Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111031:08:48:00
89% in a recent poll said that they don't trust government very often. and then, as tom writes about, and i'll put another example on the screen, of the tone here. it's so easy to just vilify the other side, as you write about, tom, in the book. slashing rhetoric and outrageous characterizations have long been part of the american national political dialogue. but modern means of communications are now so pervasive and penetrating they might as well be part of the air we breathe, and therefore they require tempered remarks from all sides. otherwise the air just becomes more and more toxic until...