Tonight's guests:
- Dennis Lieberman and Tom Ritchie, Sr., former Ohio elections officials fired by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted
- Michele Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the Obama administration, Obama campaign foreign policy advisor
And here's senior producer Cory Gnazzo filing in on show-preview duties while Bill Wolff is travelling with Rachel on the West Coast:
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What they should do is sell Romney Etch-a-sketches outside the debate halls. They could hire the Muppets to do it. Or just plant some of the Muppets in various campaign audiences. I'll dress up as Beakin my favorite, or the chef. MSNBC can all dress up like the Muppets on Halloween. Ed can be the chef, he's good at that. And what about The Lawrence Welk Show, the Halloween special is essential for children to watch so they don't become afraid. They could invite the Lawrence Welk dancers to perform at upcoming campaign events. Just throwing out some ideas.
Yawn,,, I'd like to see a SNL skit with rummy talking about cork soaking.
Interesting thought: For those who have no problem with Romney's lack of detail to his 5 trillion dollar pipedream - and his minions saying that he doesn't need to tell the public about such nit-picky details because the math is just too complicated... Here's a reminder... THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT ENRON TOLD THE BRIGHTEST AND BEST ANALYSTS ON WALLSTREET WHO HAD THE TEMERITY TO CHALLENGE HOW THE COMPANY CAME TO IT'S OUTRAGEOUS QUARTERLY NUMBERS, YEAR AFTER YEAR, UNTIL THE WHOLE MATCHSTICK CASTLE CAME TUMBLING DOWN. Romney and Enron... not as crazy as you think!
My head may explode if I hear that Mitt Romney "won" the debate one more time. His debate behavior was appalling. He should have been sent to the corner, with a dunce cap on and taken a time out until he could learn to behave himself and observe the debate format which, I assume (?!?!?), he was aware of and had agreed to. Not only did I feel that I was watching the 65 year old version of the high school boy who felt entitled to cut off a classmate's hair but I wonder if, based on his behavior, he could, in good conscience, agree to "uphold the dignity of the office" should he become President.
Am I alone?
What manner of "winning" is this?
Migrjo, I completely agree with you 100%. It is clear if you look at polls depending on which one you look at you will get a different skew. The president as he has in the past is generally up a few points more than Romneybot. Even the media I believe has a dog in this race as they want to make it as close as possible to keep people's interest. At the end of the day I am convinced I live in a smarter country than some people say and they will NOT elect an etch-A-Sketch utterly unqualified jerk to this office. His "win" and it was NOT a win where I sit as he manically threw up all over the place a myriad of views. His views can go anywhere. He was simply a bully Gatling gun awful. If God forbid he did get in he would absolutely hand over this country to the top 1%. He does not give a rat's petuti for the 99% but does care about his own 1% richest. They will NOT trickle down their wealth and he will NOT balance the budget with merely revenue from those things he would cut like Big Bird and must get by raising revenue from the top 1%. Wealth is skewed to them nearly totally more than at any time in this country's history. They owe the country more than the working guy making 40,000 or less per year!
C'mon Rachel, lets be fair. I don't like Mittens either, but he obviously meant in the 2000 presidential campaign there was no discussion of terrorism.
I completely agree. He's bumbling on about 2000 and makes the "a year later" comment. Is this cynical journalism? I'd like to think not, but it smells kinda funny
Is it just me or is the blog and the show getting more and more hardcore political re-election full steam ahead with anything that might find some traction oriented? Could just be me...I've dropped off visits and viewing for this reason, less real issues and more campaign type tactics.
If Romney lies as much as this blog seems to indicate, why doesn't Biden or Obama make it his main point in his next debate. Why not say on topic, Romney has said this, here's why it is a lie, over and over and over again? Seems like it would be a slam dunk...or could it be the "lie" is all spin, too? Just askin'.
....because there are other possibilities behind the motivations of other people than just the ones that you come up with? Seriously we've talked about this before Rob.
