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Guests: Chuck Todd, Julia Boorstin, Jon Ralston, Jonathan Allen, Christina Bellantoni, John Heilemann, Joan Walsh, Sherrod Brown
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: When Harry met Sharron.
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews down in Washington.
Leading off tonight: Angle of attack. Sharron Angle is one nasty challenger. Last night, she took the crowbar to Senate majority leader Harry Reid and didn't let facts get in her way. That said, with the reputation of a Tea Partier who drank too much of the stuff, it's hard to undercut expectations. Just by showing up, she probably met the Woody Allen standard. Angle's alien attitude toward facts in last night's showdown in Vegas is our top story tonight.
Plus, Angle told Reid to, quote, "man up" last night. Sarah Palin has called reporters "impotent, limp and gutless." Christine O'Donnell told her opponent to put on his "man pants." Carl Paladino talks about Andrew Cuomo's "legendary prowess." What's with this stuff? Is this the new normal in political assault?
Also what's Sarah Palin doing taking a shot at Michelle Obama, who has an approval rating twice as high as hers? Does Palin even think about what she says, or does she look for attention wherever she can get it? And it turns out John Boehner did give money to that Ohio Republican who likes dressing up like a Nazi and isn't asking for the money back. We'll talk to Ohio senator Sherrod Brown about that one.
Finally, "Let Me Finish" tonight with a grim reminder of the push for the Iraq war and who did the pushing.
All that's ahead, but first let's get to the latest polls. For that, we check the HARDBALL "Scoreboard." We'll start with California. A new Reuters-Ipsos poll out late today shows Democrat Jerry Brown with a 4-point lead over Meg Whitman in the governor's race. I've been watching that one. In the Senate race, Reuters has Senator Barbara Boxer up 1 -- that is a fascinating race -- 46-45, and it could go either way.
In the West Virginia Senate race, a new Marshall poll shows Democrat Joe Manchin, the governor, up by 10. He has really cleaned up. I guess it was that "hicky" casting call that got the other guy in trouble. It's a bit change from recent polls that showed this race neck and neck, so Manchin's in the lead.
In the New Hampshire Senate poll, the other way around. Republican Kelly Ayotte is pulling away from Democrat Paul Hodes. He's at—well, she's at 50 in the new University of New Hampshire poll. Wow. She's pulled out.
Finally, to Alaska, where a poll from the conservative Club for Growth shows the three-way Senate race is basically tied, 33 for Republican Joe Miller—he's got the nomination -- 31 percent for Senator Lisa Murkowski, doing a write-in campaign, and 27, but within striking distance, for Democrat Scott McAdams, a weird case where somebody can win in the three-way even, if they're on the opposite side of most people.
The Club for Growth, by the way, has endorsed Miller, and they're the ones who did that poll.
But we'll continue to check the HARDBALL "Scoreboard" every night leading up to November 2nd, election day.
Now to the Nevada Senate debate last night between Harry Reid and Sharron Angle. Jon Ralston's a columnist for "The Las Vegas Sun" and he host of "Face to Face," and Chuck Todd is NBC News chief political director and chief White House correspondent, as well.
I want to start with Jon Ralston, but first let's take a look at some of the action. Here's Sharron Angle, the challenger, the Tea Partier, delivering, I think, a cheap shot at the Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid. Let's listen.
SHARRON ANGLE (R-NV), SENATE CANDIDATE: You came from Searchlight to the Senate with very little. Now you're one of the richest men in the U.S. Senate. On behalf of Nevada taxpayers, I'd like to know—we'd like to know—how did you become so wealthy on a government payroll?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Senator Reid?
SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV), MAJORITY LEADER: Mitch, that's really a kind of a low blow. I think most everyone knows I was a very successful lawyer. I did a very good job of investing. So her suggestion that I made money being a senator is simply false, and I'm really disappointed that she would suggest that.
MATTHEWS: Jon, is this the new politics? Is this the sleaze way we go? And this is the dirtiest, oldest trick—well, it's the stuff you do in politics. You play a little number. You say, if you made some money off money you've invested, you had from before, you're stealing.
JON RALSTON, "LAS VEGAS SUN": Well, she's just playing into what a lot of—
MATTHEWS: She's saying—
RALSTON: -- her supporters think, right?
MATTHEWS: -- he's stealing! She's saying he's a crook!
RALSTON: Yes, she's—but she's playing into what a lot of her supporters think, which is Harry Reid is corrupt and made all this money. And Chris, it's patently false. Harry Reid was a millionaire when he was elected to the House in 1982. He had made a lot of money off of real estate in Las Vegas, as a lot of people did at that time.
What I'm more amazed by is how Harry Reid looked like Michael Dukakis there. He was so subdued. And then when a person called him corrupt, come back at her and say, Give me some evidence. How can you say something like this? Instead, he just, you know, did his usual low-key Harry Reid reaction.
MATTHEWS: Do you think he's afraid, or has been badly coached into saying, Well, don't look too mean on her, you'll be the troll here. You've got to be nice. Did somebody tell him that?
RALSTON: I think there is some of that. And that's true any time, especially in politics, as you know, Chris, when a man debates a woman. But I have to tell you something about Harry Reid. He's uncoachable. He's proven that time and time again. I don't care how well they prepared him. But they did not prepare him to answer that question, I bet.
MATTHEWS: OK, we know, Chuck, television is visual, as well as mental. Sometimes the mental is not as important as the visual. Did she win the visual last night by just being able to belly up, stand up against this senior senator and seem like an equal?
CHUCK TODD, NBC POLITICAL DIR./WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: It's hard to sit there and say she won anything. Her performance was not very good. It's just that his performance was so bad. So I guess—
MATTHEWS: How would you describe his performance?
TODD: I guess you have to say that—
MATTHEWS: Lifeless?
TODD: He was inarticulate in the first 15 to 20 minutes. He did eventually get there, but none of his—there didn't seem to be a strategy with—look at the way he answered the Supreme Court question. He started talking about how great Scalia was, Whizzer White. This is a man who needs a big Hispanic turn-out. Didn't mention Sonia Sotomayor once. Meanwhile, she at least understood her message.
MATTHEWS: You know—
TODD: And went right after him. Well, I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. Maybe he was tired. But this is your only debate? Your political life is on the line—
MATTHEWS: This is why—
TODD: It was an odd performance.
MATTHEWS: -- politicians who are smart, Jon and Chuck—you know the business now—they wait and they take two to three days off and they get their IQ up as high as they can. They—it's all about synapses. Do you think about—you had to think of it then! You've got think of it then. You've got to prep.
Dukakis, when he went out there, he couldn't say what he'd do if his wife were killed and raped. Nixon, the smart observer, said he was tired, overscheduled. Anybody with a brain would have known what to say. But that was extremely nice to Mike Dukakis because he probably would have said the same thing anyway.
Here's the schoolyard talk from Sharron Angle again, real shooting at this guy. Here she is. Let's listen.
