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Growth Modeling of Longitudinal Data
russell Ecob
posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 4:21 am
I am running a series of growth models with an ordered categorical outcome variable (5 categories) with 5 waves of data. I fit a series of models with increasing numbers of explanatory variables, one of which is a factor measured by two components. I am fitting models with up to quadratic growth parameters (i,s,q). Some of the explanatory variables have quadratic terms as well as linear, some linear only in relation to each of these growth parameters.
Adding extra explanatory variables results in models in which fit indices (especially CFI, TLI, WRMR) are substantially worse than the recommendations in Yu and Muthen (2001) (>0.95,>.95,<0.06,<0.90 for TLI, CFI, RMSEA, WRMR)
Of my models the worst value of WRMR is 7.055 and the worst value of CFI is 0.588.
All these models converge without errors or warnings. I find few differences in fit by altering the pattern of relationship of the explanatory variables to the growth terms. The models all give interpretable relationships of the factor to the outcome over time.
Do you have any recommendations concerning reporting of such results (including which fit indices to report) or in improving the models? Is the Yu and Muthen (2001) paper accessible anywhere?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 8:53 am
If you add covariates and model fit becomes worse, it may mean that you need direct effects between the covariates and the outcome. You would look at modification indices.
The Yu and Muthen paper is not available but the Yu dissertation is on the website.
Hee-Jin Jun
posted on Monday, September 03, 2007 - 10:09 am
I am running a trajectory analysis with binary outcome. Sample size is 6703 and there are 18 time points without missing value. In the Output of the 2 classes model, I found a note that
Chi-Square Test of Model Fit for the Binary and Ordered Categorical (Ordinal) Outcomes**
** Of the 262144 cells in the latent class indicator table, 140 were deleted in the calculation of chi-square due to extreme values.
I am not sure what this means. I don't know where 262144 cell comes from? Would you tell me how can I found the reference for this type of problem. Also, will it be possible to compare this results with 3 classes model, which said "144 were deleted?"
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, September 03, 2007 - 10:25 am
The number of cells comes from the multiway frequency table created from the categorical dependent variables in the analysis. For example, if you had 4 binary dependent variables, the table would have 16 cells (2*2*2*2). The chi-square test compares the observed frequency table to the model estimated frequency table. With more than 8 categorical dependent variables, this test is not useful.
Hee-Jin Jun
posted on Monday, September 03, 2007 - 10:48 am
Dear Linda,
Thank you very much for your help.
Is there any way that I can compare the models to choose the most appropriate number of classes?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, September 03, 2007 - 10:56 am
You can compare nested models by using -2 times the loglikelihood difference.
Sandra Acosta
posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 12:12 am
I understood than when comparing models, the model with the smaller AIC indicates a better global fit. On the SEMNET discussion board, it was pointed out that in some programs, the opposite is true. In Mplus , when comparing two models using AIC does the higher or lower index value represent a better global fit?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 9:44 am
You look for the lowest like BIC.
Tracie B
posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 - 6:51 pm
In GMM, is it appropriate to use the usual indicators of model fit (adjusted BIC, the likelihood ratio tests, etc) to compare model fit in unconditional linear growth model with (say) 4 classes to an unconditional quadratic growth model with (say) 3 classes? I have determined that the 4 group model is the best model if I stick to linear- now I'd like to compare with the 2 to 7 group solution, but higher order.
Many thanks,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 8:31 am
You can look at the BIC and loglikelihood values but difference testing using the loglikelihood would not be appropriate. See the Nylund et al. paper on the website under Latent Transition Analysis.
Tracie B
posted on Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 9:53 pm
Thank you,
I've looked at the paper and realized I used misleading language with 'higher order', I mean allowing quadratic or cubic growth...I think my question is actually much more basic:
I would like to compare the fit using GMM(not LCA or LTA as far as I understand it)of the following:
I S | (...etc 10 time points)
I S Q | (...etc 10 time points)
i.e. linear growth specifying 4 classes Vs. quadratic growth specifying 3 classes, for example; both unconditional models. It is 'intuitive' to compare K Vs K+1 groups, but what about comparing model fit for 4 groups when only linear growth is permitted, with 4 groups when quadratic growth is permitted....or even more extreme comparisons. Is it still appropriate to use the same usual indicators of model fit? Thanks again for this great site.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Sunday, May 17, 2009 - 10:46 am
I think the only way to compare those models is using BIC.
posted on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 3:11 am
Dear Dr. Muth�n
My GMM with starting values converged well. However, the highest log-likelihood (LL) was observed for unperturbed seeds and it was not replicated. Increasing the STARTS and the STITERATIONS results in a improvement of the second-best LL but it is still not as good as the best LL. When running the GMM with the OPTSEED command and the seeds of the second best LL, it does not converge.
Do you have any suggestions what else I could do to be sure that there is no local maximum? Or can I be sure that I catched the optimal model given the circumstances mentioned above?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 9:13 am
It sounds like you are trying to get too much out of your data. You most likely need a more parsimonious model. For further information, send your output and license number to
mihyun park
posted on Wednesday, December 07, 2011 - 8:39 am
Dear Linda,
I conducted separately for male and female adolescents indicated that an LGM with an intercept and linear slope factor provided the best fit to the data for male adolescents(Chi-Square Test of Model Fit value=13.680, Degrees of Freedom=3, P-Value=0.0040, RMSEA=0.047, CFI/TLI=0.982/0.963).
By the way, the LGM result of female adolescents is following.
Estimated sample statistics, mean scores are each 2.144, 2.118, 2.281, 2.393 for four years.
if Quadric LGM
Chi-Square Test of Model Fit value=9.655, Degrees of Freedom=1, P-Value=0.0019, RMSEA=0.081, CFI/TLI=0.994/0.983,
if Linear LGM
Chi-Square Test of Model Fit value=12.467, Degrees of Freedom=3, P-Value=0.0059, RMSEA=0.049, CFI/TLI=0.989/0.978,
I think.. the model fit of linear LGM was better than quadric LGM. But the means decreased a little on second year and increased from third year again. In that case, which LGM model is the best?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, December 08, 2011 - 9:46 am
I would check if the mean of the quadratic growth factor is significant. If not, I would use the linear model results.
Mihyun Park
posted on Thursday, January 05, 2012 - 9:22 am
Dear Linda,
I appriciate your help.
I added 5th data and conducted for male again. I also tried to analysis spline LGM model. and compared linear model with spline model(chi-square comparing ). The spline model's model fit was better than the other.
Also I compared linear model with quadratic model. The quadratic model was better. And the slope and quadratic mean of quadratic model were significant. Descriptive mean scores were increased and decreased at last time point.
And then, should I choose the quadratic LGM model as the best trajectory model of my data?
I don't know well how I should compare and decide to spline model and quadratic model.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, January 06, 2012 - 10:15 am
If you are using maximum likelihood, you can use BIC to compare the spline and quadratic models.
Mihyun Park
posted on Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 10:52 am
Dear Linda,
Thank you for your advice. Thanks to you I have learned a lot and have done well.
I tried to analyze pararelle latent growth model separately for male and female adolescents. After that, I want to conduct multiple group LGM to examine the path invariance, prediction rate and slope rate across gender.
As you know, the pararelle latent growth model has two growth model. Girls have two linear(spline) growth model. But Boys have linear growth model and quadratic growth model. In other word, the configures are different across gender. If my data have different configure LGM across gender, can I use multiple group LGM?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 12:06 pm
To use multiple group analysis with growth models, the same growth model must fit in both groups. If not, across group comparisons cannot be made.
Mihyun Park
posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 11:44 am
Thank you very much for your kind help.
I ran pararelle latent growth model.
Model :
i1 s1 |
su22* su33* su44*
i2 s2 |
ax22* ax33* ax44*
ax11 with su11;
ax22 with su22;
ax33 with su33;
ax44 with su44;
ax55 with su55;
i2 on i1;
s2 on i1 s1;
Is this model possible?
