Eli Lake of Newsweek/The Daily Beast joins Up w/ Chris Hayes to talk about how President Obama handled the week of violence and tension, and how his actions compare to the remarks made by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
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Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.
How did we get here? With "Twilight of the Elites," Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had placed them near the very top. Their ascension heightened social distance and spawned a new American elite--one more prone to failure and corruption than any that came before it.
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Worthless (junior) neocon whore also known Eli Lake. Why do we have watch this fat f--k?
Seriously can't Chris invite a half descent guy on the right instead of this double digit IQ Israel Firster?
What's next, inviting that the racist scum Alana Goodman?
but he sounded like
Is it just me or is Eli Lake an Israel-first-er from AIPAC. I don't know his background but he worked way to hard to defend ANY critical comment regarding Israel or 'Bibi Netanyahu.