oh i'm tom arbonne in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture republican voters at the polls down south for another rock round of primaries today only they aren't voting for an addict's i'll tell you who they're really voting for and what that means for our democracy also sarah palin is back in the spotlight but it's been a rocky has few days for the gubernatorial whiskers and the recent media portrayals mean for palin hailing and what is her future in politics and outstanding student

loan debt in america is around a trillion dollars so why is congress trying to add to it rather than trying to improve our intellectual infrastructure. you need to know this polls are closed down south as conservatives in alabama and mississippi voted today to elect their republican nominee for president eighty four delegates are up for grabs in the two states what's caucuses are being held in hawaii and american samoa but all eyes are on what's happening down south this polls in alabama and mississippi showed a dead heat between romney santorum and gingrich heading into the contest newt gingrich desperately needs a win in either the two southern states to remain a credible candidate or to his own campaign spokesman and with a new public policy poll out this week showing a plurality of republicans believe that president obama is

a secret muslim in ridge may come out on top since he's never backed away from preying on people's fears and bigotry after all he did win south carolina back in january thanks to good old fashioned race bait as for rick santorum he needs to build off his win in kansas last weekend with winston. try to stay out front runner mitt romney's slow march to the nomination romney has yet to win a state in the so-called bible belt this primary season proving the point that he can't quite get the racist and fundamentalist parts of the conservative base to rally behind him so with all three candidates standing to gain or lose a lot in tonight's race they're calling on their millionaire and billionaires super pac donors to put them over the top of all the t.v. campaign ads aired in mississippi and alabama over the last month more than five and a half thousand in total ninety one percent of them were paid for by corporate super pacs those bizarre corrupt entities created out of the supreme court citizens united decision back in two thousand and eight romney's super pac restore our

future is responsible for the bulk of corporate election spending sixty five percent of all the ads air in the two primary states in mississippi alone romney's super pac restore our future brand one thousand five hundred forty eight ads compared to gingrich's winning our future pat pac which urges four hundred fifty four ads and santorum is red white and blue fund which are just three hundred spots we're seeing something unfold this primary season that has never before happened in american politics we don't have candidates running for office anymore we have super pacs or more specifically we have a handful of very rich people and corporations make up the bulk of super pac funding investing in certain candidates and expecting generous returns on their investments. this should worry us. here's the bigger picture in the two thousand and eight primary at this point in march but right now both the republican and democratic field are wide open rick two of these were too hard for primaries both

candidates spending a lot of money over thirty five million dollars as of march see right here over thirty five million dollars as of march. showing the scripts and in january of two thousand and ten the supreme court dropped a bombshell citizens united no presidential election you know that year but suddenly congress got very expensive and libertarian tea parties and advocates of the interests of billionaires swept the field in two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven super pacs emerged even karl rove now has won so it's no longer candidates raising money and spending it instead it's the super pacs which is you know really the very definition of a special interest group rick santorum is a billionaire foster freeze so that sort of the koch brothers convention of billionaires that they should invest in republican politicians to get a good return on their investment look at the spending that was super pacs here and this is just so far this is just a march and invest they are for the past hundred years this would have been

a crime to look at the numbers it was illegal it should be a crime again we need to amend the constitution go to move to amend or or free speech for people to work for more information. so thanks to citizens united we're headed for a billion dollar election cycle or more as we've seen so far in the republican primary the guy with the most corporate super pac money mitt romney is also the guy who's the front runner to win the republican nomination. so is this a good way to run a democracy wherever gets the most millionaires and billionaires to run negative ads on their behalf wins joining me now to give his take on this is conservative commentator and federal tax protector practitioner david david welcome. thank you for having me on thomas always a pleasure welcome back why why do you hate democracy david why do you think that

this talk or see is a good thing well first of all we live in a democratic republic. but i have to tell us wrongly that. he says absolutely nothing this super pac issue has been a wonderful opportunity to level the field level the playing field you know for tom was there any between foster the reason and. cambridge is a guy sheldon adelson. tom you're conspicuously quiet on all the money that the unions are giving largely to the democratic party i think there is still some hard feelings over what was referred to as swift boating as i said this is an opportunity to level the playing field from a media that has been largely biased towards the left and thrown in wholeheartedly with the democratic party and this is a great opportunity to vet the candidates and i would remind your viewing audience

