rush limbaugh has committed another hit and run. if you caught him on the radio yesterday you heard him once more use race as a crowd pleaser. deriding nancy pelosi and james clyburn saying the democrats are racist. clyburn is getting bumped down from the leadership to the job of pelosi's driver. driving miss nancy, he calls it. question for the country. will all this stuff rush has to throw at the democrats, the bad economy and all of it, why does he keep going back to race? plus, the threat from the left. if president obama accepts tax cuts for the rich and the deficit commission's recommendations, will he face a challenger for renomination? will the progressives mount a candidate against him? and a new poll shows the president's dropped an average of 18 points. and a half dozen states he carried in 2008. we'll take a look at how tough 2012 could be for him. >>> also, november 22nd will mark the 47th anniversary of the assassination of president kennedy. everyone at that time remembers the secret service agent who jumped on the ba

. >>> rush limbaugh's racist remarks for democrats cannot go unchallenged. he is attacking several african-american members of congress. congresswoman shelia jackson lee was one of the target he is. she will fire back at rush in tonight's battleground story. >>> a newly elected republican, you will love this one, who rode abashing the public option, he can't just get enough of this government-funded health care. he just can't get it fast enough. i tell you what, they are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites. this is a story i love. we will get to it later. >>> and this just in i have a source on capitol hill reporting that a democratic aide has seen a letter circulated by congressman dennis kucinich, citing the threat darrell issa poses to the oversight and government reform committee process and stating that he, kucinich, intends to seek the position of ranking member of the oversight committee. we will touch on that a little bit later on in the program. first this had is the story that has me fired up tonight. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, i guess co

rush limbaugh has committed another hit and run. if you caught him on the radio yesterday you heard him once more use race as a crowd pleaser. deriding nancy pelosi and james clyburn saying the democrats are racist. clyburn is getting bumped down from the leadership to the job of pelosi's driver. driving miss nancy, he calls it. question for the country. will all this stuff rush has to throw at the democrats, the bad economy and all of it why does he keep going back to race? plus, the threat from the left. if president obama accepts tax cuts for the rich and the deficit commission's recommendations, will he face a challenger for renomination? will the progressives mount a candidate against him? and a new poll shows the president's dropped an average of 18 points. and a half dozen state he carried in 2008. we'll take a look at how tough 2012 could be for him. >>> also, november 22nd will mark the 47th anniversary of the assassination of president kennedy. everyone at that time remembers the secret service agent who jumped on the back

rush limbaugh is proving, once again, he's nothing but a flat-out racist. this time he's attacking the highest-ranking african-american in congress. limbaugh felt the need to make the leadership contest between congressman steny hoyer and congressman jim clyburn, make it about race. >> so there you have it. all hell breaking loose in the democratic party because now black and brown people after tonight -- tonight, we're on the inside. we want to get in there. the white racist leadership of the democrat party trying to ace out clyburn. clyburn has had power but they want to take it away from him. >> well, the drugster, as always, doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. the contest between clyburn and hoyer is an inside the belt way story, at best. but rush, of course, wants to use anything he can to make the democrats look very evil. the drugster sunk even lower when he said this about jim clyburn. >> clyburn's worried about not having a car. clyburn's worried about not having the perk of big office, driver, so forth. the way this can all be worked out

rush limbaugh laughing about this. "i put this on my website." the image is undenyiably offensive, but limbaugh thinks it's funny. >> we did, we had a graphic up there -- well, hey, we didn't create the movie. we didn't catch the the movie. "driving miss daisy." the way this was all presented it was a race between the black guy and the white guy, i didn't make this up and that's the way that politico and everyone was covering this. >> rush, settle down i'm just that $4 an hour a guy from fargo who you said would never make it. that's classic drugster material right there trying to dodge responsibility by throwing the blame on everyone else. for more let's bring in talk radio host consultant, holland cook. holland, how does he get away with this? he's quite the master at maneuvering the facts around. >> well, rush is too big to fail. the radio stations he's on just have more stations under one roof than they can afford to manage or have time to listen to. i got a call saturday night from the owner of a radio station that rush limbaugh is on. and he

