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Out of the corner of your left eye. poor sam stein, in a 6:00 a.m. show, has written down, like, three pages of very neat single-spaced notes. it makes me sad. go home, sam. it makes me sad for the future generation. sam, we need to get you together with john heilemann. but that 2002 debate was fascinating. i can see why he s writing those numbers. go ahead, sam. come on. how about those cross-tabs? go ahead. go ahead. what do you got there? i ve got to compose myself. this is interesting. 57% i can t even speak 57% of respondents said the country is moving in the right direction, 39% said in the wrong direction. this is just two weeks ago. i honestly don t get why all of a sudden people are so optimistic about the economy. it happened in a flash. and people are just they don t care about where it is. they care about where it s headed. the bill clinton speech. i think, yeah, because ....
That made no sense whatsoever. can you imagine if somebody did that to us? uh, uh, uh no. you know what? that was funny. look at that. welcome back to morning joe. sam stein and mark mckinnon are still with us here in washington along with mike barnicle in new york. mike, are you awake? i am. i am. i m right here. wake up, mike. joining the table here in d.c., editor of the washington post, bob woodward, the author of the book the price of politics. bob, you thought that was a mean clip, all the uhs from both candidates. yeah, out of context. somebody could do it to anyone. even you. they could do it to us every hour. no. tonight, we have a lot to get to. we re going to be getting to polls. we re going to talk about some fascinating insights in your book. first let s talk about the debate tonight. i m with you. ....
wow! hey, willie, we ve got some anchors we need to warn. that is bad news for a lot of people. let s move right along. the results suggest indoor tanning is responsible for about 5% of non-melanoma skin cancers, the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the u.s. i don t know what you guys are laughing about. the wall street journal, for the first time since 2008, beer sales are on the rise. shipments rose nearly 2% in the first eight months of 2012. draft beer sales are up 12%. willie, i think it s cute, sam stein said thank god because, of course, there s nothing like cracking open a non-alcoholic beer while you re looking at old c-span tapes. got to do it. the ooch doul s. ....
Hampshire and iowa, still is pretty remarkable. it s out there, but i want to pull back. you have to cover the polls. the polls are part of the news. but the average person who s going to watch the debate tonight is not sitting there, oh, how are they going to vote in wisconsin or ohio? it s no fun to talk about polls, bob. i m sorry. you re going into sam stein territory now. don t talk policy. we re falling asleep. what s the average person thinking about? they re saying, i m going to watch these debates. and i remember in the 1990s once asking john mccain, is it possible? and he actually asked the question, is it possible to run for president and be true to yourself? he ran for president, and a lot of people would say he wasn t true to himself. i asked him a couple of months ago, what s the answer to that question? and he said, i don t know. the average person watching these debates is looking for ....
but they this year proved me wrong by a year, but you know something? most of the people on the show, particularly mr. stein, condescending, they had him in there since 1933. i kept my mouth shut. you did, joe. you were polite, as always. as a red sox fan, it s a damn good thing i did. sam stein yes. an ugly year. an ugly year for the red sox. yeah, it wasn t our best year. mike barnicle, ugly, baby. they can t even beat the yankees. we re glad the season is over. you put up your shutters in mid-june. june 15th, i put the storm windows on, winter arrived. but joe, today, we can all hold out hope, daisuke is on the mound against the yankees. if he can beat the yankees, the yankees would be forced into a playoff with the orioles tomorrow. daisuke! yeah. don t hold your breath. ....