well john 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 poly kemi apology call the uproar is rush well in for more backlash also super tuesday is tomorrow will mitt's billionaire buddies propel him to victory or could another candidate buy their way to the top and the former prime minister of iceland is going on trial on charges does he face in america take a lesson from the icelandic play which.

we 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 humorous i created a national stir 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 a statement to get his political shots in once again saying i personally do not agree that american citizens should pay for these social war to use what happened to personal responsibility and accountability where do we draw the line if this is

the accepted norm what will follow. but still last 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 policy sister polytheistic ovarian 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 lead they're having a partial hysterectomy and now at thirty two years old she has an increased risk of cancer heart disease and she's unable to have a child russia 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 from russia 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 his 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 obeyed the men who pay you was the prostitution it was the prostitute now bitch end of quote even ron paul agreed which is fake apology pretty fair centers that's why i did i don't think he's very apologetic he's doing it because some people took were taking their advertisements office program it was it was his bottom line it was good it 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. has a history of say now rages 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. here we go this is. 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 you can order now you can supersize order and the double door steps the alarm clock taken over a divorce and a moderator chris rose gets a woman who loves every break the record in texas or florida and here are some of the more outrageous things he said over the years about well. 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 it said i'd leave it up to the government to make good decisions for americans she was talking about obama mandating that the catholic church provide contraception what 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 in nearly bring him down after all frankly in my opinion it's because the republican party is entering a phase as we've 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 were always there the republicans have always been fundamentally plutocratic in massage as 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 warren harding their business and government less government and business to be the republicans actually cooperated with f.d.r. in the thirty's to forty six the do nothing congress the 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. why he has gotten in 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 interest into a time when 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's a girl standing russian bureau chief with alter net and author of a new article of inside travel rush limbaugh's despicable non apology adult 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 drug addiction his meeting turned in his turn is made into a pusher is getting busted in the dominican republican on a sex tour with a pocketful of viber is it possible that he could actually lose his radio show now over over. basically libel leno a college student now well i think it is looking that way isn't it i mean twelve advertisers is only ten and like it did last time i checked you know it's he's setting them like crazy and it seems that his numbers that he claims this 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 is

a big fat lie again. and pornographer who should be required to post his biological exam on the internet now we may and i know i know you like civil discourse and don't put me off the set time ok 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. ok. brilliantly done in fact it seems to me that the word slut and prostitution and prostitute other word 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 a young woman here. it's 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 to it in that little grand mind because he is a kind of doing a verbal pornography here and that is a sexual assault on this young woman that is actually 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 and in fact. the compromise or whatever president obama worked out insurance companies are doing 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. a can control women from the workplace to

the home to the poor it was all about silencing women and i thought what was really interesting about some of his rants about sandra fluke was that he really focused on that there are lost students on the one hand there coeds because that's kind of sexy right on the other hand there are the last students and he has a thing about lady lawyers. and i think that you know if i was a lot about the hillary thing what's too is that you have these accomplished powerful women and god for a bit or a should have sex for pleasure and i really think that he has a real hangup about that i know one way to silence women historically is to sexualize. as sexualized which is. it's not infantile i was seen in but it is it is. kind of a reduction of the hour it's a change in the power. absolutely actually what you what they're doing and i hope

your wave theory is on the money because i think that's fascinating 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. limbaugh's lifetime we've gone from women being locked out of the workplace spec in the sixty's seventy's men wanted women wanted sections of the newspaper in the in the running ads to produce slim's targeting women so that the tobacco companies could kill them too to an explosion of violence space porn and the internet right now is one of the things that they are talking about the car 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 better than they have been now up to i think seventeen some seventy nine thousand from. when i was still sixteen percent roughly of the congress of the fact that especially as c.e.o. it's 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 that's important so i mean we're still fighting we're still fighting for for our place but on the other hand you know you have a predominance of women in the last little graduate so and medical school and i think it's medical school as well thanks so much for being with us from so step by step give another problem worth talking about here is media monopolies in particular the well funded right wing radio and t.v. machines that what their stars be racist a massage 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 buy some major victories or will another candidate steal the show.

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. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you saw you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

but as the rise of 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 and spent nearly ten million dollars on super tuesday so far for the romney campaign responsible for more than a 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 or santorum held

a widely just two weeks ago in fact away according to the latest quinnipiac poll romney is now leading sam. 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 a full month 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 mitt romney to victims in his state but back to the campaign trail the republican party establishment now seems to be coalescing around romney and house majority leader leader eric cantor senator tom coburn and former attorney general john ashcroft all endorsing mitt over the weekend they see what we all see primary season is doing considerable damage to all the candidates and republicans want to