more blatant race baiting from rush limbaugh. his targets the president of the united states and little old eddy, me. he had things to say about reverend al sharpton. the rev is here to blast back. this is the story has me fired up tonight. now, we're in the midst of record unemployment, two wars, we haven't figured out how to pay for and a financial mess, economy that's struggling, mitch mcconnell and john boehner, they decide to dis the president. apparently they are too busy to get over to the white house for dinner. it took them two weeks to figure that out? boehner and mcconnell said they couldn't meet with the president thursday night due to scheduling conflicts in organizing their caucuses. they just have to teach everybody how to say no all over again. i think that is complete garbage. traditionally when the president of the united states invites you to the white house and gives you two-week notice you normally show up. in my opinion it's obvious that mcconnell and boehner are trying to stick it to the president, one more

reason that some of my clients are radio stations that rush limbaugh is on, and any radio station, rushaugh is on would be better off without this angry, insulting, garbage mouth. it's the dog whistle for people who have hate in their hearts. and it is not good radio programming. >> yeah. >> now admittedly, here we are talking about him on tv again. who was it, p.t. barnum said no bad publicity. why would you want to be known for this there's no upside? >> that's a good point because congressman clyburn also made this point today on the program that words have impact. here it is. >> we often wonder why it is that our children are having so much bullying going on in our schools. and there's a big problem with bullying. it's because children learn when they live and people living with the rush limbaughs of the world, big bullies like that, they learn to go out and bully people. >> you think there's a connection there? >> hey, what's the message he sends with this driving miss nancy insult and by spray painting graffiti like it's the hood on mt. rushmore and attaching the president's face

time for tonight's tool time award and we're giving it to our favorite addict and talk show host rush limbaugh he blasted president obama for thanking the native americans during the white house's official thanksgiving proclamation now the conservative talk show host said that he was so shocked by obama's proclamation and his version of the holiday that he initially thought it was a prank the rush had a problem with obama thanking native americans who helped the early colonists survive rush claims that obama was calling the first settlers invaders which i'm sorry but that kind of work get over it not to mention i'm pretty sure that rush didn't have a problem with that in one nine hundred eighty one when the darling of the g.o.p. then president ronald reagan recalled the first thanksgiving and also gave thanks to the native americans for their rich history of helping the first settlers so was this all just a swipe at obama. not exactly rush decided to go even further by then attacking native americans take a listen. how many native americans only indians were killed. by the arrival of the white

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influential political figures based on their earnings for two thousand and ten so who tops it rush limbaugh glenn beck sean hannity and bill o'reilly jon stewart does committed number five limbaugh though made a whopping fifty eight point seven million dollars just in the last year where stewart pollie still high but pale in comparison fifteen will now why go by money well newsweek explained that in the oversaturated hyper commodified media culture of two thousand and ten the most influential political figures are generally the ones who make the most money peddling their perspectives and that includes everything from earnings on t.v. radio print even internet positions book advances and royalties speaking fees even consulting income and according to their logic the not so distant past aspiring commentators and retired officials they entered the political media rina mainly seeking prestige but over the past decade well the public's ever expanding appetite for political chatter particularly that of polarizer of the polarizer right excuse me promoted by cable news and amplified by the internet

rush limbaugh? >> guest: they had entirely different views of the republican owners of the tea party activists. mr. limbaugh would like to think of himself as the leader of the movement. mr. steele republicans and it isn't going to work. republican voters believed that michael steele and republicans in washington are out of touch with the party base by -- >> guest: michael steele criticized limbaugh, rush limbaugh pushed back and steele sued for peace, and in a certain way, when that happened, i said boy, that's the power of rush limbaugh, in actual fact while he is an undeniably potent and powerful and influential it was ultimately an expression of the tea party power reflecting itself in the dispute. >> host: maybe it is a point in history that the to produce such as the repeal of the fairness doctrine that radio doctrine that made it very strongly opinionated shows such as rush limbaugh's possible, dating all the way back to president reagan comes of the would-be decades and decades ago now. >> gu

