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nutty professor that really emphasizes what's wrong with newt gingrich. matthew greely sent that in. thank you. night guys, "countdown" is next. >> now on "countdown." >> i'm not saying i don't want him out. if he wants to get out i'm all for him getting out. >> him? him? him? as romney calls mississippi a road game for him an aide still says for the other contenders, it's going to take an act of god to get to where they need to be on the nomination front. santorum turns that into. >> the governor thinks he is now ordained by god to win lets have it out. >> super friday? the labor department data dump tomorrow and the president's
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reelection chance. the analyst estimate, unemployment does not go up, and the economy added 200,000 jobs last month. >> how do we understand this president and his time in office? >> apparently via an obama movie. seriously? a movie. >> this is sarah. >> no, not your movie. >> republicans renege, the gop abrogates its end on the debt ceiling, more cuts than promised and they have a jobs bill. >> here comes the little king. >> a record 1,018 hate groups in 2011 recorded by the southern poverty law center, our guest the center's mark poutac. >> congressman lincoln davis who represented the tennessee four until one year ago turned away at the polls on tuesday. >> they told he told me i was
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not a registered voter. >> happy international women's day. we celebrate. virginia's governor signs by signing the invasive ultrasound law, limbaugh celebrates by repeating his talk about a woman. >> you've written something patently false. >> once again fluck you rush limbaugh. >> we are not running commercials. >> good evening, this is thursday march 8, 244 days until the 2012 presidential election. the president's approval numbers, flat tonight but possibly on the rise tomorrow because the latest jobs numbers. the republican candidates for his job battle over god and blom, they are sparring over a nomination that romney's
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campaign insist is there is, mr. obama contemplating keeping his job longer. the president meeting at the white house today his approval rating unchanged in the poll from january. the labor department releasing the unemployment report tomorrow. the private companies added 216,000 jobs last month by their count, the figure was 173,000 in january. tomorrow's labor department numbers might be even better than that which might make rick santorum think twice about the comments like he made today. >> this president doesn't understand we need private sector growth. >> a trailer for a new campaign video, the road we've traveled. >> how do we understand this president and his time in
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office? do we look at the headlines or remember what we as a country have been through? >> the president elect is here in chicago and he names the members of the economic team and they all fly in for the first big briefing on the economy what was described in that meeting was an economic crisis beyond anything anybody had imagined. >> santorum, mitt romney and newt gingrich may have enough trouble imagining the road forward through the next round of election contests, including caucuses, saturday in kansas, the u.s. virgin islands guam. primary on march 13 and on march 7 missouri. mitt romney taking guam's nine delegates serious enough to spend his eldest son matt out to speak with island republicans
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saturday. as for mr. gingrich, he could be facing oblivion if he doesn't clean up in the southern primaries, now saying they all need to go for gingrich. gingrich campaigns today in jackson, mississippi and pleading. >> i believe with your help i can become the nominee. i believe that mississippi really matters next tuesday. >> rick santorum seeing it a little differently in front of his supporters in jackson. >> if we win mississippi this will be a two person race. >> as for alabama and alabama state university poll showing undecided leads the pack, followed by santorum, romney and gingrich. gingrich not happy with calls from santorums super pack that he drop out santorum saying that was his supporters' call not his. >> i'm not saying i don't want him to be out.
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i'm all for him being out. >> trying to get gingrich and romney a push with a new ad. >> how can mitt romney or newt gingrich beat barack obama when on the vital decisions they're not much different, like obama gingrich supported individual health insurance mandates and lobbied for freddie mac. just like obama romney left massachusetts $1 billion in debt. >> an official wanting romney to lead the delegate count and lead saying: >> santorum will see that reference to a deity and raise it. >> the governor thinks he's now ordained by god to win then let's just have it out. >> we'll look at the president's poll on unemployment numbers in a moment.
