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hangover on the guy who made breakfast. and believe it or not he got a little help today from gretchen carlson. >> would you go as far as rush limbaugh did yesterday in saying this is the first president in modern times who is going to run a campaign against capitalism? >> well, it certainly sounds like that's what he is doing. there's no question but that he's attacking capitalism, in part i think because he doesn't understand how the free economy works. >> okay. that's 26 months of consecutive private sector job growth, 4 million jobs created detroit rescued, the dow up by almost 4600 points, but the president could turn that around if he was smart enough to donate a little of his own campaign cash to his republican rival because

mr. obama could win a dine with the donald for free. a night at the temperature tower international hotel and best of all, i'm not making this up dinner with donald trump and mitt romney. now, how could the president pass up a once in a lifetime opportunity to learn how the economy works from donald trump a man who has already filed for corporate bankruptcy four times. governor romny was in philadelphia to straighten out the education problems and sing enjoying a brief serenade. ♪ >> or at least make some adjustments to his frozen mask. no word if the governor gave a rendition of who let the dogs out this time. here are the latest polls. the hispanic vote will be the key to winning in november and

according to a poll president obama has 61% of those voters compared to the 27% the governor has, and an marries poll has president obama leading romney in three important swing states. now, mitt romney is reportedly looking at ohio senator bob boom boom portman as a possible vice presidential candidate which could help him win the state. bill portman did describe himself to his staff as so boring that i didn't even know i was boring. for more i'm joined by dean obeidallah, who comments on the day's events at the deansreport.com, and by ben adler, campaign correspondent with "the nation." gentlemen, it's great to have you both here. thank you so much. >> thanks for having us. >> i want to start off with the

governor's appearance on the rush limbaugh show. is repeating whatever rush limbaugh says part of a strategy to actually make the far right like him more? >> yes, definitely. mitt romney has deferred to rush limbaugh before if you look at climate change. he used to believe in climate change. when he admitted that in this campaign cycle rush limbaugh said bye-bye nomination. that didn't turn out to be true but romney did dial that back and say he is not sure about climate change. so that is definitely part of his strategy. >> is it fair to say that rush could be the most powerful man in the gop. >> he could be. when rush attacked sandra fluke and mitt romney's versus strong response was i wouldn't use those words. even mitt didn't have the backbone at that moment on a

no-brainer. >> doesn't it seem like by saying the president is attacking can tallism what governor romney is trying to do is equate his own situation with bain with what capitalism is. >> if there is anyone who hates capitalism it is actually mitt romney. at bane he created at least a hundred thousand jobs. last month alone president obama created more jobs in one month than all the time mitt romney was at bain capital. >> so how does he make these arguments stick? >> well, i think that there is a long history of republicans saying that any time democrats criticize a specific manifestation of something they are cite sizing the very thing's existence. in other words if you oppose a certain war, you oppose america defending itself or you oppose the military so i think that romney is going to try to make this a larger theme and it will

be hammered by all of the conservative talking heads like limbaugh that obama hates capitalism just like they claimed during the bush years that anyone who is critical of the iraq war rated america or the military. >> the only people who are angrier at president obama than the ones who call him a socialist are actual socialists. you can really make the argument that the man saved capitalism. i would agree we needed a bigger stimulus package but will this argue sway independents in the general? >> it's tough to say. i don't think people will be worried about this discussion at this point. although joe the plumber did call president obama as a candidate, a socialist. if we can't rely on a plumber, who can we rely on?