ANGLE: Man up, Harry Reid. You need to understand that we have a problem with Social Security.
MATTHEWS: Well, she also accused him of saying he wanted Social Security for illegal aliens in the country, totally illegal. But what—well, what do you make of this, Jon?
RALSTON: Well—
MATTHEWS: Is she going to get away with these facts, with being fast and loose with the facts, because she was able to stand up credibly there?
RALSTON: Well, listen, I do think she held her own. And I do agree with Chuck's description of it. I didn't—she did—she wasn't impressive, but Harry Reid was just so all over the map in his performance.
But look at the—she made many claims in that debate, Chris, that are easily debunked, and Harry Reid made very little effort to call her on it. I mean, she said that she had never called the unemployed "spoiled" and said that Harry Reid had mischaracterized that. Chris, she not only said it, she apologized for it, yet Harry Reid let that go, too. I don't know why he would not have called her on that. The Social Security for illegals is in several of her ads in which she calls Harry Reid "the best friend an illegal alien ever had." Catchy line, right? But there's nothing beneath it. All those ads have been debunked by me and others, Politifacts—
MATTHEWS: OK, here's Harry Reid—
MATTHEWS: Here's a case, Chuck, where Harry Reid does challenge it. Here's Sharron Angle defending her ad that claims that Harry Reid voted to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits. And here's what she said and how he responded. Let's listen.
ANGLE: Well, I'm glad to give voters the opportunity to see that Harry Reid has voted to give Social Security to illegal aliens. Not only did he vote to give it to them after they have become citizens, but even before they were citizens, he voted to give them the benefits of our Social Security.
REID: Everything she has said in that ad is false. It's not true.
I've never voted for tax breaks for people who are here that are illegal.
I've never voted for security—Social Security benefits for people here. That is not the law in this country. She knows it, and she should stop saying it.
MATTHEWS: She should. And I checked the objective facts out here.
He didn't come out for that, and yet she keeps saying it.
TODD: It is amazing how it doesn't matter and there is no penalty this year, for some reason, for when it doesn't matter, how many media say this is wrong, this is factually incorrect. It's not as if it's illegal to put up a TV ad. I mean, I guess you can file a grievance and say, You have to pull this TV ad because it is false in this way. And you—
MATTHEWS: Well, isn't it the job of moderators to know something? I guess that's a tough job for moderators, Jon. I guess, in real time, it's hard to pull out an immediate, like in one of these old quiz shows, you know—you know, "It's Academic" or something, where they know the answer because they don't know what the question's going to be. But do you think the moderators, or the people holding these debates have some responsibility to check the facts, Jon?
RALSTON: Well, of course, they do, Chris. But the problem is, in this debate, the format was so restrictive, it was difficult. The moderator did follow up a couple of times, but they were told to stick to the strict format, which was what, by the way, both candidates, I think, wanted because they both knew that they're not very good in this venue.
Now, you know, the question about whether there's a penalty for this kind of behavior or not—I guess we're going to find out, right? I mean, we don't know yet whether or not there's a penalty for it. Listen, what more can anybody do? But the problem is, how many people watch a fact check on TV versus how many people saw the ad—
MATTHEWS: I know.
RALSTON: -- that said "the best friend an illegal alien ever had"?
MATTHEWS: Well, give us a tout on this. It seems to me, looking at this from the outside, you've got an incumbent who is unpopular. You have a challenger who's a bit far out, if not whacky. Do the viewers, the voters—I call people who watch my show viewers. Do the voters say, I don't care how strange she is, I'm taking a chance on somebody new, rather than what I've got? Is that going to be the end of this election, how it comes out?
RALSTON: Well, I think if people were watching that debate—and listen, I think there's very few undecideds left in that race, 1, 2, 3 percent maybe. If they're watching that, they're watching to see if Sharron Angle is as crazy as Harry Reid has portrayed her, right?
MATTHEWS: Yes.
RALSTON: And she didn't really come across that way. So I think if there were undecideds watching—that's a big "if"—I think they might gravitate toward Angle.
MATTHEWS: Is that your sense—
TODD: Look, this is—there's a two-prong strategy here for Reid, right? Number one is, he can try to see if he can gin up his numbers on the ground—
MATTHEWS: With the GOTV.
TODD: -- with a little bit of a "get out the vote" effort. And the second is hope that he moves some anti-Reid vote to "None of the above," actually (ph), on one of these third party candidacies. And that's—that's who Sharron Angle was up against last night, right, which was the—it's the—winning over the anti-Reid voter that's not yet sold on her. What are they going to do? Did she do enough to keep them away from "None of the above"?
I have to say, the laws of politics are running against Harry Reid. I still believe if Harry Reid wins, it's an upset because of the laws of politics—
MATTHEWS: Which are—
TODD: You've got to be sitting at 50. The wind's going at the—
MATTHEWS: Right.
TODD: Everything—
MATTHEWS: OK, so the smart move by her strategists and perhaps with her participating, Jon, give this guy one debate so that you can show that you can stand up there and meet him back and forth. But don't give him too many debates because at some point, his expertise will overwhelm her.
RALSTON: Well, I don't know. After last night, maybe she should've debated him 10 times.
RALSTON: I'm not so sure about that, Chris. Well, but Chuck's absolutely right. I mean, Harry Reid's strategy from a year ago was he knew he was never going to get close to 50 percent. He knew his disapproval rating was 50 percent. He had to do scorched earth from the primary on to push those people, as Chuck mentioned, from Sharron Angle to "None of the above," Scott Etch (ph). And there are nine choices on the ballot. He's hoping people will be confused, vote for somebody else. It's the only chance he has.
MATTHEWS: Oh, OK. By the soft approach by him, it reminds me of Henry Cabot Lodge calling Dick Nixon up right before his debate with Kennedy, saying, Erase the assassin image. And he went real soft on Kennedy. He kept saying, I agree with the senator, I agree with the senator, I agree with the senator. It was embarrassing. If he'd gone after him like the old Nixon, that would have taken off—taken Adlai Stevenson, took on Alger Hiss, took on all of earlier opponents like, you know, Helen Douglas, he would've killed the guy. But he didn't, and he lost. You've got to play your toughest game in the toughest battle. That's what I think. Thank you, Chuck. Do you agree?
TODD: It's your show.
TODD: I'm in your house! What am I—right?
TODD: We're all politicians.
MATTHEWS: Chuck Todd, Jon Ralston—
TODD: (INAUDIBLE) my man, Ralston.
MATTHEWS: -- thank you, sir. It's great to have you—
TODD: Go blue.
MATTHEWS: It's great to have an expert out here.
RALSTON: Thanks, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Up next: All week, HARDBALL hits the campaign trail for the HARDBALL Senate tour. Monday, it's off to the University of Louisville. I'm going to interview Senate candidate Jack Conway. Tuesday, we're going to be in New York, covering the big race. Then Wednesday, the University of Illinois at Chicago, where I'll interview Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias. And Thursday, we're going to be on the campus of Temple University in north Philadelphia with Senate candidate Joe Sestak.
