doing really well. david cay johnston, always good to have you with us on the ed show. a lot more coming up in the next half hour or the ed show. stay right with us. i was in dayton, ohio. a woman grabbed my arm. she said, i ve been out of work since may. can you help me? all of a sudden mitt romney is concerned for middle class americans asking for help. they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. james hoffa of the teamsters on mitt romney s pandering to the middle class. we ll bring you the latest on mitt romney s goal to fry big bird. he ll get rid of regulations on wall street, but he s going to crack down on sesame street. and how did last night s big debate play in the most important swing state in the union? there is no better person to ask than state senator nina turner. [ male announcer ] what if you had thermal night-vision goggles,
however, vice president joe biden isn t afraid to tell a hard truth. obama and biden want to raise tacks by $8 trillion. guess what? yes, we do in one regard. we want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super wealthy. karen finney is an msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director and hogan giddily is the former communications director for the rick santorum campaign. welcome to both of you. kar karen, to quote jack nicholson in a few good men romney and ryan, they just can t handle the truth can they? they can t. the level of intellectual dishonesty, i use the wort intellectual half joking, they took the vice president s comments and truncated them without the most important part, which has been the most important part of what the president has been talking about, what democrats have been talking about, and that is the
of course, even those that have jobs are having tough times. okay. but give mr. romney credit because he actually admits the unemployment rate did come down. unlike prominent conservative jack welch who tweeted this morning, unbelievable jobs numbers. these chicago guys will do anything. can t debate, so change numbers. okay. tuesday he was a ruthless race baiter. yesterday he was a feckless delivery boy. today he s don corleone, and there s more where that came from. congressman west, take it away. you are alleging specifically that the president is engaging in a cover-up of the data. you are saying that the administration is actively manipulating that data, correct? well, absolutely. good news is all this
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dog and pony show last night for middle class voters across america. all right there. he s a different dude. during debate, he pulled a complete 180. now all of a sudden romney s concerned about the 47% of americans he trashed back in may. high income people are doing just fine in this economy. they ll do fine whether you re president or i am. the people who are having the hard time right now are middle income americans. under the president s policies middle income americans have been buried. they re just being crushed. romney sold his phony image hard. he sold real hard. he also told some personal stories. i was in dayton, ohio, and a woman grabbed my arm and said, i ve been out of work since may, can you help me? ann yesterday was at a rally in denver. a woman came up to her with a baby in her arms and said, ann, my husband has had four jobs in three years, part-time jobs, he s lost his most recent job and we now just lost our home. can you help us? the bottom line is mitt ro