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When a guy said to him, how do we get those people, those people, to stop taking all our stuff and being on welfare and not taking care of themselves, that was his answer. 47% of people are just dependent, just leeches and mooches. i think what mitt romney is fundamentally is is a patrician, and he will do and say whatever he has to do in the moment to get re-elected, and in massachusetts that meant tacking to the middle, but i think the real mitt romney is the guy who, as peter said, thinks that those people, and he thinks they're all black and brown as if that's the only people who receive a...

Dependent, just leeches and mooches. i think what mitt romney is fundamentally is is a patrician, and he will do and say whatever he has to do in the moment to get re-elected, and in massachusetts that meant tacking to the middle, but i think the real mitt romney is the guy who, as peter said, thinks that those people, and he thinks they're all black and brown as if that's the only people who receive assistance -- >> he commented on this. he talked about this. as a matter of fact, he admits his 47% comments were harmful but, as he put it, listen to how he explains it as a mistake. >> it was a ...

Attractiveness and feature was something we underestimated, particularly among lower incomes, and we just didn't do as good a job as connecting with that audience as we should have. >> joy reid is managing editor of the grio and an msnbc political analyst and peter by nert is a columnist for "the daily beast." peter you wrote and said he still doesn't get it. what doesn't he yet get. >> how can he have been surprised that people without health insurance would want health insurance? he says that, oh, it was the power of incumbency, like this was a patronage a goody obama threw out there as' pos...

Middle, but i think the real mitt romney is the guy who, as peter said, thinks that those people and he thinks they're all black and brown, as if that's the only people who receive assistance -- >> he commented on this. he talked about this. as a matter of fact, he admits his 47% comments were harmful but as he put it, listen to how he explains, it a mace stick. >> it was a very unfortunate statement i made. it's not what i meant. i didn't express myself as i wished i would have. you know, when you speak in private, you don't spend as much time thinking about how something could be twisted and...

>> do you think the media was in the tank for barack obama? >> i think that any time you're running for office, you always think that you're being portrayed unfairly, and, you know, of course on our side we believed there's more bias in favor of the other side. i think that, you know, that's a pretty universal -- universally felt opinion. >> and yet, peter in that same interview she acknowledges the truthfulness of the politico report that said that both she and tagg romney went to the campaign and said essentially let mitt be mitt. >> right. i mean, i think what's ironic about this is a lot o...