right wing relationship expert dr. laura schlessinger repeated the "n" word while talking to an african-american caller on her nationally syndicated radio talk show. take a listen. >> how about the "n" word? so the "n" word's been thrown around. >> black guys use it all the time. turn on hbo, listen to a black comic and all you hear is [ bleep ]. i don't get it. if anybody without enough melanin says it, it's a horrible thing. >> dr. laura doesn't get it. the caller named jade was trying to asking for advice about dealing with a neighbor who used racist terms in her home. jade took offense to dr. laura using the "n" word. >> i can't believe someone like you is on the radio spewing out the "n" word and i hope everybody heard it. >> i didn't spew out the "n" word. right, i said that's what you hear. >> everybody heard it. >> yes, they did. >> i hope everybody heard it. >> they did and i'll say it again. [ bleep ]. what you hear on -- why don't you let me finish a sentence? >> at this point, dr. laura turned on jade claiming she took her ugly remarks out of context. that, of course, is what they always say. then in a classic conservative talk fashion, the doctor of hate cut jade off and took another shot at her. >> don't take things out of context. don't double naacp me. tape the -- leave them in context what i just heard from jade is a lot of what i hear from blampg think and it's really distressing and disturbing. and to put it in its con text, she said the "n" word and i said on hbo, listening to black comics you hear [ bleep ]. i didn't call anybody a [ bleep ]. nice try, jade. actually, sucky try. >> dr. laura went totally off the rails when her caller was just asking for advice. after saying the "n" word 11 times and verbally assaulting the caller, dr. laura really showed how racist she is when she said this. >> if aural that hyper sensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race. >> don't marry out of your race. dr. laura ran right over an african-american caller, used the "n" word 11 times then called her hyper sensitive and expects her to have a sense of humor about the whole thing. dr. laura offered a lame apology on her website and doing her best to make this thing go away. she has nothing to worry about. it seems the conservative media can do whatever they want and get away with it and never have to pay a price. in 2005, former education secretary bill bennett said this on his radio show "you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down." bennett did a masterful job of wordsmithing his way out of that situation. his show is still on the air today. rush limbaugh made a career of racial little charged remarks, including this one. >> this president i think has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-seeded hatred for white people or the white culture. i don't know what it is. >> radio programmers must think that kind of hate is entertaining. they force the drugster's show on 600 radio stations across the country. glen beck, the rising star of the network across the street has never had to apologize for some of the things that he's been saying. here's some more. >> if obama weren't blah, he would be a tour guide in honolulu. or he would be teaching sol olin ski constitutional law or lecturing on it in chicago. >> pretty clear, isn't it? being a conservative talker means that hey, you're in safe haven. you can say whatever you want. you got are up pertd murdoch behind you, conservativetive radio owners behind you, they protect the talent. these guys really never have to answer for any racist or ugly remarks they ever make outside the mainstream media. thankfully the mainstream media has to play by a different set of rules. when the drugster was on espn, he got fired for saying racist things about quarterback donovan mcnabb. don imus was dropped for some of the racist things he said about the rutgers women's basketball team. jimmy the greek paid the price in the '80s. it's mel gibson. it's michael richards, the lists goes on and on. there is accountability in the mainstream media. but all those people deserve to get fired and it's time for the conservative media to ask themself the question, where do they want to go? they don't want to go anywhere. they love where they are right now. they love being offensive. they call it entertainment. and they'll be more that are going to be throwing the "n" word out there till somebody puts their foot down. there are seven words we can't say in broadcast. should we put the "n" word and make it eight words? get your cell phones out, folks. i want to know what you think about all of this tonight. tonight's text survey quell is, do you think right wing radio gets a free pass on racial slurs? text a for "yes," b for no to 622639. we'll bring you the results later on in the show. joining me now is reverend al sharpton of the national action network. good to have you with us tonight. >> how are you? ed? i am glad to be here. >> yes, sir. is there a different standard, reverend? i mean the mainstream media takes action on people who make racially sensitive comments but it seems to me and we just played a bevy