Up next: What's with women candidates calling their male opponents, quote—telling them to, quote, "man up?" What's that all about? You heard Sharron Angle say it earlier, and it seems to be a growing trend this election year.
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MATTHEWS: We've heard plenty about President Obama's lagging approval numbers, but how's he doing relative to Congress's approval ratings? Great question. And how does he stack up against other presidents in that regard? Well, President Obama on average has a 26-point lead versus Congress's approval in the Gallup polls. He's 26 points ahead of them when both were mentioned at the same time. That 26-point edge in approval is greater than four of the five previous presidents, the exception being the senior George Bush. So relative to his predecessors, Obama's in pretty decent shape. I mean, maybe we're getting too clinical here, but compared to Congress, the guy's golden.
HARDBALL back after this.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Last night in two separate debates, two women candidates, one Republican and one Democrat, both told their male opponents to "man up." For the past couple of months, we've heard quite a lot of female candidates and also male candidates, nearly all Republicans (INAUDIBLE) chiding (ph) male candidates to do things like "man up" or some variation on that phrase. We'll let them speak for themselves. Let's listen.
ANGLE: Man up, Harry Reid. You need to understand that we have a problem with Social Security.
ROBIN CARNAHAN (D-MO), SENATE CANDIDATE: So I think if you want to repeal health care reform and let insurance companies go back to their worst abuses, Congressman, then you ought to repeal your own first and man up and do what you're asking other people to do.
CHRISTINE O'DONNELL (R-DE), SENATE CANDIDATE: My opponent is addicted to a culture of spending, waste, fraud and abuse, whether it's spending tax dollars on men's fashion shows or to pay off his cronies with sweetheart pension deals.
You know, these are the type of cheap, underhanded, un-manly tactics that we've come to expect from Obama's favorite Republican, Mike Castle. You know, I released a statement today saying, Mike, this is not a bake-off, get your man-pants on!
SARAH PALIN (R-AK), FMR. GOV., FMR. VP NOMINEE: Impotent, limp and gutless reporters take anonymous sources and cite them as being a factual references.
Jan Brewer has the cojones our president does not have!
MATTHEWS: We're not making this up! Christina Bellantoni writes for the Talking Points Memo and Jonathan Allen writes for Politico. This is tricky territory for all involved, but I tell you, I've never heard so much of this. Your thoughts. And oftentimes, it's a female candidate up against a male candidate, and they use the term "manly," "man up," "man-pants," "cojones," "limp," whatever—a lot of references to sexuality. I'm going to get into some of the men doing the same thing in a minute.
CHRISTINA BELLANTONI, TALKING POINTS MEMO: Well, you could just imagine if a male candidate said, Act like a lady, or, Why don't you, you know, be a woman and do something like this. I mean, this is something that you would never stand for. So now you turn the tables and you have these women saying this. And they're getting away with it. And it's just a very bizarre phenomenon.
MATTHEWS: Because?
BELLANTONI: Well, I think it's—
MATTHEWS: The men have no idea what to say.
BELLANTONI: With the exception of Robin Carnahan, it's sort of this "mamma grizzly" phenomenon—We are tough, we're going to go out there and fight, we're up against the elite men that are making all the decisions in the back room. I mean, I'd be curious to know what Nancy Pelosi thinks about this. I can't imagine her ever saying something like that to John Boehner, for example.
MATTHEWS: Well, she doesn't have to do anything. She's as tough as they come. She doesn't need the lingo.
Your thoughts, Jonathan? This is tricky territory for my fellow male on this discussion because I don't even know what's PC right now. It is a common practice now to make these references in debate, sometimes face to face.
JONATHAN ALLEN, POLITICO: There's really no defense for a man. I mean, this is—it's an effort to bait, in a way. You know, if a man stands down from that kind of challenge, he's admitting that he's the pantywaist that she's suggesting he is. If he comes back too strongly, he may be looking overbearing. I mean, it's really a lose/lose situation for candidates here.
If I'm a political strategist debate-prepping people right now, I'm telling them, You got to be ready for this question and say something like, Hey, that was clever, but what are you doing to create jobs? Find something you can say back because, obviously, if a woman is suggesting that a man is impotent or less than manly or doesn't have cojones or whatever the choice words are—in this case, "man up"—there's not much he can do. It's a—it's a—a tough situation.
BELLANTONI: And—
MATTHEWS: And some of it gets a little more pointed, like fashion shows, spending money on fashion shows. I think that has a certain connotation. Maybe it shouldn't.
Let's take a look. Let's mix this up a little. Let's listen to what Carl Paladino, who is not exactly a sweetheart, by any means—
MATTHEWS: Here's what he says about Andrew Cuomo. I think both guys are fairly macho, I suppose. But let's listen to how one goes after the other. Let's hear it.
CARL PALADINO ®, NEW YORK GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE: Andrew, stop the political posturing and Albany games. Come out and debate all the candidates. Why do you want to exclude the only African-American candidate and the only woman candidate and the Green Party candidate? I just don't understand. Come out and debate like a man.
MATTHEWS: Well, that sounds a little different than when a woman says it, but it's almost like, get in the ring with me, stop hiding. But it doesn't seem to have the same—well, here he is. Here—by the way, Cuomo has accepted. Apparently, it worked. Cuomo's going to debate the guy. So, apparently, this "like a man" thing was irresistible, Jonathan.
ALLEN: That's right.
I mean, the real answer to that, if you're not in the political forum, where it's totally inappropriate, is to take a swing at the guy.
ALLEN: So, generally—
ALLEN: -- you know, come challenge my manhood any time you want if you're a guy. If you're a woman, I don't know what to do about it.
MATTHEWS: I just wonder about this. You know, I mean, this stuff happens in traffic in Washington. I swear, women can get away with blowing their car horn.
MATTHEWS: They don't care if the other guys gets mad, whereas, a guy blows his horn, he better be ready to take that guy on at the next stop, because he was going to have a little "Let's talk about this on the side of the road" kind of thing.
And I do notice that happens. But I don't want to generalize the anthropology here. But I do think we saw in that debate.
MATTHEWS: And here's the question. We just watched that in the last segment. Jump in here, Jonathan, as well.
We watched Sharron Angle, who is the same age as Harry, roughly, or maybe a little younger, both mature people, but one taking it very personal, saying, you're basically a crook, you're going to make illegal alien get Social Security, very tough charges. And Harry comes back kind of like afraid to show any attitude.
BELLANTONI: And that was, I'm certain—you know, everybody knows that it is, as Jonathan said, very difficult to debate a woman, particularly in this Sarah Palin age, where people are ready to cry sexism. I mean, the lipstick on a pig thing, you remember that.
MATTHEWS: And the elitism vs. the outsider thing, too.
BELLANTONI: Also, I mean, this is an insult. You wouldn't say something like that to your co-worker. If they said that on the Senate floor, you would be hearing about it for weeks. So, this is an area—
MATTHEWS: What, you're a crook?
