glenn beck -- too crazy for fox? all the news and commentary now on "countdown." >> i believe you will have that answer. good evening from new york. the republican party was born in 1854. they won the civil war and, well, they won the civil war. but in our fifth story tonight today we know the republican party, the grand old party of old has been subsumed heart and mind by its most radical wing the tea party. a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll finding well over two-thirds of american republicans now have either a favorable image of the party's tea party wing and/or hope tea party candidates win in november. it is in less than two years a remarkable demise for a party that once upheld and advocated values now so proudly shunned and disdained by the tea party as witnessed over and over in news stories from just the past 24 hours or so. republican operative karl rove and president bush hoped to build a permanent republican majority by winning over hispanic voters. nevada republican tea party senate candidate shar

and glen beck's latest war. against fox. >> i know you and i have a special relationship. >> several news journalists have complained that beck's antics are embarrassing fox. roger told associates that if beck was at headline news, his event at the mall would have drawn 30 people. you know how many advertisers bailed out? 296. glen beck, too crazy for fox? all the news and commentary now on countdown. >> i believe you will have that answer. >> are good evening in new york. the republican party was born in 1854. they run the civil war and -- well, they won the civil war. we know that the republican party of old has been subsumed. heart and mind by the most radical wing, the tea party. a poll finding that 71%, well over 2/3 of republicans have a favorable image of the tea party wing and hope the candidates win in november. it is a remarkable demise for a party that once upheld and so proudly shun and disdained by the sea party as witnessed over and over in just the past 24 hours or so. as recently as the bush oper

york we cross to alexander's i check he's a journalist and author of the book common nonsense glenn beck and the triumph of ignorance also in new york we have steve rendall senior analyst at fairness and accuracy in reporting and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger all right steve i'd like to go to you first in preparing for this program i came across an amazing article in the washington post a few days ago. majority of g.o.p. thinks obama wants to impose islamic law now tell me where did that come from because it sounds like it comes came from the blogs fear that you go from the blog sphere into the mainstream and now everybody's talking about it it seems quite amazing that we can hear these things repeated over and over again and then people start believing it i think that's right i think you're exactly right peter i think what you have is you have these rumors that began in the in the right wing fever swamps of the blogosphere they sleep upwards into into the world of talk radio and fox news and other murdoch outlets like the new york post and they are amplified they en

i spoke with beck last night. here is beck and you are not a real political guy. but you did cover the election this week a little bit, right? >> yes. i think the tea party needs to understand that they have arrived. my favorite headline of maybe the last two years is establishment freaked. >> bill: freaked out. they freaked out. >> absolutely. because they have been dismissing and belittling these people it doesn't matter what anybody says, they're changing things. >> bill: there is no doubt. here is what beck said on his program. >> the establishment g.o.p. and they are just the beginning, really, it's not just the g.o.p. the democrats are freaking as well. the media is freaking out. they have got to figure out a way to stop the tea party goers because you're winning and they have all the power or so they thought. the steant g.o.p. being the elitist that they have become underestimated their power over the tea parties. here is great news. so do the democrats. >> bill: i'm not freaking out. i like the tea parties. i think they are patriots. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >

beck's sick fascination with governor christie, i think, is disgusting. he loves the new jersey governor so much he's devoted a daily segment on his radio show. take a listen. >> you know what, i demand on this program a chris christie moment every day. a some sort of a -- some sort of a commonsense -- i'm sorry, i'm not into porn, but i want a little chris christie porn commonsense porn every day on this program. >> ah, christie porn, it's just a family show, isn't it, glenn? now if governor christie wants democrats to calm down, be respectful, he might want to start with his old buddy beck himself. >> kathy -- >> giet up my phone. get off my phone, you little pinhead. i don't care, you people don't care about the trillions. get off of the phone! >> oh, yeah. conservative talk show host and heavy-handed politicians like christie just love to tell liberals to calm down and stop their screaming. christie doesn't -- you see, he doesn't want to take the tough questions from anybody other than somebody on his side. he hide behind his buddies in the conservati

