wisconsin recall election showed as he put it, the american people do not want more public workers. it s the top story at the bottom of the hour. carl cameron on it from washington. that he came back and clarified what he earlier said did not remove the gift that the democrats have now given to the republicans in this race. not for a nanosecond. once it s on camera, it lives in attack ads and on the web forever. both parties do it. within a couple of hours, the r.n.c. had pushed out a new attack video of all kinds of current lousy economic headlines and juxtaposed it as the president saying the private sector doing fine and totally ignored the president s walk back and was deliberately modelled on a 2008 obama attack ad that blasted john mccain when he said the fundamentals of the economy are strong just as the financial crisis was beginning to unfold. he, too, walked it back but didn t stop democrats. they never let mccain forget it. and of course, ended up losing the election. the
thomas, as an african-american conservative being pilloried by the politically correct press, i m sure that s how they re going to portray it to the people on this side of the world. let s listen. obviously, someone is encouraging them to bring it up now, because i m doing so well in this republican nomination. that s all i would say. why are you bringing it now? secondly, are you being used to try and help paint a cloud and help sabotage my candidacy? you and i both know why they re doing it. because someone does not like the fact that we are doing so well in this campaign and that i m at or near the top of the polls consistently. i absolutely believe that this is an intended smear campaign. let me ask you this, alex. if you found out, as a source for your own organization, if it was another case and you found out that one of the campaigns had leaked this against him, would that become a political story in itself, like it was in the old days of the attack video? in the 1988 campai
in politics, and oftentimes you re going to have the drama of politics that will play out in an unpredictable fashion, and it s hard to know where that then goes. as a good rule of thumb, until, you know, things go past allegations to fact, i just try to leave it alone. there s something to be said for having a candidate in the race who has been in front of the national public eye, who has gotten the scrutiny. this is the year when we can t settle. this is the year where we can t have any surprises with our candidate. there you go. still tip-toeing around. what s fascinating though is that cain, while still leading in the rolls, mitt romney today, he s out today with a new attack video on a republican opponent. it attacks rick perry. finally, president obama leaves tonight for france and the g-20 economic summit, but, first, yesterday was a full-court diplomacy at home. an hour and 20 minutes of interviews with nine local tv stations from around the country
encouraging them to bring it up now, because i m doing so well in this republican nomination. that s all i would say. why are you bringing it now? secondly, are you being used to try and help paint a cloud and help sabotage my candidacy? you and i both know why they re doing it. because someone does not like the fact that we are doing so well in this campaign and that i m at or near the top of the polls consistently. i absolutely believe that this is an intended smear campaign. let me ask you this, alex. if you found out, as a source for your own organization, if it was another case and you found out that one of the campaigns had leaked this against him, would that become a political story in itself, like it was in the old days of the attack video? in the 1998 campaign? well, i think that certainly if another campaign were to step forward at this point and attack herman cain over this issue, that would instantly reshape the narrative that we re dealing with. what if they leak thi
house spokeswoman in the more than year-long battle over health care. hi. i m linda douglass. i m the communications director for the white house office of health reform. why did you decide to take on matt drudge and put up that video which calls more attention to the original attack video? one of the things we learned during the campaign is if you give people all the facts they become better informed. now, douglass is back on our side of the fence, having just been hired as a top executive at the atlantic. i spoke to her earlier here in the studio. linda douglass, welcome. thank you for having me. i know you re going to the atlantic as a vice president but after two years with barack obama did you expect to go back to journalism at all? you know, it was unclear. i think what happened here was i certainly was proud of being able to work on the health care initiative, which was an issue that was important to me. but after i left, utterly exhausted from the grueling p