BELLANTONI: A crook or man up or come on and get—
MATTHEWS: It's pretty strong language.
BELLANTONI: The cojones comment. I mean, it's definitely—
ALLEN: Chris—
MATTHEWS: Finish—I want her to finish the thought here.
BELLANTONI: It's definitely—it's taking this aggression. And that's part of the whole Tea Party Republican movement that's happening right now. And that's why, again, I'm very surprised to hear Robin Carnahan to say that, you know, that she's sort of taking that to Roy Blunt.
MATTHEWS: Is this all just metaphor, that these politicians don't punch each other? They get—risk—they don't risk physical assault. They're not street corner kids in tough neighborhoods. They talk in this way as if they're like those people. Isn't this a masquerade when people talk tough?
As somebody once pointed out, the toughest sports, like football, they talk reasonably to each other . In sports that are not quite as aggressive, like tennis, that's where they use the nasty language.
Your thoughts on that, Jonathan. Politics is losing its gentlemanly aspect, are we saying?
ALLEN: Well, the effect debater gets under the skin of their opponent and makes them lose their temper. And certainly that's part of the strategy for anybody like in that case Sharron Angle or Robin Carnahan earlier in the day.
You challenge a man's masculinity and hope that it riles them up, gets them angry a little bit, makes them look unsettled to the voters.
ALLEN: You should also this cuts both ways. Harry Reid's been calling Sharron Angle crazy all campaign season.
ALLEN: And that's something men use against women in usually subtler ways than Reid's campaign has been doing it.
MATTHEWS: Really?
ALLEN: Absolutely. There's always an attempt to portray female candidates as unhinged.
MATTHEWS: That sounds like Lucille Ball kind of stuff.
MATTHEWS: Let me go back.
MATTHEWS: Go ahead.
BELLANTONI: But don't forget there's some dog whistling here with Christine O'Donnell.
MATTHEWS: What is that? I love dog whistling.
BELLANTONI: You've got Christine O'Donnell. She suggested Mike Castle—you know, she said all these things about put your man pants on, acting unmanly.
Well, one of her top aides made some comments about, you know, questioning his sexuality. And she distanced herself from that by repeating it over and over and over again. So, there's something else going on there.
MATTHEWS: Yes, but she was playing the game. She was playing the game.
I have got to go back to a couple examples, guys. Probably before you were both in the business, George Bush Sr., after debating Christine—
Geraldine Ferraro, said, "I kicked ass last night."
MATTHEWS: That did not go over too well.
But then he did something brilliant against Pete du Pont. Pete du Pont was taking a shot at him. And you know what he said? This had to be Roger Ailes.
Roger, this had to be you.
He said, "Let me help you with that one, Pierre."
MATTHEWS: That was a great putdown.
BELLANTONI: Then there's that.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, you know, they used to say that first name of a headwaiter and the last name of a polluter, Pierre du Pont. No offense to anyone.
MATTHEWS: Thank you, Christina Bellantoni and Jonathan Allen.
Good luck with your new job, which is?
BELLANTONI: CQ-Roll Call starting Monday.
MATTHEWS: Good.
Up next: Is Rand Paul modifying his position? He seems to have done a 180 from one of his more far-out positions. Here is coming up here on the "Sideshow," Rand Paul.
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MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Time for the "Sideshow."
First: comedians for a cause.
Last night, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert announced they would be combining their efforts—or their events, rather, on the Mall into the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on October 30 this year. They also got a impromptu visit from a big supporter with deep pockets.
OPRAH WINFREY, HOST, "THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW": Stephen?
JON STEWART, HOST, "THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART": What?
WINFREY: Hi, Stephen.
WINFREY: So, here's what I did. I had my staff sneak into your studio early this morning with a little gift, OK?
STEWART: Can I tell you what's weird about that? We have no security here.
WINFREY: "Daily Show" audience, look under your seats.
STEWART: Look under your seats.
STEPHEN COLBERT, HOST, "THE COLBERT REPORT": Look under your seats.
STEWART: What's under there?
WINFREY: You're going to the rally. You're going to the rally.
MATTHEWS: Wow.
For all the buzz, it looks like no one really knows what this rally on the 30th of this month is going to be all about. Well, I'm going.
Next: eating their own, conservative among conservatives. Charles Krauthammer went after New Tea—York Tea Partier Carl Paladino in "The Washington Post" today—quote—"After winning the nomination, what does Kamikaze Carl proceed to do? Get in an angry shouting match with a reporter, level some odd insinuation about his opponent's prowess"—we talked about that earlier."
"Figuring he hasn't veered off message enough, he then expands on homosexuality and spend three days having to explain and reaffirm, before the inevitable apology"—Krauthammer speaking sanely, throwing the bad apples here from the barrel.
Now to another Tea Partier. Will the real Rand Paul please stand up? The Kentucky Senate candidate again appears to be moderating his stands on the issues. In a statement to an anti-tax group that was initially verified by his campaign, Rand Paul once wrote—quote—"I would vote for the FairTax to get rid of the 16th Amendment, the IRS, and a lot of the control the federal government exerts over us"—well, pretty far out there, zapping the income tax from the U.S. Constitution, going with a national sales tax instead.
When Paul was asked this week about his support for the FairTax, the national sales tax, he changed his tune—quote—"I haven't really been able to say—I haven't really been saying anything like that. I think it's probably better to go with what I'm now saying on the campaign trail."
Well, the Paul campaign backtracks again today, blaming a former staffer for wrongly distributing that initial FairTax, we're going to have a national sales tax, statement.
Believe me, supporting a 23 percent national sales tax is not a winning issue. That's the FairTax, 23 percent national sales tax to replace the income tax.
Now to tonight's "Big Number."
Congress could look a lot different come January. How many Tea Party candidates are on the November ballot? According to "The New York Times" - - you won't believe this -- 138 on the general election ballot. And you betcha, they're all Republicans.
One hundred and thirty-eight House and Senate candidates are flying the Tea Party banner—tonight's "tead-off" "Big Number."
Up next: Sarah Palin takes a swat at Michelle Obama? Palin's reality TV show is starting soon, but where's her reality? Is she running for president? And why is she going after Michelle?
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SARAH PALIN ®, FORMER ALASKA GOVERNOR: You know, when I hear people say or have said during the campaign that they had never been proud of America until—until that time, I think, haven't they met anybody in uniform yet?
MATTHEWS: Wow. Welcome back to HARDBALL. That was of course Sarah Palin last night in San Jose, California, with a jab at lady—first lady Michelle Obama. What's Palin's game?
"New York" magazine's John Heilemann is back from the coast. He was at the event last night in San Jose. Also joined tonight by Salon.com's Joan Walsh, who is out there in San Francisco.
So, let's just do a little bit on this. Why would she take this shot at the first lady, the beloved first lady, I must say, John Heilemann, and what did it feel like?
