government research created the internet so then all the companies could make money off the internet. the point is that when we succeed we succeed a lot of worn the 2012 presidential campaign, as they always do, but no words were more carefully or accurately reported than romney s comments about 47% to the american people. i ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. those were his words. those were mitt romney s words. and we all heard him say that because scott prouty gave that video to david corn of mother jones, and then david brought it to the world. so in honor of david corn s big scoop, the most important scoop of the 2012 campaign, i m going to give david corn the last word on this tonight. writing for mother jones today under the headline mitt
responsibility and care for their lives. dan balz has released some of the audio of his interview with romney where romney complains about how his words were twisted. that this was perceived as he s saying oh, 47% of the people he doesn t care about or he s insensitive to or they don t care responsibility for their life. no, no. i m saying 47% of the people don t pay taxes and therefore they don t warm to our tax message. don t you miss hearing mitt s voice and his mischievously twisted thinking? there s mitt romney complaining about how his words were twisted by the obama campaign and by the media and in order to do that he has to twist his own words. the truth is the 47% video shot by scott prouty, who was working as a bartender at that event, was always played on this program and elsewhere in full because it was so freaking amazing. it was impossible to twist
has to twist his own words. the truth is the 47% video shot by scott prouty, who was working as a bartender at that event, was always played on this program and elsewhere in full because it was so freaking amazing. it was impossible to twist romney s words to make them sound worse than they were, which is why we kept playing the actual video over and over again, night after night. and it is the actual words romney spoke that pushed his poll numbers down once those words were heard. meanwhile, the romney campaign specialized in twisting president obama s words. speaking about small business and businesses of all kind, he said this if you ve got a business, you didn t build that. somebody else made that happen. after all that work and in a bad economy it sure doesn t help
0 he s got the whole world against him. it s a time for self-reflection and selfie reflection. but when you look at what he s done here, there s a desire to make it feel like he s doing something that s so much worse that no one can get their arms around. and i think that s actually an interesting part of this story that tells us what s wrong with us and why we have such a problem with these sex scandals, because it brings back this sort of schizophrenic part of american culture where we re very puritanical and we want to take him down but we re also sex crazed and we love talking about it. and i want to make one point about the sexting here. anthony weiner has brought sexting back. we re all talking about sexting now in the political media and the broader media. but a lot of people sext, lawrence. and if we re going it talk about this really? yes. let me tell you one example. snapchat is an application you have on your iphone, and it s a way that you can trade or send photos to
0 have a great night. in the polls last week anthony weiner was a top. now he s a bottom. well, have you heard the latest in the anthony weiner sexting scandal? anthony weiner. anthony weiner. weiner! just keeps getting worse. now minus one campaign manager. at this point it s absurd. i m going to leave this to the people of the city of new york to decide. he is not going to be the next mayor of new york. it s their decision. it s not yours. it s not some sunday talk show pundit. i think that he needs to drop out of this race. i m going to leave this to the people of the city of new york to decide. i m not afraid to do the dirty work. it s time to get out. after all, danger is my middle name. it s also my last name. the more things change, the more they stay the same. now to the latest on that horrific train crash in spain. the driver at the controls now faces multiple counts of negligent homicide. a lot going on this morning. a court-martial o