gu lating to chris christie, a viable candidate to the president, encouraging him to run and inviting him to talk with rush limbaugh and being impressed with him. two things going on. from a business standpoint, roger made a lot of programming decisions and a serious smart political mind and knows chris christie is, a, a great candidate and, b, makes for great television. imagine the visuals of chris christie running against barack obama, just the physical differences makes for compelling television. in chris christie, roger would have two things, great candidate and great television. you re right about the tucson shooting being a turning point for roger ailes. i want to hear more about that. tucson became a turni ining t not only in television but culture. you talk about not demonizing the other side and civility.
program and pushed the conservatives along and brought boehner and david camp, who is the chairman of the ways and means and a lot of people very uncomfortable with this voucher approach along with them. right now, there s a lot of fear and loathing going on in the republican caucus. you will find conservative in the house saying they oppose this. they ended up having to go on record because they had to vote on medicare and all four voted for it and they have to run on that record. a lot of people behind the scenes before they voted knew what was coming. what s a cynic going to do with this? not turn it into a voucher program. keep it about math, win the argument. fundamentally change a program like medicare, lose the argument. joe, you do your own grocery shopping on weekends. of course, i do. most americans understand you have to do something to slow the growth of medicare and have to widen the revenue streams.
great concerns america have in this global fight with china, we don t have much leverage over them, given the amount of debt they hold, the imf a month ago said by 2016, the chinese economy will be the united stat? what leverage do we have? well, the funny thing and the strange thing is that when you owe a lot of money, you don t know whether the creditors or deb debiters are in trouble. one way for us to get out of our deficit, it would be very unfortunate, is to inflate our way out of it. that would hurt, of course, many middle-class savings in this country, but it would also hurt tremendously the people who own trillions of dollars of our debt. yes, they can do things which would be very annoying, but it s
friendly. he likes glenn personally, which i don t doubt. at some point, everyone at fox news, sean hannity, they all realize they re there and doing as well as they re doing because of roger ailes. it seems from the outside looking in glenn is the only one who doesn t think that. there is some inherent friction there. i think glenn is the only person who has his own advisory around him. he has his own company, mercury arts that made about $40 million in revenue. glenn beck sees himself as an entrepreneur. for good reason. making that much money. i would call that an entrepreneur. i think there s competition there. i m in the wrong business. yes, you are. so i could put like vicks in
it s explicit. it s a sense of fairness. he also the president also lost something in the coverage of his speech sunday night. the focus was all on the 1967 borders when you indicated it s been implicit for several years and now he made it explicit and the land swaps portion of his speech, the fact he did allude to the fact that they re neighbors, supposedly negotiating partners are sworn to their destruction, which is a no-go, that was lost in the coverage. again, there are a lot of people on the left and also a lot of people in the middle jumping up and down, saying, well, george bush and bill clinton believed the same thing and george bush came close to saying the same thing in 2008 yet the white house itself knew they were pushing the develop diplomatically. when you say you have to