rush limbaugh is praising them. they are praising rush limbaugh.why do you think there are more from the civilized republicans to distance themselves from these racist? >> host: we got the point. thanks. add just have to stipulate that these accusations are making in terms of the fax, one comment are true. i have not heard them. if they said those things they should not have said them, and i condemn those statements. this is a game that a lot of people -- both sides play. someone says something asinine. you know, pariahs. i think rush limbaugh -- i don't agree with everything he does. he does of fantastic job at being rush limbaugh. he is a valuable contribution to the symphony of conservatism. i don't think it is at all accurate to say that bill o'reilly and rush limbaugh are racist or let alone it is an irrefutable -- and irrefutable, you know, the judgment objectively arrived at. it seems to me it is -- you're pushing a political line. that said, look. moving away from those personalities, one of the great shining liberal accomplishments of the

. >> host: you tell an anecdote in your book about rush limbaugh, the radio show host and mr. steele of the rnc. can you tell the anecdote again and what you think it means? >> guest: my sense is what the anecdote really means is that the political class, the political leadership just doesn't have a clue about what the movement is really about, and one of the thing this scott points to frequently and should talk about is the republican leadership is as alienated from the tea party movement as is the democratic leadership. >> host: can you repeat what happened with mr. steele and mr. limbaugh? this could have different views of republican voters, to party activists. mr. limbaugh would like to think of himself as the leader. mr. steel thinks they're a co-op for republicans and it doesn't -- it's not going to work. republican voters believe michael steele republicans in washington are out of touch with the party base by a wide margin. >> guest: he criticized limbaugh, he pushed back and steele sued for peace, and in a certain way, when that happened, i said that's the part of rus

praising him and stuff or praising rush limbaugh. why isn't there more from the, quote, civilize republicans to distance themselves from racists like bill o'reilly? >> guest: i have to stipulate these accusations you are making, so far as one comment from bob graham and bill riley are true. i haven't heard them. if they said those things they shouldn't have said them and i condemn those statements. this is sort of a game that a lot of people, both sides play. someone says something asinine and they must be pariahs from polite society. i don't agree with everything he says. i think he is a valuable contribution to the symphony of conservatism as it were. i don't think it is accurate to say that bill o'reilly and rush limbaugh are racists let alone say it as if it is an irrefutable judgment objectively arrived at. it seems to me you are pushing a political line. moving away from those personalities, one of the shining liberal accomplishments was being on the right side of the civil-rights movement. conservatism was on the wrong side of

rush limbaugh is a dangerous guy. he talked about the war on drugs and then had a drug problem.asn't hypocrisy. rush limbaugh's problem's life is at worst a bigot and at best divisive and ignorant and makes the country just a little bit worse for the rest of us. >> at least you're clear about it. but you're letting him off the hook on the drug thing. ben, thanks for joining us. we appreciate it. now what did jon stewart get right and what did he get wrong about the media? i'm going to explain. plus, can you guess what this is? prow probably own one. this music is a hint. i'm curious myself. the answer is up next. [ male announcer ] humana and walmart are teaming up to bring you a low-price medicare prescription drug plan called the humana walmart-preferred prescription plan. it's a new plan that covers both brand and generic prescriptions and has the lowest-priced national premium in the country of only $14.80 per month and in-store copays as low as $2. when you could save over $450 a year, you can focus on the things that really matter. ♪ go to walmart.com for details. ♪ yes! ♪

rush limbaugh is the king of the media for a reason because he is popular.s he smart and puts on a great show. that's what al sharpton in the end can't stand. >> that's right. look at the number of listeners he has. >> laura: millions. many millions. >> conservatives have been effective getting out their message whether on opinion shows like this one or hannity or what have you or on shows like your, radio shows like yours or like rush's. this is fundamentally the problem much the real disturbing thing, i mean, i have always looked at this as sort of a joke. to me it's like the left wants to say this because it gets their supporters fired up. >> laura: they gets the votes. >> no. this is the point. so i think for years, maybe for decades, this has been, you know, something that's been mutually bev because, you know, talk radio gets concerned about this and their supporters get fired up. i think you are now at a point when you have people like jay rockefeller and others making these arguments in a serious way when you look what's happened over the past two ye