JOHN HEILEMANN, "NEW YORK": Well, it was very early in the speech when she made that comment. The first thing she does when she walks into the room is, she asks everyone in the room who has been—who has served in the military to stand up for a big round of applause. And that was the next thing that she said after that.
There was a certain kind of improvisational quality to what she does, Chris. But I would say there was a consistent theme throughout the speech as she—in addition to trashing the Obama administration throughout, she was constantly bringing up the 2008 campaign again. She was constantly re-litigating the arguments then.
She was saying things like, you know, I told people—you know, Barack Obama said to Joe the plumber that he was going to spread the wealth around. He told us what he was going to do. I knew this is what he was going to do.
Later in the day, she actually went back and re-litigated the Katie Couric interview. One—she had a question from the audience, from some kids in the audience, about what she reads. And she went back. She said, you know, there was this interviewer back during the campaign. She wouldn't name Katie Couric, but she said there was this interviewer who asked me that question. I felt she was treating me like a Neanderthal who doesn't read anything. I didn't answer that question at the time, she said, and it's haunted me ever since.
So, the 2008 campaign and re-litigating that is a very big part of things that are on her mind today. And I think that's where part of the Michelle Obama thing comes from.
MATTHEWS: You know, that's a terrible answer on her part. I know it will work for some people. But I'm asked a lot, what do you read? How do you prepare? How do you get your—how do you get your ideas? I'm asked it all the time. It's a totally legitimate question.
MATTHEWS: Where's the input valve?
Joan, the same with you, I'm sure. People want to know how you stay well-informed when you have to debate issues and discuss them.
JOAN WALSH, EDITOR IN CHIEF, SALON.COM: There was nothing that was a gotcha question about that, Chris. We were all shocked that she couldn't say something.
But I want to go back to the Michelle Obama comment for a minute, because I think it's so outrageous and so not classy. I want you to think back. In 2007, you know, Barack Obama was not necessarily running for president yet. He was a contender. He was kind of like Sarah Palin in that sense. No one knew if he was going to run.
Can you imagine Barack Obama ever taking a shot at Laura Bush? I mean, it's just not done. It's beyond political decorum. But—but she can do it, because the Obamas are fair game, whatever you want to do. There's no decorum in this country when it comes to the Obamas. But it's just mean.
MATTHEWS: Yes, I think there's a tribal aspect to this thing, too.
Let's be blunt.
WALSH: It's mean and nasty.
MATTHEWS: There's no doubt it's tribal. It's just, our group out here won't like them at all as people, so anything goes.
WALSH: Right. Anything goes.
MATTHEWS: Let's take a look at Palin. Let's take a look at Palin again in California.
Here's Tom Brokaw. She's out there.
So here's Tom Brokaw asking Meg Whitman about Palin in that Tuesday debate we covered. Let's listen, because he asks about this event.
TOM BROKAW, MODERATOR: Ms. Whitman, a real force in your party is Sarah Palin. She will be in California on Saturday. She's been the governor of a big Western state. Are you going to seek her advice on what you may do for California after her experience in Alaska?
MEG WHITMAN ®, CALIFORNIA GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE: So, Sarah Palin's coming to California. And she's doing fund-raising and a number of other things.
And you know what? She has a real following in the Republican Party, but you know that I have actually supported other presidential nominees in our party, whether it was John McCain or my long-term friend Mitt Romney.
So, that day, I'm going to be out with voters talking about the things that matter to Californians. And that is jobs.
MATTHEWS: That didn't make any sense. She supported McCain, who was on the ticket with Palin. They were not running against each other. What does that mean, John, to say things that don't make any sense?
HEILEMANN: Well—well—
MATTHEWS: That wasn't an answer. She's obviously a smart person, Meg Whitman, I assume. How can you give an answer that makes no sense and have people hear it and not—
HEILEMANN: Well—
MATTHEWS: Well, wait a minute. That doesn't mean anything.
HEILEMANN: Well, Chris, I think you have heard a lot of politicians in your time on this show and elsewhere give answers that make no sense when they're trying to dodge a bullet.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
HEILEMANN: She wants to—she's in a very tight race with Jerry Brown.
And the people who are up—that are still up for grabs are not the kind of people in California, in that blue state—whether it's a deep-blue state or a light-blue state, we're going to find out on November 2. But, in a blue state, the voters are still up for grabs. Those are not people who are attracted to Sarah Palin.
It was very noticeable in her appearance in San Jose, she did not mention Meg Whitman, nor did she mention Carly Fiorina, who she endorsed in the Senate primary earlier in the year.
Obviously, she was acting, I think, on orders from those campaigns. They are trying to keep their distance from her, because, as I say, at this point in their campaigns, being associated with Sarah Palin is not going to help them with undecided, centrist, independent voters.
WALSH: Well—
MATTHEWS: Let's take a look at the commercial.
I'm sorry, Joan.
Here's a commercial. I want you to respond to this. This is a—a new commercial for Palin's somewhat unrelated reality show on The Learning Channel. Let's listen.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sarah, you ready?
PALIN: Oh, gosh. We are somewhere that people dream about.
Family comes first. It's got to be that way.
No boys go upstairs.
This is fun. How come we can't ever be just satisfied with tranquility? I'd rather be doing this than in some dumpy old political office. I'd rather be out here being free.
NARRATOR: An all new eight-week television event, "Sarah Palin's Alaska" premieres Sunday November 14th at 9:00 on TLC.
MATTHEWS: Joan, there's a lot to buy here. I mean, it's very attractive out there. I mean, she's an outdoors person. We Americans love that stuff. I mean, I love it. I pay great tribute. If she can do the dogsled, if she can do that hiking up the mountainside, that's great. I'm all for it.
What's it got to do with anything? It has to do with the fact that she is leading among Republicans in terms of job approval as the most popular Republican in the country right now. It's serious business. For president, let's face it.
WALSH: I mean, also it's on the Learning Channel. I don't get that.
Let's start there.
I mean—it's preposterous. It sounds fun. It sounds like it'd be fun to spend a day with her. But if she's so happy being free out there, why is she giving it up and traveling all around the country? I mean, it's completely disingenuous because she's obviously really, really happy being out on the campaign trail, raising money and raising money for herself and filling her pockets with these speeches. She's being paid for a lot of these speeches.
So, it's really—she's saying one thing on that show and she's doing something very different.
And to go back to the California issue, 2/3 of California voters in last week's field poll said that Palin support or being associated with Palin makes them less likely to want to support California politicians. So, it's clear what Whitman and Fiorina were doing. She's toxic here.
MATTHEWS: You know, I get back to my favorite question because it's not a tough one. Well, it's a HARDBALL question. I'll admit it.
John Heilemann, do you believe—I'm asking any Republican candidate or politician—do you believe that Sarah Palin is qualified to be president? And even her own guy Joe Miller who she created out of nothing up in Alaska, who's the nominee now of the Republican Party because of her endorsement, will not say, she's any more than 35 years old and was born in the country, will not say she's qualified in any real substantive sense to run this country in a complicated world.
