i remember it as an awful lot of fun and that i made an awful lot of mistakes and i wish i could go back and be more united in my language. because i i think i played a role, unfortunately, in helping tear the country apart. joining us now here in washington, david zurich. and in new york, amy hough. david, is it a good thing that glenn beck has now admitted that he helped divide the country? sfwh you know, at first when i saw it, i was seduced by beck again. this is theismish boy scott glenn beck. and he s really an engaging person when he does that. i had to go back to the clip toes remind myself of the darker glenn beck. and him admitting he made mistakes, i could have been nicer, i wish i could been
0 couple of weeks now, but seems to have slowed down. are the media basically trying to keep it alive? last week i defended the coverage saying this is a popular governor, he s the chairman of the governor s association. but this week, there was one subpoena that was issued and yet chris matthews, as recently as thursday, led with chris christie. and that is a problem. as we were talking about, what else could we be covering, like west virginia? what are we missing? why aren t we delving into other issues? even like nicole wallace says her network and others are propping up dawn zimmer who made the charges of political paybacking involving hurricane sandy aid. is there something to that? barbara has more hits than she got votes. if you re a new jersey mayor right now, you can make up just about anything and msnbc will put you up there. injury saying make up. are you insinuating that what they are saying is not true? i wonder if we ll be talking about christie coverage next week
sorry you don t, david, come on. amy. wow, well, clearly david is not a fan of glenn beck and isn t willing to consider the opinions of glenn s own critics who saw the sincerity and nor, david, are you willing to accept that glenn has been having this conversation for quite some time. this is not a new revelation for glenn s listeners, watchers or for people who read his work. i m glad he s having it with his employees like you. not employees, david. it s his audience. he and keith obermann were very bad for american television. i m sorry. that doesn t change because he s nice to you. we ll get to the broader question in just a moment. amy, talk about this continuing conversation. on his own show after making those remark toes megan kelly, glenn said he hasn t changed and his critics are shocked because they think i m some anti-gay racist nut job, his words. oh, i thought you were about to play a clip of that. that was one of the things that
msnbc applaud glenn beck. he can see something here that the media was more reflective on a number of issues. amy, you and scarboruough, morgan, you re all in the game. it s not a game. you guys are in the television game. oh, yeah, he came on and looked sincere. now we re going to love him and embrace him again. david, you re sitting on television right now. do you think you re in a game? pardon? i m sorry. because he appear on tv, are you in the game as well? no. i m a guy on weekends who shows up when they invite me. come on. so why are you accusing the rest of us? because i i work as a critic outside the medium of television writing about media and television. you guys make your living on television. so for you to say to me, oh, pierce morgan liked him, i i m
perceived, even by some who maybe were not big fans? it certainly seems to be changing perception of some of his critics. i d like to get back to david s point, do you not remember when the mainstream media asked the entire public to try and dig up dirt on sarah palin? what does that have to do with glenn beck? you were just accusing glenn of asking him audience to participate in digging up information, as if this was something new and sensational when, in fact, the mainstream media does this to figures on the right all the time. amy, what term is mainstream media? i didn t do it. my paper didn t do it. who are the are you kidding? you don t remember the media