better job. i think the two of them are unrelated. but michael cauldron had an interesting point. leher did not go to new media or didn t take any crowd sourcing questions. he didn t ask people what he ought to ask. that is who decided by himself. jon: it was mostly the liberal media that trashed leher s performance and thought he was going to be unfair. steven colbert called him the most boring man on evening news. that is something what we saw. i have to agree with rick and with ellen. i think he understood that the two men wanted to engage and he stepped out of the way. that was a good thing. the lincoln-douglas debates were between lincoln and douglas. there were no moderator. everybody would like to say,
your local newspaper, where is the outrage against president obama? i mean, it was on his watch that all these jobs are being outsourced. well, yeah. and in the time frame we are discussing here, you know, obama was in office and the first two years, of course, he had full control of the congress, both houses. you know, there was no efforts on their part to introduce any outsourcing legislation of any kind. that was one of the points that i made. sure. and the whole thing is the mainstream media is playing this up like, okay, this company owned by bain capital, the town is saying, hey, mitt romney, you used to be there, come on over. the mayor also is calling on president obama to come to that particular town, along with mitt romney, and essentially have a discussion or debate in the same place where they had the lincoln-douglas debates. there s a picture of the mayor right there. but you say this is all for publicity for him and it s all to make mitt romney look bad as
for suzanne malveaux. we are focusing on protests in california, politics and the economy right here at home. straight to it. the mother of baseball hall of famer cal ripken has been found unharmed. ripken seen here with ex-administration, bush administration officials condoleezza rice and karen hughes gained fame as a shortstop with the baltimore orioles. well, the aberdeen police department says that his mother was abducted yesterday after a man with a gun forced her into a car. earlier this morning, ms. ripken was located in her car close to the home, and she was examined by paramedics, and she is not injured. she is resting now with family members. we will get more on this crime from joe johns in d.c. very bizarre. how did this happen? for sure, fred. a strange story developing here. vai ripken is the mother of one of the most famous baseball players ever. police confirming that she was abducted from her home at gunpoint early yesterday morning and police say reports in
we would love to see a debate held in freeport, which is home of one of the famous lincoln-douglas debates and we would like to see how we could keep our jobs here at home. how are you going to follow up on that? are you going to ask the obama team and romney team to do just that or is this community talk right now? you re on a national show saying you want this to happen. i think it s a heck of an idea. well, the mayor is on the case, and he is determined to make it happen. okay, shelly, why is the plant being shut down? are the workers not as good as the chinese workers? what was the reason given from bain capital for this action? well, the reason that i understand is because it s a business decision based on revenues and profits. however, we would stake our northern illinois workers, our productive workers, our well-trained workers, workers with a great midwestern work ethic against any worker, and we find it hard to believe they ll
handle those on a local level because it s federal policies that make the difference. we would love to see a debate held in freeport, which is home of one of the famous lincoln-douglas debates and we would like to see how we could keep our jobs here at home. how are you going to follow up on that? are you going to ask the obama team and romney team to do just that or is this community talk right now? you re on a national show saying you want this to happen. i think it s a heck of an idea. well, the mayor is on the case, and he is determined to make it happen. okay, shelly, why is the plant being shut down? are the workers not as good as the chinese workers? what was the reason given from bain capital for this action? well, the reason that i understand is because it s a business decision based on revenues and profits. however, we would stake our northern illinois workers, our productive workers, our well-trained workers, werers with a great midwestern work ethic against any work