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Out. >> he is staying in, raised $200,000, and mike huckabee is leading the walk lash against the backlash. >> i mean -- >> his big sin, not what he said, but that he said it out loud. i think a lot of the republicans agree with him, but we just say that in secret readings. >> they say it out loud, just not in front of cameras. >> one thing important to clarify about the forcible or legitimate rape language is so offensive, i dont think progressists or critics of todd akin should pretend that st...

Is -- >> i would like to improve racism has been here for a while. >> just established. its very excite thing. this -- this gets to this problem. when we have this conversation about this, one side says why are you accusing of us making a racial appeal? were talking about welfare, we have a white guy in the ad and then were in the terrain in the video that we just shouted out, the what you are conversation, the what you did conversation cant be explicated with whats on the television screen. >...

Criticism of the constitution which was meant to bring that thing into existence. >> for most of american history, our political history was on two conflicting fax. one an off the stated love of democracy, and african-americans have been historically restricted to the realm of protest and agation. when president obama wanted to get to the bottom of what happened, he was not protesting or astating, he was not appealing to federal power. he was employing it. the power was black, and in certain qua...

Its not the man with the knife at gunpoint. thats just not the reality. the statistics bear out again, again, again, and again. i think there is also a very comfortable thing that were doing, and it would be great to put akin, a six-term congressman, kind of throw him into the bus. >> it is unclear that he is not going to be a senator right now. >> and tea party backed and very easy to throw him under the bus, but the reality, the rape culture in this society, this is a massive consensus opinion...

Is tightrope walk and speaking in his defense against things he is facing in terms of massive resistance, reticent to talk about that as well. >> and particularly you feel so many critiques are unfair. thats part of the problem, and i said this offair, let me say this on air. i covered the labor movement. there are a lot of unions that are completely dysfunctional entities. there is a desire to not write a story if you are on the left and say, man this union, what a total mess, because the union...

Playing video games, better parenting, things we can all endors. >> you do like video games, lets be clear. >> im a little upset about the video games. but he tends to shy away from the systemic critique that really -- >> okay, but let me say, i found the henry louis gates moment instructive and you wrote about that, but it affected the way they comported themselves afterward. the gaes moment was -- the moment i was in the room during the press conference, reaction was so honest, right? it came ...

Murder, a different kind of thing. in america, i dont think you would get very far with that earlier idea. >> with the sexual -- because of sexual practices of america. >> because we dont live like that, people have never lived like that. but that aura still persists. and thats why, for example, along with the idea that the woman is the mans property, has been her father, the idea that there has to be -- you have to resist to the utmost which is -- was legal doctrine for a very long time in many...

And you want to call out something, because they are clear implications, if you call it out, are you falling into the trap of getting trolled and letting them play the role of being the scrimp and saying, look at those liberals playing the race card. a lose/lose situation that the president is struggling with. >> that is exactly what the essay is about. how he has navigated that. the president is constantly being trolled to "play the race card." another phrase i des piece. well invoke ironically...

>> the thing i want to turn attention to here and to me the part of the essay i thought was the most bracing, is a discussion of the way you talk about shirley sherrod, and everybody remembers the shirley sherrod incident. forget about what the president has to navigate. how black citizens navigate their relationships with the first black president and their relationship of criticism or support or frustration, and the story you tell about shirley sherrod, the last line of the piece, not to ruin ...

Barack obama, sellout, pragmatic, all this stuff, right? when you point to the conservatives example, i think about the iraq war and say to myself, i wish conservatives who oppose the iraq war hasnt gotten behind the president. i wish they had taken to the air waves and killed that thing before it happened. and there is a danger to falling in line. >> i guess my point, were not falling. to suggest the absence of an all-day 5 five-point critique to the presidents agenda is falling in line is my c...