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Said, you have to operate on the assumption that its being recorded. joining me now is chief national correspondent and author of this town, not our town, mark lebowitz. >> thank you for setting the record straight. >> the waters have been muddied. >> you need inhuman levels of human stamina to be copy editor -- >> apparently so and also to be rick perry. i wanted to believe on your excellent piece in which you ate passtrami sandwiches. >> rubens. >> and proceeded to say he was very jewish, clos...

>> the problem with social media and tweeting there is no editing, a copy editor is not saying wait. i goes so quickly and you want to stay in the conversation, and that is how wig mistakes are made. >> airlines are using this for mistake, i think the person should have been fired. >> kenneth cole, and the war in syria and they tweeted "boots on the ground, what about heels and loafers o that was dumb. >> how about the bomb threats. >> troubling. a 14-year-old girl who claims to be from al qaeda...

Amusing. >> the problem with social media and tweeting there is no editing, a copy editor is not saying wait. i goes so quickly and you want to stay in the conversation, and that is how wig mistakes are made. >> airlines are using this for mistake, i think the person should have been fired. >> kenneth cole, and the war in syria and they tweeted "boots on the ground, what about heels and loafers o that was dumb. >> how about the bomb threats. >> troubling. a 14-year-old girl who claims to be from...

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Hr about whats going on in his head when he says this kind of stuff. more importantly, what about the culture of msnbc? somebody put those graphics up. is there no editorial backstop on this thing? >> thats right, david. >> its outrageous. >> these were scripted comments, howie. >> exactly. theres a vetting process that goes into this. before it goes to a tele prompter, copy editor, senior producer, saw that. their boss says, were trying to be provocative. ratings went up 60% from friday to mond...

Hr about whats going on in his head when he says this kind of stuff. more importantly, what about the culture of msnbc? somebody put those graphics up. is there no editorial backstop on this thing? >> thats right, david. >> its outrageous. >> these were scripted comments, howie. >> exactly. theres a vetting process that goes into this. before it goes to a tele prompter, copy editor, senior producer, saw that. their boss says, were trying to be provocative. ratings went up 60% from friday to mond...

Hr about whats going on in his head when he says this kind of stuff. more importantly, what about the culture of msnbc? somebody put those graphics up. is there no editorial backstop on this thing? >> thats right, david. >> its outrageous. >> these were scripted comments, howie. >> exactly. theres a vetting process that goes into this. before it goes to a tele prompter, copy editor, senior producer, saw that. their boss says, were trying to be provocative. ratings went up 60% from friday to mond...

Martin bashir has calculated, written down comments about sarah palin. what happens? that thing goes in to a teleprompter and it goes through a copy editor, maybe a segment produc producer, it went through all those -- >> graphics and graphics weighed in. >> went through a vetting process and the editorial culture over there said, you know what? look at the script. defecating, check. urinating, check. palin, check. mouth, check. lets go to air with it. right? that goes up to the top of msnbc and...

Martin bashir has calculated, written down comments about sarah palin. what happens? that thing goes in to a teleprompter and it goes through a copy editor, maybe a segment produc producer, it went through all those -- >> graphics and graphics weighed in. >> went through a vetting process and the editorial culture over there said, you know what? look at the script. defecating, check. urinating, check. palin, check. mouth, check. lets go to air with it. right? that goes up to the top of msnbc and...