straight shooter put up by newstalk 790 knst has just been taken down. clearchannel company that manages the space has stepped in and gotten the job done. it was the right thing to do. coming up, the tucson tea party has refused to back down since the tragedy. but their leader just came out with some pretty unusual words about congresswoman gabby giffords. roy sekoff the huffington post will weigh in on that next on the ed show. every 60 seconds someone,
finally tonight tea partiers just keep digging themselves deeper into our hole trying to defend their violent rhetoric. co-founder of the tucson tea party has a very unusual comment about congresswoman gabby giffords. here s what he told a british newspaper about giffords and the threat she s received. if she lived under this constant fear of this rhetoric and hated that was seething, hatred that was seething, why wouldn t she attend full view the public with no security whatsoever joining me now is roy sekoff founding editor of the huffington post. roy, what do you make of that comment in the light of what has unfolded? well, ed, the one-word response is wince. that s a ridiculous comment right there. and what we ve seen right mere from the tea party and from
newstalk 790 knst has just been taken down. clearchannel company that manages the space has stepped in and gotten the job done. it was the right thing to do. coming up, the tucson tea party has refused to back down since the tragedy. but their leader just came out with some pretty unusual words about congresswoman gabby giffords. roy sekoff the huffington post will weigh in on that next on the ed show. ready sensei.
insurance companies hiking rates by 60%, transplant candidates, dying, because of extremist budget cuts. and the congressional budget office says the gop repeal planned add $230 billion to the deficit. mr. boehner, are you listening? and folks this is not a joke. michele bachmann has been named to the house intelligence committee. i think that she s serious about running in 2012 not for the congressional district but for the white house. the huffington post roy sekoff weighs in on that tonight and some of boehner s boys, they re off to a pretty rocky start in the house. they voted without having taken the oath of office and that, my friends is against the constitution. they claim to love. we ve got all of that coming up. but the hot story off of the top, the story that has me fired up, is president obama, i think,
attorney, being someone who has raised more money than any other house member in a race recently and i don t think that she has the personality to go out and to go do or the interest to do a reality show. i mean, she goes for the jugular. she politically wants to be in the white house some day. considering the money, wouldn t she be serious, roy. well, she is serious, just based on the money. but, ed, she s a bomb thrower. i think they actually this being put on the intelligence committee is actually going to work against her. she wanted to be on the ways and means committee which is a big, high-profile thing. the thing about the intelligence committee is it gives you gravitas but everything happens very much in secret, you know that s not a high-profile position. i think that s sort of john boehner s way of saying i think that i ll put you around the corner over there. she would definitely pull the party to the right. she would satisfy the tea partiers, and of course, she s alread