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Council after he said they were just great because they kept the kkk out of town. now, after an uproar, he released a statement calling them indefensible. but denouncing people who want to honor the kkk founder is too much. oh, i cant denounce the people trying to support him. and by the way, ironically, this is from the party who thought denouncing reverend wright was the most important thing in the 2008 election. all right, now for fun times at the united nations. the foreign nister of india g...

Heres limbaugh and beck after the pew poll. lets listen to their jam bore reof misthought here. lets watch. >> imam hussein obama. mmm, mmm, mmm. i want to be fair to too. he probably is the best -- by the way, reverend wrights church is a weird brand of christianity. the reverend writes church, black theology is what comes out of that pulpit. >> the easy thing to say is i think hes a muslim. i really dont. i think he is a christian thaw christians dont recognize. >> some think hes a muslim. im ...

The limited coverage. i interviewed reverend wright in mar -- in march of 07, didnt become an issue until 08. >> our country needs a leader. can you get our deficit under control? can you find a way to do health care? >> i think we are what kind of religion a person subscribes to. as mitt romney said im running for commander in chief, not pastor in chief. i found something interesting with what whoopi said. that is, say what you mean. because somebody was criticizing obama, all of a sudden now t...

The limited coverage. i interviewed reverend wright in mar -- in march of 07, didnt become an issue until 08. >> our country needs a leader. can you get our deficit under control? can you find a way to do health care? >> i think we are what kind of religion a person subscribes to. as mitt romney said im running for commander in chief, not pastor in chief. i found something interesting with what whoopi said. that is, say what you mean. because somebody was criticizing obama, all of a sudden now t...

Does it matter in he -- >> you dont know? here we go again. what do you mean you dont know? hes a christian. >> let me answer this. if hes a christian, i dont like the brand of christianity he went to in chicago for 20 years with benjamin wright. >> youve given me two answers. the first is i dont know if hes a christian, he might be a muslim. the second is you dont like what you see as a too left african-american church s. he an african-american church or maybe, maybe a muslim? which is it? >> i...

>> lets take a little look here, bob. you can see it up there, too. heres limbaugh and beck, last august after that pew poll came out. lets listen to the jamboree of misthought here. >> imam hussein obama? i want to be fair, too. he is probably the best anti-american president the country has ever had. obama says hes a christian but where is the evidence? he went to reverend wrights church. well, yeah, but he said he didnt hear a thing that was said in there. and reverend wrights church is black...

>> lets take a little look here, bob. you can see it up there, too. heres limbaugh and beck, last august after that pew poll came out. lets listen to the jam boree of missed thought here. >> imam hussein obama? i want to be fair, too. he probably is the best anti-american president the country has ever had. he says hes a christian, but where is the evidence? he rent to reverend wrights church, about you had i said he didnt hear -- and reverend wrights church is a weird brand of christianity. the...

Anti-american, all the rest. thats just really trying to scare the hell out of people. >> theres no evidence of that and theres no evidence, mark halperin that the people of egypt would want that the to happen. you lead lawrence wrights and other accounts of at tack back in the 1990s. repulse the egyptian people and islamic extremism has been on its heels in that country for a decade now. which by the way the response stunned the leaders of al qaeda, again, many of them, many of them really had ...

All easy. >> what was the toughest article you read about barack obama in the 2008 campaign? >> you know what, i think he was put in positions that other men who ran for president never had to deal with. >> really? >> and he overcame. >> did "the new york times" make up a story about him having an affair a lobbyist or did the "new york times" suggest that his wife was a drug addict? and did the rest of the media run with that? did they? >> i generally agree with you but what about reverend wrigh...

Youth. >> its because of the attacks against tourists in the 1990s. lawrence wright and the looming tower talks about how that turned the streets. in egypt against islamic extremists. >> it wasnt the brotherhood that did those attacks. it was radical groups. >> islamists are just not as trusted in egypt. >> they represent a quarter or a little bit more of egyptian public opinion. thats a political reality. i think the experts are -- the article in todays "new york times," sanguin about this. its...