several news outlets reported that sarah palin canceled an interview with nbc s today. can you talk about the ramifications for nbc news beyond msnbc? i don t think this whole notion of preplan versus off the cuff remarks makes a difference in large part because often when you make offhand remarks those are closer to your heart and soul than preplanned remarks written by committee, may have been written by a producer. i don t think that is dispositive or important here at all. i think the important part is a full apology was brought to air. i don t read what producer write for me without reviewing it. we re not talking about you. we re talking about what may have happened here. i do have to step in. i do have to step in, guys. guys, i do have to step in. i do have to step in. we have run out of time.
know, william f. buckley believed that it was all about ideas. and that speech last night told me nothing. that i have not heard 1,000 times since 1994. well, joe, i ll bring it even further up to date. if you take out the immigration part of the speech, it was basically the romney platform from 2012. and this kind of cuts to a pretty core issue for republicans. is it just that they have to change their image and branding and their messaging, or do they have to change their positions on a bunch of substance issues? i think it s not so much that the speech was written by committee. it s that marco rubio was talking to two different audiences. he s trying both to talk to the country and speak to that broader coalition that republicans need to tap into. but he s also giving a speech for insiders here. he s trying to convey to the republican gang of 500 or whatever that he s the guy for 2016. and if you re trying to talk to the conservatives who are going to select the republican nominee
him who think that he s the future of the party. a lot of people got to look at that speech. but it was said pretty reliable to me yesterday by a senior republican that he basically writes his own speeches. and i don t think anybody else in the party outside of his orbit got their hands on it. the reason why i asked that was because it really sounded like one of these speeches that was written by committee. i had no problem with the water drinking. you know, he did look kind of uncomfortable, like you said, harold. out of his element a bit. my biggest problem was that it sounds like a speech that i gave in 1994. in 1994. the first time i was running for congress. and i sat there. like i actually had a hard time focusing on the content of the speech because john, how many times have you heard this speech since 1994? and i sat there thinking, is this how we re going to reach out to a new generation of conservatives? i don t think so. we have i mean, it is you
that is when we re going to launch a military attack on libya which he is not at all pleased with nor is the hard left and in a sense, i think its a shot across the president s bow. he s saying i know something about you and i m prepared to talk about it if you don t play ball with me. and jack, do you have any doubt in your mind whether or not the president of the united states wrote his book? i have no doubt that bill ayers was the primary craftsman behind dreams from my father and an interesting twist on this, too, is earlier in that clip, he disassociates himself from the second book which he says was a hack political book and it was, it was written by committee. right. jack, that s very damning to say somebody else wrote the president s book. you have any evidence? oh, i have a ton of evidence. it s all between the pages of my book destruconstructing obama when you see it all accumulated. when you see chapter after chapter after chapter after chapter the textual eviden