>> yes he is not a plumber and his name is not joe. to win the white house you need 40% of the latino vote conceivably to get in. do you think that marco rubio could be the running mate to help romney make up some of this ground. >> he may be the running mate but i don't think he will help with the latino vote. there is a very big difference between cubans in florida and mostly mexican american latinos in the southwest and dominicans and porta ricans in the northeast. porta ricans heavily democratic. cubans in florida already voting for mitt romney. the real battleground is the mexican americans in the southwest. nevada colorado new mexico.

those are really important states. bush did better than republicans typically do among them, because he had experience reaching out to them. romney is very unpopular among them right now. i don't think rubio helps that much with those voters. >> okay. now why would you say that governor romney is unpopular with mexican americans? >> self deportation, lack of -- there is a new ad out today by a super pac that deals with the latino issues attacking romney. it was very effective. with people that if you are in the it will tino community they are your villains. >> i think the republican's party's brand is really bad among latinos because of the immigration issue. look at mccain who is a moderate on immigration among republicans, and he did very

poorly among latinos in 2008 because the republican parties image among latinos was one of intolerance. >> and you mentioned self deportation. it's ironic the government uses that phase considering what his grandfather did. he self deported all the way to mexico. >> yes. >> barack obama has increased deportations. barack obama has sent national guard troops to the border. he has been much tougher on undocumented immigrants than any other president in the past. >> i any there's one thing in that same poll which is a potential sign of concern for obama which is that latinos are less engaged in the election than the electorate as a whole. i think they view -- they -- on immigration they have, you know bad with obama and worse with romney.

so there's no question that romney is going to win the latino vote, the question is how much -- >> yeah it's close. let me move on to the vp sweepstakes, because now we're hearing a lot about mr. portman of ohio. the lloyd benson strategy to make him look that much more dynamic. is portman the guy? i know we have heard a lot of pundits really heat up to him in the last few days. >> i think if romney had any courage he would pick like kim kardashian. >> yes. >> senator portman does make mitt romney -- there's no threat of sarah palin anymore and the former congressman for 20 years now he is in the senate. he had federal experience that mitt romney doesn't. so there are some matching

points there. but adds nothing to the ticket besides another white guy. >> as charismatic as chris lavoie -- chrischristie. >> he would add some excitement to the ticket. but not to the sarah palin degree. i think the fact that he is islamphobic is something romney sees -- >> he is talking about whackos and crazies. some of these evangelicals really -- they hate gays the most and muslims second.

>> i guess the point would be that romney doesn't have -- these are all real questions about christy. he doesn't have any real choices. if i were mitt romney the last thing i would do is pick anything in the bush administration. >> it seems exactly up his alley. looking back really quick if you were in the president's cabinet, what would you say would be the greatest response to these acquisitions that he lacks the experience to run this economy. mitt romney's experience at bain doesn't mean that he can run the country. how would he get bin laden by buying al-qaeda and firing him? what advice would you give? >> go after a specific record. how many jobs mitt romney said he created on his best day and his new economic plan is

ridiculous it's austerity. and it doesn't work. >> i think obama needs to make the case that running a business and running a country are not the same thing. it just wasn't bain's goal to provide employment. his role was to create wealth. and you can say there is nothing wrong with that. and that romney was good at it, but it has absolutely nothing to do with being president. >> dean obeidallah and ben adler, great to have you both on the program. >> thanks. the recall election of scott walker is coming up in less than two weeks, and here is what president obama is saying about it . . .f >>(narrator) current tv presents the campaign ads that changed history, brought to you by spiriva handihaler. today's campaign ads accuse candidates

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of sell a bracing in the anti-abortion rights community this week. 41, that's the percentage of americans who identify themselves as pro choice. it's a record low. and the "washington post" said this proves americans are becoming more pro life. however, it's apparent that this is not a story about numbers. it's a story about words. the same poll reveals that only 20% of americans favor abortion being illegal in all cases. 25% support abortion rights in all cases, and 52%, 52% support abortion rights in some cases. now i'm not too great at math i went to one of those u.s. public schools that governor romney calls third world. but that adds up to 77% of americans who support the right to abortion in some or all

cases. and even though many older and religious voters would never ever terminate a pregnancy, they still support women having the right to their own freedoms. they just don't choose to identify themselves as pro choice. and that's why it's a story about language. just as many pro choice people reject the term pro abortion. but wherever you stand on this issue, two things are clear one, america does not have an abortion problem. it has been unwanted pregnancy portion. and two only here in america can you be pro death penalty, pro torture, >>(narrator) gavin newsom, lieutenant governor of california, and former mayor of san francisco is on current tv. >>every night on cable news networks everyone's focusing on what's wrong. i want this show to move past that. i love creative people, and with all the vexing problems we have we need creative thinking. >>(narrator) with interviews with notables from silicon valley, hollywood, and beyond.

