you cannot shock anybody by telling them a karl rove ad tells a lie. the issue is that the assertions in this $10 million ad buy are just blatantly at face value shockingly dishonest to anybody who understands anything about these issues that are in this ad. we're told that republicans have focus group this ad down to the last bristle on the air brush. they are confident that the assertions are false to anybody that knows the fact, they are confident it not be shocking to anyone. they are confident that people do not know what the facts are. are they right? in so, the number one question is why don't more people know the actual facts? how do you run on your record when the other side has crafted a new record for you. a record they would rather run against instead of the record of what you have done. the chief strategist joins us next. [ heart beating, monitor beeping ] woman: what do you mean, homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods? [ heart rate increases ] man: a few inches of water caused all this? [ heart rate increases ] woman #2: but i don't ev

bush and karl rove left us karl rove is hoping it will all forget but i'm not forgetting and i hope you won't either. that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our websites thom hartmann dot com free speech dot org an hour to dot com also check out our two you tube channels there are links to tom harkin dot com its entire show is also available as a free video podcast on i tunes and you can visit our dot com to download the audio podcast of our daily three to six radio show and we have a free tom hartman i phone and i pad app in the app store which we've just updated made all kinds of spiffy for the brand new i pad whatever it's called contraption looks really cool and you can set a speed back on twitter at tom underscore our one on facebook at some undersea underscore our on our blogs message boards and telephone comment line at tom hartman dot com and don't forget democracy begins when you show up it's not enough to just sit around and complain we've got to get out there we've got to get active occupy something show up participate or move

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you cannot shock anybody by telling them a karl rove ad tells a lie. the issue is that the assertions in this $10 million ad buy are just blatantly at face value shockingly dishonest to anybody who understands anything about these issues that are in this ad. we're told that republicans have focus group this ad down to the last bristle on the air brush. they are confident that the assertions are false to anybody that knows the fact, they are confident it not be shocking to anyone. they are confident that people do not know what the facts are. are they right? in so, the number one question is why don't more people know the actual facts? how do you run on your record when the other side has crafted a new record for you. a record they would rather run against instead of the record of what you have done. the chief strategist joins us next. great! tyler here will show you everything. check out our new mobile app. now you can use your phone to scan your car's vin or take a picture of your license. it's an easy way to start a quote. watch this -- flo, can i se

you cannot shock anybody by telling them a karl rove ad tells a lie. the issue is that the assertions in this $10 million ad buy are just blatantly at face value shockingly dishonest to anybody who understands anything about these issues that are in this ad. we're told that republicans have focus group this ad down to the last bristle on the air brush. they are confident that the assertions are false to anybody that knows the fact, they are confident it not be shocking to anyone. they are confident that people do not know what the facts are. are they right? in so, the number one question is why don't more people know the actual facts? how do you run on your record when the other side has crafted a new record for you. a record they would rather run against instead of the record of what you have done. the chief strategist joins us next. every communications provider is different but centurylink is committed to being a different kind of communications company. ♪ we link people and fortune 500 companies nationwide and around the world. and we will contin

rove in a campaign ad. >> i've never seen anything like that before where basically karl rove is a staffer. he's a high level staffer but for the president's re-election campaign to go after a staffer is a big deal which tells you obviously karl rove and crossroads is clearly making some headway for them to go after them people. >> rove is the lead person and remember when they first started crossroads gps, they were saying this was meant to be a shadow rnc. he very publicly put himself out there as the face of the critique of president obama. >> karl rove happy to take it from all corners i think. after the break, he's back. former president george w. bush is re-emerging. will the party embrace the former leader or will he remain he who shall not be named? next on "now." [ male announcer ] if you think tylenol is the pain reliever orthopedic doctors recommend most for arthritis pain, think again. and take aleve. it's the one doctors recommend most for arthritis pain. two pills can last all day. ♪ to provide a better benefits package... oahhh! [ male announcer ] it made a big splash with

just listen to the ceo of karl rove's superpac american crossroads, steven law. he's so worried about the billionaires. >> we have some very large donors who contribute a significant amount and they are fully disclosed, they're not overly concerned about it. but there are some people who are concerned about a culture of intimidation. increasingly, people feel like there are reprisals against people who get involved in the political process. >> stephen: yes, secret billionaires are just trying to get involved in the political process -- the same way the secret service wanted to get involved with those prostitutes. [ laughter ] so to protect themselves from accountability, big donors need anonymity. like casino billionaire sheldon adelson, who almost singlehandedly funded newt gingrich's superpac "winning our future," which has recently been renamed "dodging our creditors." [ laughter ] well, now adelson is going underground, where it's possible he also originated. [ laughter ] he says, from now on, if he injects big bucks into this election "it will be to a c-4."

