hannity -- we just saw him thursday night saying go for it. >> yeah, sean hannity wants to. a lot of republicans do and a lot of the further right people feel like we never vetted obama sufficiently. talking about us, the media. and to some extent they're not wrong about that. they do feel that we kind of pulled back on reverend wright. it was sort of like president obama will not -- candidate obama said yes, i was -- i was in his church for 20 years but i'm not responsible for what he says and i can't say that characterization -- >> we have to remember mainstream media, the right wing wouldn't have that story if it wasn't for the mainstream media. >> the most important part here is reverend wright is irrelevant to obama now. he's been president for four years. and he has a record that you can attack. it doesn't matter. >> exactly. most americans don't see obama as some militant black socialist. that's just not the image that they have. there might be many swing voters who are unhappen with his record on the economy. but -- unhappy with his record on the economy. but they wo

sean hannity wants this story. where has reverend wright been for the last 3 1/2 years? have you seen him in the news? has he been doing any protests or testified on capitol hill? has he injected himself into the political process in this country? was he around when barack obama saved the automobile industry or signed off on the stimulus package or so many other good things when it came to health care. where was reverend write when it happened? he wasn't anywhere to be found. this is low rent and sleazy and just like romney. i think romney is lying when he says he doesn't know anything about it. i wonder how often mr. romney has had dinner with mr. ricketts or talked on the phone? you mean to tell me romney went on sean hannity's radio show and brought up reverend wright and happens to distance himself today? i don't buy it. the good thing, this will rile up the liberal base in this country, to go out and attack their guy, once again being attacked with sleaze. get your cell phones out, i want to know what you think. are republicans getting desperate to bring up jeremiah

sean hannity can say anything he chooses like you can. romney has reputuated this with the super pac. we should do the same and address the real issues. >> look at this. ted nugent goes forward and has plausible deny blt. now we're talking about the super pacs. either you're going to outright distance yourself from them and say as a matter of both strategy and protocol that we will not engage in this blister assaults upon each other's viewpoint s or else all things are fair. there's one thing to have plausible deny blt o. we have to be across the board and open. when wright was assaulted there was no such kind of justification put forth to suggest that barack obama would not be unduly influenced by him. we have asterisks and exceptions and that's fundamentally unfair. >> mitt romney on february 7th invoked the name of what we're talking about right now. he said his name. you can't run away from that. >> ed, that is different. he was asked a question about whether or not he felt that wright had some kind of influence. he said yes. he's inf

sean hannity wants this story. where has reverend wright been for the last 3 1/2 years? have you seen him in the news? has he been doing any protests or testified on capitol hill? has he injected himself into the political process in this country? was he around when barack obama saved the automobile industry or signed off on the stimulus pag or so many other good things when it came to health care. where was reverend write when it happened? he wasn't anywhere to be found. this is low rent and sleazecy and just like romney. i think romney is lying when he says he doesn't know anything about it. i wonder how often mr. romney has had dinner with mr. rickets or talked on the phone? you mean to tell me romney went on sean hannity's radio show and brought up reverend wright and happens to distance himself today? i don't buy it. the good thing, this will rile up the liberal base in this country, to go out and attack their guy, once again being attacked with sleaze. get your cell phones out, i want to know what you think. are republicans getting desperate to bring up jeremiah wr

sean hannity wants this story. where has reverend wright been for the last 3 1/2 years? have you seen him in the news? has he been doing any protests or testified on capitol hill? has he injected himself into the political process in this country? was he around when barack obama saved the automobile industry or signed off on the stimulus pag or so many other good things when it came to health care. where was reverend write when it happened? he wasn't anywhere to be found. this is low rent and sleasy and just like romney. i think romney is lying when he says he doesn't know anything about it. i wonder how often mr. romney has had dinner with mr. rickets or talked on the phone? you mean to tell me romney went on sean hannity's radio show and brought up reverend wright and happens to distance himself today? i don't buy it. the good thing, this will rile up the liberal base in this country, to go out and attack their guy, once again being attacked with sleaze. get your cell phones out, i want to know what you think. are republicans getting desperate to bring up jeremiah wrig

