ralph nader? ralph nader. we'll go with it. ralph nader.ph nader is correct, and you're up to 200 bucks! well done. you're two for two. with the scientific name mimus polyglottos, what songbird is famous for imitating the cries of other birds? mockingbird? mockingbird? i think. okay. mockingbird? mockingbird. mockingbird is right, and you're up to $300. excellent. all right, you're three for three. you've got 300 bucks, no strikes, still have both of your shout-outs. we have 23 blocks to go. here's your final $100 question. okay. in a failed attempt to lure vegetarians, mcdonald's once tested a hula burger featuring what tropical fruit? pineapple. pineapple. pineapple. pineapple is right, and you're four for four. you're up to 400 bucks. well done. we're the smart girls now. i'm telling you. all right. that's it for the $100s. because it's a cash cab double ride, these next questions are worth 200 bucks each and they're a little bit harder. okay. here's your first one. igniting book sales in 1981, what stephen king novel has been described

and i think that was the problem, not ralph nader. >> okay.it comes to the point where there is a victory speech, are we going to see roseanne barr -- i know this is a serious run -- but you are a comedienne, too. we've heard your rendition of the national anthem. >> i'm the only serious comedienne in this race, fredricka. >> would we hear it again? seriously? >> would you hear what? >> the national anthem. >> oh, my god. you're trotting that out? you know what, i'm going to speak to that if you'll let me do that. i dated that on my roseanne's nuts cable show. and people have come up to me since then to say that they loved my second rendition. you know what, i think the lesson here is people make mistakes, and then they -- after they've apologized 9,000 times, they should be forgiven and it should be forgotten. you can, again, stop and start over again and do things better. which i indeed did in my second rendition. i'm very proud of it. my grandson was with me. i sounded real good. and i encourage everybody to go over there on youtube and see

. >> my dad is a big fan of yours which i think is confusing because he may have voted for ralph nader so so-- . >> stephen: listen, everyone has a youthful indiscretion. now i'm very excited to you have here. >> thank you. >> stephen: but the whole building is abuzz because you are the executive producer director, writer, you play the character hanna. >> uh-huh. >> stephen: in this hot show called "girls" on hbo. okay. now i worry about the girls in this show. >> you worried about girls. >> stephen: i worry about the girls am they just don't seem to know necessarily what to do with their lives. >> well, that's sort of what it is about. it is about that time in your life where are you not a girl, not yet a woman and you're trying to navigate. >> stephen: that's a britney spears line. you know what, i'm worried about britney spears too. >> i'm worried about you because you know that is a britney spears line jooive-- . >> stephen: i goff her poster on my line. we have a clip of the show. jim? >> i'm just saying that i am so close to the life that i want, the life that you want for me, th

heard of ralph nader? presidential campaign of 2000. still around. green party, an alternative political figure. nader made his name on car safety, telling detroit, the capital of the automobile industry, telling detroit the cars are unsafe. you need to provide, say, safety belts. people put on seatbelts. that was a big battle. these car companies didn't want to add in these features, they were costly. eventually, by the late '50s, he made headway. nader would veer off into other pursuits, too. let me ask a serious question. how many of you automatically put on a seatbelt when you get in a car? that is generational, isn't it? my generation wouldn't do that. when i backed out of my garage my kids would jump up and down screaming if i didn't put on my seatbelt. i had other things to do. i didn't put it on instantly. your generation is instant now. not to mention drunk-driving campaigns as america becomes our whole culture is based on this car. more and more americans move out into the suburbs. your critics aren't that happy about a lot of these develop

clinton won that year and since republicans have only won one election barely george bush because of ralph nader. all of the races have been within single digits except for clinton's re-election in '96. john kerry won the state by two points, for example. right now the state is way too close to call. we just put out a poll showing basically that 90% of democrats are with obama, 90% are with mitt romney and independents within the margin of error. currently right now, we have the mitt romney super pac which is airing a fairly positive ad. we have crossroads, which i know politifact just put out a fact check on. and their ad about obama and debt. and then we're also having barack obama talking about his auto bailouts currently on the air. that ad is also running in the boston market which is significantly more expensive but to remind geographically most of the state, about two-thirds of new hampshire lives within 45 minutes or so of the border of massachusetts and a significant amount of the population, roughly half easily, could work in massachusetts. they don't. we're considered part of that mar

