in his latest campaign ad, hit democratic senator debbie stabenow, it aired during the super bowl., michigan senator, debbie spend it now. debbie spent so much money, you buy more and more from us. your economy get very weak, ours get very good. we take your jobs, thank you, debbie spen it now. >> i think the race for u.s. senate is between spend it now, and pete spend it not. i'm pete spend it not hoekstra, and i approve this message. >> needless to say folks on both sides of the aisle calling it racist, and really dumb. the ad was actually shot in k california and produced by fred davis, as well as the modern classic. >> i'm not a witch. >> to make sure all of the stereotypes in his ad sink in, his campaign set up a website featuring the ad with pictures of chinese money, lanterns, parade dragones and stabenow's face on a fan. earlier hoekstra was defending the ad telling the detroit free press there is nothing racist about it. here is hoekstra explaining the ad to wdiv. >> why show a woman in a rice paddy, why not a factory worker? >> could you show a young woman we chose a youn

if you will, hoekstra, is out here talking about debbie stabenow, he's stabbing her now and stabbings. i think it's ridiculous, it's another display that so many on the right are tone deaf to how their own insensitivity hurts and harms other people. and then when they're called on it, they try to give it plausible deniability. you're racist, hypersensitive, they put the emphasis on everybody else. >> a coalition of african american pastors in detroit have joined forces in condemning the ad. here is a statement from reverend charles williams, pastor of the king solomon baptist church. the imagery in the ad is no different than the folks that had to put black faced paint on and tap dance. this whole thing makes me so sad because hoekstra really doesn't get it. is that an accurate assessment of what is going on here? >> i think so, pastor williams is from a church the king solomon baptist church hosted malcolm x in the 1960's. he's from a tremendous tradition and heritage of social indifference. i think he's absolutely right. tone deaf, insensitive doesn't get it, don't understand, not

hoekstra is now trailing stabenow but 21 points.hoekstra campaign, after defending the ad, has quietly scrubbed the ad from the web. it's gone from hoekstra's facebook page, gone from youtube, but the stain on the campaign remains. a 21-point stain. it could turn out that what this actress did in pete hoekstra's ad will do more to re-elect senator debbie stabenow than anyone who appears in the stabenow campaign ads. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] offering four distinct driving modes and lexus' dynamic handling, the next generation of lexus will not be contained. the all-new 2013 lexus gs. there's no going back. ♪ tle there's no going back. emotional hetlretl?tl aren't you getting a little industrial? okay, there's enough energy right here in america. yeah, over 100 years worth. okay, so you mean you just ignore the environment. actually, it's cleaner. and, it provides jobs. and it helps our economy. okay, i'm listening. [announcer] at conoco phillips we're helping power america's economy with cleaner affordable natural gas... more jobs, les

hoekstra is now trailing stabenow but 21 points.d so, the hoekstra campaign, after defending the ad, has quietly scrubbed the ad from the web. it's gone from hoekstra's facebook page, gone from youtube, but the stain on the campaign remains. a 21-point stain. it could turn out that what this actress did in pete hoekstra's ad will do more to re-elect senator debbie stabenow than anyone who appears in the stabenow campaign ads. ♪ [ kareem ] i was fascinated by balsa wood airplanes since i was a kid. [ mike ] i always wondered how did an airplane get in the air. at ge aviation, we build jet engines. we lift people up off the ground to 35 thousand feet. these engines are built by hand with very precise assembly techniques. [ mike ] it's gonna fly people around the world. safely and better than it's ever done before. it would be a real treat to hear this monster fire up. [ jaronda ] i think a lot of people, when they look at a jet engine, they see a big hunk of metal. but when i look at it, i see seth, mark, tom, and people like that who

we take your jobs, thank you debbie stabenow. >> i think this race for u.s.ate is between debbie spend it now and pete spend it not. i'm pete spend it not hoekstra and i approve this message. >> bill: is that message acceptable? juan, what say you? acceptable? >> you know, i think it is a satyrical ad to. me it was silly. this woman portrayed as some sort of charlie chan character. this is supposed to be a serious issue if you are talking about u.s. debt, china, holding our bonds. it just doesn't seem worthy of pete hoekstra. to me this was child and given that you know what, the republic party has all these problems because it's almost an all-whited party and got all these issues with immigration, minorities, mocking people. i just don't think that was an effect forgive add for pete. it creates problems and crosses the line. >> bill: asian and pacific islanders vote group nonpartisan group, mary katharine says quote, it's very disturbing that mr. hoekstra's campaign shows harmful stereotypes encourage anti-asian sentiment. what do you think of that? >> i thi

