she told. me she. couldn't see through three school chargers. arrangements three. three. three. and three broken living below for your media project a free media don carty dot com. blog some are going to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture rush limbaugh issues a less than a heartfelt apology for his recent attacks on sandra fluke but the polit kemi apology call the uproar is all rush go in for more backlash also super tuesday is

tomorrow will mitt's billionaire buddies propel him to victory or get another candidate buy their way to the top and the former prime minister of iceland is going on trial what charges does he face and get america take a lesson from the icelandic play well. you need to know this the all powerful voice within the republican party quiver this weekend as rush limbaugh issued an apology to georgetown law student sandra fluke who rush called a slut and prostitute last week for speaking out in favor of women's access to contraceptives at least an apology is how most media outlets framed what rush said look at his actual comments he didn't apologize at all in a statement released on saturday rush said my choice of words was not but i don't intend to be here as our creator national. i sincerely apologize to ms fluke for

the insulting word choices good luck finding a woman who thinks being called a slut and prostitute is merely an attempt at humor but rush also used his statement to get his political shots in once again saying i personally do not agree that american citizens should pay for these slow schwarzer of abuse what happen to personal responsibility and accountability where do we draw the line if this is the accepted norm what will follow. but still lost here is the sandra fluke was never testifying about her own sexual behavior she was telling a story of a friend of hers who had a poly sister polytheistic will vary in syndrome her friend append a birth control pills because they were the only drug that prevented cysts from growing on her ovaries and after her friend was denied birth control coverage of the assumption that she was using it to prevent a pregnancy looks friend could afford the out of pocket expenses and eventually had to stop treating the disease she developed a massive tumor leading you're having

a partial hysterectomy and now at thirty two years old she has an increased risk of cancer or heart disease and she's unable to have a child rush never cared about this real story of human suffering he heard the word contraceptives and reverted right back to what he's most comfortable with demonizing women the only response for a rush had to flex story was calling her a slut and a prostitute and the only reason he took the time to issue is not apology this weekend was to save ad revenue he's lost twelve sponsors things to a slot comments and he didn't want to lose any more money that's right he apologized for money and filmmaker michael moore put it best when he tweeted rush as soon as you started losing the big money from your hate speech you caved to obey the men who pay you who is the prostitution who's the prostitute now bitch end of quote even ron paul agreed rush's fake apology protests interest that's why i did i don't think he's very apologetic he's doing it because some people were taking their advertisements of his program who it was his bottom line that was good was

concerned about bush's fake apology was pretty transparent to everybody but here's the bigger picture and there is a bigger picture here why the outrage now rush limbaugh has a history of say no rage is sexist and racist things here for example is what he said about the obama campaign about president obama during the two thousand and eight campaign. the older women as i was. about to walk away. and then this is what happens when god forbid a woman dares to enter politics we created this whole concept of the testicle lockbox. in connection with with mrs clinton can order no you can supersize

order and the double door steps that all our clocks taken over a four of our day to moderate this christmas give a gift to the woman who loves every for a great gift artillery couldn't hazard or thought and here are some of the more outrageous things he said over the years of. just like political correctness is a political tool little effort to shut people down sexual harassment as a political tool of the left to get rid of people or to score money gains them a competitor to said i don't leave it up to the government to make good decisions for americans she was talking about obama mandating that the catholic church provide contraception we expect from a woman dr feminism was established so as to allow other track if women easier access to the mainstream of society. so why did this slot come it nearly bring him down after all frankly in my opinion it's because the republican party is entering a moderate phase this wave theory that i've talked about a number of times where you see the republican party going its face doesn't change

its nature doesn't change they've always the republicans have always been fundamentally plutocratic and massage is one of the things it's really about the money but the public face changes so you know you from teddy roosevelt with a friendly public face to warn are doing more business and government less government and business to the republicans actually cooperated with f.d.r. in the thirty's to forty six the do nothing congress the angry face to the rational face of eisenhower to the angry face of goldwater the rational face of nixon the angry face a reagan rational face of course the wrath of the angry face of bush the zero eight election the republicans kind of backed off and then the tea party comes back and they come back and the reason frankly why he has gotten so much trouble in my opinion with his party is because the republican party the sine wave is continuing and the republican party is entering into or the nation shall we say is in or in into a time and they're going to put up with this horrific greedy monster face of

