story tonight about how people sign in when they visit the white house. it is an amazing -- sorry. i have to correct myself. the group politifact just called. i am told the story is not amazing. it is mostly amazing. first it was partly to mostly because we pushed back their initial ruling, but it is totally worth sticking around for. politifact may disagree. you should judge for yourself.
american motors. as the president of the company, he decided to close the factory in michigan and move all the production to wisconsin. >> remember, this is what he is volunteering as a humorous story about his dad closing down a factory in michigan. >> they had a high school band that was leading each of the candidates, and his band did not know how to play the michigan fight song. it only knew how to play the wisconsin fight song. so every time they would start playing "on wisconsin, on wisconsin," my dad's political people would jump up and down and try to get them to stop, because they didn't want people in michigan to be reminded that my dad mad moved production to wisconsin. >> which is hilarious. see, the punch line is about shutting down the factory and putting all those people out of work in michigan and people being angry about it. see, it's hilarious. >> my dad had moved production to wisconsin. again, if there's anything i
help and mitt romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. one man who is joined in having restraining the boy that they attacked, told "the post," quote, to this day it troubles me, what a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do. a childhood friend of mr. romney who saw it all happen that day told "the post," it was vicious. even though the incident was confirmed to "the washington post" by five different students who were at school with romney, his campaign spokesperson initially responded to the story today by saying it was a lie. she said, "the stories seem exaggerates and off base and governor romney has no memory of participating in these incidents." mr. romney himself later said he did not contest that the incidents had happened, but that he didn't remember anything about them. he didn't remember anything about them, but he somehow definitely remembers that he did not think the kid in question, who was attacked, was gay. nor did he think that about
i live in massachusetts. remember, there was that whole thing for a while, where scott brown was raising money from conservatives around the country by saying that i was going to run against him for senate? yeah. i am used to weird massachusetts politics. i am used to weird, sleazy scott brown politics. but this is actually really truly weird. i mean, the scott brown campaign has gone all in on this story that it is offensive that native american -- that elizabeth warren says she is native american, even though she is, in fact, native american. it's the center of their campaign now. if you don't believe me, consider this. this week an ethics complaint was filed against scott brown. a complaint that he had a senate staffer working on his campaign on the taxpayers' dime. now, whatever you think about the complaint, this was scott brown's complaint to this ethics complaint being filed against him. ready? the response was, "this complaint has about as much credibility as elizabeth warren's claim to be a native american." but elizabeth warren is native american. she is as cherokee as the guy
the incident happened back when he was a teenager, and in the story he's quoted as saying, "he can't look like that, that's wrong. just look at him." mr. romney told that to a close friend in his dorm. that friend a few days later, quote, entered mr. romney's dorm, and they shout ee eing ab plan to cut his hair. the younger student screamed for help and mitt romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. one man who is joined in having restraining the boy that they attacked, told "the post," quote, to this day it troubles me, what a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do. a childhood friend of mr. romney who saw it all happen that day told "the post," it was vicious. even though the incident was confirmed to "the washington post" by five different students who were at school with romney, his campaign spokesperson
who is the principal chief of the cherokee nation, which in scott brown's calculation, would, i guess, make this complaint about his campaign ethics totally valid. this is the weirdest political attack of 2012 so far. i'm sure it's going to get weirder, but this is really, really weird. joining us now is frank phillips, the state house chief for the "boston globe." great to see you. >> great to see you, rachel. >> are you surprised that senator brown has gone this far in attacking elizabeth warren on this? do you see any political risk for him in doing this? >> yeah, i do. i think we're all surprised that he came out and did it himself. it's always been generated from within his circles and the republican circles. they were really driving this story, hoping that they were going to get to the very important part of the electorate that the two are battling over, and those are the so-called reagan democrats, who particularly don't like affirmative action and diversity
scissors. one man who is joined in having restraining the boy that they attacked, told "the post," quote, to this day it troubles me, what a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do. a childhood friend of mr. romney who saw it all happen that day told "the post," it was vicious. even though the incident was confirmed to "the washington post" by five different students who were at school with romney, his campaign spokesperson initially responded to the story today by saying it was a lie. she said, "the stories seem exaggerates and off base and governor romney has no memory of participating in these incidents." mr. romney himself later said he did not contest that the incidents had happened, but that he didn't remember anything about them. he didn't remember anything about them, but he somehow definitely remembers that he did not think the kid in question, who was attacked, was gay.
conversation. this is kind of creepy. can we be serious about this. and remember the humorous story mr. romney volunteered when he midwest this year? >> i have a few connections with the state of wisconsin. one of the most humorous, i think, relates to my father. you may remember that my father, george romney, was president of an automobile company called american motors. as the president of the company, he decided to close the factory in michigan and move all the production to wisconsin. >> remember, this is what he is volunteering as a humorous story about his dad closing down a factory in michigan. >> they had a high school band that was leading each of the candidates, and his band did not know how to play the michigan fight song. it only knew how to play the wisconsin fight song. so every time they would start playing "on with wisconssconsin wisconsin," my dad's political people would jump up and down
in the physical newsprint paper edition of "the post." they posted it online, but it will not be in the paper until tomorrow. "the post" apparently wanted to avoid juxtapoing their front-page story obama endorsing same-sex couples to marry about their new blockbuster story about an 18-year-old mitt romney leading a cheering mob that chased down and held down a closeted gay student and mr. romney forcibly holding down that student and cutting off his hair with scissors, because mr. romney objected to what the boy looked like. mr. romney is not disputing that the incident happened back when he was a teenager, and in the story he's quoted as saying, "he can't look like that, that's wrong. just look at him." mr. romney told that to a close friend in his dorm. that friend a few days later, quote, entered mr. romney's dorm, and they shouting about a plan to cut his hair. the younger student screamed for help and mitt romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of
initially responded to the story today by saying it was a lie. she said, "the stories seem exaggerates and off base and governor romney has no memory of participating in these incidents." mr. romney himself later said he did not contest that the incidents had happened, but that he didn't remember anything about them. he didn't remember anything about them, but he somehow definitely remembers that he did not think the kid in question, who was attacked, was gay. nor did he think that about another closeted kid he is reported to have bullied, by shouting "atta girl" whenever the student would say something in class. >> a prank that could have gone down in high school with a guy named john lauber, who they say that you and a couple of your friends with, who this guy was thought to be homosexual, cut his hair. pinned him down and cut his hair. do you remember any of this? >> you know, i don't remember that incident. and i'll tell you, i certainly