muslim. white house obama obviously christian. i m going to get into this in a minute. but what s obvious. president obama is not a muslim. i m taking his word that he s a christian, but here s where it falls apart for many americans. it s a christianity that most americans just don t recognize. well, bob, there s where it falls apart. in other words, i mean, i ve never seen a religious test so brilliantly, brilliantly applied to a guy to screw him politically. it s not really christianity.ç that s really what it is. maybe isn t it of course, imam, obama, that independence that kind of language. i thefr heard any of this done. i guess you go have to back to father coughlin and rosin feld
2012. you know, maybe we shouldn t have recognized china. just keep acting like they re not there. i don t know. maybe we don t talk to them, maybe he won t be china, maybe they ll go away. we ve always had that kind of specter we have gone after. i know. if we don t look at it, it won t be there. thank you, josh marshall, thank you bob shrum. the power of the tea party, house of representatives defeated an extension of the patriot act a total blow to the republican leadership. they ve got a problem with these people. and utah senator orrin hatch, latest number 100% conservative rating is so scared to death of the tea partiers, did he have a crash of the tea party people without invitation so but they still want to decide bl to dump him or not, this is getting very dicey on the right. it s a dangerous place to be on the republican right. you have been tore righter than the next guy. you re watching hardball only on msnbc. ale nouncer ] one look can turn the everyday into romc
these people just say, well, act american, and don t apologize. what s that got to do with this? the question, by the way, was what do we do? good point. you know, you see in those faces, there s a lot of hate and a lot of fear, and there s december i mean there s not a lot of newspaper reading in that crowd. i m sorry. they re not wrestling with the issues. there s also a lot of political leaders stoking that, because keeping your supporters, not just opposing the head of the party, the president of the united states, but fearing him and fearing him in a very deep way is powerful politically, so there s a responsibility that goes all the way up the chain. across the country. i think everybody likes to play innocent. we are not innocent. the united states has to make deals with different leaders around the world, sometimes we make it for oil, bob, sometimes we do it to help israel, our friend. we make all kinds of deals. sometimes we make it with people who maybe shouldn t be
taken away from them, because the country is changing profoundly, this is a demographic reality out there, and what richard hoff constituenter used to called the paranoid style in politician flourishes in times of big change and challenge. but it s being consciously exploited. his stepfather was born in indonesia. his birth father was from kenya. despite going to prayer breakfast, despite ç protestations, perhaps, what does it take no him to demonstrate, or is it just fighting words? it s what you say to, the muslim thing, the birther thing, these all go together that he s not one of us. how about palin saying he hangs around with terrorists. it s all of a piece. let s take a little look here, bob. you can see it up there, too.
kind or their way? and the return of the culture wars. some republican congressmen are stoking up the abortion fight. whatever happened to all that talk about creating jobs? finally tweeting his words, the painful lesson rick santorum just learned about criticizing herself, sarah palin. that s in the sideshow. josh marshall founder and editor of talking points memo, tpm, and bob shrum shrummy has come back i m not sure he s ready for it. here s a focus group with frank lutz on fox news last night, 3407bd night. let s listen. i believe that barack obama s religious beliefs do govern his foreign policy. and what are his religious beliefs? i believe he s a muslim. how many believe that here? wow.