0 old reporters need to be reminded. but i think what we need is to start no later than the seventh grade, ed. this is a civic responsibility. to listeners, viewers, and readers it s listen but convenient verify. there s an old card table expression, you trust your mother, but you cut the cards. what we have seen is politicians grab on to a morsel of information and turn it into a news story because they are elected officials and people believe what they say. exactly. and frequently that information is wrong or is an outright lie. the worst cases are when the politicians know it and they use it anyway. how does the white house handle this? how should the obama administration respond to this? you just saw jay carney. he s been peppered with this a number of times. well, frankly, i think they re trying to do a better job than has been done with some previous administrations, republican and democrat for that matter. the key thing is to get on it in a hurry. don t wait. there s a d
0 perpetrators of these lies and these frauds ever get a foothold on the internet, you then get into the feedback loop that goes television to newspapers. if you get behind on that, you re lost. do you feel the consumer s smart enough to figure this stuff out? i have great confidence in the american public and consumers and listeners. that s been my whole experience in television. however, i think they need to be informed of just how widespread this is because there is a residue of people who say, listen, it was in the newspaper, it must be true, or it was on television, it must be true. yeah. unfortunately, we re out of time. but i do want to say the days of that local reporter covering the school board are gone, it seems like, doesn t it? well, it seems like it s as out of date as a hominy wagon. dan, great to have you on the ed show. thank you, ed. you bet. my pleasure. that is the ed show. i m ed schultz. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, ra
0 from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. the president torpedoing his plan. the only way to get something done is with with a bipartisan agreement. i believe we are making progress on a bipartisan basis. i believe we can come up with a product. i hope that just a few months after the post election high anointing immigration reform as the next big issue, what is going to get done? we will talk about that plus two veterans of capitol hill may be about to change their tune on the president s pick to head up the pentagon. we will talk to bob carey about what all of that means. mr. president, we will stand and fight throughout this country as americans for our freedom. the gun rights groups say they are working to protect the second amendment so we are going to take a look at what rights the second amendment affords and which it does not. we start with developing news in florida where the white house confirmed that president obama teed off with golfing great tiger woods today. woods
0 it was a sweep, with scuffed sports equipment. had it coming. grungy phones. oh! super dirty! and grimy car rims. wow! that really works! .all taking losses. it looks like mr. clean has won everything. the cleaning games are finished? and so are we. okay, but i just took a mortgage out on the cabinet. [ male announcer ] clean more, work less, with the mr. clean magic eraser extra power. a good saturday afternoon to you. i m craig melvin. you re watching msnbc, the place for politics. the president is in florida, reportedly for a little r&r. back in washington the clock is ticking, less than two weeks to the massive budget cuts. what does the deadline show us about what s going on inside congress? they only care about their decades long, decades old gun control agenda. ban every gun they can, tax meanwhile, in other political headlines, jesse jackson jr. has been charged with misusing campaign funds. federal prosecutors filed the indictment against jackson friday. practices cuter