But some researcher(around me) said, because su11 and ax11, su22 and ax22, et al.were assessed at same time point, the model(Model: s1 on i2; s2 on i1;) is possible. So the i2 on i1 and s2 on i1 s1 syntax were impossible. The model syntax is sequential growth latent model.
If I use ON model, the i1 s1(by su11 su22 su33 su44 and su55) should be measured before i2 s2(ax11 ax22 ax33 ax44 and ax55).
But I read some article using ON pararelle latent growth model with same time point.
Which is right? Would you give me some advice?
Lisa M. Yarnell
posted on Monday, February 06, 2012 - 8:55 am
Hello, in the output for my model with MLR estimation, I see the following Loglikelihoods and associated statistics:
H0 Value 84979.874
H0 Scaling Correction Factor for MLR 1.498
H1 Value -84286.966
H1 Scaling Correction Factor for MLR 1.454
Is the H0 model what we call the baseline model when using Chi-Square?
So if I want to compare the fit of two nested, structured models, I would utilize the H1 values from one model and the H1 values from the other model, right?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, February 06, 2012 - 9:12 am
The H0 model is the analysis model, the model specified in the MODEL command. To compare two nested models, use the two H0 loglikelihoods.
Lisa M. Yarnell
posted on Monday, February 06, 2012 - 10:15 am
OK, what is the H1 model, then, in a given singular Mplus output? What does the H1 tell you?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, February 06, 2012 - 1:41 pm
It is the unrestricted model of means, variances, and covariances which is used in the calculation of chi-square.
L. Siemons
posted on Thursday, October 04, 2012 - 7:36 am
I have some questions about the growth mixture modeling procedure I used.
1. I did run a linear and a quadratic model, both with 2 and with 3 classes. Mplus gives some information with the LO-MENDELL-RUBIN ADJUSTED LRT TEST about the fit of the classes. If I understand correctly, 3 classes are better fitting than 2 classes when this measure is significant when running a 3 class model?
Is there also a fit statistic which shows me whether the quadratic model fits better than the linear model? Or can I test this myself using some kind of log-likelihood ratio test? If so, which log-likelihood value should I use from the output?
2. I read something about removing non-significant quadratic terms, but retaining the linear parameters (irrespective of significance). How can I determine whether my quadratic terms are significant? Can this information be found in the output?
3. How can I save the group membership of the persons? I did try to do this using SAVE: CPROBABILITIES, but it gives an error and doesn�t run.
4. I learned from the literature that many fit indices can be examined (e.g. (sample-size adjusted) BIQ, AIC, posterior probabilities, log likelihood vales, adjusted LRT). Which measures are best/sufficient to use? And which values are they allowed to take in order to consider it a good fit?
I would greatly appreciate your help with answering these questions. Thank you very much!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, October 05, 2012 - 11:20 am
1. With the Lo-Mendell-Rubin test, when the p-value exceeds .05 for let's say three classes, you choose the two-class solution.
2. You would look at the mean of the quadratic growth factor. If it is significant, you would choose the quadratic model.
3. Please send the output and your license number to
4. BIC is good to use. See the Topic 5 course handout and video where this is discussed.
Lisa M. Yarnell
posted on Monday, April 08, 2013 - 11:21 am
Hi Linda, I am have the following select fit statistics for a model that I ran (see below). Why is the number of free parameters 12, but the degrees of freedom for the Chi-square 2?
Don't both refer to the model as a whole? Or does the Chi-square df not count certain estimated parameters, like variances?
Which should I rely on in reporting the degrees of freedom for the model? Thanks.
Number of Free Parameters 12
H0 Value -1053.922
H1 Value -1041.253
Information Criteria
Akaike (AIC) 2131.844
Bayesian (BIC) 2171.424
Sample-Size Adjusted BIC 2133.407
Chi-Square Test of Model Fit Value 25.337
Degrees of Freedom 2
P-Value 0.0000
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, April 08, 2013 - 1:39 pm
The number of free parameters is not equal to the degrees of freedom. The degrees of freedom is equal to the number of parameters in the H1 model minus the number of parameters in the H0 model.
Oleg Zaslavsky
posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 2:07 am
Dear Mplus staff,
I am fitting a unconditional linear GCM model with eight waves of data and ~63000 people.
Predictably I have a large proportion of missing data that generates warning:
However model estimation converges normally (and quite fast) and generates a set of estimates.
On the other hand I am having hard time retrieving any of model fit indices (i.e., CFI, TLI, WRMR, or even chi2).
Please advise me what should I do in that regard.
Thanks for your time
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 11:41 am
Please send the output and your license number to
Zuduo Zheng
posted on Monday, September 23, 2013 - 10:33 pm
Hello Dear Linda,
I'm new to LGM and to Mplus.
Based on your reply to one of the previous posts, my understanding is that the p value in the section of Chi-Square Test of Model Fit Value should be big (say, bigger than 0.05). However, I also noticed that in a couple of old posts (in this forum), the models discussed were with a p value less than 0.05. So, I'm writing to double check with you.
Below is what I got from my model. May I conclude that this model does NOT fit the data well because the p value in the section of Chi-Square Test of Model Fit Value is close to zero?
Any response from you will be appreciated.
Number of Free Parameters 24
H0 Value -90554.527
H1 Value -90513.727
Information Criteria
Akaike (AIC) 181157.053
Bayesian (BIC) 181314.910
Sample-Size Adjusted BIC 181238.645
(n* = (n + 2) / 24)
Chi-Square Test of Model Fit
Value 81.599
Degrees of Freedom 30
P-Value 0.0000
(the rest is omitted)
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 11:33 am
Please send the output and your license number to
Amber Fahey
posted on Thursday, June 07, 2018 - 7:12 pm
Hello, I am running a two level model with random intercepts and random slopes. I am obtaining LL's almost twice as large in the conditional model than the unconditional model. I can not use S-B deviance statistic to compare models because I am receiving negative values. But based on the size of the LL's it looks like the unconditional model is a better fit, however, my predictors in the conditional model explain 75 and 25 of the variability in my intercept and slope, respectively 9using pseudo R squared). Is there a way to reconcile this? It appears like I have entered good predictors (theoretically driven), but I can't understand why it would appear as if the conditional model is worse.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, June 08, 2018 - 1:55 pm
When you say "LL's almost twice as large" are you sure you are taking into account that they have negative values? For instance, LL= -1500 is better (higher) than LL=-1000.
Amber Fahey
posted on Friday, June 08, 2018 - 2:23 pm
My LL for the unconditional model is: -42777.07
For the conditional model the LL is:-8534.71
I have read the larger absolute value the better, but I�ve also read the smaller (closer to zero) the better. Can you please clarify? Is it dependent on the type of analysis or is it computed differently here in mplus?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, June 08, 2018 - 2:56 pm
It's strange that the unconditional model has such a much better LL. If you like, you can send your 2 outputs to Support along with your license number.
posted on Friday, October 11, 2019 - 6:06 am
Dear Drs. Muthen,
I have two questions with regard to model fit.
1) I am running conditional GMM models through the one-step approach.
My covariates are 3; however, depending on how many covariates I add to the model, N drops due to missing values.
How can I compare conditional models fit if N changes? As far as I understood, BIC and -2LL can be used only if models have the same N. I would like to know if adding more covariates is not improving model fit, therefore retaining the more parsimonious model.
2) How can I compare unconditional and conditional models (and therefore, the utility of adding covariates to the model) if N again is so different?
Thank you so much for your help,
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, October 11, 2019 - 2:36 pm
You can include all potential covariates and fix the slopes of those you don't want to include in a particular model. Then you use the same N and can compare BICs as well.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A study in nearly 70,000 pregnant women has found no link between migraine drugs called triptans and the risk of birth defects.
However, the researchers did find a "slight increase" in the risk of excessive bleeding during labor, and the failure of the uterus to contract normally after delivery, for women who used the drugs while pregnant.
Triptans are among the most powerful drugs used for migraine; others include aspirin, Excedrin, and ibuprofen.
