. >> now, governor, the congressman mentioned rush limbaugh. limbaugh stands by grover norquist. listen to this. >> a friend of mine sends me a note and says, listen, there's going to be pressure brought to drive a wedge between you and grover norquist. >> i steadfastly oppose tax increases on one group of americans. if we're going to raise taxes, we are going to do them on everybody. i don't think everybody's taxes ought to be raised. >> now, is this what they are afraid of, grover norquist, rush limbaugh, governor? is this because they feel they have an undue influence on their base, especially mr. limbaugh? >> yeah, there's no question. look, every rational thinking in mrk, no matter what side they are on, they know that they have got to do something about the debt and it's got to include revenue. if you get rid of a tax loophole, that's raising taxes. he sent a letter to tom cobuln and said you can't do that because when you eliminate a tax loophole that's eliminating taxes and tom coburn sent a letter back sending him to pound sand and we need -- and i think representative e

and there is a beautiful built-in excuse for a guy like limbaugh. run an election like there and romney can lose, and it can be that romney isn't conservative enough. or look at one like christine o'donnell in 2010, where they nominated the most conservative candidate and still lost, well, the party establishment abandoned the conservative candidate. either way, you can feed the conserve tiffism, and limbaugh can pit himself against the party establishment, and he doesn't need to tell the base, since he will win an election, and he needs to tell them that they feel good and fighting against the powerful, arrogant establishment. >> david frum, in your e-book, you talk about these members of the conservative entertainment complex, sean hahnity, steve ducey, fox & friends crew, rush limbaugh, how would you expect anything to change in the way that they cheerlead for conservative republican candidates? >> well, i don't know that they will change. but the -- the desire to win, as was just said. the desire to win is a powerful force. america benefits from

haven't heard anyone backing up limbaugh. we will watch that war as it goes on. thank you both for joining me. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> coming up, the president met with liberal supporters in a closed door meeting at the white house today. one of those supporters will join me next and i will try to get him to leak on national television every single thing the president said. wish me luck on that. >>> and another episode of generals gone wild. general petraeus and allen and the way, way, way too many women in their lives. >>> and the republican senator that wants the party to go all out liberal on some issues. guess who that is? tweet me your guesses who that is. one hint, some people think he is actually the most conservative republican senator. >>> and finally tonight, the earliest presidential campaign endorsement in history, a major american newspaper endorsed a candidate today for election in 2016. tweet your guesses on who got that presidential endorsement for 2016 coming up. i always wait until the last minute. can i still ship a gift in time for christmas?

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here is the guy -- did you hear what he said, limbaugh?always had a theory in politics, if you listen to people when they make their harshest criticism of the other side, it's usually about themselves. he said these guys get rich no matter who wins or loses. talk about rush. he's never taken a loss. rush wins no matter what because there's always somebody in the car willing to listen to him because they're lonely basically. your thoughts. >> the irony is the same demographic problem faced by the gop is faced by talk radio, and steve schmidt was making reference to that. both are overly dependent on older white guys, but they have different objectives because the republican party exists for one purpose, and that is to win elections. to get to 51%. that doesn't need to be the objective of the talk radio industry. the talk radio industry is predicated on a very small but very loyal audience, and like those consultants to whom rush refers, he stays in a position of power regardless of who wins the election. as a matter of fact, there's a good

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but a guy like rush limbaugh doesn't have much incentive to go along. way it is. >> he's a real man of the people, reverend. >> of course. but as a man of the people, he has some backing from tea party types, "the los angeles times" says that the tea party, the anger that limbaugh has is backed by the tea party for conservatives. one emotion seems to dominate all others. a white hot anger at the republican establishment. tea party supporters are angry at gop for embracing as presidential nominee a moderate n quotes, like romney for undermining true conservative candidates and for choosing to ignore the conservative agenda. but on the other hand, bobby jindal is calling saying that we've got to stop being the stupid party, the republican party. i mean, are we seeing a real fight here, a real split, jindal calling them the stupid party, limbaugh saying let's dig in and fight the establishment? >> absolutely. you'll recall after 2008, you know, you think there would be a lesson taken from there that republicans needed to move more to the center, the countr