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first i'm joined by national political reporter with politico. thanks for your time. >> good evening keith. >> do i really see rick santorum arguing with the romney camp over which one of the guys god likes better? >> if i'm mitt romney, i probably don't want to get in an argument about god with rick santorum especially going into the evangelical south with mississippi and alabama coming up. that being said, there's sort of a lot of bravado to the most holy level, i guess you might say with the delegate count and who can really win this nomination. bottom line is that the romney folks believe no matter what happens, they can lose a bunch of states if they still have an insurmountable lead in the end santorums camp is pushing back saying you are not going to have the 1100 needed even if you win all these states. it's a bit of playing with hairs and mat here, but romney does
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have the delegate lead. he's got a very big delegate lead, which is not enough to clinch. >> you raise an important point here that raises another in turn there's a big disconnect romney's people hitting people over the head with the mat their argument he is going to get the delegates but also dispatching the eldest son to go to guam to sew up nine delegates in guam, which is something like 700 miles per delegate. am i not hearing two different things from the romney camp? >> the bigger picture sense if you've got the man power send them. this says that mitt romney is able to go to guam or send his son there shows how he has got the organization that rick santorum and newt gingrich doesn't have. the great story about this campaign that is going to be written about this republican primary campaign is that if santorum or gingrich ever has the organization to get on the ballot, to be on all the ballots in ohio, that would have made a
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huge difference in this primary race but they simply don't have the infrastructure to compete. they don't have the money the man power on the ground so can't send someone to guam, romney can. >> every delegate is sacred. who is asking who to drop out and is any of them listening? >> romney either wants both gingrich and santorum out or neither of them, really. you know, rich bison put in a memo saying santorum and gingrich are prolonging this process, the act of god quote it would take an act of god for either to win we only need to win 48% of the delegates, they have to win 65, 70% that's the difference here. santorum showed some humanity and said i want everybody out i want to be president. none of these guys want a primary, that's the truth in the 3459er, but for mitt romney, he'd rather have gingrich and
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santorum in together to by him has conservative vote than have one get out and the conservatives co less. that's a problem for him. >> gingrich trailed badly in alabama. is he going to drop out or is the adelson money going to keep him going? >> his team has said alabama and mississippi are must-wins. they said georgia was a must-win. he did deliver although, you know, not the big enough number that i think he should have, being that was his home state. i do think that mississippi and alabama are must-wins for gingrich. this is the deep south his base, but if he cannot win i mean who's to say who's going to tell newt gingrich to get out of this race? we know he sometimes gets angry when he's told, you know, he's just sort of an outlier in this race. i wouldn't be able to predict what gingrich is going to do.
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he can talk about his issues, he's getting coverage no matter what as long as he's in the race. at some point if he loses the santorum folks have to go to him and say look, maybe i can offer you something here. that's your only chance to beat romney. >> david again thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you keith. >> about the president's job numbers and tomorrow's employment numbers i'm joined by ryan grim, good evening. >> good evening. >> the new three day gallup number in march is 38. even rasmussen poll, which is run by the guys who founded espn and sold it a little bit early gave him 49% approval. which numbers should i believe? >> that's the beauty of polling pick the numbers that you want.
