to fluoride. but mainstream america, the john birch society, no. no, no, no, no, no, no. do you believe that president eisenhower was a soviet agent? you don t? then no. no, okay? no. joining us now for the interview is gren greenwald, attorney, author and blogger for salon.com. glen, it s great to see you. thanks for being here. thank you. is the whole idea of mainstream, what makes a person electable, is it influx? s that political center moved very far to the right this year? i m really unpersuaded by that claim. i certainly understand the view and don t doubt the view, the claim that this new crop of tea party candidates is quite radical and extremist. no rax rational person could doubt that. but i don t think it s radically more radical than prior generations to say that is obscure trivialized how radical
annual leadership forum in washington yesterday. palin said the only thing stopping democrats from stripping them of their right to bear arms is the fallout. president obama and nancy pelosi have been relatively quiet on the gun control front, not because they don t want to limit your rights but because they re afraid of the political consequences. don t doubt for a minute if they thought they could get away with it, they would ban guns and ban ammunition and gut the second amendment. it s the job and today palin will head to arizona to offer support for the state s tough new anti-immigration law. well, the controversial new arizona law is geared toward removing ethnic studies from public schools. among other things this law aims to end classes created specifically for certain ethnic groups. the state superintendent of public instruction tom horn wrote the bill and on msnbc
washington. palin said the only thing keeping democrats from their fifth amendment is the fear of political fallout. president obama and his allies like nancy pelosi have been relatively quiet on the gun control front. not because they don t want to limit your rights, but because they re afraid of the political consequences. don t doubt for a minute that if they thought they could get away with it, they would ban guns and ban ammunition and gut the second amendment. today palin will head to arizona to offer her support for the state s tough new anti-immigration law. let s go back now to the oil spill in the gulf where today the companies responsible for the leak are facing an environmental disaster and a president who is running low on patience. nbc s mike casares at the white
control front. not because they don t want to limit your rights but because they re afraid of the political consequences. don t doubt for a minute that if they thought they could get away with it they would ban guns and ban ammunition and gut the second amendment. that woman is an idiot. let s bring in the political reporter of the washington post, dave weigel. good evening. good evening. tweet, people in the back holding signs saying, we love you tina fey, and sarah palin was born in kenya. i can only guess you were not at that speech, at the other one, but those signs probably weren t up that long and might have been a surprise to the former governor if she saw them. oh, no. i guess she s she s getting a taste of what it s like to be a normal political candidate which is new, which is a new experience for her. exactly. to the first speech, she praised
going on the floor and saying she has no experience as a l litigator when she s solicitor general, the top litigator in america. reporter: yeah. what s interesting about it, her most significant litigation experience really does come in the last year. you know, her first oral argument before the supreme court as solicitor general, as i understand it, was her first oral argument ever. and yet even people who don t, you know, agree with where she s coming from ideologically, if they know, which is hard to tell from the paper trail, don t doubt her intellectual abilities. and that s something that the white house special emphasized. that and what i found to be striking in talking with senior aides yesterday is their emphasis of what really amounts to political skills. consensus building. they look at somebody like elena kagan to be somebody who can really make a difference 10, 20, 30 years down the road. they know she s not going to come right in and hold sway over