heart of america. i said i m not concerned about the very poor that have a safety net, but if it has holes in it, i ll repair them. the challenge right now we will hear from the democrat party the plight of the poor. and there s no question, it s not good being poor, and we have a safety net to help those that are very poor. but my campaign is focused on middle income americans. my campaign you can choose where to focus. you can focus on the rich, that s not my focus. you can focus on the very poor. that s not my focus. harold, he spent a lot of yesterday trying to walk that back, trying to put it in some kind of context, but it s hard to get around saying no matter what your beliefs are, no matter what kind of life you led, articulating i m not very concerned for the very poor. it gives credence that he s a scripted candidate when not given precise words, kept in a precise box and frame. he veers out of it and found himself in trouble. he repeated and repeated i m not focuse
in the worst possible way. i say the worst possible ways because it plays into a preexisting stereotype. it plays into it and the campaign spent the day yesterday trying to explain context, unfortunately, as sad as it may be, the context doesn t matter because that one line he said is going into ads and it ll be added to the highlight reel into the rest of this and into the general if he makes it that far. we ve got a lot coming up. developments pertaining to the mission in afghanistan with richard haass, there s a story about sugar being a toxic substance, it should be regulated just like alcohol. what about the donald? we ve got the donald. i think you all should listen to this story. joe s chopping up a line of sugar there. that s a belushi line right there. what did you say?
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of me, i m sorry. that s fine. let s show a little nba. earlier in the week, lebron james credited griffin with the dunk of the year. it was the talk of the nba. in case you missed it, monday night, griffin of the oklahoma city thunder, but it turns out, not everybody was impressed. i m speaking slowly so we can keep watching this. perkins teammate, doing the right thing, kevin durant sticking up for perkins says i have no appreciation for that dunk at all. it was a lay-up. he threw the ball in and got fouled and made his free throw. so it was three points no matter how it happened, how it went in the basket, i was not impressed. he finished it. so what? we moved on. kevin durant sticking up for his teammate. that s all he s doing right there. can we see it one more time. no! that is not a lay-up. the super bowl as i said, three days away, tim tebow still
conservatives aren t bashing the media here. it s rush limbaugh, it s jonah goldberg. a great piece saying, what s wrong with this guy? erick erickson, the wall street journal, i mean, you re talking about the most influential conservative saying, mitt romney is really making our job a lot harder. yeah, conservatives got an opening too with the content of what he said. they weren t worried about him saying i m not concerned about the poor, they were worried about him saying we need to strengthen the social net, they went no, no, no that s not the answer. so chuck, what happens? i think a lot of republicans have come to the point where they say, okay, this is mitt romney, this is the guy at some point there s a pattern. maybe it was out of context when he said i like firing people, maybe they think this was out of context when he said i m not very concerned about poor people. he s going to make some of these mistakes. the fact of the matter is, he