the republican party they want back that eyes in our face they want a friendly face and and rush limbaugh is not presenting a friendly face. for more rush limbaugh's fake apology on saturdays and his comments on the air today and the fallout from russia's latest attack on women here isabel stand washington bureau chief for the internet and author of a new article of inside travel rush limbaugh's despicable non apology adele welcome back thanks for having me it's great to have you with us ok after going through what three wives i think is drug addiction or maybe for its drug addiction has made me in turn in his turn is made into a pusher is getting busted in the dominican republican on a sex tour with a pocket full of i agree. is it possible that he could actually lose his radio show now over over. basically libeling

a college student yeah well i think it is looking that way isn't it i mean twelve advertisers is only ten and like it was last time i checked you know it's he's shutting them like crazy and it seems that his numbers that he claims it's listenership numbers may well be inflated but you know here's the thing i mean here's what i think i think that rush limbaugh are is a big fat lying by actor dependent for who should be required to post his a logical exam on the internet now we're human i know i know you like civil discourse and don't put me off the set time let me fix this let me fix this i would like to issue a sincere apology to rush limbaugh for my unfortunate word choices that i didn't intend that to be a personal attack. brilliantly done in fact it seems

to me that the word slut and prostitution and prostitute rather were even really close to the worst of it. in my mind far worse for his comments that she wants to have sex all the time she should make a sex tape so that he can watch it on the internet which tells us i think something about. her parents should be ashamed of her i mean. we're speaking about you know a young woman here. these i'm on my mind to verbal sexual assault i agree entirely and that's why i did use the word or not refer in that little grand mind because he is kind of doing a verbal pornography here and that is a sexual assault on this young woman that is actually after asking his his listeners to conjure images of her having sex there's also a big lie in this time which is that he's saying that taxpayers have to pay for this that this is not not about what the mandate is not about taxpayers paying for contraception at all it's about think sure it's companies right and in fact under

the the compromise or whatever that president obama worked out insurance companies are giving contraceptives for free because it's cheaper to do that than to pay for the cost of a pregnancy and childbirth so i and again this is between a private university and a private insurance company there's no but you're right what's the history of men using these kind of stereotypes and put. concrete to control women from the workplace to the home to the politicos are all about silencing women and i thought what was really interesting about some of his rants about sandra fluke was that he really focused i think there are lost students on the one hand they're coeds because that's kind of sexy right i mean other hand there of law students and he has a thing about lady lawyers. and i think that you know that was a lot about the hillary two that you have these accomplished powerful women and god for a big race should have sex for pleasure and i really think that he has

a real hang up about that and one way to silence women historically is to sexualize . as sexualized which is. it's not infant child is seen in but it is it is. kind of a reduction in the worth it's a change in the power. well absolutely they would what they're doing and i hope your wave theory is on the money because that's fascinating yeah i think so i think there were and i think there romney's going to be the moderate candidate once he gets through this is craziness. and limbaugh's lifetime we've gone from women being locked out of the workplace speck in the sixty's seventy's you had men with water than women wanted sections of the newspaper in the audience to produce limbs targeting women so that the tobacco companies could kill them too to an explosion of violence space porn on the internet right now and one of the things that we're talking about the porn industry. what's the current state of balance between men

and the power between men and women and how are women doing in the united states you know all those women are doing everything they have been over and now i have to i think seventeen some seventy nine cents on. when i was still sixteen percent roughly of the congress of the fact and c.e.o. so we're not we're still not having cracked the glass ceilings you know where we are less present in thought leader magazines for example you know the smart people magazine had a very you know a real disparate imbalance between women and men and that's important so i mean we're still fighting we're still fighting for our place but on the other hand you know you have a predominance of women and it's lost all graduates so and medical school right that's medical school well thanks so much for being with us from so step by step to give another problem or thought about here is media monopolies in particular the

well funded right wing radio and t.v. machines that with their stars the racist a massage has over and over again with no consequences it's great to see that the viewers and listeners are beginning to hold these people and their advertisers to account. coming up after the break super tuesday is tomorrow can mitt romney by some major victories another candidate steal the show. look. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old i like to tell the truth.