that the last go around the candidate and subsequently commander in chief was not adequately vetted and now look at all the time and effort and money that has been wasted on background checks and investigations so many are saying the president has said it wasn't barack obama wasn't properly vetted and that's why we've had twenty four continuous months of positive job creation that's nonsense tom and so many of your viewing audience right now are out of work sitting on the couch in their homes to spawn because you're its obligations refuse to pass legislation and back no no they have been filibustering this is these the numbers are bogus it is pains me to say that because first and foremost my loyalty is to the united states of america the country that way to say you were saying president obama wasn't better but look let's not that of let's get back to the original context a regional debate here

a discussion why is it a good thing you say it's a good thing for america that shelly ableson and foster free and other billionaires are able to own their own politician right foster freeze on rick santorum in their own leticia niggers would not be in the race if it wasn't for them and you have to acknowledge minute now i will not acknowledge that because newt gingrich is still in the race and he is still in the game because they don't finish with ten million bucks it was a campaign. to five million dollars. he wouldn't be there with the lesson if he is capable of raising the money let's not have sour grapes i'm just astounded to hear you say this david it's what you're saying essentially is that having our campaigns having our national campaign and for that matter our local and state campaigns having them basically up for sale to the highest bidder is a good thing what if the highest bidder is like some really fascinating person what if what if you know you're concerned about iran but if the ayatollah is in iran all

got together and created an american corporation it costs about two hundred bucks and funneled forty fifty million bucks into it or a billion dollars and that corporation created a super pac and all of a sudden you know you've got a candidate who's backed by iran i mean we know this is happening with saudi money on. no that would not work in our political system it may work in our bastions of higher learning where these various islamic entities have bought shares in our in call caving many of these as a cause for others who know where their loyalty lies but never the less so let's put some trust in him that in our colleges and one of their shows will represent the people let's fund our colleges well enough that they don't have to go begging to the koch brothers on the koch brothers say yes you can have this money would only if you hire the professors that we tell you to hire and only if you teach and rant let's let's go back to funding colleges well enough that they don't have to depend on billionaires and let's have presidential campaigns and congressional

campaigns where the where the candidates don't have to depend on billionaires i know who this is on now thomas jefferson said i trust in the people rather than the rich. what has such a minute are you saying that they are successful are not people and morrocco the whole argument that you're making that this was for many years you legal that doesn't hold water you got to remember some laws are just bad and they need to be changed but still an actress on the books resigns you know seven women couldn't vote why your logic women still wouldn't vote and you're going to slave and i'm against that. i salute you for that data but you know the tillman act in one thousand seven was long after slavery was ended and it was just a decade before women got the vote so i don't see how that has any do it we're talking about the modern era here from one thousand stary decisis the. sam alito and and john roberts were appointed to the supreme court and in their confirmation

hearings they both said i'm not going to overturn a stablish law i mean a law that has been on the books and recognized by the supreme court since one nine hundred seventy look at upside down they blew it up and that's that that is radical law making by the supreme court in order to allow corporations and billionaires to influence our elections it just seems harming our use of billionaires what the supreme court because i reject that yes i do and the vehicle through which they did it was the federalist society. ok we have to agree to disagree on that opinion that points i respect your opinions but i do not agree with that one some i think when you know when the heritage foundation is going to hundreds of thousands of dollars to clarence thomas' wife and you've got other members of the right wing members of the supreme court coming out of the federalist society you had john roberts in the two thousand election going down to florida to teach george bush's lawyers argued before the united states oh wait a minute started making this a very one sided argument you know these guys are these guys are hard core right

wingers and they that what's the problem in other words or could we right wing say he's doing it or are you are advocating it would just be your way this is free discourse no i'm not suggesting we should do it like the kennedy nixon debates where the networks have to give them free time where they're not where billionaires can't participate beyond a couple thousand bucks just like you and me could you know the average american if they were really passionate about politics good let's set a threshold like mccain fine gold at twenty two hundred dollars and say that's it please shelley ailes i'm sorry you can't turn to the region to a national stoner. and we're not trying to turn him into a national star but he has got a message that is resonating with many people and if it was not he would be out of the race and don't count his gingrich out yet ok all right david selig thank you very much for being with us. thank you very much and thank you to your viewing audience appreciate it well well using corporate money is one way for conservatives to win an election they've been using another tactic for much longer dog whistle

politics i'll have more on that coming up after the break. look. the lead. just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old like the silage further. incessant i am and get a sense that i love rap and hip hop is that. he was kind of the jester that. i'm very proud of the world without

its place. look. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture .