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at this exact moment, i would pick the numbers that are kind of on the higher end and that's because of the direction of the economy. you know, people's satisfaction with their current economic state is always relative. it has to do with they look around themselves, see how are other people doing how am i doing relative to them, how am i doing relative to the past, and what's my outlook for the future? so obama has the future going for him right now because there's a little bit there's good news in the economy. tomorrow, we're probably going to have decent job numbers. what he doesn't have going for him is the past, because in the past, a lot of people were making more money. people focus on unemployment, the unemployment number, but a lot of people are working more and making less and that doesn't make people happy so that's something that he needs to be concerned about too. >> what is an economy win for the president tomorrow? the analysts were suggesting
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that unemployment holds at 8.3 others calculate say it could drop to 8.2. >> the only thing that really matters is that the media talks about it in a favorable way. people want to be told good news about the economy. if they hear good news, even if they're unemployed, they think ok there's a better chance that i'm going to be employed next week or the week after. if they here bad news, it just crushes the soul. there's nothing worse there's things that are worse but being unemployed is a horrible experience and when you're unemployed and the economy is just getting worse and worse you just kind of go into a tail spin emotionally psychically professionally. if you're hearing good numbers. hearing in the morning say economy added 310,000 jobs,
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economists are bullish jobs are up you think hey things could be looking up for me. >> the other end of the campaign, people talk about the impact of these numbers on a sitting president, what about the payroll data number, 216,000 new jobs in february, many more in january, other analysts looking through these numbers say might be 200,000 new ones, a little more, a little less. just this week, the last 10 days, mitt romney had finally seemed to lock in to the economy and the issue of who does and does not have jobs as his issue this week. does he just place that bet at the wrong time? >> well, yeah, romney can't seem to do anything right on the campaign trail. but he's staking everything on the economy one way or another. you can actually see his sense of optimism about winning the white house when it looked like europe might blow up and take
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the u.s. economy down with it, he seemed optimistic that he was going to be president now trying to convince people that he's going to win the nomination. he's not even talking about the white house in his speech in massachusetts recently. >> always a pleasure, sir thank you kindly. >> thank you. >> lately news tonight. another women abused, rush limbaugh, the record of his attack on sandra fluke and bill o'reilly insisted that misfluke has a powerful presence behind her and intimates that this has been a publicity scheme to benefit the presidedededededededededededededededededededededededededede the newest voice in cable news is on the new news network. >>it is an independent progressive voice and i love that. >>jennifer granholm joins current tv. a former two term governor. >>people like somebody who's got
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>> congress has had an overall approval rating of historically low levels. coincidentally the same time john boehner became speaker of the house. while the public disapproves of congress as a whole, congress itself disapproves of one man in particular, january boehner. the key stone pipeline failed to receive the necessary votes a measure speaker boehner lobbied for asteridding the president for opposing the measure. >> by lobbying against the pipeline, the president of the united states is lobbying for sending north american energy to china and lobbying against american jobs. >> the key stone vote seems to be part of a growing trend on capitol hill, anything the speaker likes will not pass.
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mr. boehner has been pushing a highway bill which he claimed was paramount in his plan to create jobs, a bill the speaker was forced to strap today after having failed to convince members of his own party to support it. failing to rally support around a pet bill may end up being small potatoes compared to trying to prevent a government shut down. appropriations would be capped $20 billion below what boehner agreed to as part of last summer's debt ceiling deal. >> is boehner actually a kiss of death at the moment or are these failures of these measures coincidental? >> i think it's coincidental in the sense that it's not just bane are anyone in boehners position would be in trouble now, no matter who they were or how skilled. the problem is he does not have control over his own party the way he would like and the
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democratic nat is not going along with whatever he wants. he's trapped from both sides. >> is somebody else going to get control of his party in the house? there were reports out that mr. cantor and the president are almost friendly. is he putting himself in a position to replace him? >> there's been reports of a rivalry between boehner and cantor. he is awaiting a strike from his right flank usually. it's unusual to hear reports of the new warming relyings with the president. i think more likely, they can simply read a poll and the poll said they got where he could trying to oppose the president on a payroll tax extension. a jobs bill, they just felt the need to go along with it and in so doing make a deal with the president, because they just looked to bad to oppose. >> is this the jump start our business start up things from
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today, that was seemingly this minor victory for boehner the house passed this jobs act with very little opposition and the republican leaders sent out the record they were doubtful it would create any jobs at all. did they pass something they thought had no meaning to it. >> the idea of starting to say no to anything with jobs attached to it started to hurt them. they really didn't want to be calling the wrong side of this. there's the fact that the economy is starting to improve getting better. if it really takes off and republicans have said no to every possible jobs bill, it's not going to look good, they're not going to be able to take credit for it. >> the other news today from the senate, even though boehner played such a strong hand from his position at speaker of the house, the senate did not bite on the key stone pipeline
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amendment. does this obviate the need for the president to ever address it until after the election? is the key stone pipeline officially dead? >> it's not officially dead, you can always revisit it after the election. this just was an issue to make it go faster, force his hand again and overviewed him. it can certainly come back and republicans can find ways to attach similar amendments to bills in the future. they always are going to take the opportunity. they think this is very popular. polls show majorities usually do favor it. they'll take opportunity to put their members on the record to oppose it. you can expect to see this in the future. >> thank you again for your time tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> the new poster boy for voter suppression, the man a tennessee town turned away from its polls super tuesday its former little
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>> apparently you can't have too many hate groups. unfortunately i mean that literally. two of the most important baseball players were born on this date in 1969. the first person, player or reporter ever to tell the true r.-rated story of big league players in ball four. it was dick allen who apart from being the best pure hitter not in the hall of fame survived racism in philadelphia and the world of free agent forcing his teams to trade hem. he forced everybody else to call him what he called himself dick allen instead of what they wanted to call him richy allen. it seemed not a big deal then, unfortunately, you'd be mistaken. happy birthday. time marches on.
