well, what if they can t read cursive? look, most kids today struggle with cursive. this is an example of what danielle patrick moynahan called the soft bigotry of low expectations. everyone from tom sowell to bill cosby pointed out when we set a low bar for people they never end up rising above it there are a lot of complicated issues bubbling up during this trial, but every young person, regarding will of skin color should have a family who teaches right from wrong and also an education that provides the basic skills necessary to communicate clearly and correctly. so making excuses for poor performance and lousy manners because of skin color just keeps kids stuck in a cycle of under achievement and resentment. we re all better than that and that s the memo. we ll have more on the racial element of the trial a bit later in the program. first, the top story tonight. the latest from inside the courtroom today where a key witness described the
that our elected leaders will and do lie constantly. gone is patrick moynahan and his adage of you re entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts. in the age of post truth politics, we no longer share a baseline of what counts as a fact. that was clearly on display this week at the one and only vice presidential debate. he ll keep saying this $5 trillion plan i suppose. it s been discredited by six other studies and their own deputy campaign manager acknowledged it wasn t correct. the only way to find $5 trillion in loopholes is cut the mortgage cut the health care deduction for middle class people. to send their kids to college. that s why is he wrong approximate that. he is wrong about that. it s at fact that the vice president found the congressman to be hilarious.
want the guy to screw up a little bit to make you look better, but on the other hand once their regime is over and they re not worrying about whose portrait is up there and the greats and near greats, these are human beings who have only had this experience. in 1962 when schlessinger was doing one of these presidential historian polls and jfk just started complaining how can anybody else but us know how to so it would be interesting if we got those polls done by just the experts and those still alive. i think it was daniel patrick moynahan that said no one likes to have a predecessor or successor. but this is the one perhaps the one exception is this club. exactly. the book is the president s club inside the world s most exclusive fra turnenity. nancy gibbs and michael duffy, thank you very much. jon meacham, doris kearns goodwin thank you as well. back with much more morning joe.
inability to come to grips with it. even if it s in the out years. sure, you could take the argument that right now, with the latest unemployment reports, you don t want to start cutting deeply or raising taxes right now. but if you do it after 2012, if you do it in 2013, as our colleague, bob woodward was saying on our show, that is credible to the markets. it has enforcement. let me go. who on the hill i know it s a very tough question. i worked up there. it seems to be very hard to find big thinkers. is there someone on the hill who is not thinking pure partisan politics, who is thinking about the need to have a long-term debt reduction that will convince the world that the united states is still serious on fiscal matters? well, chris, as you know, the days of patrick moynahan and bob dole are long gone. but i would say if you want to look in terms of a seary proposal that would put political pain across all
they ve done. 2020. he wanted us to know he has not closed that door. so what the hell. new york senator daniel patrick moynahan famously said more than once, we re all entitled to our own opinion but not our own facts. senator moan han died in 2003, so we are left to imagine what his reaction would be to a trump supporter who said the other day, there s to such thing unfortunately anymore as facts. that trump supporter, scotty nel hughes is paid to say things by cnn. she said her statement on a washington radio show. cnn is a news network, which is supposed to be dedicated to the pursuit of and delivery of facts.