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And then his next sentence is he loves ethanol. harold hamm hates ethanol. he hates it. ethanol competes with him and big oil. nobody challenged him from the national media. they dont get it. they never challenged him on the issues. and thats what has people -- us progressives in the upper midwest, i mean, were fighting a losing fight and the reason were fighting a losing fight is because it will east coast progressives dont get us and the middle of this country just bought a horse that they can...

Women, 300,000 domestic helpers from the philippines and indonesia working here in hong kong, that these women are sick and tired of being treated as slaves and second class citizens. so they are hoping her case, this 23-year-old domestic helper from indonesia, this was her first job as a helper here in hong kong, that her case highlights the plight of what many domestic helpers go through. >> it seems to be this -- it represents any way this class issue that these domestic workers are far from ...

Literacy that she needs in order to navigate such an environment. and thats not a racial thing. >> its not even an education class issue. i know children who hey not be have masters degrees or bachelors tee dwrees, but they understand how to act with authority. how to say yes, sir, no, sir. and also understand the weight of when you are in a public arena, how thats supposed to happen. >> ryan, let me bring you in here. >> my heads going to explode. >> please. it need does explode. >> her intelli...

Is.... >> neil: disability, are we using the right term. that is disability? >> would it than classified as a disability. she is suing under the ada for age and disability discrimination. even if she has a disability. here is the thing... she as a fear of young children. however, she was new from the high school to teach seventh and eighth graders. does that qualify as young children? is she really being discriminated when she is working the school district for 35 years and they are actually get...

So, look. im with you, joe. the midwest, in general, wisconsin, ohio, iowa, all has been a problem for romney for a while. and i think, you know, we could talk about it as the class issue. we could talk about it as 47%. but it all is actually a very similar issue. with the sort of working-class vote there, he has had problems. and hes had problems -- he had problems during the primaries in those states, right? in all three of those states in some form or another. this has been a struggle for him...

Not have to be negative? >> they dont have to do that much when it comes to the class issue with romney. he does it himself. hes constantly dropping things about hanging out with the nascar owners and things like that rather than with the regular people. >> i think its what we saw through that small group. they realize they have to do something. >> they have to work on that. obama can underscore it if he wants, but he doesnt have to. >> something else i noticed about romney, what he said about f...

>> as we get set to say goodbye of 2011. our panel picks the big stories of the year. >> this is one story im ready to say goodbye to by wall street and it grew from this little happening to this very large event where by the end of about two weeks something called the 90% was now the excuse of every parent who couldnt get their child into an expensive school and i belong to the 90%, but it quickly induced a tremendous amount of loathing. after the first march. attention hungry priests and minis...

Coming from. really when we think of who is behind these attacks, who is conducting them, funding them, what tied these people together is not some sort of class issue of being disadvantaged commoncally, not a geographic issue. they seem to have come from pakistan. what ties these people together in declaring war on us, unrelenting war on us, is a radical islamist ideology and we have a very difficult time in our system trying to balance our needs for security, absolutely requirement, first reas...

Them get what the whole mood of this country is toward those that have done these kind of major companies buyouts and really didnt look at what happened to peoples jobs. >> no, i think thats right, and i think that one of the interesting things about the newt gingrich attack is you can see it as having a strain of social conservativism in it because he talks about what destroying companies does to local communities. when these companies disappear, all the very fabric of a community can get torn ...