of things here that in the right wing media, i mean there's a safe haven there. what about that? >> i think it is. i think what we need to do is as i think you probably identified, these people are not somewhere making a speech or somewhere in the privacy of their home or talking to someone they will know. these people are on rool and television selling to advertisers who sell to our communitieses. i think it's time we do what we did with imus, go to these advertisers and start saying you can't have it both ways. she has the right to say what she wants, but she does not have the right for me to subsidize with my consumer dollars. for this woman to go on and on and on repeating this word and then to turn around when the caller called her on it and said that she can't believe she was doing it, she chastises the caller and says the caller's hyper sensitive and then come out the next day with some lame apology, why didn't you apologize when the caller said it? at no point in that whole thing, and that's why i'm glad you played the whole thing, that's why i watch your show, did she ever say there was anything wrong with using the "n" word. she in fact, kept justifying it trying to make all kind of excuses and acting as if the woman she was offending was just being hyper sensitive, and if she had a problem in her marriage, maybe she shouldn't have married outside of her race. >> you know, reverend sharpton, the thick that gets me about this is dr. laura and all of these right wing talkers they've been around microphones long enough and had enough hours of broadcasting and enough experience that they know better. but they don't really care. >> they do. >> and the comment that got me in that exchange was she said don't naacp me. >> right. i think that's very telling. and i think that they're trying to demonize and catty gate those of us that raise these issues which is why i don't think we should argue with them. we're arguing with the wrong people. we should deal with the people that finance them it, the advertisers. these people that take dollars out of many of our communities and invest it in buying ads on these people's stations. if these station stations started losing money, that's what got imus fired, i think if they start losing money, they will understand the language of consumer dollars. i think you're right. these people don't want to be converted. they're enjoying themselves at our expense. >> reverend sharpton, we've got seven words in broadcast that we can't say. should the "n" word be added to that list? are there some racially sensitive terms that should be added to the list? what do you think? >> i think all racially sensitive terms should be added. if they're against whites, against blacks, against latinos, asi asians, we should not allow that. this country must be better than that. i think we should say ta that is not permitted. if people need to use that kind of language to have discourse, clearly they're not having intelligent discourse. >> all right. dr. laura has apologized. she's in the damage control mode right now. here's her comment. >> i talk every day about doing the right thing. and yesterday, i did the wrong thing. i didn't intend to hurt people, but i did. and that makes it the wrong thing to have done. i was attempting to make a philosophical point and i articulated the "n" word all the way out. more than one time. and that was wrong. i'll say it again. that was wrong. >> reverend, does that go far enough? >> first of all, i think you have to weigh her statement which was made after there was outrage, against what she consistently said. we're not talking about just what she originally said. she kept bereting this lady who raised these same points to her when the conversation was going on. so when did she have the eif i haveny? i'm a minister. i want to know when did she have this epiphany that she was wrong. she didn't feel it was wrong when it was going wrong. she revisited it later in the program and to add to it, she says, and i'll say it again and went on and on and on. i think that even i as a minister would have to say this conversion is a little suspect. >> reverend al sharpton, greats to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. for more, i guess we could say that ownership has its privileges. let's bring in legendary talk radio consultant holland cook. this is what you build legended oj on, right, whoen? where do they draw the line? where should the line be drawn? what do you make of all of this? >> first of all, let me thank you for hosting your radio show today while you were traveling and what you would have heard if you were within ear shot is exactly what you said about adding an eighth word to that list. callers to your show think that there shouldn't be a double standard, that nobody should use that word. although it is still commonly used among black people sometimes as a term of endearment. and as for where to draw the line, i think that there is a line between what imus did and what dr. laura did. i know dr. laura. i have worked with dr. laura, and i have not spoken to her since all this blew up, but i can tell you, she must