talking. you've finally got your finger on the pulse of this country. it's about the economy. "countdown" with keith olbermann starts right now. which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? the plot to buy america. think progress names names. foreign companies funneling money into our election, into pro-american campaign commercials. via the u.s. chamber of commerce, at least $885,000 from dozens of firms. and still, the chamber of commerce lies about it. >> fascinating to us, this begins with a liberal blog think progress. a subset of john padesta, his own center for american progress, who interestingly was

funded by george sorros and doesn't di doesn't divulge his own owners. >> the chamber of commerce is. the far right in bed with foreign interests seeking to elect those who would sell this nation out with chris hayes of the nation. and faj shakir. the president is not helping. t.a.r.p., the bailouts, he now says reenforce the narrative that the republicans wanted to promote anyway, which is obama was not a different kind of democrat, he's the same old tax and spend liberal democrat. and he thinks he might have better luck after the midterms working with republicans if they win the house. how about working with this republican tea party house candidate from michigan? >> or unless congress in majority will stand up to including. and republicans don't have the majority. >> how about working with the ohio republican in the nazi get-up? and the guy who just defended him?

carl paladino, now he has gay bashed himself. >> i don't want them to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid or successful option. it isn't. >> but it is if there's profit involved. guess who rented one of his properties as a gay bar? guess who tried to half-apologize to everybody. >> did you see that carl? what a guy. all that and more right now on "countdown." >> i am angry. that's okay. good evening from new york, this is wednesday, october 13th, 20 days until the 2010 midterm elections. and there are in soldiers on the battlefield in the struggle not just over the next month's elections, but over the future of american democracy. they are underdogs to be certain, but in the battle against the big money threatening to swamp american

big money, they are trying something new. but if you want to understand what they're trying to do and comprehend who and what they're against. first in our fifth story, the money coming from the right-wing millionaires against democratic candidates across the country. and you ain't seen nothing yet. those groups including karl rove and others will air more than $200 million worth of tv ads by the time election day arrives. that according to politico. more than 60,000 such ads have already aired, 4,700 of them last week. and that was before rove announced he's increasing funds to a total of $65 million, so he can target house races instead of just the ones in the senate. and the chamber of commerce told the associated press he's going to ramp up his campaign to elect right-wingers. ramp up from the $10 million spent last week alone. and both donahue and rove's groups are part of a new right-wing alliance reported by the "wall street journal"

launching a $50 million ad blitz this week to buy a republican majority in the house. the journal quoting the campaign media analysis group, third-party democratic groups are running ads in nine house campaigns. how many republican house campaigns are getting answers from outside groups? 70. 7-0. think progress today documented $885,000 in foreign money going from the chamber from at least 84 foreign companies. but even beforehand, think progress' report prompted a flurry of desperate pushback from the right wing this week. including from the chamber itself, which abc reports will not go on camera with mainstream media. although he did appear on the network whose parent company this summer gave the chamber $1 million. >> this begins with a liberal blog think progress. a subset of john podesta, the

chair of the president's own transition team after inauguration, his own center for american progress who interestingly was largely funded as a start-up by george sorros and doesn't divulge its own donors. >> a certain charge if you caught a certain fox employee on tv that morning. >> president obama based his attack on a blog posting by think progress, which is associated with the center for american progress, a group headed by john podesta, the chairman of the president's transition. it is a political group and does not reveal its donors. >> they are correct. think progress and the center for american progress do not disclose their donors. why? because they don't run ads. still some republicans want the chamber to disclose the foreign funding. watch how passionate he is during his debate with senator russ feingold of wisconsin. >> you just said they ought to disclose. you haven't called on these people to disclose. you just said you're for