While as many as three in 10 women may develop migraines during their childbearing years, women often shy away from using such drugs during pregnancy because of safety concerns, according to study co-author Katerina Nezvalova-Henriksen of the University of Oslo in Norway and her colleagues.
However, the authors of the study in Headache note, untreated migraine may itself carry risks for mother and child; some studies have linked it to pre-eclampsia, a potentially deadly pregnancy complication.
"While it is important to exert caution when using any medications during pregnancy, this study indicates" that pregnant women can either start or continue taking triptans without "any major risk" of miscarriage, premature delivery, or other bad outcomes, the authors conclude.
Nezvalova-Henriksen and her team studied nearly 70,000 women. Two percent, or 1,535, had used sumatriptan (Imitrex), rizatriptan (Maxalt), zolmitriptan (Zomig), or eletriptan (Relpax) in pregnancy.
Less than one percent — 373 women — had used the drugs before getting pregnant but not during pregnancy.
The overall birth defect rate, which encompasses everything from large birthmarks to serious heart problems, was the same among women who had taken triptans during pregnancy and those who didn't have migraines: 5 percent. Among those who had used triptans in the past but not during pregnancy, it was slightly higher: 6 percent.
The women who used triptans were also more likely than non-triptan users to take other drugs during pregnancy, including acetaminophen (Tylenol) with codeine and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen.
However, the rate of major birth defects - such as serious problems of the limbs or internal organs — was 3 percent for all three groups. That rate - about one in 33 births - is about what would be expected for all birth defects in the general population.
The researchers did find that women who used triptans in their second or third trimester were more likely to develop a condition called atonic uterus, in which the uterus fails to contract back to its normal size after delivery. This is the leading cause of excessive bleeding after delivery. They were also more likely to lose significant amounts of blood during labor and delivery.
And during pregnancy, they were more likely to suffer from vomiting than women who had never used the drug; they were also more likely to develop pre-eclampsia or eclampsia, and more likely to have deficiencies in the B-vitamin folate.
While many women who suffer migraines will experience improvements in their symptoms after their first trimester, Nezvalova-Henriksen and her team note, those whose symptoms don't improve by then aren't likely to get better.
"Although the findings are reassuring, confirmation in independent studies is warranted," the researchers conclude.
SOURCE: Headache, online January 28, 2010.

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The Ed Show for Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Read the transcript to the Tuesday show
Guests: Hilary Shelton, Mike Papantonio, Steve McMahon, Michael Medved,
Jack Rice, Heidi Harris, Tim Kaine, Nathan Daschle
ED SCHULTZ, MSNBC ANCHOR: Good evening, Americans, and welcome to THE ED SHOW tonight from New York.
These stories on the table and hitting my hot buttons at this hour.
It's going to be a heck of a weekend, isn't it? The Tea Partiers are laying out their invasion plans for the nation's capital.
Now, they are coming to the nation's capital for a rally. So what do they do? They publish a guidebook with tips on how to segregate themselves. They are also targeting the private homes of Democratic leaders.
My commentary on that in just a moment.
A Republican congressman now flat-out admits that if the GOP wins back the House, they plan to do nothing except campaign for 2012.
And just wait until you hear what "The Tan Man" had to say today.
Plus, Fox News may lose its spot in the White House Briefing Room after making a $1 million donation to the Republican Governors Association. Reaction to that coming up and so much more.
But this is the story that has me fired up tonight, Glenn Beck and his band of low information voters and Tea Party faithfuls, they are planning, I guess you could say, an invasion of the nation's capital this weekend. Beck says his followers can change the world.
GLENN BECK, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Those who are in attendance can change the world. I know that this will spread real faith, real hope, real charity—will spread.
SCHULTZ: Beck's followers, you know what they are spreading? They are spreading a bunch of hate.
A conservative blogger posted an online city guide that includes the D.C. home addresses for Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Now, I don't know how you feel about this, folks, but I don't think any public servant deserves to be targeted like this.
Last summer, we saw armed Tea Party rallies on the banks of the Potomac. Do you think these guys really need to know where Nancy Pelosi lives? What are they going to do with that information?
There were armed protesters at presidential rallies and a historic number of death threats against members of Congress just this year. And not all the threats were from the Tea Party outfit, I understand that, but their leadership has fueled the flame, no doubt about it.
Beck's guest speaker, of course, Sarah Palin, and chairwoman of the
Tea Party Caucus, Michele Bachmann, have recklessly said things like this -
SARAH PALIN ®, FMR. ALASKA GOVERNOR: It's not a time to retreat.
It's a time to reload.
REP. MICHELE BACHMANN ®, MINNESOTA: I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue.
SCHULTZ: Well, publicly providing home addresses to the members of Congress is just asking for trouble.
And you know what? This rally isn't about hope and change and a better America. This is all about harassment and intimidation. The Tea Party is old, white, desperate, out of touch, and evidently just scared of black folks in this country.
The conservative blogger also posted directions for people to stay out of the bad parts of town this weekend. It reads, "As a rule, African immigrants do not like for you to assume they are African-Americans, and especially do not like for you to guess they are from a neighboring country."
I can't believe this is happening in America in 2010. This is the kind of person who will be attending the Beck rally, being held on the same ground that Martin Luther King did when he gave his speech—"I have a dream" speech.
Now, this guy wants Beck's groupies to believe that they are safe if they stay in a small zone in central Washington, D.C. Why don't they just go ahead and label it the white zone?
Beck and his band of crazies aren't interested in anything, and I mean they are not interested in anything Martin Luther King did, what he stood for, or what he said on that day. You can't have unity if you segregate the nation's capital.
King was a champion, you see, of social justice. And Beck has been on the record many times as comparing social justice as the enemy of America, and communism and Nazism and all that other goofy stuff he talks about.
But think about the contrast here for a moment. Here you have Martin Luther King, who preached non-violence, and you've got Beck's followers over there. Well, they are putting out the private addresses of members of Congress just in case you might want to show up and intimidate them.
Beck and the Tea Party have to make one thing crystal clear this weekend—what part of Dr. King's address, "I have a dream" speech, do you really understand, do you really have a problem with? And what do you think it really meant in those times of change back in the '60s?
Tell me what you think in our telephone survey tonight, folks. The number to dial is 1-877-ED-MSNBC.
And my question tonight is: What do you think Glenn Beck cares more about, restoring America's honor or self-promotion? Press the number 1 for restoring America's honor. Press the number 2 for self-promotion.
We'll bring you the results later on in the show.
Joining me now is Hilary Shelton, senior vice president for the policy and advocacy group for the NAACP.
Mr. Shelton, good to have you with us tonight.
It's good to be with you.
SCHULTZ: Do you take offense that the Tea Party has put out materials saying stay out of these portions of town when you come in for the rally?
SHELTON: Well, it raises major concerns. It raises concerns when you look at this kind of information being severely based in stereotypes about African-Americans and those people of African descent that happened to have emigrated from other countries around the world.
It raises concerns when—we know that we have to thank him first. On his Web site, Mr. Beck did say, "Tea Party Participants: Please leave your guns at home and your racist signs." That's a good thing. We're very happy to see that.
But when he does things like this, talking about African-American the way that he does, and the stereotypical way, when he talks about people of African descent as he does, people from various places in Eastern Africa and the like, and when he does this also in the context of leaving the home addresses of people like Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader in the Senate, and Nancy Pelosi, who is our leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, it raises major concerns. And quite frankly, we know that at these Tea Party rallies and other places across the country they have come armed. It's even more concerning to us, and to many of us.
SCHULTZ: Mr. Shelton, do you think he's just trying to diss the black community going on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and also making Sarah Palin a part of it, who praised Dr. Laura for used the N-word and compared it to, you know, liberty and this is what we're all about in America? I mean, that's basically where she was going with that.
I mean, don't you find that just horribly offensive, the location of it and the people that are involved in it?