feel awful about this. >> well, shouldn't she be smart enough to know and been around broadcasting long enough to know that there are a lot of black people in this country who are offended by in that don't use the n word and have never used the "n" word. and i would venture to say that the majority of african-americans have not. and because she's on hbo and it might be a slant of entertainment that might entertain her, doesn't she cross the line as a radio talker and shouldn't she have known better? >> i think so, and when imus committed his palm of pass and when michael richards fell from grace, their defense was similar. it was we're working live. we're working unscripted. we're edgy, out there, we cross the line. >> here is the key, holland. she's staying on the radio. nobody's going to take beck off for anything he's ever said. is it all about the money? >> there's no question, talk radio is big business. the difference between dr. laura and the gratuitous stuff you hear from limbaugh and beck and them is that she was trying to make an underlying point that went very awry. imus was just a gratuitous deejay equip that had no upside. i think whenever i hear something like this i always ask myself is he a bad guy or was he just clumsy. i want to think the underlying point she made which is not unlike the point reverend sharpton's making was made in a horribly clumsy way. >> don't naacp me. holland cook, thanks so much. >> you bet. coming up, the white house doubles down on slamming the tanman. they're calling him confused. i'm calling it genius. we'll get rapid fire response on that. here's a scary thought for you. rand paul takes a page out of sharron angle's playbook. they're both heading straight to uncle roger ailes. all that plus alvin greene, he gets indicted. steve doushy stoops to a new low and liz winstead tees off on dan quay quayle's dirty son. ♪ [ upbeat instrumental ] [ rattling ] [ gasps ] [ rattling ] [ laughing ] [ announcer ] close enough just isn't good enough. - if your car is in an accident, - [ laughing continues ] make sure it's repaired with the right replacement parts. travelers. take the scary out of life. coming up on "the ed show," imagine if you went to your boss and told your higher up that you're not going to get anything done for the next couple of months but you'll take the check. that's what the senate is saying. congress has rolled up the carpets and they've run for the hills. i think the system is broken and it needs to be fixed. congressman alan grayson sounds off that in his bat with politico next on the ed show". when you pursue an mba at devry university's... keller graduate school of management, you'll have a professor with you every step of the way. whether you take classes on campus, online, or both, you get the same attention, the same curriculum, and the same quality. 85 locations nationwide and online. discover how to grow the business of you... at keller.edu. welcome back to 67. thanks for watching tonight. this is a scary scenario that is playing out in our country i think. business business is overpowering and i mean overpowering our political system. this couldn't be happening at a worse time. the country is facing nearly 10% unemployment. most americans think it's a heck of a lot higher than that. this week we saw 30,000 people in a major american city fighting to get on a waiting list for public housing. they wand the application. the republicans think the answer, of course, is more tax cuts for the rich and more mba candidates to settle it all. in california, former ebay ceo meg whitman has spent roughly $90 million of her own money to beat attorney general jerry brown for the governor's chair who has a strong record of bringing jobs to california. in connecticut, former wwe chief linda mcmahon says she's going to spend up to $50 million of her own money to bang roll her money to get chris dodd's seat. for more, let's bring in the assistant general council for citizens united. chris berg. they got a supreme court ruling that opened up the door to get a lot of money into these campaigns. chris, you and i have balloted on this frontier in the past. i think it was a terrible ruling by the supreme court. but let's get to the quality of people that we see right now. >> definitely. how can these people that roll in this kind of money, how can they relate to those people down in atlanta who need a break? how can they relate to the unemployed? how can they relate to the middle class? aren't we getting a quality of candidate that might be even further out of touch than what we have in washington right now? what do you think. >> money and politics is nothing new. john edwards told us there are two americas and we all know which one he was really a part of it. when i look at people running across the country, i don't think we should be penalizing people who have been successful. these people who have been successful in business, they're bright, intelligent and have got good ideas how to turn this economy around. >> but chris, the question is, are they in touch with the people who are struggling in this country, are they in touch with the