quickly. and you re offering a big thing and i think reporters felt similar to how the rest of america felt. let s look at a tweet from a man who summed it all up in a nutshell. he says, after that ridiculous speculative long-winded tin-foil hatted opening maddow had nothing. nothing, my god. bill: here is matt drudge. maddow will get huge ratings but so many saw the fail. andy lack runs nbc. others feel it was a gift to president trump handed on a silver platter because it showed he paid a quarter of his salary in taxes which is right on the money about $38 million he paid
don t tell people. where is the rash? my shoulder. lower than that. this is a first lady who i think so much of america felt relaxed by. well i think those appearances we just watched were very strategic, they were fun, they seemed responsivenespontane not spontaneous, advisors spent a lot of time planning those. this has been a really by doing those kinds of appearances which feel fresh and funny and they feel les calculated even though they are. it actually wins her more influence and more political
concern for my children. i am worried about everyone. the majority of americans did not vote for racism, sexism, xenophobia. we demand that you vigorously oppose him. we demand we want you to know we are with you. oh, i want to throw up. that is humanity for progress. seems as legit as good people for peace. typical, the demonizing left, humanity for progress suggests anyone who disagrees must be inhuman or against progress. they are worried. can you blame them? donald trump wakes up, tweets, stuff happens. he is on the third rail that they can t touch. it s as if the cool kids are on the outside looking in, their faces pressed against the glass. it s exactly how half of america felt eight years ago when obama
america, what the president is saying is a red line and they re not doing anything about it looks weak. that is the problem. he did nothing after last aught august s red line. nothing to build a coalition. that s true, cokie, that formulation may have worked in 1986 when reagan decided to drop some bombs on libya and america felt stronger for it. it doesn t work 12 years after 9/11 and this war. day of the axelrod, let s bring you in here. what do you make of the litany of criticism that followed the president s speech last night? well, i was interested in the discussion you were just having. it really speaks to the challenge that the president faced last night. given that challenge, i think he did reasonably well. he had to thread a needle. he had to make a case this was a strategic moral importance that we had to act but re-assure people that we could act in a limited way and wasn t going to be another iraq. he had to make the case for attack an diplomacy. that at very, ver
9/11, then shouldn t they direct their anger and their rage at the people who put them in that position and separate themselves from those people and speak out as americans which he suggested he would like to do? shouldn t that be the focus? well, i think that s exactly what they re doing by having this, and although i wouldn t have selected that date myself, it certainly is to have attention and to draw that attention. i think a lot of americans do forget some of the incidences. arcadia, california, a man was shot who was a christian, a little girl who was missed by a bullet in a mosque in texas. these are all on september 12th. my own mother-in-law who is an ob/gyn who delivered children on a small florida town, on september 12th her home was vandalized and she was refused service at the local walmart and had to move, quite frankly, to retire. so i think that many of us because it wasn t a headline don t realize the persecution that many muslims in america