i have a confession i am a little get a friend that i love grabbing hip hop music and. he was kind of the jester. i'm very proud of the will the belgian see its place. look look look look. look . you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear see some other part of it and realize everything you saw you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

the buzz the rise the news of one day to go until super tuesday when hundreds of

delegates are up for grabs in eleven states mitt romney is trying to buy himself some victories by candidates in the super pacs have spent nearly ten million dollars on super tuesday so far with the romney campaign responsible for more than half of all that spending and as of right now it appears to be working romney is narrowing the gap between himself and rick santorum in crucial swing states like ohio where santorum held a wide lead just two weeks ago in fact the according to the latest quinnipiac poll romney is now leading the same. in ohio thirty four to thirty one percent horse backdrop in the ohio primary is the devastation caused by last week's tornado outbreak that killed thirty nine people in the midwest and kicked off the start of the tornadoes tornado season full months early still none of the republican candidates believe in manmade climate change and all the candidates support ohio governor john casey who's playing politics with people's lives by turning down federal disaster relief aid for to make for tornado victims in his state back to

the campaign trail the republican party establishment now seems to be coalescing around romney house majority leader eric cantor senator tom coburn and former attorney general john ashcroft all endorsing mitt over the weekend they see what we all see the primary season that's doing considerable damage to all the candidates and republicans wanted to unfortunately for them it might be too late as mitt romney has the highest negative ratings of any republican nominee for president since god dole in one thousand nine hundred six and that didn't turn out so well for the grand ole petroleum party back then so how might all this play out and who or what else should we be keeping an eye on heading into super tuesday. joining me now from ohio is syndicated columnist and progressive p.r. strategist with liberty bell see cliff schecter cliff aka thanks so much tom how are you i'm great so what's your take and you know heigho is a is a absolutely pivotal state to the best of my recollection i think that correct me

if i'm wrong no republican nominee has ever won the white house without winning ohio or at least not in the last century or so have not and i think kennedy only democrat so if you need to win ohio you know yes so how is it looking there. i mean well i mean as you point out just like they're doing in the nation as a whole i mean they're terribly damaging each other out let's talk about i mean obviously i'm talking specifically about mitt romney and rick santorum they're both being here a lot santorum i think finally learned his lesson and as much as rick santorum can learn a lesson after turning off somebody who has michigan by talking about j.f.k. speech what made him want to puke which i'm sure made many catholic voters happy and you know talking costly up birth control and being the sex police so he's got more back to his economic message least the coverage i've seen here and you know maybe i work from there some very you know white working class parts of ohio the

southeastern part appalachian part even really the northeastern part. you know and you and the far west which is sort of a ground where you know ohio needs indiana it should be interesting but you point out that one for the merest poll just came out had the had seemed similar finding santorum was up two points thirty four thirty two and so it's down to the margin of error i think right around the edge because he's got more organization of its margin of error i would think he prevail but it's really close santorum could still pull it out and i think it i've seen it somewhere in tennessee so it could still be in for not the greatest night of his life yeah. that's a that's a fast they want to govern casey rejected federal relief aid for turn it over comes kentucky in illinois both sides will take it. ohio. yeah you know maybe they they saw that the place that was hardest hit was called moscow it was in russia you know just judging by recent pain one isms another republican knowledge

of the map i don't know what they're doing i mean this is their ideology again trumping all common sense mind you what eric cantor trying to do what we came to believe was earth breaking hurricane. and this is causing some sea he's now i heard recently we've been like a few hours ago and sort of backed away a little bit now he's asked federal inspectors to come in and survey the damage and now he might invite them invite them on a unit wanted this to be clarified all disastrous that well he got it he got elected with a million and a quarter dollars being cycled by fox news we used to work for through the republican national governors association to his campaign and the koch brothers giving him hundreds of thousands of dollars i mean at that point isn't he pretty tied to and it's may simply be that his some particle with it but whether is or isn't is a pretty tied to this really hard right ideology of roger ailes and charles and david koch yeah he is because look any known liberal as you know as we all know and

