, not seamus as that guy said. but this chapter has provided some top-notch theater of the absurd on twitter. back in january, referring to the seamus on the roof kerfuffle, david axelrod posted this -- "how loving owners transport their dogs." now a comeback, quote, in hindsight, a chilling photo. if i may, i'd like to just take a moment and appeal for a return to intelligent discourse based on ideas, on issues, because in this election, everyone knows what really matters in a president, speaking of course about the shape of his chin. >> i recently took a look at the candidates that are running for president and i evaluated their chin

, not seamus as that guy said.t matter. so romney brushed it off, but this chapter has provided some top-notch theater of the absurd on twitter. back in january, presumably referring to the seamus on the roof kerfuffle, david axelrod posted this -- "how loving owners transport their dogs." now a comeback, quote, in hindsight, a chilling photo. if i may, i'd like to just take a moment and appeal for a return to intelligent discourse based on ideas, on issues, because in this election, everyone knows what really matters in a president, speaking of course about the shape of his chin. >> i recently took a look at the candidates that are running for president and i evaluated their chin. obama has a pretty good-looking chin. i think newt gingrich has a good chin, but he's got a little extra material under here that detracts from his chin. but, clearly, the one that has the most presidential chin is mitt romney. >> hey, look, it's an election year, anything goes. in an election as in life, when anything goes, it does tend

seamus, which you know is out there forever, would you do again?certainly not with the attention it's received. >> you said it was the most wounding thing in the campaign so par. >> it's crazy. the dog loved it. >> the dog got sick, right? >> once. we traveled all the time and he a ate the turkey on the counter. he had the runs. but he would see that crate and, you know, he would like go crazy because he was going with us on vacation. >> so the the obama campaign certainly loves this story. it wasn't very long ago the top campaign adviser david axelrod tweeted a picture of the president and his dog with the caption reading this is how loving owners transport their dogs. not on the roof of the car. now, though, critics trying to use the president's own words against him, the daily caller, quote, i learned how to eat smault green chili peppers raw with dinner plenty of rice and away from the dinner table, i was introduced to dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grass hopper. that's a quote from dreams from my father by barack obama. so here's the next t

, not seamus as that guy said. twitter. back in january, referring to the seamus on the roof kerfuffle, david axelrod posted this. how loving owners travel with their dogs. now a comeback, quote, in hindsight, a chilling photo. if i may, i'd like to just take a moment and appeal for a return to intelligent discourse based on ideas, on issues, because in this election, everyone knows what really matters in a president, speaking

the seamus trip was in 1983. the national lampoon vacation came out in 1983.pped something on top of the roof. and totally oblivious to the fact that the rest of humanity finds that deplorable. and finally to our last republican mall story, ted nugent. he talked about how president obama is like a coyote and he said many worse things. let's watch. >> if you don't know that our government is wiping its ass with the constitution you are living under a rock someplace. i tell you this right now, if barack obama becomes the president in november again, i will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. our president, and attorney general, our vice president hilary clinton, they are criminals. it's good people who bent over and let the enemy in. if the chi you is in your living room -- ing on your couch. it's not the chi yous fault. it's your fault for not shooting him. we are patriots. we are brave heart. we need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in november. >> you are not a brave heart or a patriot, you are a loser and an idiot, and by

here's a look at one of his take on mitt and ann romney's maligned road trips with seamus the dog.he elephant, the republican party the unwilling passenger on the roof of the romney station wagon. moo joining me now, maggie haberman. a celebration in your newsroom yesterday. a very big deal. congratulations. our friends at plit cofor what matt worker has achieved. and of course seamus the dog, because of the new york time, next to our friend john harris from politico. diane sawyer asked ann romney about the dog. so let's take a look at this on abc. >> you said it was the most wounding thing in the campaign so far. >> crazy. the dog loved it. >> the dog got sick, right? >> once. we traveled all the time. he ate the turkey on the counter. he had the runs. >> you can't make it up. but as we take a look at matt's other political cartoons, this is a campaign that has focused on a lot of the silly and seamus is one of the silly moment. is it going to rise to the level of some of the other iconic moments one things of michael dukakis in the tank, telegraphs something about a candidate and