that was rush limbaugh. he's a performer. telling his audience that so-called reasonable republicans have it wrong. they're calling him one of the problems on the right. but the problem for republicans is that they'll never expand their base if rush is the target audience. with me are two radio talk show hosts. michael smerconish of philadelphia and ron reagan in seattle. let's take a look at what has got rush so rhode islailed up. >> it's very fashionable now to beat up romney and he made it unfortunate comment after the election but the biggest problem he had was the republican primary. that's what is driving the republican brand to a disaster. we have to get a party view of america that's not right out of rush limbaugh's dream journal. >> here is steve schmidt breaking down the election problems in a bite that sent rush limbaugh into a tear. >> we would have been much better off running against the real president obama as opposed to the sinister pretend president obama, and the total lack of credibility with some of this s

on the day after the election rush limbaugh blames santa claus for mitt romney's defeat conservatism in my humble opinion did not lose last night each just very difficult to beat santa claus. it is practically impossible to beat santa claus people are not going to vote against santa claus especially the night before on election night as the tide was turning against romney fellow republican kingpin bill o'reilly said this there are fifty percent of the voting public who want stuff they want things and who is going to give them things president obama he knows it and he ran on it the words president obama won by plane santa claus even mitt romney himself blames santa claus obama after his loss romney told donors the obama campaign was following the old playbook of giving a lot of stuff to groups that they hoped they could get to vote for them and be motivated to go out to the polls pacifically the african-american community to spend a community and young people. referring to president obama's reforms that allowed young people to stay on their parents' health insurance plans romney calle

rush limbaugh says chris christie is fat. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: okay. jacki schechner with the news. >> as we're going to wait for official reaction we get a statement from the white house and then we'll hear the president speak. both mitt romney and obama, he is going to start in ohio today, and spending the day in ohio. romney will go to wisconsin first and then head to ohio. he'll be getting a lot of love over the weekend. what is interesting is both candidates have op-eds appearing on cnn.com today. mitt romney's a very routine, it seems to reiterate all of the same stuff. that he will create 12 million new jobs -- 12 million jobs will be created anyway. more of the same. and he has now taken on the idea that he is going to create real change. i can't believe it's not change. he has got real change compared to the president's change. >> stephanie: i thought he was going to call it of course i never said detroit should go bankrupt. >> sure. the president starts out by talking about how we have come together as a nation after this hurricane, and how w

maybe rush limbaugh doesn't understand that up.on't have to be passing out birth control to understand women have the right to choose what they're going to do with their bodies. can you still be pro life, just don't impose your religious ideology on everyone else in the country. there has to be middle ground. rush limbaugh will never get there but that brand of hateful discourse is diminishing in its popularity. there's a way in which the coalition which was put together to re-elect this president is a sort of embodiment in the ways we can move forward in this country. it's not about bipartisanship or left/right, it's about being effective and progressive. we have a lot of signals in terms of last night that we're moving in the right direction. >> gentlemen, we don't have any more time. thank you all so much. >>> next, why some people still just don't get it. stay with us. >> with this vote the american people have also made clear that there's no mandate for raising tax rates. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ m

>> rush limbaugh has been disgusting on all this.mitating the president in a very offensive way. indicated that he called chris christie and basically bullied him, said he wouldn't get any money if he didn't come out and do this. limbaugh is in his own land trying to spin things for his tribe of sort of deluded people that follow him. >> jimmy, mr. romney is now moving from the lying to the ludicrous in his ads. here is a particularly sensational one as he tries to reach out to latino voters. take a listen to this. [ speaking foreign language ] >> so i'm mitt romney -- >> we have fidel castro, hugo chavez, all the devils are here as shakespeare has said. they even have castro's niece. but can you explain what any of that ad has to do with the president of this nation? >> well, martin, don't you know that barack obama is a socialist. don't you understand that? isn't that clear after all this time, even through the gop primaries that barack obama -- >> no, no. >> every one of his policies is clearly without a doubt, it's ir irrefutable

