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How well do you know the trees around you? It's not difficult to lean to recognise our native British trees and bushes – there are only likely to be twenty to thirty native species in the area you live, and probably less than a dozen common species. The shapes and sizes of trees and the way they change with the seasons is what makes trees endlessly fascinating. When trees grow together in woodlands they make one of the richest habitats for wildlife.
Trees in our cities help keep the air clean by filtering out pollution – they also give us shade and shelter and attract wildlife to the heart of our towns and cities.
Oak: Oaks can live to a great age, often more than 500 years. These ancient oaks are frequently hollow with much dead wood and are vital habitats for invertebrates, bats, lichens, fungi and birds.
Beech: One our most beautiful trees, especially in autumn, when the leaves turn a wonderful golden brown. The fruit of the beech tree is known as mast and provides a valuable food source for birds such as finches in winter time.
Ash: This tree can be recognised in winter by its black buds and distinctive seeds known as 'ash keys'. Ash woodland supports many wildflowers which grow in the dappled shade given by this tree.
Birch: There are two species of native birch, the silver birch and the downy birch. Both have silver-white bark. Look for 'witches brooms' – distinctive twiggy bundles which develop in its branches.
Holly: Easy to recognise with distinctive prickly dark green waxy leaves and red berries in winter on the female trees. It was traditionally considered unlucky to cut a holly tree down but its leaves and berries were brought indoors for good luck at Christmas.
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Roenicke's plan for Henderson is open-ended
MILWAUKEE -- Brewers manager Ron Roenicke reiterated Tuesday that he envisions reinstalling Jim Henderson to the closer's role, and said the team's surprising Opening Day switch should not be a blow to Henderson's confidence.
"Believe me, that's what we talk about," Roenicke told reporters on Tuesday, a day after Francisco Rodriguez was Roenicke's pick to save the Brewers' 2-0 win over the Braves.
Rodriguez will continue to close games until further notice, while Henderson attempts to prove to Roenicke and other Brewers brass that he deserves the job back. He took a first step on Tuesday night, striking out Braves left fielder Justin Upton with a 95-mph fastball to strand a runner at second base in the eighth inning of the Brewers' 5-2 loss to the Braves.
After the game, Roenicke called it "better." Catcher Jonathan Lucroy called it "a lot better."
"I think this is the best way to get his confidence back," Roenicke said. "Say I put him into that [closer] role [Monday] night and his stuff really isn't ready and his confidence isn't there and he gives it up last night, what does that do to his confidence? So we're doing this to try to get him back, the best way we can and the fastest way we can. We think this is the best way to do it."
Henderson mostly threw 91-93 mph fastballs and touched 94 mph at the end of his final Spring Training tuneup against the Royals on Friday, shy of the 95.2 mph he averaged while converting 28 of 32 save opportunities last season, but Roenicke had said it's not all about velocity. Brewers coaches are also looking at opposing hitters' swings, which appeared comfortable throughout Henderson's spring, despite the fact that his final four appearances were scoreless.
Henderson hit all the right notes when talking to reporters in a victorious clubhouse on Monday night, conceding that his spring was sub-par and that he still had to work to pinpoint the timing of his delivery, and saying that he would accept whatever the coaching staff believes is best for the year.
"The ball is coming out better and better, so I'm going to hopefully continue that on to the season. As a competitor, I want to go out there and pitch every chance I get, but what was best for the team today was we got the win," Henderson said.
On Tuesday morning, in a regularly-scheduled radio appearance on 1250-AM WSSP, Henderson said he discussed the switch with Roenicke on Sunday, and that it was "a little shocking."
Asked on the air what his immediate role would be, Henderson said, "That's a mystery to me. We'll see how it goes. I think it'd be great to just get out there, I don't really care what inning right now. I just want to go out there and compete."
Roenicke has a plan in mind.
"Ideally, I would like to get him a couple of outings where the game wasn't on the line. That's ideal," Roenicke said. "I'm not saying we can do that, because if he has to pitch an inning I need him to pitch, then he'll pitch.
"But we want him as a closer. That's what we want. We want him as the guy he was last year, and that's what we're trying to get him to be. If a couple of outings helps him get back to where he was -- maybe it's more than a couple, maybe it's just one. I don't know."


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Not Colin: Downtown's unsung backer
Last fall, the acrimonious divorce of the partnership credited with the revitalization of the Downtown Mall– Lee Danielson and Colin Rolph's D&R Development– finally was settled.
Now, another divorce seems to be behind the sale of more of the Mall and shedding some light on how such properties were purchased in the first place.
After the Danielson/Rolph split, Rolph ended up with the Charlottesville Ice Park, Regal Cinema, the Exchange Center, and the four empty former Wachovia buildings.
Continuing to lead and lobby for Mall development, last year Rolph served as president of the Downtown Property Owners Council, a group he helped found. The group made headlines in May 2002, when it proposed a Downtown Service District that, among other things, would tax properties to fund roving ambassadors help the lost and befuddled.
Widely credited with the rebirth of downtown, Rolph has served on the boards of the SPCA and Live Arts. As chairman of Live Arts, he recently signed a fund-raising letter.
But recently filed court papers allege that the source of the money for many of the ambitious projects that changed the landscape of the Downtown Mall was actually his wife, Dorothy Batten Rolph. And at times, according to her suit, she wasn't aware she was funding them.
The June issue of Virginia Business lists her father, Frank Batten Sr.– with an estimated worth of $900 million– as one of the 100 richest men in Virginia. Former chairman of Landmark Communications, which owns the Virginian-Pilot and the Weather Channel, he gave over $170 million to educational institutions earlier this year.
He contributed a hefty $60 million to UVA to set up the Batten Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, from which Dorothy obtained an MBA in 1990.
(Frank Batten Jr., Dorothy's brother and current chairman of Landmark Communications, also makes the top 100 with his own $600 million estimated worth.)
In May, the Ice Park sold to a team of four local skating and business enthusiasts. Early this month, Keith Woodard of Woodard Properties paid a reported price of between $1.7 million and $1.8 million– a figure Woodard would neither confirm nor deny– to buy the boarded-up Wachovia buildings.
"The owners have taken a look at things and decided it's the right time to sell," says Tim Slagle, chief financial officer of Colin Rolph's post-Danielson venture, Downtown Mall Properties LLC.
Slagle says the cinema and other properties, while not officially for sale, could be acquired. And the LLC will stay in existence with greatly reduced size, assets, and employees– even Slagle's job will be downsized.
The Danielson/Rolph empire began to take shape shortly after Colin and Dorothy Rolph bought Tall Oaks, a stately Keswick farm, in 1994.
In 1995, according to Dorothy Rolph's suit, her husband and "a neighbor" began talking about "a number of expensive real estate development and business projects." That squares with the oft-repeated story that Danielson, then living next door at a farm called Tally Ho, met Rolph at the proverbial fence-rail. What hasn't, until now, been revealed is that the initial funding was provided by cash investment and loans guaranteed by Dorothy Rolph, according to her divorce papers, which were filed April 24.
"She did provide the initial funds and she did guarantee the loan, as I did," says Danielson, who called from the Atlanta airport en route to Charlottesville.
By 1996, cost overruns led Colin Rolph to withdraw funds from personal joint accounts that held property Dorothy had acquired through gift or inheritance– without her knowledge, according to the complaint.
When Rolph and Danielson began looking for further investment opportunities in 1997, it was Dorothy Rolph's stated impression that the initial ventures were doing well. The bill of complaint alleges she was unaware that Colin Rolph was continuing to withdraw funds from their joint accounts and had extended to $17.5 million a $6 million line of credit that she'd guaranteed.
"The $6 million was for the ice park," says Danielson. "There were other projects."
The document also notes that the "neighbor/co-investor" was not matching the cash infusions.
"That's not correct," says Danielson, who says he lost a "substantial seven-figure number" as a result of his partnership with Rolph.
It was when the Danielson/Rolph dream team fell apart and entered litigation in 2001 that Dorothy Rolph learned the extent and amount of the "misappropriated funds," says her complaint.
Not only had she unwittingly funded the D&R empire, but she had to pay off the pair's debts and spend additional funds to buy their investment properties out of liquidation, the complaint alleges.
"I'm paying off my fifty percent of the shortfall on the loans," says Danielson.
Neither Colin nor Dorothy Rolph returned The Hook's calls.
"These are simply disputed allegations at this point," says Colin Rolph's attorney, Daniel G. Dannenbaum. "We would ask the community to respect the privacy of the family at this time."
Danielson and Rolph are credited with invigorating the Downtown Mall. But vision only carries one so far without funding, making Dorothy Batten Rolph a major contributor to Charlottesville's widely lauded pedestrian mall.


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Blackmon's 6-for-6 sets tone in Rockies' rout
Second in team history to reach feat; CarGo plates 4; Nicasio cruises
DENVER -- Perhaps the bushy beard Rockies outfielder Charlie Blackmon grew over the offseason was a message. Matured by three stints in the big leagues and grizzled by the injuries that shortened his time in the Majors, Blackmon is ready to claim his career.
Blackmon gave the D-backs reason to fear his beard Friday afternoon, when he went a career-best 6-for-6, including three doubles, a two-run homer and five RBIs to lead the Rockies to a 12-2 victory in their Coors Field opener in front of a sellout crowd of 49,130.