this battle against democracy being waged by the very richest people and institutions in america and karl rove is getting really interesting terrible for the nation terrible for democracy but it really interesting joining me now for more on this story and what we can expect over the next six months until november is richard follower rest of strategist and host of the richard follower radio program richard welcome tom good to see you great to have you back with us one billionaire just bought a g.o.p. senate candidate nebraska can he possibly buy a presidency you know. tom i think what it really boils down to is the really got to take corporate dollars a millionaire money out of our elect all of our politics and that's really what it boils down to the fact that these guys are going to go this far for a win it just blows my mind i got to tell you well and mitt romney is as i have come out repudiated attacking obama this way. is there a downside to swift boating like this well you know i think there's a couple down sides the swift boating only do i think sometimes when you go too negative it

this battle against democracy being waged by the very richest people and institutions in america and karl rove is getting really interesting terrible for the nation terrible for democracy but really interesting joining me now for more on this story and what we can expect over the next six months until november is richard follower progressive strategist and host of the richard follower radio program richard welcome tom good to see you great to have you back with us one billionaire just bought g.o.p. senate candidate nebraska can you possibly buy a presidency you know i've been good tom i think what it really boils down to is the really got to take corporate dollars a millionaire money out of our elect all of our politics and that's really what it boils down to the fact that these guys are going to go this far for a win it just blows my mind i've got to tell you well and mitt romney is as i have come out repudiated attacking obama this way. is there a downside to swift boating like this well you know i think there's a couple down sides the swift boating not only do i think sometimes when yo

because karl rove's group has a new ad out. and it's softer than other attack ads. let's watch this. ♪ >> i always loved watching the kids play basketball. i still do. even though things have changed. it's funny. they can't find jobs to get their careers started, and i can't afford to retire. and now which ear all living together again. i supported president obama because he spoke so beautifully. he promised change but things changed for the worse, obama started spending like our credit cards have no limit. >> linda -- i know. karl's crying, it's true. and the kids being such losers in that ad always makes me cry. and i don't mean that for people that can't get a job, the rest of is the ad is oh, ho, back home. >> i think it's incredibly ironic that karl rove produced that ad. >> yes. linda do you think president obama is a bad guy, lacks character, et cetera. it seems like that is on an effective strategy. the strategy where they were going to try to get people to hate president obama is not going to work. >> that's not going to work at all. and as we just talked

karl rove is the republican bill ayers. no one cares about this. >> i would not equate the koch brothers with karl. they are two separate things. you know my feeling about the koch brothers. i think they have broken the law and sold to the enemy. >> eric: stop, snob, stop. >> bob: you always say stop. >> eric: we are talking about campaign financing. >> bob: big money behind campaigns. i believe karl rove would not do what the koch brothers do. brothers are evil people. >> greg: these are sugar daddies for political parties. get over it. >> bob: when you spend $100 million a year -- >> greg: how much money does obama have? >> bob: these people act independently. >> greg: you'd love them if they were on your side, bob. >> dana: what about the union none surprise, the unions will go out and have a campaign for president obama. that was counterbalanced. >> andrea: speaking the contractors, richard trumka has words about his relationship with president obama and what would happen after a second term. >> have you had specific co

i believe karl rove would not do what the koch brothers do. brothers are evil people. >> greg: these are sugar daddies for political parties. get over it. >> bob: when you spend $100 million a year -- >> greg: how much money does obama have? >> bob: these people act independently. >> greg: you'd love them if they were on your side, bob. >> dana: what about the union none surprise, the unions will go out and have a campaign for president obama. that was counterbalanced. >> andrea: speaking the contractors, richard trumka has words about his relationship with president obama and what would happen after a second term. >> have you had specific conversations with president obama about what his agenda in the second term might be? >> i have had conversations with the president. i have had conversations with his staff. his cabinet about things of that sorb. yeah. >> andrea: speaking of killer contracts. >> bob: i know richard trumka. a decent human being. private sector, unions represent less than 9% of the workforce. the idea that there is a killer c