but yet these same republicans and democrats -- i'm a ralph nader supporter -- they both go around asking these same people that they accuse of taking handouts, asking them to write a check. now what kind of nonsense is this? oh, there was one other thing that i wanted to comment on. oh, yeah. you mark my words. this is a prediction. i don't know when exactly the peak year is going to be when all the baby boomers, when the vast majority of them are going to retire. what we've been sold this con job of how great these 401(k)s are and how much better it is than social security. i guarantee you, ed, there is going to be another recession. there is going to be another crash. and all these people that thought the 401(k)s, all that is just another big con. it's going to be the working people that put into this, and the money is going to be walked away with by wall street. >> well, he hit a lot on there. you know, wall street pretty much runs the senate right now. the banks run the senate. they can hold all the hearings in the world on what happened to jpmorgan, but the fact is dodd/frank didn't

around 2000 is when the democrats had to deal with ralph nader. the republicans were like, the more the merrier, come on in. this is good. now what you're seeing is a split in the democratic party which will wrench any sort of block vote that will give them the majority. when you see a party splintering like this, it's your clear sign that something is seriously wrong. they know what they're doing. these are not idiots, all right? they know what's going on, but they cannot come up with a compromise that they can sleep with at night. and they know in many ways they're probably committing political suicide here, but they don't know what else to do. now the republicans need to come up with a candidate who can win, okay? 1856 we saw them give us john freemont. then the country kind of looked at him and looked at the republicans and they're awfully new. i don't know. they're pretty radical. they're not all abolitionists, but that's where the abolitionists tend to hang out and that's a little too radical for me. we're going with union. okay? the republi

bill gates was pied and so was bill kristol and ralph nader, ann coulter ducked.they pied milton friedman, he was 86 years old. they throw glitter bombs, buckets of shiny glitter. here they got newt. rick santorum handled it well. the ghrit ser annoying, hard to get out of your hair and clothing, better than shooting people. despite my complaints about stupid restrictions on speech, free speech is for the most part alive and well. so what if pat buchanan or naomi or i get fired. we work for private companies. i reveal that my bosses at abc would not let me do stories on certain topics. that made me angry, it made me move to fox, but much as i resent the narrow mindedness of abc bosses i can't complain i was censored. when they refuse to air something that is not censorship, that is editorial control. it's their job to say yes or no. if i wanted to say things that abc did not like, i could go elsewhere and eventually i did. america has plenty of media companies. if i get fired here i'll get a job elsewhere. we have choices, but we have only one government, no real

bill gates was pied and so was bill kristol and ralph nader, ann coulter ducked.n friedman, he was 86 years old. they throw glitter bombs, buckets of shiny glitter. here they got newt. rick santorum handled it well. the ghrit ser annoying, hard to get out of your hair and clothing, better than shooting people. despite my complaints about stupid restrictions on speech, free speech is for the most part alive and well. so what if pat buchanan or naomi or i get fired. we work for private companies. i reveal that my bosses at abc would not let me do stories on certain topics. that made me angry, it made me move to fox, but much as i resent the narrow mindedness of abc bosses i can't complain i was censored. when they refuse to air something that is not censorship, that is editorial control. it's their job to say yes or no. if i wanted to say things that abc did not like, i could go elsewhere and eventually i did. america has plenty of media companies. if i get fired here i'll get a job elsewhere. we have choices, but we have only one government, no real choice there. t

e.t sent ralph nader getting 2.7%. none aren't any electoral votes. houhow you do it personally?ost: you did not go quite far enough. abraham lincoln was a third- party candidate when he won the presidency. third-party candidates in 1948 received electoral college votes and in 1968. in 1892, the people's party received a number of electoral votes in the midwest. this is more like 1860 than it was 1980. the level of dissatisfaction across this country with both major parties is significant and with the course that both are taking us down. in dealing with the federal government, obama submitted this. the republican budget resolution is over 600 billion in deficits this year. we need persons in the white house. they have the courage. host: how you answer this question. he is writing about americans elect which is trying to get a third party candidates by having a place. his question is, why has a third-party effort been sputtering? where is the constitution party? guest: the constitution party is on the ballot already. we are ballot eligible in several states including florida and o

