and did they also throw rush limbaugh under the bus?ind out next on news watch. [ woman ] my boyfriend and i were going on vacation, so i used my citi thankyou card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? and with all the points i've been earning, i was able to get us flight to our favorite climbing spot even on a holiday weekend. ♪ things are definitely looking up. [ male announcer ] with no blackout dates, you can use your citi thankyou points to travel whenever you want. visit citi.com/thankyoucards to apply. >> stephanie wolf a visiting assistant professor at west liberty university west virginia. instructed her students to keep a journal of news reports about politics, news sources included the economist, the bbc, huffington post, but the top two banned sources onion, which the assignment wrote was not news, is literally a parody and number two, fox news. she wrote the tag line, fox news makes me cringe. please do not subject me to this biased news station. i would almost you rat

and did they also throw rush limbaugh under the bus? find out next on news watch. >> stephanie wolf a visiting assistant professor at west liberty university west virginia. instructed her students to keep a journal of news reports about politics, news sources included the economist, the bbc, huffington post, but the top two banned sources onion, which the assignment wrote was not news, is literally a parody and number two, fox news. she wrote the tag line, fox news makes me cringe. please do not subject me to this biased news station. i would almost you rather print off an article from the onion. well, following some unexpected reaction from press presser wolf allows fox to be used as a source, we've broken through. >> i'm glad and i'm sure this professor is going to have a great career in academia because they just love this stuff, but you know, i love the idea of the bbc and the huffington post being fair and balanced. >> why do we scare people so much? >> we should give professor wolf a shoutout. for making her cringe, we're doing ou

i'm glad you played that clip from rush limbaugh because in a lot of ways karl rove and rush limbaugh are very much the same. they're both using the same sort of know-nothing crowd, the people in the hinterlands who are angry, who don't understand why the country is changing, who don't understand the new america they don't feel comfortable in. they're both using them to sell a product. for rush limbaugh it's to get his advertisers there because terrestrial radio is dying and he has to keep his show going. for karl rove it's the accumulation of power by tricking people. he doesn't necessarily -- >> terrestrial radio. young lady, you've done it again. you're teaching me this business i'm in. what is terrestrial radio -- >> radio as opposed to satellite, xm as oppose the to -- >> when is the first time -- >> when is the first time you used that term in your life? >> only because i used to be in the radio business. when you're in radio -- >> it's like e.t. terrestrial radio. >> but karl rove needs a raison d'etre, a reason to exist. he needs -- >> i know french. >> i know you know french.

rush limbaugh, big surprise here, sided with the tea party this week saying rove's plan will back fire on conservative. let's watch. >> the establishment republicans, the inside the beltway establishment types, remember, these are the people they supported charlie crist over marco rubio, these are the brains, these are the guys who are going to protect the republican party from you, be they also opposed rand paul. remember, they supported arlen specter over pat toomey and on and on. there are countless examples. the bottom line is they don't have any better record at picking winners than the quote/unquote amateur tea party types do. and even when they pick winners, what do we end up winning? we get squishy republican moderates. >> there's that squishy. >> they got tax hikes for ten years. >> come on. >> this man, you know, they say a certain kind of bug or insect would survive a nuclear war, we don't have to use those terms but we know which it is. look at the rap sheet on this guy karl rove and how he continues to talk. down memory lane and remind oursselves at least if the right wing

you know they are union members rush limbaugh bill o'reilly if you want to explain you know rush limbaugh and bill o'reilly are very strong right wing television hosts of america who spend their entire day condemning union members only to lo and behold they summers and crooks and liars dot com that in fact they are union members and they're telling people breaking the unions right there televangelists in america and they are part of unions that they are decrying their self hating union members now live but they're also like a cop or a or a teacher or municipal workers who are you know part of unions and i've been telling these people for years now to tie your wages to money supply the money supply is up by billions of money supplies up the m two is up ten twenty fifty percent on a percentage of percent you need to tie your wages to money supply not the fabricated nonsensical scored unquote inflation number that is completely fabricated and has no representation in reality and now here in the u.s. obama is talking about well let's raise the minimum wage which is exactly equivalent to adjus

you know they are union members rush limbaugh bill o'reilly do you want to explain you know rush limbaugh and bill o'reilly are very strong right wing television hosts of america who spend their entire day condemning union members only to lo and behold it simmers and crooks and liars dot com that in fact they are union members and they're telling people breaking the unions right there televangelists in america and they are part of unions that they are decrying their self hating union members now live but they're also like a cop or a or a teacher or municipal workers who are you know part of unions and i've been trying these people for years now to tie your wages to money supply the money supply is up by billions of money supplies up the m two is up ten twenty fifty percent on a percentage or percent you need to tie your wages to money supply not the fabricated nonsense of goals scored unquote inflation number that is completely fabricated and has no representation in reality and now here in the u.s. obama is talking about well let's raise the minimum wage which is exactly equivalent to ad

you know they are union members rush limbaugh bill o'reilly if you want to explain you know rush limbaugh and bill o'reilly are very extreme right wing television host america who spend their entire day condemning union members only to lo and behold it summers and crooks and liars dot com that in fact they are union members and they're telling people breaking the unions right there televangelists in america and they are part of unions that they are decrying their self hating union members now live but they're also like a cop or a or a teacher or municipal worker who are you know part of unions and i've been trying these people for years now to tie your wages to money supply the money supply is up by billions of money supplies up the m two is up ten twenty fifty percent on a percent to nine percent you need to tie your wages to money supply not the fabricated nonsensical scored unquote inflation number that is completely fabricated it has no representation in reality and now here in the u.s. obama is talking about well let's raise the minimum wage which is exactly equivalent to adjusting t