and i cannot tell sean what he believes and what he is putting out there. but there he is, mitt romney repudiating the attacks and the pledge of the economy, but how can you disagree with what mitt says. here he is sicking him on the president. >> well, governor romney, i have to respectfully disagree with you. i feel that every candidate needs to be fully vetted. that is something that the mainstream media failed to do in 2008 with barack obama and i believe that the president's relationship with the reverend jeremiah wright, a man who influenced him for over 20 years and inspired him is an important campaign issue, because afterall, it is a matter of character. >> okay. watched this guy in the press for four years and people watch him astutely with care. we are not seeing the president? this geronimo character and this lefty crazed wild person buried in the soul of the guy that is going to leap out after jeremiah wright. >> well, four years in office is what i call vetting. it is a full vetting, and you have got the job and done it for four years and peop

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that was sarah palin speaking to sean hannity in january. when palin sat down with hannity last night she magically no longer harbored concerns about mitt romney's record on so-called job creation. >> obama doesn't understand the free market system, and he will condemn private equity because he doesn't understand the benefits of private equity in job creation. >> the new nbc news wall street journal poll released this evening shows what americans think about bain capital. 9% describe their feelings toward bain capitol as positive. 19% describe their feelings as negative. 53% are not sure or not familiar with bain capital. the nbc news poll shows president obama holding a narrow lead over mitt romney. obama polls at 47%. four points ahead of romney's 4 #%. joining us now is karen finney. former dnc communications director and current political analyst. jonathan capehart. "washington post" writer. thank you to all of you for joining me tonight. karen, we have democrats who say they're uncomfortable criticizing mitt romney's record at bain. but

hannity bites his tongue that's business as usual over g.o.p. t.v. but lost in this whole mess is how much better the it that it states would be if we actually gave women even more power compared to what they have now rather than less power for example in the iroquois confederacy upon which our founding fathers model our democracy women enjoyed freedom and a lot of power the result was a federation a nation the pretty much had no war they literally played weeklong games of lacrosse to resolve conflicts was a painting over the national gallery here in d.c. and that provided a very high quality of life for all the members of the community as ben franklin noted in the seventeen fifty one letter to james parker it would be a strange thing if six nations of ignorant savages should be capable of forming a scheme for such a union and be able to execute it in such a manner as that it has subsisted ages and appears in dissolvable and yet that alike union should be impracticable for ten or a dozen english colonies. what franklin knew but didn't mention wa

hannity bites his tongue that's business as usual over g.o.p. t.v. but lost in this whole mess is how much better the united states would be if we actually gave women even more power compared to what they have now rather than less power for example in the iroquois confederacy upon which our founding fathers model our democracy women enjoyed freedom and a lot of power the result was a federation a nation the pretty much had no war they literally played weeklong games of lacrosse to resolve conflicts was a painting over the national gallery here in d.c. and that provided a very high quality of life for all the members of the community as ben franklin noted in the seventeen fifty one letter to james parker it would be a strange thing if six nations of ignorant savages should be capable of forming a scheme for such a union and be able to execute it in such a manner as that it has subsisted ages and appears in dissolvable and yet that alike union should be impracticable for ten or a dozen english colonies. what franklin knew but didn't mention was th

joe, watching that interview with sarah palin and sean hannity, they really seem frustrated. it's almost as if one of them wilbur ast facial blood vessel unless mitt romney will start screaming jeremiah wright. >> this is something they have had pent up since 2008, particularly sarah palin in her unsuccessful bid to be vice president. certainly this is a nuclear weapon strategy and the trigger finger is always itchy when you have something you think is the ah-ha moment. any attempt to launch this would go up like a north korean missile, it would land flat. it's a ridiculous premise to try to convince people that this president who they have been living with for three years had a controversial affiliation with a poster who happened to be black, and, by the way, the president is black, too. >> and yet she persists in telling us that's what she wants to do. marsha, mitt romney has repudiated attacks on the reverend wright uch to the chagrin of people like sean hannity. but will he repudiate the attackers? listen to this. >> sean, good to be with you again. thanks, sean, good to

