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To -- encouraged others to kill stories about obamas pastor jeremiah wright in the 2008 presidential campaign. "in one instance, spencer ackerman of the washington independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from obamas relationship with wright by changing the subject. pick one of obamas conservative critics," he wrote. "fred barnes, karl rove, who cares, and call them racists." his colleague kevin drumm disagreed saying, "turning this into a gutter brawl would probably hurt the obama ...

Presidents comment the, it goes back all the way to reverend wright. the obama administration is concerned its losing support among white farmers and a story like this could alienate white voters who didnt think they got a fair shake and black voters who didnt think this thing is going on in the obama administration so it does have political impact. martha: i guess with this specific instance and this story and this woman, it raises a lot of questions, if they did go on in the speech to talk abo...

Obama era from the reverend wright controversy to cambridge beer summit to allegation of misconduct by the justice department the voting right case involving the new black panthers party. former agriculture secretary schaefer said if he were running the agency, sherrods case would have gone to the very top. >> this would go to the president, i think, because of the recent naacp discrimination, resolution against the tea party folks. kind of nervous racially charged atmosphere that we have right ...

Blasted him this morning when i interviewed him on the morning show saying he should not be speaking at their rallies and should not represent any of the tea party people because that letter that he wrote was simply childish. >> what about all this, mary? how is this affecting republicans at large? >> it isnt. i dont know, theres nothing to say. i dont know this man. i dont know any republican who does or any republican who thinks like he does. he is a crackpot. i mean, there are racists in this...

Oval office desk, reverend wright, hugo chavez, reggie the body man. theres a picture of him wearing the mom jeans which i knew you loved because you are a baseball fan. >> greta: fiction or nonfiction, how do we describe this? >> people harp on labels. im not about lay -- about labels today. im about getting the truth. are watching you love greta as we all do. these diaries have more truth when matched up with the historical narrative about what has happened to our economy, culture, foreign pol...

Oval office desk, reverend wright, hugo chavez, reggie the body man. theres a picture of him wearing the mom jeans which i knew you loved because you are a baseball fan. >> greta: fiction or nonfiction, how do we describe this? >> people harp on labels. im not about lay -- about labels today. im about getting the truth. are watching you love greta as we all do. these diaries have more truth when matched up with the historical narrative about what has happened to our economy, culture, foreign pol...

Authenticity of these diaries. so far i cant get any confirmation. and you will love this, i get logged on to gretawire every night. valerie jarrett on my website tonight i asked her in person about these diaries. you have to you go to laura-- lauraingram.com to see what she said. >> greta: the cover? the cover was a joint project. simon & schuster built that set it looks like the oval office. wait a second that is the oval office can you believe those cigarette butts on the cover that is a rude...

Mentality he sees lebron as a runaway slave. >> nobody can be said to be a slave who is making 20 million dollars in salary and 31 in promotion. if anybody owns anybody, lebron james owns the national basketball association. hes a free jen he can go where he wants. the owner may have been hurt, talked about loyalty. all of that is fine, come on! >> more childish the remarks that he made, not slave driven. childish. >> sean: the same jesse jackson i havent heard him comment on the new black panth...

Personify a slave master mentality he sees lebron as a runaway slave. >> nobody can be said to be a slave who is making 20 million dollars in salary and 31 in promotion. if anybody owns anybody, lebron james owns the national basketball association. hes a free jen he can go where he wants. the owner may have been hurt, talked about loyalty. all of that is fine, come on! >> more childish the remarks that he made, not slave driven. childish. >> sean: the same jesse jackson i havent heard him comme...

The best and brightest. theres a lot of unemployment out there and a lot of young politicians who have -- and are looking for a chance to be able to represent this country. i think its a great opportunity to, you know, make sure that we select the best. >> victor, is this the ultimate diversion, the inconsequential things in a very consequential time. >> i dont think were going to see it because this is between that comment and today, we have the clinger speech by the president, reverend wright....