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March 2, 2011
Protester stumbled. so he took a chance to gloat. >> we asked why fox lies and nobody could tell them. >> i can tell you. first, glenn beck talking about collective bargaining. >> in fact, fdr said collective bargaining would destroy us. yes, franklin delano roosevelt, look it up. >> so, of course, we looked it up. of course, fdr never said anything about collective bargaining destroying us all. in fact, fdr signed laws protecting collective bargaining and often hailed collective bargaining as a...
February 27, 2011
Deeming with young people is that young people are highly aware of this challenge right now. theres not a high school in america that doesnt discuss the issue of sharing too much in the wrong context. but both google and facebook do rip us out of contexts. they let us assume that were dealing with a set of people, lets say our friends or lets say our family and they -- its not quite easy to unpack for people, especially this early in the evolution of digital environment, that and it is not just ...
January 16, 2011
From wrong test. i dont think he has the ability in this situation. and hes going to use it and mitigating factors saying look. hes got mental instability. should he be found guilty? >> shannon: do you think he will be facing the death penalty? do you think that is where prosecutors will go? >> if you look from a legal standpoint there is a federal area for trial and a state area for trial. and now, in other words he can be like tim think mcveigh charged in federal and state system. both context...
August 14, 2010
Say who have used it in an anti-racist way. mark twain uses it 213 times in "huckleberry finn" and he use its in a way to attack racism as have other people. so i think that people ought to get over their -- you know -- should realize that words and other sim bomymbols can be used variety of ways. >> do you think a lot of people are just too sensitive? >> t.j. another thing, this is generation am. if i take my parents who are baby boomers or my grandparents, the greatest generation, to use the "...
July 20, 2010
Destroy their lives to stop the breaking the jeremiah wright story. racism is used by the left and the democratic party to shut up opposition, and im showing you that people who live in glass houses should not be throwing stones. >> a lot more on this story tonight, including more of the controversial conversation with mr. brightbart. lets get a first impression from our panel before we dig deeper in the hour ahead. with us tonight is our cnn contributors roland martin, eric ericson and here wit...
May 13, 2010
Shes worked for two white houses, clerked for the supreme court, dean for harvard law. its hard to find someone whos held more high level positions in different contexts than she has. there are legitimate criticisms of kagan, being we dont know much about her personal views on the law. if mcconnell makes this an issue on whether or not shes harriet mie miers, shell get through and it will be the end of the conversation. >> the miers nomination failed not because democrats pointed this out but be...
May 13, 2010
Court, dean of harvard law. its hard to find someone whos held more high level positions in different contexts than she has. there are legitimate criticisms of kagan, namely we dont know that much about her personal views on the law. if mitch mcconnell makes this an issue of whether or not shes harriet meiers, shell get through and it will be the end of the conversation. >> the meiers nomination failed not because democrats pointed this out but because republicans wanted to sink it, not to menti...
May 13, 2010
The people this works for very well is barack obama, in fact. elena kagan is no harriet miers. the issue with harriet myers is she was underqualified and got where she was by being a loyalist to a particular politician, george w. bush. elena kagan, not so. shes worked for two white houses, clerked for the supreme court, dean for harvard law. its hard to find someone whos held more high level positions in different contexts than she has. there are legitimate criticisms of kagan, being we dont kno...
May 4, 2010
30s, arrested because he met with faisal shahzad in the summer of 2009. when i spoke to domestic intelligence he said the time frame was consistent with shahzads travel to pakistan. in addition we were told to expect more arrests. the current no, number is as mas ten could be under arrest in pakistan. for contexts the pay the pakistani intelligence service works is they cast a wide net so you can not conclude that many people may be connected. >> shepard: we talk about foreign groups here. there...
May 4, 2010
He noted about midnight as we reported that faisal shahzad was apprehended at john f. kennedy airport in new york city attempting to go to dubai. he went through a slew of agencies that are thoroughly investigating this and made a very strict point in noting that this investigation is ongoing saying theyre deploying every resource possible in apprehending everyone whos associated with this. the ongoing investigation is going take some time. but the stakes here are grave. he said the attempt was ...