appropriate punishment for the crime of being gay is that the government should have you killed, just a question of whether we do it now or whether we do it later. and here s where this all becomes important to american law and politics today, because at that conference, that conference, where you saw that person speaking, kevin swanson personally welcomed to the stage, that same stage where he called for gay people to be executed, if not now then after they have time to repent, he brought to the stage with him at that event three republican presidential candidates, one of whom has since dropped out, that was bobby jindal. one of whom was mike huckabee, who is getting about as much traction in the presidential race as i am, he didn t even make the main debate stage the last debate. but then there was the third one, ted cruz. and ted cruz is not a nobody in the race anymore, as ben carson fades, ted cruz is making huge gains in the polls, especially in iowa. he has been working diligent
you were an apprentice and he told me stories about the woman would say to tony, solarry would like to see you, tony, in his room after the show, straight away. he would be like, all right, and you would go and knock on the door and you would hear olivia say, come in! come in! and he would open the door and olivia, i can t do him, but tony could, tony said he would say to him, my boy, my boy, my boy, my boy, when you say that line, either you come down and take your time, because when you re speaking, when you re saying the speech in shakespeare at the time, you are the star of the show. take your time, don t rush, you at that moment are the star of the show. and tony was like, my lord, i don t he says, you are the star whenever you re speaking shakespeare, that person speaking is the star of the show. and i said to tony, i go, you re at the national and you did all
words are in print. and the censors decide if the name of the person speaking can be mentioned in the reporter s story. this is called attribution and has become the third rail of american reporting. editors who surrendered their independence and given politicians the right to veto news copy. according to the times, this practice is widespread among reporters reporters and editors from the major news agencies, a stealth operation that has coopted the journalistic fraternity, especially westbound the beltway. quote approvals is standard practice for barack obama s presidential campaign, writes peters. the quotations once reviewed are sent to reporters from the presidential campaign headquarters in chicago. they come back redacted, skipped of colorful metaphors and colloquial electric and anything
talking to the control room. when someone is saying something infuriating, you don t want the camera on the person speaking. you want the camera on the person who is in-fewn-fewer rat. leave me out of this. you have to watch that in-fewer yags. when lawrence o donnell is here in the bull pen, we go meta. it s a treat. the true narrative. lawrence o donnell, thank you for your time. do you want to come on my show tonight? i got nothing. i d love to. can i bring my friend, chris hayes? about if he s available or anyone else you feel any escort you want. i will be this there tonight. you can catch lawrence and me around 10:00. somewhere around 10:00. it s my friday. i couldn t be happier.
and now the legal panel. arthur aidala and randy zelin. what do you make of the private investigator? he is a great guy, i know him. he does not have access to the files and does not have a license in the state. arthur: they are resigning themselves to the fact that the mother will get arrested. they have said the way they are being treated by the police. shepard: the way they are being treated by police. arthur: the aunt is the only person speaking, they assume the mother will be arrested. not a matter of when, but, not if, but a matter of when. so a benefactor says i will give you money to hire this guy, i don t think he can hurt and he will do the best he can. shepard: so you have to defend the mom who was not cooperating and failed the lie detector test. randy: i shot the clerk.