network in the first five years it lost hundreds of millions of dollars just sean hannity lost one hundred million dollars a year for about five years the kind of money richard nixon could only have dreamed about but they got it everywhere position did as real news that a g.o.p. t.v. even going to face so far as to call it fair and balanced g.o.p. t.v. owned by murdoch and run by ailes is now the most powerful media voice in america when it comes to republican politics their opinion shows are blatantly black biased toward our right hard right republicans and even sean hannity is pain. to the racist birth or creed. you know i've never been a birth or this is no i did it was odd that they didn't release the birth certificate to me i'm like as women from my birth certificate right it's pretty easy to get doc absolutely. and multiple university studies even show the g.o.p. t.v. so badly misinforms its viewers that they actually know fewer true things and more false things than a person who watches no news whatsoever and they still call themselves news with a nonpolitical sounding name of fox n

. >> joan, he also said just now, he was asked about comments he made on sean hannity's radio program where he said, completely unprompted. i'm not sure which is worse. the president listening to the revv rented wright or him saying that we must be a less christian nation. he said i stab by what in, whatever it was. >> whatever it was. >> that's mitt romney. does that mean he does stand by the idea of suggesting as he appears to in this radio interview that the president has been listening and been influenced by the reverend jeremiah wright? >> he will stand by it until somebody convinces him it is not a good idea to stand by it and then he will not stand by it. we spend day after day, martin, trying to figure out what does mitt romney really mean? and it is such a waste of time. because he will change it tomorrow if he needs to. he will say what he needs to say. >> a state. one of the states will underperform. not him. >> the state would underperform. >> what did you think about him saying that the president is describing his experience at bain camden and he deems it to be fiction. r

network in the first five years it lost hundreds of millions of dollars yes sean hannity lost one hundred million dollars a year for about five years the kind of money richard nixon could only have dreamed about but they got it everywhere position did as real news that a g.o.p. t.v. even going to face so far as to call it fair and balanced g.o.p. t.v. owned by murdoch and run by ale. this is now the most powerful media voice in america when it comes to republican politics their opinion shows are blatantly black biased toward our right hard right republicans and even sean hannity is pain . to the racist birth or do. you know i've never been a birth or. i did it was odd that they didn't release the birth certificate to me i'm like as removed from my birth certificate right it's pretty easy to get doc absolutely. and multiple university studies even show the g.o.p. t.v. so badly misinformed its viewers that they actually know fewer true things and more false things than a person who watches no news whatsoever and they still call themselves news with a nonpolitical sounding name of fox news i

sean hannity has a special tonight examing president obama autobiography "dreams from my father." it's been largely ignored by the mainstream media. listen to obama in his own words describing part of his college experience. >> political discussion that one time seemed personal, came to take on the african cultural affairs in harlem or brooklyn in the summers, a few diverses new york had to offer like going to foreign film or ice skating at the rockefeller center. >> andrea: hand mity crew -- hannity took to the street to see how they feel about president attending socialism gathering. >> concerning. >> how do you feel about the president hanging out with marxist as a young man? >> i hung out with bad people so it's not bad as long as he doesn't hang out with them today. >> i do not pes spect that. >> i do not agree with that. >> wow! >> that doesn't make sense. why hang out with marxist. >> andrea: if you call them socialist ode, liberals heads blow off. the reason hannity is doing this, the president wasn't vetted in 2008. do you agree in we didn't get a look at who he was. a lo

bejesus sean hannity what are you looking at. ever since you slapped the think in the wall street organizer i wanted to mary you, sean hannity. >> i'm taken. i'm he getting applause for the first time in 15 years. i'm sure they will roll over that any time, bernard. >> please say i do. >> sean: i don't. so here the president comes out as you point out for gay marriage, timing is interesting. washington post. big story. mitt romney is a bully. but if we are going to go back to 1965 we got to go back and do it for both candidates so i will do the job of the mainstream media. here is barack obama in his younger days in his own words. >> i spent the last two years of high school in a daze. locking away the questions that life seemed insistent on posing. i kept playing basketball. attended classes sparingly. drank beer heavily and tried drugs enthusiastically. i discovered it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van or in the dorm room of some brother you met down the hall. >> sea

