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Slaughter of 20 6 and 7-year-olds makes it worse. the fact that not a single national republican came out to discuss this national tragedy that still shakes parents to the core across america. this has not gone away. i was talking to a parent last night who said that he still wakes up in the middle of the night thinking, because he s got a 6-year-old himself, thinking about the last minutes of those children s lives. and as a father, he says it just it just shakes him to his core. the republicans, on one of the great tragedies in recent american history, don t say a word for a week because they re waiting for directions from wayne lapierre? an extremist some of the worst directions you could have ever heard in response to that. the tone deafness of this party is stunning. isn t it a common denominator being held up by a very small minority? you look at guns and people who ....
Know, that the day after all of this happened the president got on the plane and flew out to las vegas and held a campaign fund-raiser. it just seems like there is some political tone deafness to what is going on in the middle east? well, i mean, first let me correct one thing. in terms of what nancy just said in terms of governor romney. the reason why he got criticized because he said the president and the administration had apologized for certain things that had happened in the middle east. that was not true. jon: they were, the administration was apparently putting out or at least tolerating these tweets put out by the egyptian embassy, our embassy in egypt who were saying, we apologize for this film. that kind of thing. statement that is the administration disavowed and said they did not authorize. putting that aside, to answer your question, i mean here s, listen, i don t like to give strategic advice to republicans but i m going to give it because this is starting to become ....
Information. it s frustrating because this is really not a complicated thing to do. you just release the tax returns. everyone and their brother knows you re rich and you have been rich a long time. this is what prompts their speculation. if it s not that complicated a made a gazillion dollars, i parked some of it over here completely legal because the loopholes in the system allowed me to do that and so as president i want to fix that so we don t have those loopholes. michael steele, if he s known you know what i m. mitt romney has been running for president for years and years. known this six years. it s not that hard. it s not new. points to a ser yaus flaw with him as a candidate, isn t just he s a bad strategist but an entitlement or above it all sense that s giving him more credit than necessary. it s a tone deafness to what the perform american people expect. it s not necessarily the media driving the story. you want to talk and hunger over it. eric ....
Editor at large for salon.com and author of the new book what s the matter with white people? i thought it was white men. okay. all of us. great to have you with us tonight, joan. how do you consume the comments of candidate tom smith? how does this this kind of tone deafness effect the gop ticket? i mean, do thaw think we re stupid, ed. do they think we re not listening. it s just crazy. but one problem i have is on the one hand, this language is disgusting and ignorant. on the other hand, the real point, the real reason paul ryan can say it doesn t matter on some level and it s stock language is that there is no exception. they don t believe in any exception for rape and incest in our abortion laws. so you know, paul ryan just the other day said, well, the method of conception doesn t matter. as though rape is just another ....
Be any down side of romney doing this because the african-american vote certainly isn t going to be there, the luteatino vote is going to be there. this is all upside. you might as well drive it home and make sure the radicals are out there in full support. i m not sure in the long run it s all upside. we don t know what african-american turnout is going to be. we know president obama is going to win the african-american vote, 97%, 98%, 99%, but it matters a lot whether african-americans vote, and stuff like this is going to send a message that it s important to vote. i think secondly, there are middle class moderate voters who don t like racially tinged politics. and i think they re going to see what s going on here. and so i think there is a longer term risk to this, to romney, and that s why even though people will accuse those who call him on it of playing the race card, it s got to be called out because i think that can have some effect between now and ....