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Beyond your narrow perception of reality to embrace others that aren't like you and that that was somehow turned around and turned into a firing offense. again, jonathan, yesterday morning, of course, this had been going in a loop. chris and i talked before the show yesterday. chris said i'm going to call the department of agriculture. you know, he told the story. i have no idea why the obama administration would fire this woman without getting the full facts, especially when you consider who the people were who were peddling this story. >> yeah. when you look at this. on the one hand, you kin...

I said i'm at least 45 minutes to an hour from athens. she said, well, shirley, they want you to pull over to the side of the road and do it. because you are going to be on glenn beck tonight. >> mike barnicle, is it really possible that the federal government, based upon fear of glenn beck, fired an employee, an excerpted clip they saw on cable news? >> unfortunately it is, willie. we spoke about this earlier. it's a horrific indictment of several institutions in this country of how politics is conducted today, of the news media's complicit in this. we ran the thing after the -- the peg of th...

Different media groups. i will give you one group of media types that looked at this tape edited and ran with it, but what you're sitting at the newspaper editor and i come and hand you a statement from the secretary of agriculture. >> ask chris lick that question. >> a statement from this lady. and i say, hey, mr. editor, it looks like the secretary of agriculture just fired a lady accused her of racism. do we run with it? >> ask chris lick. >> by the way, here is the naacp. boom. they'valso released a statement. at that point, you run. don't we split news organizations into two groups, those...

Congratulations to chris. chris called the department of agriculture. i got to say this morning, the thing -- it doesn't surprise me that there are going to be people on the left or the right on the web in news organizations that took words from the proper context. we know that all happens time and time again. i got to say, i am stunned that the secretary of agriculture and that the obama administration would fire this woman without knowing the full story. they know it's an ugly political climate out there. they know there are political huxsteres on the right and on the left who are constantly...

Of the obama transition, maybe we could solve health care just in that green room today. >> you have a got your own cabinet down there in washington. >> i'm telling you it's going to be a wild show, you've got to watch. you've got to ask robert gibbs about wearing the canadian hockey jersey and take it go off and wearing the u.s. hockey jersey as well. >> trust me, that's going to come up. >> thank you, chris. >> curious to find out how the republicans react to lahood's comment. >> one thing i want today ask chris, but we ran out of time. one of the ideas in the republican health care bill all...