unfortunately for them it might be too late as mitt romney has the highest negative ratings of any republican nominee for president since bob dole in one nine hundred ninety six and that didn't turn out so well for the grand old 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 to us l.z. cliff schecter cliff welcome thanks so much tom how are you great so what's your take is a absolutely pivotal state to the best of my recollection i think it could be correct me if i'm wrong no republican nominee has ever won the white house without winning ohio or at least not last century or so have not and i think you can easily democrat so it's easy to win ohio you know yeah so has a look in there. i mean well i mean as you point out just like they're doing in the nation as a whole and there is they're damaging each other i mean obviously i'm talking

specifically about mitt romney and rick santorum they're both been here a lot. tend to form i think only maybe learned a lesson and as much as rick santorum can learn a lesson after turning off so many voters in michigan by talking about j.f.k. speech what made him want to puke which i'm sure made many catholic voters happy and talking constantly birth control and being the sex police so he got more back to economic message with the coverage i've seen here and you know maybe i work from there some very. white working class parts of ohio that southeastern part appalachian or even really the northeastern part. and the far west which is sort of a around where you know indiana should be interesting but you point out that one called america politics came out had the same similar finding santorum is up two points thirty four thirty two and so it's down to the margin of error i think i give romney edge because he's got more organization at the margin of error i would

think he prevail but it's really close and one could still pull it out and i think i've seen similar in tennessee so mitt could still be in for not the greatest night of. fasting when i was governor casing rejected federal relief aid for tornado victims kentucky now and i both said sure we'll take it. yeah you know maybe they they saw that the place that was hardest hit was called mascara on but it was in russia you know just judging by recent one is there was another republican knowledge of them out i don't know what they're doing i mean this is their ideology again trumping all common sense minds you want eric cantor turn it well who came to what it was earthquake in hurricane. and this is a six home state he's now i heard recently we've been like a few hours ago and it's sort of back to a little bit now he's asked federal inspectors to come in and survey the damage and now he might invite them invite the money in it wanted this to be clarified all

disaster so he got it he got elected with a million and a quarter dollars being cycled by fox news who 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 that bad boy isn't he pretty tied to and it's may simply be that his simpatico with it but whether is or isn't isn't pretty tied to this really hard right ideology of roger ailes and charles and david koch yeah he is because look i mean no liberal as we all know in june schmitz has called for federal aid. you know because the area was so hard you east of cincinnati by tornadoes was a fairly public numbers congress i'm sorry do you actually congresswoman she's made a lot of these very right wing has called word i think look he's in the same position scott walker rick scott bob mcdonnell these guys got elected by the hard right to me 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 has showed these guys they all are in you know barely scratching thirty percent above in their approval ratings they're all passing crazy crazy bills you know the trans national ultrasound and doctors are allowed to ask about guns in florida i mean getting passed they're pushing it and here in ohio you know going after the union scott walker going after you. i was a good talk about this type of legislation all night with all these guys in case it is right along i'm going to school ratings barely above thirty percent and you know it's going to help obama i mean these guys are overstepped their bet their hand quite you know they need it gone way beyond what their mandate was and the big that is where most people are obviously it's not where it's a success or in 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 begs 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 a 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 can file his taxes in texas which is a no income tax state in romney do something similar that new hampshire. well

that's what we weren't sure and i never got the questions answered you know he said he lived in new hampshire he said he lived in california he then 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 end 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 paid oldman in new hampshire or or in massachusetts or as i was told by several people in town that he'd moved to california. how is your campaign fred carter ham plane approaching the super tuesday well i tried to get out of the massachusetts ballot i've gotten some that i've wanted to not all i've tried to pick and choose some states where i could compete and i'm a california ballot i'm and i was a 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 but massachusetts is the 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 not a surprise warmly the state's will will err on the side of caution if you're if you are interested have had the significant media exposure like i have so i'm going to sit tomorrow out i mean california i've been working on our california primary my home state which is june fifth that's great alysia snow is just retired from the republican party it seems like moderate and doesn't seem moderates open primary to many of them with sixty seventy eighty of our primary 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 you know the current crop of george w.

bush republican or santorum republican. i 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 and am 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 various offices no one mentioned lincoln except for me and i said you know i'm an avraham lincoln republican i did all tribute to him so i'm i'm fearful that this republican party of two thousand and twelve is even distancing itself from lincoln which is a major tragedy that's amazing i grew up in ingham county michigan for lansing as and just down the road in. and jacks 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. appreciate your visit. crazy alert mr mustache makes me money. u.s. representative from maryland roscoe bartlett as introduce the stache act or the stimulus to allow critical higher expenses act in the congress bartlett introduced the bill to the house ways and means committee for study last week. dr john uter and

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has put a picture of the need when i was like nine years old and she told the truth. i mean i am an. avid hockey is take an interest. she was kind of a yesterday. i'm very proud of the without you she has placed. her body. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like you think you understand it and then a glimpse something else and you hear sees some other part of it and realize that everything is or you don't know what i'm charged welcome to the big picture.

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