. >> host: that is how he differs from bill o'reilly or rush limbaugh. they command higher ratings but that is a class by himself. >> guest: o'reilly gets more viewers but he is in prime time at 8:00 p.m.. to get three million people watching your cable news shows at 5:00 p.m. which is a fairly dead hour by comparison is extraordinary. there are couple reasons for this. love him or hate him the man is a brilliant entertainer. he pretends to boil a lot of fraud on his set, he wraps a fish. look at the tears out of his eyes. in this case, under the eye for the photo shoot. he is a gripping and exciting entertainer and i watched a lot of bollenbach for this and i found once you turn it on you have to say where is he going with this? you couldn't really turn it off. i can't believe he is going to say that but he does. that is one reason. he is a brilliant entertainer. he has also been able to appeals to case set of similar lessons in society that others haven't reached out to. even a guy like o'reilly takes things five steps better than i do which given this

>> you bust rush limbaugh. he learned there is a fourth amendment to the constitution.seriously, how do we do it? i am not sure. one of the things that i struggled with, in particular, in robert blake's case, when i got into the case, i was determined not to get caught up in the media and to be the same person at the end of the case as i was at the beginning. i think of lawyers need to be lawyers, not try to be entertainers. you would know better. >> just so you know, i covered him while he was trying that case and desperately tried to get him to come to me during the case. i felt it was so important for the public to understand the constitutional issues that were coming up, but he rightly wanted to remain focused on the client and case at that time. so how do we educate the public while remaining true to the cause of the work? >> i was going to have a hard time controlling these guys. >> you have a panel of lawyers and you are telling them to shut up, and you are not even wearing a black robe. [laughter] by the way, putting a black robe on a suit does not give you a go

a lot of liberals don't want to listen to the liberal version of rush limbaugh.hey want to listen to npr. and i think that speaks to their temperament more than their ideology. a lot of liberals are sort of temperamentally modest iwould say is maybe a good way of putting it. conservatives are maybe more ready to fight right now. so i think that the poll very likely is accurate. >> sam go ahead. >> i think there's some truth to what matt is saying. i would describe it more that left leaning people tend to have some measure of doubt. they're not so assured that they are right all the time. they have some type of humility and understanding that i can't have every single fact, i can't have everything. frankly, they want the country to move forward. on the right, there is a quality of zealotry, whether it has to do with gays in the military or their world view and imposing it upon others. i think this is a problem we've dealt with in this country. we have had the left in this country, however you want to define that, been willing to compromise on some level, to move f

before he was on rush limbaugh, a -- corrupt president, corrupt administration and after the election he backpedaled and said i shouldn't have said that. i think -- darrell issa is a smart guy. he's not a zealot. chris: is this the chance to in vestigate -- >> he never saw a camera he didn't like. and another way is you do have leverage. but the tea party end or the fox news end if you will, going after the new black panther party, for example, which is a dead end, believe me, and instead of the consumer rout, something like that, the average person can relate to, he's going to do damage. >> i think john boehner is well aware of the overreach that occurred in the 1990's. and he's already talked about it. chris: he said this. >> very well aware of it. they studied the 1990's. they're not coming into this -- so they're -- they're aware of -- chris: and i believe these politicians, when they promise they're going to do somet ing in the near term, they tend to know they have to do it. >> he is going to come out. he's going to come out firing. but it's not going to be on the new black pant

