. >> "the washington post" weighed in with four pinocchios, which is their rating system. what they proposed doing is give governors more flexibility to tailor the program to their own states. these changes were requested by the republican governors of utah and nevada. what about this claim? >> if president obama didn't want people to think he was going to waive the central work requirement in welfare reform, his administration shouldn't have written a memo saying it was going to waive the work requirements and welfare reform. >> keeping them honest, here's the relevant portion from that very memo from the department of health and human services. "hhs will only consider approving waivers related to the work participation requirements that make changes intending to lead to more effective means of leaving the work goals." the administration isn't trying to waive the work requirement. they're trying to make it less bureaucratic and more effective, precisely what the republican governors have asked for. as you'll see later on in this interview, newt gingrich makes a surprising

four pinocchios and a pants on fire.reinforce an image -- >> the obama campaign wants to cast romney as a rich guy out of touch with the ordinary working people. the romney campaign wants to cast him as a socialist who is at work with religion. >> this is the 9th presidential campaign i have covered and we have never seen ads like this. we've never seen so many ads and so many ads that take a harsh turn. >> you just want to take a shower and get it off of you. >> reporter: but why is it so bloody negative? >> we have two candidates who have problems building a positive case for themselves so they're trying to build a negative case on the other i go. >> obama and romney are still only a couple points apart. so both just are in desperation. when campaigns get desperate, they get nasty. >> brace yourselves for negative ads. >> reporter: so hard to find a candidate that's happy. ♪ you like ike, i like ike, everybody likes ike ♪ >> reporter: but not everybody likes these negative ads. campaign managers have weighed the costs

four pinocchios. concluding, on just every level this ad stretches the bounds of common sense and decency. saying i still haven't seen the ad. i don't speak for a third party group. i speak for the president and the administration and i explain and defend his policies. probe's campaign spokesperson went farther saying, we have nothing. no involvement with any ads done by priorities's. we don't have any knowledge of the story or family. the campaign should have some knowledge of him and his family because they used him in one of their own campaign ads earlier. >> i was a steel worker for 30 years. we had a reputation for quality products. it was something that was american made. and we weren't rich and i was able to put my daughter through college. >> that was joe soptic in an earlier ad for the obama 2012 campaign. bill is a senior strategist. he joins us now. bill, let's talk about this. "the washington post" says about your ad, it stretches the bounds of common sense and decency. independent fact ch

you will see the four pinocchios showing up in the opponent's ads saying, see, they're a liar.t can come back to haunt you in terms of your credibility down the line. >> one difference now is that the campaigns were -- you couldn't do it a decade ago, they can blast out the message, even those shown to be clearly misleading on youtube, facebook, twitter. >> you crude oil more platforms. >> drudge link -- you control more platforms. >> a drudge link. >> focus groups, voters said the same thing over and over. it's all negative, we don't believe either side. they've become cynicalundated f campaigns and groups. they don't know how to sift through it all. because some charge has four pinocchios, a voter may pause, perhaps, but the -- the focus groups that i see, voters now more than ever have really tuned a lot of it out. they believe both sides are guilty of being faultless and pushing distortions. >> in "politico" this week they did a piece that got a the of play in which unnamed republican strategists talked about how they think ryan hurts the ticket and other congressional cand

"the washington post" checks this very carefully, and they give pinocchios when they think somethingwrong. they gave four pinocchios to both the obama team's ad and the romney camp's ad. >> they're saying there's no way we're even suggesting there's a linkage to this many would's death. >> of course not. i like bill burton and i respect him, but he's engaging in sophistry. the greeks used to say that, we call it double speak now. the point of the ad is to say mitt romney was responsible for this woman's death because she did not have health insurance. if you look at the pattern, they've suggested heavily that mitt romney is a felon. they said he didn't pay taxes for ten years. now they're saying his business practices, he caused the death of a woman. on the other side, they're saying obama is the birther movement. he was born outside the united states, which is wrong. that he's a muslim, which is wrong. both sides, frankly, are playing dirty. >> in the romney campaign ad, they're saying -- which is a campaign ad, not a super pac ad. they're saying president obama is trying to gut wel

weakening work requirements for welfare recipients got a pants on fire from politifact and four pinocchiosm "the washington post," mitt romney is doubling down on the claim. >> this is to help people go to work so they can stop drawing a welfare check and start drawing a paycheck. >> reporter: the new video not only touts president clinton who signed welfare reform back in the '90s, but also features a young state senator barack obama speaking out against it. >> i was not a huge supporter of the federal plan that was signed in 1996. >> reporter: in iowa romney said that only bolsters hisla