Don't they all have to belly up to that question fairly soon? This campaign's going to start in about two months. How long can they avoid saying whether she's got it or not?
HEILEMANN: Well, I think it's a fascinating question for this reason, Chris. I mean, I increasingly among Republican professional operatives, people who've run presidential campaigns before. They think, number one, that she's likely to run, and number two, she could well could be the Republican nominee.
MATTHEWS: I agree.
HEILEMANN: And part of the dynamic that's going to work in her favor is that all of the other candidates are going to get asked that question. And all of them, like Joe Miller and like many other people, are afraid to answer that question. They're afraid to say, no, which is what many of them think because they're afraid of alienating her voters, who they'll need presumably at some point if she gets defeated in the nomination contest. They don't want to alienate those people.
But they're also afraid to say yes because they think it'll make them look foolish, because they believe that she does not have the substantive grasp of a lot of policy that a president of the United States needs.
MATTHEWS: It could be a statement about how dull politicians are that her sparkle, just her presentation, is so electric that it trumps all the substance in American politics today. That's a hell of a statement, right, Joan?
Thank you. Style beats all substance. Thank you, John Heilemann. Have a nice weekend, Joan and John. It's great to have you on the show as always.
Up next, battleground Ohio, Senator Sherrod Brown joins us. What an interesting senator he is. We'll talk about the tough fights in his state of Ohio, which is always the bellwether in this country. And the Republican candidate in Ohio who likes to dress up like a Nazi—that's interesting stuff.
This is HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: President Obama's on the campaign trail today. He made a big stop in Wilmington, Delaware, to push Democratic Senate candidate Chris Coons. He doesn't need much pushing. He's running far ahead in the polls over Republican Christine O'Donnell. The president made reference to Coons' lead and urged supporters to keep the pressure on.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I want everybody to be clear. There is no doubt this is a difficult election. It is difficult here and it's difficult all across the country. And although I think Chris has, so far, run an extraordinary race, I don't want anybody here taking this for granted.
MATTHEWS: Well, this weekend, the president campaigns in Ohio and Massachusetts. He's going to be joined by the first lady in Ohio. The first time they've been on the trail together since the presidential campaign itself.
HARDBALL, back after this.
MATTHEWS: We're back.
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama head-to-head this Sunday on the campaign together in the Buckeye State, Ohio.
The most famous, by the way, or infamous, Ohio candidate lately is Republican House candidate Rich Iott. He had a debate with Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur Thursday night.
Here's the "Toledo Blade" report: "'There are people who deny the
Holocaust happened, we don't deny that it happened,' Mr. Iott said. 'We
talk about it openly and say that this was absolutely one of the worst
tragedies in history. But we can't forget about it and sweep it under the
rug or it just may happen again.'
The debate's moderator, 'Sandusky Register' editor Matt Westerhold,
then asked Mr. Iott a series of question, submitted index cards by audience
members. 'As the reenactor, have you ever worn a swastika on an armband?'
'Absolutely not,' Mr. Iott replied. 'That is prohibited in the reenactment
world because the armband is a political statement.'
'Well, in retrospect, would you portray a Nazi officer,' again, he was
asked. 'Absolutely,' he said, 'just as I played a G.I., just as I play the
role of a union officer.' 'Well, if elected, would you participate in such
re-enactments in the future?'" In other words with Nazi uniforms on. "He
said, 'No, I don't have time.'"
Well, we're joined right now by Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio.
Senator, I only want to waste a minute or two on this because it's fascinating. My son, Thomas, is an actor and went down and played, you know, a Southerner or Johnny Reb, if you will, in a reenactment and we had a lot of fun going out there. I love those civil war reenactments and I got to meet the guys and I love hanging out with them.
Why would anybody, ever, put on a Nazi uniform, ever, under any circumstances wear one, I don't get it.
SEN. SHERROD BROWN (D), OHIO: I don't know this guy. I know that he's got a lot of money, like a lot of Republicans around the country that are spending, shall I say, liberally, to try to beat good, strong Democratic incumbents like Marcy Kaptur. He wasn't going to beat her anyway.
I remember when I was a bit beside the point. I was 11 years old. My dad took me to Gettysburg and watched part of the reenactment of the battle of Gettysburg. And I was 11 or 10 years old and it was the 100th anniversary. Other than, I haven't—I've never really done it.
But it's sort of interesting but Nazi uniforms, I mean just—that's just—that was pretty incredible, the whole thing.
MATTHEWS: Even as kids, we had war games, my brother Burt and I, and somebody had to play the Germans but nobody put the uniform on.
BROWN: Yes, that's right. Yes.
MATTHEWS: We didn't have the uniforms. I mean this is crazy. This is crazy.
Let me ask you about John Boehner. Does he have a problem for giving this guy money? Boehner PAC money. And apparently, he's not asking for it back. He's given Iott the money.
BROWN: I didn't know that. I'm not surprised. I mean, Boehner's a pretty conservative guy and I saw Eric Cantor, the Republican, one of the Republican leaders on television with Debbie Wasserman Schultz. And she had to really push him, to get him to be critical of this guy.
So, Republicans, I give them credit. They stick together no matter how bad one of their own is. And, you know, you see now with Christine O'Donnell, you see it with Palin, you see it with Fiorina. Some these candidates that really—
MATTHEWS: I love the way, Senator, you say, I give them credit. I love the way you stick the knife in. I give them credit for sticking with this guy in the Nazi uniform.
OK. Let me ask you about—I know you—let me talk to you about something that's really important.
BROWN: Sure.
MATTHEWS: First of all, let's talk about your state of Ohio. I grew up as a political junky as everybody knows. The time I was a kid, I was like baseball cards, it will be (ph). And Ohio, California, New York, always had the most fascinating politics.
Ohio is such a bellwether. What's going out there? Why is the president and first lady—it seems to me they know its' the bellwether. They got to hold the governor's chair out there with Strickland. They've got to at least make a fight for the Senate seat, the other Senate seat. It's really gang busters for the White House, isn't it? Ohio?
BROWN: Yes. And there's so much money in Ohio this year. The Chamber of Commerce, just in the last three weeks, has spent well over half a million dollars on ads for Republican House members. They spent, I believe, close to a million for their Senate candidate who already a ton of money because he has—he used to work for President Bush and has the Bush rolodex campaign file for contributors.
You look at the money that Kasich spent against Strickland who's been a good governor and is now slightly—now, it's about even in the polls but has momentum.
And so, the president knows that 2010 matters, just substantively, and really but also matters for 2012 for the president. If the president wins Ohio in 2012, he's re-elected. It's almost that simple as you know.
MATTHEWS: I know.
BROWN: Because you figure he'll do well in Pennsylvania, Michigan if he wins Ohio, because those states are a little easier. So, the president's been in Ohio more than I believe in place but New York since he's been president. And so, he'll continue to do that.
MATTHEWS: OK. I agree with you.
