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In the rewrite tonight, what happens when a republican congresswoman tries to explain to her fellow republicans how to win the hearts and minds of women voters? what happened first is she got a very bad review in the conservative washington examiner, under the headline, the republican plan to change the war on women narrative needs work. republican congresswoman renee elmers of north carolina was not pleased at how she was quoted in that article, especially the line about how you can successfully communicate political ideas to women "only if you can bring it down to a woman's level." if a stat...

If a statement, she claimed her comments were taken completely out of context. she said, i am a woman and i find it offensive and sexist to take my words and redefine them and imply that women need to be addressed at a lower level. she blamed certain leftist writers who were trying to trap her in gotcha journalism. the writer who gave her the bad review in the washington examiner, previously worked at the conservative heritage foundation and she now works at a conservative newspaper that is not in the business of making trouble for republicans. she also has an audio recording of what the congr...

Read something like that and say where do you make the comparison of libido with birth control? >> well, and it just reinforces what we went through in the last couple of cycles with aiken and murdock and a whole host of senate candidates, where this becomes the gop brand. the response is going to be you're playing gotcha journalism by talking about it. how could you not talk about it? this is a process where they should be discussing the election timetable, the convention and where it should be held and how they're going to keep out the fringe factor in primary season. >> and i believe those ...

>> sean: we got that covered. don't say this, because if you do, he is going to say this. as if mitt mitt romney's at faur being angry and speaking out about this. >> look. here's what happened. in a press conference, it is not uncommon for reporters to get together before to make sure that the important question is asked and to coordinate. that's not the issue. this isn't the coordination of a question, this is the plotting of an ambarb. there were seven questions asked, six of seven dealt with that one question. this is about the most outrageous example of gotcha journalism you can possibly ...

>> and you can follow up, both this, you're going to say this, i mean, this is just romney at fault for being angry and speaking out about this? >> if in a press conference it's not uncommon to make sure the important question is asked. this was plotting of an ambush, there were seven questions asked. six of the seven dealt with that one question. this is about the most out rainlis example of gotcha journalism, caught on tape, reporters plotting to ambush mitt romney. >> and the drudge report had a tape up there today and it showed, let's see, then candidate obama using the death of nine peopl...