spring. haven t we had enough mistakes? well, howard, you know the game here. which is to completely humiliate your opponent. but here he is on the way to winning perhaps the iowa caucuses. is he planning to get rid of newt or having newt follow him mitt romney? have mitt romney get newt out of the way. i was racing over here from muscatine, which is why i didn t get properly dressed for the show. i would never dress down for iowa. i would not if i were in new york, i would wear a suit and tie. i would wear a suit and tie if i were in new york, but i m out here in iowa. i want to show the same respect. i promise to be properly dressed tomorrow. i know big city people have this attitude about this place out here. i m just kidding. newt newt had several ads on the rush limbaugh radio show, which is on w.h.o., the big 50,000 watt station here. he had lots of ads saying, i m a great guy. then mark stein who s substituting for rush comes back
you isle ask the former pakistani president musharraf in he knew osama bin laden was hiding in his homeland and if he knows terrorists may be holed up in pakistan right now. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. first, a powerful reminder today, if they don t reach an agreement in the next 11 days, all hell could brea look. standard & poor s is warning the nation could be shoved back into recession very soon after the august 2i deadline passes with the clock ticking and stakes rising, our own jessica yellin learned that leaders plan to meet this hour at the white house. we re learning a good deal more about where the talks stand. kate bolduan has the latest. what do you know? both sides, all sides are cautioning and stressing that there is no deal. we are learning that president obama and house speaker john boehner are making a fresh drive to strive for one maybe last effort on this some of the ideas could include $3 trillion in debt reduction. that could includ
second station has decided to drop the rush limbaugh radio show. could it be the tip of the iceberg? for the last three days of last week, rush limbaugh has had no remorse about attacking a 30-year-old law student, sandra fluke. he called her some of the worst names imaginable and assaulted her character. when he started losing sponsors, he said he was sorry. but he didn t really apologize for what he had actually done. today, he said he attacked sandra fluke because he was using the strategy of the left. this is the mistake i made. in fighting them on this issue last week, i became like them. against my own instincts, again my own knowledge, against everything i know to be right and wrong, i descended to their level when i used the two words
advertising a year. so what we re going to do is replace those that leave, those that no longer want access to you. those advertisers who no longer want your business, fine. we ll replace them. rush may replace his advertisers but he may have to row place his affiliates as well. here we go. kpua in hawaii became the first affiliate to drop the rush limbaugh radio show. they said the most recent incident crossed a line of decency and a standard we expect of programming on kpua. another station in pits field, massachusetts plans to drop the limbaugh program as well. ask for sandra fluke, she has handled herself with grace and dignity throughout all of these attacks. she spoke about limbaugh s apology on the view. i don t think that a statement like this issued saying that his choice of words was not the best changes
today, for example sit tirkt the fastest three hours of media roll on right after this. that would be dead air. rush claims sponsors have not runaway but silence speaks louder than words. on the abc web stream, the show had five minutes and 33 seconds of dead air where commercials are supposed to be. of the 86 ads during the broadcast, 77 of them were unpaid public service announcements donated by the ad council. now, the american heart association has asked for their psas to be pulled from the limbaugh radio show immediately. today, congressman tim ripe of ohio introduced a bill to get limbaugh off the armed services radio network which, of course, plays to our troops. right wingers are still trying to excuse limbaugh for his actions. they are calling for a bill