it. [ laughter ] tom you said something like the producers if it were written today it would not fly here. yeah. you don t think that is true. what about monte python. again that was a while ago, andy. i know. would that fly today? yeah. this is different. with the jokes nazis. the check your privilege cards. anyone who has the $5 to bite card that is privilege right there. maybe give the $5 to a homeless person. i think that is great and then ddt yourself. tom, i do think you re wrong. you said you thought these cards
the people onset with a moral compass that they feel that they were getting led astray. they ve got the cultural consultant some of the jokes here i hate to even say this stuff. i m not going to say it. do you think as we look back over history and movies wildly comedic satire successful monte python and the holy grail, could be made in the context of our society today? jokes about a specific individual, you are a person in the movie and you are a silly person, that s fine. but when we re making jokes about native-americans or american-indians or women or gays or blacks why is that funny? why are we still saying let s get an arab person to play a terrorist because only arabs can be the evil vil innow. i don t see the value in that. i think a lot of americans would agree. do you think monte python could get made today?
will risk a ground invasion that really they will completely be overdominated. the thing is the political chief for hamas had harsh words as recently as yesterday for prime minister netanyahu, calling him a child killer and a murderer. we see the civilian death toll climb up. talk of a truce, also harsh words flying in the middle of all that. talk of peace. so again we will follow that throughout the day and coming days to see if there is a resolution. moving on this morning, most major asian stock markets traded higher in reaction to a powerful stock surge on wall street. traders were buying yesterday amid talk from washington that a deal to avoid that so-called fiscal cliff could be reached by the obama administration and the congressional republicans. the dow had its best day since early september. it climbed 207 points. to use a phrase from monte python, hostess is not dead yet. hostess, the second largest union will open court ordered mediation today.
the thing is the political chief for hamas had harsh words as recently as yesterday for prime minister netanyahu, calling him a child killer and a murderer. we see the civilian death toll climb up. so talk of a truce, but also harsh words flying in the middle of all that talk of peace. so, again, we will follow that throughout the day and coming days to see if there s a resolution. moving on this morning, most major asian stock markets traded higher in reaction to a powerful stock surge on wall street. traders were buying yesterday amid talk from washington that a deal to avoid that so-called fiscal cliff could be reached by the obama administration and the congressional republicans. the dow had its best day since early september. it climbed 207 points. to use a phrase from monte python, hostess is not dead yet. it hopes that a last-minute deal could come as it s going out of business. hostess, the second largest union will open court ordered mediation today.
everyone invoked. it reminded me of a monte python sketch where five guys are in the club comparing their childhoods and one says when i was a child i worked for one pound a week and the other one says i had to pay a pound a week and the third one says when i was a kid i lived in a box and the other one says you had a box? that s kind of what, you know you know, mike murphy tweeted wanted to hear one guy say my grandfather was a wealthy landowner we owned slaves or something, just once. didn t happen. tom brokaw, al hunt, eugene robinson, thank you. coming up next wisconsin governor scott walker joins us live in tampa on the special edition of morning joe.