middle class? i mean, if you're worth that kind of money and you throw that kind of money at campaign, you're eating at the country club, not down there with the grounds keeper. >> they worked hard to get there. when i look at a lot of the these people who are running today, when is i look at meg whitman and linda mcmahon up in connecticut, i'm looking at people who worked to get where they are, not the john kerries of the world or the kennedys of the world. the ruling class that's been there with family money for the past few generations. >> well, i think both the people that you just mentioned on the democratic side both kerry and kennedy have got a strong record of helping the downtrodden, of helping those who need a break in life. both the two people that you just mentioned and we said earlier don't have that record. here's the point. richard trumka, afl-cio at a speech today in los angeles said, so in the elections for governor and senator, who do the republicans throw at problem? two clueless ceos, meg whitman who was too shady even for the board of goldman sachs, and carly fiorina who laid off 30,000 hewlett-packard employees, shipped jobs overseas, got fired and took a $20 million golden parachute and was labeled one of the worst ceos of all time. there's two sides of this story. but how do you trust somebody from the super wealthy to understand the needs of the middle class? >> look, i think mr. trumka knows his rhetoric very well and knows what he's doing. he presides over one of the nation's largest unions and it's in his business interests to elect politicians who are going to favor his policies. right now, one of his decided goals is to try to pass card check, taking away the secret ballot vote so he can try to expand his union. he just said that on his program. >> intimidation in the workplace and retaliation when owners find somebody wants to go down the road of collective bargaining. >> i don't see how getting rid of the secret ballot helps with you that. >> that was a pretty good try. is there a place for the regular guy in american politics now? you got to have money to play the game now that the supreme court has made that ruling. >> at the end of the day, i think it's about people and policy. when you look around the country, you see these people running no matter how much money you have. if your policies are out of touch, you're not going to get elected. look at mr. la montand his electoral bid. >> chris, you're almost making the case money doesn't matter. i love your angle on it. totally don't agree with it. coming up, fox and friends host steve ducey proves again what a boob he really is. next, stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] like summer, it's here, but not forever. the lexus golden opportunity sales event. don't wait to enjoy legendary lexus quality at equally legendary prices. see your lexus dealer. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no more $2, $3 fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no more paying to access your own money. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 it'd be like every atm in the world was your atm. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 the schwab bank high yield investor checking(tm) account. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 zero atm fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 a great interest rate. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no minimums. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 the biggest thing in checking since checks. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 open an account at 1-800-4schwab or schwab.com. and? psycho talk tonight, well, the kids over at fox and friends sure think a lot of themselves. former beauty queen gretchen carlson recently said her job was just like the president's. today, former weatherman steve ducey took a shot at the folks who work in the retail sector. >> how many young people voted for barack obama a couple of years ago because the hope and change thing and he was going to get them jobs and stuff like that. they get out of college they can't find jobs and trying to get a job down at the gap and there's somebody 45, 50 years old who was laid off at a real job doing that job. >> ducey is saying a job at the gap isn't a retail job. rea is not a real job coming from a guy who paid to do hard-hitting interviews like this one. >> are you girls here to tell us victoria's secret has essentially reinvented the brassiere? >> they have. >> that is the news. >> for that guy to think that he's an authority to decide on what a real job is, well, that's just elitist psycho talk. coming up, congress is on a two-month paid vacation as people are begging for help. congressman alan grayson has an important message he wants everyone to hear. he'll deliver it next in the battleground. and they're getting down and dirty in louisiana. republican senator dividend vitter's opponent is trashing him for alleged ties to prostitution rings. i'll get rapid fire response on that. and alvin greene gets indicted on obscenity charges. what are the south carolina democrats going to do now? 