disclosure, you won't call on them to disclose. >> i'd be happy to have them disclose. >> why don't you ask them to do? disclose. >> democrats have shown a little more energy on the issue. senate democratic whip dick durbin calling on the irs for violating rules. senior white house adviser david axelrod telling the blog, the white house will stay on the issue. a new poll finding that 47% say they will be less likely to vote for a candidate if they learn that candidate was helped by ads paid for by secret business groups. so back to the starts. fighting against those secret businesses. shareholders challenging their oil companies using millions of corporate funds to fight california's new emissions law. and rupert murdoch, under fire from two investor groups. calling for complete disclosure of his political spending before the annual shareholders meeting this friday. f & c investments, media matters reports at the reelection, over

the use of corporate funds for the political causes of individual board members. of course, this is all thanks to citizens united. the ruling handed down by the wing of the supreme court allowing billionaires to use assets of the companies they run to target democrats. unfortunately for shareholders, a new s.e.c. rule that would have allowed them to nominate their own board members has been put on hold thanks to a lawsuit filed by the chamber of commerce, lead counsel on that case, eugene scalia. good evening. >> hi, keith. >> before we go big picture. explain, if you could, the reporting behind the claim of 84 foreign companies kicking in $885,000 minimum to the chamber of commerce. >> you know that the chamber's response since we released our report last week has been just trust us, we've got a system in

place. and what we've done is we don't really trust you, let's look at what you're sayingment and over the past week the chamber of commerce has said we're getting $100,000 from foreign money. that's been the claim they've told the "new york times," the washington post, "ap" and anybody listening. they only get $100,000. and what we did is documented eight times as much. $800,000 coming from 84 companies. and the 84 companies is particularly important because just yesterday, bruce johnson was telling fox news that they only have 60 foreign-based corporations that give them money. on two counts, keith, we know they're not telling the full truth. why trust them? >> there's been some skepticism about whether or not anybody cares about this. why the skepticism? and are they right about the not caring? >> well, keith, you know on both sides of the aisle, everybody's saying this is about economy and jobs. there's somebody in favor of outsourcing overseas and

fighting foreign companies' tax loopholes. and that's the chamber. there's somebody fighting against health care protections for americans. that's the chamber. there's somebody who's fighting for lowering the corporate tax roop holes or lowering the corporate taxes. increasing the amount of taxes for the rich. that's the chamber. there's somebody who is fighting for taxpayer bailouts every time corporations spill oil in the gulf or whenever they screw up with the large financial crisis. that's the chamber. tell me the chamber's not important in this election. i hope people do what russ feingold did, demand the chamber disclose who their donors are. >> and that new polling suggests nearly half the voters would vote against somebody, more likely to vote against somebody if they knew the money was coming from some secret source, as is the case with the chamber. your organization was invoked particularly by mr. johnson and mr. rove. respond to them. why does it matter if they

disclose your donors but if you dot no yours? >> the law stipulates that if you run ads on television, you must first adhere to the law that says you disclose your donors, and second that the donors that give to you must abide by contribution limits. and what the chamber and particularly what karl rove is trying to do is avoid that law. and take in gobs of corporate money and in the chamber's case and in some cases foreign money to influence the elections. and that's what we think is skirting the law. the center for american progress, we're not running those ads, they're running $75 million worth, $10.5 million this week. that's more than the rnc. these guys are major players and that's why the law should apply to what they're doing. >> and the new p.s. to this shareholder starting to reject the use of the money in this way. and the son of one of the supreme court justices working for a group funded by the very same rich guys we've been talking about gets a suit going that stops the shareholders in

their tracks. that's just a coincidence, i assume. >> you know, after citizens united, we learned that corporations are individuals. and now we know that the individuals who lead these corporations are treating their corporations as individuals. like the chamber is taking on the personality of karl rove. got the health insurance companies acting like john boehner. i think at the end of the day, this isn't about accounting, it's about who these companies are accountable to. are they accountable in the shadows? like nobody's going to pay attention to them? they can do what they want in secret. or are we going to force them out into the public and know what their agenda is? we're going to learn who are these secret actors. >> including on justice scalia. faiz, thank you. >> thanks, keith. chris, good evening. >> good evening, keith. >> i want to ask a short-term version of this question and a long-term version of this question. short-term meaning this election season. now what?

