worried down there. tell him to lighten up. >> all right. zozo you are the best. "countdown" is next. have an awesome weekend, come back and obviously you have no idea who will show up on monday. could be anybody. we'll see. >> quicken loans sleep number to stop supporting the late mongering of rush llimbaugh. >> sleep number pulls its ads. sleep train pulls its ads. quicken loans pulls its ads. limbaugh on the run and under righteous attacks. >> sandra fluke is having so much sex she can't pay for it. >> that language is insulting in my opinion.

it's inseasonnary, and it's a distraction. a distraction of what are real and important issues. >> even john boehner noticed. the speaker said that the use of those words was inappropriate. the president steps in and telephones sandra fluke. >> he wanted to offer his support to her and his disappoint that she has been the subject of personal attacks. >> a woman is being called these names and it comes to silencing. >> and still limbaugh cannot stop himself. >> did you ever think about maybe backing off the amount of sex that you have? >> ohio, santorum's lead down to 35-31. he accuses romney of. >> class warfare. he should be paying more. >> super tuesday highlighted by this, whatever it is. >> that's a--

>> bloom versus christie. who can you support in this fight? the right to have police act in new jersey or anywhere else without telling new jersey or anywhere else. >> a lot of the world trade center terrorists went back and forth to new jersey. >> and republicans rejoice. another proved case of voter fraud as a man gets his dog a ballot. only one problem. the man is a republican whose wife works for the republican senate candidate, the senate candidate whose big issue was--voter fraud. you said it, buddy woof. all that and more now on "countdown." >> who let the dogs out, woof, woof. >> good evening, this is friday march 2, 250 days until the 2012

presidential election. only rarely have republican politicians had the courage to stand up to rush llimbaugh even temporarily. some did and others when he said that he hoped the new president would fail. as limbaugh continues to pile on in a brutal assault against a law school student the president has demanded that he and some have called it absurd. the speaker of the house called the words inappropriate. it is the strongest blow back from his own side in limbaugh's 20-odd years of public notoriety. and in one day that sandra fluke was, quote a cost him three major advertisers and may cost minimum a fourth. sleep train dropped its support this morning followed by select comfort and quicken loans the cleveland cavaliers have also dropped out local advertising in

limbaugh's show. all of them are reacting to twitter complains. undeterred, limbaugh seemed emboldened by the backlash, and sandra fluke testified about friends who had encountered issues with the birth control policies plus of the victory school because she could not afford birth controlled and developed tennis ball sized cysts on her ovaries. one had to be removed. limbaugh, who has once stopped by authorities as he reentered in country from the dominican republic carrying a prescription for viag ra in somebody else's name reinterpreted those stories. >> she's having so am sex she can't pay for it. 3 birth control pills and she's

having sex and not one person thought about backing off the amount of sacks that you have. >> that was even too many for some republicans to take. >> that language is insulting in my opinion. it's insendary and it's a distraction from real and important issues. >> senator scott brown tweeting rush llimbaugh's comments are reprehensible and he should apologize despite that the statements from hateful and samed as, if you will a civilian. some fearful of the limbaugh backlash made it look like they were against the comments while not coming out against limbaugh. >> he's beg being absurd, but an entertainer can be absurd. mitt romney said something similar. and speaker said the use of

those words was inappropriately as he's trying to raise money off the situation. the problem for the speaker no one appears to be trying to raise money off of limbaugh. what the conservativers conservatives are pointing to is to have a republican leadership repudiate limbaugh's comments. quote, i'm struck by your clear failure to recognize your own contributions to the denigration of this discussion and attacks on people of religious faith. you can read the rest for yourself. nobody called the people of faith. he then swung back an democrats on the committee and criticizing them for appearing quote out right giddy on his hearing on contraceptive coverage. this is the one that virtual actuallyvirtuallydid not have any women on it and

ms. fluke was not able to testify in front of. the toll of limbaugh's anger was he haveas fluke describe the support she received from the president. >> it was important to me, and he said my parents should be proud. and rush llimbaugh-- >> there were two ways about way limbaugh has done. first his war on women. i'm joining by laura bassett. thank you for your time. >> thanks for having me. >> how are these remarks seen in the context of this recent g.o.p. pressure on women's rights particularly reproductive rights. we all thought the susan g koman disaster was the low point of that. does this look like it will

replace that. >> this is a new low point in terms of rhetoric. i think the problem is that the argument that he's trying to make about, you know, women want men to pay them to have sex is just so absurd. it's beyond what the republicans are saying. it's beyond what the democrats are saying. this is about women's healthcare and i think the democrats have been sort of if a natcally trying to get that point across. even fluke's testimony was not about having sex and but it was about her classmate who had a golf ball-sized cyst on her ovary and needed healthcare for that reason. rush but says that what a lot of republican men think is that women go out and try to pay men to. prompromiscuous.

