>> ann romney, wife of republican candidate mitt, recently took the flat form at a political fund-raiser, connecticut g.o.p. 800 guests. according to attendees, her address was both personal and at times emotional. mrs. romney spoke in detail about raising her children and doing so while dealing with her own serious illnesses, breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, ms. diagnosed 14 years ago. >> there were days where i thought my only future was going to be in bed, and too weak to even have any kind of a normal life. he would remind me all the time that my job was more important than his. >> mrs. romney's "job" was the subject of a back and forth with democratic national committee strategist hillary rosen, who had told cnn that ann had "never worked a day in her life." mrs. romney had responded that raising five boys was "hard work." she alluded to the episode. >> i know what it's like to finish the laundry and look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again! i know what it's like to pull all the groceries in and see the teenagers run through, and then all of a sudden all the gr

. >> ann romney has never gotten her ass out of the house. >> happy mother's day from barack obama's team. restore our future is responsible for the content of this message. >> bill: a pro-romney group launch as pro-mother's day ad. we will show it to you. >> i want the wedding to be celebratory. >> he not inviting president obama to his gay wedding. greg gutfeld has some thoughts on that. >> bill: caution, you are about to it enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. exaggerating and justifying bad behavior. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. one of the really annoying things about my job is when i confront a political partisan with a fact they often dodge it by dredging up a diversion to petty fog the issue. example. mitt romney put his dog on top of his car and drove to canada. what about that? oh, yeah? well, barack obama ate a cocker spaniel in indonesia. what? what does that have to do with romney's situation? now, we have a front page "the washington post" report says when mitt ro

. >> ann romney has never gotten her ass out of the house. >> happy mother's day from barack obama's team. restore our future is responsible for the content of this message. >> bill: a pro-romney group launch as pro-mother's day ad. we will show it to you. >> i want the wedding to be celebratory. >> he not inviting president obama to his gay wedding. greg gutfeld has some thoughts on that. >> bill: caution, you are about to it enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. exaggerating and justifying bad behavior. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. one of the really annoying things about my job is when i confront a political partisan with a fact they often dodge it by dredging up a diversion to petty fog the issue. example. mitt romney put his dog on top of his car and drove to canada. what about that? oh, yeah? well, barack obama ate a cocker spaniel in indonesia. what? what does that have to do with romney's situation? now, we have a front page "the washington post" report says when mitt ro

ann romney is not running for president. i know it's a shock to everybody. what kills me on the ad is really bad old soap opera type music. that aside, putting your wife forth and knocking an administration, bill maher doesn't work for the president. you know, i think that people know for the most part that hillary rosen doesn't speak for all of us on the left. all of us women myself on the left. i honestly don't think it was supposed to be such an attack on moms that don't work outside the home. we all know that is a lot of work. i think it's more the idea that somebody who is wealthy such as ann romney has that choice and then, of course, has the amount of money to buy $900 blouse. bottom line here, this, to me, does not really make the romney, the romney campaign look much better than they are trying to make the obama campaign look. i think it's pretty tasteless. >> bill: what do you say, michelle. >> look, i like this ad. i think it debunks this myth that liberals are trying to push that the romneys can't relate to the american people. if you look at thi

ann romney is not running for president. i know it's a shock to everybody.s me on the ad is really bad old soap opera type music. that aside, putting your wife forth and knocking an administration, bill maher doesn't work for the president. you know, i think that people know for the most part that hillary rosen doesn't speak for all of us on the left. all of us women myself on the left. i honestly don't think it was supposed to be such an attack on moms that don't work outside the home. we all know that is a lot of work. i think it's more the idea that somebody who is wealthy such as ann romney has that choice and then, of course, has the amount of money to buy $900 blouse. bottom line here, this, to me, does not really make the romney, the romney campaign look much better than they are trying to make the obama campaign look. i think it's pretty tasteless. >> bill: what do you say, michelle. >> look, i like this ad. i think it debunks this myth that liberals are trying to push that the romneys can't relate to the american people. if you look at this ad you s

she doesn't get criticized for that so why should ann romney?> first of all, one is the first lady. one hopes to be the first lady. that aside i'm not in favor of candidates wives or husbands or president's wives thus far no husbands there or children being attacked. they didn't sign up for this. they are not running for office. this is not a pack and deal. if you vote for mitt romney yes, his wife and kids move into the white house. >> it is a package deal. >> i don't agree because the wives don't dictate policy. >> i don't know about that. >> they might dictate fashion but not policy. >> michelle obama has been anointed as the most effective surrogate for her husband. the most popular cultural person in the united states. raises more money than any one except george clooney for him. she was at a fundraiser talking about her husband's healthcare bill. she has put herself out there as a policy advocate. when you do that, do you put yourself in the spot light sufficiently to be critiqued for your policy views? >> well, i believe that whether you