>>at the end of the day this show's simple. it's about ideas. ideas are the best politics. ideas can bring us together. >>(narrator) the gavin newsom show. friday at 11 eastern/8 pacific. only on current tv. vice president al gore joins jennifer granholm. >>we're just getting started. >>the state of the 2012 campain. brought to you by spiriva handihaler. with less than two weeks to gl until the recall election of governor scott walker, both camps begin their final push for the all-important votes but it may be a little bit too late for democrats are walker holding a 26-1 fund-raising advantage, and that's not even counting the outside groups. one poll shows walk we are a 5-point advantage, another showing an 8-point lead. on the average, walker

maintained a 6 point advantage but wisconsin democrats continue to be confident. they show a tighter 2-point lead for walker. these same polls also show a solid lead for president obama over mitt romney. this would suggest perhaps an appearance or some kind of public backing from the president could possibly maybe bring a little more support or an appearance by joe biden or bo the white house dog could show up. the president is not expected to return to the state before the june 5th lurk shun and not expected to even comment on this recall race. for more let's bring in graeme zielinski, communications director for the democratic party of wisconsin. also joining us is political reporter for "the national journal," alex roarty. gentlemen thank you both so much for your time tonight. >> thanks for having me on. >> graeme dealing with the substantial money disadvantage, how can wisconsin democrats hope to get over the top?

>> we already have made up the ground. the poll you cited was done by a real pollster, not some robo poll, paid for on mother's day by some illinois manufacturer's group. our polling -- that's true. that's one of the polls that walker is citing a robo call on mother's day. we just achieved ad parity on the air with scott walker last week, and closed the grown rapidly. we took a $40 million punch from scott walker and he didn't move the needle at all. we are now moving the needle because we have ad parity and a candidate now who is talking directly about scott walker's failure to come clean about criminal corruption and why wisconsin continues to lose job and a ground game that is superior. scott walker may rule the air, but we rule the ground and once we kick our ground game into effect, and do what democrats do well, as we have in each close

election we're going to win this thing. >> before i go to alex you have to be disappointed from the lack of support from national democrats. the president hasn't shown up. debbie wasserman schultz is going to make an appearance. a lot of people feel the democratic party has let you down? do you agree? >> no that's a d.c. bubble thing. nobody cares about what is written in the "washington post" or "politico" here. there are real bread and butter things here. people are having trouble paying their rent and getting kicked off of their jobs. we have a lot of support from your friends, like the democratic governor's association, the obama campaign has been real helpful the dnc is all in here. we're going to get help from our friends, we're just not going to compete with scott walker what you are seeing is frustration over the fact that scott walker is getting half a million

dollars checks written by shell dna adelson and all of these weirdos where we're going to death beat them is with the people. >> it's not really liberal versus conservative. >> right. it's -- no offense to the national journal. >> right. on. alex what do you think why hasn't the president weighed in on this race? >> i think it's all abnovember if the president wants to win recollection he is going to have to win wisconsin. the democrats have won in every presidential election since 1988. that's not to say that the president doesn't care what will happen in the recall, buzz his foe cushion is on november 6th. and the polls right now show that scott walker is at least a slight favorite here, and he doesn't want to come in on the right side of this.