here is the new ad from karl rove's group that says president obama engaged in massive government spending increases. >> obama started spending like our credit cards had no limit. how will my kids pay that off when they can't find jobs. i had so many hopes, cutting taxes, debt, and creating jobs. that's the change we need. >> mitt romney likened his spending to an inferno, let's watch him. >> rather than putting out that spending fire, he has been feeding it. he spent more and borrowed more. the time as come from a leader and a president who will lead us i will lead us out of this debt. >> and it's not true at all. market watch points out that federal spending is rising at the lowest rate, look at that bar chart there. from 2009 to 2013, no change. it's been about $3.5 trillion right through. every once in awhile i'm amazed when i hear that government spending is spiking, and believing that every year is ticking upward, but it's incredibly flat. >> it is, this market watch piece is getting a lot of attention. i've been trying to think about what is the biggest lie they have told so far. bi

rove envious here's a clip. of concentrating on job creation president obama has concentrated on growing don't. make. sense of people coming up with stripes and want to create jobs that's. just the way to do. is to. by funding the food just. to be. sent brooms the more people have been put on food stamps barbara obama than any president in america. we are becoming. to make poverty comfortable. because the attention in the congress in the role of the republican filibuster and blocking numerous programs that would have created jobs and no mention though again grid says in that ad is a flat out why president bush actually added more americans the food stamp program than has president obama backs are pesky though especially on a network claiming to be new earlier this afternoon after news media watchdogs expressed outrage over the ad box news disavowed it saying it was created by an associate producer and not approved at the senior level. but the big picture here is this what you just saw was an organization that ca

karl rove and the republican party know how important the re-election day is. they have only 18 days to round up votes. and to send scott walker packing. he set out a new set of job numbers that set a spin on job numbers. earlier raw data showed a 23,000 job gain in his first year as governor. on the very same day, he released this highly produced television commercial. >> i have some bad news for tom barrett but good news for wisconsin. the government just released the final job numbers. as it turns out, wisconsin actually gained, that's right, gained more than 20,000 new jobs during my first year in office. add the jobs created this year and the total grows to over 30,000. >> walker cooked the books, is that what he's doing? the job numbers? released a new commercial, did a national tv interview and had karl rove back him up all in the same day. think they're coordinated? face it, folks, republicans are in this to win it. democrats need to get it together and fight back. walker is flat out lying about the numbers. today, the bureau of labor statistics release

we've got two experts here, karl rove, the star of stage and screen. before that a deputy white house chief of staff. and architect, to quote a famous person's word. of two winning presidential election campaigns and many would say also architect of the revival of the republican party in texas. joe trippi is his sometime debater on television. he is a noted democratic strategist, one of the innovators in the use of the internet and social media in political campaigns. he's also the man who helped to bring howard dean that close to winning the democratic nomination -- >> in arizona! new mexico! colorado! >> he was one shout away. he was one shout away from the presidency. and has helped with jerry brown's campaign in california in 2010 as well as many campaigns overseas. so i'm really thrilled they're here. i'm delighted. we're going to have a fun conversation. and i want to start -- we'll talk for a while, then open it up for questions from you all. but i want to start by seeing if we can get into the head of the campaigns as they are right at this sta

karl rove wants to keep attacks about jeremiah wright out of the headlines. sarah palin will bring it on. steve schmidt will weigh in. and a vile of ronlds reagan's blood is up for auction to the highest bidder. how could anything go wrong with that? >>> an online auction company is selling a vile containing traces of the late president reagan's blood. the auction house said it was assassination by john hinkley jr. on march 30, 1981. it was obtained not from the hospital that treated maryland. unsurprisingly the form president's family has denounced the auction. his son michael suggested the vile was more likely filled with mouse blood. while some might regard this auction as a morbid attempt to cash in, political artifacts remain in interest. the bed abraham lincoln died in is on display. the bloodstained suit worn by jackie kennedy on the day her husband was assassinationed is being held by the national archives. donated anonymously, it won't be on display until the year 2103. the hearse that held jfk's body was sold for $168,000. the associated press repor

rove envious here's a clip. of concentrating on job creation president obama has concentrated on growing don't. make. sense for people coming up with start ups and want to create jobs that's. just a way to do. is to. buy funding for food just. to be. food sent brooms the more people have been put on food stamps barbara obama than any president in america. we are becoming. that makes poverty comfortable. because the attention in the congress in the role of the republican filibuster and blocking numerous programs that would have created jobs and no mention though again grid says in that ad is a flat out why president bush actually added more americans the food stamp program than has president obama backs or pesky though especially on a network claiming to be new earlier this afternoon after news media watchdogs expressed outrage over the ad box news disavowed it saying it was created by an associate producer and not approved at the senior level. but the big picture here is this what you just saw was an organizatio

