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Football program and others calling it a witch hunt. were back with our legal panel, ted? >> you know, this is shocking. it is rather sad. its no doubt about it, when you look at the video there, that this young lady is unconscious. and if the-- these football players raped this girl while she was unconscious or had sex with her while she was unconscious, it could well be considered rape. jocks, greta, in these towns get away with murder. not saying in this town, but they do, no pun intended. i ...

Coverup to protect the football program and others calling it a witch hunt. were back with our legal panel, ted? >> you know, this is shocking. it is rather sad. its no doubt about it, when you look at the video there, that this young lady is unconscious. and if the-- these football players raped this girl while she was unconscious or had sex with her while she was unconscious, it could well be considered rape. jocks, greta, in these towns get away with murder. not saying in this town, but they ...

>> i think they started calling me noodle mcveigh. noodle, because i was thin like a noodle, right? lanky. so then they started calling me chicken noodle soup, chicken mcnuggets, mcveigh mcnuggets, chicken mcveigh. >> he got picked on. that was one of the resentments he harbored throughout his entire life. bullies. he hated bullies. >> youll find most of the bullies in school are jocks. these jocks, theyre taught on the field of competition after school to dominate others, right? football, anyth...

Turned out to be the actual shooters brother. everyone is consuming that information with that grain of salt. >> right. i guess ill say the same thing i said last week, i feel a little bad and its worth repeating, unfortunately, you guys had me on last week which is sort of awful. but within two or three days after columbine, we had it completely figured out. everybody understood what happened there. two angry loner goths from the trench coat mafia who were pissed off at jocks went back and slau...

Talk nfl head injuries, but we dont have a strong history of concussions here. columbine, everything that came out in the days after that ended up being wrong. do you see parallels here? >> yes, i do. this case is refreshing. theres a lot of recent cases. we sort of allowed ourselves, collectively, the media and the country to be in a we dont know stage. some people have their ideas. its nice that no single narrative emerged because in the past, particularly columbine with this, within the first...

Neighborhood. it is the last friday of the month in the magnolia park section of burbank, california. normally, the stores would be closing and streets would be quiet but the creative small business owners here have figured out a low cost way of bringing in customers with a huge return. they call it ladies night out where people are coming out in droves to celebrate and support these unique companies. >> i really like all of the small shops and things. i like to help the mom and pop type busin...

Time now for a little sports. joining the table with us once again, our good friend peter alexander. we brought you in for a specialized topic this morning. were going to tell you about that with the chief national correspondent for "the new york times," mark leibovich. hes contributed to "jewish jocks an unorthodox hall of fame." >> and the book is not a joke. >> no, this is real. this is real. mark leibovich, good morning. >> hey, guys. >> there is that famous scene in "airplane" where the ste...

There, i just kind of slide that in. >> not here. >> i dont know of any teams looking for someone in that profile right now. i think -- i mean, look, on the back cover, it says "jewish jocks is not a joke." i mean, this is not -- i mean, its the first thing you say. and in fact, a lot of people in this book are not people who are classic athletes. i mean, howard cosell is not a classic athlete, bud selig is not a classic athlete. and these are not people who are necessarily heroes. a lot of thes...

We had probably 60 or 70, im guessing mostly jewish, everyone over 50, it seemed, who said why didnt you write more about sandy koufax? why isnt there a national day for sandy koufax? so people can really get going about this. i mean, ive never been in front of a crowd that was more animated or more engaged except, you know, when i come on this show. >> "jewish jocks: an unorthodox hall of fame." thanks so much. cool book. >> thanks. >> one piece of sports business, a couple of gentiles won the ...

>> its a tough retail environment and tough time to find a job. >> workers should be thankful to have the job. but wal-mart should be thankful for what is essentially a low compensation package and shoppers coming in, and maybe offer lucrative overtime for the crazy shoppers shifts. and they would then be signing up to face the crazy shoppers. thats the way it get out of this and avoid butting heads with the workers. >> okay. toby? >> well, unfortunately, a lot of jobs at wal-mart are what we wo...