SHELTON: Let me say it's deeply concerning when you realize that they have these particular ideologies. But let me first say it's important to recognize, as we do at the NAACP, that certainly political participation is very important for all Americans.
We have a democratic system that requires us all to be actively engaged. It is not a spectator sport. But it's also one that's deeply rooted in civility. And when we see these kind of incendiary terms being used, the kind of race-baiting we've seen on this particular Web site, and other things along these lines, it's very clear that they have very little interest in civility.
SCHULTZ: It's called the Restoring Honor Rally. I'm interested to know if anyone from the NAACP has been invited to participate.
SHELTON: Not that I'm aware of. I don't think there's anyone at the NAACP that would see this rally as representing the true spirit of Dr. King's rally, or the NAACP's rally, for that matter, in 1963.
Many of us put the face of the '63 march with Dr. King, as it so deeply deserves. But that march was actually planned and organized and orchestrated by the NAACP, many of the labor unions, and other groups bringing an agenda of opportunity for all Americans, moving to address the racist discrimination that has been so much a part of our society up to that point, and moving to expand opportunities and governmental involvement in protecting every American.
But in this case what we have is an agenda that seems to do just the opposite. As a matter of fact, it's diametrically in opposition to that vision of Dr. King.
SCHULTZ: Mr. Shelton, great to have you with us tonight. Thank you, Hilary. I appreciate your time.
SHELTON: It's an honor to be with you.
SCHULTZ: For more, let me bring in Mike Papantonio, host of the nationally syndicated talk show "Ring of Fire."
Mike, I'm troubled by people who would put out the addresses of elected officials. It's all about intimidation. It's all about harassment, in my opinion. I mean, if you don't like these folks, all you've got to do is vote them out what.
What about their kids? What about their relatives? Do they deserve to be targeted and subjected to this?
Your thoughts on it?
MIKE PAPANTONIO, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Well, look, none of this happens by accident or mistake.
You mentioned, is Glenn Beck there to diss African-American? He is there, Ed, to incite African-American.
The Republicans discovered in the 1960s that divisiveness, civil disobedience, civil unrest among races and class, it helps conservatives get elected. Their vehicle for that was Richard Nixon. Now their vehicle are the teabaggers.
They capitalize. Back in the Nixon years, they capitalized on the race riots, on the war protests. They sold fear, Ed. They sold fear that Black Panthers can show up in your neighborhood and they can burn and they can loot.
There's no difference. If you even look at the money that's behind the teabagger movement, it's the same money that was behind the Richard Nixon movement, the fear movement that took place back then.
SCHULTZ: So you would say—and I don't want to put words in your mouth—is this about self-promotion for the guy who is organizing this, or is it really about restoring honor?
PAPANTONIO: Well, it has nothing about restoring honor. It's a bunch of inheritance—here's—if you follow the money on it, Ed, it's about inheritance babies, the Koch brothers, inheritance babies who don't want to pay taxes.
They want conservatives in power. The way you get conservatives in power is to scare the hell out of Americans.
I'll tell you what Glenn Beck is hoping. He's hoping that two blocks away from the Lincoln Memorial, that African-Americans are going to be so angry about what he's done on that important day, when Martin Luther King stood up and gave the most important speech of his career. And here you have this buffoon, this demagogue that's going to be preaching hate.
What does that do to the African-Americans that are two blocks away listening to this kind of hate speech. Any way you dress it up, Sarah Palin can't help herself, Glenn Beck can't help himself.
But you know what? They're not the money behind all this.
The money behind this are the Koch brothers, who put $100 million into spreading hate in this country. And they want the same divisiveness. They want the same ugliness that we saw in the Watts riots emerge so a guy—so the next conservative movement can come into power just like the Nixon movement did back in the '60s.
It's the same blueprint, Ed. I promise you, it's the same blueprint.
We're looking at—we're looking at the issue, should African-American be offended? Well, what African-Americans are going to do is they are going to see the reason they are not invited is it doesn't include them. It excludes them.
SCHULTZ: No doubt.
PAPANTONIO: That's the idea of racial division in America.
SCHULTZ: Mike Papantonio, always a pleasure. Great to have you with us, Mike. Thanks for joining us.
PAPANTONIO: Thank you.
SCHULTZ: Coming up, "The Tan Man" came out swinging today. Not a golf club this time. He was swinging at President Obama and demanding people lose their jobs. Joe Biden roared right back at him.
Commentary on that in "The Battleground" segment tonight. Stay with us.
And more proof that Newt Gingrich is a fraud and the biggest coward in the history of politics. "Mr. Double Speaker" is backing out of a Ground Zero mosque rally. We've got "Rapid Fire Response" to that.
All that, plus Dan Quayle says he's never seen such an ugly assault on the one his son has been subjected to, Levi Johnston is following Sarah Palin right into the zone, and Fox News might lose some leg room at the White House.
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SCHULTZ: Welcome back to THE ED SHOW and thanks for watching tonight.
Well, the Republicans are ratcheting up their campaign in the final stretch before the midterms. Today, House Minority Leader John Boehner, back in Ohio, gave a big economic speech where he outlined the Republicans' plan for the economy.
REP. JOHN BOEHNER ®, MINORITY LEADER: First, the president should -
Second, President Obama should—
Third, the president should—
Fourth, President Obama should—
It's time for people willing to accept responsibility and it's time to do what we say that we're going to do.
SCHULTZ: It was edited like that because he didn't say anything.
So the Republican plan is to tell President Obama what to do. The truth is, the Republicans plan to do nothing if they are put in charge again.
Another Ohio Republican congressman, Jim Jordan, well, he was caught on tape admitting exactly that.
REP. JIM JORDAN ®, OHIO: If we win, mostly—I'll be honest with you, mostly what we can done is have the big fight, have the big debate, and provide the framework for the 2012 presidential election.
SCHULTZ: It's that framework.
You know, I'll take their word for it. I don't think they are going to do anything.
For more, let's bring in Democratic strategist Steve McMahon.
Steve, I find it somewhat interesting that the first thing John Boehner wants to do is fire somebody what we've got a bad economy. But he wants to put somebody else in the unemployment line.
What is his beef with Tim Geithner? He says that the president should get rid of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. Geithner has been for getting money to community banks for small businesses, and Boehner has been against it.
What about this?
STEVE MCMAHON, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: That's right, Boehner has been against just about everything Tim Geithner is for, and I think his main problem with Tim Geithner is that Tim Geithner is a Democrat who serves in the administration of Barack Obama. And after all, this is a party that has no answers, that's offered no alternatives, and that now has no agenda and is admitting as much.
And I just hope that that clip you just played gets played in congressional districts all across the country, because the American people will see the party finally perhaps for what it is—the party of no.
SCHULTZ: I mean, seriously, today John Boehner did not lay out one single thing to create a job in this country. Now, sooner or later, the Democrats are going to have to make sure that this message gets to voters across the country. And as much as I don't like invoking the guy's name because I'm not a big history buff when it comes to Bush, because I want that part of American history to be gone, but the fact is they really don't have anything else other than what President Bush was purporting—promoting all the time.
Is that correct?
MCMAHON: Yes, it's warmed over Bushisms. They basically want to repeal everything that the president has done, which is represented progress in so many areas that you've already described, and go back to the policies of George Bush.
And they want to extend tax cuts to the rich, for instance. And they don't want to hold Wall Street accountable for the mess that was created there, for the fact that 401(k)s are now 201(k)s, and for all the economic havoc that resulted from those policies.
They want to go backward. The president inherited a bad situation, made it better. It's not getting better fast enough for many people, including the president, but it is getting better.
SCHULTZ: So, Steve, what do you think the strategy was today for Boehner to go after Geithner?
MCMAHON: Well, I think the Republicans have just decided that they want to be against everything that the president is for, and they want to try to make Tim Geithner a symbol of Wall Street. In fact, the symbols of Wall Street were the symbols that were inherited when Barack Obama became president: a collapsing economy, a financial system in ruin, and an economic system worldwide that was on the brink of collapse.