karl rove is here. karl, your thoughts, first about this recall -- let me back up. i know that you are part of an organization that does a lot of crossroads, which makes contributions to different issues around the country. so we are clear, you are here as a fox analyst. do you have any money in this race at all, the recall race? >> crossroads doesn't, but i have personally contributed to scott walker and i have known him for a better part of a decade. >> >> greta: full disclosure. what is your thought on the recall? >> we have two polls, one showing him up by 1 and another by 6, 19 days left to go. you know, it's going to be an all-out war between now and the election. tens of millions of dollars will have been spent in this contest. i think governor walker's well positioned to win and the question is by how much? the bigger the victory, the bigger the impact of the first of all, obviously twould be weather wois condition sin experiment of reigning in the power of certain public employee unions and having transparency in the retirement and the health benefits and e

karl rove wants to keep attacks about jeremiah wright out of the headlines. sarah palin will bring it on. steve schmidt will weigh in. and a vile of ronlds reagan's blood is up for auction to the highest bidder. how could anything go wrong with that? >>> an online auction company is selling a vile containing traces of the late president reagan's blood. the auction house said it was used for a blood test after assassination by john hinkley jr. on march 30, 1981. it was obtained not from the hospital that treated maryland. unsurprisingly the form president's family has denounced the auction. his son michael suggested the vile was more likely filled with mouse blood. while some might regard this auction as a morbid attempt to cash in, political artifacts remain in interest. the bed abraham lincoln died in is on display. the bloodstained suit worn by jackie kennedy on the day her husband was assassinationed is being held by the national archives. donated anonymously, it won't be on display until the year 2103. the hearse that held jfk's body was sold for $168,000

karl rove is here to talk about it. obamacare -- or no care. a university dropping all student health insurance over what it calls a moral and economic injustice. now all of that in just minutes. but right now, new and improved job numbers. will the new numbers convince wisconsin voters to keep their governor, governor scott walker? he faces a recall election in 19 days and today, he released new employment figures. they show wisconsin added jobs in his first year in office, 23,000 jobs. governor walker's opponents argue he hurt the state's economy with a law stripping collective bargaining rights of some public workers. will the new jobs numbers disarm his opponents? governor walker is here. good evening, sir. >> good evening. good to be with you. >> caller: nice to see you. the job numbers, you were quick to release them. but you are getting them out now, obviously, because they show favorable numbers. are you pleased with the 23,000? >> well, absolutely. it is literally a 57,000-plus increase from where my opponents are claiming the numbers

karl rove wants to keep attacks about jeremiah wright out of the headlines. sarah palin will bring it on. steve schmidt will weigh in. and a vile of ronlds reagan's blood is up for auction to the highest bidder. how could anything go wrong with that? [ male announcer ] imagine facing the day with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not approved for children under 18. people taking maois or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta. taking it with nsaid pain relievers, aspirin, or blood thinners may increase bleeding risk. severe liver problems, some fatal, were reported. signs include abdominal pain an

did you catch this karl rove ad running for $10 million. it's a smart effort to grab single women in this case, smart, but not especially honest. did you see that government spending is rising year after year, relentlessly throwing away our dollars, government spends has been basically flat all these last years. flat, flat, flat. anyway, flat all four years, and how about saying obama raised taxes. that's another thing you hear. obama lost every fight we know he had with the republican congress to get rid of the bush tax rates. the tax rates we have today are the same when w. left us. if they're holding the economy back, blame w. republicans can't keep attacked obama from trying to dump the tax cuts and blaming him for having done so. apparently they can. that's what he is doing in this slick ad, walking obama for the tax cuts his guy -- wasn't karl rove the architect of the w. era, the tax rates he left us with. join us again tomorrow when we meet newt gipg rich in tngrich . "politicsnation" is next. >>> tonight's lead. this is the man who