before he was on rush limbaugh, a -- corrupt president, corrupt administration and after the election he backpedaled and said i shouldn't have said that. i think -- darrell issa is a smart guy. he's not a zealot. chris: is this the chance to in vestigate -- >> he never saw a camera he didn't like. and another way is you do have leverage. but the tea party end or the fox news end if you will going after the new black panther party for example which is a dead end believe me, and instead of the consumer rout something like that, the average person can relate to, he's going to do damage. >> i think john boehner is well aware of the overreach that occurred in the 1990's. and he's already talked about it. chris: he said this. >> very well aware of it. they studied the 1990's. they're not coming into this -- so they're -- they're aware of -- chris: and i believe these politicians when they promise they're going to do somet ing in the near term, they tend to know they have to do it. >> he is going to come out. he's going to come out firing. but it's not going to be on the new black panther pa

thrown around in america all the time lately especially by a lot of conservative critics by the rush limbaugh's and the glenn becks of the world that you know they use it like a bad word that they want to pin on specifically president obama but are they not even using it properly no i think there's a lot of historical factors that go into our conception of what socialism means in this country i mean if you look back to even the cold war era i mean i'm going to discourse there's always prichard socialism kind of. an end to it this is to some of what we believe in conceptualize as our key and core american values you know the individual. pulling yourself up by your bootstraps you know the rags to riches american dream it really i mean that's that's scares people it's it's an alternative and it's it is in many ways an antithesis to what we conceptualize as you know the this is the comprises the social fabric of our economic and political life in this country do you subscribe to the idea that when the berlin wall fell that was the death of socialism no i think socialism is an ongoing and dialectica

deploying thirty four warships off the coast of india for his protection glenn beck sean hannity rush limbaugh along with congresswoman michele bachmann all decided to run with this information after the website drudge posted an article out of an indian newspaper saying of the trip was costing two hundred million project take a look. india is going to be the taj mahal all they get to see is the whole hotel entire hotel booked is going to one of the biggest mosques in indonesia two hundred paranoid three thousand people that i read their rights to what is a million dollars two hundred million dollars a day i think we know that just within a day or so the president i would states will be taking a trip over to india that is expected to cost the taxpayers two hundred million dollars a days taking two thousand people with him he'll be renting out over eight hundred seventy rooms in india this big hearing today back and forth about how many hundreds or maybe maybe billions of dollars this is going to cost to insure the president's security but no one is asking wait a minute it could cost up to two b

time winner is rush limbaugh which took his bigotry to a new level this time telling our native americans to tell you what he said in just a moment and as you know that today is native american heritage day. probably have no clue about this day set aside to remember the first settlers of this country starting to discuss it in depth just a moment. seven thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our team using your headline prime minister vladimir putin called pushing for closer ties between russia and the e.u. with the ultimate goal of a free trade zone during his trip to berlin putin also tried to court the german vote the largest bid for the twenty eight thousand football world cup the prime minister also expressed confidence in the euro and said russia might form a joint currency is old one day. three crew members from the international space station safely returned to earth after five and a half months in orbit with the crew conducted science research and before maintenance activities during their stay on the i assessed one astronaut also sent regular twitter updates and pos

. >> what he was doing at the time he was the rush limbaugh of the 1970s. >> i remember the first radio station i worked at in missouri those commentaries were not air there had but i saw them. they came in on the record. i listened to a couple of them now and then. >> the one question i have heard these past many months is what can we do about welfare. >> i was struck by how per situative, forceful but unthreatening reagan was. >> before we do more of what we are doing why don't we find out if what we are doing is part of the problem? this is ronald reagan. thanks for listening. >> i received a phone call from ron reagan, he said would you like to come over to the may flower and we will have a pop or two. it was to talk about a possible candidacy for president. he said, would you lead the campaign? i said gees, you know i would do anything for you. i can't do this jerry ford has been a real good friend of mine. anyhow i pondered it and thought to myself if we can establish a standard where reagan would run but he wouldn't be directly critical of ford that ought to be considered with th