starts right now. good evening, americans, welcome to the ed show. i m michael eric dyson in for ed schulte. the president of the united states just told congress they have to get to work. so as ed would say, let s get to work. the american people are watching what we do here. obviously, their patience is already thin. this is deja vu all over again. we re in the home stretch for the fiscal cliff, but is there still hope? sheldon whitehouse and jan schakowsky will have the latest ton high-stakes meeting at the white house. and the sad shame of this year s do-nothing congress. the gun violence continues in chicago. tonight, the reverend jesse jackson on the city s grim milestone of 500 homicides in one year. and it s nearly 2013, but attitudes on race remain two centuries behind. the way i look at it, it s freedom of speech. the reverend marsya dyson, and the president of the national urban league on the bigotry of the supposed post-racial america. with three day
person in my district is of imminent concern to me. wow. let s turn to mark simone and marcia dyson. let me ask you, mark, how big of a problem is this islam phobia for the republican party? is this as extreme as michele bachmann has made it out to be? let me be honest first. i m not the biggest michele bachmann fan. i don t know what she s up to. it s like harry reid shooting off his mouth yesterday. sometimes there s a legitimate concern but you get this hyperbole and it clouds the issue with nonsense. and huma abedin seems like a fine woman. is she trying to hurt her reputation by bringing up ties to the muslim brotherhood? she has ties to anthony weiner. what could be worse than that? i don t think bachmann is as crazy as she acts.
she has ties to anthony weiner. what could be worse than that? i don t think bachmann is as crazy as she acts. the same thing with harry reid yesterday. i think they love that controversy and the attention it brings. it s the cheapest way to get attention, but they do it. marcia, since this controversy erupted, michele bachmann has raised a million bucks. what does that tell us about the republican party, about her kind of politics? well, it shows that bigotry sells and paranoia is lucrative. she also talked about the republican party to try to talk about the political correctness of the democratic party and not going at the so-called terrorists at our country when they forget about the kill of osama bin laden. forget about the incubation of tourism cells. they have an i m afraid of the muslims and don t give a damn about the other citizens. they don t care about gun regulation with the nra and the
islam. the safety and security of every person in my district as well as all americans is preeminent concern to me. wow. let s turn to mark simone and marcia dyson. let me ask you, mark, how big of a problem is this islam phobia for the republican party? is this as extreme as michele bachmann has made it out to be? let me be honest first. i m not the biggest michele bachmann fan. i don t know what she s up to. it s like harry reid shooting off his mouth yesterday. it s a problem all through our politics. sometimes there s a legitimate concern but you get this hyperbole and it clouds the issue with nonsense. and huma abedin seems like a fine woman. is she trying to hurt her reputation by bringing up ties to the muslim brotherhood?
i think they love that controversy and the attention it brings. it s the cheapest way to get attention, but they do it. marcia, since this controversy erupted, michele bachmann has raised a million bucks. what does that tell us about the republican party, about her kind of politics? well, it shows that it sells and paranoia is lucrative. she also talked about the republican party to try to talk about the political correctness of the democratic party and not going at the so-called terrorists at our country when they forget about the kill of osama bin laden. they have an i m afraid of the muslims and don t give a damn about the other citizens. they don t care about gun regulation with the nra and the mass killings in our inner cities. they don t care about when you have the representative mike