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>> we begin checking in on the gop primary again. rick santorum still chasing romney and they fight it out like a monkey wrestling a cat. i'm sorry i'm told this actually is a monkey wrestling a cat. you can tell mitt romney is not involved because the dog is not tied to the top of a car. >> in paris it's the fall 2012 collection. model pauline takes the whole fall part a bit too literally and down goes frasier. shies helped back up and then a few seconds again boom goes the dynamite. almost. this is approximately the 300th model to fall on the cat walk. they need our help, save our models. >> in sports, the story broke about the new orleans saints involved in a bounty program where players were paid bonuses
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>> "countdown" i go live at 8:00 east he were, eight pacific, the longest continuous running on cable. enraged by bank and auto bailouts, furry about the changing racial make up of our country and baseline i had red of life at the moment that there is an african-american president, there is a staggering number of people joining mate groups. the radical right is growing more alarming than the number are the anti-governmental and extremist rising in the past decade reaching a record high
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last year. investigates find the number of groups centered around hatred of people based on race, religion or gender surged in the past decade, up to 1,018 of them last year. the numbers are the highest since they started keeping that can of these numbers 30 years ago. it's most concerned about the so-called patriot movement, where the growing number of militia groups grew. the number ballooned last year. the movement gained momentum during the clinton administration's push for stricter gun control laws and peeked in after timothy mcveigh blew up the federal building.
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the movement started to fade until late 2008 when the economy tanked and an african-american presidential candidate did not tank. joining me now senior fellow mark potauck. thanks for your time. >> thanks for having me. >> can we talk first about the factors that you've been ail to identify that caused the movement to grow so much in the last couple of years? >> well, as you said, it's a number of things coming together and they come together with a force in late 2008, early 2009. they are not only obama the first black president but what president obama represents, and that of course is the changing race gem graphics of our country, whites will lose their majority in the year 2050. that plus fairly high levels of immigration and all of that represented in the person of
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barack obama is a real key part of what's driving this. as you pointed out at the very same time, just as people were beginning to understand that obama was quite likely to win the election, we saw the sub prime collapse and all that followed. now, at this point i think things are getting really even worse in the sense that we're in the middle of an incredibly vitriolic campaign season, much directed at the president and so, you know, we're seeing this kind of stew out of which has grown and enormous expansion of especially the anti-government patriot groups. all that growth, from 149 groups to 1274 groups in three years and those are precisely the first three years of barack obama's presidency. >> so how much do you think the presidential campaign and the media personalities were fueling some of the particular acid qualities to it on the right
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the lou dobbs in the media or michael savages or newt gingrichs, are they fueling the fire or are they considered by these groups to be sort of tokens within the mainstream that they're opposed to? >> no, i think they're very important, because they serve essentially as transmitters from the real fringe of the fringe. they help to bring conspiracy theories and demonizing propaganda right into the mainstream. what we get is ideas like mex cove is secretly planning to invade and reconquer the american southwest or gay people, what they're all about is molesting children, and a whole series of other things. the rash of anti muslim hatred since 2010 i think was very largely upped by public figures. those people, this kind of