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[ bat cracks ] that's a hit. one a day men's. welcome back to "the ed show." the battleground story tonight, congress isn't working. they're off on recess like they always are this time of year. and even when they come back for just a few weeks in september, then they won't be trying to pass any major legislation and they're admitting this. this shows how out of touch washington lawmakers really are. could you imagine telling your boss, you don't think you're going to get anything done until november. people who don't have a job can't wait a couple of months. people who don't have a home can't wait a couple of months. washington politicians say they know we're in an economic crisis but they don't stay in town to do anything about it. they need to start acting like it's an emergency and get their butts back to washington, take a week off and then get back. you don't need the whole month. this is why congress has a whopping 21% approval rating in the latest nbc news "wall street journal" poll. joining me now is congressman alan grayson. good to have you with us tonight. i think it's easy to see the frustration in the numbers of the american people. what should the congress do? i mean all these bills that you guys have passed over in the house, what should the senate do, and does the circumstances that this country face right now call for different measures in the congress? what do you think? >> well, look, you identified the problem perfectly. in the house we've passed over 300 bills that the senate hasn't taken up. i took the trouble to identify the bills that the senate has acs on that the house hasn't taken up. only a couple of dozen of them. they have to do mostly with renaming post offices. the houses is getting work done. the senate is not getting work done. why? because the republicans are acting as a bloc to prevent anybody from getting work done. that's the problem from start to finish. the house could be back in session for every day from now till the end of time. it doesn't make a difference if the republicans in the senate are blocking everything they can. if you put a cure for cancer up in the senate, at this point, it would get filibusters. >> we really now stand the chance, the american taxpayer of the congress doing nothing until january. is that correct? >> no, actually, we're going to be back in session for several weeks in september regardless. but the fact remains that if the republicans consistently use the filibuster rule in order to prevent any progress on anything in the senate, it doesn't matter whether the house is in session or not. >> congressman, i got to ask you about this recent flap that you've got with politico. do you think that politico, the d.c. news outlet, the inside the beltway insider politico news organization, they've got professional people that work for them. there's no question about that, people that are award winning in this business for a long time. and they are a real referred source by many political insiders. do you think they softened their coverage based on their sponsors? >> yes, i do. and not only that, i think that the fact that they were founded by reaganites who felt that coverage elsewhere in washington wasn't slanted enough is indicative of their own philosophy. i mean the argument at politico seems to be are we actually bought out by advertisers or just give it to them for free. >> their corporate advertisers, obviously, well, a lot of them seem republican. but do you think that politico is too hard on democrats because of their sponsors and go soft on the republicans? >> yes, and politico is part of the permanent government that was established under the bush administration. these are the same people, these ideologues, right wing ideologues who have been populating the government and bureaucracicracy for a decade who met the political litmus test of the bush administration. they're still there in the think tanks, they're in these house organs like politico and they're in the bureaucracy. they are the permanent government and we've done nothing so far to clean them out. >> do you think they're a credible news source? >> no. i don't. i think that they're a rag. we use them in my office to wrap fish. >> congressman alan grayson, that pretty much says it all. great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. now rapid fire response from our panel on these stories tonight. racist hate speech on right wing radio. they get away with it again. dr. laura is the latest to get caught in a rant using the "n" word multiple times while talking to an african-american caller. the democrat running to unseat scannal-ridden louisiana senator david vit ser not holding back in his new commercial. he makes reference to vitter's alleged connection to prostitution rings in washington and in new orleans. and the white house doubles down on its criticism of republican leader john boehner in the house. another blog post says the minority lead ser confused and slams the bush tax cuts for the rich as a massive payout for millionaires. with us tonight, joe madison, xm radio