juan: i thought about andrea: i thought of a better comparison between plumbers and the media but it s gross. dana: academia and the media partly because of chuck todd of the nbc says a geographical bias where people are concentrated. that s why academia couldn t understand the tea party. they were racist and they were this, that, and the other thing. because they are not willing to hire people who might have a different view from them, they are not enriched with a lot of different thought. so something new comes along and they re conventional wisdom is wrong. it s wrong on ryan in particular. they have the election wrong. greg: which is why they embrace occupy wall street. their assumption it. eric: more inn line with their assumption. dana: i just brought even together. eric: yes, you did. we can go. juan: let me say on the occupy wall street thing. this is another example i think everybody says oh, well, this is what it means to have one side and the other, when in f
on display now at the national september 11 memorial. and the museum. now, spokeswoman for the group was on the o reilly factor last night. we have to remember there are over 1,000 victims, their families who lost loved ones on 9/11. and they re not being allowed to represent and an hor their family members in this memorial. some are jewish. some are atheists, nonbelievers. andrea: but a conservative group, american center for law justice is challenging the suit. they think the arguments are offensive, absurd and say 100,000 people signed petition opposing the lawsuit. eric, i want to go to you first. the cross is a piece of the world trade center history. you were down there during the attacks. and it was historical piece. if there would have been a jewish star, or star of david or something else, they would have included that. it s nothing to do with promoting one religion over another. eric: this is political
about free pills. free will versus free pills. americans will make the right choice. eric: coming up, group of atheist is suing the 9/11 memorial to block a cross recovered from the world trade center attack. good people at the 9/11 memorial museum vowed to fight the atheists. we ll give your our five cents when we come back.
country. people wonder why wall street gets bailed out. somehow, it s oh, yeah, it s greg: that is conservatism. juan: major trend in the society today, the rich are getting richer. greg: occupy wall street representing that concern, because by the time that movement was done, it resembled a different movement. gawps by the way, are you going to the congestion juan: by the way, are you going to the convention? the movement ain t done. greg: looks like a movement. eric: you know what the widest inequality gap is? communist countries. much wider than capitalist countries. juan: our middle class is now smaller than the one in china which is incredit to believe me. greg: a debate for another time. coming up, kids used to bring their teachers an apple but now they re asking for more. what do the teachers want, you ask? well, if i told you now, it wouldn t a tease a i d lose my teasing license. if you leave now i won t buy you that hello kitty back pack.
this kind of stuff. andrea: no one goes after their nonbelief, for example, right? greg: people do. face it, atheists do get, they do get made fun of a lot. it s just that in modern culture, media, they are seen as more andrea: not like this. hold on. eric: they only get made fun of when they attack a courthouse in texas. andrea: hold on. to your point, take a look at this. billboards at the rnc and dnc actually making fun of christianity. so there you go, eric. this is what people say okay, you have your nonbelief. but really, do you have to go after other religions? eric: there was an atheist group in wisconsin, nothing to do with the state of texas complaining about a manger scene. not even on a public building. private area but visible to the public. they had a problem with that. they picked a place, to your point, they pick their fights where they get the most media exposure, not where it makes the most ideological sense to their argument. juan: let me say. i m ama