hug a number of the miners, the president of chile. his approval rating has grown substantially throughout this rescue effort. he also is the former owner of a television channel. and all of the miners are coming out wearing special $450 sunglasses provided by oakley. we have a public relations expert in the studio. we have you on to talk about p.r. disasters all the time, and i have never seen, there are probably world series directors and producers who are looking on with some degree often vi. guest: and super bowl producers this is unprecedented p.r., wall to wall coverage, 1,600 journalists, the president to greets them. the media, the miners in the mine, this is the mother of all reality shows. the most amazing thing from a p.r. standpoint, the tremendous risk they have taken.
and what do you expect? is it dangerous to take on glenn beck on the national holy turf like this. oh it s fantastic. i couldn t miss it. i hope msnbc does wall-to-wall coverage of it. every hour of the day that day. yeah, these guys are great. they really you know find the vulnerability points in all of our politics. they find exactly where the joke is. and, look, if jon stewart and steven get out there, they they will forever change, i hope, the way we regard these different event that take place on the mall. some of them are a joke, and should be regarded as a joke. and just because you locate your event at the mall, you know, we shouldn t take the mall so seriously. i think you know we all kind of overplayed the importance or the meaning of glenn beck s afternoon in the mall and let s have fun with jon stewart s. willie geist, long before you
is how do we prevent damages from happening in the first place you know if we can keep travelers coming to the gulf coast, if we can keep the numbers relatively strong we don t have to worry about compensating people. the question is how do we keep people coming, how do we get accurate information out there and make sure that this area stays vibrant and that is something that is really at risk right now. so, what s the plan? the plan that we ve the forward is a plan to prevent what we estimate could be about $23 billion in damages. you know this isn t the first disaster that america has had and it won t be the last. we can learn from previous incident he is and what we ve learned is that if you really invest in providing accurate information, if you get that public education campaign out there you can prevent damages. what we put forward today was a call for $500 million from bp to counteract the wall-to-wall coverage that is discouraging people from coming down there, that is givi
now back to our top story this half hour. shirley sherrod s comments on race, we now know what she said was clearly taken out of context. the use of race in politics is nothing new and the blame can be placed on both sides. here is dan harris with the viral politics of race. here i was faced with having to help a white person reporter: the shirley sherrod episode is the latest in a string of viral video controversies driven by conservative media. controversies with one central theme racism against white people. different polling places in philadelphia are checking for voting problems reporter: there s the new black panther party controversy, given wall-to-wall coverage on fox news, involving black activists in philadelphia haranguing people outside of a polling place. the new black panther party reporter: conservatives are accusing the obama administration of failing to pursue voter harassment charges aggressively. there s supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor say
this half hour. shirley sherrod s comments on race, we now know what she said was clearly taken out of context. the use of race in politics is nothing new and the blame can be placed on both sides. here is dan harris with the viral politics of race. here i was faced with having to help a white person reporter: the shirley sherrod episode is the latest in a string of viral video controversies driven by conservative media. controversies with one central theme racism against white people. different polling places in philadelphia are checking for voting problems reporter: there s the new black panther party controversy, given wall-to-wall coverage on fox news, involving black activists in philadelphia haranguing people outside of a polling place. the new black panther party reporter: conservatives are accusing the obama administration of failing to pursue voter harassment charges aggressively. there s supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor saying a wise latina may have