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mainstreaming of hate and conspiracy theories i think is really the third driver along with the change in racial demographics and economy of this just exponential growth in groups. >> tell me about the hatred of the muslim community which history will show didn't really peak in 2001, 2002 when there was a visceral misunderstanding of 9/11, was it really about the ground zero mosque that you couldn't even see the world trade center site from? why did it happen in 2010? >> let me start answering that question by saying in 2001, no surprise to anyone, anti muslim hate crimes went from almost nothing up 1600%. the remarkable thing was that the very next year in 2002, they fell back by some two thirds. i think that was largely due to
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some things president bush did saying repeatedly in speeches muslims are not our enemy our enemy is a very specific terrorist network called al-qaeda. what happened in 2010 was there was no visible external reason for a very sudden uptick in anti muslim i had red. i think it was absolutely things like the big controversy largely upped by politicians and activists about the so-called ground zero mosque which was not at ground zero. the next thing that came along was the peter king hearings, which were essentially kind of mccarthy like what's wrong with muslim hearings. we saw the dissent at the state level, a lot of legislatures take up this anti sharia law
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crusade. it cannot be imposed under the constitution, but we've got a lot of people especially at the state level politicians making this claim. there's a plot against us by muslims, we've got to pass these laws. i think that's really what is behind the anti muslim wave we've seen. >> it's important to remember just because it's absurd to us and goes away when people of some intelligence say it's absurd doesn't mean it's absurd to the 1,018 hate groups and the 1274 anti-government groups. mark, it's always an education chilling but worth our time. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> efforts to cage and excise voters target a former tennessee congressman who went to school 20 yards away from the polling
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that granted the women the right to vote. it would take 30 years to repeal its jim crow laws, while it was thought to be an ugly part of the past, not as drayonian tuesday, as part of super tuesday, due to a new law passed last year, voters needed to present a state issued i.d. it was perfectly put into perspective by a former marine who refused saying: >> it was not simply former members of the military suppressed. a former elected official was denied his right to vote. he was turned away from the local polling station after being told he was not registered in an area he had been voting
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for 20 years of the. >> apparently the picket county administrator of election agreed at least in retrospect today issuing a very short statement saying in short we just messed up. joining me lincoln davis former congressman. thank you for your time tonight sir. >> thank you keith thanks for having me on tonight. >> are you satisfied with the apology? >> haven't received one yet. the only apology i got is a young lady who works as deputy coordinator for the adjoining county where they transferred me to without my knowledge elaine conner. i appreciate her apology. the tate has not called me nor apologized about what happened, and neither has my local. and neither has the local
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election coordinator or folks on the commission made a comment about it at all. >> this kind of underscores what's going on throughout the country, doesn't it? whether or not there's a particular reason to mess with a group of voters or individual voters, people are being -- they're voting rights are being jeopardized by these new laws. is that your assessment of what happened? >> there's no question. i think there's an intentional strategy to suppress votes. 1964 is the first time i got to vote. i was 21 september of that year, i drove where i was a student and voted for a congressman, i voted for two united states senators, and so i voted for ross bass, albert gore senior who one in 1964 and for lyndon b. johnson. i've been voting there for years. the last time i went to vote, i was denied that saying you are no longer registered here.