Blackmon became the first player in big league history to homer and have three doubles as part of a 6-for-6 game. It was just the second 6-for-6 game in franchise history. Andres Galarraga did it on July 3, 1995, against the Astros. Also, Blackmon is the first player in team history to have five or more hits, drive in three or more runs and score four or more runs.
"You can't do everything right every day," Blackmon said. "No matter what you did today, good or bad, you've got to erase it. You've got to come back tomorrow and try to win a baseball game. That's the beauty of it."
Also trying to foreshadow a coming of age was the relatively baby-faced Juan Nicasio (1-0). After tripping up in the sixth inning or earlier in most of his 31 starts last season, Nicasio went a strong seven frames and struck out six, against one run on four hits and a walk. Also, Carlos Gonzalez bruised the face of the third deck with a two-run homer in the sixth inning, and he tripled in two runs in the third.
It was a rousing home beginning for the Rockies, who dropped three of four at Miami to open the season before coming to Denver to entertain the eighth-largest crowd in the history of Coors, which opened its 20th season.
"I think it's a really big deal," Blackmon said. "We played some great defense behind really, really good pitching, and a lot of offense. If you can do that consistently, you're going to have a good baseball team."
By his final at-bat, a two-run, eighth-inning double off Oliver Perez, fans were cheering and chanting Blackmon's name.
"I missed it, but I received a lot of applause when I went out to left field," Blackmon said. "That was really nice. I enjoyed it. We've got great fans, they really love our team and you can tell they've been waiting for baseball for a while."
There was good reason to cheer.
During Spring Training, Blackmon was hitting in the low .200s and facing speculation that the team might send him to Triple-A Colorado Springs to start the year. Blackmon acknowledged that he was searching for his proper swing, but he carried the confidence of a man who trusted his ability.
It was a little easier to trust because manager Walt Weiss didn't discount Blackmon's .309 batting average in 82 games last season, or his promising snippets the previous two years -- when foot injuries weren't slowing him. Since going 0-for-4 in his Opening Night start in Miami, Blackmon is 8-for-11.
The left-handed-hitting Blackmon started in center and moved to left late in the game. Weiss plans to also give starts to right-handed-hitting Drew Stubbs and left-handed-hitting Corey Dickerson. But he said of Blackmon, "He'll be in there tomorrow."
D-backs manager Kirk Gibson might now want to see him.
"He had a good day," Gibson said. "One he'll never forget, I'm sure. Got to give him credit. We'll have to do something different than we did today with him."
Blackmon, 27, making his third start -- and, possibly, a statement -- in the Rockies' center-field rotation, doubled to open the bottom of the first, singled in the third and homered off D-backs starter Randall Delgado (0-1) in the fourth to give the Rockies a 6-0 lead. He also came close to a cycle.
In the sixth, Blackmon's looping liner to left field off Joe Thatcher bounced beneath the D-backs' Mark Trumbo, but not far enough for Blackmon to advance beyond second base.
"I didn't even know where it went when I hit it -- you know when you're having a good day when you just kind of hit a ball and it ends up two inches inside the line," Blackmon said. "It's just one of those days.
"I might've spent a little too much time making sure he didn't catch the ball and almost missed first base. That could be my fault there."
Blackmon tapped a single in the seventh to score Brandon Barnes, who had tripled off Brad Ziegler as pinch-hitter to open the inning.
Blackmon would score his fourth run, yet another career high, when Thatcher hit Charlie Culberson with the bases loaded.
Nicasio, who has added a split-finger fastball to his pitch mix and is fully healthy after either injury or the after effects of injury for three seasons, shut down the D-backs on 88 pitches, 64 for strikes. He held the D-backs hitless until Martin Prado's infield single in the fourth. The run came when Nicasio missed over the plate on an 0-2 slider to Trumbo, who homered to center.
Weiss arranged the pitching schedule for Nicasio to get the home opener, rather than one of the staff's newcomers. Nicasio is 11-7 career at Coors.
"I feel comfortable," Nicasio said. "This is my house. I feel good pitching here in Denver."
The D-backs' Paul Goldschmidt singled in an eighth-inning run off reliever Chad Bettis to extend his hit streak to 26 games, dating back to last season.


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I love the spring for all of the interesting, engaging (and let's not forget fun!) units that coincide with it. Although it hasn't felt like spring this week, we began celebrating spring a few weeks ago in my room. We began with the plant lifecycle by reading different versions of Jack and the Beanstalk and miraculously finding 5 (not so) magical beans for each child to plant. With all the excitement we created before "planting" them in a wet paper towel, my kindergarten students were super disappointed when they didn't grow at all. Some of them popped open, but just didn't want to grow into even a small beanstalk no matter how hard I crossed my fingers. I don't seem to have much luck with this project, so if anyone has great advice, I would be more than willing to take it.
I gained their confidence back when I had them plant pumpkin, lettuce, zinnia and sunflower seeds that gave us almost 100% growth. You never want to be remembered as the teacher who couldn't grow anything, kindergarten teachers ARE supposed to be magical and able to make anything work, right? I don't have pictures, but we made the cutest garden picks by putting their tiny picture on the top of a popsicle stick with a clipart picture of the kind of seed they planted glued to the other side. It just allowed the children to check on their plants much easier than just writing their name on the cup.
This past week has been all about insects and kept even the most squirmish of my students engaged in the topic. They have learned so much, but I think the information that will stick with them the longest is that insects have 3 body parts, eyes, mouth, antennae, and 6 legs. They learn this by listening to Dr. Jeans song Insect Body Parts. I can't believe there is no video of this exact song on YouTube, but this short clip will give you the idea. The children love her version because it (similiar to BINGO) has you audiate one more part every time you sing it until you are audiating the entire song.
Of course, the students had to write about their very innovative bugs. They LOVED writing about their bugs and did an absolutely fabulous job. My most reluctant writer who started off by saying, "I'm not doing it. I don't like writing." and ended up filling an entire page. He showed me his first couple of sentences with a huge smile and saying, "I want to write more" and dashing back to his seat to do more. (Love!). Here are some of the many awesome examples (not sure why I didn't take pictures of the fantastic writing, too?).
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Memorial service scheduled for Dr. George Sheldon
Dr. George F. Sheldon passed away on June 16, 2013. A memorial service will be held on campus on October 12. Please note, the time was originally set for 1 p.m. It was changed in late August to noon.
Oct 12, 2013
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The UNC Department of Surgery will host a celebration of Dr. Sheldon's life on October 12 at noon. A reception will follow. The service will take place on the ground floor of the UNC Genome Science Building, 250 Bell Tower Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27514.
Parking is available in the nearby Bell Tower Parking Deck.
To read more about Dr. Sheldon's life and his influence on others, please visit the following websites:
Remembering Dr. George Sheldon: http://georgesheldonremembered.web.unc.edu
Dr. Sheldon's obituary: http://news.unchealthcare.org/som-vital-signs/2013/july-11/george-sheldon-obituary


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Live broadcasts are available online through a process called streaming. This allows users to view the live event as it is happening through their computer or other Internet-enabled devices like Android-powered tablets, iPads, and smartphones.
The Church has a wide range of broadcasts that have traditionally been available over the Church satellite system. In recent years these broadcasts have also been made available as live streaming content over the Internet. These broadcasts are also made available after the event, as archived video on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
As access to the Internet continues to increase around the world, the Church is working diligently to increase the number of live broadcasts and other Church media content that are available online, on multiple devices, and in as many languages and countries as possible.
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Multiple broadcasts are streamed live each year. These events are broadcast as live video streams in multiple languages. Live audio streams are also available in up to 64 languages for some Church events. Please see the requirements for live streaming and what Internet-enabled devices are supported. The following broadcasts are available live to the public and then can be found as archived media at ChurchofJesusChrist.org/broadcasts:


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Teen tweets threat to airline, then freaks out
A Twitter account that appears to belong to a 14-year-old girl snags national attention after a 'joke' terrorist threat was tweeted at American Airlines.
A Twitter user thought to be a teenage girl has received unwanted notoriety after she sent a terrorism-themed message to American Airlines. The incident has spawned coverage from a number of media outlets across the globe.
The girl – who identified herself as a 14-year-old named Sarah in her now-suspended Twitter account – sent this tweet to American Airlines' @americanair account Sunday morning:
"hello my name's Ibrahim and I'm from Afghanistan. I'm part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I'm gonna do something really big bye."
American responded, saying: "Sarah, we take these threats very seriously. Your IP address and details will be forwarded to security and the FBI."
That appeared to startle the girl, who responded mostly – but not entirely – with conciliatory tweets, according to London's Mirror tabloid, which runs a long list of the exchange on Twitter.
"I'm so stupid, I'm scared," said one of the first replies from @QueenDemetriax_ -- the now-suspended account of the girl who sent the tweet.
She followed up with a number of frantic-sounding tweets, leading one media outlet to describe her response as a "social media meltdown."
"I was joking and it was my friend not me, take her IP address not mine," the girl tweeted, according to the Daily News of New York.
She claimed to be a girl living in the Netherlands, adding: "I'm just a fangirl pls I don't have evil thoughts and plus I'm a white girl," according to the Daily News.
