christmas is well, it s about the best time of the whole year. no matter when they take place, modern era or period, christmas movies and television specials are always about someone who has lost their faith in humankind regaining it, saved by other people being kind because it s christmas. christmas is the landscape that everybody wants to paint on. everyone who tells stories is attracted to the heightened emotions that it brings. nostalgia plays such a huge part in christmas because it is part of so many people s childhoods. and being able to go back and relive those feelings every year by watching holiday movies is just joy. a christmas story is one of the best movies about nostalgia, family, and christmas. jingle bells, jingle bells. jingle all the way. a christmas story. i watch it every year at least twice. it s like the script of my life. can we go now? can we go now? yes. yes, we can go now. come on. it brings out every childhoo
understand there is been social disruption and trauma and it s time to together get a handle on. it keith alison. thank you very much for your time. that s all on this tuesday night. alex wagner tonight start tonight. this tuesday night. good evening, chris. thank you as always. thank you for joining us this hour. 13 years ago this week, a right wing, anti abortion group called operation rescue emailed its members encouraging them to participate in the special hollowing contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you could make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy. they even showed you how to bring the effigy once you made it. the whole thing was supposedly a protest about abortion related aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all expense paid trip to d.c., to earn that effigy. i m not showing you this becaus
13 years ago this week a right-wing anti abortion group called operational rescue, emailed its members encouraging them to participate in the special hollowing contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you could make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy. they even showed you how to burn the effigy once you made it. the whole thing was supposedly a protest about abortion related aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all expense paid trip to d. c. just burn that effigy. i m not showing you this because the contest was particularly impactful in anyway. it wasn t. this was a fringe group in 2009 taking dangerous political rhetoric about political figures like reid and pelosi to a new and discussing extreme. but the fact that there were not mass effigy burning across the country is not the point. the worry is not th
its members encouraging them to participate in a special halloween contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you can make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy, they even showed you how to burn your effigy once you wrote it. it was from aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all-expense paid trip to d.c. just burn the effigy. is this was a fringe group in 2009 takinging dangerous political rhetoric about reid and pelosi to a dangerous new extreme. the worry is not that violent rhetoric and mainstream politics is going to cause level-headed mainstreamer to do something insane and awful. the worry is that violent rhetoric encourages the least stable amongst us to do. a democratic leader in the house, nancy pelosi, a month before the halloween contest in 2009. how concerned are you about the tone of the political de
welcome to a special thanksgiving edition of th show to what i am coming the mehdi hassan book club via oprah. bucks and all have been mainstay of the show giving me a chance to dive deep into a subject. book segments helping me understand the male strip of this relentless news cycle so we will revisit some of our famous conversations wit authors this year. how the media needs to cover elections when one party i campaigning against democrac how marjorie taylor greene has gone from the fringe to th center of the republican party and how outgoing speaker nancy pelosi consequentially one o the most consequential speaker of our lifetimes may have bought the opportunit to convict president donal trump. we start the day about books particularly the endless strea of tell-all books about donald trump. what was to all of them was no the what or the when if that i with so many crucial whereas relations wait for a boo publishing date? i want to show you an old news we cover from almost