of the conservative feats in 2006 and 2008 who wasted fat cat money by the tens of millions, that karl rove is thumping around the country right now like a wounded elephant threatening to crush the party s fringes. tea partiers, look out. he may not be able to beat democrats, but he s got big, bad you in his sights. so the fight has begun. while steve king, matt kibbe, joe walsh, rush limbaugh, all the inhabitants of the cuckoo nest are scrambling because karl rove is drawing lines in the sand. want republicans to win? cut out the crazies? want the democrats, stop giving them easy targets, rape candidates and witches. stop making the democrats look smart and reasonable by running stupid and crazy candidates. the joy is, i have to say this, and it s really quite funny, each of the right wing factions thinks that they are the sane ones, they are the ones who have to protect the party from the others. well, tonight the duel to the death drives deeper. it s do or die, fight to th
fringes. tea partiers, look out. he may not be able to beat democrats, but he s got big, bad you in his sights. so the fight has begun. while steve king, matt kibbe, joe walsh, rush limbaugh, all the inhabitants of the cuckoo nest are scrambling because karl rove is drawing lines in the sand. want republicans to win? cut out the crazies? want the democrats, stop giving them easy targets, rape candidates and witches. stop making the democrats look smart and reasonable by running stupid and crazy candidates. the joy is, i have to say this, and it s really quite funny, each of the right wing factions thinks that they are the sane ones, they are the ones who have to protect the party from the others. well, tonight the duel to the death drives deeper. it s do or die, fight to the death. the winners get to run against hillary clinton. the losers get to say it s not their fault they lost. wait a minute. that doesn t make any sense. and neither does this fight on the right for the ri
crush the party fringes. so the fight s begun. while steve king, the infamous joe walsh, rush limbaugh, paul brown, all the inhabitants of the cuckoo nest are scrambling because karl rove is drawing lines in the sand. rape candidates, witches, second remedy amendment types. stop making the democrats look smart and reasonable by running candidates. the joy is that each of the right-wing fascists thinks they are the same ones. the ones who have to protect the party from the others. tonight the duel to the death drives deeper, it s do or die, fight to the death. the winners get to run against hillary clinton. the losers get to say it s not their fault they lost. that doesn t make sense. neither does the fight on the right. with me tonight are two msnbc political analysts. joy, it really is a joy to watch this. to watch rove running around as a new matt dillon cleaning up the party, cleaning up main street from all the bad guys, when many people would say karl rove has been the p
the rescue mission that kept commuters on hold, friday, august 30th, 2013. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer. and i m tamron hall along side al roker and willie geist. savannah has the morning off. a big concert as well. big crowd on the plaza. we ll get to that in our 8:30 half hour. chris brown out there. we look forward to that. but we have a lot to get to this morning. we want to start with the breaking news in syria. richard engle is joining us now from turkey near the syrian border. richard, what can you tell us? reporter: good morning, matt. undeterred by threats of u.s. military action the regime carried out yet another attack using a chemical agent, this time on a school. and these images come with a warning. they are graphic. we are human beings. we want to live. reporter: another horrific att
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