>> is it hintcracy or ignorance about how birth control is used by women compared to erectile dysfunction drugs are used by men? is there a belief that each event requires a separate dosage? it is possible for an adult male at the age of 25 not to understand how birth control bills work? >> i think we're seeing how it's possible. whether you have sex once or 100 times you need the same amount of birth control and birth control is described by a number of health reasons that go beyond spacing out your children and family planning and anything like that. and there is an element of hypocrisy because erectile drugs are covered by healthcare plans.

do they oppose providing erectile drugs for single men? that's not a conversation that anyone is having. and it would be no less absurd than the conversation we're having about sandra fluke. >> and even larger one, i don't know the last man who had a vasectomy and didn't get some insurance coverage on that. >> exactly. >> any woman in this country who once did not pay for birth control 100% out of her own pocket, limbaugh called her a and prostitute, too. is that begin to go resonate? has it grown out of this assault on woman who doesn't deserve this kind of assault? >> of course. it was an attack on all women. i think everybody sees it that way. he did say i would like to buy the women who go to georgetown law as much aspirin as they want to put between their knees. echoing foster friess's

controversial comments a couple of week ago. certain men like foster friess and rush llimbaugh trying to turn the clock back on women and think they should be barefoot in the kitchen and having babies. that's what women are afraid of, and he's speaking to our fears by voicing a comment like that. >> nothing will make people wake up faster than what you just described, hopefully. thanks for your time. have a good week end. >> thanks for having. >> how let's bring in marcos "countdown" contributor and daily coast.com. good everyone. >> happy friday. >> thank you, same to you. scott brown, is he it or does he enable other republican men to stand up to the bully. >> this is pretty much it. he's locked in an unique situation for republicans. he represents an indigo blue

against a charismatic opponent in elizabeth warren. he vote for the blunt amendment and to vote for the contraceptive care. he's already on the defensive. this is a way to show how independent he is from the republican when he cast the vote that mattered the wrong way. so he's fighting for his political life. this has nothing to do with any real principle because he showed the way he believed on this issue. >> is he going to end up apologizing because anyone republicans who criticized limbaugh has ended up apologizing. is this the prospect tipping point. >> rush llimbaugh has gotten to where he has because he's not afraid to out loud, yell out lot what republicans really believe. they really believe this. they believe that, dirty who

want to have sex and the only reason you would have birth control and he convinced himself that he's paying for the birth control which make no sense because it's employer insurance and has nothing to do with tax. is he going to apologize what they're all applauding him for saying. there are a couple of politics who is are going to get queasy about it, but the rank and file, the people who listen to rush llimbaugh they're with him 100%. this is the modern republican party. >> and three advertisers significant ones, in particular quicken loans have pulled out from limbaugh's show and were not hesitant nor shy in terms of doing so. is there a prospect of that? and at what point does that become a real factor. >> at some point i expect rush llimbaugh's advertisers to look like glenn beck said, a bunch of gold sheisters. this happened on a friday.

this blow up happened on a friday. you don't get anything done efficiently on friday. a lot of these advertisers are hoping this blows over over the weekend. so what needs to happen is that progressive groups and women groups need to be aggressive monday, tuesday, wednesday of next week to make sure that advertisers know that this is not going to blow over and this is a continuing issue, and if they can't ride this out and hope it won't go away because it won't go away. >> do that end the last one of these issues was limbaugh crossing a line beyond ten lines that he always crosses was when he said that the hoped president obama would fail right after the inauguration. to show how how social media has changed, especially the advent of twitter, which was a minor then now and a major force now pressure coming out of twitter and facebook could shatter the susan g. komen foundation to go on the other end of the political pond, could this do real damage to limbaugh and move

those republican presidential candidates off the dime? is there a prospect that twitter could do damage to limbaugh in return? >> twitter absolutely. facebook continues to grow at an astronomical rate. they have an voice in democracy. this is fantastic. they can actually reach out directly to those companies because those companies have twitter and facebook betweenses and make sure that the presence is felt not just today but into next week into a way that was not possible before. it's not just a letter read by p.r. department and be buried in a big corporation, this is public out in the open. the media is writing about it, people are seeing it, and it's piling on. it changes the ability of those companies to shrug it off and ignore it. they're going to have an effect moving forward. now there are going to be advertisers who don't care

because politically they're conservative or they're selling gold to idiot republicans, they'll still be around, but for anyone else it will be hard to advertise on those like that. >> you have several indicated willingness to listen to the protests. and your point about next monday, that's critical and absolutely correct. always a pleasure. thank you, sir. >> have a great weekend. >> you, too. >> super tuesday, romney narrows the gap in ohio and herman cain is back from delivering sausage to go or something--next.