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she doesn't get criticized for that so why should ann romney?rst of all, one is the first lady. one hopes to be the first lady. that aside i'm not in favor of candidates wives or husbands or president's wives thus far no husbands there or children being attacked. they didn't sign up for this. they are not running for office. this is not a pack and deal. if you vote for mitt romney yes, his wife and kids move into the white house. >> it is a package deal. >> i don't agree because the wives don't dictate policy. >> i don't know about that. >> they might dictate fashion but not policy. >> michelle obama has been anointed as the most effective surrogate for her husband. the most popular cultural person in the united states. raises more money than any one except george clooney for him. she was at a fundraiser talking about her husband's healthcare bill. she has put herself out there as a policy advocate. when you do that, do you put yourself in the spot light sufficiently to be critiqued for your policy views? >> well, i believe that whether you are

this appears to be, the dualed pillars, which is ann romney and fox news. romney come in? >> i'm not sure. she said some lovely things. it was a beautifully written op ed and it talk about her mom and her being a mother. she said that her husband gives her lilacs every mother's day and it was lovely. it shows that she will have to carry the whole ball here. she is the one most capable of sounding human. so they're going to use her in that way. >> dane, a there is a third leg to this pack that i was just referring to. super pac attack ads. here is the latest right now. watch this. >> ann romney raised five boys. she successfully battled breast cancer. and multiple sclerosis. what does white house insider hilary rosen say about ann romney? >> guess what. his wife has actually never worked a day in her life. >> and bill maher who gave a million dollars supporting obama, attacks. >> can you explain that ad to me? i don't know whether it is a bad attack ad or a bad parody. >> i think this may be the first ever mother's day attack ad. you know, you would think we

it was nine days ago that ann romney said that. washington post has been working on this story for weeks and the romney campaign has known that. ann romney's wild and crazy line was meant to excuse mitt romney's reported today in the washington post. romney taunted a male classmate with the phrase at a girl and harassed a soft spoken boy with bleached blond hair seen here at the very back of the photo. the post reports that romney led his frbout their plan to cut his hair, tackled him and pinned him to the ground as lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help. romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. 30 years later a witness saw lauber saw him at an airport and apologized for not doing anything to stop it. lauber, says one of the participants helped hold him down while mitt romney cut his hair told the post it was, quote, senseless, stupid, idiotic. another participant said it was, quote, vicious. according to the post report the parties pan's memory of this bullying that the victim remembered as horrib

ann romney's $1,000 t-shirt is tonight's item in the politics of price tags. ys he has no problem with hiring gay people but his party certainly does. why the romney campaign's newly hired openly gay foreign policy adviser had to quit. >>> and a baptist pastor who tells his congregation how to vote also told them and you will hear him say this, he told them that they should beat their 4-year-old sons if they suspect there is something feminine about them. the pastor apologized today but when you hear his sermon, you might find that his apology just isn't good enough. that's in the rewrite. [ male announcer ] the inspiring story of how a shipping giant can befriend a forest may seem like the stuff of fairy tales. but if you take away the faces on the trees... take away the pixie dust. take away the singing animals, and the storybook narrator... [ man ] you're left with more electric trucks. more recycled shipping materials... and a growing number of lower emissions planes... which still makes for a pretty enchanted tale. ♪ la la la [ man ] whoops, forgot one...