>> well, i think the now what as you try to make lemons into lemonade by making this a campaign issue. that's the strategy a variety of people are pursuing. the white house picked this up for a reason. they think it's a winning issue. i think they're right. move on has been pushing against this. and it's one of the issues, it's both the substance and the politics. and if you're someone like russ feingold in a desperately tight closely contested race in wisconsin and also has an amazing sort of reputation on behalf of disclosure, transparency, campaign finance reform. this issue is kind of a god send to sort of pursue against. because you're getting bombarded by essentially, you know, political sniper fire from pill boxes you cannot identify. and this allows you to fight back. i think in feingold's case, it could be a winning issue down the stretch. it's the best you can hopeful. >> long-term, the president called this a threat to our democracy. how do you stop it long-term? >> long-term, i mean, look, this has been a long-term process that's brought us to where we are.

you can think about the post watergate, architecture of campaign finance reform is a like a jenga tower with those blocks. what we've seen over the last two or three decades is pulling out piece by piece, citizens united was the last block that made the whole thing collapse. we're in a landscape in which that architecture, which essentially in a very incomplete fashion attempted to provide some kind of discipline on this absolute total corruption. that's falling away now. what we have to do is think from the ground up. one way is the fair elections now bill, which has 150 co-sponsors in congress and 25 in the senate. would create a system of public elections, publicly funded elections in which you would raise small donors and they would be matched by a public fund. there are state-level versions that remain in arizona. you have to start thinking of the way we're going to run this in totally new fashions because the old system is sort of beyond salvaging at this point. >> but is that -- are we past the point of no return on that?

is that even doable? can that happen before the other alternative comes to pass, where the wealthy gain control of every single lever of power and then they just strip mine everybody of whatever assets might be left and privatize the roads and the cops and charge you for air to breathe? >> well, it does seem sometimes close to that, doesn't it? >> it sure does. >> it seems like we're on the verge of it. i think -- i don't think we are. and the reason i don't think we are. what's potent and powerful here is if you look to the polling of citizens united, there's a deep kind of small "r" republican tradition that finds this notion of massive concentrated pools of corporate power being able to affect election outcomes without transparency and disclosure. to the basic foundational republican spirit of the country. and i think what you saw was across party lines, across the ideological spectrum, a revulsion in the face of disclosures about the chamber's sources of funding. and i think that -- capturing

that spirit and channelling it into organized effective political action is a possibility because that sentiment is so deeply held by the electorate. >> but, of course, you've got the massive corporate pools beginning to run the anti-corporate political action and calling it things like the tea party. >> yes. exactly. and i think the most hilarious thing here, right, is here you have the tea party. if you talk to people at these rallies and stuff. the biggest thing they'll say is the bailouts. they hate the bailouts, right? what happened between the first house vote, in which the t.a.r.p. was defeated in the second house vote when t.a.r.p. passed. was it the chamber of commerce went well into the past and it said, look, you better vote the right way on this. the chamber was hugely instrumental in getting t.a.r.p. passed. it was the most instrumental voice. and now here's the chamber with its t.a.r.p. agenda and the tea party together funding the same candidates. >> chris hayes of the nation.

as always, greatest thanks, chris. >> thanks, keith. if you heard a great hissing sound around the nation, it was some of the air being let out. they might be more responsible were they to win the house. through a spokesman he's clarified his earlier comments about criticisms about the bailouts. one republican candidate is showing how he would work with president obama. threatening to blackmail him with impeachment. ♪ where'd you learn to do that so well. ♪ the new cadillac srx. the cadillac of crossovers. cadillac. the new standard of the world.