BROWN: All that. And he's bringing Michelle this time to Cleveland when we see them and we're all thrilled about that. It's good for the state and good for Democrats.
MATTHEWS: What are—I agree with you completely. Ohio's right there at the point of control with this history.
Let me ask you about something I said the other night. I know that you agree with it because you're cool about it. I don't understand why the White House—and I agree with their politics on so many things—why they can't connect the dots. They talk about foreign money, they talk about the U.S. Chamber, you just mentioned, the Chamber of Commerce, pouring all of this money on the Republicans' side. Don't they know why they're doing it?
I think the president has to go to explain to the American people, why has American business given so much money to the Republicans, for the simple reason that they want to go multinational, they want to go global, turn the whole world into a labor, one big hiring hole in the whole world. You can hire the cheapest labor in the world you can find. You reduce your costs. You can automate. You can use productivity and outsourcing and use foreign vendors, and you can screw the average working person out of his income.
It's the ultimate political question today and that's why they brought that up issue. And now, they're sneaking away—they're not really sticking to it, it seems to me.
BROWN: That's exactly right. You separate—the Chambers of Commerce in Zanesville, Ohio, or Mansfield or Toledo, are good government groups by in large who want to help the local community grow and help local small businesses especially. The national chamber, an organization with a hard ideological edge, is much more interested in its large companies that outsource jobs.
And you know what happened in late September, early October, we tried to pass the Disclose Act to require these corporations—
MATTHEWS: I know—
BROWN: -- like the Chambers of Commerce and these organizations, to disclose where their money was coming. The same week, we tried to pass legislation that would take away some of the tax breaks to outsourced jobs, they opposed both.
MATTHEWS: I know.
BROWN: As you point out they're very related, and that's the whole good point.
MATTHEWS: Senator, please come back. Please come back. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio knows the truth.
When we return, let me finish with a grim reminder of that push for the Iraq war back in 2001 to 2003 and who did the pushing.
You're watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with the report from the U.S.
Department of Defense.
The item didn't get much play in the papers because it was so quietly displayed on the Web site of the U.S. Central Command. It's an estimate of the number of people killed in the Iraq war, 77,000 is the number. Interesting number, 7,000 more than the U.S. government said were killed the day we dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima.
People like to move away from the cat's paws to the decision to attack, invade and occupy a country in 2003, that did not attack us. There were, of course, multiple perjury convictions of the vice president's chief of staff. But even that was covered over by the president's decision, George W. Bush's decision, to keep Cheney's partner from prison.
But I don't like it. I didn't like the way this war was sold—propagandized is the better word—to the American people. All the employment of phrases like weapons of mass destruction, all part of a new Orwellian, totalitarian vocabulary that rechristened America, our country, the homeland.
Something foreign to this country took over in those years 2001 to 2003. We were susceptible, of course, teed up after 9/11, and there were people in the government and pushing for it outside, ideologues who wanted this war and didn't care what damage it did, including to our country's reputation as an enemy of aggression, a country that fights when one country invades another, fights the invader. This time, we were the invader.
And nobody yelled, "Hey, this isn't our part, this isn't what we Americans do." Well, some of us yelled, but maybe we should have done more, laid out there on the train tracks or whatever you do, to sound the alarm of protest in a democracy. We should have caused real trouble for the drumbeaters for war, those who are now hang back in their bogus think-tanks in endless meetings and low-grade war-hawking as if they weren't the ones who did this to the 77,000 people killed by this war and what they did to our country.
That's HARDBALL for now.
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The first trailer for the comedy Friends with Kids has gone online. Written, directed by, and starring Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein), the film boats a fantastic cast that includes Adam Scott, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd, Megan Fox and Edward Burns. The story centers on a pair of thirtysomething best friends (Scott and Westfeldt) who observe the toll that having kids has taken on the couples they know and resolve to bypass that stress by having a child and then date other people. The trailer looks right up my alley, as it highlights some promising performances, chemistry, and a fair amount of laughs. Matt caught the film at TIFF and wasn't exactly won over, but Scott has been killing it in supporting roles for years and I'm excited to see him finally take on a lead.
Hit the jump to watch the trailer. Friends with Kids opens March 9th. If you missed them, be sure to check out Steve's interviews with Hamm, Scott, and Fox from TIFF regarding the film.
Here's the synopsis for Friends with Kids:
Friends With Kids is a daring and poignant ensemble comedy about a close-knit circle of friends at that moment in life when children arrive and everything changes. The last two singles in the group observe the effect that kids have had on their friends' relationships and wonder if there's a better way. They decide to have a kid together – and date other people.
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Peter StaatsPDGA#: 21553 Division: Really Super Good
Began Playing Disc Golf: When my buddy Sully showed it to me when I was in College back in MN. It was fun, free, and a perfect waste of time. Plus, when you throw it, you get to watch it: That, I believe, is mostly the point. I can't stress that enough.
First Disc: A totally sick DX XL. I threw it super far sidearm, way over 100 ft. I ruined it in the dishwasher and it saddens me.
Favorite Holes at Morley: 1. #16 long. Good luck, razor wire anyone? Plus, if it hyzers out you get to scream at the top of your lungs "Fore," which, of course, nobody pays any mind to: That, I believe is the rest of the point.
2. #10 long. It's a great hole that eerily echos 16 long, without the razor wire.
3. #19 long and short. I'm addicted to fun and this hole helps with that.
Morley Field Aces: More than a few and less than Donny Olow; good god Donny.
Favorite Disc: I would have said an Z-Xtreme, but I didn't. Z-Magnet for the moment.
Favorite Drivers: Pro Destroyer. I love using it whenever possible--it's great to serve dinner on too. Z-Magnets. Try one, they're neato.
Favorite Midranges: Shockwave (goes left), Squall (goes straight), Comet (goes right), and MRV (goes in my bag and just feels right).
Favorite Putter: Challenger. I have one old, one new, one borrowed...
In My Bag: Couple of Pro Destroyers (Old and Newer) Z-Force Z-Xtreme Shockwave Squall Comet MRV Couple of Z-Magnets (terrible putters, great drivers) Couple of Pro D. Challengers (Old and Newish)
Tourney wins and / or Top 5 finishes (not necessarily from Morley): I'm not a tournament player, and have been told that I am a terrific waste of talent. I take pride in that as I cry myself to sleep over it night after night.
Favorite Disc Golf Website: Of the plethora out there, I like all of them but one. This website the best--Mark Wilson's done a terrific job here! (check is in the mail Pete!)
Favorite Pro Players: As far a people who have taught me, Micah Dorius. He gives lessons and I highly recommend anyone who actively wants to get better to contact him. Carlo Pelg as well, he specifically taught me the intended flightpath of different discs; they are not all the same. Also, my buddy Sully back in MN. He's just too super to not include here.
