i think maxine watters has a point here. >> do you remember velma hart.cted this woman to stand up and she said i support you but i'm finding it hard and harder to support you and your policies. well, we weighed in with velma hart yesterday, she still doesn't have a job and she's making the point that maxine watters and colonel west are making. it's time to pay attention to the black community. i don't know. i'm not sure why he's not -- you're right, brian, he could have maybe made a little detour and checked out some of the cities with higher unemployment rates. >> i don't know. is it a campaign trip? i can't figure it out or is it not? is the bus that's built in canada went to three american cities, none of which were predominantly african-american and there seems to be a lot of frustration. maxine watters, one quote here that stands out, we don't know what the strategy is. >> no kidding. apparently, we'll find out more in a couple of weeks after the president tells us his plans after labor day. well, now, your headlines for a thursday. we have to begin

starting with congresswoman maxine watters. >> the congressional black caucus left the president too.are supportive of the president but we [inaudible] getting tired of it. and so what we want to do is we want to give the president every opportunity. >> how long? >> to show a what is he do and what is he prepared to lead on. we want to give every opportunity. our people are hurting. >> yes. >> the unemployment is unconscionable. we don't know what the strategy is we don't know why when is he on this trip is he not in any black communities. we don't know that all we know is we are politicians. we are elected officials. we are trying to do the right thing and best thing. when you tell us it is time to let go. >> laura: i like all the shout backs that was classic. joining us now from south florida republican congressman al lep west who is a member of the congressional black caucus. now, congressman west, i'm watching this unfold and thinking to myself, well, maxine waters is angry because black unemployment and black foreclosure rates, we're angry about all of this stuff what's going on

and then congressman maxine watters damming the tea party. literally.se reports after these messages. bill o'reilly weekdays with bernie segment. new study by the media research center conservative group said there is a huge disparity in the mainstream media using the words conservative and liberal as descriptions. also the big rangle ingraham shootout last week. joining us from north carolina bernard goldberg.com mr. goldberg. what is the point of the study? >> the study found that journalists at abc, nbc, and cbs identified conservatives in their stories 20 times more often than they identified liberals they might say jo blow a conservative, 20 times more often than they said joe smith a liberal. this is like when the government puts warning labels on cigarettes that say cigarettes cause cancer this is a media warning label conservatives are dangerous to your mental health. it's the same thing. this happened before, bill. in american journalism up until really about the 1960's. and it involved race and crime. the only time journalists would identify r

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hehe's what democratic congresswoman maxine watters had to say. >> we are supportive of the presidentour people are hurting. unemployment is unconscionable. we don't know what the strategy is. we don't know why on this trip he's in the united states. we don't know that. >> david, she was referring, of course, to the rural tour that president obama took, but regardless of whether or not it was okay to go on a rural tour, what do you say when a member of the congressional black caucus said she doesn't know what strategy is for unemployment. this is a big ally of the president's. >> obviously the thing that the president is proposing, things like moving forward on the road, transportation service program, roads, repairing roads and bridges and so on, which has been, by the way, done on a bipartisan basis, but stuck in the house. those are going to have big impacts up and down the economic scale. there are other things he's proposing that have big impact up and down the economic scale. he fought hard in the debt ceiling negotiations to make sure those safety nets, medicaid and pell grants

. >> maxine watters surprised me when she looked outraged and she feels as though the president not goingthe urban environment is a boad scene. she wanted to know the plan. >> obviously, i'm not a political expert. >> you're an author and an actor. ai leave that to you guys. i believe the president going to announce a plan or a jobs initiative coming up so i think folks want to see that. i was born in iowa. and, you know, i'll tell you, there's not a lot of black folks in iowa. you know? >> that's a great state. i was born there, too. >> no, you weren't. >> algowna. >> were you? >> i was born in iowa city. >> look at that. >> how was the birthday party? you went to the president's 50th birthday at the white house. >> it was a ball. it is a lot of fun, you know, what was wonderful to see, you know, i've been to the white house at different times before and everything is usually super, you know, formal but really nice to have a nice relaxed event, hot dogs, hamburgers. >> karaoke. >> there wasn't karaoke but the marine corps jazz band was there and they have some wonderful musicians, just n