The Daily News notes "the Twitterverse soon filled with posters who took up Sarah's pleas for leniency, laughed at her foolishness or speculated the whole thing was a hoax."
Still, the girl occasionally interrupted her contrite tweets with updates on her growing number of followers.
And, as for American's threat to forward the girl's information to the FBI, the girl tweeted she had "blocked the FBI just in case," according to WGHP TV of North Carolina.
American eventually removed its tweet that it first sent in reply to the girl.
"The safety of our passengers and crew is our number one priority. We take security matters very seriously and work with authorities on a case by case basis," the carrier said to The Huffington Post. "Regarding [the] tweet , we removed it after it had been addressed in order to be able to focus on our customers."
Speaking to the Daily News, the FBI declined to say if it was looking into the matter.


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MLBTR on Ken Rosenthal's latest video update:
Now that Manny Ramirez is off the disabled list, Rosenthal provided an update to his news from last week about the possibility of Ramirez on the waiver wire. The Dodgers will wait to put Ramirez on waivers since teams will want to make sure that he is both healthy and hitting well. Rosenthal repeats that the White Sox are the club "most likely" to put in a claim for Ramirez, since the Sox "don't like Brad Hawpe all that much" and they doubt that Detroit would trade them Johnny Damon.
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August 23, 1980 - October 26, 1980
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has assembled over 80 Japanese Buddhist woodblock prints for display in Footprints of Buddha, the first exhibition in this country devoted exclusively to this religious art form. The selected prints, on loan from American and Japanese collections, trace the development of Buddhist art in Japan from the 12th to the 20th century.
July 12, 1980 - October 26, 1980
The New Vision: Forty Years of Photography at the Institute of Design is an exhibition of over 100 photographs by former students and teachers of the Institute of Design in Chicago. Among the 32 photographers represented in the exhibition are the school's famous mentors and several younger artists whose work matured during the sixties and seventies.
May 3, 1980 - September 14, 1980
Wedgwood and His Contemporaries is an exhibition of 97 objects installed in the Decorative Arts Gallery.
July 19, 1980 - August 27, 1980
Crosscurrents: French and Italian Neoclassical Drawings and Prints from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum is an exhibition of 135 prints and drawings installed in the Print Gallery. The exhibition is circulated by Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and installed in Philadelphia by Ann Percy, Associate Curator for Drawings.
June 7, 1980 - August 24, 1980
Mexican Art from the Collections is an exhibition of 176 paintings, sculptures, prints, and decorative arts installed in the Special Exhibitions Gallery.
June 25, 1980 - August 17, 1980
Ars Medica: Selected Works and New Acquisitions is an exhibition of 150 prints, drawings, and photographs installed in the Special Exhibition Gallery.
March 8, 1980 - August 3, 1980
The Eighties: The Daring Decades is an exhibition of 26 costumes and 24 accessories and textiles installed in the Costume and Textiles Gallery.
April 12, 1980 - July 6, 1980
Carl Zigrosser: The Curator as Collector is an exhibition of 190 prints and objects installed in the Print Gallery.
April 19, 1980 - June 15, 1980
Copley from Boston is an exhibition of 42 paintings, furniture, and decorative arts installed in the Special Exhibitions Gallery.
March 1, 1980 - May 25, 1980
August Sander: Photographs of an Epoch is an exhibition of 248 photographs installed in the Special Exhibitions Gallery.
March 22, 1980 - May 18, 1980
Brancusi as Photographer is an exhibition of 73 photographs from the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, installed in the Stieglitz Center Gallery and the small Arensberg Gallery.
February 8, 1980 - April 20, 1980
Far Eastern Art Department: Recent Acquisitions is an exhibition of 217 paintings and objects installed in the Special Exhibitions Gallery.
December 15, 1979 - March 23, 1980
On the Move: The Art of Transportation is an exhibition of 105 prints installed in the Print Gallery.
November 17, 1979 - March 2, 1980
Ansel Adams: 100 Photographs is an exhibition of 96 photographs installed in the Stieglitz Center Gallery.
February 3, 1980 - March 2, 1980
Recognizing that comprehensiveness is not possible in an exhibition of this scale, Sports in Art features a sampling of Olympic sports and related athletic activities. Just as certain sports have had great popular appeal without finding wide representation in art, others have captured artists' imaginations while failing to win a large following in the sporting world. Clearly artists have had their own criteria for representation. Nonetheless their legacy is an eloquent testament to the beauty and achievement of the athlete.
September 29, 1979 - February 10, 1980
Delights of Fine Fashion is an exhibition of 48 costumes and 74 accessories installed in the Costume and Textile Gallery (inaugural exhibition), supported by the installation of 49 costumes and 45 samplers throughout the Museum.
October 20, 1979 - January 6, 1980
Noguchi's Imaginary Landscapes is an exhibition of 80 sculptures, 119 photo panels, and 33 charts installed in the Special Exhibitions Gallery. The Walker Art Center has published an accompanying catalogue.


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Capital is a key measurement of a bank's financial strength. It works as a cushion against losses and as protection for depositors when a bank is struggling financially. When looking at safety and soundness, the more capital, the better.
Magnolia Bank, Incorporated scored below the national average of 13.13 on our test to measure the adequacy of a bank's capital, scoring 6 out of a possible 30 points.
One way to measure this buffer is looking at a bank's Tier 1 capital ratio. Magnolia Bank, Incorporated's Tier 1 capital ratio was 13.84 percent, exceeding the 6 percent level regulators consider adequate, but lower than the national average of 25.65 percent. The higher the capital ratio, the better the bank will be able to weather economic difficulties.
Overall, Magnolia Bank, Incorporated held equity amounting to 9.92 percent of its assets, which was lower than the national average of 12.03 percent.
This test is intended to try to understand how the bank's loan loss reserves and overall capitalization could be affected by troubled assets, such as unpaid mortgages.
A bank with lots of these types of assets could eventually be forced to use capital to absorb losses, cutting down on its cushion of equity. It also means that there are likely to be many assets that are in non-accrual status and no longer earning interest for the bank, pushing down earnings and increasing the chances of a failure in the future.
Magnolia Bank, Incorporated exceeded the national average of 37.49 on Bankrate's asset quality test, racking up 40 out of a possible 40 points .
A helpful indicator of asset quality is the percentage of problem assets a bank holds compared to its total assets. As of December 31, 2017, 0.24 percent of Magnolia Bank, Incorporated's loans were noncurrent -- in other words, they were more than 90 days past due or were in non-accrual status. That's below the national average of 1.01 percent.
Banks maintain a reserve known as an "allowance for loan and lease losses" to deal with problem assets . The size of that reserve can be a useful indicator when evaluating a bank's ability to manage troubled assets, especially when compared to the total amount of problematic loans. Unfortunately, the FDIC did not provide information on Magnolia Bank, Incorporated's loan loss allowance in its most recent filings.
How profitable a bank is affects its safety and soundness. Earnings can be retained by the bank, boosting its capital buffer, or be used to deal with problematic loans, likely making the bank better prepared to withstand financial shocks. However, banks that are losing money are less able to do those things.
On Bankrate's test of earnings, Magnolia Bank, Incorporated scored 24 out of a possible 30, above the national average of 15.12.
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The bank recorded net income of $3.8 million on total equity of $23.8 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2017. The bank reported an annualized return on average assets, or ROA, of 1.80 percent, above the 1 percent deemed satisfactory in accordance with industry standards, and above the average for U.S. banks of 1.00 percent.
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If you love cilantro, Protein Bar has the drink for you. The Hi-5 combines kale, spinach, cilantro and pineapple with your choice of whey, soy or egg protein, and dairy, almond or soy milk. The most prominent flavors were cilantro and pineapple. At $6.49 for 16 ounces, it's more than I would usually pay for a juice, but I loved it.
The Union Station location opens at 1755 16th St. (next to Thirsty Lion) Tuesday, May 6 at 11 a.m. with a giveaway of $100 gift cards for the first 100 people in line.
At 22, Protein Bar founder Matt Matros was a fat, unhappy sports agent whose father died young of a heart attack. He knew he needed to change his lifestyle, and started to make changes to his diet. Thanks to exercise and a protein-centered diet, Matt lost 60 pounds, but he struggled to find quick, healthy foods.


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Dominic Monaghan calls it like he sees it
If that name is making you scratch your head, he was a hobbit in Lord of the Rings and was Charlie on Lost. The second one is the important part. Remember my General List of Celebrity Don'ts? Well Monaghan just ran afoul of #8, "don't badmouth another celebrity and/or get involved in a fan war", but he did stick to 8a, "don't delete your account". Full Story
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As you know, I have an Eminem problem. I can easily lose an hour or two on Shady googling. And I could definitely lose an hour watching him in this video. Have you seen it? Rihanna is great. Eminem is talking to my lady business. Dominic Monaghan tries his best. And Megan Fox, well, she really is perfectly suited to the part. Full Story
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Perched on a small plateau off the main Coastal Trail, the labyrinth in San Francisco's Lands End is an inviting outdoor creation: a simple strolling circuit with unmatched views of the Marin Headlands and the Golden Gate Bridge. Created by Eduardo Aguilera in 2004, the labyrinth feels like it has been part of the landscape for centuries. It's the perfect setting for a solstice stroll. And in the winter, the waves crashing against the cliffs give the place a dramatic mystique. The labyrinth was intended to be a site for meditation and relaxation, but it's also just a lot of fun to walk on a whim. On our last visit—between big rainstorms—there wasn't a soul on the trail.