much like beck did. how is beck processing that and what did he think of my interview with stewart this week? roll the tape. >> so here is beck and he didn't watch the jon stewart interview because your son's birthday was it. >> sixth. thanks for remembering. i actually was busy watching oprah. >> bill: were you? oprah is not on at the same time as factor. >> i divoed. i could only do one. >> bill: stewart was here. he is very proud of the fact that this man steve colbert -- do you know him. >> yeah. >> bill: do you know what he does? he imitates me. >> is that you? >> bill: it's hard to tell. so he and colbert on october 30th, when you and i are going to be with the folks up in connecticut at mohican son, they are going to be in washington, d.c. mimicking your rally, the very successful rally you had in august. everybody wants to know what you think about that. >> i'm totally cool with anybody -- i mean, look. >> bill: you are cool with it. >> yeah. i mean, let's see, i had a problem with other people h

that's fox news' problem and glenn beck's problem. it's odd but i want to stand up for glenn beck's viewers in this case. but the laws that we're proposing obviously don't impact fox news and glenn beck can say and do whatever he wants. but i would hope he looks at the testimony today and realize his viewers are middle class viewers who are struggling. >> speaking of middle class viewers and others. a quick reaction from the senate that the senate is not going to have a vote up or down on tax cuts on middle class or rich people until after the election? >> it should come as no surprise that the senate is where legislation goeso die. ben franklin called it the cooling saucer of our on democracy. it's like the meat locker nowadays. this is ultimately a very good day. you alluded to it earlier. one, health care took effect, closing the donut hole for seniors. the very same day, the republican party, the party that paul ryan says he wants to privatize social security and eliminate medicare. we have a clear case to make here. i just wish d

glenn beck is going to stir up hate. there's going to be violence. you know, he's going to desecrate the memory of mlk. did anybody notice none of that happened? did anybody notice that none of the stuff from the koran burning thing happened? you know, i think we should, i think we should just notice here that the media is getting things wrong a lot. i mean, not like kind of wrong, but really wrong all the time. and i think it's because they're now engaging in future news. you know what i mean? it's future news. here is what's going to happen tomorrow, america. why don't you tell me what just happened? why don't you get that one right and maybe tell us what's going to happen? see, i'm not a journalist, i'm a commentator and i'm telling you my opinion. it seems the media is doing now, telling everybody their opinion. all right. so the koran thing didn't happen. the 8-28 thing that didn't turn into a race riots, it's weird, isn't it? and then the latest this weekend, i was up in alaska, i don't know if-- intellectually you can understand this, but unti

steven ko ber tries to one-up glenn beck. can he beat beck's numbers? the show starts right now. republicans united, democrats divided. sound similar? here we go again. this time, it's an issue of tax cuts for the rich. this afternoon, the president hammered the gop for protecting the wealthiest americans. >> i'm urging the leaders of the other party to stop holding middle class tax cuts hostage and extend this relief to families immediately. >> that's good. that's good. but at least 38 house democrats are now breaking ranks with the president, calling for at least one more year of tax breaks for the very rich. the lawmakers, most of whom face tough fights this fall, are urging speaker pelosi to maintain the status quo temporarily. how it's going to help in their elections is entirely unclear. letting tax cuts expire has a 17-point advantage in the polls. this is the one issue that could help them beat republicans, but in a typical, democratic move, they want to help democrats beat republicans. luckily, pelosi's not going along. >> no. that's my position. again, we listen to our

your comment about beck is interesting. because he's just done a 180 in my opinion and said that the violence is going to come from the left. and of course in the left are minorities. how do you feel about that? >> well you know we have friends in california at the aclu and the tide center who are shaken today as we speak because a man was on his way to shoot up both of those locations. he ended up getting caught by the chp. there was a shootout, he was wearing body armor. and talked to him afterwards. why did you target the tide center. because he'd heard about it on glenn beck. >> so you want the tea party to denounce any talk of violence, they haven't. you want the tea party to denounce racism. have they done that? >> you've seen bits and pieces and some good signs. you've seen some good signs. again you saw glenn beck say, leave your signs at home. did it again this week. people, leave your signs at home. you've seen them threw out mark williams from the tea party express and the tea party express faction for not disown

