icon to throw around. dana: remember, they are saying these things as they are sitting members of congress, elected to congress, paid by the united states taxpayer, taxpayer dollars in order for them to have a salary, well, maxine waters might be a different story when we look into that financial situation. you have a choice of how you want to conduct yourself. when i think is happening here is it s fashionable but it also makes them money. if you bash america, it s great for retweets on twitter. and then you can use that for fund-raising. that s what s happening. just ignore that. don t feed into that. i think that would be a better thing. the thing that really bothers me is they will do things like this and then they will turn around in the next breath and they will say, well, how would you do polarize america? as if it was on the people who feel patriotic. geraldo: and jessie, it s true that the country as a place where there is tremendous
he also advocated a better life on the right side of the law. many remember that infamous feud between west and east coast and how it turned deadly, but remember, wallace made a public appeal for peace. take this 1997 interview in california after the murder of tupac shakur. wallace saying he was working to avoid feeding into the violence. he said with tupac s demise, he had a special obligation to try to squash the violence. don t feed into it. if you feed into it, it don t do nothing but escalate. untimely demise or whatever, i ve got to be the one to flip it and take my power and flip it like, yo, they got to be dead, you know what i m saying, because he can t do that. he can t be the one to be like yo, i want to squash it because he s gone. i ve got to take the weight for both sides. that s twhwhy i m out here. a public call to stop the violence, and that was part of the evolution america was witnessing of that then
water when he wayed into teighe arrest of that black professor in cambridge. and that kind of got him into trouble because he did it in similar ad hoc way. obviously, different context and different thing. but i think that we make a mistake if we think not that i don t think there are political reasons that this will be good for him. but i don t my sense is that this is some strategic thing. that he has done. i mean, it may be that he s trying with the tweets afterwards to sort of kind of continue and keep it going, but i don t have any reason to believe no, it s more of a savant situation. i think that his gut tells him that, and then the left always responds exactly as he wants that s the thing. we ll watch out that plays out in the political world. but in the sports world, this has done something very rare. roger goodell and the nfl players association are on the same page. roger goodell, a very highly paid white men, the nfl owners, highly paid, very rich white
and they re going to go after democrats on this remarkably, even though they are the ones who want to eliminate medicare, they re already planning advertising to go after democrats. in fact, we ve been watching it over the weekend in the 26th district in new york where the republican now is saying no, no it s the democrat that wants to get rid of medicare. and they believe that they have so successfully lied to the american people for so long and gotten away with it. weapons of mass destruction, you know, and on and on and on. they can get like 70% of the people sometimes go along with their craziness. they think they re going to pull that off with this. now they see the hole they ve dug themselves in by trying to get rid of medicare. what the democrats have to make sure to do here is don t play into this. don t feed into, you know, when you hear some democrats say, yes, everything s on the table. everything social security, medicare, no.
campaign. sometimes he would riff on things and drop them immediately thereafter. tweeted about it again and again and it s still going this morning. that s exactly what he wants. this is something people said, don t feed into it, don t feed into it. but this is drawing the attention that the individuals have been looking for on this issue. there s a very real issue that they re backing here. sol you re kind of caught between two people are absolutely going to do more of it, and that s exactly what the president wants. where does that leave us? first of all, roger goodell versus trump is the iran/iraq war of sports conflicts. can they both lose? second of all, if they had led him buy the bills, we wouldn t be talking about this. that s partly why he s mad. as usual, trump is crass in his language, and he s wrong about whether the president should be suggesting whether people get fired over expressing this. that s a private company that can make that decision. it s not exactly a fir