RO: What do you think will be the legacy of this new Tea Party movement?

HR: I can understand the anger. The anger is real, and the original version of it is righteous. I may not agree with every talking point but the anger is not acting. I think it got hijacked by special interest groups. Now you see these guys barking for big pharma and big insurance. But on the other hand, look at Barack Obama and big pharma...

I always err to what is the most humanitarian. I want my countrymen to have health care. I don't want a guy to lose his house because his wife gets cancer, even if he is in the Ku Klux Klan. When you wanna help people, you get called a socialist.

There is going to come a time, not too soon, when I am just going to go "Alright then, you have fun with that." I'll start acting like a conservative and say "I got mine. It sucks to be you." But my responsibility as an American is to try and help other people have it good.

RO: Then you have the Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh guys goading it on...

HR: Glenn Beck is so barking mad! It's kind of trippy listening to his show. I was driving through rural Virginia months ago. I just listened to his show on the drive. It was crazy. I didn't know it was that kind of barking mad. It was really something. He was blowing my mind. I would like to know out of what he says he believes, and what he just says as the tonic for the troops.

I know someone, a liberal, who did a segment with Sean Hannity. They barked at each other for seven minutes with the insults and Hannity did his thing. Afterwards Hannity comes up to him and says "Hey that was great TV! Let's do it again sometime." So that was just like, pro-wrestling time?

You wonder how much of this is for the seven figures a year. But it's still detrimental. I have been talking onstage a lot about the weight of words. With the First Amendment, you are given a lot of latitude. I don't think everyone uses it responsibly.

When Rush Limbaugh calls Barack Obama a "Halfrican-American", its protected speech but its like, "What are you doing, man? What are you, eight? You get beat up by the quarterback?" Then he says things like the Obama administration sought to help out Haiti so Obama could burnish his image with non-whites or that we already helped Haiti by paying income tax.