Park at Lands End parking lot behind the Cliff House at Point Lobos Ave and 48th Ave. (map). Walk east on the Coastal Trail and take the offshoot trail to Mile Rock Beach. Descend the stairs. When the staircase turns a sharp left, continue on a trail going straight. The labyrinth comes into view. Dog-friendly. For more information, click here.
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Only 5 made: GoS Vile Watch and Oden Knife set
It's not usually our habit to show weapons on Watchuseek, but in the case of the stunning new Gustaffson and Sjögren (GoS) matching watch and knife set we decided to make an exception. The watch and knife share a new Damascus steel pattern that has been invented and developed by master bladesmith Johan Gustafsson.
The Vile Watch and Oden Knife set
The knife and watch are named Oden and Vile, after two brothers in Nordic mythology.
The Vile watch case has lug screws in Damascus steel that match the trademark GoS oversized Damascus steel crown.
Damascus steel is an ancient technique of forging steel, originally used to create blades for swords which are legendary for their sharpness and strength.
The process of hand forging Damascus steel results in every forged piece containing patterns with a different character and personality. This means that every GoS watch is a one of a kind work of art.
Prehistoric Baltic coral has similar patterns to the new damascus steel pattern and is the material that Johan chose for the knife handle. The pattern is called Wildflower, the characteristics of which are especially prominent in the watch dial.
The Vile and Oden watch and knife set will be produced on order and limited to just 5 pieces. Johan's skills in steel colouring to the Damascus steel can allow for customisation where possible.
The presentation box
The Vile and Oden set comes in a beautiful GoS wooden presentation box. The boxes are individually crafted by Sture Nyberg, a local woodcraft artisan.
The box is made using an ancient technique called "svepask" in Swedish and is so specific to the Baltic region that it does not even have an English name.
The box is made of thin birch wood that is moisturised and bent over a round template. Birch root is then used to lock the shape with a seam. The box receives a darker tone by adding colour pigments to linseed oil. An additional wax coating is then added after the oil has dried. Hopefully you've been saving your pennies because to get your hands on one of these unique sets it's going to cost around $20,000.
Watch - GoS Vile
● Case: 42mmx10mm
● Lug width: 22mm
● Glass: Flat sapphire glass
● Movement: Swiss manual ETA 6498
● Movement refinement: Refinished and improved by the swiss company Soprod.
● Dial: Handforged wildflower Damascus steel
● Index ring/rehaut: Handshaped and polished grade 5 titanium
● Hands: Polished silver finish
● Crown: 8mm in finegrained Damascus stainless steel
● Case finishing: All highgloss polished with Gustafsson & Sjögren logo on case side.
● Strap: Handcrafted in black reindeer leather with traditional Sami tinthread decorations
Knife - GoS Oden
● Bladesize: 100 mm, 3.93 inches
● Style:Damascus folder
● Blade thickness: 3 mm, 0.12 inches
● Total size: 230 mm, 9.05 inches
● Blade: Wildflower damascus
● Bolsters: Wildflower damascus
● Handle: Prehistoric baltic coral
● Liners: Fileworked grade 5 titanium
Presentation Box Watch and Knife set
● Individually crafted box in svepask technique of birch wood
● Colored with natural pigments mized in linseed oil
● covered with high grade natural wax and polished to a deep finish
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Guests: Julia Boorstin, Pat Buchanan, Bob Shrum, Max Pappas, Gerald Shea, Haynes Johnson, Dan Balz, Roger Simon, Maria Teresa Kumar
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: A month of troubles.
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews in Washington. Leading off tonight:
The dangers of August. If February is the cruelest month, this one's no day at the beach. For Barack Obama, this August could be the month of storms. His approval numbers are dropping as the health care debate grows hot. Quinnipiac has the president 50 percent approval, down 7 points in a month, now to his lowest mark yet. Other polls have Obama higher, but the pattern is definitely downward everywhere.
Will this be the month that the health care debate and worries about the economy sink the president's approval number below 50 percent, or can he rally against his opponents and make the sale?
The debate got a lot uglier, with Rush Limbaugh comparing Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats to the Nazis. That comes on top of those anti-Obama town halls that featured at least one person carrying a sign that accused Obama of having a Nazi-style health plan.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just say no! Just say no! Just say no!
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just say no! Just say no! Just say no!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just say no! Just say no! Just say no!
MATTHEWS: As we've pointed out before, this is a well-organized set of protests. Those mob scenes are supported by-well, in part by a group called FreedomWorks, and today the AFL-CIO, the labor organization, announced it's going to send people to town halls, as well, to confront the anti-Obama teams. We've got organizers on both sides tonight to show the fight right here on the set.
Plus, "The Battle for America," the story of the most exciting presidential election of our time. Why did Ted Kennedy break with the Clintons and support Obama? Who played race in this fight, and who had it played against them? And why did John McCain go with Sarah Palin? The authors of the book "The Battle for America" join us later tonight.
Also, Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed late today in the Senate by a vote of 68 votes to 31. Nine Republicans voted for her, and every Democrat present. Could that cause trouble for the Republicans with Latino votes come next November? We'll look at that in the "Politics Fix."
And what American political celebrity was offered 40 cows and 20 goats for some guy to marry their daughter? And who said it was up to the daughter to decide? That's in tonight's HARDBALL "Sideshow."
We begin with the president's slipping approval ratings, now down to 50 percent in a new Quinnipiac poll. Patrick Buchanan is an MSNBC political analyst and Bob Shrum is a Democratic analyst. Let's take a look. Here are the Quinnipiac poll numbers to look at, gentlemen. Approve the president's performance, 50 percent. Disapprove, 42 percent. That compares to only a month ago, and just a month ago, to 57 positive and 33 negative.
Now let's look at the source of this perhaps. The Quinnipiac poll asked people, How's the president handling the health care issue? And there you have it, 39 percent, very, very low for an issue that he really campaigned on, 52 percent of the people, a real majority now, opposing him.
Shrummy, are these two sets of numbers connected?
BOB SHRUM, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Well, I actually think the Quinnipiac poll is wrong. You referred to other polls at the beginning, Chris. As you know, the Ipsos poll has the president at 58 percent, and actually has a more recent set of interviews than Quinnipiac does. And there's another network that has him at 56 percent.
These polls don't matter. What matters-whether he's up or down. What matters is where they are in 2010 and where they are in 2012. The only other thing that counts in this is whether Democrats get panicked and walk away from this health care fight because the lesson in 1994 is that if they do that, they'll pay the price. The president will ultimately get reelected because the economy is going to revive, but those Democrats, and especially I think, by the way, the Blue Dogs, would pay the price in those marginal districts.
MATTHEWS: Pat, analytically, is he right that if the Democrats lose the argument and lose the bill, they're in worse shape than if they just lose the argument and pass the bill? Aren't they-aren't they better off getting a "W" next to the vote?
PAT BUCHANAN, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: I agree with Bob on this. The key guys are the Blue Dogs, and the Blue Dogs got up there and many of them walked the plank on cap-and-trade and they're going to pay a price for it and you may not get cap-and-trade. Now they're being asked to walk the plank again on the dramatic health care reform.
I think they're the key guys, and if they bolt, Chris, the only thing I think Obama can get-but I still think he can get something-is sort of a scaled-down program. And my view is he ought to talk with his guys in August and say, Look, you guys, can we get the big program through? What is it going to cost? Do we have to do reconciliation? Is that a wise thing? Or are we going to have to settle? Because I do think, whatever you say, there's real erosion in his support.
MATTHEWS: Where are you, Bob? Should he settle and get a 60 majority in the Senate, a supermajority, by getting several Republicans aboard, two or three aboard, get a bill passed, get it out, sign it, move on next year to getting more something-more next year, or should he fight now with everything he's got, jam it through the Senate with 50 votes plus the vice president, take the heat from the other side and live with it?
SHRUM: I certainly think he should do that. reconciliation was...
MATTHEWS: No, he doesn't have to.
SHRUM: ... used by Reagan. It was used by Bush.
MATTHEWS: No, but what's the-if he has to choose between a bill that comes out of that bipartisan panel in the Senate, Finance Committee, and going with a much more liberal bill, what would you do?
SHRUM: I would-I would look-I'd judge it by what's in that bill. If there's a co-op that effectively does provide competition with the insurance industry, then I think you can move forward. By the way, in other respects, that bill is not a vastly scaled-down bill. It's $100 billion less over 10 years out of a program that costs $1 trillion over 10 years.
SHRUM: So it's a pretty major bill. And I agree with Pat, he's going to get a bill.
MATTHEWS: Well, I'm with Bob on this. I think they should get-I think Bob is saying they should try to get a major bill through as big as they can, but don't take a defeat. Don't go for something they can't get, and don't try to use reconciliation, if it means, basically disaster, the Senate stops performing this year, which I think it will happen.