with national security, i'm so glad you got that karl rove power point. they did it at every turn. they made the war, 9/11, their center piece of the reelection campaign and of the 2002 mid term campaign. dick cheney came out and said, if you vote for john kerry you're making the country less safe. so they are brazen. they do it every time. it feels like right now the main stream media is paying more attention and calling them on it. that's the only good news i have. >> david, you wrote a book called "huberous." in brooklyn, where i'm from, we call it something else. this is amazing. standing in front of a firehouse where responders were called on 9/11, criticizing the president while you are playing on national security. then romney has the nerve to say that he would not rule out going to pakistan to take out bin laden in 2007. >> you know, let me pick up on another threat that came out in the opening package there. and that's when john mccain says, any president would have done this. you heard mitt romney say that yesterday. rudy giuliani has said the same. these guys really need

god for bid we talk about those again. >> i wouldn't say karl rove, he is not a kind campaigner. i think there are two things. the republicans in this campaign would like to keep all these things about birth certificates and reverend wright and whatever crack army of supporters that barack obama has out there. all these scary things. keep them a little underground and not have it be something that seem like it is actually coming from the campaign. when that happens, when it becomes the front page news, that's the kind of thing that really starts to offend, bum out, make feel uncomfortable, the sort of swing voters and middle of the road voters that the campaign really comes down to. the people they need to win over. people don't want to vote for mitt romney or an rnc or the republican party if they feel like it is flirting with racism. >> thanks so much. >>> next, big oil off limits to paul ryan and his friends. stay with us. >> we're saying, let's get on it and prevent austerity. the whole premise of our budget is to preempt austerity by getting our borrowing under control. head

rove and his crossroads g.p.s. pac have just launched a twenty five million dollar ad buy in ten battleground states it's starting tomorrow thursday and and then on behalf of mitt romney the koch brothers super pacs and these guys are handling hundreds of millions perhaps billions of dollars in invisible money back i'm of the opinion that least twenty million dollars of the money that karl rove has passed out has come directly from. because he's been the the republicans have been so good to the iranians over the last thirty years so thanks to citizens united you have millionaires billionaires the robes the cokes the romney. anybody else who wants to kick in we know of foreign companies that have already you know jumped into our elections we saw this prayer played out in nebraska last night were tea party favorite deb fisher was you know every all the predictions were she's going to come in a distant third and then one guy joe ricketts comes in and dumps two hundred thousand bucks of it into a t.v. ad buy for and bo

do you think that people-in the super pac world like karl rove, will use this? >> i don't think you will see a lot of the super pacs like the one karl rove is associated with, spending money on television ads. trying to reach a big group. >> how about going through pastors? >> yes, i think you will see that. governor romney talked about this in a balanced way. this is my view. >> the high road guy. >> that's the key. some of the republican statement just blasting the president. the reason i think the president's position had political potency is because he made it clear in the interview and the course of evolving. there is a balance. there is liberty issue, family issues and civil rights issues. i think if people just talk about this as anti-gay, anti-equity, it will hurt them. mitt romney did something he doesn't normally do. he says, people can disagree with me, but this is my view. that goes to the view in chicago. this is not, as some people cast it, a slam dunk negative for the president. >> i think in a recent case, prejudice operating in this case and pre

karl rove said he would have to win indiana. he would have to win north carolina which is probably a little more likely but virginia and ohio and florida, that's a tougher nut to crack. and then he would have to win a few others. i think we can all agree this is going to be a close race despite how -- what people are projecting this early out. >> yeah i think so. virginia has become so much more competitive for democrats in recent years. partly because of the population surge in northern virginia but, also for other reasons. and, of course president obama carried it handily last time around. >> yeah. >> with them going at one another so intense left-handly so early, it's going to be -- >> we are having a fun time doing it. in those three states, obviously ohio being a key state. >> yeah. >> one of the resonating ads or the discussion has been centered around bain capital. that issue of the economy. take a license to listen from one of the ads. we will talk about it on the other side. >> we have people in here that went back to w

karl rove said he would have to win indiana. he would have to win north carolina, which is probably a little more likely but virginia and ohio and florida, that's a tougher nut to crack. and then he would have to win a few others. i think we can all agree, this is going to be a close race despite how -- what people are projecting this early out. >> yeah i think so. virginia has become so much more competitive for democrats in recent years. partly because of the population surge in northern virginia, but also, for other reasons. and, of course president obama carried it handily last time around. >> yeah. >> with them going at one another so intense left-handly so early, it's going to be -- >> we are having a fun time doing it. in those three states, obviously ohio being a key state. >> yeah. >> one of the resonating ads or the discussion has been centered around bain capital. that issue of the economy. take a license to listen from one of the ads. we will talk about it on the other side. >> we have people in here that went back t