we ll have that story tonight. in the meantime, republicans have started that i new effort to repeat, block and undermine president obama s policies. today, trying to take down the health care law, even though it will save lives and a ton of money for this country. commentary on that and live reaction from congressman joe crawlie and katrina vannen hubl of the nation. democrats are vowing to stand up to the new republican majority. rachel maddow sat down with pelosi today. rachel will join me live here tonight to talk about the democrats and their plan to fight back. and sarah palin says she s not going to shut up. isn t that good? in a rambling and bitter interview, she lashes out again at her critics, and took no responsibility for her words. eric bowler will be here to bra ecit all down. the john boehner cut-and-grow agenda kicked into
rhetoric was out of control for months and years? that is a great point. i mean if the rhetoric had nothing to do with the shooting then would why all of a sudden is roger ailes going to mess with his business and tell the boys to tone it down? right. he is not going gonna he is not gonna tone it down, no one is gonna tone it down. the coverage since saturday saturday, as i said, has been all attack, all denial. there s been no reflection whatsoever. as far as i can tell, they haven t had anyone on the air to even raise legitimate gets rhetoric and the debate in this country can. it is just full steam ahead. this is their business model. yeah. . and they are not going to retreat from t. well, we are going to be here. we are going to stay on the story and we will see if they tone it down. that s not gonna happen. great to have you with us, eric, appreciate your time tonight. all right. coming up, sarah palin never had a hard time finding a camera before but since the
get your cell phones out, folks, i want to know what you think about this tonight. tonight s tech survey question is do you think the right-wing will tone down its extremist rhetoric after the tragedy in tucson? text a for yes, text b for no to 622639. i will bring you the results later on in the show. one more point tonight. we are with all responsible for what we say. this network has never told me what to say. they have told me that i have to be factual, that i can t have my own set of facts. this is cable. this is the ed show. people know where they get opinion. people know where they get its strong take. people know where they get a passion. but they also know they get the truth. joining me now eric bowler, senior fellow at media matters for america. the big question tonight is, eric, is roger ailes telling the truth, in your opinion? did he tell the boys to tone it down? no, i doubt t i don t think there s been ten seconds of reflection inside fox news since that sunday gun m
how can a grown man feel compeled to write epic fail on a tweet? i am talking to you, eric bowler. you have gone gray. time to stop braiding the hair on your barbie doll. this means it is time for another robot theater. in this special episode, the media matters robot tries to slow a slumber party. can you find my neon colored hair band? i was invited to a sleepover at aaron s house. his screen name is soccer bunny 314. billy took it. he has my penguin-shaped silly bands. why wasn t i invited? totally not cool. i don t know. hey, before i leave, wanna draw on each other with markers? do you think i should have my mom call larry s mom and get them to invite me to the
you know, what s interesting, there were a lot of people on the right who listened to that transcript or what she said and agreed with andrew breitbart. i don t. maybe it s because i live in the south, on a city council in the south and deal with these issues all the time. that s how we talk about these issues in the south. i don t think shirley sherrod is a racist based on those comments. aapplaud the point she was getting to, but a lot of people disagree with me on this. i m not willing to condemn andrew breitbart on this. i do think is overshadows his point, race is used as a weapon in this country a lot of times unfairly. what do you make of eric s argument, basically this salve the obama administration, he seems to be saying they share more blame and that andrew breitbart. ludicrous. here s why. when mr. breitbart decided to put this video on his internet and then promote it as a piece of evidence that somehow or another an obama administration was discriminating against a whi