instead, what has happened are these local sellers are using the shows to run profitable businesses while criminals and traffickers are using the private sellers to buy guns anonymously and easily with no questions asked. even private sellers are prohibited from selling guns to buyers they think may be ineligible. fired from gun ownership because a mental instability. he said his investigator was able to buy a pistol even though he told the seller he probably couldn t pass a background check. bloomberg showed reporters this hidden camera video. have to worry about taxes, anythi anything? that s good. dealer guys, right? you ve got arizona i.d. no background checks? no. that s good because i probably couldn t pass it, you know what i mean?
joined now by jonathan alter, his latest book the promise will be out later this month. good evening. hi, keith. last year he poked fun at himself and critics, he said he was going to throw away the speech and here come these two teleprompters. this was edgier. country of my birth jokes, arizona i.d., death panels, this had a sharper point. it went over really well there. wasn t a person in the room, anybody who i saw, that thought obama didn t outclass jay leno, which is saying something. you might just say that the daily show has better writers than the tonight show, and maybe that s explains it. but obama s timing was good, and leno seemed kind of stale, and these jokes had a little bit of edge in part because i think at this point the teabag, tea party
the most trusted name in news. joined now by jonathan alter, of msnbc and newsweek. his latest book the promise will be out later this month. good evening. hi, keith. you were there. last year he poked fun at himself and critics, he said he was going to throw away the speech and here come these two teleprompters. this was edgier. i mean, country of my birth jokes, arizona i.d., death panels, this had a sharper point. it went over really well actually. there wasn t a person in the room, anybody who i saw, that thought obama didn t outclass jay leno, which is saying something. you might just say that the daily show has better writers than the tonight show, and maybe that explains it. but obama s timing was good, and leno seemed kind of stale, and these jokes had a little bit of