. >> bill: so the "the washington post" gave that ad four pinocchios which means it's not true. and you say? >> well, the "the washington post" is wrong. and they have always been against welfare reform. i helped write that bill and negotiate it in. the bill specifically provides that you have to be employed in a job in order to collect welfare. and it specifically provides that you may not change or expand the definition of work beyond what is in this bill. obama illegally, illegally it will be reversed by the courts, expanded it to include training, job education, apprenticeship, all kinds of other stuff. >> bill: didn't he encourage the states to do that? he didn't do it? >> no, but he did. >> bill: no, no. >> he did. because the clinton welfare reform took that power back from the states and said you may not do. this. >> bill: right. and then he wants the states back the power and say, well, he said do what you want to do. >> no, no, no, no. he did not say do what you want to do. he said you may consider it work. if it's training, if it's education, if it's going back to sch

the fact is this has been a busy season with the fact-checkers with the pinocchios and pants on fireukes for both campaigns as both aired claims that have been factually channeled. the good news is there is 68 days to go. >> bret: you are just over by maine. if you turn around i'm by washington. other way. other way. over here. over here on the floor. >> i'll find you. don't worry. >> bret: 20 yards away. congressman ryan had down time today. he spent time with governor romney out here on the floor. he and governor romney were on the convention floor visiting friends and staff members. brief moment for picture caught by all the tv cameras, and just after that, i caught up with congressman ryan. /started by asking him about coming out on stage last night. last night you came out and looked at first a little emotional. you talked about your mom. your dad who passed when you were 16. most people said mid-speech you caught your stride. is that a fair assessment? >> yeah. once i crack a joke, got more in relaxing mode. i came out and the first thing i saw was family. the hall is not all t

i generally give two to three pinocchios for this kind of statement.romney put it in a more gentle fashion, but essentially those so-called cuts are reductions in anticipated spending that would be given to providers. it does not affect beneficiaries, seniors. in fact, under the health care law, seniors get all sorts of benefits in terms of preventive care as well as fixing the doughnut hole. so -- and i should note that his running mate paul ryan took the exact same so-called cuts and put them in his budget. >> let me ask you about a bigger picture economic statement he made. let me play it. >> this obama economy has crushed the middle class. family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher and gasoline prices, they've doubled. >> is he right? >> well, those are all correct statistics, particularly the income one, which is a damning statistic. the problem with the gas price one is that it's misleading because gas prices are actually now virtually the same as they were exactl

four pinocchios but guess what? >> it doesn't matter whether your ad is accurate or not. the main thing is to get people talking about it. >> reporter: to reinforce an image. >> the obama campaign wants to cast romney as a rich guy who's out of touch with the ordinary person, the ordinary working people, the romney campaign wants to cast him as a socialist who has a war on religion. >> reporter: this is-- >> this is the ninth presidential campaign i've covered and we have never seen ads like this, never seen so many ads and ads that take such a harsh tone. >> you want to take a shower and get it off of you. >> reporter: why is it so bloody negative? >> we have two candidates who have problems building a positive case for themselves. so they're trying to build a negative case on the other guy. >> the obama and romney are still only a couple points apart. so both sides are seeing desperation start to show. when campaigns get desperate, they get nasty. brace yourself for negative ads from now till november. >> reporter: so hard this year to find a candidate who's happy. >> i

"the washington post" giving this ad the same as romney's, four pinocchios.g, quote, on just every level this ad stretches the bounds of common sense and decency. the white house and the obama campaign are trying to distance themselves from the ad. press secretary jack keacarney saying, quote, i still haven't seen the ad. i speak for the president and the administration and i explain and defend his policies. saying, quote, we have nothing, no involvement with any ads that are done by priorities usa. she went on to say, we don't have any knowledge of the story of the family. keeping them honest, though, the campaign ought to have at least some knowledge of joe soptak and his family because they used him in one of their own campaign ads earlier. >> i was a steelworker for 30 years. we had a reputation for quality products. we weren't rich but i was able to put my daughter through college. >> that was joe soptak in an earlier ad for the obama 2012 campaign. bill, let's talk about this. "the washington post" says about your ad, quote, on just every level, this ad

shannon: "the washington post" gave this four pinocchios over this.ashington post" found that she had coverage for a couple more years unher job. did not pass away until several years later. the ad to some who sight for the first time, plante, is it fair to say they would be mislead? >> no, it's a flat out vicious molotov cocktail throwing slanderous lie. the fact that anyone would carry water for this kind of filth speaks to the real issue. the real issue is not the slander, the falsehood the democrat party is advancing. it's the ongoing relentless vial vulgar slander that is being carried by the white house, by harry reid, by nancy pelosi, about it rank and file democrats who go on tell vague to carry this forward. it speaks to a dying party. and that's the democratic party which has sunk so low with a straight face attempt to make this argument which is beneath contempt and does not deserve a dignified response. it's so foul and so odious and so false that my former party, the democrat party should apologize for the filth they are spreading around.