we'll listen to it one more time. >> first about seamus, would you do it again?certainly not with the attention it has received. [ laughter ] >> i'll tell you this right now, n if barack obama becomes the president in november again, i will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. >> what you have is mitt romney running around the country saying well my wife tells me that what women really tell me about are economic issues, and when i listen to my wife that's what i am hearing. his wife has never worked a day in her life. >> the comments she made has awaken a lot of moms around the nation. >> the dog loved it. >> but the dog lot sick, right? >> once. >> all of this stuff! in an effort to deflect attention from the dog problem, team romney pointed out that as a child president obama ate dog meat while living in indonesia. come on, people! can we not get serious and start attacking merck's real problems? here to discuss the media's fascination with the silly stuff, we're talking about why it is so dumb, here is media -- ic barbara lippert, the curator of p

. >> ann romney laughed while explained that seamus loved traveling on top of the family car.at's how i know i'm enjoying something, because i [ censor bleep ] myself. wow, the dog loved it. >> how would she know? did she pay somebody to look into the cage. >> he could see that crate and would go crazy -- yeah, maybe because he is like i got to get out of here. >> oh, god. >> for this part mitt romney said he would never again put the dog on top of the car. would you do it again? certainly not with the attention it has received. >> i'm running for president for pete's sake. >> how about it's because it's the wrong thing to do to put a dog on top of a car for 12 hours until he poops himself. >> how about putting tag out there. >> oh tag loves it. >> dad get me out of here. [ screaming ] >> several years after the diarrhea incident the romney family -- i love this concerned about seamus's predisposition towards wandering around town -- maybe looking for another family! and concerned he might be hit by a car gave the dog away to sister jane in california. >> that's not the story

. >> we'll come to seamus later. >> we'll get to that.his race, i think that mitt romney has had a good week. i don't think it has much to do with rick santorum. the primary is over, a lot of republicans know there is no other choice. this is it. >> alexis i want to come to you. president obama has pushed the buffet rule which tests at 73%. he has chosen to go the populous angle and the republicans take this on as class warfare and he's talking in the context of fairness. on the other hand there is a poll that says it trumps fairness as a dramatic theme that will term the outcome of this race. has president obama maybe chosen the wrong theme for this november? >> absolutely not. this election is going to turn on intensity. that's what the deciding factor is going to be. and the intensity with occupy and even a little bit with the tea party. that's what's going to drive people in terms of coming out. so i think that those values that are coming out around opportunity are really going to drive people. >> ben, what do you make of it. i want

today on morning joe axed rod was pushed on whether the seamus stories are here for the long haul. >> when are you going to stop channeling gail collins and stop talking about the dog on his roof? when are you going to stop that, axelrod? >> i'm a dog lover. >> me too. i have a rescue. i would never put them on the roof of my car. who would do that? >> mitt romney. >> he always does that. that's about how great it is. the story speaks for itself. it ain't going away. finally, did you ever think you would near newt gingrich, newt gingrich of all people, dispensing hair and make-up advice? while trying to make a point about health care. here is what he said about personalized healthcare just yesterday. this is newt again, quote, think about it. if you're going out on friday and you're going to put on make-up, each of you has a different skin tone and have you different hair color and you may want to create a different effect. if you're going to church you wear one level of make-up. if you go out on a date you may wear a different level of make-up. we will have to have very personalized

after all, my irish great, great grandfather seamus connelly hadn't jumped off that sydney bound convict ship, right now i'd be doing segments like tip of the bushwhack, wag of the dig erie do and alpha dingo of the week so i assume that australians celebrate easter just like us. except of course below the equator where jesus comes out of the tomb counterclockwise. but the aussies are about to eradicate the holyist symbol of easter. >> the easter bunny days may be numbered. the easter billby is gaining popularity in australia. >> promoting the easter billby is a promotion -- >> easter billby, this is an assault on the sacred ritual of dying a rabbit pink and gorging on its chocolate offspring. who wants a chocolate billby. you know, you know it's got a creamy vegemite center. plus it makes no sense. the billby is a marsupial unlike rabbits, they don't lay eggs. and now, now i have got to go digging in its filthy pouch for my chocolate treats? they'll melt. besides, if you want to replace the easter bunny, you already have a native australian egg-laying mammal, the duck billed platypus. c

