governor? some media dilemmas to ponder. hank williams jr. s offensive comments about president obama. should monday night football have given the singer the boot? those wall street protests now spreading across the country. has the press been too slow to recognize their importance? plus, the passing of steve jobs. the visionary who was so brilliant at manipulating a news business that served as his cheering section. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. back in may, i wrote a newsweek headline, is sarah palin over? it seemed there was no way the fox commentator was going to mount a white house campaign. it was just as clear when reporters were chasing the bus trips she took over the summer. but the press somehow kept up the pretense until this week when palin pulled the plug with a statement and a radio interview, not like chris christie, at a news conference. to tell you the truth, i made my announcement today in the format that i did because that wa
sacrifice. we re all going to have to make sacrifices. the next president? why do we have to wait 14 months? time to call in heidi harris of the heidi harris radio show in las vegas, and bill press, host of the nationally syndicated bill press show. nice to have both of you with us tonight. turning to president obama, he s out there defending workers, the middle classers. here he is earlier this week. you know what, it s asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a plumber, makes me a warrior for the middle class. i ll wear that charge. i ll wear that badge of honor. where does this leave republicans, heidi? that s ridiculous, bill, because a lot of that they re talking about the investment money they make and things like that. a plumber is paying less money percentagewise on his income than a billionaire is on his income. it s apples and oranges. it s not exactly the same thing. and ultimately, like i said before to you, if i tax you more
everywhere. what s the solution? the next president has to get in and demand of all of us sacrifice. we re all going to have to make sacrifices. the next president? why do we have to wait 14 months? time to call in heidi harris of the heidi harris radio show in las vegas, and bill press, host of the nationally syndicated bill press show. nice to have both of you with us tonight. turning to president obama, he s out there defending workers, the middle classers. here he is earlier this week. you know what, it s asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a plumber, makes me a warrior for the middle class. i ll wear that charge. i ll wear that badge of honor. where does this leave republicans, heidi? that s ridiculous, bill, because a lot of that they re talking about the investment money they make and things like that. a plumber is paying less money percentagewise on his income than a billionaire is on his income. it s apples and oranges. it s not exactly the same thing.
that almost half of iowa republicans don t believe barack obama was born in the united states. back in february, 51% of republican primary voters nationwide said they don t believe obama was born in the country. so when the donald uses the birther issue as his trump card, he whens with the republican voters and loses with the party leaders and s what s ripping apart the gop right now. joining me now msnbc political analyst pat buchanan and bill press, host of the bill press show on sirius radio. good to have you guys back together. here we are. hi, pat. how are? all right. all right. we got the crew back together. all right. so the boys. that s right. pat, let start with you. sure. is this the republican party s leadership going, no, no, no, get away, runaway as quickly as possible from this birther issue? i don t think the republican party is a monolith at all. i tend to agree with what mitt romney said when he said i
didn t take it because it was going to be a career for me. paul revere did not get up on the horse and say, i m going to do this for the rest of my life. if you ve watched this program and you really i ask you at times, hear me, you know what i believe is coming. if you watch tonight s show, i believe you know that i believe we re heading into deep and treacherous waters. i will continue to tell the story and i m going to be showing you other ways for us to connect. but i have other things to do. one of the lessons of this television breakup, joining us now, amy holmes, co-host of the radio show, america s morning news. david zurich and bill press, host of the syndicated bill press show. did glenn beck spinning those conspiracy theories, did he do himself in? i think he absolutely did himself in. i tell you what, in a way it s