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The left, substantively, so you're probably not reading any interesting mainstream beltway journalism about the fight loechon the left, but it is a fascinating fight. and if the left does decide to take a harder line with president obama, it will be really interesting to see if liberals are capable of dragging the democrats to a harder negotiating position. if that happens, it will be a surprise to everybody in washington, because nobody in the beltway media pays any attention to the left. the more media question, though, for the white house is whether or not they're going to give up on the bi...

The left, but it is a fascinating fight. and if the left does decide to take a harder line with president obama, it will be really interesting to see if liberals are capable of dragging the democrats to a harder negotiating position. if that happens, it will be a surprise to everybody in washington, because nobody in the beltway media pays any attention to the left. the more media question, though, for the white house is whether or not they're going to give up on the big argument. whether or not they're going to give up on making the case that the republican ideas about the budget are bad idea...

Is -- i'm not calling him a liar but it's a little hard to believe that they weren't involved in this. this became a huge, huge story because networks were doing stories on it. it became a media, ethical media question. you know, what do you think, bri? >> what i think is there's a problem. there's a problem because we're trying to put the story together and shirley sherrod specifically said that she was told to pull over and blackberry in her resignation because the white house wants this done right away. the white house wants this done right away. so that led to robert gibbs having to meet t...

Here's the clip, by the way, he posted again. let's -- let's take a look at it right now. let's listen. >> first time i was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm. he -- he took a long time talking, but he was trying to show me he was superior to me. i know what he was doing. >> right. >> but he had to come to me for help. what he didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was i was trying to decide just how much help i was going to give him. >> errol lewis, stick with us. we'll bring in bucknell university professor james peterson who...

>> sean: it is important. lessons to be learned. levi johnston, this is interesting. he apologized. this is more of a media question for me. apologizes to the palin family. saying last year we break up, i was angry, i publicly said things about the palins that were not completely true. which is what he went on -- guess on to say, against my better judgment, he did so. to the palin family, in general, to sarah palin in particular, please accept my regrets and forgive my youthful indiscretions. >> we should believe him now? >> the problem is his 15 minutes of fame went by so fast. he's on the sa...