suppose it cobses the president key votes and ends up being the ralph nader of the 2012 election.ill you be happy he made this decision? >> it is always hard sometimes in politics to do the right thing, but i think the best thing to do for any politician is to do two things in situations like this, do the right thing and more importantly, explain why it is the right thing. >> in other words, make the case. we got to stop is right there. thank you, gentlemen. good conversation. appreciate it. >>> now nothing can make the blood boil, you pull into a super crowded parking lot and somebody is intentionally taking up two spaces. >> that's right. you think there ought to be a law, it turns out there isn't in maryland. our scott broom has been working on this story and has more on a surprising twist on all this. >> reporter: yeah. believe it or not, this is a big enough deal that it has gone all the way to maryland's highest court. bruce w. gilmore, ii was sentenced to four years of prison after police found a knife and drugs on him in 2008, but he got off anding it was all about parking

he is not waging a war on corporate america in the way that the ralph nader liberals. were it is not going back. it is a new sort of liberalism in my view. >> all right. thank you. a.b. stoddard, thank you. we'll have more on the president's response as he lands there. and coming up, mitt romney set to deliver a commencement address to students at the largest christian university in the country after a back lash from some students. how far into his faith will everything? does he even need to? plus, speaking of back lash. the family of the man allegedly bullied by governor romney in high school are slamming the story as a political agenda. with that said, the long history of a man who could be president matter? it is our "news nation" gut check. you get to chime in on this friday and join our conversation on twitter. emily's just starting out... and on a budget. like a ramen noodle- every-night budget. she thought allstate car insurance was out of her reach. until she heard about the value plan. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. ♪ you make me happy [

in 2000 when ralph nader made a move, people would make the argument there's not a lot of differencenow on all policies there's a clear contrast. >> third-party movements and i've seen others write about this, there's this great dream in washington of the radical centrists. they don't exist. it's tom friedman and a couple of his friends. that's it. really when it comes to third-party movement, energy is an ideology. >> but also demonstrates both parties have increased their tent as far as -- >> you think so? >> they have. if you have -- the fact you can have a moderate republican under the same tent as an extreme tea party person who doesn't believe in social issues, i think that -- i mean, i think that demonstrates they've smartly actually been able to divide and conquer power in both extremes. i also think what's happening with the american elect, like you mentioned, they don't have a candidate or an ideology. that's what you need to rev up anything for a political base. >> joe, it does seem that there was also -- i'm aware of the candidates they were pursuing, the predictable what

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host: one question from mike freeman, he may have in mind what happened in 2000 when ralph nader taking away votes, many suspecting votes that would have gone to al gore. third parties tend to be spoilers. how do you respond to that sentiment? guest: this country needs some spoiling, i'll tell you that. i'm not here to spoil, i'm here to win. we need somebody with my philosophy and my view running the view. if they were, the united states would be a lot better off. and on so many of the issues like some have suggested and have talked about this morning, you don't have a real big choice. in some ways, the republican would be a little bit more conservative. but on a lot of issues, i'll take more votes from obama. i know the keith tosh who runs main street amoco where i do a little trading with, he said that if i'm auon the ballot fro virginia, you're going to take a vote away from obama because i'm going to vote for you. we're going to get a lot of democratic votes that are fed up with obama but would not vote for the republican nominee for president so we're going to be taking votes from

>>gregg: no one wants to the be spoiler, as ralph nader or ross perot. >> perot got 19 percent. election to pick. >> after hebrew himself up for interesting reasons but the larger point, we live in a world which we have seen in europe of the discontent with the leading parties getting less than 40 percent, way less than 50 percent, in greece and france. we have in america, a 75 percent disenchanted with both political parties but since perot the political class has acted to shut it down. the question was: was there a emergency -- message that spoke to both the left and the flight there was in candidate there is a real mob, you have the establishment, they are running around saying, we are the establishment, we are the political person who will find you a middle answer. the people who rally, and "new york times" broke to last week, the people who rally to this are those who are against the political class of both parties. they want to vote against both. and they have no candidate. >>gregg: congressman, why no candidate? >> i think what doug's group did was to get on the ballot. w

john anderson in 1986, ross perot in 1992, ralph nader in 2000. none received any electoral votes.et me ask you about the process of your campaign from now until november. guest: i would not be doing this if there were not an opportunity to win. the opportunity is to pull 15% against obama and romney, believing romney will be the nominee and being on the stage with both of them. if that happens, i think anything is possible given the fact that 80% of americans are saying they would vote for a third-party candidate. changing the world a little bit is to get on the stage with obama and romney. i think we need to balance the federal budget, get out of afghanistan, bring the troops home. i think we should be adopted in marriage equality in this country. i think we should reform our drug laws. i think there are all sorts of civil liberties issues that could be addressed by libertarian president. i think there are all sorts of dollars and cents issues that could be effectively dealt with by libertarian president as opposed to republicans that seem to spend a lot of money even though they