>> if he's playing a long game and wisconsin is to be collateral damage here, why do you think we haven't seen any of the major national unions to get involved here at all. >> i can't see what they have done privately. those are the kind of conversations that can happen behind closed doors to try to get the president into the state and then help them out. there is at least a state issue. how much can a president flying in from washington, d.c. for a campaign stop or two, is really going to help. barack obama is still popular, but not overwhelmingly pop. i think it's an open question whether or not he is the guy that can ride in in on his white house and put barrett over the top. >> talked to a lot of folks in wisconsin who would love to see more democrats showing up. do you get the sense that

governor walker is looking beyond this race? >> scott walker needs to look beyond this recall race at a criminal corruption charge against him. he is right in the middle of crimes that he may have committed, and he won't answer the public. before anybody anoints him as the next sarah palin, number one he is not going to win this recall, number 2 he could be charged already. the d.c. parlor game about what is going to happen with national democrats here is useless to us. we don't care. we'll do this thing one way or another. scott walker -- six of his aids have been charged or convicted already. his best friend has been charged. his own spokesman has been immunized. and we have a governor who can't answer the question truthfully, hey, governor, are you being

charged with a crime? he won't say yes or no. so he has got to go before the grand jury, i fear. >> yeah and you make a good point about the whole sarah palin factor, because if scott walker wins -- let me give this to you alex, if he ekes out a win does that make him a hero to anybody who hates collective bargains for public sector unions, we have heard it said before on fox, maybe even a possible vp candidate? >> i think it's fair to say he is already a hero in the conservative movement regardless of how the recall effort goes, a lot of them have long thought that collective bargaining rights are a big problem and the fact that he -- you know upon taking office, rescinded them already makes him a hero and if he wins the recall election, that just boosts his stature that much more and we'll see a

lot of him between now and november. as far the vice presidential candidate, i think that is still a long shot. this is still someone who is a first-term governor, he is very polarizing. there are a lot of lists made in washington, i haven't seen a single one of those put scott walker on the list. i think there is a good reason for that. so any chatter about him being added to the romney ticket is just that. that's almost certainly not going to happen. >> well one thing is clear scott walker can't recall caring about the workers of wisconsin, but the workers of wisconsin care about recalling scott walker. gentlemen thank you for your time and expertise this evening, graeme zielinski, and alex roarty. both of you are very brilliant and thank you both for your incite. >> thanks. and you can't

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still to come a reaganite who is terrified by the far right. and up next when it doesn't fit anywhere else we put it in the viewfinder. >> the world outside of harvard has asked me to make a quick announcement. the following majors are apparently useless as of tomorrow. history, literature all things related to art, social studies, east asian studies, pretty much anything that ends with studies. >> i think when they are finished with this campaign not only will it be a $3 billion campaign, but [ inaudible ]. >> and the man looking to keep his job making his own promises

like vowing to take down successful businesses in order to make things fair. is he the first president to run against capitalism. >> why doesn't the current president get more credit for everything he has done. >> i don't care about any party. >> do it. come on. >> there you go. >> this is larry king doing the dove thing. ♪ >> the hardest thing i have ever done in my life, harder than training for the olympics has been to stay a virgin. >> i felt a thrill going up my leg, i mean i done feel that too often. >> i hope you feel satisfied that you asked the most obvious question that is raised by every

horse's ass i have ever run into. >> i'm not going to stop beating up on the union. >> president obama was accepted into harvard law school based on his high marks at columbia university. mitt romney got into harvard because of daddy. ♪ >> today is bob dylan's 71st vice president al gore joins jennifer granholm. >>we're just getting started. >>the state of the 2012 campain. brought to you by spiriva handihaler.

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imagine a president who raises taxes 11 times raises the debt ceiling over a dozen times, who talks of our enemies dreams publicly of a world with no nukes, he never once balanced the federal budget and granted amnesty to illegal isle leens into the us. who let reagan into the party of reagan? and michael fumento who wrote for publications now says even reagan the patron saint of modern conservatism itself would be mortified by the far right. he writes in an excel leapt article for salon.com. and i quote him:

joining me now via skype is the aforth mentioned michael fumento. thank you so much for your time sir and for joining us from columbia. >> my pleasure, really. >> it's great to have you. i really enjoyed your article. have you gotten any flak from your conservative friends over the content? >> it's too early. i think we're still in the stun grenade stage. where they are blinded and deaf right now. but i think even as we speak they are preparing to let loose the fly monkeys on me. >> you make reference to mass hysteria that have taken over the gop. what do you mean by that? >> that refers to a phenomenon in which a large number of people have completely lost touch with reality on a given

