candidacy, calling him unqualifi unqualified. astonishingly. he joins us now for the ber view. professor diamond, thank you for being here. i ve looked forward to talking to you for a long time. thank you for having me. you wrote an op-ed in the new york times after your affirmation was blocked. you said the confirmation process has become distorted. what did you mean by that? well, it s been used by the republicans in part for just general harassment of the administration. and an example of that was when i got bumped in august of last year. i was just one of a dozen or so who got bumped for no apparent reason. there s a senate rule that says when the senate goes into a long recess it takes unanimous consent for a nomination to remain in place after the recess. and a dozen or so, including me, didn t get unanimous consent for the nomination to stay in place,
unqualified unqualified. astonishingly. he joins us now for the ber view. professor diamond, thank you for being here. i ve looked forward to talking to you for a long time. thank you for having me. you wrote an op-ed in the new york times after your affirmation was blocked. you said the confirmation process has become distorted. what did you mean by that? well, it s been used by the republicans in part for just general harassment of the administration. and an example of that was when i got bumped in august of last year. i was just one of a dozen or so who got bumped for no apparent reason. there s a senate rule that says when the senate goes into a long recess it takes unanimous consent for a nomination to remain in place after the recess. and a dozen or so, including me, didn t get unanimous consent for the nomination to stay in place, so the white house had to go through all the paperwork to
build the fence higher. it looks ridiculous. you re still arguing for obama care. excuse me, what do you have on the hibachi today? the whole thing is looking ridiculous. i m sorry. i don t mind the president going to the backyard barbecues. i wish he d come to mine. exactly. right? i have lots of good food in the fridge. i m sure he doesn t like the pinheads and patriots photo, bill. doesn t like that. very flattering photo. looks very gray in that photo. not a positive portrait. all right. now, me talk about positive portraits. oh! stewart and o reilly last night. did you get anything out of that ber view? i did. you know what i felt after that? i was a bit saddened because jon stewart looked like the sad clown last night. you know, in the circus there s a happy clown and a clown with a straight face and there s the sad clown. he kind of seemed sad. he said, you know, barack obama governed as a visionary and he s like and now he s just a
build the fence higher. it looks ridiculous. you re still arguing for obama care. excuse me, what do you have on the hibachi today? the whole thing is looking ridiculous. i m sorry. i don t mind the president going to the backyard barbecues. i wish he d come to mine. exactly. right? i have lots of good food in the fridge. i m sure he doesn t like the pinheads and patriots photo, bill. doesn t like that. very flattering photo. looks very gray in that photo. not a positive portrait. all right. now, me talk about positive portraits. oh! stewart and o reilly last night. did you get anything out of that ber view? i did. you know what i felt after that? i was a bit saddened because jon stewart looked like the sad clown last night. you know, in the circus there s a happy clown and a clown with a straight face and there s the sad clown. he kind of seemed sad. he said, you know, barack obama governed as a visionary and he s like and now he s just a
build the fence higher. it looks ridiculous. you re still arguing for obama care. excuse me, what do you have on the hibachi today? the whole thing is looking ridiculous. i m sorry. i don t mind the president going to the backyard barbecues. i wish he d come to mine. exactly. right? i have lots of good food in the fridge. i m sure he doesn t like the pinheads and patriots photo, bill. doesn t like that. very flattering photo. looks very gray in that photo. not a positive portrait. all right. now, me talk about positive portraits. oh! stewart and o reilly last night. did you get anything out of that ber view? i did. you know what i felt after that? i was a bit saddened because jon stewart looked like the sad clown last night. you know, in the circus there s a happy clown and a clown with a straight face and there s the sad clown. he kind of seemed sad. he said, you know, barack obama governed as a visionary and he s like and now he s just a