and they should. i e-mailed a spokesman to ask if cnn s social media team stands by the message and i was told cnn strives to be tasteful while navigating the social news environment. by the way, here s what i think is probably the bigger problem with all these upworthy style headlines. if everything blows your mind, soon nothing s going to blow your mind. here s another media mistake that involves twitter. the progressive group media matters, which keeps very, very close tabs on fox news, noticed this graphic on wednesday s edition of the conservative talk show the five. it says gop south carolina senator tim scott is the only african-american in the u.s. senate. co-host andrea tarantos compounded the mistake by saying out loud that scott was the only black u.s. senator. now, that s bad. but this made it better. the other black u.s. senator, democrat cory booker, retweeted the fox graphic with a one-word caption whoops. senator booker, that s a good way to make sure fox reme
it s an issue we are passionate about. in terms of if you look at evidence, we have a natural experiment in this country. a lot of different states paying different minimum wages and there has been very little evidence that it has much if any impact on employment. if you take it to an absurd place, it has an impact. at the levels we are talking about i don t think it will. kristen, you were bringing up some potentially republican ideas on helping the job list and if i can put on the screen, you were references the american enterprise institute has been writing about this they put forward some ideas, some seem more right leaning, some left leaning. i was wondering if you talk about if you think things like expanding insurance programs. i think the long-term unemployed can go to hotter jobs and bonus
the american people are saying they are releasing social security numbers. i don t know if i want them releasing confidential health records. so it s problematic. martha: i think most people would shake their head at the suggestion that they could cut $3 billion from their budget. even the sungs of that is, well, that could never hatch. the reaction from the agency is we can barely get by on the money that we have to do all of the you know, all of the tasks that are part of our agency s job list. really? we can t consider cutting the funding to this agency in a significant way? and what does that tell us about congress that they say we ll put this crazy idea out there that we can cut $3 billion from their budget but it will never happen. we are doing it to whip them into shape. i think the irs is
steel, out today already has earned 21 milli$21 million. i impressive, yes. that doesn t stack up to day one top earners ever. harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2. twilight breaking dawn. twilight eclipse. no one wants man of steel to be good more than me. not just because time warner owns cnn. superman is a classic, i say. in the era when even b-list heroes have big movie franchises, why has superman remained so earthbound? they re robbing the truck! superman has long been at home on the small screen. there was lois and clark in the 90s. smallville and the ots. both successes. on the big veen it s a different story. this weekend after decades of missteps, warner brothers is taking another shot at establishing a superman franchise with man of steel. what s the s stand for? it s not an s.
the steps of the courthouse. neil: when you see something like that lis wiehl, what does that tell you? it harkens back to casey anthony, scott peterson. you know, we re so fascinated it s the issue like abortion or terry schiavo, life and death, that makes a big case. if there s a celebrity, even b list. neil: michael jackson. big celebrity. but if you ve got facts like this where you have two attractive young people in this bizarre sexual relationship, and you ve got horrific facts that come out more and more, we re drawn. it s a soap opera. we re drawn to what s going to happen. you lay that on top of that, the whole legal system and process and with the jurors asking questions, there are only three states that allow that. that s fascinating for all of us. neil: it s interesting to me,