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michelle goldberg? wall street has been the crackdown of the press and keeping the press away from -- away from events and arrests journalists who are there covering it, including roughing up a reporter from the new york post, which had called for this crackdown on the cover. and then roughing up one of your colleagues "the daily caller" who was then picked up and helped by the occupy wall street proteste protesters. >> laura flanders? >> i know now melissa is really serious about the cain campaign because she's weeping watching that press conference. we also know the mayors of this country can get together and coordinate. talking about how to coordinate their evictions of occupy wall street. could they coordinate action around jobs and housing and -- >> you're referencing gene quan, mayor of oakland which gave an interview to the bbc which mentioned she was on a conference call with other mayors and there was a sense there had been coordination because these evictions cascade -- >> she said it. let's c

author, michelle goldberg, writer to "newsweek" and "the daily beast." i will put in a plug for business.com, you are doing fantastic work. good news or slightly less bad news for the jobs report, the economy added 80,000 jobs in october, and the private sector added jobs. the official unemployment rate dropped from 9.1% only down to 9.0%, which means the job crisis continues. and republicans blocked a bill to create infrastructure to create jobs. congressmen almost always jump at the chance to bring jobs, but not any more. they blocked an up or down vote on the $60 billion infrastructure bill. it's part of the broader stop hitting yourself strategy. ben bernanke, a republican and george bush appointee is becoming frustrated. we charted the growth of the chairman's irritation. his comments about congress were carefully couched. he said excessive cuts would be damaging, and by october he was more pointed, and he said fossering job creation is a shared responsibility, and this week he offered his most explicit comment yet. by next spring, the comment will

. >> joining me now is michelle goldberg a senior writer for "newsweek" and the daily beez t. you for joining me tonight. >> while it turns out christianity is of course a forgiving religion. that was its contribution to theology actually when it came along. that was a new idea in religion and that's what he is counting on, especially ka tholism which he joined. that's the religion where you get to confess it all and everything can be okay. >> i think he is counting on that and on a base that really, really really doesn't want to nominate mitt romney. >> not nominate romney. >> this narrative of sin and redemption he is able to plug in to. it allows people to want to support him because they are desperate not to vote for mitt romney to convince themselves that something more than political expediency is at stake. that they are not like the feminist that supported bill clinton that said whfr he is going on in his personal life he will support our objectives. this allows them to see their willingness to overlook his serial fill landering as noble. >> you quote this the guy who s

you're even seeing the evangelicals, we have an interesting piece by michelle goldberg this week aboutvote now is warming up to newt gingrich because they're now saying he's being marketed now. as a repenting sinner. somebody whose background that would've discounted him in terms of running out on a wife who had cancer and -- the incredible sort of it all, you know, he he's -- they're saying repenting is part of the mission. >> there was a reaction from evangelical leaders in iowa yesterday to that article who basically said to the top, evangelical leader out there, no, no you're not. >> well, given the field, you know. given the field. >> well, i think so. but this goes against a backdrop, mika, of barack obama's numbers. going to historic lows for a modern president. >> you would think the party would see this as a moment of historic opportunity. president obama's approval rating had hit an all-time low, but not just any all-time low. yesterday's gallup daily tracking poll showed the president's approval at just 43%, the number is below jimmy carter's standing at this point in his pr

michelle situation to back that up. joining us now in miami is mr. goldberg. so i know you just heard harvey winestein. what did you think? >> i loved it when he said that clooney and tom hanks are middle of the road this, is exactly, and i mean exactly how liberal reporters think about things. if it's left of center, it's mitdel of the road f it's right of center, it's conservative that. is why they don't understand their biases and harvey winestein, a bright guy. but he thinks hib brals are middle of the road and conservatives are way out there. i find ate mazing in a sad kind of way. >> bill: now, it was ironic after you and i were discussing headline news debacle, michelle bachmann comes on the fallon program this, was a premeditated dis. they knew bit and tweeted they're going to ambush michelle buckman in this way. sheert question. how could they think they can get away with it? don't i they understand once you do something like that, that people, fair-minded people are going to go what are you doing. >> it would have gotten away with it except for one thing. michelle bachmann demanded an apology