talk show host and heidi harris from las vegas. let's get to the dr. laura schlessinger first. joe, your whans on what has happened. our apology. lou does it play out in your opinion? >> her apology as my wife pointed out was not an apology. she never said i'm sorry. the other thing is, it's not just dr. laura schlessinger, but ed, the question is, when did all of these people know black people better than black people know themselves? it's not just the use of the n word that was said multiple times and how she said it. it's how she lectured this woman about a perspective that she had in which she sought serious advice. i have daughters that are married to white men. and they could have given that woman better advice than what dr. laura schlessinger did. but it's all of them, glen beck, schlesinger, all of them. they talk to us as if they know us better than we know ourselves, and it's just got to stop. >> one thing i've noticed, heidi harris, is no conservative talkers ever condemn anybody in the flock. what about that? >> i don't condemn any talkers not you or anybody else just because i don't bash people in my industry. it's not a question of what their politics are. i heard what she said. i've never used the "n" word on n my life in any context. i don't see it being anything you need to use in a conversation. my parents taught me that's not what we say about people. i understand why she said it. she was trying to make the point it goes on all the time in music videos and movies and these other kind of things and if black people call each other that, it's no big deal. if a white person says it, it's a double standard when a white person says it. >> i am not going to accept that. that word was created to be derogatory. and her being a jewish person, if i used the k word, there's an entire an generation of jewish people who don't even know what it means because the anti-defamation league has done an excellent job to make sure that it's never used in a derogatory manner. no, it's not a double standard. i'm saying here, you know why that word was created. i know why that word is created and it is not a double standard. and it should never be used in any category and your parents taught you right. >> yeah, it shouldn't be used by black people or white people. i agree with you, joe, perfect. >> don't give me this double standard stuff. >> with that, heidi, it seems you're afraid and other right wing talkers are afraid to render judgment on dr. laura. >> it's not a question of being afraid. i don't bash other people in my industry. it's a policy i libby. i don't bash you. if you say things which i disagree with, i just don't do it. i think it's tacky to bash somebody else. >> so the host can be bigger than the standards of broadcasting? >> i don't think so. >> i don't understand that. >> dr. laura doesn't work for me, neither does sean hannity or you or rush limbaugh. politicians work for me. what will harry reid says matters because he works for me. that's what matters to me. for me to rag on you because of what you say, i would never do that. >> heidi, freedom of speech is a responsibility. and if this is how the responsibility is going to be used, obviously, as broadcasters, we affect people. that's why politicians take out commercials. the spoken word has a lot to do with it. >> and what dr. king once said, for evil to triumph, it takes a few good men and women, heidi to remain -- please, to remain silent. that's what ed is trying to say. >> i understand that. >> you don't remain silent in the face of this type of thing because it keeps perpetuating itself. i mean, i can appreciate what you do, but you don't remain silent in it. >> it's professional courtesy. that's what i show. >> heidi, it seems like on the right side of the dial, there's a safe haven to get away with this stuff. in the mainstream media, there are ramifications as we documented at the top of the show. do you think that there is a double standard? is there a classic example of ownership has its privileges? >> you're talking about the right leaning hosts versus left? not necessarily. i don't think so at all. ultimately the people who advertise make that decision. it's her opinion. she's entitled to it. people on both sides of the aisle do it. nothing tackyer to me than a local host going after somebody 0 who makes millions a year. if people like you want to go at sboit add your level, fine. but as a local host, i'm going to bash some syndicated woman who's a millionaire? i'm going to look like a moron. it's stupid regardless of what i think about what she said. >> i have to say whether you're broadcasting from fargo or new york city, the rules of decency are still the same. that's how i see it. i think that as we as broadcasters we have a responsibility, people do respond to what we say and how we say it. if we're throwing around the "n" word and slurs and there's ramifications in some parts of the media but not others and it's not all about the sponsors. glen beck has lost a lot of advertisers because of the way he's broadcasted. and ownership has decided to keep him on the air. because he has an audience. >> let