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So tell me this, john, you were there. what happened? it was a very strange crowd, chuck. just to set the stage so that people know, this was an hour-long forum. harry reid wasn t even there. he had previously answered set question, they d given to him before, he answered by videotape. they played that videotape. sharron angle was there. about 800 people there clearly, clearly the reid folks had sent some people in there. but both sides were equally unruly. certainly, angle who was live, was getting heckled and then at the end as she was leaving, there was this scuffle that broke out and there was some astonishing pictures on the las vegas sun website of this man throwing a fist right at a woman. who was apparently bothering him and trying to get by him. who started it, who knows, who cares. but this is emblematic of this race, chuck, the kind of passions that are going on both sides. and it s not go, sharron or ....
you know, one thing that i m wondering, but i ve seen some reaction of twitter. john you re a big user of it. i m a big user of it. it feel like a blue state/red state divide here. that s what satire does. sometimes satire s the best way to bring out an issue and bring attention to an issue in a very smart way. you know, is this one of those things where maybe there is a blue state/red state divide and the heartland will look at this and say, this is exactly why we want to throat bums out. i think in the 24/7 world we riff in now, chuck, and you mentioned twitter and things are getting posted and posted as we re speaking, i don t think that this is going to last that long. but i really think that the problem here is what we talked about earlier. is that immigration is a serious issue and then you have steven colbert, who is a very, very funny guy. ....
Why were all those members of congress sitting there? why didn t they leave? we heard conyers saying that. what about the republicans? conyers was sort of giving the early warning signal. i m not sure a lot of members of congress really got what was going on there today. i mean when stephen colbert sits there and talking about entering his footage of his colonoscopy into the congressional record you would think that that would sound some alarm bells into their heads. they seem to be playing along, playing along with this and you think that john is exactly right. this just reinforcing the negative opinions that most people have of congress, and i think that they re going to be really surprised that this gives is going to have a lot of backlash against them. now, speaker pelosi was asked about colbert s testimony today. let s listen to how she responded. do you think it was appropriate that he testified today? of course i think it s appropriate. he s an american. before the com ....
As a matter of fact, coincidentally, he the las vegas mayor oscar goodman on his program last night in a farce, but he s a farcical guy. right. and to take an issue like that and having him talking about mexicans picking tomatoes and guatemalans i think that that s going to rub blue state and red state folks the wrong way. let s remember this stuff in the congressional record you can t see tone. you can t read tone. just like you can t read in e-mail or read tone in the congressional record. it s going to live forever. i want to jump to nevada. first, john, we have to show the video of what happened last night. here s a fightate christian school. i guess nobody was channelling their inner christian here between angle supporters, harry reid supporters. we know that this is a race to the bottom. in fact, you wrote today, you wrote a column today that basically said, you almost see why voters in nevada are going to put up their hands and not want either one of these guys but of cour ....
Attention they get over this. rather than to the issue itself. john iwant to go to you in a minute. here sing a bit more of colbert testifying today. take a listen. we know there was a long tradition of great nations importing foreign workers to do their farm work. after all, it was the ancient israelites who built the first food pyramids, but this is america. i don t want a tomato picked by a mexican. i want it picked by an american, then sliced by a guatemalan and served by a venezuelan where gives me a chilean. we re going to go to the craziness you re in the middle of, but i m in new york, vaughn in washington and we re seeing this and a lot of us are offended, an institution that while can get mocked all the time went down a road we thought were not even capable of. what did you see out in nevada? how did you see this from your perch? ....