contributing editor to the loop 21.com and radio talk show host of america s morning news. kelly, no matter what you think, do you think that on the next visit to afghanistan that senators are going to be thinking about this? sure. the media struck about your conversation with michael despite his great news about his engagement. these senators released statements i didn t see anything different. jack reed is a former army ranger. so how do you knowรง how influenced you were or were not. the other thing that struck me, i wonder if joe lieberman wished this information come out sooner. it s certainly an interesting thing to consider. amy, what do you think was going on here? do you think this was happening and if so was it a desperation play? i have to congratulate michael on his story and
welcome to our political party. let s meet our guests. simon, the creative director of barneys new york. as i told him beforehand, went to barneys which was 10. they sent me to the husky boys department. we made up. kelly, contributor to the loop 21.com and author of party crashing, how the hip-hop generation declared political independence. all right, not even sure i know what that means but it s all right. over here we have steven, the news editor at salon.com and good friend of our political party. natalie is back. she s a james beard award-winning chef and write-in candidate for the u.s. senate in my home state south carolina and she brought these beautiful biscuits and cream. and don t forget the mint. and demint, against him she s running for the senate.
joining us is mark lemont hill, professor of columbia university and contributor to the loop 21.com. what is your overall response to the obama diaries? i wish i could say i was disappointed, but i didn t expect anything else. i think the kind of negativity toward the obama administration and the first lady is ill placed when we could focus on other things rather than mocking the president. do i think the president is fair game? of course. do i think some of it is funny? absolutely. but i think laura could be directing her energy toward the tea party, which has a viciously racist wing. we ll talk about unemployment, all sorts of things laura will agree with me on. larry: laura, respond? i love mark lemont hill. look, the obamas are people, we re all people.
made it really easy for customers to manage their car insurance policy online. well, you know that s why we have 24/7 support, so customers can call us anytime. [ in a robotic voice ] does not compute. error. [ all ] error. error. error. malfunction, babs. beep. boop. boop. ha ha. very funny. powering down. [ new guy ] we re not really robots. [ thomas ] i thought we were. [ male announcer ] call today or go to esurance.com. larry: i want to talk politics. dana lash is an organizer with the nationwide tea party organization. she s a blogger. michael reagan is chairman of the reagan group, son, of course, of the late president ronald reagan. mark lamont hill, professor at columbia university and contributor to the loop 21.com. and alicia menendez is senior adviser to the new democrat network.
university, contributed to loop 21.com. start with you, michael, gop senators mccain, graham, demint and others sharply critical of michael steele. flu is if you are, should he keep his job? welcome to politics. this is such a political game being played. today, it doesn t matter what you say, somewhere, somebody is going to cover it and take it and turn it into what it is tonight, on the larry king show talking about it right now, i m looking at this country and say what are we going to do to get this country back? michael steele is not problem with the country. michael steele says things that may not be the smartest things to say, getting atacked by lindsay graham or the john mccains or whatever. that isn t the issue. i m not voting for michael steele tonight president of the united states or my congressman or senator. right now the republican party is winning. you don t change horses in july going into a november election. i m sure governor kaine, would love to see the horse chang