Too, calling someone a liar, particularly in a Presidential debate, gives one's opponent a "license" to respond in kind...
The President's course was more restrained, but the fact checkers have had a field day, as the campaign will with contrasting sound bites. I just watched one on Lawrence of Mitt debating himself... It would've been funny if it weren't so pathetic.
Look for the right wingnuts to start hollering someone was tampering with those clips with PhotoShop or other video editing software. I mean they are aware of those tactics having tolerated Andrew Breitbart in their midsts for who-knows-how-long....
There was a funny skit on Saturday Night Live this week about Maddow, Mathews and Rev Sharpton. Google it and watch, funny no matter who you favor in the elections or the debate.
These thin skinned cowards deleted both references I submitted.
Maddow, never send a "boy" out to do a "man's" job. Hire a conservative to write your bigoted blog hahahahahaaaaaaa
Check out the skit from SNL it was parody and it was FUNNY!
Irish, never witness the site being thin-skinned in the manner you are suggesting. Since SNL is NBC property, I wonder if your link was using correct credit/source process so that's why the delete???
Anyway, I found the legitimate clip and found it okay funny. My favorite was Rachel's line regarding Mitt's slip of the tongue, "Not too Presidential."
It's a comedy show. Judging by how many skits they've done about each, they find Romney's campaign at least 12 times funnier than MSNBC's debate reactions. But if they make fun of MSNBC? Hmm, guess they're not librul lamestream media after all.
Uh Pat, the site's software doesn't permit links to be posted until you've participated--via Newsvine--for over a year...
You're being silly about the SNL skits; Chris Matthews ran excerpts of them on Hardball tonight.
Please post the military spending graph from the show!! I would LOVE to share it!!
Found it off the beaten path.
http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/08/budget_crunched_the_facts_of_romney_s_proposed_2_trillion_defense_increase
Re: Romney/Baxter Healthcare
Romney/Bain
Bain Funding
If one does an extended time line following Baxter’s relationship with Bain Capital, the Arab League, the Arab Boycott List, and the Federal Government’s investigation of Baxter, one will find that:
The above takes place over an extended time line in order to avoid scrutiny
If one does the appropriate research, you will find that the above was reported in the media...
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The Case Against Baxter International
Posted on October 06, 1991
http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1991-10-06/the-case-against-baxter-international
The Corporation
THE CASE AGAINST BAXTER INTERNATIONAL
Even by the standards of most chief executive officers, Baxter International Inc.'s Vernon R. Loucks Jr. sports the
whitest of white-shoe credentials. At Yale University, he was inducted into the Skull & Bones secret society, which
counts such high-powered initiates as President George Bush. Then, after a two-year stint in the U. S. Marine Corps,
he headed off to Harvard business school, where he graduated in 1963.
These days, however, Loucks's white shoes are looking scuffed. In the past 18 months, his company has become the
target of two investigations. In Chicago, a federal grand jury is hearing evidence to determine whether Baxter--the
world's largest hospital-supply company--violated federal antiboycott law in an effort to get its name removed from
an Arab League blacklist of companies doing business with Israel. Documents obtained by BUSINESS WEEK and
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November 12, 2011
By MICHAEL BARBARO
By the green-hued yardsticks of Wall Street, the 1990s buyout of an Illinois medical company by Mitt
Romney’s private equity firm was a spectacular success.
Mr. Romney’s company, Bain Capital, sent in a team of 10 turnaround experts from Boston to ferret out
waste, motivate executives and study untapped markets.
By the time the Harvard M.B.A.’s from Bain were finished, sales at the medical company, Dade
International, had more than doubled. The business acquired two of its rivals. And Mr. Romney’s firm
collected $242 million, a return eight times its investment.
But an examination of the Dade deal, which Mr. Romney approved and presided over, shows the
unintended human costs and messy financial consequences behind the brand of capitalism that he
practiced for 15 years.
At Bain Capital’s direction, Dade quadrupled the money it owed creditors and vendors. It took steps that
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