producer jenny churchill and mike riggs he's associate editor at reason magazine and reason dot com thanks for being here guys. we had some good stuff today the debt debate i think it's getting a little bit. not tense on capitol hill as much as people are getting a little loopy yesterday we told you how house g.o.p. members watched the clip from ben affleck's movie the talent for inspiration but now all the holywood comparisons on the hill are continuing today senator mccain cited one of the most well known movies of all time when he was talking about the debt. then ghana had no choice but to pass a balanced budget amendment and reform entitlements and the cheap party could return to middle earth having defeated morgul or ok tea party ave and then rand paul actually responded to me keynes comments he said i rather be a hobbit then a troll and then they continued sharon angle is gone and paul saying the lord of the tarp is sucking up for obama the lord i'm going to bring. this i honestly don't even know what to say about this it's so bizarre and also i think calling someone a hobbit as a di

friday and it's time for happy hour and joining me tonight is our producer jenny churchill and mike riggs as the editor at reason magazine and reason dot com so obviously we have been covering some of the murdoch scandal for you asked me if this could be the end of the empire but the funny thing is that everyone has been covering this expression for fox news for the most part and here's them trying to explain why it's really not that big of a deal. and the company has come forward and they've said look this happened a long time ago at a tabloid in london somebody did something really bad and the company reacted they close that newspaper all those people got fired even though ninety nine percent of them absolutely had nothing to do with the for a mistake and. as apologized but for some reason the public media keeps going over the summer again. that is just so that it i mean can you imagine if box news was all over some story and let's say they were doing something about the president now he's a muslim and he came out and apologized to people and that's very i've been lying this whole time