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Smith, editor in chief of becausefeed.com, who did a great piece on the backlash of romney's words in republican circles. great to see you. >> good to be here. >> i could have believed it was an overeager press staffer who made a mistake. what i couldn't believe was the campaign's decision, for romney's decision to double down on it in televised remarks today. here's what he said. >> the president takes responsibility not just from the words that come from his mouth, but also for the words that come from his ambassadors, from his administration, from his embassy, from his state department. the...

Preemptively attempt to avoid some kind of attack on the embassy that we know is coming by condemning a film that nobody has seen, that has nothing to do with the united states, and nothing to do with our government. to even condemn it seems to suggest to the rest of the world that somehow the united states government is responsible for free speech in this country. and it was a mistake for that to be issued by the embassy. and by the way, the obama administration says so too. because they made it clear that they did not clear this statement from the embassy in advance. and that statement was a...

As you just showed before, president bush was even more apologetic after an american threatened to desecrate the koran in iran. you may remember that general petraeus condemned pastor jones, who was part of this video here. he condemned him when he was threatening to burn korans, and that would cause damage to the troops he was commanding in afghanistan. president bush himself explained that he didn't support what was in the cartoons, the danish cartoons, because of the problems that they would cause. i have no problem with the statement. i wish obama had not, you know, distanced himself from ...

Rate remained unchanged at 15% in 2011. that's better than going up. that means 46.2 million americans are living at or below the federal poverty line. but, and this is important to remember, that's before you take into account all the anti-poverty programs, likefood stamps and the earned income tax credit we have going. when you bring those into the calculation, the number is probably lower than many millions of people. well, the poverty levels held, the census did find a rise in income inequality. the income of the highest quintile of earners was 1.6%, while the middle fell. so the rich are ...

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