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have supported him. one of the spokesmen insist that the president is not backing off what he did and did not deem criticism legitimate. in his interview, he does in one instance acknowledge the argument from the left saying he should not move to the right rather than before specifically on the stimulus package. about 1/3 of which was composed of tax cuts. "it might have been better for us not to include tax cuts in the original package, let the republicans insist on the tax cuts and say, okay, we'll compromise and give you your tax cuts." what sounds like an endorsement of last year's anti-health care town halls and those who argued for him to do more. he said his critics were legitimately troubled by his agenda. and to quote, just one thing after another having to do $800 billion here, $100 billion there, a $700 t.a.r.p. program that wasn't started with me, but managed by us and costing us $100 billion or less which is probably the smallest cost including the s & l bailout.

that accumulation on the tv screen, i think deeply and legitimately troubled people. they started feeling like, gosh, we're tightening our belts, cutting out our gym membership, not buying new clothes for the kids, and here we've got these folks in washington who seem to be printing money and spending it like nobody's business and it reinforced the narrative that the republicans wanted to promote, that is obama's not a different kind of democrat. he's the same old tax and spend liberal democrat. and what would appear to be a challenge for next month, mr. obama seems to suggest he has little if anything in the way of legislation to pursue that would make it important to elect democrats who support him. first he says he thinks issues like education have potential for bipartisan corporation because "they're less ideologically divisive, but the second thing he says we've got to focus on implementation. i didn't pass a law to have a feather in my hat. i passed a law to help people.

there's going to be a lot of work in this administration doing things right. let's turn to msnbc political analyst richard wolf, the author of "revival: the struggle for survival inside the obama white house." good evening. >> good evening, keith. >> i mentioned the statement from bill burton the deputy press secretary. let me quote bill in full here. the president is, of course, proud that he made the right policy decisions that put our economy on a better course and saved the financial sector. i wouldn't overread what he is considering as legitimate. he's my saying that folks who only see headlines with big price tags might well be concerned about the spending that's happening in washington, but he's by no means backing off what he did. even granting that, is there not the potential for deenergizing the base included in much of that interview with peter baker? >> yes, of course there is. you take burton at his word here. i'm sure the president stands by what he did. but you don't engage in this kind of navel gazing for a piece

that's going to come out three weeks or less before an election like this. this is the kind of reflection you want to do after an election. once you know the result, once you know where the republicans are headed, who you're going to have to negotiate with. but putting it out there seems to legitimatize it. he as president is trying to say, yes, i understand what people are feeling and thinking. but it's a campaign. this isn't a sort of third party analyses. he's the central figure in this election. and i cannot for the life of me understand why the white house would want to engage with this kind of article at this point, but full credit to peter baker, because it's a great read. >> and the second part of the political question. why announce less than three weeks that you can work with the republicans while your party is campaigning in some cases frantically against those republicans as obstructionists that they're not going to go along with you anyway and to add you don't have much that you need a new congress to pass anyway? >> well, i guess you get some marks for honesty if you're in the white house. because they do think that with

governing if the republicans do, in fact, take over the house come some responsibility different kinds of pressures. but again, this is the kind of musing that you can indulge in once you know the actual result because you're still campaigning thinking there's a shot that nancy pelosi can remain as speaker. so those kind of tactical adjustments. it seems to me the same kind of mistake the president was talking about with tax cuts in the stimulus, the same kind of mistake they made when it came to oil drilling ahead of getting the package on energy and climate change. if you negotiate by giving up everything first and then saying come to the table, you may look honorable. but that's not a strong negotiating position. >> in the rest of the article, richard, white house aides are shown as saying that the problem was that they did not communicate good policy well. president obama says the economic numbers were the problem. is there anybody in the white house who thinks maybe if the policy had been different, the economic numbers might have been better? that these are really two issues that they're only each seeing half of? >> well, of course, they're not

mutually exclusive here. there are plenty of people in the white house who say we wanted more stimulus, we did what we could. we just squeaked this through with a few votes. and that's all we could do. i do think this comes down to -- in the end -- look the jobs come out of what corporations are willing to spend their money on and why they're sitting on these big piles of cash right now. that's the critical question. but that doesn't absolve the white house of failing to come up with a way of talking about the $800 billion that it spent. and at the moment they would rather talk about the other side, that's fine as a tactic, but they still need to be able to talk about their own record. they need to say how they spent the money, how they saved teachers and their jobs, how they saved people from falling off the edge of the cliff. they're not doing that. they're simply saying, well, gee, we didn't get jobs where we wanted it to be and we're all frustrated. >> lastly and briefly, there's a suggestion here by mr. baker in this piece that mr. obama's presidential bubble in terms of -- i guess the number of

