go thah it's the final point, it is not only disgusting to listen to, it can wa be, not always, but it can be dangerous. .. the san fransisco area called the tides foundation and called them the most dangerous element in america today out with george's money to undermind this country and bring the country down. about a couple months later, the police stopped a guy weaving in and out of traffic and had three guns in his car on the way to san fransisco to wipe out the leadership of the tides foundation baa glenn beck identified them as evil. toxic talk can lead to toxic actions. it's

i'm talking about rush limbaugh, you can disagree with president obama.you don't have to call him an ignorant jackass or if barak obama was not black, he'd be nothing more than a tour guide in honolulu today. you can disagree with the policies. you don't have to go that far. it doesn't serve the country well when you go that far. it's not only disgusting to listen to, it can be, not always, but it can be dangerous. glenn beck identified a group in the san fransisco area called the tides foundation and called them the most dangerous element in america today out with george's money to undermind this country and bring the country down. about a couple months later, the police stopped a guy weaving in and out of traffic and had three guns in his car on the way to san fransisco to wipe out the leadership of the tides foundation baa glenn beck identified them as evil. toxic talk can lead to toxic actions. it's not good when that happens. as a solution, look, i'm not about to censor anybody. people have a right to make a fool of themselves as much as they want. g

it's like mike savage or rush limbaugh or that knucklehead on fox news what's his name is always shouting all the time or like me this is more of a interested in the good decorum of bill o'reilly they say oh the rich pay most of the taxes which is the most it's completely false because of course they're only talking about reported taxes as we know most of the s. and p. one thousand last year did not report tax the record taxes because most of the income they get is go through off offshore entities when they don't really declare any taxes in the u.k. of course there's a huge pushback against companies like are kidding around by philip green and vodafone finally the year in the u.k. figured out that hey they're not the ones who should be absorbing all this cos they're pushing back and getting arcadia and philip green and vodafone the actually pay the taxes owed instead of just going through these offshore tax havens let's move on max now to the at the next up by because we have this global kleptocracy it's not possible without a very integral player in this whole scheme is the i.m.f. and i

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rush limbaugh is entertainment. yes. it is ugly . on another occasion he said abortion is absolutely an individual choice and another occasion the afghan war was a war of obama's choosing. but critics say his greatest fault is in fund raising. the rnc raised roughly half what it can did in the election cycle. it may have cost two senate seats and perhaps more. >> they have had a 72 hour program that is successful and along with other efforts that was widely successful in 2002 and 2004 and 2006 in getting republican voters to the polls, this year, steele cancelled the 72 hour program saying it was costly. >> the only thing we know objectively, from the numbers steele has failed. he will face a crowded field of five or six challengers some who have the connection of halle barber and karl rove. >> he is on the record with greta tonight. doug, thank you. >> we'll tell you which political figure ares is on the top of the list . worry about what venezuela will do with state of the wi the capital one venture card we get double miles on ever

limbaugh pushed back and he sued for peace. and a certain way, when this happened i said boy, that's the power of rush limbaugh, and actual fact while he is undeniably posted and powerful and influential. it was ultimately a reflection of tea party power reflecting itself in that dispute. >> host: maybe it's a force in history that tea parties, such as the repeal of the fairness doctrine, that radio doctrine that made very strongly opinionated shows such as rush limbaugh's dating back to the present ratings, that would be decades and decades ago now. >> guest: certainly what happens is going way back before the tea party movement. everything in the political mainstream today is built upon frustration that's been growing for days. this is a grassroots movements happen in america. in the 1960s the proceed on the bus and it ain't the civil rights movement. frustration had been hoping for decades before that. even the founding of america, the frustration had built and that's what is happening today is frustration at the number used

. >> rush limbaugh has the right to say whatever he wants to say. he does not have to the right to do it on publicly regulated airways, the fcc has the responsibility to set standards to say the public cannot be offended based on their race or their gender in this country and you federally regulate the airways that they give licenses to that are very competitive and the fcc is very selective, based on standards. >> may i ask you two questions? do you think it's reasonable that you are going to spend your whole life not being offended? twho deems what is offensive and what is not? government? if you don't wake up your friends and family and your neighbors, we are in for tough, tough times because a lot has changed while we were all sleeping. they were not sleeping. the left has been preparing and indoctrinating. i will show you what you are up against. this is a new video from a 15-year-old kid in london. watch this. >> we know what they are up to. they think we don't come and demonstrate ever again. let the word go out about next tuesday, let the wo

that when you have paul, and congressman ryan and newt gingrich, and the leadership up against rush limbaugh sarah palin and mitt romney and question who is more conservative is making the leaders nervous. the soon to be leader eric cantor released something to press. something says why not wait until january 11 when the republicans control the house. this is no time to play game with the economy. for member elected and have to cast a vote that should shock a stock market, that's different story for someone on the outside planning to run for president. >> i don't think you can say with certainty that charles does that president obama would not support this kind of a tax hike. if it came to that. in mitt romney's editorial, it was inco herent. he says either we'll have the higher taxes or the uncertainty of not having any bill. we don't know what president obama would do. it's not clear he'd say we're against this. i doesn't make sense. >> you are seeing the tax cut religionist and those who believe that any tax cut is good no matter what it costs and those who have the larger vision, debt, d

. >> rush limbaugh has the right to say what he want to say. but not on publicly regulated air ways. the fcc has responsibility to set standarped and say the public cannot be afended based on the race or agenda in this country and u.s. federally regulated air waves that they give license to and fcc is selective basod standards. >> may i ask you two questions. who deems what is offensive or not. if you go wake up your friends and family and neighbors, we are in for tough time because a lot has changed while. it is video from a 15 year old kid in london, watch >> they think if we claim down we will not demonstrate. let them go out about next tuesday and next week and month and year they can't stop us from demonstrating. they can't stop us from fighting back and in the street was london. we will always be there to demonstrate and be there to fight. where are those children of the republic? where are those children for the constitution and the founders. you must, must teach your children the truth of our country. this kid is 15 years old. ours are