anymore? is it okay to say she is part of a jihad squad and the elevator guy came running over, we don t know if that happened, omar says it didn t, because he was afraid she might be a terrorist. saying well she doesn t have a backpack on. i guess we re okay. those are okay things to say? no, absolutely not. the comments are absolutely reprehensible and they come from someone who believes that is part of her job as being a congressman to say outrageous, stupid, reprehensible things. it is not okay. it is also by the way not okay for omar to say some of the things she has said. what you have here are two people who have both said crazy things and they ve both been roundly condemned by the other side and by people in their own party. what is so crazy about the situation to me is you have two people here who i don t actually think understand what the job of congressman is. they are both in it for the
anymore? is it okay to say she is part of a jihad squad and the elevator guy came running over, we don t know if that happened, omar says it didn t, because he was afraid she might be a terrorist. saying well she doesn t have a backpack on. i guess we re okay. those are okay things to say? no, absolutely not. the comments are absolutely reprehensible and they come from someone who believes that is part of her job as being a congressman to say outrageous, stupid, reprehensible things. it is not okay. it is also by the way not okay for omar to say some of the things she has said. what you have here are two people who have both said crazy things and they ve both been roundly condemned by the other side and by people in their own party. what is so crazy about the situation to me is you have two people here who i don t actually think understand what the job of congressman is. they are both in it for the
breakthrough was otis, of course the elevator guy, not the elevator guy, but the elevator brake guy and demonstrated in the mid 19th century at the one of the world s fairs and had a huge public demonstration. he was raised behind the crowd and behind them a guy dressed as an executioner with an axe who slices you can imagine the sense of doom and peril, slices the rope and the elevate falls half around inch. the crowd gasps and otis calls out all safe gentlemen, all safe. that s the public demonstration. now elevators are safe and the rest is history. tim harford, pleasure to have you on. next on gps there are many deeply worried about the future of the nature but should they be? jon meacham looked at the long arc of history. if you re one of those worries he has some good news for you.
the crucial breakthrough was otis, of course, the elevator guy, he s not the elevator guy, he s the elevator break guy and demonstrated this the mid 19th century at one of the world s fairs and had a huge public demonstration. he was raised up above the crowd and behind him there is a guy dressed as an executioner with an ax that slices, you can imagine the sense of doom, slices the rope and the elevator falls half an inch. the crowd gasps, everything stops and otis calls out all safe, gentlemen, all safe. that s the public demonstration. now elevators are safe and the rest is history. tim harford, pleasure to have you on. next, there are many people in america deeply worried about the future of the nation but should they be? john looked at the long ark of history and if you re a worrier, he does have good news for you.
for mitt romney he can always argue. bill: up side? he can always argue he is spending his own money on a car elevator where barack obama would buy 8 million car elevators for other people. bill: elevator guy. picture of the elevator guy. do you know what the elevator does? no, wait. i m not in that class. i know you are. but i must say i am so enjoying this show. i can t believe you and mary katharine are mocking mitt romney. and you ask me why is barack obama saying. i m not mocking anybody. come on, bill. out of touch? you have an elevator for your car? bill: i don t. i don t have an elevator for anybody. barack obama out of touch one way as mitt romney is out of touch the other way. out of touch is when you spend equivalent of the most giant jackpot in u.s. history on solyndra. that was a stretch. that was a stretch. bill: there was another one that went bankrupt today. we have lou dobbs working on that later this week.