the beck and rally bold and fresh tour. we know what's bold and fresh there i have been there. >> bill: lemonade is the strongest thing. if i wrong, gutfeld if you were a dope dealer in d.c. and maryland? where would you go on october 30th? where is the crew. >> i think you are also leaving out the crystal meth dealers. >> bill: what do you think? was that incredibly dumb. >> it was dopey. >> bill: pardon the pun. >> intended. >> bill: why was it dope? >> every now and then you are brilliant that was dopey. every now and then. i can't give you too much credit. you know that. >> bill: dopey why? i submit that's what's going going to happen. >> it's not going to happen. honestly starsky and hutch hasn't been on since 1955. >> bill: i'll accepted ago crew down under cover. >> they are going to enjoy it you know they are. high as a kite. i know your crew, bill. >> bill: dumbest things of the week. i could be dumb. i mean, you make the call. pinheads and patriots on deck. tonight, starring michelle obama and bill ayers right bac

glenn beck and others were forced to answer for their practices today. you might call it the project to restore honor to gold peddlers. according to court records, the s.e.c. alleged they used deceptive messages to defraud 115 mostly elderly investors out of $1.1 million over 18 months. the case was settled and the men conceded no guilt and returned the money. a former gold line employee saying two men are training other salespeople for gold line and handling their biggest clients. in today's hearing, the executive vice president confirming that the men once under investigation are employees in good standing at his company. congressman wiener was interested in one scare tactic. glenn beck fearmongers in a web video for gold line. >> you see back in 1933, fdr said, we're going to take all your gold. gee, it's worth $8 an ounce. but some people got smart and they said, well, wait a minute. i've got antique coins. you can't melt these down. >> there's an identical radio ad done by either glenn beck in falsetto or some woman. gold line provides each customer

glenn beck is calling me out? challenging me to restore honor at the one nation rally on october 2nd? here i am fighting for the middle class, talking up the stories, hoping for the american dream. this isn't about a fake prophet looking at geese. this is about getting the american people back to work and firing up the base. my commentary on all of that coming up. >>> and big insurance. well, they are back at it. they are threatening your children. they are denying coverage for sick children to save a buck and the republicans are cheering them on from the sidelines. the story just has me fuming. we will with talk about it. >>> and the republicans, well, they always preach about listening to the generals. well, the chairman of the joint chief of staff says gays should be able to serve openly in the military but today, just another big shocker. senate republicans bucked military leaders and voted to obstruct. another filibuster. >>> and we have got breaking news out of the white house tonight, a shakeup in the obama

. >>> and the professor of paranoia, glenn beck, is warning his viewers with a prediction of liberal violence, led by president obama. i will show you some unbelievable tape of the battleground story tonight. and then we will put that "psychotalk"er right in his place. >>> and a big development today on the jobs bill. within the last hour, the senate has voted to break the filibuster. two republicans have come on board. a couple of georges, george lemieux from florida and george voinovich of ohio have voted with the democrats to move the small business jobs bill, something very positive in the job market in this country. we will tell you more about it later in the show. >>> this, i admit this isn't the biggest story in america but it is the one that has me fired up because i think it sends a very poor message to young people in this country. the perverse conservative hatred for president obama has infiltrated public schools all across this country. it's a debate that's being held in every school district. i thought we had this store ray year ago but here we are again. for the second

so he decided that he's going to put glenn beck's plan and kill three people. his friends told the reporters that he was afraid that obama was going to take his guns away. the violence is here and it's coming from the right. >> this is beck again on his radio show today talking about what he told the alaskans on saturday. >> i said to the alaskan audience, on saturday, you are a state rich with natural resources, and of course we're not going to exploit them. but here's the bad thing. if the economy collapses and the united states of america has no money to defend anything, make sure that you grab your guns and your knives and your forks and your spoons because the russians, the chinese, everyone is coming to alaska and that's not begging for world war iii that's called giving you the facts. >> eric bole or the this show we would call that psycho talk. >> yeah, fear mongering on september 11th. september 11th is not a day for partisan rallies, and it's certainly not a day for paid partisan rallies, beck and palin charge people $100, $200. it's a day for nationa

