good evening, en. we begin tonight keeping them honest. one of the most contentious issues that came up in the debate. an issue that had all the makings of a political firestorm. kids, sexually transmitted disease, the government telling them how to protect their kids. at issue is rick perry s 2007 executive order requiring girls to get vaccinated against human papilloma virus, a virus that can cause cervical answer. that executive order never saw the light of day. perry signed it. two months later the state legislature turned it over and it died on the vine. despite that fact in the debate michele bachmann tried to paint rick perry is someone who wanted innocent little girls to be held down by the arm of big government and forcibly stuck with needles in their arms. now after the debate she s even trying to raise fears that the hpv vaccine can cause mental retardation. something she s repeated on television at least twice already. that is by all accounts, just flat-out wron
issues that came up last night in last night s cnn debate, issues this had the making offing of a political fire storm, kids, sexually transmitted disease and government telling parents how they should protect their own children. the issue, of course is texas governor rick perry s 2007 executive order requiring girls to get vaccinated against human paploma virus, hpv, a virus that can cause cervical answer. that executive order never saw the light of day. perry signed it. two months later, the state legislature turned it over and it died on the vine. despite that fact in the debate michele bachmann tried to paint rick perry as someone who wanted innocent little girls to be held down by the arm of big government and forcibly stuck with needles in their arms. now, after the debate, she s even trying to raise fears that the hpv vaccine can cause mental retardation, something she s repeated on television at least twice already. that is, by all accounts, just flat-out wrong. more
and so the audience loved the question, you did, too. yeah, i saw that and i said today, we have to talk about this tomorrow. there it is, that s the embodiment of the tea party there, a young man who stands up and says exact what the tea party needs to know. how much of my money should i keep. and there it s fantastic. congratulations, tea party, congratulations, i can t remember the guy s name. i think, greg, do you think they prepared for that question? i don t know. can i go to my and we had one other one. my favorite moment was john huntsman, john huntsman trying to make an obscure reference, go for it. i mean, to hear these two go at it over here is almost incredible. governor romney who called it a fraud in his book no apology , i don t know if that was written by kurt cobain or not. he was trying to make a clumsy reference to a nirvana song. like your friend s parent trying to be cool, you know, drops references to owning motocross and harvey david
we ve done in the state of texas. i think the american way is not to give taxpayer subsidized benefits to people who broken our laws here in the united states illegally. that is not the american way. you know, ron, again, romney s campaign telegraphed they were going to hit perry from the right on immigration and he ended up getting help on that from bachmann and santorum. yeah. how is he not better prepared for those questions. how is it he walked into groans and boos from a tea party audience, which is what happened. it was really not a very good moment for him at all. and speaking of bad moments, jonathan martin and ron, there was sort of we put together a montage of what we re calling huntsmans greatist hits, should be called head scratchers, here they are. to hear these two go at it over here it s almost incredible. governor romney who called it a fraud in his book no apology i don t know if that was written by kurt cobain or not. for rick to say you can t secure
clip on a lighter note from the debate. jon huntsman struggled a little bit last night to find his footing. he dropped a nirvana reference. oh, excuse me. nirvana. here is the connection. he was talking about mitt romney s book, no apology. and he tried to make a link between the nirvana song all apologies. we ll show you how that went. wow. i don t think anything should be off the table except maybe some of the drama playing out here on this floor today. i mean, to hear these two go at it over here is almost incredible. you ve got governor romney who called it a fraud in his book no apology. i don t know if that was written by curt cobain or not. then you ve got governor perry who s calling this a ponzi scheme. all i know, wolf, is that we re frightening the american people who just want solutions. he dropped the cobain reference. i m sorry. you know what? i m going to tip my hat.