me say one more thing. i know dr. laura. she's been nothing but good to me. her bodyguard is black. one of the nicest guys you meet in your life. if she didn't like black people, she wouldn't entrust her life to a black bodyguard. >> give me a freaking break. black men love their mamies. cut me a break. >> oh, my gosh. >> would you come off of that because she's got a black bodyguard? therefore, she must like black people? she needs social -- she needs socialization. that's what she needs is socialization. and maybe she needs to know more than one black person. >> wow, did you not say mammy. i can't believe that. >> look, you know what i said. don't give me this stuff that because she's got a black bodyguard, therefore, she likes black people. oh, cut me a break. >> joe madison, heidi harris, good to have you with us tonight. i appreciate your time. grade rapid response on a heady topic. we still have race as arab in this country and will for a long time. tea partier sharron angle runs from the cameras and now she's got righties following her like rand paul. they're all over hiding in the foxhole. plus, alan greene is turning heads today in south carolina. what is the party going to do? a grand jury has indicted him on porn charges. it's all coming up in the playbook. stay with us. and it's not too late to let us know what you think. tonight's text survey question is, do you think right wing radio gets a free pass on racial slurs? 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joining me now is eric boehlert, senior fellow at media matters for america. let's play this exchange with rand paul if we can and let's get your response to it, eric. here it is. >> dr. paul, gaval row house. i'm a reporter here. >> we don't have enough time. >> just real quickly. i understand what you said to the fox audience. obviously there's a lot of sensational allegations in this. i'm sure you would feel like it was by design so i just wanted to give au opportunity to respond to it. >> we do, but the thing is that you know, the whole story is just insulting and you know, my wife's upset about the whole thing. we really don't want to go into all this. >> what do you think, eric? is this the way they're going to campaign now? they can go to fox and get the money nationally and say away from the local folks? >> yeah, fox news national is the safe haven. what's amazing with the clip that was rand paul doing damage control via neil cavuto on fox news and he was inside a local fox affiliate. local fox affiliates don't play this propaganda game. they had rand paul in the studio who caught up in this recent controversy. so his sort of safe haven interview with fox news d.c. ends and they say hey, can we ask you questions? he says no, i don't talk to local reporters. it's amazing. he's sort of dodging reporters inside a fox news studio. this is all part of sort of the sarah palin approach. don't talk to the press. delegitimize the press. pretend the press does not play an important role if our democracy or specifically during a campaign. make plenty of time for am radio, hate radio. make time for fox news. and then just ignore reporters because journalists are biased and out to get you. and that's their playbook. >>en and here's an example of sharron angle raising money using the network. here it is. >>. >> we needed to have the press be our friend. >> wait a minute, hold on a second. to be your friend? >> well, truly supply it sounds naive. >> no, we wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported. >> shameless promotion. there's no boundaries to any of it. >> it's a money making machine. >> it is. >> the point is it to go on tv and make money for your campaign and then answer softball questions from fox news and completely ignore and insult anyone else doing real journalism. >> what i have noticed is that the print media doesn't call them on it, or am i wrong on that? >> i think rand paul and sharron angle are definitely getting some heat in the local press. nationally, sarah palin has gotten a complete free ride. she has stiffed the press, told them, made it clear she's not going to deal with any of them and then she posts or her ghost writer posts something on facebook and the national press runs around and writes it down because it's important news. she has gotten a total free press. she's not running for anything right now. but in kentucky and nevada, i think it's hurt them. and the local press has made it known, has made this a story. the fact that they won't talk to the press has become a story, and if you look at the polls, it pite be hurting them locally. >> well, i read this in one of my favorite ones so far is sharron angle went on lou dobbs' radio show and actually reversed the polls around saying she was leading. and she will hasn't been leading, i mean, there's no s g integrity to this at all. they're just reversing it and don't get challenged on it. eric, thanks so much. some final pages in my playbook tonight. former congressman pat toomey is running against joe sestak in the state of pennsylvania. he was on tv blasting the congressman for agreeing with everything on the