why aren t we talking about making our work force competitive. heather: so you say president obama is going to win again but he will be running against this man. mitt romney. a washington post piece raises question how the media is portraying the presidential candidate. including interviews with people who allegedly witnessed five of them romney bullying a supposedly gay classmate. is it a hit piece? is the media tougher on romney than obama? i m going begin with you. i am stunned, it has to corroboration because the classmate that with a allegedly bullied, the family said what are you talking about. this is not the way it was the brother. they never discussed the issue. so these say what happened if
relike flying into towers and hate taking showers. if you are into stoney women give us a holla. death to americans and praise allah. there you go. there we do go. i said that. i agree. i want to move on. it is saturday morning. has a week in may ever been this gay? you couldn t lose with nonstraight news. to recap, obama came out in support of same-sex marriage. romney reportedly bullied a gay classmate 40 years ago. travolta was accused of masseuse abuse. and then to end his dizzying week we learned that queen, the band, will be touring with a hole law greatly hologram, and it is not adam lambert. freddy mercury will take center stage during a show in london of the he is gorgeous. he won t actually be a hologram, but rather an op tau cal illusion. quote, people will come out
bullying have totally different social meanings. there is a lot of head nodding when you were talking about character. i thought new york magazine had a great assessment. the story gives the sense of a man who lacks a natural sense of compassion for the weak. his prankery singled out the vulnerable, gay classmate, nearly-blind teacher, the gay day student racing back to campus. it s not about what he did in high school. we all did stupid things. i went to a prep school for a while. stuff like this happened. the point is, it s a question of his honesty and forthrightness and saying, okay this was an idiotic thing i did. i m very sorry for how i hurt this kid. this is how i changed. this is how i would deal with these things now. no one is going to buy the fact he doesn t remember it. of course you remember it. you cannot hold a person down, forcibly cut their hair and forget it.
top of the hour. chances of the downgrade after the supercommittee failure. and a great excuse to pour yourself an extra cup of coffee. mark preston, live for us at washington, d.c., the home of the cnn debate tonight. the republican and constitution hall in the heart of washington, d.c., we are just steps away from the white house. these candidates are focusing on trying to sell themselves on a very, very key issue. that is national security. an issue that has not really been discussed a whole lot, brooke, so far in this campaign n addition to that, they are going to talk about the economy which has been said by some military folks as the number one national security facing the economy is the american economy and being able to turn it around. it will be interesting to turn it around. we have some candidates on the rise, such as newt gingrich, and some on the decline, such as rick perry, and of course all of them in the middle trying to vie for support as we head right in
let s get you up to speed on this tuesday, november 22nd. a million man sit-in is taking place on tahrir square as violence erupts around it. security forces are using tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters armed with rocks and molitov cocktails. you re looking at live pictures right now of tahrir square. 24 have been killed, many injured. they have a new demand, this time aimed at egypt s military leader. we have a crowd here angry, young, furious at the loss of life here over the course of the past three days, demanding that the supreme council step down. mr. ivan watson, national security takes center stage at the presidential debate tonight. the stage is set just a few blocks from the white house. wolf blitzer will nar rate. a new cnn poll shows the former house speaker leading the republican pack for the first time with 24%. mitt romney follows with her man cain in third place. the cnn national security debate with the republican presidential candidates. that