they are against contraception, even in conservative circles. this is not what you would describe as a mainstream group. this is a very extremely conservative religious group. their lobbyist in the state capital this year led the republican campaign that won the iowa presidential caucuses in 2008 on the republican side. these are the folks who are hosting the presidential lecture series that everybody who s competing in iowa, including the supposedly mainstream candidates, is participating in. this is what counts now in iowa. this is how you compete for the republican nomination in iowa. the small i people counts as mainstream republican politics in iowa right now. not to cast aspersions of radicalism on the entire state of iowa, the whole state is not like this. this is just what republican politics are like in iowa right now. the polling, the statewide polling in iowa right now, says that no republican candidate is going to get anywhere president obama in the election. he will beat
until i knew the whole story. i certainly think, anderson, you and i and everybody else in this business, we re using a lot of electronics to get information out as fast as we can these days before we can digest the ramifications of what we say, and also perhaps the background to which we re referring. so i m simply not going to cast aspersions on mr. rosen. let he who is without sin cast the first stone. but i hope for his sake he s going to make amends and think before he tweets next time. joan, this wasn t just one tweet that was sent out late at night between some friends. this was multiple tweets over time with some very clear arguments being made about ms. logan in addition to the snide comments and the inappropriate i guess what he said was an attempt at joking comments about the assault.
i certainly think, anderson, you and i and everybody else in this business, we re using a lot of electronics to get information out as fast as we can these days before we can digest the ramifications of what we say, and also perhaps the background to which we re referring. so i m simply not going to cast aspersions on mr. rosen. let he who is without sin cast the first stone. but i hope for his sake he s going to make amends and think before he tweets next time. joan, this wasn t just one tweet that was sent out late at night between some friends. this was multiple tweets over time with some very clear arguments being made about ms. logan in addition to the snide comments and the inappropriate i guess what he said was an attempt at joking comments about the assault.
you don t like who has been injured and mistreated, i would rather think that we don t have those responses, that we put down the politics and think wow, i hope she s okay. maybe that s naive of me. ashleigh banfield, when you heard his tweets, what did you think? i think my first impression was that it was horrifying, but i wanted to withhold judgment until i knew the whole story. i certainly think, anderson, you and i and everybody else in this business, we re using a lot of electronics to get information out as fast as we can these days before we can digest the ramifications of what we say, and also perhaps the background to which we re referring. so i m simply not going to cast aspersions on mr. rosen. let he who is without sin cast the first stone. but i hope for his sake he s going to make amends and think before he tweets next time. joan, this wasn t just one
so i m certainly not going to cast aspersions on mr. rosen. let he who is without sin cast the first stone. but i hope for his sake he s certainly going to make amends and think before he tweets next time. joan, this wasn t just one tweet that was sent out late at night between some friends. this was multiple tweets over time with some very clear arguments being made about ms. logan in addition to the snide comments and in addition to the kind of inappropriate i guess what he would say was a joking comment about the assault. do you believe, though, that an experienced journalist would tweet out a statement, would tweet out a cbs news statement, tweet a link to it without having read it? it s a two-paragraph or three-paragraph statement that he is having multiple comments about. i find it hard to believe,