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>> stories you are it wassing kendra ticketingitcontradicting romneyis a washington outer. this is the g.o.p. field does battle before super tuesday along with the tomorrow's washington state caucus with 43 delegates at take. the latest poll showing voters in ohio the key super tuesday state favoring santorum by four points over romney which is a lead only in the margin of error. and romney leads paul by 25

where neither santorum or gingrich got on the ballot. >> as i look at the president's promises, over the last three years he hasn't kept up with them. >> as we look at the past four months, romney's attacks on santorum and guinn as washington insider has been a mainstay of his pain. but in his gubernatorial campaign showing romney too playing that game. >> i'm a big believer in getting money where the money is. the money is in washington. i wan to go after every grant, every project, every department. >> santorum meanwhile attempting to skewer romney as an fdr-style class trader for saying he would raise taxes on the very wealthy. >> that sort of plays class warfare saying the wealthy should pay more. >> santorum having his own problems not so much with class

but classmates from his senior year at penn state david vondercrone said santorum may not have been as conservative as he claims. i played basketball and poker with him. while in georgia newt gringrich still thinking of himself as a right-wing populist conservative conservative. >> senator santorum is big government, big labor conservative. mitt romney is clearly the inside establishment candidate. >> and herman cain no longer a candidate but still a contender for wackiest video maker of the year and perhaps surpassing the guy with the smokes. this about the super pacs and you might recognize this if this was 1990. >> this is the economy.

>> this is the economy on stimulus. any questions! any questions! >> oh, more than we have time nor in an eight hour show. for more on the past catching up with the candidates and the g.o.p. primary campaign to say nothing catching up with him and me, i'm joined by craig crawford author of the politics of life. good to talk to you. >> the surreality show continues. >> there is a word i can't use in the following sentence but let me start with that cain thing. what the blank was that? >> you know, sarah palin--it's like phantom cain, these candidates. they get out of the race, but they just can't stop feeling it. [laughing] they just got to do an ad i

guess. i don't know what the point of that is, probably speaking fees. >> i'm not going to say it was influenced by the people who made the anti-drug campaign because it looked like whoever was doing it was not following the ain't drug campaign. and i've watched it 20 times and it gets trippier and trippier. >> maybe you feel like you've been taking drugs. >> or to swallow gold fish. tomorrow, do we have a measure on super tuesday virtually in a tie with santorum bought out of existence. >> washington happens on saturday, and that's before tuesday, and the headlines on tuesday will matter, i suppose but this is one of those cartoon caucuses with no delegates picked, and nobody knows who is going to show up. pollsters can't do turn-out models and they count the votes with their feet. i would say probably this is a good terrain for ron paul. as it maine this was where he

was supposed to shine, in these kinds of events. the pressure is on him to do well. but if romney counts something then he gets headlines going into tuesday. >> and he needs them with this tape with him going through the power point demonstration explaining how he hopes to get federal money more massachusetts. anyone who relies on a power point demonstration should not be allowed to run for dog catcher let alone president. but even if this contest, giving him that can he continue to go after after santorum and gingrich for going after federal funds. >> does he worry about being shameless. >> yeah, it's late in the week. >> i find this applied so often. if hypocrisy were a virus, these politicians would be dead. i guess the power point is his way of passion. that's what we get for romney for passion. these flip flops for democrats now this is a good flip plot for

democrats. by that i mean, does it show that he was once liberal? i think the flip flopping on some of the abortion stuff is a little tricky for democrats because you don't want to play into that notion, a lot of democrats voters have, oh, he's liberal and mod raid, he'll be okay. if you make those cases with other flip flops, that feeds into it. this is just pure shamelessness. >> a question for santorum and college pals, none of them saw him as this martyr to campus conservatism that he claims to be from the perspective of 30 years later. is it fun for the faithless who don't believe in his mission to save america, but it's really besides the point for people who support him any way? >> yeah, because the people who support him, they say that's the liberal media making up stuff again. the mark of a demagogue is martyrdom, and revisionist history. and he seems to have some that

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>> new jersey strikes back against the new york police claiming that it has jurisdiction anywhere. next. first the sanity break. wilt chamberlain became the first player to scores 100 points in a game. afterwards chamberlain began working on his other record. his claim to have slept with 20,000 different women which would have required two new ones

every night for 54 years and required none of them ever wanted to rejoin him. time marchs on. >> a bizarre behavior of politicians, rhode island barry hinckley made a campaign ad with his son hudson. however, when hudson and his father sat down with neil cavuto. it was some weird ventriloquy act. the key is to watch hudson's mouth when his father is answering a question. >> hudson, what are your friends saying when they see you on tv. >> i don't know right now. >> you haven't talked to them? have they seen you? >> i think. >> what do you want to be, hudson, when you grow up? >> i wanna, i wanna to be in the war, and to see the country. >> um.