and hoekstra he's in an uphill battle against debbie stabenow in michigan. so it's not like he's a frontrunner. this guy is trying to get traction. he still has a primary to get through. he's desperate for attention. and i guess nothing gets attention nowadays than stereotyping and playing up racial stereotypes. mission accomplished if that's what you want. i don't think that's a winning strategy either short-term to win the election, and long-term for the republican party to compete nationally in a country that is increasingly less white. >> you hit the nail on the head, and this brings the subject of larry mccarthy promoting mitt romney and the bug bow of this inherited many cases fear that democrats and liberals have of willie horton. here is the man who did the willie horton going to work for romney. is there any evidence that this stuff works any more. >> i think it works in republican parties. if it's going to work anywhere, that's where it works. nationally, or in a general election it works less and less. that's why we we're seeing less overt appeal

stabenow leads the congressman 51 to 37%. most people were familiar with the ad, 45% said it made them less likely to vote for hoekstra, 15% said it made them more likely to vote for the former congressman. the actress in the ad apologized saying i'm dep deeply sorry for any pain the character i portrayed brought to my community. she said more but that is the only sentence we used. >>> one other story we have more on the story out of arizona, the union busting bill in arizona has hit a major road block. it is failing to get enough support from republicans. the proposed bill would have stripped collective bargaining rights from government workers in the state. republicans control the arizona legislature, and it was expected to pass but then of course the unions pushed back hard, public got involved, now the senate president says there aren't enough votes to move the bill forward. >>> we just saw last week what obamacare looks like effectively one man, the president of the united states, who can be himself a health care czar or

this is really a campaign ad by former congressman hoekstra against senator stabenow of michigan. >> your economy get very weak. ours get very good. we take your jobs. thank you debbie spend it now. >> i'm pete spend it not hoekstra, and i approve this message. >> what's your next ad mr. hoekstra, something about two wongs? the new battleground in the antiunion push, arizona. while democrats wobble, on protecting the rights of transportation workers to get or stay unionized. worsts. heard about the $8 billion planned parenthood abortion plex in kansas and their new slogan no life is sacred? this louisiana congressman did and didn't realize it was an onion amplet and republicans finally have real evidence of voter fraud. an illegal voter convicted on six counts in indiana. unfortunately he's the republican secretary of state of indiana! we'll go to our saskatchewan bureau. >> it's a sausage competition that i judge. >> go to pick a dick -- pick a tick.com. >> and you thought the game was super? here's the losing quarterback's wife. >> here's the halftime show. and here's rush limbaugh

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debbie stabenow. the ad ran in michigan. hoekstra is trying to raise money from the ad outrange.paign sent out an e-mail liberals are doing what they always do crying racism. the ad aside from the tone and outrage it's attracting also makes some substantive claims, which are every bit as offensive in their truthfulness. the core of the ad's argument u.s. deficits redistribute power from america to china. the mechanism by which it does that is china purchases american treasury bonds which are the means we use to fund american deficits. when we have a gap between tax revenue and spending, we have to make that up with debt. the instrument is a treasury bond. and scary china is buying up the debt. that notion, take away the offensive way it's couched, that scary china owns america notion is almost a consensus idea in american politics. it's absolutely everywhere. it's also become a prominent theme in many political ads. this is an ad put out by the vague front group conservative not for profit citizens against government waste. it's set in beijing in 2030. be very afraid. >> that not

thank you debbie spend it now. >> stabenow is trying to outraise republican pete hoekstra.44 on that ad. >>> president obama harnessing some celebrity power. scarlett johansson fund-raising for the president alongside. johansson said 2012 will not be easy. we have to fight even harder this time around. and this is just one of the pictures the president manning, yes, it's a marshmallow gun. we should have a caption contest. twitter just about exploded when this video came out of the president. he joked the secret service was going to be mad at him afterwards. the extreme marshmallow cannon was made by 14-year-old joey. look at how cute he is. >>> february is black history month and on this day in 1986, if you can believe it, 0 oprah winfrey's television show appeared on stations across the country making her the first black woman to host a nationally syndicated program. oprah aired for 25 seasons with nearly 30,000 the guestses including five u.s. presidents. at the time of its finale in 2011, "the oprah winfrey show" was the longest running in the u.s. i look at her, and i

so senator stabenow? >> thank you as always for your thoughtful perspective and mr. el elmendorf we thank you and your team for your work. i think what you're saying is we needed the supercommittee to work, we need a long-term plan that both deals with the short term in terms of what is happening with jobs. we know we'll never get out of debt with 13 million people out of work, but we have to focus on the long term. i want to thank you for that. just to reiterate, thank you for your work on the budget control act and in fact it may have been a little different process, but we did pass a budget last year. just for the record and i think there's been a manufactured political issue around whether or not it was done in the normal process or through something called the budget control act, but it certainly was done with budget caps and we can go further this year. but we certainly put in place both a budget framework and appropriations. within that, let me also just say for a moment that we in agriculture did our part and just because we did a lot of hard work together wi