BUCHANAN: Well, look what Reagan did. Reagan demanded 30 percent down the line, down the line, that tax cut across the board.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BUCHANAN: Finally, they said 25 percent. He said, OK, I'll take it, let's go.
MATTHEWS: He took the compromise.
BUCHANAN: Well, it was a mild compromise. He got most of what he wanted. And Danny Rostenkowsky-remember that horrible picture of him, very grim, but...
MATTHEWS: I was right there.
BUCHANAN: But Reagan did...
MATTHEWS: I was on the other side of the aisle during that fight, Pat.
BUCHANAN: Well...
MATTHEWS: I was right there.
BUCHANAN: You were on the losing side on that one!
MATTHEWS: The losing side's OK because sometimes, the other side's supposed to win, Pat. Sometimes, it's their turn to win because they got elected.
BUCHANAN: Well, here's the thing...
MATTHEWS: That's how it works, Pat. It isn't always trench warfare.
When the other side wins, maybe it's-they get to govern.
BUCHANAN: I not only agree with you, Chris, I'm glad they got 60 votes. I'm glad they got a big majority in the House. I'm glad they got everything because they should have power, and then you can hold them accountable and responsible.
MATTHEWS: (INAUDIBLE) together, guys. Let's take a look at somebody who may not agree with our sort of democratic view of politics, where one side wins an election and governs for a while, then the other side challenges their accountability. Did they do the right thing or not?
Let's take a look at Rush Limbaugh today and what he had to say about the Democratic Party. Let's listen.
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: No, it's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook! Now, what are the similarities between the Democrat party of today and the Nazi Party in Germany? Well, the Nazis were against big business. They hated big business. And of course, we all know that they were opposed to Jewish capitalism. They were insanely, irrationally against pollution. They were for two years' mandatory voluntary service to Germany. They had a whole bunch of makework projects to keep people working, one of which was the autobahn. They were against cruelty and vivisection of animals, but in the radical sense of devaluing human life. They banned smoking. They were totally against that. They were for abortion and euthanasia of the undesirables, as we all know, and they were for cradle-to-grave nationalized health care!
MATTHEWS: I do not know where to begin, but I'm going to start with Bob Shrum. Bob, I thought I heard everything. They are insanely against pollution. Well, there you have it. Anybody who's against pollution is a Nazi!
MATTHEWS: I mean, it's the most amazing thing-I mean, this guy is an entertainer. But is there a limit here?
SHRUM: Yes, Pat's not...
MATTHEWS: Bob Shrum.
SHRUM: Pat's not going to associate himself with any of that stuff, I don't think. It's despicable drivel.
SHRUM: I mean, it's also-it's factually wrong. You know, there were big German companies like Krups who helped fund the Nazi Party movement.
MATTHEWS: Sure.
SHRUM: And by the way, it's hard to believe, since I've seen all these pictures of diplomatic conferences held in Germany with high German officials there in World War-before World War II, where they're all smoking. I don't think they banned smoking. He's just made this up. I don't know, maybe he's back on whatever he was on before.
MATTHEWS: Well, without getting too personal, Shrummy, you took a shot below the belt there, but maybe it was justified this time. Pat Buchanan, what do you make of that jeremiad from Rush Limbaugh?
BUCHANAN: Well, I-look, I think Ribbentrop was a chain smoker, Chris.
BUCHANAN: I think-look, I've seen pictures of him with a cigarette. But...
MATTHEWS: OK, back to the larger question.
BUCHANAN: No, big business...
MATTHEWS: Is Nancy Pelosi...
BUCHANAN: Big business was in bed with Hitler.
BUCHANAN: They helped bring him to power.
MATTHEWS: So his point's ridiculous. First of all, Hitler's impossible to figure out in terms of economic ideology, I think it's fair to say.
MATTHEWS: Putting him on the other side is the cheapest shot. I think anybody who uses the Hitler thing on the other side is always playing a bad game. But here's the question. How dirty is this campaign getting, Pat?
BUCHANAN: You mean...
MATTHEWS: Against the health care bill.
BUCHANAN: Well, look...
MATTHEWS: Anything goes. You call it Nazism. What further shot can you take?
BUCHANAN: Well, look, I just don't think...
MATTHEWS: Is there anything worse?
BUCHANAN: I don't think people are going to think Barack Obama's a Nazi. You know, and so, but look, I do agree with you to this extent. You should never bring the Nazis into the argument because then we're all arguing about Nazis and...
MATTHEWS: People who are anti-abortion do it, too. I think we got to stop these comparisons.
BUCHANAN: Well, I agree with you 100 percent. But conservatives are usually called fascist and all the rest of it, you know, so...
MATTHEWS: Well, that's (INAUDIBLE)
SHRUM: I haven't actually heard that recently, Pat.
MATTHEWS: Let's move on. I think socialist...
MATTHEWS: I think socialist-syndicalist, fabianist-let's get really sophisticated here. Let me ask you about this fight and Barack Obama. Is this August going to be too tough for him?
BUCHANAN: Well...
MATTHEWS: We have seen a man who's very good at politics. He got elected president of the United States, African-American. He did almost a perfect campaign. He beat the Clintons.
MATTHEWS: Does he have the fighting skills to win against all the organizations on the right, the Cato Institute, Dick Armey's army, everybody out there plus the Republicans?
BUCHANAN: Chris, a lot of those are really-people exaggerate their grass roots power. There's no doubt they got good power on op-ed pages and things like that. But again, I think this August is crucial. I do think Obama is bleeding on health care. I do think those Blue Dogs are going home. Some of it may be orchestrated, but you can't get guys out to every single one of these meetings that outraged and that angry. This just doesn't have that kind of clout, Chris. They can't get anybody out when it came to their amnesty bill...
MATTHEWS: OK, I have a strategy. Bob, tell me on this, because you've been through these campaigns. Could the right strategy for the president to get through this summer-because the unemployment rate is going to be horrendous again tomorrow, it'll be horrendous for months and months ahead, it ain't going to get any better-lower the temperature, get through a bill that passes muster with a few Republicans, and three of them certainly, and the moderate Democrats. Get the bill through, jam it through conference, lower the thing, don't have any more rallies, get it through, and keep his left quiet basically? Isn't that the strategy to get through the summer, don't heat up this thing?
SHRUM: Well, I think he's not trying to heat it up. I think he is trying to get a bill through. I think they will get a bill through. But I don't believe that we should let organized mobs paid for by organized money silence the president of the United States or prevent members of Congress from going home and holding town hall meetings.
I think that-an by the way, we haven't even noticed this. I suspect these tactics are very self-defeating, that when the country hears Rush Limbaugh, when it sees these people standing there screaming, "Just say no, just say no, just say no," it's not helping the Republican Party, it's hurting the Republican Party, and probably ultimately helping the passage of the health bill.
BUCHANAN: But the guys to make this judgment are not you or me or Bob Shrum sitting here.
SHRUM: I know, but we got asked to.
BUCHANAN: Some congressman goes home to his district, he looks out in that hall and he knows whether the people have been brought in there are ringers or whether there's a lot angry folks and upset folks, some of whom he's seen before, who don't like this thing. That's why he's in Congress, because he's smart and in touch with his people.
MATTHEWS: Exactly right.
BUCHANAN: He will come back and he will say, Look, my folks aren't with this, or, There's just a lot of ringers down there. I'm going with...
MATTHEWS: By the way, he will talk to his lawyer, his doctor, the people he goes to church with...
BUCHANAN: They're all...
MATTHEWS: ... the people he goes to the beach with, the regular people he's known for 30 years, and he's going to ask them, What do you think of this thing?
BUCHANAN: Sure.
MATTHEWS: And he's going to...
BUCHANAN: So he can judge it better than we can.
MATTHEWS: Because those are the guys who keep putting him in office.
Bob Shrum, thank you, sir. Thank you, Pat Buchanan.
It is going to be one hot August, even though the temperature, by the way-global warming's getting weird in this town again.
MATTHEWS: This is not August.
BUCHANAN: It's getting cooler, Chris!
MATTHEWS: Coming up: Those conservative protesters are turning congressional town halls into town brawls. Let's talk about them. Let's go inside now. We want to know how spontaneous are these events and how much are they what's called "astroturf," phony grass roots. And now the unions are organizing on the other side. We're going to have mob versus mob. How much of this is real, how much of this is organized? Can the Democrats use these disruptions politically against the Republicans? We'll see. We're going to get to the bottom of it all and hear from both sides coming up. In a minute, in fact, we're going to be doing that. Stay with us.
You're watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. Conservative groups like FreedomWorks continue to support those aggressive protests at Democratic congressional town meetings on health care, and now the AFL-CIO is pushing back and plans to send their own people to these town halls for what could amount to a showdown between the union guys, union women, and conservative activist.
Max Pappas-love that name-is the vice president for public policy at a group called Freedom Works, and Gerald Shea is the health policy analyst for the AFL-CIO.
Gentlemen, you're both professionals. Tell me about this. The issue's come up whether you guys are astroturf or not. Are you a paid official of this organization?
MAX PAPPAS, FREEDOMWORKS: I am. I work at...
MATTHEWS: You're a professional.
PAPPAS: I work at the headquarters in D.C.