and about the rest of the news sarah pailin is back in the spotlight right where she lives three although she's not quite getting the sort of attention that she usually likes over the weekend h.b.o. premiere of their film game change documenting the two thousand and eight will cain a one campaign for the white house take a look. i'm not sure how much she knows about foreign policy you can actually see

russia from land here in alaska would have more than mine i wasn't properly things baby and cindy maybe she's on the road you can complete your version to challenge what they want where. i think you know how your topics. sound like to ask. the movie portrays paling as well fully unprepared to be vice president she even thought the queen runs the u.k. it also portrays paling as emotionally disturbed and on the brink of a mental breakdown ala as former top aide on the campaign nicole wallace of the movie was true enough to make me squirm and quote but aside from game change paling was featured in another movie or a campaign commercial i should say paid for by the election the real action campaign for president obama here it is.

the problem has never been i think seen in the conventional traditional way we would describe a man of valor and he is a profession as a community organizer what went into his thinking was this philosophy of radicalism he is bringing us back to days that have the he could harken back to gays before the civil war what bronco bamma seems to want to do is go back to before those days when we were in different classes based on income based on the color of skin and why are we allowing our country to move backwards. pale and call the ad heavily edited so what are these recent portrayals in the media mean for sarah palin and what role does she have in politics heading into the

two thousand and twelve election and did she throw that race baiting thing out on fox this week all on her own because that's who she is or did someone in the republican party or fox suggest that she go down that road here to answer those questions from alaska is shannon more host of the jenna more show and more up north sheen or welcome back. now thanks for having me tom thanks for joining us first again changing your experiences with pale in alaska and talk to those who know her you think it's an accurate portrayal i do i definitely do i heard so many of the same things coming from people who were inside her campaign here on jon benet being one of them when asked if she was sane he said is a sociopath saying so i've been hearing these stories from people that worked with her here in alaska for a long time and i think it was really accurate in fact i think they probably left out some of the really crazy stuff because people wouldn't have believed it unless

they lived here and worked with her and in fact they pay through when apparently the whole idea that or teleprompter had failed during that speech was something that her campaign put out to make her look good perhaps in anticipation of or not doing a good job. and it has become kind of a legend but there's apparently no truth to it but it made its way to the movie i was baffled by that what i just find it strange with the republican party that teleprompters are bad trans national probes are good or does it make sense to me i got it there's a theme running through the movie of pale and being obsessed with her poll numbers in alaska she had a ninety percent approval rating has gotten or how we should do it in alaska and why did she care so much well she doesn't endorse anyone here i think they big her not to i don't know exactly what her poll numbers are but i can tell you they're lower than i think obama's are. interesting and and at a recent

a recent obama ad given the pail and says are racist things every time she goes on fox news. will she provide more fodder for the democrats or enthusiasm for the republicans with this kind of where he speeding up. well you know she the one thing that came out of game change was that john mccain didn't really want her do that the campaign didn't want her to do that but she's really really good at that and i called her a political philosopher for a long time she's able to get a crowd really angry and focused on what they shouldn't be so i'm not sure how it's all going to lay out but when i watched that that clip the other day from fox i really wasn't sure if she was confusing the civil rights movement with the civil war and that would knock ons and i'm still not convinced because you know the income disparity between before the civil war was i own you two i don't own you anymore the civil rights rule but it's different for that so i actually because she

can use that you. are right at that i mean it's still a pretty despicable thing to say but that would make a lot of sense do you think that she promoted this this dog whistle statement or the she just like i mean did this come out of her because this is sarah or do you think that somebody in the g.o.p. or. i guess which which is last so so any out there is there is a piece to this that goes beyond that sarah palin may claim that or words were taken out of context in the most recent obama ad let's face it she's no stranger playing on people's fears out on the campaign trail republicans have a long history of doing exactly that plame dog whistle politics what do you do if you're a political party and your main agenda is to protect the interests of the rich and powerful that's pretty much all you're about making money for people who have a lot of money helping corporations and and biologic norene the needs of working

