there was basically cnn. fox came in october and msnbc came about a month after we launched. the evening landscape was crazy magazine shows. it was like, your mattress, what you don t know might kill you. any time there was a swing going back, it was constantly faking and scaring us. when we launched, i said to comedy central, it s not enough to just cover the politics and the politicians. it s really about becoming what the media has become? for me that was a big part of it. joe, to bring you into this, i think everybody remembers murphy brown. it ran from 88 to 98 on cbs, a ten-year run, back in 1992, it became one of the major issues in a presidential election and what kicked it off was a television news woman, single
conservatives will never have, quote, the elite smart people on our side because they believe they should have the power to tell you what to do. okay. an unusual question in a poll in esquire magazine shows president obama leading mitt romney 58% to 22% on who would win a fistfight between the two contenders for the white house. on saturday night live, jay pharoah debuted his impersonation of president obama. at one point he joked times are hard, kids are living with their parents. it s like we have a sanford & son economy. jennifer grand home was a hit at this month s democratic national convention, but she asked for forgiveness when video surfaced of her on the dating game in 1978. she tweeted, quote, my hair could have been a nest for an entire family of birds. you got that right. mitt romney says in an interview for live with kelly & michael tomorrow that
candidates are today. front-runner mitt romney has two stops after arriving from new hampshire this afternoon. newt gingrich, rick perry and michele bachmann each have two events as well. rick santorum who just surged in the polls puts in the drive time with five stops throughout the state of iowa. one face missing from that map of iowa, ron paul. he says he ll ring in the new year at home in texas. two fresh faces you will see in iowa, cnn s political editor paul steinhauser and political director mark preston. they are both out at our forward operating base in des moines. paul, it s down to the last few hours there. good to see you with that beautiful backdrop behind you. break it down for me, what is the logic behind the two front-runner strategies, is ron paul heading back to texas this weekend? mitt romney not leading after spending a whole lot of time in iowa in the first place. good question. that s surprising to people. there s the state capital behind me. let s s
ahead. he called the people who rated people based on beauty objectiveoverers. and you re not objective if you re part of a culture and it s based on beauty. if you tried to implant this in india or africa, it would have a comp ple completely different result because you have to thing of the culture. talk to us more about the narrow definition of beauty and why is that so, why is that pervasive? we talk about this all the time, don, because i m part of a multiracial family, and my children are actually quite brown. so i have become keenly aware of how the media depicts blond and blue-eyed to characters on disney shows to magazine shows. and if you re trying to sell a product to an american family, you rarely will see a typical black american family unless you re going after marketing to that particular audience. okay. so they re in the background
event, and peter handy who is on the trail with mitt romney. shannon, cain may not have the name recognition others have. give us the lowdown on him. some of the things you mentioned, he has solid business experience, a financial background. he was the former ceo of godfather s pizza. he had other experience in other profile executive experience in restaurants. he s going to run on that, don. he s going to run on the fact he has solid business credentials, and he s got immense tea party support. he hopes that will help differentiate him from the more well known names like mitt romney and newt gingrich. part of the announcement was to drum up support, but part was also like a reintroduction. i m herman cain, the business guy, and if you re worried about where the economy is going, i m the one you have to support. this is romney s first trip. tell us what he s doing and why the state is so important. this is the state, mitt romney is the front runner for the republican no