. >> senator stabenow. >> thank you, mr. chairman. first, welcome, secretary chu. let me just indicate first that i appreciate the efforts in working with us on a clean energy manufacturing strategy. it's clearly leading the recovery for the country and our efforts -- the chairman and i championing the advanced manufacturing tax credit, 48-c and the loan program that you mentioned where ford is bringing jobs back from mexico because of their efforts around advanced retooling and we are seeing jobs coming back from a number of countries because we're focused there. i would encourage you to continue that and use the tools available. i want to talk specifically today though about a very, very important project i believe for the country and certainly for michigan and that's the facility for where isotope beam projects, that they won in a rigorous competition a number of years ago. and they're a critical point. we're coming into the fifth year of funding on this national project. it's a core piece of our research for the united states research infrastructure with broad

stabenow, you told me earlier that you had attended the session with of the share julius genachowskito. >> he is concerned with spectrum which is a huge concern here. he emphasized they are trying to get this done and he wants to be on the spectrum as any kind of package which right now is not included in the bill the house committee took, so he really emphasized that it's crucial and gives people who don't pay for spectrum the opportunity to develop new technology like the garage door openers and we have seen some distance on that. sec'y? >> they say to get the spectrum we have to claim from the broadcasters and that is going to cost billions of dollars, so we shouldn't give it away for free once we paid this money, with that being said, unlicensed wi-fi right now on the digital tv transition there's a lot of hope for that but it's going to lead to new breakthroughs like wi-fi. >> but again why are the republicans and the chairman and support of more unlicensed spectrum is that correct? >> the german once more unlicensed spectrometry of giving away the spectrum which essentially the

senate candidate pete hoekstra books throws running against incumbent debbie debbie stabenow in michigan or as his campaign calls are spend it now and during last night's super bowl his campaign aired this ad continuing the mispronunciation of her name hello. thank you michigan senator debbie stand it now debbie stand so much and managing many more and more for much of your economy get very weak eyes get very get your job thank you defend it now i think this race for u.s. senate is between debbie spend it now and keep spending i'm pete spend it not books and i approve this message. the ad has garnered a great deal of negative press since last night with many calling it racially insensitive and just think about the national g.o.p. consultant even called the ad really really dumb here we'll just call it very very . well press is reporting that there was an incident at the occupy d.c. movement a brick thrown at a cop. parenting court they said it was just a plastic bottle but you combine that with the recent activity and alyssum in oakland and you wonder what's going on you know is this wit

michigan republican candidate pete hoekstra ran this ad in an attempt to paint democratic debby stabenowg spending. >> and thank you, michigan senator debby spend it now. americans spend more money to buy more and more for less. and your economy gets weak, yours take ours take jobs. and thank you, debby spent it now. to the pacific islander american vote group, it's disturbing that mr. hoekstra's campaign thought to use negative stereo types that encourage anti-asian sentiment. even republican consultant murphy tweeted the ad was really, really dumb and oak extra maintained, it was care. >> we have a growth rate at 2% and china is coming off the 9% growth rate and this ad hurts the democrat where it hurts. and debt, whether referring to personal or national debt and the president is often the center of the debt discussion. it turns out he has some debt of his own. a chicago tv station reports the city of springfield, illinois, is still waiting for a $55,000 reimbursement for police overtime during a campaign event for then candidate obama in august of 2008. the city officials say they've

american deficits con tribe you tet to american decline, a theme of the hoekstra ad against debbie stabenow, dubbed spend it out in dubbing himself as spend it not. who has been contributing to the deficits, if you believe his rhetoric, debilitated america. pete hoekstra was a member of congress 17 years. he voted for the medicare part d care plan, it created a new social insurance program that extends out in perpetuity with no way to pay for it. he voted for the bush tax cuts, not just round one but two, which increased the deficit by at least trillion dollars. the iraq war, all funded by deficit spending, total cost, roughly $800 billion. so if anyone i think our fictitious chinese adversarie seven should be thanking >>> kind of a good news-bad news day for mitt romney. mr. romney begins the week with three trends shaping up around him, one is quite promising for his campaign, the other two are plain worrisome. the promising trend is this. >> thank you, guys, wow. what a great showing, thank you nevada. >> after winning the nevada caucus by nearly 30 points, mitt romney -- now won two in

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american deficits con tribe you tet to american decline, a theme of the hoekstra ad against debbie stabenow, dubbed spend it out in dubbing himself as spend it not. who has been contributing to the deficits, if you believe his rhetoric, debilitated america. pete hoke tekstra was a member congress 17 years. he voted for the medicare part d care plan, it created a new social insurance program that extends out in perpetuity with no way to pay for it. he voted for the bush tax cuts, not just round one but two, which increased the deficit by at least trillion dollars. the iraq war, all funded by deficit spending, total cost, roughly $800 billion. so if anyone i think our fictitious chinesed a ve ed adv seven should be thanking him. vicks nyquil cold & flu. the nighttime sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, best sleep you ever got with a cold...medicine. ♪ your finances can't manage themselves. but that doesn't mean they won't try. bring all your finances together with the help of the one person who can. a certified financial planner professional. cfp. let's make a plan. [ laughs ] [ may