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First up - Beck Bombast. Popular Fox News Channel personality Glenn Beck called the President a "racist" yesterday, while discussing the arrest of Professor Henry Gates. Kweisi Mfume, Former President and CEO of the NAACP and Salon's Joan Walsh will play Hardball tonight and respond. For more on Beck's comments, go to: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32197648/ns/politics-more_politics/ Next up - we have brand new numbers from the latest NBC News-Wall Street Journal Poll. Here to analyze are NBC News Chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd and NBC News Political Analyst Charlie Cook. For more on the poll, go to: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/29/2013488.aspx?p=1 Plus - retiring Senator George Voinovich recently complained that the GOP is going 'south.' We'll discuss the politics of demography with Former Congressman Tom Davis (R-VA). For more on Senator Voinovich, go to: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/01/12/1741611.aspx And finally, in the Politics Fix, we'll talk about the latest in the healthcare debate. Is the GOP scaring seniors about end-of-life care? We'll ask Politico's Jonathan Martin and The Washington Post's Lois Romano to discuss. For more on healthcare, go to: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32202195/ns/politics-white_house/ Also, don't miss the Hardball Sideshow! Tonight, we'll show you the latest target of a certain New York Times columnist. ========================================= This e-mail is never sent unsolicited. You have received this The Hardball Briefing Newsletter newsletter because you subscribed to it or, someone forwarded it to you. To remove yourself from the list (or to add yourself to the list if this message was forwarded to you) simply go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25810860, select unsubscribe, enter the email address receiving this message, and click the Go button. Microsoft Corporation - One Microsoft Way - Redmond, WA 98052 MSN PRIVACY STATEMENT http://privacy.msn.com <http://privacy.msn.com/>