obama/pelosi agenda. then he made this claim. >> now, when i was in the house, i frankly i opposed my party very often. i opposed president bush when he wanted to expand and create a new entitlement program. i oppose that had, i opposed many of our spending bills. i personally led a filibuster on the house floor against my own party. >> fill bust? did he say filibuster on the house floor? no, you didn't. because they don't have the fill buster in the house. that's only over in the senate rules. here's one for you. alvin greene, the democratic senate nominee from south carolina was indicted today for allegedly showing obscene photos to a south carolina student in a computer lab. a grand jury indicted him on felony charge of promoting obscenity and a misdemeanor charge of communicating obscene materials to a person without consent. he was arrested back in november. what is the south carolina democratic party going to do about this? coming up, we just heard alvin greene's in trouble, but dan quayle's son apparently, he's a little naughty himself. daily show cocreator liz winstead is exposing this potatohead next on the ed show". stay with us. ♪ yeah, we really do - ♪ and there's nothing wrong - [ bird squawks ] ♪ with what i feel for you ♪ i could hang around till the leaves are brown and the summer's gone ♪ [ announcer ] when you're not worried about potential dangers, the world can be a far less threatening place. take the scary out of life with travelers insurance... and see the world in a different light. keller graduate school of management, you'll have a professor with you every step of the way. whether you take classes on campus, online, or both, you get the same attention, the same curriculum, and the same quality. 85 locations nationwide and online. discover how to grow the business of you... at keller.edu. ♪ a day once dawned ♪ ♪ and it was beautiful ♪ ♪ so, look, see the sights ♪ that you learned [ male announcer ] at&t covers 97% of all americans. at&t. rethink possible. buy a pantech messaging phone like the impact, and get a pantech messaging phone free and if it's friday, it's time for club ed. you don't want to miss that. with liz winstead, cocreator of the daily show" with the brains behind wakeup world. great to have you with us. i know that you've been setting your sighs on john boehner and wondering how you can get a tan like that. >> i never want a tan like that. that guy looks like his skin is closed in. i don't know why people say he's orange. he looks like a catcher's mitt. i think is he moisturizes with saddle oil. he's the worst. >> well, his opponent justin coussoule in ohio has taken out an ad which really goes after his golf. here it is. >> rounds of golf, 100 plus. golf expenses, $83,000. membership at all male club, $75,000. special interest travel including golf jungets, $159,000. raising the retirement age to 70 and voting to end unemployment benefits priceless. for those who want an out of touch pro golfer for a congressman, there's john boehner. for everyone else, there's justin cao ca sewell little. >> what do you think? have you ever seen one as good as that one. >> it's really good and explains why bane ser so good at driving america into the hole. it's simple. >> all right. the quayle family, they have a son named ben. here's his commercial. we want your response to this. he's running for the congressional seat down in arizona. he's up against a number of other opponents to get the nomination. here he is. he says president obama is the worst in history. >> barack obama is the worst president in history. in my generation, we'll inherit a weakened country. drug cartels in mexico, tax cartels in d.c., what's happened to america? i love arizona. i was raised right. somebody has to go to washington. and knock the hell out of the place. my name's ben quayle. and i approve this message. >> liz winstead, do you approve that message? >> well, it looked like he was doing everything in his power not to the wet his pants during the whole thing he was just pursed and crazy. but is his name dan quayle or brock landers, which was the name he was using when he was going to dirty scottsdale and posting trying to find the hottest women in scottsdale. my favorite thing about brock is that's the name of mark wahlberg's character in boogie nights. i think with mark wahlberg's character, brock landers or ben quayle's brock landers i want to scream the same thing at the end of the ad, what a big wienie. >> liz winstead, great to have you with us this club ed tonight. have a great weekend. liz will be -- she is going to be at the mixed magic theater in pawtucket, rhode island, on august 27th and 2th. go to brown paper tickets.com to get credentialed for that one. tonight in our text survey, i asked, do you think right wing radio gets a free pass on racial slurs? 76% of you say yes, 24% of you say no. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schulze. i'll be gone next week up in the north country catching wall eyes d northerns. chank unger is going to be here all next week hosting the show. he's got a lot of fans. i know you'll enjoy his work. i'll be back the