seamus you see in the suit was expelled from the university of johnston campus in january over issues of johnston using the men's locker room repeatedly. johnston has a number of lawsuits pending against the university. that's sort of why they believe they are being targeted. >> payback from the university because we're suing them. >> the couple says they are willing for cooperate. they are not suspects. this is a huge hassle for students. joining us is a sophomore from the university of pittsburgh. lauren bernlgen. you had to be evacuated because of bomb threats two times in the middle of the night. tell us about that. >> the alarm goes off. you have to leave the building. it's pry difficult. we have finals coming up next week, papers and tests, all that kind of stuff. >> there were two threats yesterday. how frequent are these things happening? >> at one point it was just about every couple of hours you'd get some. sometimes there are multiple buildings at one time. >> people started to get annoyed and not want to evacuate the buildings because these threats keep happening over and

. >> people are missing the point on the seamus point.ut imagine certing five children into that visual situation. where their father drags the dog off of the roof of the car, hoses him down hoses the car down throws him back in the -- >> yeah, a wet dog at 60 miles an hour. >> imagine how cold that dog had to be. >> it wasn't summer. >> and did you see their reaction when diane sawyer said would you do it again? >> certainly not with the attention it got. >> he has no empathetic reflex whatsoever. seamus is just like -- you hose the dog down -- >> it doesn't pass the smell test -- >> ann romney was like he loved it up there. >> that's why he was crapping down the side of the vehicle. >> yeah when i'm really happy i crap. >> yeah. and when i'm trying to get out of the vietnam war. >> i'm so happy to be on current tv. >> yeah. terrible. >> romney treated seamus like i was a business problem that needed to be solved. >> he said emotion free crisis management. that's fine when you dissolve companies and none of those companies need a future

but i think this whole thing about seamus is overstated. any dog i know likes to have their head out the window. >> what about you? >> yeah, they'd like to be in the car. that's the point. no, but i think that -- you know, look, this is such a bizarre kind of incident. it's like something out of a national lampoon movie. will it have an effect? there are some people who really, really believe their dog is a member of their family so it might impact that vote. i think jackie is right, it's going to come down to an issue of the economy, but the romney folks would be making a mistake if they ignored this. >> jackie, what are your thoughts on dog gate? >> i think it's just that. i think it's fun for a lot of people to talk b it's entertainment. but at the end of the day, yeah, it could -- the obama administration has been trying to play it -- or the campaign has been trying to play it into a likability thing. but i think at the end of the day it's going to be the economy, not dogs. >> maybe it will raise the level of conversation where people a

everybody already knows, the november presidential election is going to be decided not by ted nugent or seamus the dog, but by the economy. the poll shows one-third of americans believe the country is headed in the right direction. only 33% say we're headed in the right direction. while 6 in 10 say, we're going the wrong way. 45% of those polled approve of the way president obama is handling the economy. 52% disapprove. one of the big concerns, of course, gas prices. about 63% of respondents say he has had a great deal, or quite a bit of impact on their families. i should say gas prices have had a big impact on their families. 63%. more voters believe mitt romney has better ideas to fix the economy, and to change business as usual in washington. still, he trails the president in a head-to-head match-up. president obama with a six-point edge over romney there. among latino voters, it is not even close. the president, a 47-point lead there, confirming what a lot of other polls have shown. he beats romney by 26 points among younger voters. women and independents back the president. also by a doub

my chapter that very much in there is a debate between myself and the lecturer from the university seamus coffee who's very informed and very good put forward an argument that that is not going to be the case i however with very firmly in the camp that we will see a default on the bank that sooner or later and the sooner it will happen the better it will be all the i.m.f. of course is funded primarily from the united states primarily from wall street and you know saying observer from outside of course this would go under the category of good cop bad cop scenario we see from american. t.v. shows so they i.m.f. comes in as the so-called good cop with the idea that they're on the irish side and they want to see that paid off and yet they entire mandate of the i and that i.m.f. is to increase the debt load to roll up and reset carrots eyes and look good in my eyes their own existence by increasing debt so i would warn against. placer too much trust in this proxy for who wall street which is the i.m.f. they're still paying the i'm all irish that right constantino they're going to stop paying t