aides he talked to. it might be smaller than george bush's was. is that your experience? can you expand on that? >> you want a president who can get information from a wide range of sources. this president has a close inner circle. i think it's very hard for outside journalists and politicians to try to penetrate it. but we don't actually know who he's talking to. and i think the president likes it that way. was president bush for all the people he could draw on from his father's administration, from everyone in the republican establishment, was he better informed about the situation in iraq? what matters is the quality of the information, the questions they're asking. not the size of the bubble. >> msnbc political analyst richard wolf. thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you, keith. >> the republicans' implicit promise gets more explicit about that president. if they get the house, they start threatening impeachment, next.

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it has been hinted at at the fringes of everything from the threat presented by the five-member new black panther party to the "bp shakedown." the rationale may still be borderline psychotic, but the latest source is borderline mainstream. a former republican congressman seeking reelection now in michigan. our third story, impeachment as blackmail. against the backdrop of a

president saying he's optimistic about working with republicans after the midterms. this is also from that lengthy interview with peter baker of the "new york times." "it may be regardless of what happens after this election, they feel more responsible either because they didn't do as well as they anticipated -- the republicans he's speaking of, and so the strategy of just saying no to everything and sitting on the sidelines and throwing bombs didn't work for them. or they did reasonably well in which case the american people are going to be looking to them to work with me in a serious way." the president was asked if there were any republicans he trusted enough to work with on economic issues. turns out there are two. the first, retiring senator judd gregg of new hampshire. even though when he was given the opportunity to work with the president as commerce secretary, he declined to do so days after saying he would. the second, paul ryan of wisconsin. mr. obama labeling him as someone who is absolutely sincere about wanting to reduce the deficit. even though mr. ryan has been highly critical of president obama's own budget proposal. but on the bright side, mr. ryan has not been out there talking

about impeachment, yet. that's left to the tea party candidate out of the michigan seventh. tim wahlberg saying he takes the president at his word that he's an american citizen, but just to make sure, the president ought to show his birth certificate to persons of responsibility. and also, a radio demagogue. >> if i were going to do it, i'd call -- i'd call rush limbaugh, allen colmes, nancy pelosi, mitchell mcconnell, and maybe one justice of the supreme court. call them all into the room and lay out my -- my birth certificate on the table. and maybe it's for personal reasons, i don't want it to be shown to the media or whatever else. but say now all of you take a look at it. tell me what you find. now go and report it.

>> allen colmes. and if the president doesn't agree to that sensitive plan? >> the executive has an awful lot of power to keep from showing certain things unless the courts will stand up to him. or unless congress in majority will stand up to including impeachment. >> right. >> and the republicans don't have the majority. >> but the promise of impeachment is not exclusive to birthers. it doesn't matter which so-called scandal you choose. darrell isa called a potential white house job offered to congressman joe sestak an impeachable offense. michelle bauchmann backed up the right's claim that he's trying to secure the southern border for political gain. the congress would have to make a determination on. joining me now co-author of the book. the message is what? we will attempt to impeach the

president if we have the power to do so? >> we need two years to hold investigations. we've got to do the committee on the birth certificate, look into what michelle obama ate in spain, maybe. break up this controversy as to whether or not hawaii is a state. like hawaii's a state a gate, or something like that. is beau involved with a.c.o.r.n.? they'll have two years of hearings on this before they can bring it to impeachment. but that is the game plan. that's what the republicans can be expected to do. >> but -- why is the president expecting to corporate with these lunatics? >> that quote that you read was one of the most stunning things i think i've ever read obama having said. there's absolutely no logic to it whatsoever. and i've been wracking my brain to think is this some kind of strategy? unless he's trying to send a message to david brooks or david

