eric boehlert. >> announcer: eric boehlert -- ♪ make it hurt so good ♪ >> stephanie: eric boehlert from it on the phone because he knows i would get overexcited and spital on him good morning, eric. >> good morning. >> stephanie: "wall street journal" loves the crowd of 30,000 that obama on the same day in wisconsin. and he had 40,000 in denver. but the "wall street journal" on friday and saturday was very anxious to push this romney jolt. but the one clear piece of evidence they could point to is romney drew 10,000 people in virginia on the same day that obama drew about 40,000. >> stephanie: right. >> the debate has definitely given the press an opening. >> stephanie: yeah, you have said everyone hyperventilated about how this debate changes everything. you might want to check in with john kerry if it really does. >> we have been on the other side of this fence. when the other guy had a convention, and then the first debate, the incumbent shows up doesn't do that well, and all of the kerry supporters said aha, this changes everything and the polls did tighten, and we thought we had it

i'm joined by eric boehlert, senior fellow of media matters for america.k. welcome back inside "the war room." >> thanks for having me. >> jennifer: do you think that the right-wing sort of denial of the polls -- we'll start there -- >> right. >> joy: has worked to rally their base? >> i guess. it's a pretty crummy way to try to win a national election. >> joy: when you don't have anything else, man. >> as chris christie said when you are complaining about the press, you are usually behind. i mean i'm paraphrasing. this is an outgrowth of the liberal media allegation. the press is out to get. republicans. so they have branched out and made it bigger and better in their minds. now pollsters have become part of this vast conspiracy. the liberal media has gotten all of these independent pollsters to cook their books. they even have the fox news pollster, and today rasmussen has obama up three points. so now they have everybody. it really is a vast conspiracy because no matter what direction you turn there's just more proof that it's nonsense. i mentioned the

eric boehlert from media matters doing the lord's work as usual. ♪ hurt's so good ♪ >> eric boehlert. good morning eric boehlert. you say monday's debate should be entertaining. think progress on how romney's latest attack on libya is completely falling apart. just in time for tonight's debate. >> just in time for the sit down on the foreign affairs. you know it is interesting. after last tuesday's debate, this sort of -- the moment everyone was talking about the showdown about benghazi and candy crowley mentioned that obama had referred to acts of terror in the rose garden the day after but there was a report last week about noting that the romney campaign had basically dropped the topic. they put out this little online video but in terms of the stump speech and stuff like that so i think they realized that probably -- it probably wasn't the best way to go. since the debate, we've had reports in "the washington post," "new york times," "wall street journal," reuters all reporting about how the white house -- you know, this whole cover-up conspiracy is based on the idea the white hous

eric boehlert coming up.. >> stephanie: we get to be on the same set together there in culver city. i will make sure jim stops pawing you. >> we're going to have this black cable so you can see under it. >> stephanie: jim. jim! >> keep that in mind. >> are you bringing jim? i didn't realize he was allowed out. >> stephanie: for this one special time. we put him in a hannibal lecter mask. >> stephanie: lindsay lohan ankle monitor? >> stephanie: just in case, chris carries a tranquilizer gun. >> what do we do with this man? >> stephanie: and a net so if he gets within two inches of you, don't worry. we'll take him down. >> i'll be at the ready with a blow dart. >> yeah. >> you could use that just for fun. >> you know what? i think you're right. >> stephanie: here she is. jacki schechner in the current news center. >> good morning. national healthcare reform is going to come up in wednesday night's debate and it's going to be interesting to see how mitt romney tries to distance himself from the massachusetts pla

eric boehlert from media matters for america doing the lord's work as usual. >> eric boehlert. ♪ hurts dip into the right-wing world. >> i don't know what that means. ♪ hurts so good ♪ >> stephanie: you know, eric boehlert, i think it here and it comes out there in your tweets. you said so cnn sampled its poll. biden would have won all three debate polls cnn and reuters. we've been talking about this last hour. mayor reid of atlanta, i don't know if you saw "meet the press," the only poll that matters is undecideds and biden crushed him by 20 points. >> yeah. and i tweeted that some people said so now you're skewed. you think all of the polls are fixed. there's nothing wrong with pointing out a single poll is kind of messed up. the unskewed right wing movement was every poll that doesn't show romney winning is wrong. cnn admitted later that you know, their poll was plus 8 republican, there's not a national poll in america that shows that. my point was that poll was central to the narrative. undecided voters, biden crushed. cnn, if it was any kind of normal -- use of the poll, he would

eric boehlert from media matters for america doing the lord's work as usual. >> announcer: eric boehlertt you up with that because this is what we've come to, right? >> yeah. it is not -- it's bad enough that you know, obviously they skewed all of the polls when romney wasn't doing well. and so there's that conspiracy. it wasn't just to produce the poor poll numbers for romney. it was specifically to suppress the vote. so these pollsters were -- all of them, every single pollster on the planet including rasmussen who dismissed this unskewing stuff. they were all in on this white house -- to suppress the vote. pollsters became this year's acorn. they were going to steal the election for obama. and so now of course, we're going to come down to calling people gay and making fun of their -- i mean we're down to the last eight days. they're running out of excuses. these numbers do not add up. >> stephanie: not even right wing and left wing numbers. there's just gay numbers now that nobody listens to apparently. >> this was supposed to be a lay-up for the right wing. obama was a marxist a musl

tina depue and eric boehlert, two of the smartest people i know. thank you both so much for your time tonight. a programming note, governor eliot spitzer will be back tomorrow live from l.a. where he's also appearing on real time with bill maher. catch him tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. eastern on hbo. coming up tonight the romneys found another investment that could be good for their future. voting machines. will their new model come with a four-year warranty? that's ahead. >>and now to my point. that is a whole bunch of bunk! the powerful my steal an election but they cannot steal democracy. i look at her, and i just want to give her everything. yeah you -- you know, everything can cost upwards of...[ whistles ] i did not want to think about that. relax, relax, relax. look at me, look at me. three words, dad -- e-trade financial consultants. so i can just go talk to 'em? just walk right in and talk to 'em. dude those guys are pros. they'll hook you up with a solid plan. they'll -- wa-- wa-- wait a minute. bobby? bobby! what are you doing, man? i'm

numbers, i'm joineddy by tina dupuy, editor in chief at the contributor.com and the one and only eric boehlert for media matters for america. good evening both of you. thanks for joining us. let me start with you eric. did the romney team start invoking momentum because they believed it or they were hoping the media might pick up on it? >> a little bit of both and it worked. you know, even after romney lost that debate, very badly. every poll showed he lost. the cbs poll showed he lost by 30 points. the first candidate ever to have momentum after losing the final debate by 30 points. but they put it out there. karl rove is doing that in 2000 with the bush campaign. he famously said george bush to california two days before the election when he needed to be in florida. but the press picked up and ran with it. politico, some of the other insider publications early in the week, romney's got momentum. he's got momentum. this sort of fits into how the media has covered this race. in the summer and in early fall, when obama was had, it was really tied. now that it's tied, romney is sort of ahead. he

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