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there is no way they can legally take me off unless i'm dead or unless i'm a felon. there are no other justifications in tennessee. they removed me without notifying me saying you cannot vote there both my wife and i. when i went to the polls that night to vote, i got there a little after 6:00, the polls close at 7:00. i presented them with my i.d. and she came in and presented hers. they kept looking for our addresses and said we can't find it. the judge of that precinct said you are not registered anymore. i said you've got to be kidding me. my first vote was cast on the other side of this building, and you're telling me that you have taken me off the voter registration list in this county, i nearly lost the election, but i didn't lose my right to vote. >> you're maybe one historical
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event short of having a plaque on the wall saying this is where congressman davis voted and they wouldn't let you vote there. what do we need to do that takes this kind of stuff suppression of groups of voters or the losing of people's rights to vote seemingly by accident or bureaucracy or whatever the cause, what do we need to take it out of the hands of people who can issue statements that read we just messed up. does the congress have to do something, the president, who has to do something? >> i think congress does have to do something. in my situation, i've never filed a lawsuit against anyone in my life and i would never file a lawsuit as for monetary advantage from any situation unless i'd been harmed physically and needed that, so in essence i have talked to an attorney in nashville and they're in the process now of filing a lawsuit against the state of tennessee the election coordinator, requiring them to put everyone that they have purged from the rolls except
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for those that would be obviously deceased or convicted felons to put those back on the rolls and follow the law. in tennessee you cannot purge a voter unless those two exceptions unless you notify them, and then it takes two or three election cycles before you actually take them off the ballot. you are allowed to have a provisional vote in that circumstance. when i left my voting precinct, no one suggested to me and i was quite frankly stunned and aluminum when i left there thinking a former member of congress, i know these people, they were as stunned as i was. when i left from there the judge who said you cannot vote, neither can your wife and we went home, i dialed folks and learned voting rights were transferred to another county. we were property owners in
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birdstan. i was voting as a property owner. my general election was being voted in another county. these folks new this. the election coordinator the family farm i live on and his adjoin each other. i see him from time to time. he could have stopped me and said look, we transferred your voting privileges to another county. this absolutely is just -- so what i'm doing is asking for a lawsuit to be filed and will be. it is being filed to require hopefully and hopefully the courts willis to require everyone who's been removed from voting privileges by this election coordinator and go through the regular process. i was not registered and couldn't do a provisional ballot. you are not entitled to having a
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provisional ballot after being removed. later that night somewhere around 7:30, maybe 7:40 after i'd gone home, they called and said if you'll go back and register to vote, you and your wife tonight, you can vote a provisional ballot. you know, quite frankly you have to be registered 30 days before the election or you can't vote. >> we want to check in with you on how the suit unfolds. lincoln davis thanks and all the best to you. >> thank you sir. >> the governor in virginia
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>> an odd way of celebrating national women's day regulating ladies private parts intensifies while rush limbaugh continues his attacks. women seeking abortions in virginia must undergo and pay out-of-pocket for an ultrasound courtesy of a bill signed by that guy the governor. >> female state senators walked out. by all accounts, state legislators on the left are mobilizing for measures banning
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vasectomies and men receiving viagra. constance johnson stipulated a bill: >> but all of that hasn't stopped rush limbaugh's advertisers from threing his program although he scrubbed the sandra fluke comments from his website. not just washington post opinion blogger gender but falsely pretended her piece entitled rush limbaugh show charges gentlemen, was objective reporting and not fully branded is a tiriccal piece. >> this was a so-called reporter who simply accepts false information from a site
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probably but you might want to double check here, because you've written something that is patently false an out and out lie completely with your bi. i'vey opinion in it. >> joining me now good to see you. >> good to see you too. >> limbaugh's cracking up, isn't he? >> he's way beyond cracked. >> last week, this really has -- >> yeah. >> he didn't recognize that that was a is satirical piece. >> he's missing warning signs. the susan g komen debacle was a cautionary tale, you may think that it's ok to go after minority groups and women as the biggest minority, but when you screw with us, we come back at you. he learned nothing. it's like we brought you in this world, we will take you out.
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[ laughter ] >> now bill o'reilly has just joined this. he tonight argued that somebody, the question was who is running sandra fluke there's a conspiracy to benefit president obama because there is a powerful presence behind sandra fluke and his argument is that there must be a conspiracy and it must be a publicity stunt because she won't appear on his show. now we have the two greatest egos and delusional neurotics of our time focused in on this women. do you think women can defeat niece lunatics. >> i think they can, one step is refusing to go on their shows. what he's saying with this girl and with this entire issue is missing the point of what's really going on, we're having a discussion about birth control with the economy shot, with the public school systems an utter mess, with the gop having absolutely no candidate to run
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if this is a conspiracy, it's a gop conspiracy to make women flee to president obama. while independents are running away from them like jack nicholson in the shining, they are running towards singing al green, making them want to toss them. >> we don't have a lot of time left. i don't understand my men are acting against their own self interest here. the womens willing to take responsibility for birth control, we're supposed to go like this, right? >> it's because they have lost their minds. and no one benefits more from birth control than these fill landerring men yet here we are back to explaining to my dad i'm not a slut because i'm on birth control. i'm taking it so i don't die. >> we hope that last statement proves true
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