i finally went to private school and high school, pensacola have catholic high school.i loved the nuns and they loved me back. they let me get away with things others wouldn't get away with. it was a great experience to it and then identity and ever city of alabama undergrad. and then university of florida law school. >> host: all right. phil bredesen, and exceed of producer i think the executive producer at msnbc, once told me that you came to him after you left congress, and you said to him of television news get me in the game. he said you were like a hockey player. you wanted to get on the ice. get me in the game. i don't know why i always remembered that, but i do. why did he want to get into the game, and what is the game? >> guest: i wanted -- i had seen what happened with fox news, which i fought really was something that some executives should have figured out 20 years ago if half the country's conservative and have the country's liberal than you should have a network that conservatives can turn on without screening every three minutes they're biased, they're b

host: let's move to pensacola, fla. on the republican line.aller: hello, i am concerned that the media is not giving a fair shake to anybody but president obama. obama seems to be the love boy, i cannot do any wrong. host: what is the prominent example in your mind? what is not happening there should be? caller: i think the media needs to turn around and talk about the fact that the automobile industry is now owned by the government when obama promised it would not be. i think the fact that congress just passed the tax -- past the greenhouse emissions bill, that that will be a greater tax on the middle class when he said he would not tax the middle class. his only portrayed in a good light and never seen as having made a mistake. i think there have been mistakes with all he has handled iran, and a number of other things in his 100 days in office. host: good morning, is there a media love affair going on with the president? caller: no, not at all. what a lot of people who think this is a love affair must realize is that this is the first time w

it is where we are training our navy pilots in pensacola. and it is where we are testing some of the most sophisticated weapons systems in the world that are under the test and evaluation component of egeland air force base. and this is the area. it's where also we are training our navy squadrons at key west naval air station, and they'll send in a squadron down here to key west, and when they lift off from the boca chica runway, within two minutes they're over protected airspace so they don't have a lot of travel time, they don't spend a lot of gas getting to their training area, which is out here. so you see that we have this area that is now protected. now, i would like to enter into the record a letter from the secretary of defense, and this is actually from the previous secretarsecretary of defense, sy rumsfeld, in which he says that the uses of this for oil and gas production would be incompatible with the needs of the united states military in this test and training area. and i will submit that for the record, if i may. the presiding

there are not too many americans that don't know that the beaches running from pensacola all the way through panama city to mexico beach are some of the world's most beautiful beaches. they are sugary white sand that people from all over go to enjoy this extraordinary, valuable resource. it is god's way of gefg u givina blessing on earth that they want to enjoy when they want to go to the beach. can you imagine now what the energy committee has passed allowing oil rigs 10 miles off of the world's most beautiful beaches? now, environmentally that's one thing. but let's look at the economy of florida. the economy of florida, we are a peninsula. we have more coastline than any other state, save for alaska, but alaska doesn't have a lot of beaches. we have more beaches than -- not almost, but than any other state. is it any wonder that we want to protect our economy, which is a $60 billion a year tourism industry. particularly at a time when the economy is being savaged as much as it is? and, yet, -- and, yet, the senate energy committee would say what -- that they are not only going to