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hood and ignoring the most ignorant toothless person they can find when there's a brother on the corner in a suit. terry jones is this -- is an example of this. if the media didn't follow and cover him and he has been doing this since he started his 50-member church, we wouldn't be talking about him right now. and general petraeus won't have anything to say about him. thank you, media. >> how do you stop a feeding frenzy when it's started by the highest ranking military man fighting a war in afghanistan? i don't think it's the media's fault at all. i mean, you have the secretary of state hillary clinton talking about it. you have the president coming out speaking about this. >> but who's asking the questions, ed? the media sticking pikes in front of these people asking them for their opinion on something when i agree with palin tonio we will should have ignored him from the start. why is he in front of our camera? you have to put your fingers up when you say pastor because the christians say what would jesus
this position. joan great to have you with us tonight. >> thanks, ed. here is a blast from the past, psychotalker rush limbaugh, the crazy pastor terry jones were high school teammates and we found their yearbook photos, the drugster and the psyc psyc psychopastor graduated from cape central high school in cape gerardo, missouri, both members of the class of 1969 but i'm sure it wasn't the summer of. something's got to be in the water in missouri, i don't know, maybe they ought to check it out. finally a quick programming note tonight, tune in to msnbc tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern for the premiere of "brian williams reports, new orleans, an american story." coming up, liz winnstead is about to take the stage in one of my favorite cities. she's not charging, folks, $225 a pop to sit and have a drink with her in the section.
and jobs. but less than 12 hours later, he had to go on national tv in the morning and talk about this nut job pastor down in florida. today his press conference, the president tried to keep the focus on jobs but he still had to deal with questions about burning korans. somebody close to the president of the united states needed to step up and keep him out of this latest debacle. it's been a big distraction and it's too bad it land. i think the advisers this week anyway did a very poor job of protecting the boss. and this country is paying a price for it. joining me now is joan walsh, editor-in-chief salon.com. joan, your thoughts on this. i think it was a low moment for the obama administration to having it spiral out of control where the president of the united states has to comment on this. what do you think? >> you know, ed, a couple days ago, i think i would have completely agreed with you, but i just want to make one or two points. salon this morning ran then excellent piece by justin elliott that really was a tick tock of how this controversy
the steps of the lincoln memorial for the one nation rally on saturday october 2nd, i'll be joining the naacp and all is the unions, afl-cio, the service employees international union, afscme and the steelworkers, real workers of america, wage earners of america and i'm determined to restore real honor for the millions of desperate american who have been ignored and left behind and haven't been the bish riff all those billions of dollars that the president was talking about today in his press conference. get your cell phones out, folks. i want to know what you think about all of this. tonight's text survey is, do you believe president obama is doing everything he can to make your life better? text a for "yes," text b for "no" to 622639. we'll bring you the results later in the show. joining me now is a true crusader for the middle class, sherrod brown sits on the senate appropriations and banking committee. good to have you with us tonight. >> good to be back, ed, thanks.
which he was pedaling today at this the event sponsors by ralph reed the former head of the christian coalition turned jack aim ram mof pal, seemed to be promoting him for the presidency. newt's book is called "to save america," a little messianic complex there, ed? i think so. what he's done is he recycles all of his bad ideas from when he was speaker of the house and now overlays it with a lot of phony history and phony constitutional law and giving people the impression if you are not a born again fundamentalist christian.who wants your christian world view to be reflected in government, you're pretty much a second class citizen. he continues to get the biggest applause today whenever he talked about so-called radical islam. forgetting apparently that the biggest danger to this country from fundamentalists right now in terms of taking over our government are from fundamentalist of christian
unfolded. and really what was ed, in truth, is that it was an issue in muslim countries. hundreds of people were demonstrating last weekend in kabul. there have been protests in indonesia, in cairo, it's been all over their newspapers, their television stations, and it's really become this horrible symbol, and so you know i think that when petraeus was asked about it by the "wall street journal" it was in that context of there really is an escalation of risk and anger and threat to our soldiers, so i can't criticize at least petraeus and hillary clinton for what they said about it. >> i'm not, you know i just think it was poorly managed. don't we have anybody in any kind of position that would be undercover to go down and talk to this guy and say you know what? you got the boss's attention and this is what's happening overseas, is this what you're all about? is this an attention-getting mission that you're on?
the guy. >> the three people you mentioned have they done anything as outlandish as offer up to burn the koran? >> could you talk with some people about that. my point is he's a publicity hound. >> you're the one that said it. i'm talking to you about it. >> i'm not trying to associate them with the koran thing. they're publicity hounds and love a camera. why give him what he wants. that's all i'm saying. >> he does have a congregation of only 50 people. it seems that the conservatives don't seem to be denouncing him too much after supporting the troops, saying they support the troops when general petraeus and others have said this puts our troops in danger. that's the hook, isn't it? >> ed. >> may i jump in? what i think you've got going on is selective concern for the welfare of our soldiers. you remember a few years ago, it was cindy sheehan who held a protest against the iraq war and the reasons that we went in wa which as we all know now were unfounded and you had right wing
that there are domestic enemies in congress. and louisiana democrats are airing, trying to air a new tv ad that takes aim at republican senator david vitter's serious sins and prostitution scandal. with us tonight, todd webster, democratic strategist, scott henen, talk show host. good to have you with us tonight. let's talk about this koran burning that is planned for 9/11. scott, where do conservatives stand on this? what should be done here? >> first of all, i think the most dangerous place in america is usually between chuck schumer, jesse jackson, al sharpton and a camera. add this pastor to the list. clearly a publicity hound, a gadfly. this is a joke. i think actually silence is better here, ed. i think the idea of giving this guy more publicity, you're hearing whispers from the pentagon that general petraeus might have erred by raising this to a level they have. i think it's better to ignore
facebook. book burning is antithetical to american dales. people have a constitutional right to burn a koran if they want to, but doing so is ince e insensitive and unnecessary provocation much like building a mosque at ground zero. number one, sarah, where's the support for the troops after two generals have spoken out about this? you didn't mention anything about the troops. and besides that, i don't think she knows what antithetical means nor do i think she wrote all of that. eric byrnes, your thoughts on this response and this whole situation about the silence of the conservative talkers of america and the pundits on the other side of the street just supporting the troops all the time but all of a sudden they're silent on this one. >> ed, you're right. is the silence has been deafening from the leadership on the right. boehner, glenn beck and sarah palin have made half hearted comments asking this pastor not to burn the koran but falsely equating the burning with an attempt to build a muslim