is there any backlash when an ad generates so many pinocchios as the candidate it is meant too attack is in forable? for example, this attack against mitt romney assocociating him -- anywhere from john stewawart making jokes at the obama campaign's expense when f fact checkers said she d died in n years after the fact reclosable and had her own health insurance. what is the take-out getting ththe message out witith a negative onslaught? and has to be believable. at the end of the day, people cacannot believe this coul actually happen. but as far as the fact checking those, the media does a good job of dogng canandidates and making them prove why the claims s that are makaking a true that is between the media and campaigns. bu those ads do not come down and they reach a lot more peoe a lot more times than thehe new coverage just because they spend so much more money. there is n no accocountability in the industry on what is correrect and not. >> iis ain is a win is it a gogood plalay by the candidate or anyone trying to brand their products to keep running ads even if they have been at

and all the fact checkers out there about these ads, it's gotten four pinocchios, pants on fire. to top it off, romney, when he was governor of massachusetts, asked for these same waivers. we're in a very tough economic climate. you've got two republican gophers in nevada and utah saying they need waivers in order to make this program work. and so they will be granted if they can demonstrate they can put more people to work. nobody is trying to gut work privileges or rights or anything like that. >> the "new york times" editorial page disagrees. when they were praising obama's decision they described what obama did for nevada as making it so that people -- getting rid of the work requirement in the welfare reform. so the "new york times" editorial page described it that way. i'm a new yorker. i've been reading those editorials for year. >> they're not dropping the work requirement. >> they are giving the states the right to -- >> no, they're entitled to apply for a waiver. they would not be granted a waiver unless their plans show that they're going to move more people from welfa

. >> the washington post gives it four pinocchios, the highest rating for a false ad. >> the obama campaign says it had nothing to do with the commercial and doesn't know the specifics of soptic's passing. >> this latest ad by the pro-obama super pac is part of a $20 million campaign. but romney has actually been outraising the president in campaign cash in the last three month. terrell, we have three months of campaign ads to go. >> here we go. manuel gallegus joining us from washington. thank you very much. >>> there's been a leadership shakeup at the largest breast cancer charity foundation. susan g. komen for the cure, ts latest fallout to briefly end funding for planned parenthood. nancy brinker is stepping down from day-to-day management and president liz thompson will pursue other opportunities. coleman ended funding for planned parenthood in january because they were being investigated by congress. an investigation urged by pro-life activists. there was such a stir, komen reversed the decision. >>> the search for new evidence in the a ton paetz case wasn't -- where his alleged abduc

. >> reporter: "the washington post" gives the ad four opinion gnocchi crows, its highest -- pinocchios, its highest rating for a wrong ad. manuel gallegus, cbs news, washington. >> the romney campaign takes issue with the obama camp's claim it doesn't know the specifics surrounding the joe soptic story. they say it was featured in an ad the obama campaign aired back in may. >>> there are some new developments in the federal probe into d.c. mayor vincent gray's 2010 campaign. district tax collectors have filed a lien now against gene clark harris' company, the pr executive last month that compleeded guilty to shadow -- pleaded guilty to shadow campaigning. >>> our time is 4:36. more fallout from the militant attack in egypt. egyptian president mohammad morrissey has hired the head of the intelligence agency. the chief said his agency knew about a warning from israel that an attack was imminent. however, he didn't believe it would happen during the holly month of ram dan. gunman killed 16 soldiers, stole armored vehicles and drove into israel to attempt an attack there. >>> the united st

critics have called his previous work wildly misleading, four pinocchios, pants on fire. not going to work. >> former republican congressman tom davis of virginia joins me from tampa. good morning, congressman. >>> good morning. >> so, i'm sure you heard part of that ad, does it bug you at all that the democrats released that on the sunday before the convention was to begin? >> you know, really it's not surprising. they have nothing to talk about. they've it four years of bad outcomes. things haven't gone well for them in terms of what their policies have produced so i think we're seeing a negative campaign very early trying to say we may not be good but they're worse. >> is it tradition for the other side to lay off while the other side lays out their platform and introduces themselves to the public? >> well, it used to be. the president gets his convention next week. with the 24/7 news cycle and with polls showing the president in big trouble it i think they feel they cannot take a chance and they just have to try to define mitt romney and go negative from the start and