issue. the most famous mass hysteria is the salem witch trial. you may remember when abe was supposed to kill absolutely everybody, and i lead the person that lead the way in chilling no toyotas don't take on lives of their own. that too was mass hysteria. so too when we see that 50% of likely voters in the gop believe that barack obama was not born in the united states. that is an absolutely stunning figure. and it's an element of mass hysteria that no matter how ill tell gent you are you can be swept up along with this. >> who do you blame? do you blame the base in do you blame right-wing media or the

republican politicians who don't come out and correct these assumptions? >> with mass hysteria there are always people who know better, but they take advantage of the situation. with the witch hunts in europe, for example, the greatest mass hysteria of all time if you turned in your neighbor as a witch as a reward, you might get your neighbor's property. >> you talk -- go ahead. >> they are taking advantage of it. the top people on the right. i think many of them -- they really know better. wink wink nudge, nudge. [ inaudible ] what they think their audiences want. >> i think the audiences do want it. and you are talking like a real conservative here, but you sound like congressional scholars thomas mann and norman ornstein. they didn't hesitate to blame the gop for the dysfunction

we're seeing in washington. they write: and ultimately they say the only way to punish this kind of extremism is to reget it at the polls. is that what conservative voters need to do? >> yes, absolutely. to the extent you can even call them the right -- and i'm not sure you can even do that because as i point out they are really not defined by what they are for, they define themselves by what they are [ inaudible ], that's not an ideology or a if is sfy but i call them the new right. >> right. >> but, yes -- sometimes i use -- i hate calling myself this, the rabbit right, because

it fits so well. they have become so extreme that they are literally out of touch with reality. >> well you are a fascinating man, sir, because you left the republican party or haven't considered yourself a republican since 1982. what made you depart? >> the reagan administration supported huge tax hikes, and i thought isn't that why god invented democrats? >> so you are the real deal then. are you a ron paul fan? >> no, ron paul is a libertarian. and he is very clear about that. libertarianism is a distinct fill -- philosophy. ronald reagan as a politician

although he had to make compromises. william f buckley was not a politician and did not have to make compromises, he was a true philosopher. he understood conservative philosophy, he was a polite man a gentlemen. he flew off of the handle a couple of times. >> yes he did. >> yes, he did. but even [ inaudible ] even a pink fairy by today's standards when you are calling your opponent moron, monkey pig nazi pink fairy was nothing. he was a gentlemen and conservative and we're almost extinct. i hate to say it, but i'm a sort of dinosaur.

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capital and getting people mobilized to vote and we'll be joined by the los angeles mayor, and the inspirational van jones is also going to be on set. get ready for political fireworks at the top of the hour. >> i'll be there, and i'm sure everyone is going to stititititititititititititititititititititititititititititititi >>(narrator) gavin newsom, lieutenant governor of california, and former mayor of san francisco is on current tv. >>every night on cable news networks everyone's focusing on what's wrong. i want this show to move past that. i love creative people, and with all the vexing problems we have we need creative thinking. >>(narrator) with interviews with notables from silicon valley, hollywood, and beyond. >>at the end of the day this show's simple. it's about ideas. ideas are the best politics. ideas can bring us together. >>(narrator) the gavin newsom show. friday at 11 eastern/8 pacific. only on current tv. welcome back to "viewpoint,"

i'm john fugelsang. it hasn't really been a very good week fwor our old pals the birthers, those hopeless romantics who can't stop believes that president obama was born here. arizona attorney general ken bennett threatened to keep the president off of his state's ballot. joe arpaio used tax pay or money to send investigators to hawaii. i have been to his prison, by the way they really do dress them like that. colorado rep, mike coffman made a speech questioning whether he is a real american. >> i think that -- as i -- i

