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Stereotypes on both sides. i was in that documentary, and i talked about a certainly kind of representation of whiteness at stake there. it wasnt simply a team against another team. it was conceptions of blackness against conceptions of whiteness, and written large in the culture, bigger than duke basketball or north carolina basketball. >> dave, what about this? has duke just won too much where people cant take it? >> this is as old as organized sports in the united states where youre talking a...

Not the top issue. its discrimination, picking on other people. so, many people are on the verge of making party smaller once again. >> gloria? >> i have to laugh because also, republicans are seen as the party of big business, right? but big business, chamber of commerce republicans, you know, dont side with ted cruz, dont side with bobby jindal, walmart came out in arkansas, you cant do this. >> why do you think they did it, just playing to millennials, a morality play? why do you think the bi...

Audience tonight, but presumably, a diplomatic offense trying to explain israelis actions coming under increasing international condemnation. >> most importantly, hes talking to the american people, as well as to the critics of the united nations and others who are engaged in this type of morality play. we have seen this picture before and we certainly dont like the book and the delay behind it. >> the reason for the initial round invasion was to destroy these tunnels that hamas has built and ba...

It translates to hi, luis suarez, if youre still hungry take a bite out of a big mac. we know he was in the mood for italian. >> i enjoy what you are ga ways coach said, its not a morality play, its soccer. man up. >> they werent making excuses. they kadanced around it. suarez said after the game "things happen." >> andy scholes, lara bal baldesarra, thanks so much. still to come, a new tool in the fight against rest cancer and a new study that shows it may be better at detecting tumors. can 3...

Floor that looking for these pay-fors is a much trickier business than people think and its very, very difficult to find one that both sides would agree on using. are there any that youve heard of that you think might be able to get bipartisan agreement? >> the bipartisan part is the elusive quality. professor reich just mentioned one i would support. but its like emergency assistance after hurricane sandy. if you start having a debate among 535 representatives and senators about their favorite ...

Economy. and we dont even have that debate. we turn it into a morality play as though the cause of unemployment is the sloth of individual americans who are desperate to get some work. >> thank you for joining me tonight. robert richs film "inequality for all" is available on dvd, itune and on demand. thank you both. >> thank you very much, lawrence. >> thank you. coming up, former bush and obama defense secretary robert gates has written a controversial new memoir about his time working for b...

Representative welsh is that kind of thinking invading the house of representatives and elsewhere. i mean, that kind of thinking seems to me to be a much more crudely phrased version of what rand paul seems to be saying. do you hear echos of that limbaugh kind of thinking about this in your republican colleagues in the house? >> well, i do. in fact, big time. its as though its a morality play. and the morality for us and our responsibility is to have economic policies that can actually create em...

And i think -- >> or, soledad. >> i love the morality play. and i would like to see people. >> ive seen loan documents. >> you can do both. >> ive seen loan documents where every detail of the he or shes, supposely life, with their job, their income, their car was fabricated and put on the loan document and then they signed it, without even reading it. the person who was making them this mortgage, his incentive was to make the mortgage, sell it -- >> lets pause for a moment. were going to come b...

From what the 29-year-old analyst revealed, the government compiling a vast warehouse of e-mails to snowden, his life and even his girl end. >> is the nsa leaker a hero or a traitor. >> so is snowden a hero or a villain in your opinion? >> hero orrville an? the man behind one of the biggest leaks in u.s. intelligence history hiding out in hong kong. >> is it good enough to make him a hero? >> is the news business turning a serious subject into a morality play? glen greenwald who broke this story...

Political successes, including that of president obama is part of a morality play that dramatizes how far we have come. it scares the fact that modern black republicans have been more tokens and signs of progress. republicans will not gain support must dictate policy positions. no other single tokens will change that. michelle malcolm is a columnist and fox news contributor. michelle, thank you for being here. the writer of this is adolph reed junior. he is a political science professor at the u...