but what does white house insider hilary rosen say about ann romney?as never worked a day in her life. >> and bill mahr who gave $1 million supporting obama attacks. >> ann romney never got out of the house. >> happy mother's day from barack obama's team. >> nothing like a bill mahr mother's day card. you wear the crown of motherhood. we're talking about mom wars and "time" magazine has this cover, you have to hold it in a specific way so -- there. are you mom enough? >> so uncomfortable. >> the question is well taken. especially as we look at what's happening on the eve of mother's day. are you mom enough? both sides know that they need to make a run for women. married, independent, single, working, whatever. the mom question seems to abpotent tool in this fight. >> the mom question is always a potent tool. we put something about mothers and mothering on the cover it will move off the stands but it will create a debate on line, on television. it's an incredibly rich topic. i think that speaks to obviously the importance of mothers in society. but you

this can't only be me who kind of initially saw ann romney as a neutral figure. but who is increasingly seeing her as someone who is insufferable for the way she's milking this thing. the op-ed was totally anodine, yes, motherhood is beautiful. i found that phrase, the crown of motherhood, really kind of creepy. not just because of its like somewhat you know -- it's kind of usually authoritarian societies that give out the cross of motherhood, awards for big families, stalin did it, hitler did it. it plays into this thing where what we, we have this kind of compact in the united states where what we deny women in social support or status or kind of economic security, we make up for in sort of insip i had condescending praise. >> i think we do the same thing, it's funny, we do the same thing with troops, another kind of cultural figure where if you look at you know, we three tours of duty, average length of deployment is increased, longer wait times in the va. the substantive lack of support is by the hero worship. and there's a similar cultural role. one of the t

let's roll it. >> ann romney raised five boys.fully battled breast cancer and multiple sclerosis but what does white house insider hillary rosen say about ann romney? >> his wife has never worked a day in her life. >> and bill maher who gave a million dollars supporting obama attacks. >> an romney has never gotten her [ bleep ] out of the house. >> happy mother's day from barack obama's team. >> you don't need to. >> what do you mean? >> clearly any one who is talking about mothers that way it going to turn their stomach. >> why doesn't obama have a sister soldier moment and say something? return maher's money. that is what i mean. actions speak louder than words. >> he made $15 million last night at george clooney's house. he is still up $14 million. >> he can't do that because when we finish giving bill maher's money back go to the next guy. >> maybe spike lee who raised money for him and has given out george zimmerman's address. >> the network and you earlier on you show don't have been attacking the obama campaign for attackin

let's roll it. >> ann romney raised five boys.st cancer and multiple sclerosis but what does white house insider hillary rosen say about ann romney? >> his wife has never worked a day in her life. >> and bill maher who gave a million dollars supporting obama attacks. >> an romney has never gotten her [ bleep ] out of the house. >> happy mother's day from barack obama's team. >> you don't need to. >> what do you mean? >> clearly any one who is talking about mothers that way it going to turn their stomach. >> why doesn't obama have a sister soldier moment and say something? return maher's money. that is what i mean. actions speak louder than words. >> he made $15 million last night at george clooney's house. he is still up $14 million. >> he can't do that because when we finish giving bill maher's money back go to the next guy. >> maybe spike lee who raised money for him and has given out george zimmerman's address. >> the network and you earlier on you show don't have been attacking the obama campaign for attacking romney supporter

. >> in one of your columns you have a tongue and cheek approach to ann romney about her working woman's status. for those that haven't read it can you encapsulate what you're trying to do with the piece? >> i am sorry, i am hearing my voice. i am hearing my voice. i am getting an echo there. you know, you know that there was one of these manufactured controversies was when a person who was inevitably described as a democratic spokesperson but was not that made a nasty crack about ann romney, how can she peek for women when she's never -- for women on economics when she's never had a job in her life, and then, oh, the stay at home mom, it is a job and no, it isn't a job, and i think this is exactly an example of the totally manufactured kind of outrage that dominates so much of our politics, and i have to say i think a lot of it does come from republicans. my column was about, you know, the endless iteration of the mommy wars, the endless thing about staying home versus going to work, when the real problem, the real problem is that in this country, this wouldn't affect ann romney necessa

she compared ann romney to hitler.you get from a masters degree at berkeley. >> andrea: president become bam is speaking this weekend and listen to what he had to say about young people. >> in many ways you have it tougher than we do. this recession is more brutal. the job loss is deeper. no wonder that faced on the institutions has never been lower. particularly when good news doesn't get the ratings as bad news anymore. every day you receive steady stream of sensationmism and scandal. the story with a message that suggests change isn't possible. that you can't make a difference. >> yes, young people have it tougher. should they blame the messenger there in the gown? >> greg: like fonzi returning to the set of happy days to say it's fine. >> eric: the crazy part is bob points out young people will vote for president obama. if you are 16, 17 years old. 24% of the employment rate. 20 to 24. you get out of college and 13% unemployment. why vote for that? >> bob: that shows why they distrust republicans. for good reason.