. >> so we see him in knots with supporting ralph nader, bush and cheney in 2004, the pollution in thechment of bill clinton. what people i don't see but i think senses that he suffered very much from those isolations that he brought on himself. after the clinton business, i rang him up. i had seen him on television not looking well. i said how are you? and he said i am living in a world of pain. this is two or three weeks after he was broken. he suffered very much, but he didn't talk about it. you watch him watching the news and when the boat -- when the first democratic election took place in a rack, he had a suppressed excitement that he showed. there was misery during the civil war. in 2005 and 2006. he was like a houdini where he was right most of the time, but every now and then he would be wrong and shackle himself so dramatically that had he escaped, or a partial escape, which would've been all the more amazing, and that was his -- it was why he was loved, i think. in eight, intellectual, dramatic. one of his favorite phrases was what could be more agreeable. he used to say it.

particularly in transportation, trucking, rail and airport, there was a left-right synthesis on that, ralph naderthose lessons were taken to the next frontier, the last great regulated industry, which was finance. and it turned out that treating finance like energy and transportation was a terrible idea. which is by the way, also a left-right coalition, most of the work was done in the clinton years. it is a rhetorical -- >> it was a democrat/republican coalition, i don't know if it was a left/right coalition. >> the important work was done in 1998, 1999 and 2000, not during the bush years. it led to the trauma. but i think people want -- you want to be careful with your language. no one would want to go back to regulating rail rates and no one thinks regulating the price of natural gas is a good idea. finance is different. >> i would beg to differ. >> we don't have to get into that. but -- >> that's an answer that is so old we've already forgotten the question. >> as a matter of the politics in this. almost nothing in public life is ever all or nothing, black or white. and over the eons in ameri

ralph nader. and the last head of the armed services. a range of people.eter for ideological reasons, like they want to support countries or not. because of human rights or environmental reasons. or people want to help the economy and make the u.s. more dependent. host: what about services? you are talking about manufactured goods, items you buy at a store. what about the banking industry, where the trail of money actually goes? though the chinese have a stake in your bank or is there some sort of other overseas connection? guest: i will not be dealing with consumer products with this. that's a whole different thing. that will probably be a committee in congress to deal with that. i am a manufacturing and i've sold to 60 countries and have a tradition in germany. i have been selling overseas 35 years. i would like to get back to where we were before, where people watched a lot of american things and now adapting to that they either buy from a good trade ratio companies or they buy american things. host: surely is a democratic caller joining us from enterpr

elliott ackerman of americans elect with chris matthews and said he worried about what ralph nader didction. talk aboutid let's it. so far, he has never gone back on the show to keep his word to talk about it. i would like to politely ask if elliott ackerman or some later of americans alike would go back on the air or any show to discuss the spoiler issue. it is my opinion that those who might not be happy with the president or who might not vote republican may vote for americans elect as a spoiler which may give the election to what i would call the tea party and allow the tea party to take over the country which, in my opinion, would privatize health care, give tax cuts to the rich, thet the pour in country would change for the host:: i can't tell you that elliott ackerman and others from the americans elect are always welcome on this program. we cover the libertarian convention over the weekend and it will be hard to find the story inside many newspapers but it is on our website. we will cover other third party events as they developed during the campaign season as we have since thi

john anderson in 1986, ross perot in 1992, ralph nader in 2000. none received any electoral votes. let me ask you about the process of your campaign from now until november. guest: i would not be doing this if there were not an opportunity to win. the opportunity is to pull 15% against obama and romney, believing romney will be the nominee and being on the stage with both of them. if that happens, i think anything is possible given the fact that 80% of americans are saying they would vote for a third-party candidate. changing the world a little bit is to get on the stage with obama and romney. i think we need to balance the federal budget, get out of afghanistan, bring the troops home. i think we should be adopted in marriage equality in this country. i think we should reform our drug laws. i think there are all sorts of civil liberties issues that could be addressed by libertarian president. i think there are all sorts of dollars and cents issues that could be effectively dealt with by libertarian president as opposed to republicans that seem to spend a lot of money even though th