This president brought it back from that. Tim Geithner and others have stepped up and have started to turn the economy around.
We're seeing growth now, which is, you know, for the first time in two years or three years. And the economy is getting better. It's not getting better fast enough for the president, but it is getting better, and that's different than the situation that we found ourselves in when George Bush was president.
SCHULTZ: And you know, Steve, a running story that we've had on this program in the last month is, where is the base with the Democratic Party right now? Will they be motivated enough, talking about what it was like under Bush, talking about how Boehner doesn't have a plan?
Is this going to be enough? Because the base is somewhat frustrated with the White House, somewhat frustrated with the lack of progress after the House of Representatives has done some real progressive things the Senate hasn't acted on.
Is this going to be enough to motivate the base to make a difference in the midterms?
MCMAHON: Well, I think that's the big question, Ed. One of the things that you do so well is help motivate the base.
I think the base needs to come to grips with the fact that the president is dealt a hand and he makes the best of it. He's got a Congress he's got to deal with. He's got a Senate that's not as progressive as the House. And he gets the best that he can get given the circumstances that he's operating under.
And hopefully it will be enough for the base. One of the reasons I think it's so important for the president to remind people of what it was he inherited and what it was that George Bush left us is to remind the base of what it is that we might go back to if they don't get enthusiastic and get out and vote.
SCHULTZ: They've got to get after it.
Steve, good to have you with us tonight. Thanks so much.
MCMAHON: Thank you.
SCHULTZ: Coming up, Levi Johnston is going after "Mama Grizzly's" old gig, some of those serious "Psycho Talking" paw prints to fill. Aren't they? Well, maybe not. They are not very big, I don't think.
We're going into the "Zone" right here next on THE ED SHOW.
Stay with us.
SCHULTZ: And in "Psycho Talk" tonight, Levi Johnston is running for Sarah Palin's old job. And when you think about it, he's about as qualified as she was.
The "Playgirl" cover boy has filed the paperwork to run for mayor for Wasilla, Alaska, in 2012. And Levi is not missing an opportunity to make some dough of his psycho run for office. The gun-toting sex symbol of real America is turning his campaign into a reality show called "Loving Levi:
The Road to the Mayor's Office."
For the people who may thing Levi Johnston isn't qualified for office, let's not forget the former Wasilla mayor who put the town on the map.
KATIE COURIC, CBS: What newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand—
PALIN: I've read most of them.
COURIC: Like what specifically? I'm curious—
PALIN: All of them, any of them.
CHARLES GIBSON, ABC NEWS: Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?
PALIN: In what respect, Charlie?
PALIN: It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.
SCHULTZ: Now Levi, that's your training tape right there, buddy. The bar isn't set too high at all for you.
The fact that the estranged father of Sarah Palin's grandson is running for mayor shows that Wasilla, Alaska, deserves the title of "Psycho City USA."
Coming up, "The Tan Man" took some time off the golf course to hammer President Obama as a government community organizer who hasn't worked. Well, this guy certainly knows a thing or two about not working.
Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Michael Medved back with us. We're going to go head-to-head on this story in "The Battleground Story." Stay with us.
And Shirley Sherrod tells the Agriculture secretary, Tom Vilsack, in a polite way, take this job and shove it. I think it's great.
And I'm not letting the nut-job blogger Andrew Breitbart off the hook either. We'll get "Rapid Fire Response" on that.
And Dan Quayle is defending his son Ben with a shocking e-mail.
And I have more proof that Newt Gingrich is a coward again and again and again.
You're watching THE ED SHOW on MSNBC. Stay with us.
SCHULTZ: Welcome back to THE ED SHOW. The Battleground story tonight, the tan man wants to give pink slips to the Obama economic team. Today in Cleveland, Minority Leader John Boehner laid out his economic plan. He wants the president to fire his top advisers.
REP. JOHN BOEHNER, MINORITY LEADER: The American people are asking, where are the jobs? And all the president's economic team has to offer a promises of green shoots that never seem to grow. President Barack Obama should ask for and accept the resignations of the remaining members of his economic team starting with Secretary Geithner and Larry Summers, the head of the National Economic Council.
SCHULTZ: I bet he spent a lot of time on the golf course coming up with that idea. Vice President Joe Biden wasted no time hitting back on Boehner today accusing him of being nostalgic of the Bush years.
JOE BIDEN (D), VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Millions upon millions of Americans who saw their savings, their paychecks shrink, lost their jobs, their homes, Mr. Boehner is nostalgic for those good old days, but the American people are not. They don't want to go back. They want to move forward, and so folks I'm still waiting for what it is that they are for.
SCHULTZ: Joining me now is Michael Medved, nationally syndicated radio talk show host. Mike, good to have you with us. What is the republican plan? I mean, I'm being an honest broker here. I paid attention to Boehner's speech today. I didn't see anything in there at all that said, hey, that's—that's really a good idea about creating jobs. What's your take on this?
MICHAEL MEDVED, SYNDICATED RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Well, my take is I think what John Boehner is saying, and I think he's completely correct, is one of the big problems in the American economy today, when you talk to small business people, and I do all the time, I know you do, one of the things that's preventing them from hiring is uncertainty, uncertainty about who is going to get taxes increases on them when it comes to January.
SCHULTZ: Oh, Mike, come on!
MEDVED: Uncertainty about what new big government program is going to come down the pike next.
SCHULTZ: Mike, let's talk about uncertainty, you know what made America great is people had just a big pair and they went out and they took a chance and they got after it. This is about risk. The republicans, I think their economic plan is that well, it's got to be guaranteed or it's not going to work.
MEDVED: No, it's not.
SCHULTZ: There are no guarantees in business.
MEDVED: You're absolutely right.
SCHULTZ: You have to have your heart and soul to go after it.
MEDVED: Businesses have to be allowed to fail, I think you and I agree on that but they also have to be allowed to succeed without some kind of new surprise of a big new government program or a big new tax. If you're increasing the tax on dividends.
SCHULTZ: You know what? I don't disagree with that, Mike, but the fact is the only people who have seen their taxes go up since Barack Obama has been in the White House is people like Boehner who goes to the tanning bed and also people who smoke. Nobody else has had their taxes go up, so what's the big fear here? In fact.
MEDVED: The big fear is that unless Congress acts, and Congress has to act before January, everyone, every single American is going to get a tax increase on January 1st and you know it.
SCHULTZ: No. There is going to be a sunset of a law that the republicans put in place and all of a sudden they are saying that it's a big job creator, but on the other hand they are asking where are the jobs. It's rather interesting how they are swinging this thing. Here's the one point I want to make with you and I want to give you a fair chance to respond here.
SCHULTZ: Timothy Geithner, the treasury secretary, was his target today in this speech. Now Mr. Geithner has been on record that he wants obviously along with the president to get billions of dollars, billions of dollars to community banks for lending for small businesses. What's wrong with that? And of course, Boehner and the republicans are against access to money. Why?
MEDVED: Not everything that Timothy Geithner is in favor of is a bad idea. I mean, even a stopped clock is right twice a day, as people say. The truth is though, you've got to look at the record. You've got a situation now, Ed, where two-thirds of Americans think, know that we're on the wrong track, particularly economically. This is no longer George Bush's economy. This is now Obama and Geithner's economy and we need a change in direction.
SCHULTZ: And we're a lot better off because of it. We're not peeling off 700,000 jobs a month.
MEDVED: Most Americans don't think that.
SCHULTZ: We've saved the automobile industry in this country. We rebuilt Wall Street and I'm not a big Wall Street fan of what happened, but the fact is back in March of 2009, the market was at 6000 something and now look where it is.
MEDVED: Right.
SCHULTZ: I mean there's a lot of people that have made money.
MEDVED: Where are the jobs, Ed? Where are the jobs? We have 9.5 percent unemployment.
SCHULTZ: The jobs is going to take time.
SCHULTZ: Even republicans have said that it's going to take time to turn this around. You can't work magic in 18 months, and you know that and you also know, Mike, that the republicans have fought every job initiative that the Obama team has come up with and now they want to fire them.