is rush limbaugh's country gone? >> yes. >> the horror. >> we have a cultural problem. >> why would so many republicans be upset about this? >> here's a news flash to the republicans. >> mitt romney was not our best candidate. >> well i am stunned. >> mitt romney, kick him when he's done. >> did you see the sunday shows yesterday? >> hitting their nominee. >> we have to show we're sere serious. we have to like them first. >> we would never talk like that. >> there's not a lot of people defending mitt romney. >> when you're in a hole, stop digging. he keeps digging. >> newt gingrich, i think it's nuts. >> they have to do something. >> we have the fiscal cliff. >> the cliff. >> the cliff. >> whatever that means exactly. >> whatever you want to talk about it. >> the math doesn't work otherwise. >> i don't think it works. >> how is that going to go over with the tea party? >> paul ryan and others will not win this issue. >> here's a news flash. >> the elections have consequences. >> we just had this election. >> it's alr

what they do, what do rush limbaugh and bill o'reilly do, say go left?sean hannity today said that the republicans and he especially has now rethought his position on immigration. [ laughter ] >> bill: a coincidence, i'm sure. >> i'm sure if mitt romney had won in overwhelming numbers he'd be saying the exact same thing. >> that's an instant buckle. they're going to get their taxes, all that stuff but lose on some issues, like latinos it's done. >> if you talk about latinos and blacks obama won 73% of the asian vote. that was history reliably republican. that says a lot. >> bill: let me play you a clip. these are the guys who say no, we got them on the run. >> president obama's reelection is a did he have tating blow, but it's not a decisive defeat. we are in a war. we're in a war to save this nation. abandoning our post will condemn it to a future of managed supply. in 2014, there will be 23 liberals up for election. in 2016, a do deep bank of committed conservatives, we must particular a nominee who can best articulate. i ask you to roll up your sleeve

the eight years when rush limbaugh continued to get himself bigger, better and faster private jets. when we return to the clinton tax rate for the limbaugh bracket, rush insists that happy days will not be here again. >> it's going to fundamentally change the relationship of citizen to state. it's going to fundamentally remove capitalism as the u.s. primary economic system. >> crystal, they were not carrying white flags coming out of the white house. but john boehner and mitch mcconnell could not have sounded more defeated on day one. they may rally and fight some, but i didn't hear any fight today. >> yeah, and you have to think for boehner in particular, he's thinking too about his own legacy, which thus far as speaker of the house has been marked by historic gridlock, record low approval ratings, his caucus holding the country hostage for various reasons. so i think he wants to be seen as that kind of speaker who can strike a deal, who can reach across the aisle and make things happen. so i think he's thinking of that, not to mention the drumming that they just took in the electi

really think there's going to be -- the pundits in this party, the nasty pundits like the limbaughs, going to say you gave us another moderate and we need another conservative. >> this is what rahm emanuel said, they need a clinton moment. but rush limbaugh said sarcastically about the party becoming a big tent party. >> clarence thomas, herman cain, none of it counts. don't tell me the republican party doesn't have outreach. we do. but what are we supposed to do now? are we supposed to -- in order to get the hispanic or latino vote, does that mean open the borders and embrace the illegals? is that -- i want you to think about that. if we're not getting the female vote, do we become pro choice? do we start passing out birth control pills? is that what we have to do? >> well, mark, nobody says it better than he did. how do you retort to that as a -- what i think is a more centrist republican, that you are? >> i find it prehistoric, chris. i think economic freedom and, you know, and giving people who make this country great, the immigrants green cards and finding ways to get them into