beck's 10% is shrinking. out of every thousand white women, 60 had a baby in 2006 compared to 70 babies for every thousand black woman and compared to for every 1,000 hispanic women, 102 baby ppz white americans were falling just short of replacing themselves in the population. hispanics were not only replacing themselves, they were tossing in .96 of another one for good measure. the implications for the white/christian/male power structure is obvious for one member named bill o'reilly who feared for the future of that structure if the far left had its way. he was urging senator john mccain not to let more immigrants into this country. >> they want to break down the white/christian/male power structure, which you are a part, and so am i. and they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically break down the structure that we have. in that regard, pat buchanan is right. so i say that you've got to cap it. >> let's bring in a non-member of the white/christian/male power structure. arshan hasad. tha

glenn beck, tea party outsider. go on. >> i am saying that maybe it's time to lose, i don't know, the statue of liberty costume, you know. maybe no more dressing up with abe lincoln or putting the foam finger on your head or something like that. or the obama is a socialist t-shirt. you might want to put that back in the drawer. let me explain why. >> don't worry, he'll still be a socialist and you'll look great in your new members only jacket. >> it's very important that you understand the image. do what you want to do. but when you dust off the statue of liberty costume and wear it to a rally, guess what gets plastered on the front page of the news? this is the problem. >> glenn beck can bring on the thomas payne impersonator and fearmonger with nazi swastikas, you need to refrain from this. glenn beck can play dress-up, but he knows what he's doing. he's a professional. like today, the day after his decree where he dressed up like a baker. tomorrow, karl marx, the candlestick maker. >> you cannot discredit the mov

glenn beck tea party outsider? hmm. go on. >> i am saying that maybe it's time to lose -- oh, i don't know -- the statue of liberty costume, you know. maybe no more dressing up, you know, with abe lincoln or putting the foam finger on your head or something like that, or the obama is a socialist t-shirt. you may want to put it back in the drawer. let me explain why. >> don't worry. he'll still be a socialist and you will look great in your new members only jacket. >> it's very posimportant that understand the image. the image. do what you want to do, but when you dust off the statue of liberty costume and wear toyota -- it to a rally, guess who is on the front page of the news. you. >> front page of news, bad. front page of beck's book, no problem. the doorman at the blaine hotel wants his hat back. glenn beck can bring on the thomas paine impersonator. he can fear monger with swastikas, but you need to refrain. glenn beck can play dress-up, but he's a professional. like today, the day after his decree when he dressed u

he said he found it rather remarkable that glen beck spoke about dr. king incredibly respectfully as an american hero and said he sounded sincere. if he was in, that was an odd way to appeal to 300,000 begets. i think it is encouraging you had him accepted in a crowd where everyone has said that the tea party is racist or a supplely a racist. there is unanimity in the country about dr. king. >> see you next week ♪ ♪ for a transcript of this

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tonight's tool time award goes to glenn beck and it's for his own lack of coverage on the iraq war on his new website and see after his massive d.c. rally last weekend beck the side of to launch the blaze dot com this is a news web site that he says is going to provide the main the stories that the mainstream media doesn't cover so basically it's a web site for the g.o.p. but oh there he have a whole network for that so and a web site dedicated to them it's called fox news and you know just news flash back on that one he's also part of the mainstream media but if you take a look at his new web site you would expect to find at least some coverage of the president's speech tonight about the combat operations and being in iraq seems like an important issue to the american people seemed like something that glenn beck would care about considering how many billions of dollars the government has spent on this but guess what there actually was not a single mention of it on his site when we grabbed this video today there are stories about g.p.s. phones helping illegal aliens a story about a sh

