my kids to the movie this weekend. thanks so much for providing a g rated good family movie. you re very welcome. all right. success to both of you. thank you very much. everybody is talking about this herman cain ad with a guy smoking. have you seen it? we can do this. we can take this country back. what is this campaign trying to say with this ad? herman cain himself explains next. that s him. then remember this side of john stossel? consumer watchdog testing contraptions that remove wrinkles and double chins. that stuff never worked so should we have government regulations that allow this junk in a more mature john stossel, shorter hair, same bite after the break. so who ordered the cereal that can help lower olesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. [ woman ] lower cholesterol. [ man 2 ] yummy. i got that wrong didn t i?
message which means the release of his flat tax. that was on the nightly news and that was the major story on the political front whether you liked it or not. so the secret message, there wasn t one. it was just they had like two seconds left in the ad and the guy that cut the ad, let s put in the guy smoking. came down to him. frank luntz who takes a lot about how words matter and he does those dial approaches to advertisements, he s going to come up very soon. he s going to show you what the voters think of not only that ad but other political candidates ads, that s coming up. frank went on from graduating high school to college. went on to that picture. i knew you were going to come up with that. brand new bombshell allegations in the case of robin gardner, the maryland woman who disappeared more than two months ago. the national enquirer now reporting a horrible story about gardner s travel companion. it s saying that guy buried robin alive. an anonymous source tells th
solutions even if they can t cut through the smoke. john berman, abc news, new york. everything in politics is calculated, choreographed. can t imagine a calculation beyond stealing headlines. why you have your guy smoking in a political ad. don t know if it engenders votes, something a lot of people find distasteful. smoking frankly is banned. you don t see it on sitcoms or television. in political ads made a comeback. weird stuff. overseas to the miracle rescues in quake-devastated turkey. a university student pulled from the rubble overnight. he managed to survive 61 hours trapped in a collapsed apartment building. earlier there were those amazing pictures of 2-week-old infant rescued. her mother and grandmother freed hours later. doctors say the little baby is
the chance to address his problem. even though it s a couple days old, i have to ask you about the herman cain ad, and unfortunately we had a banner and you couldn t see, but at the end, this is one of the those, looks like someone on his staff took a camera and he s smoking. it s a very bizarre ad. i think what they were trying to do was a man on the street ad, but they used their campaign manager. campaign managers are supposed to be slick, smart, behind the scenes, and the man on the street is supposed to be behind the scenes, and it came out to be this weird hybrid. and we re talking about the guy smoking. and not only was he smoking, he smoked like my grandfather. my grandfather used to smoke a cigarette with no filter and always looked like he was smoking a joint when it got to the end, and that s what this guy looked like. that s my take. howard bragman, good to have you here. thanks so much. we re not the only ones keeping a close eye on those campaign ads. last night,
we stand i am america it s bad enough what you see, but it happens to be his campaign manager. yeah. that s doing the ad, the guy with the cigarette and the guy that is talking is his actual campaign manager. right. so i m an american, i m watching this, steve and erin, i m seeing the guy smoking leaning up against the wall is going to be the chief of staff in the white house, and the guy doing this is going to be the president. and there s the guy who right now is in first place in most of the republican polls that are being taken, herman cain is running in first right now, and i think, you know, when you see that number you showed earlier, the 80% who aren t ready to make up their minds and when you talked in the previous segment with mitt romney out in ohio today where he backed off this position that everybody in the tea party would love him to