but there's limbaugh -- forget limbaugh, let's talk about reality. you get the breaks.ething happens where you can use your best stuff. i think the president has had that opportunity now. >> and i think -- i think howard is right, he has been able to, you know, become more -- he looks more like a president now. gosh, for several weeks, maybe for several months, he's looked like a democratic candidate for president rather than a sitting president. so i think we're sort of seeing him in a presidential moment. he's finally sort of filling out this -- the air force one jacket he had on and kind of like he did in the early days of his term, but i think the real question is, is this all going to matter? a lot of those people who have made up their minds, the voters i talked to in ohio and wisconsin and iowa and elsewhere, are not going to suddenly go from romney to obama, but i think among the sliver of people who, you know, probably voted for obama four years ago and are not sure now, i think this could help. >> how many do you think there are? >> standing next to chris chri

like the rest of his party is at odds with science and facts inject and the very very ugly rush limbaugh as usual limp balls used his radio show on monday to demonize the unemployed in america reported on how various organizations are calling on lawmakers. to extend unemployment benefits which are set to expire at the end of the year even two point one million americans without the financial assistance they need to survive it was . a coalition of advocates including the national employment law project held more than forty meetings with lawmakers on capitol hill during the first week of the lame duck session to make their pitch for thirty billion dollars to extend the. unemployment benefit program. well see that natural reaction that here comes santa claus here comes. his unemployment benefits and food stamps are gifts. one of the limbaugh would call the billions in subsidies to oil companies the billions in no bid contracts of defense corporations and the trillions of tax breaks for rich guys like him so those are the real goals of protection from sickness hunger and unemployment should

a sound bite from rush limbaugh.sten first. >> don't tell me the republican party doesn't have outreach. we do. but what are we sup poise to do now? in order to get the hispanic or latino vote, does that mean open the borders and embrace the illegals? >> jennifer: president obama captured almost 70% of the hispanic voters. so do you think rush limbaugh is leading the republicans into oblivion with that comment? >> i think which should take a look -- a very thoughtful piece written today by heather mcdonald. when we're talk about family values, it doesn't mean that uncle sam becomes a permanent part of the family handing out goodies. we need a thoughtful approach but we need not abandon the rule of law nor our principles to do so -- >> jennifer: but when you are talking about family values and they were raised as an american how is that not amnesty we should allow? >> i think we do need to allow these people to stay. they are the valedictorians and star americans, and then to say that they are not americans makes no s

his unemployment benefits and food stamps are gifts you know one of the limbaugh we call the billions in subsidies to oil companies the billions in no bid contracts to defense corporations and the trillions of tax breaks for rich guys like himself those are the real gives protection from sickness hunger and unemployment should be basic rights in america once again rush limbaugh is very very good. coming up what do richard nixon ronald reagan both bushes and maybe even the romney have in common besides all being republicans are disturbing answer is up next. fifty feet it's. fifty feet. deep. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the few jerks covered. download the official. cellphone. which stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch ati any time. to go. as i laid out yesterday's daily take it's possible that karl rove use republican tech companies smart tax servers in chattanooga tennessee back in two thousand and four to flip the vote totals in ohio and

cusack, who came out in support of president obama in 2008, is expected to play limbaugh, most likely with the help of some makeup, i guess you could say. >>> and if you missed "snl" this weekend, take a look at their rendition of michael bloomberg and his enthusiastic sign language interpreter. >> i'd also like to thank my staff with the special thanks to my sign language translator lydia, who brought some pizazz to what would otherwise have been a dour occasion. thank you, lydia, for your pizazz. i turn it over now to new jersey governor chris christie. >> hello. hello, i'm governor chris christie. this is my interpreter rock see. things are bad, okay? but we're new jersey, we're going to be fine. we don't get sad in new jersey, we get even. so sleep with one eye open, sandy! >> that was just too much. and there were some other good skits in there about sandy and politics. you have to check it out online. >> that was awesome. i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today," just your first stop of day today on your nbc station. >> you're watching wbal-tv 11. live, local, late-breakin

