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Peter from the "daily beast." you and i have brain soup. we all have views and they all come to the floor eventually and sometimes we change our minds. we all learn, of course. let's talk about the president. president obama i think has one brain strain that he can predict. he is antiwar. he is a dove. not like carter. carter was a passivest. i think he is anti-war. he has a problem with getting involved in a land war in the middle east. he wants to stay back. that is why he was elected. he seems to still have a pension for avoiding military involvement. how does that work its way through two ...

The administration. >> you know, i attribute it to something grander than evidence. it's my experience of dealing with cheney over the years. his brain soup. certain people are hawks and some people tend to be sadistic about it. sadistic. cheney strikes me as a guy who wants to rub out his enemies politically. any enemy. >> what you -- >> david first. >> what you see in the clip that you just showed in the showtime fill p film by l.j. cutler was a complete absence of self-reflection. no regrets. no we could have done it better. if we could do it all, i might have done this. >> do you think he ...

I want get you as a generalist like this, what do you think this told you, what surprised you about this poll? >> well, it reinforced what i have suspected all along which is that the business model at the far right is predicated on fear. that they scare the crap out of people, there's never any accountability. for some reason, chris, people don't remember six months later that they were told there was another catastrophe looming and therefore hold those members of the media accountable. they still stay tuned in, whether it was talk radio or fox or some other oracle on the right. >> yeah, it's...

Surprised you, this poll? >> well, it reinforced what i have suspected all along, which is that the business model at the far right is predicated on fear. that they scare the crap out of people. there's never any accountability. for some reason, chris, people don't remember six months later that they were told there was another catastrophe looming and, therefore, hold those members of the media accountable. they still stay tuned in whether it's talk radio or fox or some other oracle that's on the right. >> yeah. it's almost like an addiction to being afraid. let me ask you, mr. cassino, our pr...

The far right is predicated on fear. that they scare the crap out of people. there's never any accountability. for some reason, chris, people don't remember six months later that they were told there was another catastrophe looming and, therefore, hold those members of the meeting accountable. they still stay tuned in whether it's talk radio or fox or some other oracle that's on the right. >> yeah. it's almost like an addiction to being afraid. let me ask you, mr. casino, our professor, help me out on this, what did you decide you learned here as just a person doing this kind of clinical study...