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Executive, judicial and legislative. why haven't you heard more about that? mike gallagher is a fox news contributor. so you know, let me start with you, dan as the democrat. you know if sarah palin had done that, if michelle bachman had done that they would have been leading with it and it would have been all over the left wing press saying what idiots they are. chuck schumer do it and he gets a virtual pass. >> i think there is media bias to conventional wisdom about politicians. people think chuck schumer is very smart. so he gets $latitude. people think joe bind is a gaffe machine. so when...

I've got my iphone right here. it's got a high def camera and i've got my ipad. not only am i an apple guy but it's that easy and that accessible. the problem becomes when you start taking stuff out of context which is very easy to do in the age of youtube. somebody takes a snippet and puts it on youtube and gets it out there and says oh, my gosh, look what he said. >> the other issue though is the power of it. i mean, we've had gaffes in washington forever. pete stark has been a gaffe machine across, you know, the full span of his career. what's different now is that you can actually see him ...

If he wants to help the party he should resign. >> steele will survive. he will survive because the republicans have never had the guts to get rid of anybody who lies about president obama. >> say what you will about michael steele, but in addition to swallowing his foot on a regular basis he's also very stubborn. >> joining us now to talk about this is politico's roger simon. welcome. >> thank you. >> so why do journalists love writing and yakking about michael steele? >> it gives us something to do. and he is a gaffe machine. i remember writing early on that even though he has just stuck his...

I'm not big on sharks or octopus. >> nor am i. let's get sushi sometime. vice president biden showing off his funny side on the tonight show telling his host the president had fair warning when asked about his very public gaffes. >> when you get in trouble for your salty language with the president, does he say joe can i talk to you for a minute? >> look, i told the president two things, when he asked me for the job. i said two conditions, i'm not going to wear any funny hats and i'm not changing my brand. i've kept my promise. >> you know, members of the press who are close to him or follow...

Per capita, i think, vrmermont s the highest casualty rate in the country for both wars in iraq and afghanistan. each day in most american newspapers you can pick up the paper and there in the agate type you can read the names of the dead dying in afghanistan in a country, the united states, where there is very little investment in this war. it is shocking how little it obsesses people. how few people, other than military families and, of course, those who die, are affected by this. it is shocking. >> look. does it take michael steele, a gaffe machine, to take this war personally? seriously. l...