broder, you think you would call them up and tell them this. where were you during the '90s? it really is stunning. and i -- for the life of me, i can't figure it out. >> and what is also complicating the inability we both have to figure this out is this seems so different. whoever this is in the interview does not seem like the man who has been recently energized, fired up, and firing people up on the campaign trail. what about that dichotomy? >> you know, you were talking to richard wolf. you said it well. i can't understand why you would do this before the election. i mean, on some level it's as if he's waving the white flag at this point and -- it makes no sense. he clearly gets energized on the campaign trail. it's funny, i was watching that rally he had in wisconsin, which was very reminiscent of 2008, in fact, maybe more people, i think, in madison this time around. but when he says change. the difference is in 2008 i thought i knew what he meant. now i'm just like -- well, get a little more specific this time,

please. >> do you have any sense of this contributing to or is it already passed a tipping point in terms of deflation and deenergization 20 days before the midterms? >> you know, i don't know how many people are going to read this interview. and frankly, look -- it's the house. i mean, do people -- i actually think that we're going to see if we see gop control of the house, we're going to see a series of these investigations. and do people want to sit through that? i mean, i think at this point, look, the democratic base is going to go out and vote. the rest of the people i think who are -- you know in this supposed middle who are less -- who want washington to be somehow fixed as if that was actually something that could be done or relevant. i don't think they're going to pay much attention to it. >> washington as we noted in the first segment of the show is fixed. that was called citizens united. >> exactly. >> we have that already. that's the one thing that's resolved. >> well, the bottom line is

people want results. and the idea you can go in and be so process-oriented and worry about how washington works as opposed to what the results the people in the country want. and the fact is, we're a polarized country. it's either we're going to maintain social security, or in some way we're going to basically let everything just burn. and i -- you know, i don't understand why he keeps focusing on this process argument. >> sam seder, author of "fubar." thanks for coming in. gay bashing, carl paladino, his income from a gay bar revealed, tries to back down from the hate speech only to get hated in return by the brooklyn rabbi. courtesy of the campaign of jan headless torso brewer. ♪ when the parts for the line ♪ ♪ come precisely on time ♪ that's logistics ♪ ♪ a continuous link, that is always in sync ♪ ♪ that's logistics ♪

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if this gentleman may have skipped a step. hello. the car continues to roll until it's stopped by nature's speed bump, that tree. the tow truck driver was okay, but he might want to think twice before trying to tow david blaine's car again. finally on the frozen ponds of st. louis where the ducks of anaheim are squaring off against the st. louis blues. it all seems like the regular hockey tough talk. until you take a closer look. is he flicking him? is that really a flick right there? beware the next time these two come in contact on the ice. a tickle fight may break out. time marches on. carl paladino thinks it's immoral to go to a gay pride parade, to rent one of his properties as a gay bar, that's fine. well, there's a profit there. ohio tea party congressional

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the house. she intends to become teacher of the house. as part of the tea party caucus, i'm going to be starting classes on a weekly basis for new members of congress on the constitution. and i'm asking for experts around the country to come in every week and teach our constitutional principles. u.s. constitution? no offense, professor, but shouldn't you have considered teaching the u.s. constitution to the tea partiers before they ran for office? not after? but our winner, televangelist glenn beck. you recall that ohio tea party congressional candidate admitted for years he was part of a group called viking that reenacted the various campaigns of a german world war ii panzer division, complete with the tribute it is to the germans' brilliant military success and the praise for how such a small country can wind up taking over europe and, you know, conducting genocide and murdering intellectuals and stuff. it's so bad, even republican whip eric canaditor condemned hyatt.

