and make gordon gekko the hall the third. so many problems with this statement. certainly furthering that impression for a lot of people is one of the most powerful, he -- made this comment last night in the press conference when wasn't apologizing saying he spoke inartfully. i think the biggest problem with the video he speaks very elegantly. he speaks more eloquently and articulately in the video than on stage. i think that impression the fact he's speaking with passion and conviction and not haltingly and stumblely leads people to say this is the real mitt romney and the combination of condensation and conten tu wasness he speak of 47% of the country is troubling. challenger in any race has an uphill battle always, against anybody, under any circumstances. he is like sisofis where the rock is rolling down the mountain is his own campaign and performance. he's trying to push up against this huge weight he imposes on hisself and it is, you know, i think a lot of people are looking to the extent there are people in the middle

it's well we've always understood the man is a fraud i don't know he's a crazy caricature apart gordon gekko port eighty s republican candidate and he is a creation of what he believes a candidate is supposed to be tom it's what hurts him in the polls is what hurt seem on his favor ability in unfavorable favor ability ratings people don't believe in this man they think they think he's going to do exactly what we know happened here there's no question what he's done. it's his he's put on of much of makeup to try to relate to hispanic voters that he believes are part of that forty seven percent that simply don't matter but on that day he had to make it matter it's a huge problem for him he can't overcome it he's never been able to overcome it even when he was governor of massachusetts that was one of the that was one of the criticism is he's not real he is a caricature of something he thinks is supposed to be real right and he did run for a second term in massachusetts because it is in favor ability ratings were so high that there were he knew there was no way he could even wins given romney's

to become a billionaire to make as much money as you possibly can and screw everyone else is gordon gekko's greed is good the new mantra of the american dream republicans think so thought so since the reagan administration which is why they want to redefine labor day is a day for the billionaires those guys who want to suck as much profit out of their workers as they can but that was not how most americans view the american dream most americans see it as a dream to just live a comfortable life to make enough money your job to have a home food on the table a car health care good education a vacation every now and then a decent retirement and maybe some money to pass along to your kids and what made that possible organized labor organized labor gave american workers a good paycheck and benefits organized labor made a middle class not only possible it made a middle class thrive sure it hurts the billionaires when unions were strong c.e.o.'s only made about forty times more than what their workers made today they make three hundred times or a thousand times and two thousand times with their wor

life of a pasha at stockholders' expense, he was the living, breathing version of wall street's gordon gekkoreed, for lack of a better word, is good. >> up to a point. what's puzzling is, why does a man who struggled so hard, so effectively to make it become so careless or stupid or arrogant? born in a tenement on the wrong side of the tracks in newark, new jersey, kozlowski worked his way through school. >> i played guitar in a band. i worked in a pharmacy. i worked in a carwash. i had two or three jobs going at any given time. >> where you came from, there weren't that many options. >> no, no, growing up in newark, new jersey, at the time, you know, you never thought of yourself growing up to become a ceo. >> he started at tyco, then a small new hampshire manufacturing company, as an accountant making $28,000 a year and worked his way up to ceo. he became known as "deal-a-day dennis," constantly acquiring new companies and building tyco from a $40 million company into a $40 billion conglomerate. >> i would like to become, all things equal, a $100 billion company. >> wall street could not g

. >> gordon gekko meets thurston howell iii. >> he is thurston howell. >> he's in a horrible position. if he didn't have the problem he has with the conservatives, people on the right who want him to double down on this, who are arguing, you know, this is the right argument, you should make this case, he would've just apologized. but he can't do that now because he's in so much trouble on that side. he's boxed in. he can't do the obvious political thing that would be the right thing to do for the middle of the country. the right is pinning him down. last night, he gives this press conference where he comes out and tries to say, well, i was speaking in -- no, he was speaking perfectly artfully and perfectly clearly. unfortunately, he says this thing, the one sentence in here. i'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. that's, you know, pretty much every senior citizen in america who is on medicare and social security doesn't pay any income tax, that's the one voting group mitt romney had a clear advantage over the president with. >> so -