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but what would glenn beck be if it wasn't for glenn beck being the buzz-kill? let me say what i've been saying all along. this movement is bigger than any one election cycle. you cannot turn this ship, which the size of 1400 aircraft carriers around overnight. you can't do it in a week. you can't do it in a month. maybe not a year. you're certainly not going to do it with one election. it took progressives 100 years to get where they are today and there is much, much more to do. i also think remember the adage i've been saying to you, "the truth shall set you free, but first it will make you miserable." you may have real losses coming this next election season. you might. because the press is not going to do their job. it's going to be incumbent to you and incumbent on you to get people out to vote. i don't care who you vote for, republican, democrat or independent. but our founders knew that they were the stop gap when all three branchs of government would fail, you would step to the plate. you've got to get out in record numbers. you have to make this a histo

up next, jon stewart has an answer for glenn beck and sarah palin. he's hosting his own rally on the national mall. he's calling it the rally to restore sanity and he wants people to bring signs that say things like, i disagree with you, but i'm sure you're in the hitler. [ female announcer ] you use the healing power of touch every day. ♪ now the healing power of touch just got more powerful. introducing precise from the makers of tylenol. precise pain relieving cream works quickly to activate sensory receptors. it helps block pain signals fast for relief you can feel precisely where you need it most. precise. only from the makers of tylenol. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no more $2, $3 fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no more paying to access your own money. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 it'd be like every atm in the world was your atm. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 the schwab bank high yield investor checking(tm) account. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 zero atm fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 a great interest rate. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no minimums. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 the biggest thing in checking s

glenn beck. >> i wanted to come on the glenn beck program with my book, they wouldn't have us. >> they didn't know who you were. >> i called. >> i told beck, have stewart, he's funny once in a while. doesn't know who you are. >> i would love to have a conversation with him. >> with glenn beck? >> we could do an hour. >> he is in a sealed room. >> no. >> nobody can talk to him. >> is he like the bubble boy of fox news. >> does the radio, goes back into the sealed room. he goes back. he's like elvis and howard hughes. you can't. >> it's a love fest. stewart and oh ri'reilly. before we go to break, the clock is ticking. only 330 hours and three minutes left to buy "american freak show." still ahead, your freakish text and e-mails are next. and "morning joe" moments away. [ female announcer ] it can creep up on you. dry skin. that's why there's lubriderm® daily moisture. it contains the same nutrients naturally found in healthy skin. skin absorbs it better and it lasts for 24 hours. later gator. lubriderm. your moisture matched. [ male announcer ] at ge capital, we're out there every day

beck has this weird shtick where he's going to cloak it in religion. it's insanely offensive. >> is his audience growing? >> it's about the same. you know, it's been about the same for the last six or nine months. it hasn't grown despite his big march on washington and things like that. there's no question he has a sizable audience. for him to be talking about how progressives are enemies of god and killers looming is incredibly -- >> good to have you with us tonight. >>> tonight in our survey question, do republican leadership have answers for anything? 11% said yes, 89% said no. that's "the ed show." for more information on saturday's one nation march in washington, d.c., go to wegoted.com.

beck has this weird shtick where he's going to cloak it in religion. it's insanely offensive. >> is his audience growing? >> it's about the same. you know, it's been about the same for the last six or nine months. it hasn't grown despite his big madge march on washington and things like that. there's no question he has a sizable audience. for him to be talking about how

is it dangerous to take on glenn beck on the national holy turf like this. >> oh it's fantastic. i couldn't miss it. i hope msnbc does wall-to-wall coverage of it. every hour of the day that day. yeah, these guys are great. they really you know find the vulnerability points in all of our politics. they find exactly where the joke is. and, look, if jon stewart and steven get out there, they -- they will forever change, i hope, the way we regard these different event that take place on the mall. some of them are a joke, and should be regarded as a joke. and just because you locate your event at the mall, you know, we shouldn't take the mall so seriously. i think you know we all kind of overplayed the importance or the meaning of glenn beck's afternoon in the mall and let's have fun with jon stewart's. >> willie geist, long before you were born, before you were a glint in your parents' eyes i was on the march at the pentagon in 1967. and i must tell you, it was fun. it was not only antiwar, it was fun. a good rally is fun. well will this one be fun? >> well i've never marched with m

glenn beck's sex tape shocker. michelle obama behind the savage attempt to ruin the president's number one enemy. yes, somewhere in here, too, a man had an alien baby. but you can believe this story, sure, sure, sure. the sources are saying that michelle obama feels that beck will stop at nothing to counter her husband's policies and there is a belief that she has to fight fire with fire. so, michelle, i don't believe that. and the globe, i mean, if you were trying to get people to buy-- i don't know what it would be. would it be-- i mean, this is, you