>> if you were doing this with your son, i could see how this might be fun. if you happen to have a nazi uniform in your closet and you're wearing it and you're like, yes, i'm wearing my nazi uniform around. you might question someone. but if you are part of an reenactment group and you are war gaming, i could see that as, again, not something i necessarily would participate in, but nothing wrong with it. >> no. >> there's nothing wrong with it. >> so if you keep your nazi uniform in your closet and you're like wearing it, that's a problem. but if you're reenacting military triumphs, there's nothing wrong with that. you and i both recognize there's not one single thread of logic going through any of that. but why would he say something like that? oh, yeah, that's why he would say that. because he played dress-up too. televangelist glenn beck, today's "worst person in the world."

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it is a standard call from the tried and true republican playbook if your candidate is behind or lead is shrinking, it worked for the bush administration, it may have worked in a primary for christine o'donnell. and in our number one story, it may or may not have worked for jan brewer and carl paladino in new york. it won't be for lack of trying. paladino earned the endorsement of the rabbi after professing to the congregation that children should not be "brainwashed" into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid.

even paladino's own family wasn't happy. his nephew/campaign staffer who happens to be openly gay saying he was "highly offended" by his uncle's remarks. yesterday paladino apologized for any comment that may have offended. paladino's people were kind enough. today the rabbi publicly withdrew his endorsement telling the new york post "mazel tov. we'll have a coming out party. monday, the would be governor complained about grown men grinding against each other at a gay pride parade, which looked to him like a strip club. today the new york daily news reports that paladino has in the past rented space to gay establishments in buffalo. and according to the new york

daily news, a march 2005 review of cobalt in the buffalo news described it as way gay. noting the cocktails, it was in full force at cobalt. you know, like a strip joint. which must have been okay by paladino because the checks cleared. dave, good evening. >> good evening, keith. >> paladino's anti-gay social conservatism getting in the way of the sort of fiscal conservative message. he angered giuliani, his nephew, even profitable landlords are ticked off. who can he turn to now? >> i think he's going to find a new performance art, a new creativity outlet. i'd suggest finger painting or world war ii reenactment, but he doesn't -- this campaign is sort of a one off. we talk a lot about tea party candidates.

this campaign has sort of taken all the gaffes of the other candidates and supersized them in a way that's fascinating to cover because so much media's in new york watching the guy flounder. but really this stuff is unrecoverable from. he made this mistake in the first place because he chose that rabbi to the jewish community. but that was obviously ham handed. that wasn't a block of voters he was going to have a lot of appeal to and that wasn't the way to do it. no, we hate to predict the election being over, but this is one race that democrats are kind of tucking away as they look at the rest of the map. >> i have to say, i agree with all your points there. i just have to bring attention to the phrase we can create out of what you said. a ham-handed sherpa rabbi. to some degree it does uphold that at least half of politicians who bash anything fervently turn out to have some connection to the thing they're trying to keep from the public. and he had two family and financial. is the assumption that he

thought nobody would ever know? is that at the essence of these, the faux pas that have been sprinkled across the tea party campaigns? because they're not experienced politicians they think nobody's ever going to find out about the stuff in their past unless they want them to? >> that's actually a good point. with him specifically, he's done a couple of other projection games with andrew cuomo's campaign. he has fathered a child out of wedlock, raised a child, fine, live and let live. but he insinuated with no evidence that cuomo had legenda legenda legendary practical lis. other tea party candidate who is have the same amount of experience as him have been less bad at this. they've sought. they haven't warred with the party establishment as much as he has. they took it over early, got the right consultants and hid from the national media, which you

can't do in new york. >> you can show up late and still get into the party. the brewer campaign in arizona, her campaign manager suggested that the democrats supposedly in the race who is straight take a lie detector test prove it. the race tightened, is there enough time left for some of the tea partiers ahead to screw it up? >> well, there -- no, there is. we keep saying the elections is jobs, jobs, jobs. but what elections are actually about is what kind of crazy story can explode in the last week. and in arizona, i'm not sure it's enough for the democrats to do that. because the proper and effective brewer pander has been on immigration. shep went from a non-entity who was going to lose her own primary to a superstar because she signed the 1070, the immigration law. so i -- i think they need to get their pander straight here. they need to get their scapegoats. this was a huge blunder by the campaign manager. this is not clear that democrats can capital