critics have called his previous work wildly misleading four pinocchios, pants on fire. >> cenk: thatis awesome. get a load of how mitt romney tries to relate to the average guy. terrific. that's coming up in a little bit. and then camden, new jersey, lays off their entire police department. what in the world is going on? how much tax cuts do the rich need? what is chris christie's excuse? >> the city of camden has a $92 million deficit. i sent them $60 million to bridge the gap. they asked unions to bridge the $24 million gap? no. >> cenk: unions, my ass. it's all the tax cuts you gave to corporations. that's why they don't have a police department any more. that's later in the program. and then in the newsroom, tackle tackling voter i.d. laws. >> dorothy cooper is a 96-year-old woman of chattanooga, tennessee, and has been voting for the past 75 years. this year she has been told she can't. >> cenk: we'll tell you how it is in the real newsroom as we do every monday. it's new york, and it's go time! [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> cenk: the republican national convention started today--kind of. th

the attic, instead hammering romney for all welfare effort earlier this month that has gone three pinocchio'srom washington post which they can run the campaign that they once, but the tooth of the matter is, you can't just make stuff up that is one thing that u.s. president of the united states. >> earlier in the day they claim the president is the one not telling the truth about his record. >> this is the first president to have served with, and i have never seen such a bitter partisan rhetoric like the kind that we have today. >> meanwhile, a new e-but by political cleanse the president has a personal hatred for romney, though aides say differences are just over policy. >> i can tell you, i never heard the president expressed anything like that. >> the book also alleges infighting among top advisers, though the obama campaign in jakarta fired back, this is a patchwork of hearsay, distortion , and under a faucet. if it were actually imprinted with belong in the fiction section. the book also claims that dnc chairman has seen her stock plummet inside the white house and that the obama camp b

came 24 hours after the president chastised the republican ticket for a welfare ad that got three pinocchios>> you can't make things open. >> trying to turn the words around. >> either mitt romney, through his own words and own signature, was misrepresenting his position at bane to fcc which is a felon. >> nobody accused him of being a felon. >> the response of a student of how he would make college more affordable. >> i can tell you to shop around. ♪ >> the president made a quick stop at ohio state to fire up students. and then addressed 3300 people here at capital university, smaller than the student crowds he got four years ago, and he addressed questions about enthusiasm head on. >> they are counting on young people sitting this one out saying, you know what? well, obama's, you know, he's grayer now, he's not as new and fresh as he was in 2008 so young people, young people are not going to turn out the same way. i'm counting on something different. i'm counting on you. [cheers and applause] >> now it's on the to nevada for the president. tomorrow night, in new york city for something cal

. >> the romney ad got four pinocchios from the "washington post."

critics have called his previous work, wildly misleading, four pinocchios, pants on fire. >> reporter: so much for the tradition of staying dark, but the attacks are come from this other side. mitt romney out with a new ad, that contrast what is president obama said as a candidate about john mccain's plans to cut medicare, with where the president is today. >> as president, barack obama cut $700 billion from medicare to pay for obamacare. what would candidate say about president obama's medicare cuts? >> it ain't right. >> no, mr. president, it ain't right. >> reporter: the romney campaign believes it can win on the issue of medicare, pointing to a house race, where a candidate came from behind by hammering on this idea that the obamacare plan would cut more than $700 billion from medicare, it was a winning issue then. they think it could be a winning issue now. >> lots of battles yet to come. thank you. >> john showed us fox news sunday. we are getting the sound from the sunday talk shows. it's all about the election, as is expected at this time. steve centanni has a wrapup for us. >

this outside group checks these things carefully and they give pinocchios when they think something is they give four to both the obama teams' ad and to the romney team's ad. >> when bill burtton says how can you link this death, do you buy that? >> no. of course not. it's plain on its face. i like bill burton but he's engaged in double speak. but of course the point of the ad is to make the point that mitt romney was responsible for this woman's death because she did not have health insurance. over time they've called mitt romney a felon or suggested it. they said he didn't pay his taxes for ten years. now his business practice, he k caused the death of a woman. and on the other side, obama is saying a birther movement. he was born outside the united states. that he's a muslim which is wrong. both sides are playing dirty. >> in the romney campaign ad they're saying president obama is trying to gut welfare reform, that under his plan you wouldn't have to work. you'll just be sent a check which is just factually not at all what they were proposing. it was interesting to hear newt gingri

castanza lovett, pinocchio, and now romney. taking his place among liars, a great standout.does more than tall tales and blatant untruths, but he also has secrets. like all those before him his deceit is built upon a dream that one day he'll walk down the street and people will say there goes mitt romney. the greatest liar who who whoever lived. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> jennifer: today mitt romney that great mangler of truth started an energy policy speech with his tired old attack line, "you didn't build that." that's from a line from president obama that said it takes many to build an economy. >> mayor cobb, thank you for welcoming me and particularly the people here at this wonderful watson truck and supply. i tell you i think the smith family did build this business. don't you think? [applause] >> jennifer: well, it turns out they did build it. with the help of almost $500,000 in federal stimulus funds. watson trucking received $400,000 from the president's stimulus program. whoops. and yet mitt and his party continue to peddle this message that we're all on our own. we're not w