jean schmidt has called for federal aid. you know because the area was so hard you east of cincinnati by tornadoes this is a very republican like member of congress i'm sorry judge of congresswoman jean smith who obviously is very right wing here has called i think look he's in the seams ition scott walker rick scott bob mcdonnell these guys got elected by the hard right digne agree with them on everything or only some things but they're the best there and besides the romney and santorum i think they're the best ad obama ad showed these guys they all are if you know barely scratching thirty percent above in their approval ratings they're all passing crazy these crazy bills you know the tragedy national ultrasound and doctors not allowed to ask about guns in florida i mean that in past they're pushing it and here in ohio you know case in point after the union scott we're going to actually use. i was a good talk about this type of legislation all night with all these guys and he said is right along that line is the ratings barely go thirty percent and you know

it's going to help obama i mean these guys are overstepped their bet their hand but you know it going way beyond what their mandate was andy think that this is where most people aren't obviously it's not where it's a six string or a cliff cliff schecter thanks a lot thanks so much for being with us tonight. joining me now from los angeles is another man running for president on the republican ticket fred karger fred welcome to the program thanks tom material to be on your show it's great to have you with us whatever happened to your charges some months ago that mitt romney is a tax cheat and a and isn't gauging in voter fraud well there is still a percolating i had gone to the state officials in massachusetts you know he had said he was living in his son's basement in order to vote in massachusetts for fifteen months including on two federal elections where the two state officials the attorney general in the sector of the commonwealth refused to investigate but you know i think there's close to question of his honesty we know he was not living in

his son's unfinished basement so you know i'm hoping someone else will pick it up i've talked to some voting fraud experts but nothing's really transpired well and george herbert walker bush for many years when he was living in maine kept as his official legal residence a an empty apartment in dallas so that he could file his taxes in texas which is a no income tax state then romney do something similar that new hampshire. well that's why we weren't sure and i never got their questions answered you know he said he lived in new hampshire he said he lived in california then he said he was living out of his son's basement but you know he kept his massachusetts residents as far as i could find out and we did a fair amount of research but then he ended up buying this kind of cheap town home just so he'd have some kind of a presence in massachusetts but we still don't know if he was you know residing it is no income tax state home in new hampshire or in massachusetts or as i was told by several people in town that he moved to california mazie how is your campaign

with fred karger came plane approaching the super tuesday well i tried to get out of the massachusetts ballot i've gotten some that i've wanted to i'm not all i've tried to pick and choose some states where i could compete and i'm a california ballot i'm on and i was on michigan but i'm not on any of the super tuesday states i should have been on the massachusetts ballot the same criteria that the puerto rico and maryland and other states use which is national media exposure of massachusetts a new state party chairman who actually was a business partner of mitt romney's that bain capital for some reason chose to eliminate me from that contest got a surprise armley these states will will err on the side of caution if you're if you are interested if yeah you have had this significant media exposure like i have a point you know i'm going to tomorrow out i mean california i've been working on a california primary my own state which is june fifth that's great. libya's snow is

just retired from the republican party it seems like moderate and it doesn't seem moderates have been primaried many of them with sixty seventy eighty or primaried out of the party and twenty one is the republican party a place for moderates like yourself anymore you describe yourself as sort of a more of an eisenhower type republican rather than a than a. i guess the you know the current crop of george w. bush republican or santorum republican. well i i'm fighting i was very distressed to see senator snowe pull out she said it was the partisanship and and how bad things were nothing was getting done in washington it's one of my major goals of running for president is to try and bring the two sides together it's interesting though that i spoke at the lincoln day breakfast in eagle county michigan about ten days ago romney and i are the two candidates speaking and he didn't mention abraham lincoln once or about another dozen speakers for its office no one mentioned lincoln except for me and i said you know i'm an abraham lincoln

republican i did all tribute to him so i'm i'm fearful that this republican party of two thousand probably is even distancing itself from lincoln which is a major tragedy that's amazing i grew up in ingham county michigan that's where lansing is and just down the road in. and jackson i believe it is an eight hundred fifty six is where the republican party started so many of fred thanks so much for being with us tonight fred card. appreciate your visit. crazy alert mr mustache makes me money.

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. after the break iceland's former prime minister is going on trial for overseeing that ations economic demise this trial serve as a model for other nations seeking to punish their leaders are listening to idiots like alan greenspan of banks stars like hank paulson. put a picture of the need when i was like nine years old and she told the truth. i mean i am going to get it and i was having. that interesting. he was kind of a guest today. i'm very proud of the role that al-jazeera has played. good.

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