. >> four years ago we were talking about mccain and mike huckabee, and all of a sudden rudy giuliani jump out there. you look at his numbers in iowa, and%, new hampshire, 10%, and he said, "i will wait until florida." he was never heard from again until the national convention. >> it is important for people like michelle bachmann to get in early. e's a very attractive that figure now she's a celebrity in the republican party. she generates a lot of enthusiasm. she does not have the baggage that sarah palin has -- >> she will. >> the battle of their it revolutionary war in concord, new hampshire? >> she does not have the high negatives. at she has problems, but not a high negatives that palin has. >> there are the ones where she asserted big -- >> bachmann at huckabee had the most intense followings among republicans. >> huckabee is having a good time, a successful show on fox, building a house in florida. he does not need this. he would be nuts to do it. mitch daniels is a strong candidate. i don't think he is going to run. i think he will be left with people -- i did you will be lef

. >> four years ago we were talking about mccain and mike huckabee, and all of a sudden rudy giuliani jump out there. you look at his numbers in iowa, and%, new hampshire, 10%, and he said, "i will wait until florida." he was never heard from again until the national convention. >> it is important for people like michelle bachmann to get in early. she's a very attractive that figure now she's a celebrity in the republican party. she generates a lot of enthusiasm. she does not have the baggage that sarah palin has -- >> she will. >> the battle of their it revolutionary war in concord, new hampshire? >> she does not have the high negatives. at she has problems, but not a high negatives that palin has. >> there are the ones where she asserted big -- >> bachmann at huckabee had the most intense followings among republicans. >> huckabee is having a good time, a successful show on fox, building a house in florida. he does not need this. he would be nuts to do it. mitch daniels is a strong candidate. i don't think he is going to run. i think he will be left with people -- i did you will be l

when the sensation exhibit was under attack by mayor rudy giuliani. what is it that americans fear about art that leads to the kind of backlash that you had to speak out about? well, they should fear art. they should fear film. they should fear theater. i mean, this is where ideas happen. this is where you-- somebody goes into a dark room and starts to watch something, and their perspective can be completely questioned, and they can look at something and identify, and the very seeds of activism, i think, are empathy and imagination. once you can imagine yourself as a mother that loses a child-- even she is a palestinian, whatever, you know-- it just opens up a whole new thing. so governments have always been afraid of art, and they should be, and i think it's an artist's job and expertise-- and i use the word artist with myself in a very humble way-- to--we're outsiders by definition, and you know, it's our job to kind of aerate things and punch holes in things so that people can squirm around in there and kind of let some light in and see what's goin

presidential candidates from these here united states sarah palin is the latest one but she follows rudy giuliani mike huckabee mitt romney hillary barber and george pataki in visits to the holy land all over the last few months laura lester is in our new york city oh and lauren it's almost as if establishing your credentials and tell of the visit is vital as say something right here in new hampshire. it certainly seems so but though in the case of sarah palin her people said the trip was personal and not political but yet it was the american jewish coalition who was in talks with her for her to make this trip and they report that they've made requests to all of the republican politicians who have been rumored or said to have possibly be contenders in the two thousand and twelve presidential elections to make trips to israel today they meet with israeli leaders they take pictures with benjamin netanyahu so the real question is why is it so important for these politicians to be hobnobbing with the prime minister of another country when did not even so much as announce their candidacy for president

presidential candidates from these united states there are palin is the latest one but she follows rudy giuliani mike huckabee mitt romney haley barbour and george pataki visits to the holy land all over the last few months are the loyalist areas in our new york studio. and lauren it's almost as if establishing your credentials and tell of eve is as vital as they stumping in new hampshire. well we certainly have seen several jay g.o.p. candidates make the trip seeming to make that case meeting with the leadership in israel claiming according to sarah palin's people for example that the trips are personal not political but yet the republican jewish coalition which is a jewish political organization was in talks with pailin to organize her trip to get her over there and they report that they've made these requests to anybody or any republican politicians who have been mentioned as possible contenders in two thousand and twelve now experts also say that in the past democratic candidates have made this trip but the big question is why is it important for these politicians to be hobnobbing with the p

you used to be the chief speech writer for rudy giuliani when he was the mayor of new york city. you've been pretty critical, i would say scathingly critical of the type of rhetoric republicans -- potential republican candidates have been using against president obama. why? >> because, look, i think there's no question that the obama derangement syndrome on the right was preceded by the bush syndrome on the left. but it's gotten worse. we've seen this sort of anti-rhetoric saying that president obama is somehow anti-american or un-american bubbling up to the upper reaches of the presidential campaign. and that deserves to be called out. it's divisive. it's unnecessary. and it's really begun to take some notice. even george will recently said that there have been vibrations of weirdness from the republican field, and i think that's fair. i think when folks try to divide the country to raise themselves up, it was worth calling them out. it needs to be done. >> john avlon, who we hope suffers from no derangement syndrome, thank you. a pleasure to have you on. take care. >> thank you

. >> rudy giuliani never recovered from tisshe issue of the same thing.orris i want to read you a quote from michelle bachmann. she seems to be leading more to this idea to run for president. she says what i love about new hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love for liberty. you were the state where the shot was heard around the world in concord. that's the gaffe that was heard around the world. >> not the first one. >> she's had a series of these. she ready for prime time? >> the voters are the one whose have to decide that. it's really interesting because despite the gaffes, despite the fact that there are a lot of people who seem willing to dismiss her, there's a lot of people that embrace her. she picked up support in iowa. we're looking at iowa first because it's the starting gun. supposed to be first. she comes from a neighboring state and among the growing but sort of loosely organized tea party federation in the state they look at her and same someone. they like her fighting spirit. we live in difficult times. people might like wh

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