crowd. bottom line, romney needs to sweep these nugent comments under the rug. get them out of here. it s amazing what the right wing can get away with, isn t it? they just say, hey, he s a rock star. he s free to speak his mind. nugent, his comments go beyond with hateful rhetoric. he was basically advertising violence. republicans in the romney campaign, how have they responded? like cowards. they are afraid to throw this guy under the bus after saying that we should chop their heads off on election day. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question, does mitt romney have the political courage to publicly denounce ted nugent? text a for yes, text b for no to 622639 or go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com and we ll bring you the results later on in the show. i m joined tonight by washington post contributor susie parker and james, professor at lehigh university. great to have both of you with
does not agree with mike huckabee here. listen, huckabee is, for all intents and purposes, washed up as a presidential candidate. whatever he s trying to do in his new show is to try to attach to what the media frenzy is around what ted nugent said. this kind of language is dangerous. violent language doesn t always lead to violence, but sometimes it does and that s what we need to protect ourselves against. susie, why did hilary rosen s comments about ann romney get more attention than what ted nugent is getting. the right wing was all over hilary rosen, but now they re circling the wagons and protecting ted nugent via, of course, mr. huckabee, who was a man who was elected by the people of arkansas, who is now saying that the secret service has more important things to do. really?! yeah, i think that the right wing is always very good at
huckabee, the former governor of arkansas, has got a new talk show out in the industry and he is promoting it as less confrontation and more conversation. huckabee said that there was nothing threatening about nugent s comments thank god the secret service does not agree with mike huckabee here. listen, huckabee is, for all intents and purposes, washed up as a presidential candidate. whatever he s trying to do in his new show is to try to attach to what the media frenzy is around what ted nugent said. this kind of language is dangerous. violent language doesn t always lead to violence, but sometimes it does and that s what we need to protect ourselves against. susie, why did hilary rosen s comments about ann romney get more attention than what ted nugent is getting. the right wing was all over hilary rosen, but now they re
the right wing was all over hilary rosen, but now they re circling the wagons and protecting ted nugent via, of course, mr. huckabee, who was a man who was elected by the people of arkansas, who is now saying that the secret service has more important things to do. really?! yeah, i think that the right wing is always very good at circling the wan gones, and it goes beyond just huckabee is good friends with ted nugent, they re hunting buddies. they ve been hunting all over the country together. and so this is what happens and the left just has to be louder than the right when it comes to ted nugent. they have to keep up this war against him now. they can t let what he says slide, whether it s about the president or nancy pelosi or hillary clinton or whoever. well, it will be a story tomorrow. let s see how it all turns out with the secret service. susie parker and dr. james peterson, great to have you with us tonight. thank you. remember to answer tonight s question there at the bot
circling the wan gones, and it goes beyond just huckabee is good friends with ted nugent, they re hunting buddies. they ve been hunting all over the country together. and so this is what happens and the left just has to be louder than the right when it comes to ted nugent. they have to keep up this war against him now. they can t let what he says slide, whether it s about the president or nancy pelosi or hillary clinton or whoever. well, it will be a story tomorrow. let s see how it all turns out with the secret service. susie parker and dr. james peterson, great to have you with us tonight. thank you. remember to answer tonight s question there at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts on twitter @edshow. coming up, middle class mitt is touring middle america, the people he wants to connect with. he sits down with a bunch of folks from pennsylvania, middle classers, and he really doesn t have much to say. we ll play you the awkward exchange tape coming up. sam stein of the