he plays heterosexuals, hosted shows, breaking a lot of barriers in a subtle, charming, kind of cary grantish kind of way. that s one of the reasons he s on the list. how about some of the thinkers you have on there, steve jobs makes the list, the ipad putting had ip in the headlines again. yes, jeff shg, jeff kunz say steve jobs was an artist, he would be a michelangelo. his details makes him so special and user-friendly. how do you go about picking this list and putting it together? it s fascinating, you have people who think they should be on the list or aren t, or people see people on there they don t think should be on there. how do do you it? we want the list to be eclectic. we re a huge international news organization so we want to have a lot of international people as well. jones, an assistant managing editor, edited the issue, and we
welcome back to morning joe. it s 7:00 in the morning here in washington, d.c. i m willie geist along with savannah guthrie in for joe and mika, who have the day off. frankly, we ve got an all-star team assembled here. it s true. andrea mitchell, norah o donnell. by the way, orange, everyone. what s weird about it, we just sent a psychic message. we didn t talk about it we open the nbc door, what are you wearing? what are you wearing? if only they knew the truth, we actually have lockers in this building. it is a little dormy, high schooly. no way? yeah. pat buchanan wore an orange suit and it was a jumpsuit. we told him, you ve got to change. his pimp suit. sam stein, the huffington post, is is here also. we have to talk about gordon
let s talk about the leaders. you have president obama there. also interesting, scott brown and sarah palin. we have mitt romney writing about scott brown. which is an interesting pairing. romney said brown was the comeback kid, david versus goe lie yathd and changed the whole power equation in the u.s. scott brown is somebody people are talking about in items of presidential in a leader. i have to read a quote. if sarah palin played a lound, grinding instrument she would number my band. the soul of our forefathers are alive and well in sarah. in the way she lives and makes america better. she exposes the good and ugly. that could have been written by pat buchanan but it was ted nugent. you and teddy on the same page again. you also have the top 100 artists. we talked about lady gaga. oprah, isn t she the most commonly to appear on the list? yes. then i saw this surprised me. neil patrick harris. he s huge. i just think of doogy howser but he s much more than that, righ
through a very tough year. and i ve been working congress pretty hard. so, i know there may not be an appetite immediately to dive into another controversial issue. by the way, that was aboard air force one, something that does not happen very often, but we can talk about that. a five hive foot cross kicked off a controversial battle between church and state will remain standing after the supreme court gave its approval. a lower court had found that the world war i memorial cross violated the constitutional ban on government endorsement of religion since it was on public land in california s mojave desert. but they agreed to let it stay. and scientists in australia are trying to salvage millions of dollars of equipment after a space balloon attached to it crashed during takeoff. this is not going well. to. the research balloon was
charlie crist will keep trying to prosecute this argument but he hasn t found a way. he probably didn t do it soon enough. he should have had others do it. so far, rubio has survived this and has people raising money on his baffle. we re told that as soon as charlie crist becomes an independent, that money is going to pour into marco rubio, even more, because people want to get in his good graces, now that he s clearly the republican candidate. we re told a lot will be big checks, couples maxing out. when a lot of money is pouring in, they have to stand out as best they can. politico s mike allen, thanks for that. we know the 11th xandment, thou shall not attack another republican. do you think crist has been holding back and he s going to attack? he has to attack. it s best if you get somebody else to do the attacking for you. if you do the attacking on another republican, it backfires on you and it s done that to