what does white house insider hilary rosen say about ann romney?a day in her life. >> happy mother's day from barack obama's team. >> let's bring in, that ad also shows bill maher. let's talk about the numbers. this usa today gallup poll shows romney among married women voters, 47-43. among single women, president obama, 68%. romney, 24%. what do we learn from these numbers other than the obvious? >> we've known for a while that single women are a constituency is president will play well with. we know that married women is a swing group. a target group. especially suburban white married women. that is like the narrowest slice but it is a key demographic group especially in philadelphia and northern virginia and all kinds of other swing places in the country. so those are the kinds of groups that the romney campaign in particular needs to shore up and that the obama campaign will be targeting. >> they obviously feel that ann romney is an effective surrogate with getting these women who are playered, white women who are married living in the suburbs.

another liberal media person insulting ann romney and hitler is mentioned in the diatribe. dumb is n what makes the sleep number store different? you walk into a conventional mattress store, it's really not about you. they say, "well, if you wanted a firm bed you can lie on one of those. if you want a soft bed you can lie on one of those." we provide the exact individualization that your body needs. wow, that feels really good! once you experience it, there's no going back. at the sleep number memorial day sale, save 40% on our innovative sleep number silver edition bed-for a limited time. only at the sleep number store, where queen mattresses start at just $699. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight. dumbest things of the week. here they are to help us celebrate that arthel neville and five guy greg gutfeld also on red eye whenever that is on. i don't know. arthel has chosen a "newsweek" contributor michelle goldberg who apparently objects to ann romney writing, quote: one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. there is no crown more glorious, unquote

. >> ann romney raised five boys. she successfully battled breast cancer. and multiple sclerosis. but what does hilary rosen say about ann romney? >> his wife has never worked a day in his life. >> and bill maher who gave $1 billion to obama attacks. >> ann romney has never gotten her [ bleep ] out of the house. >> happy mother's day from barack obama's team. >> whoa. the latest -- that's just wrong. >> it's a low blow. >> but that's why everyone has to be careful about what they say and not say stupid things. the latest "usa today" gallup poll -- >> was she looking at you? >> 12 swing states, including myself, finds mitt romney leading president obama among married women by four points but trails the president 64% to 28% among unmarried women. and before we get to the massachusetts story, which i'm so glad we kept that in, does mitt romney still have a huge problem with women? >> he has humongous problem. i'm not sure that ad helps. i don't know. we all try to sit around and say if ads are good or bad. but he needs t

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ann romney has very high positives. yeah, thing this helps humanize romney and some of the things his life was. necessarily, you know, all bain money. it wasn't just that. they've had some struggles. >> is there a downside to an ad like that, e.j.? can it look like they're trying to take advantage of something that is a difficult situation? they're playing very blatantly to people's emotions? >> they are, but i think people are accustomed to that in cam pans. i have to say i heard africn ra speak for the first time. i thought she was the best asset this candidate has, so i think she is quite impressive in the way she talks about how he stood by her. i think what this is designed do is to shore up romney's numbers among wichl who are not necessarily upset with romney's stand on a whole series of issues. it will probably make some of them move his way. in the end it's mitt romney's race to win, not ann's, but she's a real asset. >> i want to bring in our guest. good morning. is that an accurate number? 300 million bucks? >

ann romney has a 40% favorable rating, that tops mitt who is at 35%. that's not a great number. day, the romney campaign released a new ad they hope will start to get things turned around. >> ann romney. look, she's the one who put our dog on the roof of the car. i told her not to. i'm mitt romney, and i approve this message. >> jimmy: politics is a very tough business. vice president biden gave a speech on foreign policy this morning. he's the best. there's something about vice presidents that, i don't know if they pick them because they are funny or maybe it's the job that makes them funny. whatever the case, they're funny. >> now is the time to heed the timeless advice from teddy roosevelt. speak softly, and carry a big stick. end of quote. i promise you, the president has a big stick. i promise. >> jimmy: trust me, i -- i found out the hard way. [ applause ] and he really has no idea what he said. by the way, if you are interested in this, i'm going to be roasting the president and the vice president, various members of the press in washington, d.c. on saturday night, it's th