stand by my statement that i misspoke and i apologize. >> and who are you apologizing to? >> i stan by my statement that i misspoke and i apologize. >> he repeated that statement three times. it's all very sad and at this point i got to say the birthers are like those star wars fans. and it is racist. these birthers have never once demanded a caucasian politician produce a birth certificate or asked for it. i'm not saying they hate african american. they are not necessarily bigots. you know that cousin you have who sends you that chain emails about how obama is a foreign-born muslim, that cousin who begins his emails with i'm not a racist but -- racism is

institutionalized bigotry. a lot of folks don't even question it. that way your cousin can have all of the black friends in the woefrld and still be guilty of racist birtherism. the catholic church has this policy no female priests, no nob no god. catholics aren't necessarily sexist but the faith practices institutionalized sexism even if some of the faithful don't see it that way. the real villains aren't the bigots, the real villains are the politicians who know damn well obama was born here but allowed this ignorance to fester and exploit it for votes. the next time you see that racist cousin, tell him i saw

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republicans continue to claim there is no war on women and anyone who says there is needs to get back in the kitchen and make us a steak. and the attacks continue this week with the republicans refusal to even vote on the act that would strengthen the vote to strengthen paychecks for women. joining me now is legendary comedian and writer elayne boosler. good evening. >> good evening, and you are so rocking this. it is a pleasure to be here with you today.

>> god bless you elayne and your very low standards for broadcasting. >> not at all. >> you are one of my favorite comedians. >> i know i am one of your favorite top five male comedians. last week the gop said the war on women was manufactured, and i wanted to thank them for bringing manufacturing back to america. 49% of women in new york actually outearn their partners and spouses, but then i realized they are all married to musicians. yeah, there is a war on women. it's unbelievable. and we really do need to start to stop saying it is going to affect small business if they have to act fairly. every time there is a

proposal -- >> does the gop mean to tell us that small business in america can only survive by screwing everybody? >> i want to ask you about this. republicans put up a fight over the violence against women act, they filibustered the paycheck fairness act. many are taking away a women's right to choose. so what -- realistically how can the party hierarchy claim there is no war on woman? >> i think a woman in the gop is like a jew in the nazi party. >> oh! >> it's so against your own interest. it makes no sense to me at all. i don't know how they do it. i do think the way the war on women came back is we helped our gay friends get equality so much we marched and worked so hard that now the gop is overabundance of hate has turned back on us. and we have to work to make gay

people lose all of the rights they have gotten, and i love the gop saying they are against homosexual sex and my answer is let them get married it will stop. >> they will never have sex again. >> yeah, i agree with gay republicans as well. it's like cows for burger king. >> yeah. i'm totally against marriage equality. and i don't think heterosexuals should be allowed to get married. >> there are lots of terrific republican women and i admire ann romney very much -- >> and olympic snow. >> ann romney is a great stay at five home's mom. but do you think that women like

michele bachmann or sarah palin hurt the cause of women's rights? >> when i was growing up, i had immigrant parents and they were always hoping that any criminal caught wasn't jewish because it would be bad for the jews. oh gosh it's so embarrassing for women when you see people being this dumb publicly. but it takes all kinds and you are allowed to be there, women no longer have to be five times as smart as a man to get the same job, so that proves it. as far as equal pay i really think that any of the real housewives should be paid as much as any male mental patient. >> how did you feel about the president's endorsement of marriage equality? >> i think it's funny that heterosexuals are allowed to have 20-minute vegas marriages and then allowed to throw it

away. >> i love this notion of blaming heterosexual dysfunction on gay happiness. >> yeah who has time to worry about other people. there is way too much time on people's hands if they are worried about maybe the people are having a good life. >> elayne boosler where can people see you? >> if they go to elayne boosler.com, my whole tour exert is right up there. >> terrific. that's "viewpoint" for tonight. i'm john fugelsang, very honored to be filling in for the governor. i will be playing in boston with stephanie miller and each sha tyler for the sexy liberal tour on june 9th, and be