economy is removed. all of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyists, bloggers and talking heads on radio and the professional activists who profit from conflict and focus on what the majority of americans sent us here to do. >> i'm glad he didn't say the talking heads on tv. joining me, washington bureau chief for "mother jones" and analyst, and msnbc's joy reid. joy you, have done enough hosting here at msnbc to know what it is like when the teleprompter is rolling by quickly. i don't know if this happened to you. little mistakes are in the prompter, you go, wait, that's not -- i just said in a previous segment, carol mosley braun was elected in 1988, as the word 8, wait a minute. i was there. the prompter keeps going. you have to keep reading. of course elected in 1992. the first african-american woman senator.