in fact, in february, he was o sean hannity and mitt romney did bring up reverend wright. if it could work, he would do it. i want some politician to go on tv and say, we don't have a silver bullet answer. the reality is, at some point romney is going to come off the economy and go to social issues. that moves people. >> do we have the romney sound bite? let's roll it. >> i'm not sure which is worse, him listening to rev recommend wright or -- reverend wright or we must be less of a christian nation. >> he brought it up in february on sean hannity's show. i have no doubt that mitt romney will say anything to get elected. this guy is a special case. he would use this jeremiah wright if he thought it would work but he knows it can't. barack obama has a record now to run on. president obama, you like him or not. >> you know, the thing that i find interesting -- >> go ahe is, lz, and then alice. >> i really doubted that romney wanted to have this kind of discussion. >> about religion. >> about religion, especially religion. herman cain talked about what influence did sitting u

hannity was, like, all right, clinton's up on stage. >> sean: i asked, do do you hava clinton voice? >> considering this... >> sean: all right. here's the point. you are upset because he's going -- his president's about to lose. so him and his liberal friends over at the comedy central channel are in meltdown. >> they are melting down. >> romney doesn't have a chance. >> sean: you want to bet you? are -- [overlapping dialogue] >> because of the poll? >> sean: no, it's not the poll. >> it's the new york times poll. which is bias, of course, according on to -- >> look, i think obama hurt himself, i do think he politicized the gay marriage issue. i haven't seen a public official politicize the gay agenda since the policemen in the village people-- >>> that was a funny line. >> when you kids go loam, you can google village people i. it is not just that he politicized it, it's that 7% of americans give a rip about gay marriage -- i was laughing. >> but there is what they do, they try to distract-- >>> this is a distraction. >> 62% of americans think jobs is the number-1 issue. and obama i

in fact, in february, he was on sean hannity and mitt romney did bring up reverend wright. if it could work, he would do it. i want some politician to go on tv and say, we don't have a silver bullet answer. the reality is, at some point romney is going to come off the economy and go to social issues. that moves people. >> do we have the romney sound bite? let's roll it. >> i'm not sure which is worse, him listening to rev recommend wright or -- reverend wright or we must be less of a christian nation. >> he brought it up in february on sean hannity's show. i have no doubt that mitt romney will say anything to get elected. this guy is a special case. he would use this jeremiah wright if he thought it would work but he knows it can't. barack obama has a record now to run on. president obama, you like him or not. >> you know, the thing that i find interesting -- >> go ahe is, lz, and then alice. >> i really doubted that romney wanted to have this kind of discussion. >> about religion. >> about religion, especially religion. herman cain talked about what influence did sitting u

one of mcnaughton's biggest fans, art aficionado and televised bag of hammers sean hannity immediately identified one of the most significant questions concerning mcnaughton's art. >> apparently this other one... i first saw it on the drudge report, it's, what, six feet long? i don't know if i can afford the six-foot one. >> stephen: yes. (laughter) fine art is like fine fruit. you sell it by the foot. (laughter) but sean was able... sean was able to afford one mcnaughton painting, this masterpiece, one nation under socialism. (audience reacts) there's the president pointing to the constitution that he has set on fire. it could mean anything. (laughter) as the artist says "i like to use metaphor and multiple levels of meaning." it's complicated so let me explicate the painting's message on its multiple metaphorical levels. barack obama represents... president obama. (laughter) and the burning constitution represents... the constitution on fire. (laughter) i didn't get it at first, either. i'm just glad the art world finally has a great conservative master to balance out all the liberal

. >> there was a steady drumbeat from rush limbaugh, sean hannity, saying that obama has not been properly vented, we need to explore this reverend wright's story. they were beating the drum to no avail. but they achieved their end by getting the name back in the press. i attended church with a pastor . there were things about him that we found an issue with. he married me and my wife we have been married for over 50 years. there are things that are said in church that would make your hair curl, but you don't go to the church because of what the pastor said. it is because of the association you have with that church. you can do because of sunday school. to suggest that this guy take a was crazy. >> to suggest that he dropped in occasially -- himself referred to jeremiah wright as a spiritual mentor. it is not a casual association. that is not relevant in looking at a candidate, then nothing is. >> whose campaign is moving in the appropriate direction? >>, romney -- >> forget the paching. >> romney has not changed a bit. he is the same dull, stolid guy has always been paid his numbers are b