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>> well, that's a very tough question. it's a tough question for joe. but i think as you know obama is the most popular democrat, and he has basically one big shot for an endorsement. and he can't endorse anybody really until after he has a nominee. i mean, he's starting to suggest maybe deval patrick is his nominee. >> he clearly wants to push a moderate. >> he wants to push a moderate, and it's not clear if he wants to push his old friend joe but we'll have to wait and see. >> you're a book editor at "the washington post," so you'll give it a good review. thank you so much. up next this is j...

And a singer. once our "person of the week," she told us the memories of her hometown in the midwest inspired her writings. >> even when i'm writing about stories that take place in the west indies or in new york city, the matrix for my imagination, you know, the sort of wellspring out of which all of this comes, all of that comes out of lorraine, ohio. >> reporter: an honor student in high school, she attended howard university, where she got the nickname toni. she became a book editor. there were few black women at the time in publishing. a divorced single mom of two boys, she'd work on her ...

Men are so toll re-- tolerant o that. it's women who are like, look how fat she is. it's women who are enforcing these images. >> if you ever meet with a book editor, they will say, add tierney to it. >> that will sell. >> i was thinking of doing something on the environment. tierney of the environment. all right. done. six chapters, get it to you in a week. >> michael, what do you think of this kind of protest. there's a million protests. >> i'm next to you, you don't have to yell. >> you are micced. >> i am. >> am i yelling? i have had a rough week, i have done 13 shows and my charity work i...

Men are so toll re-- tolerant o that. it's women who are like, look how fat she is. 's women who are enforcing these images. >> if you ever meet with a book editor, they will say, add tierney to it. >> that will sell. >> i was thinking of doing something on the environment. tierney of the environment. all right. done. six chapters, get it to you in a week. >> michael, what do you think of this kind of protest. there's a million protests. >> i'm next to you, you don't have to yell. >> you are micced. >> i am. >> am i yelling? i have had a rough week, i have done 13 shows and my charity work is ...

Resident and a friend, and these stories need not be consistent. is that fair? >> no, it's not fair. janet didn't like the book. that's obvious. when you said "the new york times," i wish you would have read a book editor wrote on the front page of the sunday review section because he felt very differently about it. you try to pick out the worst paragraph by the worst review of anybody who's read the book and lead off the interview like that. i don't think that's fair. >> in the book you said while sarah palin was a sports reporting in alaska she had a one-night stand with a then nba star to b...