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>> you lie! >> oh! megyn: in 2009 congressman joe wilson took a lot of heat for that exchange in which he challenged president obama during the president's health care address to congress. publicly yelling, "you lie." mr. wilson later apologized for doing that x the president accepted his apology and then called publicly for a more civilized discourse in this country. >> we have to get to the point where we can have a conversation about big, important issues that matter to the american people without vitriol, without name-calling, without the assumptions of the worst in other people's motives....

Disdain for romney he never had for mccain who obama respected for an honorable man and war hero. that doesn't hold for romney. he was no goddamned war hero. does the president's disdain for romney make it into a character attack and small ball as opposed to the big-mined campaign in '08 which the subtext we respect senator mccain. >> before we start, can i get that in the form of the power point presentation? >> done. >> particularly the cutter/ax thing. was there any blood on their faces? i think like the background, i mean, let's face it, none of the republicans who went against mitt romney...

When they called him a vampire. this is the next part of the story from this super pac. it doesn't matter whether it's true, and quite simply they probably don't care if it's true. what they care about is getting in it on the air and right now they have not heard it yet. but what they have done is by running an ad that is so salacious and over-the-top, it promotes the character, it's a character attack. they know what's it's going to create controversy and is going to be seen even before they put a nickel behind it. shannon: do you think anyone out there that has a job and a family or are look...

Accused of it again, of engaging in language that his critics call class warfare, you know, demonizing the rich, i'm the guy who's going to protect the middle class and the blue collar workers, and these blue collar -- at least the white blue collar workers seem to be saying no to that, they seem to be rejecting that. why? >> the president never move today the middle after his midterm shellacking. he did not go back to try to coalesce his party and wring those clinton or reagan democrats back into the fold. here instead the president has gone out to try to get his numbers in those other groups...

Surrogates, robert gibbs, the folks in the trenches, are out there sort of icing that with this narrative that mitt romney doesn't play fair, he's never played fair and there's something dastardly going on in the cayman islands. >> the romney campaign calls this a character attack. it's correct to call it that. this is part of the campaign, this is not about the tax policy debate or about what mitt romney actually did with his money. this is trying to build a frame around mitt romney as somebody who is out touch. the obama campaign claims we are not attacking him for being wealthy but the whol...