>> holy crap, what is that? what the hell is that? what is that? the discomfort of neil cavuto is just the added bonus. and traveling to the other animal kingdom where we meet furious george. shrimps are not big fans of babies or perhaps the chimp does not like this baby. he had been eating mashed banana food in front of him and the baby is unphased. yeah, yeah, take it up with manage. and in sports we have a friendly match on a windy day in israel. clearly the players are having trouble controlling the ball, and the wind, the goalkeeper sets up for the goal kick, it's up and then it's in the wrong goal. bad day for mendez, but good day for the wind. time marchs on. what with the kid?

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some secret fishing expedition. in our third store on "countdown," following the associated press reports that the nypd has been conducting large scale surveillance on muslim community in neighboring new jersey and throughout the eastern seaboard. new jersey's governor chris christie and newark's mayor cory booker slamming nypd for keeping them out of the loop on this and christie saying they think their jurisdiction is the world. >> my concern is this kind of obsession that the nypd seems to have that they're the master of the universe. >> the governor's criticisms well beyond police commissioner ray kelly aarrogance in a press conference yesterday. >> 9/11 was not prevented because law enforcement agencies

were not talking to each other. they were being selfish. theythey were being paranoid and arrest gant. >> and he says that's happening now. >> we don't know what the provocation was. >> but new york city mayor michael bloomberg continued to defend his city's cops today saying they did nothing more than anybody in this country. >> a lot of the world trade center terrorists that killed 3,000 people went back and forth to new jersey. so to say that the nypd should stop at the border is a bit ridiculous. yes. >> let's welcome back mr. lewis. is >> this is a bull elephant on the other side of the hudson finally speaking back against a mayor who has not gotten much

push back when it comes to public safety, certainly not within new york. when chris christie speaks, he has authority that a lot of people don't have. former prosecutor, tough as nails, nobody is squishy liberal, a guy who has a lot of power. one of the more statutorily powerful governors, probably the most in the entire country. he controls a lot of law enforcement apparatus even as governor. when he says this isn't working, this needs to be coordinated. we need to be kept in the loop it has the authority that the civil libertyies union might not have. >> is this as far as he wants to go because mayor booker went further, saying deeply offensive. is he hoping to provoke a resolution of this or would he indeed, go further in stone wall reaction to bloomberg and commissioner kelly. >> when i hear from booker he's a personal friend of the mayor.

they're somewhat close. the mayor endorsed him and gave him money for his campaigns over the year and they worked together on education re-reform. so when he says offended, he said we're friends and you're not supposed to hang hey out to dry in front of my entire city like this. christie is another story. he is a the not looking for a handshake and a warm embrace. that's not his style. he doesn't need it. if he wants to pick up the phone and call some of his buddies in the department of justice and say we need to straighten this out and now, he can cause more headaches than he would just going on the radio. >> generally speaking there seems to be blank indifference to complaints no matter where they're comeing from from mayor bloomberg and commissioner kelly. they don't seem to have any political future unless you change the term limits beyond the term. are they going to stone wall and say no, we're right, screw you.

>> it is possible that they could just be looking ahead to the end of the term. it wouldn't be their style, but it's possible. more to the point, keith, this is an organization that has been built up over the last ten years into it was already a storied organization, the nypd, the stuff of legends. something literally that you read about, and people dream about, and people will hear about. and they do have their own foreign policy. they do have people stationed overseas and they do have the ability to shoot down aircraft. ray kelly has talked about this on "60 minutes," and in their internal opinion they have gone out and done things that the federal government was unwilling or unable to do as far as gathering foreign intelligence. there are nypd officers stationed around the world. they don't want it filtered to homeland security, c.i.a. or anybody else. we want to hear it ourselves. they do in fact, sort of carry on and carry out their business

without with regard to borders. >> we're talking about jurisdiction and there is this element of racial or religious profiling. how does bloomberg turn on a dime when he's responsible for the issue of individual rights except when it's about him? >> that's right. when it comes--like any other politician let's give bloomberg for not being unlike abe else. this mayor is in favor of free speech. he has taken hits. he has gone to bat, including for the muslim community. but when you turn around, and say we feel that our freedom of assembly and free speech are being infringed upon and we would like to have a conversation, the mayor will get prickly about it. he couldn't want to hear it. and as you suggested, i wouldn't put it this way but he goes back tobackto the fact of 14 attemptses

and all have been caught and foiled. and that goes a long way. >> admittedly true. errol lewis, thank you for coming in. >> making picketing illegal inia. the worst person ahead. only on current tv.

>> there may have been others, but looking at mars and the threat we have for them. and the war on terror, his god was bigger than their god was. and bailout was a ruse, now, i have to say what he's thinking. worse persons next.