On Today's Show

At 3:30 EST, furniture designer, entrepreneur and gay activist Mitchell Gold will join us in studio to talk about Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America. With essays by Bishop Gene Robinson, Richard Chaimberlain, John Amaechi and many more, the book is aimed at taking on the mental health crisis facing many LGBT teens grappling with coming to terms with who they are.

At 4:30 EST, yes, those interviews taped at the RNC we never got to -- including Gover Norquist and David Brooks, among others. We go so caught in Sarah Palin insanity -- and we have more to go today -- that we just didn't get to them on Friday.

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On Today's Show

We're back live today, and we'll be all over that Sarah Palin interview, and all the other issues percolating.

In the 3:30 EST hour, my interview with Grover Norquist, the influential right-wing tax-obsessed Republican activist. I asked him the "gay" question, which has long been rumored. You'll enjoy his interesting answer (I'll post the interview over the weekend. Also, my interview with David Brooks, the conservative pundit and New York Times columnist, on Sarah Palin, John McCain and Barack Obama. Both interviews were taped at the Republican National Convention last week.


At 4:30 EST, Nation correspondent Bob Moser joins me to talk about his new book Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority. There's been a lot of talk about just what kind of success Barack Obama can have in the South, and Moser argues the Democrats have too easily written off the region and are poised to make inroads.


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On Today's Show: Deprogramming from the RNC

We're back with our first show in New York in over two weeks, since we embarked on our Unofficial Larry Craig Tour. Look for videos in coming days from our travels, touring Larry Craig's sex den in Denver, and then the bathroom at the Minneapolis airport, among other locales.

Today on the show we're look at where the presidential race stands now, with Sarah Palin on the campaign trail -- even as more stories of her past surface -- and McCain getting a boost in the polls. What does Obama need to do next?

We'll also look back on the Republican National Convention. We have many interviews we haven't aired yet, and we'll get to them today, including, the former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell (who called gays kleptomaniacs and Grover Norquist (I asked him the gay question) and we'll replay the Phyllis Schlafly interview (which got picked up in the Chicago Tribune), Roberta McCain and, yes, the Log Cabin Republicans on endorsing McCain. Call in with your questions and comments.

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A Kid in a Candy Store

We weren't in the Xcel Center at the RNC for more than five minutes when I ran into Senator Orrin Hatch. We talked about various issues and then wound up getting into it over Sarah Palin's daughter's pregnancy, which he said was "terrible" to bring up. By that point several other reporters had gathered around, and they wouldn't let him back off it or silence the discussion. I'll play the interview on the show tomorrow.

Then I ran into Gary Bauer -- had quite an interesting discussion with him about "sinners" and Ballot Measure 8. I then headed for the floor of the convention, where they were only doing limited business (because of Gustav), and I got into quite a scrap with rabid right-wing California Congressman Dan Lungren, over the issue of marriage and the "activist judges" and the liberals who are destroying America. He did not like me!

I went to the Alaska delegation and spoke with a woman who is in Palin's cabinet. She assured me that Palin is not in favor of giving any rights to gays and didn't want to give domestic partnership rights to government employees but that she had to veto the bill that would have rescinded such rights because of the Alaska Supreme Court ruling. So can we please cut this crap Log Cabin and the McCain campaign have been trying to put out: Palin only vetoed an antigay bill because she had to, by law. This woman, Annette Kreitzer, who serves in Sarah Palin's cabinet in the Department of Administration, said, oh, well, it was the law -- drat! -- or something like that. I'll play it tomorrow. (Kreizter, by the way, is one of the officials who are focused on in the probe of Palin, now under investigation for firing a man who wouldn't fire her brother-in-law, who had broken up with her sister; Kreizter is portrayed as a loyal soldier who did Palin's bidding.)

I also caught up with the anti-tax conservative activist Grover Norquist, and asked him about the rumors that he is gay -- there was a silence before he answered (said he got married recently) and then explained why people think he's gay. (I will play it on the show, and I'll post some audio and video here too). Interesting stuff, and we've only been here a couple of hours!