response was, i own my own happiness. and i thought, as an american where it s supposed to be life, liberty and the pursuit of she s not pursuing it. she s like, i own my happiness. so, as a feminist, as a black woman, as a human being, that was that is a great quote. i thought, we could all do that so michelle rocks hard. i own my own happiness. i don t think i knew that but that is good. you can t control what people say about you, but you can control what you think about how you react to what people say about you. i m struck by how much in the age of the internet we are bombarded with constant sort of feedback about ourselves. that realities up and down the chain. doesn t matter i mean, i have a tv show, so there s this there s a different sort of issues there but even if you re on facebook getting into troll wars with people there s this constant conflict that happens, you get a lot of contentious
that s what george bush was. if you want to sum up george bush it was the fact that he was anti-intellectual running against an egg head in al gore. and i m a guy you can have a beer with. i think that is right. but the fact that newt gingrich has done as well as he does shows that there is actually an appetite for this sort of pseudointellectual i don t anti-obama, period. it s an anti-obama thing. i think it s because he s nasty, mean that s exactly what it is. a lot of people want him to get out there and say stuff. they re electing a pundit. call him i agree with you. they re electing a sharp-tongued pundit. that s why you had cain and gingrich and why sarah palin was so popular. until they completely discredit themselves and until rick perry showed he can t string together a proper insult, then there yeah, yeah, when you can only have the set-up and not the
of just wanting to slow down. i feel like i m so keyed up by every pda i m going to tweet that you just said that. oh, pda, is that correct? yeah, yeah, sure. it s a little old school. we call them smartphones now. ipad, my phone. i want to take a walk and i don t i don t want to be connected. the best thing about doing the show, the thing most about doing the show, i meet a lot of interesting people, and think about interesting thing, it s great to have you here. the betts thing is the two hours of unabated focus, intense focus and attention on the task at hand in a way that is incredibly rare in normal life now. my thanks to comedian neil brennan and judy gold, john and dean. time magazine said the protester in 2011 was the person of the year but that isn t a person so we re going to choose up s person of the year after this. just one phillips colon health probiotic cap a day
respects, that may have been it only because we have showed we have been unable to have president obama as a candidate of change and one we anticipated who would establish some type of civil liberties or constitutional framework because of his past that we can t do that. you could draw a line that that is indicative of president obama in the same way don t ask don t tell is indicative because it is a capitulation for him to do the thing that is proper. i don t think that is true with don t ask, don t tell. i do think i think the president led on that. i disagree. it may have been on his agenda. the timing did not happen at the time because of what he wanted. it happened because there were people chaining themselves out in front of the white house and because there was a lot of push back. i absolutely am with you. when i looked at your poulos ll, and i saw don t ask, don t tell,
fox news. it s not that breaking. everybody knew they was going to happen. even i knew this was going to happen. mitt romney is running for president. he says it s time to restore america greatness. is that from the b-block? that was shep smith. but i think that was but here s the thing, and i made this comparison on up before but there s a lot there is more than a whiff of john kerry 2004 in mitt romney 2012. yeah, yeah. a lot of you sort of running the sort of through the looking glass experiment. i remember, stealing myself to get psyched about john kerry as a nominee and a lot of people did that. remember, it didn t i don t think it stopped people from working very hard to elect john kerry, because at the end of the day, for liberals, the 2004 election was about george w. bush and the iraq war. and the for conservatives, this election will be about