maybe this is the age old speccer of a black man being threatening to a white woman. is there something that the language shifts, i will play devil s advocate, white people, now i can t use thug ? what s the next word you are going to tell me i can t use. it seems like a game of calvinball the pc brigades are picking out a word to use. of course, you can use the word thug. the question is, why would you use it in this particular circumstance? what is the session between a talented football player who made an incredible play and after the play went over to congratulate the other player, a rather sportsman like, huck him on a competition and was should haved. he did not respond violently. that s right. so why does that equate with thug? i think that s the bigger question. it s always a pleasure. thank you. good, thank you. coming up, remember mike huckabee, here he is speaking at the rnc in walk.
thank you for much for being was. and joe bebe is back, contributinged for for rolling stone. let s get right to it this mo morni morning. the investigation into whitney houston s death, her body is back in new jersey. they are refusing to say whether or not she drowned. they re waiting for the toxicology reports. in past cases, we know it could take weeks or weeks. he also won t comment on whether alcohol or drugs may have played a role in her death. look at a body and not know what the cause of death is. you might have a suspicion, but the person could have suffered a heart attack or an embolism or something. and no matter what medications they re taking, until we run a toxin and see the level and see what s in the system, we re not going to speculate. he s been on tv a lot saying a lot of nothing lately. how come it takes eight weeks to do a toxicology report? this is typical. let s be honest. we re talking at many, many tests. you know, initial reports say i r
now comes paul ryan with his gigantic speccer-shifting proposal. $6 trillion in reductions he claims over ten years. what happens? suddenly the whole debate shifts, and you ve got a whole new center. suddenly democrats are forced into a fight over defending medicare. last year it was over whether we should expend the bush tax cuts. this year overcutting spending by tens of billions. next year overcutting trillions instead. all of a sudden the whole country is further and further right? that s the big win for extremist ring-wingers, shifting the whole debate. thrls that the democrats can t be pushed around, so they figure the further we put our side out to the right, the further we can bring democrats in that direction. now, let me tell you how you stop that. you stop giving into them, and the fight back. all right. now, let s talk more about this issue with robert greenstein, the president of the center on