MEDVED: If you know it and I know it, Ed, why is it that the Obama administration promised we would never go above eight percent unemployment?
SCHULTZ: You know how political promises are.
MEDVED: And spent $864 billion on a stimulus that didn't stimulate.
SCHULTZ: Will you admit we're not peeling off 700,000 jobs a month?
MEDVED: No, I will admit that President Obama has tried his best, but he has tried his best with failed ideas.
SCHULTZ: And no help from the republicans. It's been one filibuster after another in the Senate.
MEDVED: They had 60 votes in the Senate until Scott Brown. They have a huge majority in the House. They are not going to after November.
SCHULTZ: They got the stimulus package in, and by the way, only half of the stimulus package has been used so far.
MEDVED: And why is that?
SCHULTZ: So, more things are going to be coming. All right. Mike, good to have you with us tonight. Appreciate the conversation.
MEDVED: Thank you always, Ed.
SCHULTZ: Now let's get some rapid fire response from our panel on these stories. Shirley Sherrod. Well, she has turned down the job offer to return to the Department of Agriculture right after wing hatchet man, right wing hatchet man Andrew Breitbart got her axed.
Newt Gingrich will not appear in person or in videotape message at an anti-mosque protest at Ground Zero on the anniversary of 9/11. Why, Newt? Why the change?
And former Vice President Dan Quayle is defending his son Ben after Ben's republican opponent put out an attack ad, dealing with Ben's involvement with a dirty Scottsdale website. Oh, the republican love fest is taking place.
Joining us tonight is Jack Rice, former CIA officer and criminal defense attorney, and Heidi Harris, radio talk show host from Las Vegas. All right. Let's first talk about Shirley Sherrod. Jack, why didn't she take the job? Was this about pride? Was this about image, or was this about just not going back into what some people call a cesspool?
JACK RICE, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: You know what, I think she was absolutely correct here. I mean, one of my biggest problems and I think one of her biggest problems is that the democrats and liberals in particular are somehow seen as unwilling to stand up for principle. She was pushed out. They caved in on the issue and it made them look weak, and I think from her perspective, why would I step back into something where they pushed me out for absolutely the wrong reasons? Yes, they took responsibility. That's a good thing, but that doesn't fix the problem, and I don't really blame her for somehow now turning around and saying, oh, gosh, I'll step back in. It's OK. I don't blame her one bit.
SCHULTZ: This is Shirley Sherrod today at a press conference with Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack. Here's her reasoning.
SHIRLEY SHERROD, FORMER USDA EMPLOYEE: The secretary did push really, really hard for me to stay and work from the inside in the position. It is a new position. I, you know, look at what happened now, and I know he's—he's apologized and I accept that. I just—and he's—a new process is in place and I hope that it works. I don't want to be the one to test it.
SCHULTZ: Heidi, what do you make of this?
HEIDI HARRIS, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: I think it's funny. I mean, she was done wrong. There's no question about that. She was falsely fired, but give me a break. She better take another job because her 15 minutes of fame are almost over and if she doesn't get a reality show, she's going to need something to pay the bills. She needs to stop trying to make herself the poster child for race relations and unfair firings and just suck it up and just disappear back into a regular job, please.
SCHULTZ: So, you think she was fired justifiably?
HARRIS: No, I don't think she was. I think, she was done wrong, absolutely, no question about it. But quit milking it lady and get a job. Go back to work, they're offering you something, take it and unless Mark Burnett comes calling, you're going to need to have a job, just stop trying to milk it.
SCHULTZ: What do you think, Jack?
RICE: So principle stands for nothing, right? The principle means
nothing here, that she's willing to say wait a second, I stand up for my
beliefs, I know what I stand up for, I look back at a whole life of what I
have done. She's doing the absolutely correct thing here. This is not a
left or right question, this is not a democrat or republican question, this
is not a conservative or liberal question. This is a principle question
and what she's doing is absolutely the right thing. I commend her
HARRIS: I never said it was political. You notice how I didn't mention Democrats or Republicans. She was wrongly fired. They did her wrong, they apologized. She's milking it. For all she can get out of it, I think, it's kind of ridiculous. She's got her 15 minutes of fame and it's about to expire. That's all I'm saying. It's kind of funny.
SCHULTZ: Let's go to Newt Gingrich. Every conservative in the world seems to be coming out against the mosque near Ground Zero and now Newt is distancing himself from it. Heidi, what do you make of it?
HARRIS: I'm not exactly sure. You know, his people say, he never really said he was going to be there and then he maybe said, he was going to give a video but maybe he didn't. I'm not exactly sure, it's interesting because he was very vocally opposed. That being said, 9/11 is going to be a busy day for a lot of people, and I'm not sure what other commitments he may have had or he feels he'll get better visibility or maybe he's made those commitments far in advance. I really don't know what his motives are.
SCHULTZ: I think we're looking at a major political calculation here because he knows it's—it makes a person seem as if they are anti-diversity by opposing this. That's my opinion, and I don't care what the majority of the country thinks. The majority of the country wanted universal health care, and, hell, we didn't get it. Jack, what do you think Gingrich is doing here?
RICE: You know, Ed, I absolutely agree with you on this. When I look at how this is playing out, it's almost as if Muslims are synonymous with terrorists. At least, that's what some of these people are arguing. Of course it's not true. It's absolutely ridiculous. The more that we alienate these people, the more dangerous it makes this country and the more dangerous it makes this world. I have no idea where it is that Newt seems to be going but he seems to normally be pandering to his base. Who knows what's going on now?
SCHULTZ: All right. Dirty politics in Arizona. Ben Quayle is going for the nomination tonight in the Republican Party for that house seat and Steve Moak has taken out a vicious attack ad based on some of the things that he's posted on a very questionable website. Here it is.
ANNOUNCER: News report link Ben Quayle to a raunchy website that degrades women. Quayle first denies it saying, quote, "I was not involved in the site and then under pressure, Quayle changes his story and admits that he did write for the website using a fake name." Quayle said on the website, quote, "my moral compass is so broken, I can barely find the parking lot," end quote. Is this the type of behavior we want from our next congressman?
SCHULTZ: Obviously, the ad against Ben Quayle and response from his father Dan Quayle, former Vice President of the United States. "I took my fair share of outrageous slams in politics, but Steve Moak's vicious smear against my son is over the top and unprecedented. I've never in my 35 years of politics seen such an ugly, slanderous assault in the closing days of a campaign against a fellow republican." Heidi, sort it out for us.
HARRIS: I've got to tell you, Ed, it surprises me continually what people can say in campaigns that you and I couldn't say and keep our radio jobs. I'm fascinated by that. Of course, Ben Quayle denies this. He says it's not true. He wrote some blog postings before it actually became thedirty.com when it was something else. I don't really know what the truth is. But this kind of things, people will going to have to check for themselves about what the facts are. Dirty campaigning, the reason people keep doing it because it always works.
SCHULTZ: What do you think, Jack?
RICE: Sadly, I absolutely agree. I mean, that's the problem here.
We don't have enough transparency and you don't have enough time. Obviously most people are busy trying to feed their families and take care of their kids and get them ready for school, and so what you don't get is the ability to dig in and see what this means. I hope there's enough transparency to figure this out and at least make this stop.
SCHULTZ: But Heidi, don't you think that the voters are going to be asking the question, do I really want to put my support behind somebody who is hanging around dicey websites?
HARRIS: Well, I think they should. I think, the voters should ask questions on both sides all the time. But Jack is right. It's very difficult sometimes to find out what the truth is. And they can make any allegation they want during campaigns. I'm amazed every year at what goes on with this, every election season and you have to work very hard as a voter, very diligently to try to get to the truth.
SCHULTZ: Heidi Harris, Jack Rice.
RICE: Heidi, we actually agree, Heidi? Come on, that's a little scary for me.
HARRIS: Because you're starting to come around to my way of thinking, Jack.