MATTHEWS: You work for-and you get a salary from them.
PAPPAS: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Are you a lobbyist?
PAPPAS: No, I'm not.
MATTHEWS: Well, how do you-how do you-you're here lobbying. I mean, you're lobbying Washington and you're pushing a point of view. How come you're not a lobbyist? I mean, how come you don't have to register?
PAPPAS: We're a 501-C 3.
MATTHEWS: Oh, you're non-partisan?
PAPPAS: We're also a 501-C...
PAPPAS: Non-partisan, non-profit.
MATTHEWS: And this-we're supposed to take this for real that you guys are non-partisan?
PAPPAS: Well...
MATTHEWS: And you're spending all your time destroying a Democratic health care plan?
PAPPAS: If you look at our opposition to a lot of Bush's policies...
MATTHEWS: No, no. But right now, you guys are killing these-you're going to every town meeting in the world, blowing them apart.
PAPPAS: Yes, just like we blew up...
MATTHEWS: How many people you got working-how many people are on your payroll, Dreamworks-FreedomWorks, whatever it's called.?
PAPPAS: Oh, 18.
MATTHEWS: And how do you organize these meetings, these-these-where people do like the ACORN-type meetings, where they show up and...
PAPPAS: Mostly through the Internet.
PAPPAS: Yes. We have about 400,000 on-line members who we can contact with an e-mail database that we have, send them information about when the town halls are, give them briefings on the health care reform plans.
MATTHEWS: so when you watch television, you see a disruption at a congressional meeting in Long Island, you see one in Philly, you see one down in Texas, you can spot-you know that's coming ahead of time. You know each-in other words, you know what's going to happen at each one of these events.
PAPPAS: No, we've been telling people to go to talk to their congressman for 25 years. That's how long FreedomWorks has been around.
MATTHEWS: But you're-but you're basically plotting this stuff.
PAPPAS: We're telling our...
MATTHEWS: People aren't spontaneously getting up in the morning and reading the paper and going, I better go to the congressman's meeting. I'm all upset about health care.
PAPPAS: Oh, no. We tell them when the events are. We just usually don't get this many people on our side to show up.
MATTHEWS: OK, so the question-are you astroturf or are you grass roots?
PAPPAS: Well...
MATTHEWS: Astroturf means an organized professional operation which leads to these rallies, rather than something where a bunch of people are reading the paper that morning and they go, God, I better get down to headquarters.
PAPPAS: All the people...
MATTHEWS: I better get to my congressman.
PAPPAS: ... who are showing up are volunteers. If you're talking about astroturf being where you bus people in...
MATTHEWS: No, where you organize, is what I mean.
PAPPAS: Maybe like Moveon bussed people in, or if you have paid people like the unions do, no, we're not astroturf. We don't do that. Ours are all volunteers. You'll see their hands-their signs are painted by hand.
MATTHEWS: OK. OK. Great. Let's you go to you, Gerald. What do you make of this?
GERALD SHEA, AFL-CIO: You know, people-it's really important that we have town hall meetings where people can discuss issues, and there's no more important issue than health care in the country today. People are just getting killed with health care costs, and this situation just is untenable as it stands now. So it's really important that this happens.
I think it's really unfortunately that people are trying to disrupt these meetings, and using phrases like "Just say no" is not going to get us a solution to the health care program.
MATTHEWS: Is that the right way to approach this debate over health care? We've been having this debate since Truman's time. We're not getting anywhere. We don't have a bill. Republicans say they have alternatives, but they never push them when they're in power. I keep asking these Republicans that come on-We got alternatives. I say, Well, why don't you ever push them through when you're in power? Then we won't have the Democrats saying nothing's been done.
PAPPAS: That's another huge failure of the Bush administration. We've been calling for health care reform for a decade. And unfortunately, we don't see any of what we've been calling for in this proposal, which is why we're opposing it. We want reform, it's just going in the opposite direction of what we suggest...
MATTHEWS: Well, these people who "Just say no," are they saying "Just say no" to reforms that stop people from being denied coverage for pre-existing conditions? Are they saying "Just say no" to portability, the ability to change jobs and keep the same health care plan? What are they saying no to? Do they really know, or is it just what you feed them?
PAPPAS: I think they know something about...
MATTHEWS: What do they know...
PAPPAS: ... the four pieces of legislation that have passed out of committee and Congress and they don't like those packages as they are I think. Maybe they're hoping...
MATTHEWS: Well, they don't seem very sophisticated. They're just yelling no. What are they all saying no to? If I took each one of those people and put them under sodium pentothal and asked them exactly what they're saying no to, what do they know they're saying no to?
PAPPAS: I'd say they're saying no to the Senate bill that's come out of committee. They're saying no to the three committee pieces that have come out of the House.
They know that each of those have something in common. They're all different aspects, but they all have a movement toward more government in health care...
MATTHEWS: Medicare is 100 percent health care.
PAPPAS: And it's running out of money.
MATTHEWS: I never met a person in the world that wants to get rid of Medicare. Not a single person.
PAPPAS: But it's running out of money. And they're afraid that we're going to get a system where everybody's health care is running out of money sort of like Medicare is running out of money.
MATTHEWS: Gerald?
GERALD SHEA, AFL CID (ph): As far as I can say they're just saying no to government involvement at all and frankly that's what got us in the health care crisis we're in today. We deregulated health care in the '80s and prices just skyrocketed.
MATTHEWS: Well, some of these imbeciles-and they're led to be imbeciles by some points of view here-say keep the government out of Medicare. How can somebody say-it's an entire government-run operation initiated by the government by the Democrats and Lyndon Johnson back in the '60s.
But they say keep-how do you-that's demented talk.
PAPPAS: You can't do that.
MATTHEWS: Why do people come and say just say no, keep government out of Medicare. It's balloon-head talk.
PAPPAS: Some people aren't that well-informed.
SHEA: And the projections are that if there were this modest public health insurance option that people are (INAUDIBLE) in the bills-you know, it would cover 8 million people, 10 million people. It would not be a huge coverage.
This is not going to replace private insurance. It hopefully is going to provide some real competition to force prices down. That's the whole ball game here is controlling costs.
MATTHEWS: What do you folks in FreedomWorks want to do for the 40-some million people that don't have health insurance. What are you going to do for them? Just tell me, if there's nothing, say nothing.
PAPPAS: No, we want reform.
MATTHEWS: What do you want to do for them so they get health insurance-accessible and affordable?
PAPPAS: A big chunk of those people earn over $50,000 a year. Another chunk qualify for s-chip, which is government health care for the kids, Medicaid, which is government health care for the poor, and Medicare which are 65 and over.
MATTHEWSS: Why are emergency rooms packed with people who wait four or five hours to get something basic handled that should have been part of their primary care. If they're all insured, why are there in the emergency rooms?
PAPPAS: There are about 16 million people who don't fall into any of those categories and would qualify for some sort of government program. And we need to look at...
MATTHEWS: Are you saying people are covered?
PAPPAS: No. There are 46 million people in America who don't have insurance. But a big chunk of those...
MATTHEWS: But you're saying there's no problem with people not being insured in this country.
PAPPAS: No, I'm saying there is about 16 million who we should probably focus on trying to find a way to lower the cost of health insurance so we can get them insurance.
MATTHEWS: But why don't the Republicans ever do that when they're in power? Why don't you do it?
MATTHEWS: ... ever pushed a bill to help those 16 million? When did you do it?
PAPPAS: Sure. Senator DeMint had a bill...
MATTHEWS: Senator DeMint?
PAPPAS: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Senator DeMint is an activist for health care? He is the most anti-government conservative guy in the world. You're saying he had an activist program to do something for the uninsured.
PAPPAS: It's on (INAUDIBLE) in the House. And one thing that their bill has in common is they removed the limit of buying health care over state borders. I can buy anything in one state or another state except for health insurance. I have to pay $1,000 a month if I'm in New Jersey...
MATTHEWS: I can understand why you don't like big government. But this is the incredible part of your argument because when you are in power-
Ronald Reagan they used to say, well, he had a different approach to Medicare. His approach was the NA approach-no approach.
It's fair enough. Just say you're conservative. You're willing to suffer the loss of people who don't have health care. It's better that way...
PAPPAS: That's not what we're looking for.
MATTHEWS: You want it both ways. You want to be seen as compassionate but not do anything.
PAPPAS: Let us buy insurance over state lines.
MATTHEWS: We've had Reagan in charge. You've had George Bush First in charge. You had two terms of George Bush Jr. And at no time in that have I had somebody come on this show or anywhere else saying we have to get a Republican health care plan to help uninsured people get insured. You guys are frauds.
PAPPAS: We were as disappointed as you are...
MATTHEWS: Where was the we?
PAPPAS: We're pushing them to do ...
MATTHEWS: This guy is the only guy since Truman with a chance to get a health care plan and you guys are trying to kill it.
PAPPAS: We think it's going in the wrong direction...
MATTHEWS: You're trying to kill the only plan on the table.
PAPPAS: Well, it's the only plan...
MATTHEWS: I'm sorry. Your witness.
SHEA: The issue here is controlling costs. Right now we have a monopoly by private insurers. Most states have two or maybe three insurers who control the entire market or 75 percent of the market. There's no competition. Their relationship with hospitals is basically a cozy relationship.