along time ago, he put his dog seamus in a pet area, and strapped the carrier to his roof for a road trip. and now president obama n his memoir, he talked about his childhood in indonesia living with his stepfather, lo lo, he said when he was 8 years old, lo lo introduced him to a number of unusual meat, including dog. our president ate dog. not only that, according to the book, he also ate snake. >> grasshopper. and his mother was looking if ar tiger. he was eating through noah's ark. but the dog thing, maybe that is where the floppy ears come from. this is not something that someone dug up on him. this was in a book the president wrote himself. how did we miss this? if ryan seacrest wrote a book and said he ate dog, we would know about it. i guess you are on team dog your dog to the roof or throw him on the hibachi. this is from a nationals reds baseball game in washington, d.c. john popper from the band blues traveler played "god bless america" on his harmonica. pay attention to the guy with the eye drops here. ♪ [ laughter ] hard to get them -- you want to get the eye drops throu

did got two degrees from there not just one romney's now trying to deflect criticism about his dog seamus that he tied to the roof of his car for a twelve hour ride by pointing out that in his memoirs obama says that he ate dog meat when he was nine years old and didn't like it didn't want to do it question is mitt suffering from psychological projection issues com are you seriously using a major party candidate trying to spin an issue no i'm asking if he might be mentally ill you're saying that mitt romney may be mentally ill based on what this looks to me like like projection it looks to me like he is he is taking the things that he is doing and he is suggesting that his opponent is doing when in fact is is about it is not a problem i don't have the same psychiatric expertise i don't blame it all ok all right the discussion the democrats are right let's roll with the war on women i was a democratic talking point. they slipped up they got tagged for it they distance themselves from that means you know the democrats the democrats use this is a war on women talking point constantly often t

because mitt romney has the scandal with the seamus the dog on his car roof that he travelled with fordent obama's book where he says he was fed dog meat in indonesia when he was six or seven, so they putting out pictures like this. these are

>> you know the seamus story.ped his dog to the top of the car. >> president obama tried to eat that dog? what? the puppies? >> romney and his wife ann were asked this week again about seamus during an interview on abc. >> seamus, which as you know, that story is out there forever. would you do it again? >> certainly not. the attention it's received. >> you said it was the most wounding thing in the campaign so far. >> it's crazy. the dog loved it. the dog would like -- >> but the dog got sick, right? >> once. we travelled all the time, and he ate the turkey on the counter. i mean, he had the runs. but he would see that crate, and, you know, he would like go crazy because he was going with us on vacation. >> as if once weren't bad enough. >> you don't have to say it. give us less! less is more! you don't have to explain it! it's only axelrod and collins. don't talk about the dog's -- >> it's the setup. so as you know, the obama re-election team loves this story. can't stop talking about it. campaign adviser david

ask just about any of mitt romney's rivals and they'll tell you they had the dog seamus on the roof oftion wagon for a 12-hour trip to canada. how loving owners transport their dogs. today they're here for the long haul. >> when did you stop channelling gail collins and talk about that poor dog put upon the roof? >> i am a dog lover. >> i have a rescue. i would never put him on the roof of my car. who would do that? >> well, mitt romney. >> he always does that deadpan way. the story speaks for itself. it ain't going away. >>> finally, did you ever think you would hear newt gingrich dispensing hair and makeup advice? while trying to make a point about health care, no less. here's what newt said to a group of north carolina high school kids about a plan for personalized health care just yesterday. here i quote him. this is newt again. quote, think about it. if you're going to go out on friday and you're going to put on makeup, each of you has a different skin tone and you have different hair color, and you may want to create a different effect. if you're going to church, you probably wea

you'd still really be seamus. it was a long ride, it was windy and everything. but you didn't have like soy sauce on you. what do you do with -- >> it's like when you're in different cultures -- >> exactly. but when it's been mentioned 50 times by dnc enabling columnists in the "new york times," when gail collins has made her career writing about it 50 times -- >> we had a dog that we used to -- it was my dog, a stray dog we brought home and he had a bad habit of chasing cars and he chased a motorcycle, he got off the leash, chased a motor seek kell and bit the guy. we had to put the dog down. and i can see stories like that turning away and getting held up for something like that. at the time, i was furious. >> i have three dogs now. and they did love the window down. that's all i'm going to tell you. >> try too back and pig what happened when is a crazy sort of scenario. >> it's trivial and they're basing it -- gail collins is basing the entire choice of who you pick for president based on that one thing and she really kind of bet her career on it. >> except t