did you here that rush limbaugh said you can't beat santa claus and that's why obama won.d voter, there are ten angry ones taking action. trickle down does not work. in romney's world, cars get the elevator and the workers get the shaft. that is a whole bunch of bunk. the powerful may steal an election, but they can't steal democracy. ♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> all of my friends, all of my friends are gay! >> stephanie: and i'm trying to recruit melissa. >> can i watch. >> stephanie: no come on! [ laughter ] >> stephanie: okay. thirty-four minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2. jim debate [♪ "jeopardy" theme music ♪] >> stephanie: who said we passed an important milestone today, ten twenty years from now we can tell our children about minnesota and maine, when people finally said enough. we are all americans and in this together who said that? >> todd akin. >> stephanie: no! [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: oh my god what a bad guess. no, chris kluwe, who joins us now. hi, chris. squee. >> hi, how are you doing? >> stephanie: good. you really summed it up. >> yeah it's

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and yet that's not good enough for rush limbaugh.nd -- >> i think it was an anathema to rush limbaugh. >> he is a fat fool, the ultimate pot calling the kettle black. >> well, i think it really goes to a larger point of how bizarre this all is, where the thing that interrupted the campaign, the thing that sort of made, you know, everything sort of fall off the rails was reality, right. the thing that -- actually governing. having our government and our leaders do what they're supposed to do that. is what is making everything so insane. well got off message. we can't talk about the deficit and the debt and all these imaginary numbers. >> in a vacuum about our ideology. >> exactly. >> it sort of runs straight on to actual reality. i do want the talk a little bit about chris christie because politico has a new story out today talking about the romney choice of christie and how it all went down. politico rates romney was so close to picking christie that some top advisers believe that the governed had been offered the job. then he settle

this is what romney mnmitt romn almost verbatim what rush limbaugh said about obama being santa claus and bill o'reilly said the same thing. >> it's not a productive conversation. >> i would say that was one of the major downfalls of his campaign and republican party in this election cycle, is they were not in touch with reality. it is an encouraging sign that people like bobby jindal are signalling, we'd like to be in touch with reality now. thank you very much. >> it just didn't work. it's not productive. >> the weak, vulnerable, unfortunate, that conversation underscores one of the biggest issues facing america now and going forward. that's the growing income gap. that's why today the issue is inequality, and we've got one of our favorites, sister similar money campbell here to talk about it. that is next on "the cycle." i always wait until the last minute. can i still ship a gift in time for christmas? yeah, sure you can. great. where's your gift? uh... whew. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. ship fedex express by december 22nd for christmas delivery. >>> on the ev

rush limbaugh loved that.> stephanie: this is a split as a lot of republicans in the mainstream are condemning it and fox news -- you said o'reilly and limbaugh rushed to take credit for it for these comments. >> it is easy to condemn romney ran an awful campaign. he was so foolish to talk about the 47% but notice what they're not talking about. they're not condemning rush limbaugh. they're not condemning knock news. as i noted you can't separate the two. you can't run a national campaign if you're going to bow to fox news which is what all of the candidates had to do during the primary and which is what mitt romney did during the general election when he adopted the crazy crazy rhetoric. so until they have the courage to sort of stand up to this noise machine that they created and which they loved they're stuck in this. >> stephanie: by the way before we dive into right-wing world, you quote laura ing gram as saying -- laura ingraham, continues to thrive as romney continues to lose presidential elections. obv

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we can't talk about conspiracy theories without bringing up rush limbaugh.rst day of the republican convention was canceled due to hurricane isaac. rush then floated the idea that president obama was somehow involved with the weather reports showing that tampa might get hit. >> you've got a hurricane coming. the national hurricane center, a government agency, very hopeful that the hurricane gets near tampa. the national hurricane center is obama. it's a national weather service, part of the commerce department. it's obama. obviously, obama is sending fema in advance of the hurricane hitting tampa so that the republican convention is nothing but a bunch of tents, in tampa, a bunch of rvs and stuff. make it look like a disaster area before the hurricane even hits there. >> was he laughing at his own b.s. there? did you ever think rush limbaugh would warn us of a skewed weather report. next, an extreme case of preelection fear among gerring. what caused a republican judge in texas to float the idea of a tax increase in his state? it was about the need to beef u