RICE: Oh, gosh, say it ain't so. Stop it!
SCHULTZ: That's why we've got to cut this segment short. No, just kidding.
All right. Coming up, the so-called maverick spent over $20 million to mount a major comeback in his primary. He might escape the anti-incumbent mood, but his image is forever tarnished in my opinion. DNC Chairman Tim Kaine will bring the heat and give me the game plan for November, next.
And psycho talking sister Michele Bachmann is bringing crazy to the streets. It's all coming up in the Playbook. Stay with us.
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SCHULTZ: And in my Playbook tonight, John McCain. He's back at it, he's on track to defeat challenger J.D. Hayworth, in Arizona, in the Republican primary today, but it's going to cost him big, $20 million and, of course, his maverick image has been tarnished. McCain's Tea Party opponent forced him to spend big and take a hard right turn. Is this what republicans are going to have to do in the mid term, maybe veer away from the Tea Party?
Joining me now is former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine who is the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Tim, great to have you with us tonight.
GOV. TIM KAINE, DNC CHAIRMAN: Hey, Ed.
SCHULTZ: What do you make of John McCain's move? Of course, he spent a lot of money, but he shifted in the last 60 days to protect his position. It looks like he's going to win tonight. What do you make of it?
KAINE: Yes, Ed. I think that's the big story, and we're seeing it all across the country. I mean, in at least three major areas, you know, John McCain was a voice for reason on immigration reform. He's abandoned that. He's been a voice for reason on energy and climate policy. He's abandoned that. He was the sponsor of campaign finance legislation. He's abandoned that, but even abandoning it isn't enough. He's also had to spend $21 million just on a primary to get his Republican Party's nomination and we see that happening all over the country now as candidates who were trying to be somewhat constructive have to run way right to—to, you know, match the will of this new Republican Tea Party.
SCHULTZ: Has Tea Party activism damaged the democrats, really maybe hampered their chances coming up in November? Some political experts are saying, you're going to lose the House?
KAINE: Well, Ed, I think, you know, it's a mixed bag. Let me start off by saying any time you see energy on the other side you've got to respect it. I think there's energy in the Tea Party now. I think it's a party that is shrinking geographically, demographically and ideally, (audio gap) energy in midterms, we got to respect it and that's why we're investing so much on the field side but the flip side of it is you see that a lot of this is getting directed against republicans. Look what's happening in Florida. Big primary tonight. The Florida gubernatorial primary is a bloodbath between two republican candidates. They have had to cancel the unity rally they were planning to have because they won't pledge to support each other. They already chased Charlie Crist out of the Republican Party in Florida, so what we see on the Tea Party is there's energy there, we got to take that seriously but a lot of the energy is being directed at Republicans. That's going to help us in the fall.
SCHULTZ: Governor Kaine, you've used the word energy a few times tonight and that's exactly what I'm going to talk about when it comes to the democratic base.
KAINE: You bet.
SCHULTZ: There's been a lot of experts out and about saying that the base is not motivated. They are frustrated, that not enough change has taken place. Where is the base going to be on Election Day in November? Will they be motivated, and all this talk about going back to the Bush years, which, of course, the vice president talked about today on the heels of Mr. Boehner's message, where's the base going to be? Are you confident they are going to show up in droves to get the job done?
KAINE: Ed, I am confident that the base and others, independents as well, as they start to analyze the choice they have are going to be with us come November. Look, it's never like a presidential election. Nobody votes like they do in a presidential year, but what we've seen in polling, for example, the "Wall Street Journal" poll last week, and we can't accuse them of being democratic after their parent company gave a million bucks to the RGA, they showed a couple of things. One, for the first time in a while and that pole, there's a generic preference for a democratic Congress, and second an energy gap that was 30-point gap between Republicans and Democrats is now dramatically narrowing. As we do things like pass health care and Wall Street reform and as the Republicans nominate candidates who talk about wanting to repeal or privatize Social Security, abolish the Department of Education, flushing the civil rights act, our folks is starting to get energized about these races.
SCHULTZ: Governor Kaine, head of the DNC. I appreciate your time tonight and we apologize for the satellite problems. He's not acting. That was just some technical issues there. Thanks for joining us, Tim. I appreciate it.
A couple of final pages in my Playbook tonight. Psycho Queen Michele Bachmann is hitting the road on a bus tour. The crazy tour kicks off tomorrow for a one-day trip across her congressional district in Minnesota. Her goal is to connect with small business owners concerned about the economy. The crazy tour hits the road again in September. Can I get a ride?
And Charlie Rangel is blasting President Obama. Speaking at a political forum in Harlem last night, the embattled congressman responded to President Obama suggesting that he retire with dignity. Now, according to the "New York Times," Rangel said, quote, "frankly he has not been around long enough to determine what my dignity is. For the next two years, I will be more likely to protect his dignity."
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SCHULTZ: And finally tonight on "The Ed Show," FOX News is still duping folks into thinking that they are a real news organization and they have a front row seat in the White House briefing room to show for it. But News Corp. recently removed any illusion of fair and balanced by giving a $1 million to the Republicans. So now, several media Watchdog groups are urging the White House Correspondents Association to reconsider FOX's front row privileges.
Joining me is Nathan Daschle, Executive Director of the Democratic Governors Association. What's the big deal here? Where they seat in the press briefing? What do you think, Nathan?
Well, Ed, you know, you said it right off the bat. FOX News violated a very, very fundamental principle that we hold dear which is that the media ought to be independent of those they cover, particularly when it comes to something as important as politics. FOX News grossly violated this principle when they gave an unprecedented $1 million to the Republican Governors Association whose sole the purpose is the defeat of democratic governors.
SCHULTZ: Now on another story, you went after FOX News and wanted a formal disclaimer of FOX's coverage in gubernatorial races because of this donation, and they responded, Brian Lewis, FOX News spokesman said, "Nathan's stunt has run its course. His 15 minutes are up. Time to leave stage." What's your response to that?
DASCHLE: You know, they can call this a stunt all they want. This is a very, very important principle which is the principle of transparency. If FOX News wants to be an independent media organization, then don't give $1 million to defeating democratic governors, but if you want to be a political organization, if you want to inject yourself in the political arena like this, then why not let the viewers know. I think, you know, in politics we think it's very important for us to let viewers know where the information comes from. That's why we have disclaimers in state and federal election laws and here we have a news organizations given $1 million to defeating democratic governors, and I think it's only appropriate that the viewers know that when you process this information.
SCHULTZ: Are you concerned that if this isn't challenged, where will it stop?
DASCHLE: I am concerned. I mean, you know, we've always known that FOX News is a conservative bent. There's been no question about that. Fair and balanced has always been somewhat of a dubious sloganeering, now it's just a complete joke. Now, they are in the bag with the Republican Party. They are literally bank rolling the republicans, and I think that if we don't stop it, you know, media matters and other organizations have said to the White House Correspondents Association that front row is a position that's highly coveted. It's won of prestige and dignity that is not appropriate for this news outlook.
SCHULTZ: It's legal though—I mean, they are not breaking any laws. Do you think the people in this country quickly are going to connect the dots?
DASCHLE: You know, they are not breaking any laws. And if they want to do this, go ahead. Our point is just let the viewers know.
SCHULTZ: Nathan Daschle, good to have you with us tonight. Thanks so much.
DASCHLE: Thank you, Ed.
SCHULTZ: Tonight in our phone survey I asked, what do you think Glenn Beck cares more about? Restoring America's honor or self-promotion? Nine percent say restoring America's honor and 91 percent say, self-promotion. I guess.
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Many Brazilians leaving state for home country
At the Fernandes Food Store on Liberty Street in Danbury, Emily Rebiro calls everyone "Honey" or "Sweetheart." She makes sure that, if there's something people want in her store, they'll find it. It's down the aisle, she says. Right there.
Rebiro works hard to keep her customers she has happy. In part, that's because of who she cheerfully is. But it's also because some of her best customers -- the city's Brazilians -- are no longer around. She has to keep the ones she has left happy.