>> ladies and gentlemen, on the desk this morning, pinocchio. that might work with your kids but you ain't pulling this one. >> all right. traveling inbound off the bw parkway, the wazers are checking in with delays approaching 32. no accidents, just volume delays. southbound 95 still good to go. no problems to report there as you work your way in out of laurel this morning. if you are making your commute in virginia, you will find lanes are now open northbound on i-95 as you continue to work your way up towards the capital beltway. accident activity long gone. heavy volume in the main line as well as over in the hov lanes. signal lights repaired at west virginia, montana. lanes are open right now. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. etraffic. >>> it is back to school day for kids in prince george's county and fauquier counties. >> their number of changes that come with the new school year. melanie alnwick is live in front of the new greenbelt middle school this morning with the latest. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. si

the washington post-fat guy weighed in with four pinocchioes. what it's doing is giving more flexibility to their own states. these were questioned by the republicans in nevada. >> if president obama didn't want people to think that he was going weigh the central work requirement and welfare reform, his administration shouldn't have written a memo saying it was going to wave the work requirement in welfare reform. >> keeping them honest, . >> so the administration is incesting they aren't trying to wave the work requirement. they're, in fact, trying to make it resz bureaucratic aless bure. as we said, newt gingrich's definty ad goes beyond it. it makes a surprising admission. i spoke with the former presidential candidate just a short time ago. >>> mr. speaker, this ad says under obama's plan, you wouldn't have to work. they just send you your welfare check. now, according to the fact checks, it's not true. they said, there's no plausible scenario under which this new policy constitutes any kind of serious attack on welfare reform. are they all

the washington post fact checkers gave romney four pinocchios saying quote, the ad's claim is not accurate and inflames old resentments about able-bodied adults sitting around collecting public assistance. pants on fire. president clinton who signed the legislation says the ads were simply not true. and president obama is calling romney out. >> probably the most prominent argument that he's been making for why voters should vote for him is this notion that obama took the work requirement out of welfare. and he'll put it back. the problem is that every fact checker, every reporter who's actually looked at this says this is just just made up. >> but mr. romney won't let it go. in an interview he says quote, there's no question in my mind that the president's actions were calculated to shore up his base. weakening the work requirement and welfare is an enormous mistake. shoring up his base? what is that nonsense? the romney strategy is not subtle. he's going for the right wing of the republican party. >> no one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. they know that this is the place that we

. >> the romney ad got four pinocchios from the "washington post."h that ad does not accuse anyone of being responsible for a woman getting cancer. with the white house noting there are far more republican super-pac ads on cue american crossroads has a new one. >> you do know that we don't have anything to do with priorities usa? >> they are not telling the truth. >> we learned today the obama campaign website briefly featured the steelworker story earlier in year on top of holding a conference call with him. >> now the rnc is pointing out that jay in may jay carney had a different view demanding the romney camp denounce a republican donor who was just thinking about super pac ads tying the president to reverend jeremiah wright. >> john: interesting developments on this story. ed henry bringing it to us tonight. thanks. romney is resting up before hitting the road for four days, shaking hands, kissing babies and eating diner food. chief political correspondent carl cameron tells us the number one item on the menu continues to be the question of who w

"the washington post" has given it four pinocchios. we are not talking about something that's true but has possible racial implications. we are talking about something that's patently false. >> in the rule itself if the favors will only be granted if a state can prove it will help them make progress towards the employment goal. and ron haskins, who helped write the legislation on the republican side, has said in "the new york times," then in -- my blog, this is not weakening the work requirement. >> melissa, when mitt romney earlier this month was complaining about attack ads with the president, he was talking about how when people said things inaccurate, they would -- let me show you what he said and contrast that with the fact his campaign is blatantly doubled down on what we know as facts incorrect. listen do this. >> in the past when people pointed out that something was inaccurate, like campaigns pulled the ads, they were embarrassed, they blast ahead. >> just blast ahead. they just blast ahead. so everyone from "the washington po

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