They pay them to bill all these new buildings and had all this experience and so forth. The prices are going sky high.
It's not just a problem of some people who don't have insurance...
MATTHEWS: Ok Gerald, I'm going to be tough with you for one minute. Are you guys going to back this health care plan or are you going to bitch and moan and say it's not enough?
SHEA: We are going to back it.
MATTHEWS: You're going to back it.
SHEA: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Ok. Thank you very much.
Max Pappas thank you sir. Holy Cross grad-I should be nice with you but I disagree with your whole crowd. That's all right.
Gerald Shea-Irish guy.
Up next, what American political figure was offered 40 goats and 20 cows or 20 cows and 40 goats for their daughter's hand in marriage and who said let her decide? That's choice. That's next in this-I shouldn't say that way.
That's next in "The Sideshow." You're watching HARDBALL only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Time for "The Sideshow."
First, some throwback diplomacy: check out the offer posed to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a town hall today in Nairobi.
FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN ANCHOR: A Kenyan city councilman says he offered Bill Clinton goats and cows for his daughter's hand in marriage five years ago. He is still awaiting an answer.
HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: Well, my daughter is her own person. She's very independent, so I will convey this very kind offer to her.
MATTHEWS: Letter her daughter make the call. That's diplomacy.
Next up, it's the 2010 primary to watch nationwide. Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak made it official this week jumping into the race against Senator Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania.
Here he is last night getting the most wondrous of salutes from Stephen Colbert. Wait until you catch this.
STEPHEN COLBERT, HOST, "THE COLBERT REPORT": You made your announcement yesterday against Arlen Specter who was a Democrat who became a Republican, is now a Democrat again. And he said of you, he called you a flagrant hypocrite who registered as a Democrat only in time to run for Congress. Don't you have to give him credit just for having giant swinging balls?
MATTHEWS: Well, actually I think it's Sestak who deserves that kudo.
Specter has got a huge lead in the numbers right now.
Now the old rule that politics make strange bedfellows-make that surfmates. Guess who's hitting the beaches of California later this month? Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher who is from out there along with Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank.
Rohrabacher told Politico he invited Frank and his partner and set them up at a surfer's hotel because Frank's partner is a suffer and Frank, quote, "will probably have to lie on the beach like a whale." Isn't this a great country?
Finally, Mitt Romney is coming out with a book near you-coming to a bookstore near you. The once and most likely future presidential candidate has inked a deal to publish "No Apology: The case for American greatness." An apparent reach by the well-born and Ivy League-bred Romney for the Soddy (ph) buster vote-I say we should make these guys write these books in public at some Starbucks somewhere so we can actually watch them writing the books instead of some ghost writing them.
I think Obama is the only politician in modern history to actually write his own book.
Time now for tonight's big number. Nine Republicans out of 40 Republicans in the Senate voted for Judge Sotomayor today. But out of the six Republicans retiring right now-next year, how many voted for Judge Sotomayor? 4, 4 out of 6; two-thirds: Mel Martinez, Kit Bond, Judd Gregg and George Voinovich. Four of the six retiring Republicans voted for Sotomayor. You figure that one out. That's tonight's food for thought "Big Number."
Up next, the definitive story of the 2008 presidential election from the primary battles between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to the ascension briefly of Sarah Palin to the national stage. We've got Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson, authors of the fabulous new book "The Battle for America in 2008." They're coming right here to sit with me to tell us what McCain really thinks of Palin and what Ted Kennedy wanted-well, what was he after when he backed Obama?
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
A year ago Barack Obama's team was wrapping up a masterfully executed quest for the Democratic nomination for president and Sarah Palin was about to become the Republican's national superstar.
Today the Obama team is struggling to sell health care and Palin is sort of out of a job, isn't she? Well, maybe by her own decision.
Dan Balz is the national political reporter for the Washington Post and Haynes Johnson's a political prize-winning reporter and bestselling author. Together they are the authors of the great new book, "The battle for America 2008," the story of an extraordinary election.
What I like about it is you two pros have seen a few elections, especially Haynes. You know what an extraordinary one looks like. What struck me in your book is how it came across-the parts I read in "The Post"-crystal and clear. Nothing complicated, nothing murky.
There's certain clear points in the campaign that made all the difference and I'm going to go back to my favorites, right?
Hillary Clinton backed the Iraq war. That croaked her. Among caucus attenders, the people with college degrees, the kinds of people that sort of evoke the '60s still, the kind of people that make the Democratic Party work.
HAYNES JOHNSON, CO-AUTHOR, " THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA 2008": She never got out of it. She was trapped by that and caught in it and couldn't work her way out. They wanted her to be strong, the commander in chief, but she was just trapped in this miasma.
MATTHEWS: Why didn't she buckle and say cut their losses. This party is never going to nominate a hawk in 2008, saw it coming, and changed.
JOHNSON: She kept moving and moving and moving but everything was against her. All the climate was against her. Then there was Obama with this enormous enthusiasm in speaking. He just never came out of it.
DAN BALZ, CO-AUTHOR, "THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA 2008": There's another reason that she didn't, because one question that she had facing her was what does she really believe in? The longer she had stuck with her position on the war, no time table, she really didn't want that...
MATTHEWS: And permanent bases.
BALZ: They reached a point where they believed it would cost her more if she took back that vote than to stick with it.
MATTHEWS: Well, in the end do you believe what I-do you believe it was decisive, that war issue.
JOHNSON: I believe. I believe that...
MATTHEWS: That Barack was against the war from the beginning and she was for it.
BALZ: I believe it was hugely significant because it created an opening for Obama that nobody else could claim early in the race. And it gave him a tremendous amount of push among the activists-as you said-the people who play a real role in caucuses and in even a lot of primaries.
MATTHEWS: What struck me was some of the best of the liberals. I make a value judgment about it. The people like Gregg Craig (ph), Ted Sorenson (ph), some of the really good patriotic smart liberals, went with Obama in the beginning.
And the Kennedys came along after them ironically. They followed their like-thinkers. What was that all about? Why did Ted Kennedy, Vicky Kennedy and a couple of the other Kennedys back-Caroline especially-back Obama?
JOHNSON: From the beginning Ted Kennedy saw in Obama his brothers. The more he talked about it, a young generation, appeal-it was like jack and bobby. He wouldn't endorse, but he was-they were close.
When Obama came to the senate, he looked up Ted Kennedy. He courted him.
And also, he liked the way that he spoke on the war.
And early on before-long before he became a U.S. Senator he had given that great speech in Illinois about the war which was absolutely prescient, what might happen if we went into Iraq. So he was persuaded to go with Obama.
MATTHEWS: What's interesting is Steve Schmidt-I really like the guy-
I guess you guys have dealt with him more than I have up front-he said during the campaign, and this got out later, he said he could tell he was running against a continuation of the Bobby Kennedy campaign. That's a pretty prescient thought for the guy on the other side.
BALZ: Well, he did understand that. Ted Kennedy also saw in Obama somebody that he believed could begin to transcend some of the differences and divisions in the country. Not just racial divisions, but certainly some to that, but also to move the country to a different place in politics.
I mean, he admired Hillary Clinton. And he had a good relationship going into the campaign with Bill Clinton. But he saw in Obama somebody who could be the future, and he did not think at that point Hillary Clinton could be that person.
MATTHEWS: You earned your spurs covering the civil rights movement. What did Bill Clinton say to Barack Obama on the phone that made him feel Teddy had gotten off the reservation, in terms of race and civil rights?
HAYNES: That was so emotional. As you know, Bill Clinton got attacked because of the racist comments in South Carolina and the rest-
MATTHEWS: All he did was compare the Obama campaign to the Jesse Jackson campaign.
HAYNES: I know, but he was getting hit very hard, and Clinton blew it. He got very angry about that. I am not a racist. My whole background, look at our record, so forth and so on. And they had this conversation-
MATTHEWS: He said that to Teddy.
HAYNES: Well, they talked about that.
MATTHEWS: You're being cute about-what can you report about what Bill said to Barack or said to Ted?
HAYNES: Well, he did say, I am not a racist. Look at my record.
Look at what I've done.
MATTHEWS: But why would-
HAYNES: And Hillary-well, because Teddy did think race had entered into the campaign. There was a sense that this was falling apart. And there was a racial context that we shouldn't have race entered into any more than it is, particularly with a black candidate like Barack Obama.
MATTHEWS: Did Clyburn ever settle his fish with Bill Clinton over that, Jim Clyburn?
HAYNES: Not entirely. No. There was the one conversation that we could never pull everything out of. It happened the day after Iowa, a conversation between Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy. There is something that Bill Clinton said in that conversation that set Kennedy off. We have never been able to find out exactly what it was.
That set the tone. Then there were a series of other things that happened. There was the comparison-the Jesse Jackson thing came much later. There were other things that were happening in the Clinton campaign. You remember, Bob Johnson, the BET founder, who talked about-with Hillary Clinton on the stage, talked about Obama in the hood and then denied that it had anything to do that he was trying to inject either drugs or race into it.