"Oh definitely," she said, when asked if she's seeing fewer Brazilians in her store. "They used to be in all the time."
As a result, she said, she's essentially in the store all hours to earn enough money to keep it going. She's not drawing much of a salary.
"I'm working for free," she said.
Across the street, Calixto Jimenez at Discount Liquors agrees.
"It started maybe two years ago," Jimenez said of the disappearance of the Brazilian trade. "I've lost a lot of customers." He and his brother Juan say that loss is about 25 percent of their business.
Anyone who did business with the wave of Brazilian immigrants that rolled into the state beginning in the 1990s and peaked in the early 2000s, agrees that the wave is receding. The Brazilians are going home.
In Danbury, that's meant failed businesses and empty storefronts in the city's downtown.
At Eliza's Store on Main Street, its owner, Cleantes Xavier, pointed out that he and his wife, Eliza, used to have three stores on Main Street. They now have one; Eliza is working in Brazil.
"I think, maybe 80 percent of the Brazilians who were here are gone," he said.
It's showing up in city schools as well.
"It used to be skyrocketing," Augusto Gomes, administrator of the English as a Second Language, Bilingual and World Languages program in the Danbury school system, said of enrollment of Brazilian students in the city. "They were coming here by the truckload. Now, it's stagnant."
The receding wave of Brazilians isn't unique.
For a variety of reasons -- some having to do with the U.S. economy, some having to do with U.S. immigration policies -- immigration to the United States is down as a whole.
In May 2012, the Pew Hispanic Center reported that the huge flow of Mexican immigration to the United States had slowed to the point where the number of Mexicans coming into the country equalled those leaving.
Because so many of these immigrants are undocumented, it's difficult to know exact numbers.
For Brazilians, the counting can be even trickier, because the U.S. Census Bureau does not include Brazilians as either Hispanic or Latino.
So all the numbers concerning the great wave of Brazilians at its peak tend to be estimates, whether it is in the city, the state or the United States.
"Nobody has the numbers," said anthropologist Maxine Margolis of New York, who has written about the Brazilian migration. Her next book, "Goodbye Brazil," contains sections about Danbury.
Using estimates, the Brazilian government has said more than a million of its citizens left for the United States over the past 20 years or so.
Paulo Almeida, deputy counsel at the Brazilian Consulate in Hartford, said one estimate had 60,000 to 70,000 Brazilians living in Connecticut and Rhode Island -- legally and illegally -- during the peak years. That number may be down now to around 40,000, Almeida said.
"We think 20 to 30 percent have returned to Brazil," he said.
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Why this is happening is complicated. Partly, it's economic.
What started in 2007 became very clear by 2008 -- the United States had entered a period of deep recession.
At the same time, the Brazilian economy -- in the doldrums for decades -- took off. It's now considered what some global economists call the four BRIC countries -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- that have the potential to be major economic forces in the world in the decades ahead.
Brazil is also the host nation for soccer's 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics -- events sure to generate jobs.
For that reason, Brazilians looking for work in the United States realized the jobs they were looking for are back in their homeland.
"It used to be the American dream," said Ester Sanches-Naek of Tolland, a former representative with Brazilians Abroad. "Now it's the Brazilian dream."
And, staying in the United States wasn't always easy. Many of these immigrants were undocumented -- most commonly they'd come to the United States on temporary visas, then stay.
"They'd think they were staying five years and would be 10," said Natalicia Tracy, executive director of the Brazilian Immigration Center in Boston.
These people live in limbo. They work in the United States. They earn and spend money here. They contribute to the local economy. But they are here illegally.
They know, at any time, they could be deported. And that wears on them.
Tracy said because these undocumented Brazilians fear returning to their native country -- because once they leave the United States, they'd have trouble returning -- they miss out of pivotal moments of family life. That adds to their frustrations.
"They can't go home for the death of grandparents, even for brothers and sisters," she said.
For younger people, the frustrations have to do with the educational system. Students who get their high school diploma can have a very hard time getting into college without citizenship or naturalization papers, a driver's license or a legal ID.
"It's not just Brazilians, it's all undocumented residents," said Camila Bortolleto, who, while undocumented, graduated from Western Connecticut State University with honors and is now one of the founders of CT Students for a DREAM.
"Really bright kids will be heading back to Brazil," said Sanches-Naek.
Emanuela Leaf, editor of Tribuna, the twice-monthly Portuguese-English newspaper in Danbury, also said that around 2001, the U.S. government allowed undocumented immigrants to pay a $1,000 fine, then apply for a green card. It may have taken 10 years, she said, but the people who applied and received a green card can now travel freely between the United States and Brazil. That may account for some of the departures, she said.
"We saw this coming," she said.
In Danbury, that sense of being on the outside of the system was more pronounced, local Brazilians said, thanks to the hard-line immigration policies laid down by Mayor Mark Boughton.
In 2006, city police pretended to be men hiring day laborers. They picked up 11 of those Latino workers -- the men that became known as the Danbury 11 -- and brought them directly to federal immigration agents. In the court settlement in 2011, the city paid the men $400,000, but admitted no wrongdoing.
And in 2008, city police partnered with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in a multi-year program to apprehend undocumented residents who had criminal records in their native countries.
The program resulted in only a handful of arrests over the years. It was also profoundly unpopular with the immigrant population within the city.
Many Brazilians living in the city moved elsewhere said Nilton Coelho, owner of Banana Brazil, a restaurant on Main Street in Danbury.
"They all left after ICE," Coelho said. "They moved to Waterbury or Bridgeport."
"There's a difference between thinking `I want to be here. I want to be part of the American Dream,' then feeling `They don't want us here,' " Leaf said. "After a while, people think `I can't do this.' They take a U-turn."
Boughton is totally unapologetic concerning his policies.
The city doesn't write immigration laws, he said. If his administration has had any tone toward undocumented residents, it is "to support the laws of the United States of America."
And, he said, if Brazilians failed to make a go of it in the city because they depended solely on doing business with other Brazilians -- who, as undocumented residents, may come and go rapidly -- that is not his fault.
"That's a bad business model," Boughton said.
But what's unclear is whether the wave, moving from the United States back to Brazil, will be permanent.
For one thing, Maxine Margolis said, wages are still much lower in Brazil than in the United States.
"It's great for the high-end worker," Margolis said. "But waiters earn as much here as white-collar workers or teachers there."
Another factor that may slow the return is immigration reform.
After November's election, there was suddenly a renewed interest in the White House and in the U.S. Congress to pass a comprehensive package of reforms that might give undocumented workers a path toward naturalization, if not citizenship. They could live in this country without fear of being picked up and sent home.
For that reason, said Breno da Mata, editor of Comunidade, a newspaper for the Brazilian community in Danbury, Brazilians who might be considering a return to their homeland may now be in a holding pattern to see if anything gets done.
"It seems there is a good chance something will happen," da Mata said. "People who are not here legally are preferring to wait. It may be their best chance."
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People throughout Scotland with a view on whether children should be given equal protection from assault now have less than 24 hours to complete a consultation on the issue.
Green MSP John Finnie's proposed equal protection bill aims to give children the same protection from assault currently enjoyed by the rest of society. The consultation on the bill closes this evening (August 4).
Finnie's proposed members' bill has already received widespread backing from groups throughout Scotland, including NSPCC Scotland; Barnardo's Scotland; Children 1st; Church of Scotland; Humanist Society; the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit and the Children & Young People's Commissioner.
Justice spokesperson for the Scottish Greens, John Finnie MSP said:
"There is clear evidence that the use of physical punishment is detrimental to children's long term health and wellbeing. By giving children full protection against assault we can send a clear message to all of us about how we treat each other and underpin Scotland's efforts to reduce violence across the whole of society.
"My proposed bill seeks to afford children the same protection from assault that is currently enjoyed by the rest of society and I would encourage all interested parties to respond to my consultation before it closes today."


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