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First up - mind the gap.
There were tens of thousands at Glenn Beck's rally this weekend but when was
the last time liberals got 100,000 people on the mall. President Obama's
Inauguration? Why don't we see progressive creating events like this? It's this
enthusiasm gap that has some smart people predicting that the Democrats could
lose up to 60 House seats in November. MSNBC Political Analysts Richard Wolffe
and Howard Fineman will tell us what Democrats can do to close the gap.
And how did Presiden Obama lose control of his own narrative? He's been painted
as a foreign-born, Muslim, socialist warmonger who coddles terrorists and is an
enemy of American business. The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson and Mother
Jones' David Corn will explain just how this narrative has taken hold and what
the White House needs to do to change it.
Plus, another anti-Muslim incident occurred over the weekend at an Islamic
Center construction site in Tennessee. After 9/11, President Bush was quick to
speak out against any Muslim backlash and say Islam was a religion of peace.
But are there any responsible Republicans willing to defend Islam today? The
Southern Poverty Law Center's Mark Potok and the Islamic Center of
Murfressboro's Dr. Essam Faphy will try answer that question.
Also, how's this for an interesting political twist: the 2010 political season
that's been dubbed the "year of the woman" may actually result in a drop in the
number of women serving in Congress for the first time in a generation.
Bloomberg's Margaret Carlson and Politico's Jeane Cummings will give you their
analysis.
And finally, we'll end the program with a few thoughts on Glenn Beck's rally.
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