people how do you win or even working against them how do you win an election. i do because what you going to find is that you know people going to hell what about you know. that this was a big challenge that the republicans had for a long time and they dealt with it in two ways to eisenhower simply went to the middle he wrote you know famously in a brawl in a letter to his brother after a nine hundred fifty four that you know should any party try to do away with social security or collective bargaining power party would never be seen from again or heard from again and he said i know there's a few millionaires an oil men down in texas the hunt brothers among them who believe that you can do this but their number is small and they are stupid and so what do i as an arson on the other hand you had other republicans who thought that they could win elections by this second strategy you draw in rabid single interest voters who are willing to trade their vote for a little love their issue and are not so concerned about the larger issue you know

what one thing for example people who hate gays or carry. something in this country when gays can serve openly in the military when our kids can't openly celebrate christmas. or you pray on the fears of people who are obsessed with their phallic toys their guns you know it charleston well charlton heston's is gone now be it the n.r.a. out there you get people are pumped up you get all these viral e-mails going up all over the place i remember walking into a gun shop in michigan back right after the election right after president obama was elected the summer after the election and and the guy behind the counter he was like well you can only buy two boxes ammunition and literally after ammunition shells were empty. and i was that why only two boxes he's like because obama is going to take our ammunition everybody knows it never a stocking up so he's not going to take your imitation is i got the e-mails i can prove it i mean this is this is people all across the bow this is rural michigan

this is mason michigan so all across the country and we're getting these viral e-mails of them and obama hasn't taken away i mean in fact you know a lot of us would like him to do a little more gun control advocates people who think that the gun folks he the you pander to the people who think it's important to control women who you know you have to to regulate birth control for them or deny them abortions people who are poorly it will impact here limbaugh went off on that. but this is. another college coed susan fluke. who goes reporting british little committee ulysse surely says that she must be paid to have sex lives that make her image a slut right if you're a prostitute and then continues and goes off at some length about how he wants to see the sex tapes if we're going to be paying for them to have sex he wants to send sex tapes and then he also you know trashing one you can also go even also reach

out to people who are poorly educated and think that college educated people are the alit as rick santorum did. as obama wants that said he wants everybody in america to go to college what a snob or you can go after people who hate or fear african-americans this is the largest group in america of all these single issue groups that i've talked about that when l.b.j. signed the civil rights and voting rights acts recognized hundred sixty s. bill moyers told us the story on our program that he was responsible for bringing papers and things to president johnson and johnson were often lay in bed in the white house at night reading them and brought a group a bunch of papers in and the president was laying there in bed reading them and he said you know i think the words the effect of you know i think we might have just given away the south for a generation. but it was the right thing to do nixon came up with what he called his southern strategy get the right races voters reagan's first speech after his

nomination after the republican party nominated for president he was officially the candidate was in philadelphia mississippi his first speech ever heard of philadelphia mississippi odds are you haven't in less you're familiar the civil rights movement because seven it's a town seven thousand people this is the place where cheney goodman and schwerner little murdered it was made in the movie mississippi burning reagan's speech said quote i believe in states' rights i believe we have distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended to be given in the constitution that federal establishment and reagan said he would quote restore to states and local governments the power to properly belongs to them and quote this is speaking in code just like when sarah palin says that obama wants to take us back to before the civil war before the civil rights movement when people were segregated by skin color except what she's telling white people is that barack obama wants to segregate out them as the president's campaign rightly points out there's no place in american politics for racism like this for republicans and fox so-called news are so good that a plurality of republican voters in alabama mississippi think he's

a muslim and only sixteen percent of republican voters in alabama mississippi know that he's a christian he's become the other is the result is very effective work with fox news the right wing talk machine and that's the key to making racism work it's time for us to call out dog whistle politics since. crazy or bushy tailed and busy in the backyard we all know how hard squirrels work to find food in our backyard but one little guy went the extra mile. a gray squirrel in hampshire england spent some tireless hours learning how to separate peanuts movie out of a glass at first the curious creatures sniffed around the glass trying to find a way to eat the peanut pleasure after some time he grabbed the straw with his claws brought the straw to his mouth and began drinking the smoothie just like any man would do something squirrel even managed to start drinking straight out of the glass because the straw just wasn't doing the trick seen as one swirls affection

for the maybe peanuts movies will become the latest garden eating deterrent. we just put a picture of the need when i was like nine years old on this and she told the truth . i think incest and i am in total get it i was trapped because she is sick and. she was kind of yesterday. i'm very proud of the role that it's playing.

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