you know they are union members rush limbaugh bill o'reilly if you want to explain you know rush limbaugh and bill o'reilly are very strong right wing television host america who spend their entire day condemning union members only to lo and behold they summers and crooks and liars dot com that in fact they are union members and they're telling people breaking the unions right there televangelists in america and they are part of unions that they are decrying their self hating union members now live but they're also like a cop or a or a teacher or municipal workers who are you know part of unions and i've been telling these people for years now to tie your wages to money supply the money supply is up by billions the money supply is up and to is up ten twenty fifty percent on a percent to nine percent you need to tie your wages to money supply not the fabricated nonsensical scored unquote inflation number that is completely fabricated and has no representation in reality and now here in the u.s. obama is talking about well let's raise the minimum wage which is exactly equivalent to adjustin

you know they are union members rush limbaugh bill o'reilly do you want to explain you know rush limbaugh and bill o'reilly are very extreme right wing television host america who spend their entire day condemning union members only to lo and behold they summers and crooks and liars dot com that in fact they are union members and they're telling people breaking the unions right there televangelists in america and they are part of unions that they are decrying their self hating union members now live but they're also like a cop or a or a teacher or municipal worker on you know part of unions and i've been trying these people for years now to tie your wages to money supply the money supply is up by billions of money supplies up the m two is up ten twenty fifty percent on a percent to nine percent you need to tie your wages to money supply not the fabricated nonsensical scored unquote inflation number that is completely fabricated and has no representation in reality and now here in the u.s. obama is talking about well let's raise the minimum wage which is exactly equivalent to adjusting the

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that is rush limbaugh world. >> he is kind of loveable. he is sad, they should just rename the party the peace, love and puppy's party and have everybody over and have a slumber, it is hilarious to watch the despair on the right. >> there is no opposition if they're not questioning where he was born every day and attacking him. >> because what they have been doing the last four years is opposing what obama does, even if it is things they wanted to do. the last election preferred that the american people preferred obama's policy and preferred him to them. now he will be a version -- slightly more conservative, i don't get it. >> let's listen to what rush limbaugh said about the new marketing plan. >> it seems like every day a new republican goes to the microphones to offer an opinion about what they need to do, in order to reverse their fortunes. and i think it is time they stopped telling everybody what they need to do and just do it. you never tell people what the marketing plan is, because then you give people a chance to resist it. >> r

rush limbaugh. are in a little room with no audience. >> this is a little room. >> no, you know, applause lines. so that is -- >> i have it right here. i mean -- >> so so i don't know. you know, it is hard to judge this thing because of the water thing. because -- how did he do? >> the water throws it off. the dry mouth, which rush limbaugh said about three times which i really appreciated. but there is something real here. which is when your rise is based on nothing, your fall can also be based on nothing. >> oh, yeah, that makes sense. >> let's take a look at where the bar was set. he had to do better than bobby jindal did. let's just put the two of them together and see how they did. >> good evening, and happy mardi gras. >> false choices like the one the president laid out tonight. the choice is not just between big government or big business. >> sam stein, which is better? looking a little goofy, walking up to the microphone, and then saying happy mardi gras, which i think threw a lot of people

rush limbaugh doesn't help the party.e is an entertainer whose show actually does drag down republican and conservative candidates, i believe. >> and yesterday, the american conservative union announced that sarah palin will speak at cpac, so they're keeping the dream alive at cpac. >> the dream will never die. >> right, but at least sarah palin doesn't go out there and actually run and lose for republicans. she at least has that grace not to run. >> she knows that before she can run again, right? >> i think she knows how that would play out. >> so sam, this struggle is something that -- is extra difficult for rove, now, because he is also coming off a losing season in politics. >> yeah, and whenever you have a losing season, rove's lifeline is basically the big money in the republican party. and the natural question is why would you keep funding somebody who had a huge collapse in the last election cycle. the only question for why they would do that is because there is no one else to fund and there is just so much money

i'm glad you played that clip from rush limbaugh because in a lot of ways karl rove and rush limbaughre very much the same. they're both using the same sort of know-nothing crowd, the people in the hinterlands who are angry, who don't understand why the country is changing, who don't understand the new america they don't feel comfortable in. they're both using them to sell a product. for rush limbaugh it's to get his advertisers, and he has to keep his show going. for karl rove it's the accumulation of power by tricking people. he doesn't necessarily -- >> terrestrial radio. young lady, you've done it again. you're teaching me this business again. i'm in -- >> radio as opposed to xm -- >> i used to be in radio. >> when is the first time you used that term in your life? >> only because i used to be in the radio business. when you're in radio -- >> it's like e.t. terrestrial radio. >> but karl rove needs a raison d'etre, a reason to exist. he needs -- >> i know french. >> i know you know french. >> he needs a reason to exist. the tea party has gotten their market share of the republican

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well, of course, you're going to get that out of limbaugh, but you know-- >> no one ever accused rush limbaughg an idiot but it doesn't make him good. >> michael: isn't the president by engaging limbaugh this way isn't the president winning in a way. everybody is out of town, and limbaugh is answering him isn't that a victory. >> limbaugh continues to be the dominant voice in the conservative movement. he commands listeners he's on every day three hours a day. the problem republicans have is rush limbaugh becomes their face and voice and tone of that party. too many are following his way. look, the results are the results. the republicans lost the presidency. they double down on beating obama on healthcare. they double down to beat obama to slash government spending. they doubled down on obama to invade another country and they lost. when you have no leadership these democrat gods like limbaugh are able to rise above that. >> michael: what do they do--let's talk about what they do on march 1st. the republicans are going to keep losing and losing. >> you have speaker john boehner controlled by

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