Kennedy was just upset by the idea that race was being injected into the campaign. He blamed the Clintons for allowing it to happen. The Clintons were furious that they were being accused of injecting race. Bill Clinton is the kind of candidate, and with some justification-his whole political career, he would say, would be aimed at bringing the races together. The idea-
MATTHEWS: I think that's a value thing and you have to give him credit. It is his values.
Let's talk about the other party, the Republican party. Everybody who has ever followed John McCain it seems respects the guy. He was the most media popular guy in the world. I accused me of being for him. He said, Chris used to like me, and then this other guy came along and then-he said this at the Al Smith Dinner. It was a riot. He said I can do maverick. I can't do messiah, which is very funny.
But why did he pick Palin, because that seemed to be a real Hail Mary for him?
HAYNES: It was a Hail Mary. They new they were going to lose. They thought they were going to lose coming out of the Democratic Convention in Denver. At that point, Obama was surging ahead. They knew they had to shake up.
They talked among themselves that even if they got a good candidate that everybody liked-
MATTHEWS: So a Romney wouldn't do it for him.
HAYNES: No, they had to get somebody to shake up. They also wanted to appeal to the women who had been for Hillary, who seemed disaffected, perhaps. They might be able to bring them in. So they went through this process of who are they going to get.
There's this woman up in Alaska, and they go through this-
MATTHEWS: What part did Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes play in this, the guys from the "Weekly Standard?"
HAYNES: Big.
MATTHEWS: What was their part. They went up for a cruise.
HAYNES: They met her. They liked her. They wrote flattering pieces about ether. They sent out stuff. It didn't reach in the news media much, but they were promoting among the Republican base.
MATTHEWS: This is so generically awful about politics. Who was it-it was Roger Ailes, who I think is great in many regards-Roger Ailes came up with the idea of Dan Quayle for George Bush Sr.. These advisers come up with these Hail Mary. This is going to win. This is the chance. This is going to turn everything around. And the guy buys it from somebody like that.
Ailes gave us Quayle. Kristol is really smart and he gave us this guy.
BALZ: I would not say that Kristol gave us Sarah Palin.
MATTHEWS: Who did it?
BALZ: I think it's three or four people. It's Rick Davis, who was the campaign manager, Steve Schmidt, who was the senior adviser at that point, and helping to run the day-to-day operations.
MATTHEWS: And A.B. Culvahouse.
BALZ: A.B. to some extent. A.B. was-
MATTHEWS: They thought she was the genuine article. She was going to turn this thing around.
BALZ: No, they thought this was a political risk, but one that they were prepared to take.
MATTHEWS: But they knew it was quicksilver, didn't they? They knew it would only last for a while. Did they think she was secretly deep?
BALZ: No, that's the problem. One of the things we say is the book is she was legally vetted, legally vetted, but not politically.
MATTHEWS: OK, this is a hell of a book, by the way. You're only getting a taste of it. "The Battle for America, 2008," buy it, keep it on your shelf next to like "Truman." This is a book you want to keep for a while and savor for the beach. This month.
Up next, only nine Republican senators voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Only nine. By the way, like half of them are retiring. What does that tell you? We are going to try to figure that one out. There is going to be a political price paid, fairly or not, for this ethnic factor.
Are they kissing good-bye the Latino vote? Well, that may not be the best way of putting it, but we will talk about that in the Fix, when HARDBALL comes back on MSNBC.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mr. Alexander aye. Mr. Barrasso, no.
Mr. Baucus? Mr. Baucus aye. Mr. Bayh?
MATTHEWS: With that vote, the Senate made history today. The Senate confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic justice to serve on the Supreme Court. Unbelievable, the first ever. The vote was 68 to 31, with nine Republicans joined the Democrats. Ted Kennedy couldn't vote because of health reasons.
So what are the political consequences? Time for the Fix. MSNBC political analyst Maria Teresa Kumar is the founder of Voto Latino. And Roger Simon writes for the "Politico."
So let's talk ethnic politics. Is this going to be a crashing defeat for the Republicans, people like McCain, Kyl, people out west especially?
MARIA TERESA KUMAR, VOTO LATINO: This is a softball from the Obama administration when they put up Sonia Sotomayor. She was such a traditionalist. She is not a judicial activist. And the Republicans, all they had to do was maintain an even tone and not go after her, and basically actually win some points.
MATTHEWS: You think they should have gone soft on her for political reasons?
KUMAR: Not for political reasons. I think it's fair to vote against someone if you don't believe in their qualifications. But she was incredibly qualified. The tone that surrounded her-I remember watching those hearings. We saw those confirmation hearings. I felt uncomfortable. It made me, not only as a woman, but-
MATTHEWS: Who bugged you?
KUMAR: Well, Lindsey Graham, when he started off his conversation by saying, you know, I like Hispanics, and then went after her, that was uncomfortable. Because, as a woman, it was condescending. Everybody saw him shaking his finger at her, asking if she had the right temperament. It doesn't bode well, not only for Latinos, but for women.
MATTHEWS: But he voted for her.
KUMAR: Because he's smart. If you actually look at the redistricting, what's going on in the background-
MATTHEWS: OK. Roger, these guys knew all this when they voted against this Hispanic candidate. They knew they were going to have trouble at home. They obviously thought either they don't like her, which I think is a big part of this-I don't think they liked her. I think they thought this woman was going to try to redress past grievances. She was going to use the power of the court to fix things back the way they should have been or whatever. And they didn't like it.
They saw attitude there and didn't like it. That's what I think.
ROGER SIMON, "POLITICO": The no vote was the easiest vote for them to take.
MATTHEWS: Really? You listen to this and say that?
SIMON: Look, for one thing, she got nearly one out of every four Republican votes. Let's give credit there. She got nine votes. They only had 40.
MATTHEWS: But half those nine were people that are living.
SIMON: Who did the right thing because they're leaving. But a no vote is much easier. If you cast a yes vote on her, if you break with the party and cast a yes vote, and she issues some, you know, ruling, even if it's just one vote and eight against, that says all guns should be banned against America, you're going to face a lot of trouble.
If you vote no on her, and she does something great, no one is going to come and blame you. You voted no on her; she's the greatest justice of all time. You just say, well, she grew into the job.
KUMAR: I think it was the tone in which they went after her.
MATTHEWS: I think it's also a primary versus a general election question. You want to help yourself in the primary, vote against her. You want to help yourself in the general, vote for her.
We'll be right back with Roger and Maria for more of the fix. Let's talk about these town hall brawls, because it looks like they're going to be joined by the labor movement on the other side.
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MATTHEWS: We're back with the fix. Let's go to Roger and Maria. Let's take a look, first of all, at Rush Limbaugh's rant-and I generally don't say this-his rantings today. The Democrats and the Nazis are one and the same. Believe me, that's what he's saying.
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: I have always bristled when I hear people claim that conservatism gets close to Nazism. It's liberalism that's the closest you can get to Nazism and Socialism. It's all bundled up under the Socialist banner.
There's far more similarities between Nancy Pelosi and Adolph Hitler than between these people showing up at town halls to protest a Hitler-like policy. That is being heralded by a Hitler-like logo.
MATTHEWS: This logo-we have to show-Rush is-I'm going to say it, he's all wet. This logo looks like the Coast Guard Academy. I don't know what it is, but it looks nothing like a neoclassical Nazi standard of any kind. What's going on here?
SIMON: It's always a mistake to compare anyone-
MATTHEWS: Anything, including abortion or anything.
SIMON: I didn't like it when Seinfeld did the soup Nazi. You just don't do it. It's always over the top. It's always wrong. He's wrong on the fact. The Nazis were not true socialists of any form, even though they had socialist in their title, SDAP .
I mean, he's just wrong, and it's dumb, and some-
MATTHEWS: Why is he doing it?
SIMON: God, could ratings be part of it? Maybe he believes it. Its the hardest thing for the media to do is avert its eyes and to just say, we're just going to let this pass by. We're not going to gawk at the car wreck. We always gawk at the car wreck.
MATTHEWS: And I also think the Republicans are getting a little nervous, too, because they're becoming more and more identified with the fringe. That's not a good place-
MATTHEWS: You really believe that? I think it's stirring up the base. I think it's getting people that normally were bored with politics, that really didn't have any problem with Obama, to feel hatred now. I think this stuff works, this stirring and stirring and stirring, by Glenn Beck and him and all others, and saying they're Nazis, and charging he's from some other countries, from the Swahili part of Kenya. He's really a Muslim. They're back to that again.
Most Republicans now either don't believe he's an American or aren't sure. It is not a joke. It's getting very earthy.
KUMAR: And I think what the White House needs to do is they need to have the same rapid response that the Clinton administration did and be on the offensive. Right now, they keep using this issue and saying, you know what, we're kind of above this. No, you're not, because the American people are starting to listen.
We need to be able to say America is changing and, at the end of the day, this type of rhetoric --
MATTHEWS: I agree. His numbers are going down. This rant-this rant-the big lie works.
SIMON: We tent to forget-in what was overlooked in the justifiably good feeling of Obama's election was that Obama lost the white vote by a landslide. He lost it 55 to 43. So he is still winning over white America.
MATTHEWS: Thank you, Roger Simon, with that depressing thought. Roger Simon, Maria Teresa Kumar. Right now, it's time for "THE ED SHOW" with Ed Schultz.
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