…Of all time: Cameron Todd. His nickname is 'Angry Clown.' Just because of that, I must put him at the top (Super-Dave is a close second). If someone shows up with 'Mullet Matt,' or some other hubristic nickname I'll shuffle the list immediately. Mind you, my list is completely void of any meaning whatsoever.
Tips for newer players and players looking to improve: For the game: Throw the disc as hard and as smooth as you can without breaking your arm (ahem...), then adjust accordingly after asking many, many questions. Repeat as necessary. Do this during the day only. For yourself: Set goals that are possible for you and go for it. For me: Have fun and be respectful.
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The GOP split on Obamacare
The next stage of Obamacare is shaping up into a fight between two camps of Republican governors sure to duke it out in the 2016 presidential primary — ideologues versus pragmatists.
The ideological purists are big-name Southern governors — like Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, Bob McDonnell and Rick Perry — who have all said "hell no" to major pieces of the law, even turning down free federal cash to expand Medicaid in their states.
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The more pragmatic governors are rising Republican stars in the rest of the country — like Chris Christie, John Kasich and Susana Martinez — who've embraced pieces of the law or left the door open to doing so if there seems to be a political upside in their state.
And on Wednesday, they won a big convert to their side: Florida's Rick Scott, the governor of the state that launched the lawsuit against Obamacare, announced he's going to expand Medicaid under the law — at least for three years.
It's an intra-party struggle that mirrors the same fight that's engulfed the Republican Party since Election Day, pitting anti-Obama hardliners against those concerned with appealing to a broader swath of voters.
And while it's a fight sure to simmer below the surface at the annual National Governors Association's meeting this weekend in Washington — where political attacks are usually reserved for crossing party lines — the rollout of the health care law will continue to be prime testing grounds for the future of the Republican Party in the runup to 2016.
"I could see a scenario where [pragmatists] get attacked from the right," said Republican strategist Ari Fleischer. "I could also see a scenario where they can carve out a position that they'll always do what's fiscally responsible for their state. It's just impossible to war game it at this point."
The purists are being led by Jindal, who has called Obamacare a "blow to our freedoms," and Perry, who insists that "Texas will not drive millions more into an unsustainable system." Both are refusing to either build a health insurance exchange or expand Medicaid.
On the other side are the lead pragmatists: Kasich, the governor of Ohio, and Martinez, the governor of New Mexico.
Kasich is expanding Medicaid, one of the health care law's main tools for covering uninsured people. Martinez is going even further by expanding Medicaid and building a health insurance exchange.
"I didn't support Obamacare. But it's the law of the land," Martinez said in her State of the State address last month. "The election is over and the Supreme Court has ruled. My job is not to play party politics, but to implement this law in a way that best serves New Mexico."
Martinez faces a political landscape pretty unique among her colleagues. She's governing alongside a Democrat-controlled state legislature, and New Mexico has one of the highest uninsured populations in the country. Like her colleagues, though, she's threatening to call off the expansion if the feds pare back their funding commitment.
Even Scott, who was a fierce opponent of the health care law, has become more pragmatic. He asked the Obama administration to let him offer Medicaid through health plans that have tighter controls on costs. When he got that, he agreed to expand the program for three years.
New Jersey's Christie is dropping hints about being a pragmatist, too. He said he wouldn't build an exchange, and on Friday he turned down the chance to set one up in a "partnership" with the feds. But he says it's mostly because he couldn't get his questions answered by the feds, not because he hated everything the law stands for — and he even left the door open to changing his mind down the road.


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We tend to get certain questions over and over, so we figured we'd gather the answers in one place. We'll add to this list as other common questions come up. You may also find it useful to read our first post, "Why write a blog about retractions?"
Why do you guys do this?
Good question. This interview transcript should provide some answers, as should our first post.
Who funds you?
In December 2014, the MacArthur Foundation gave us a generous grant to continue our work and build a database of retractions. The Arnold Foundation has been funding us since August 2015, and the Helmsley Trust since November 2015. All of these grants have ended, so we rely on readers' support.
I suspect misconduct in a paper. What should I do?
Read this.
Why was my comment not approved?
We are huge fans of Retraction Watch commenters. They broaden our posts, send us tips, and correct us when we get things wrong. Without them, the site would be a shadow of itself. However, we have recently found ourselves having to edit ad hominem attacks out of comments, unapprove other comments, and contact some commenters to remind them of what's appropriate.
It may not be clear to those who feel the need to resort to such personal attacks that they destroy the discourse that we and others have worked so hard to build on Retraction Watch, but it is abundantly clear to us and many others. The same goes for unfounded allegations and unverified facts.
We will not tolerate these sorts of attacks, allegations, and unverified facts — a category that includes speculation, whether about what might have happened, or about the mindset of the people involved. To repeat: If verifying your comment requires mind-reading or knowing their motivations, it it unlikely to be approved. We will not edit comments, and will not approve any that contain material that violates this policy, even if it is a small part of a larger comment. While that means useful information may not be posted if it is included in a comment that violates these guidelines, users are welcome to rewrite comments so that they conform to our policy. They are also welcome to contact us — using the email addresses provided in our About pages — to ask why a given comment was not approved. If instead they choose to leave a comment asking why another was not approved, we may respond, time permitting, provided that they used a working email address.
There's a really important retraction in my field from January 2010. I can't believe you guys haven't covered it!
We launched Retraction Watch in August 2010, and although we didn't predict this, it's been a struggle to even keep up with retractions as they happen. While we occasionally dip into history in our "Best Of" series, realistically we don't want to fall even further behind. If we ever have the resources to grow the site, this will be one of our priorities.
Why are so many of the retractions you cover from the life sciences?
There are a number of reasons for this. The two most important are that 1) we're both medical reporters in our day jobs, so our sources and knowledge base are both deeper in the life sciences and 2) there are more papers published in the life sciences than in other areas. We'd love your help beefing up our physical sciences section, so keep those tips coming.
Everyone agrees that this paper has to be retracted. Why haven't you covered it?
Just like retractions from the past, this is a resource issue. We wholeheartedly agree it's important to check out tips — anonymous or not — about potentially dodgy papers. But doing that right would require a much larger team, so we've decided that publicizing retractions that do happen — and finding out why papers were retracted, not always a simple task — was a better use of our efforts.
Is there a reliable database of retractions?
Yes, we've built one.
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If you see Garen Hicks around town, he might not have much to say.
The black bracelet he wears says what words can't.
He wears it as a memorial to his friend and fellow 1st Maneuver Enhancement Brigade member U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Carlo Robinson.
A Hope, Ark., native, the 33-year-old Robinson was killed Jan. 17, 2009, when a roadside bomb detonated near his vehicle in Kabul when his patrol was attacked.
Robinson was one of 17 of that unit's soldiers killed during a 15-month deployment in Afghanistan.
In a 38-year professional music career, Ricky Skaggs has pretty much seen it all. Now he's seen just a little more.
Arm in arm with his daughter, Molly, and his son, Luke, the Skaggs were afforded a special treat Saturday, courtesy of L&C Railway and See Lancaster.
The Skaggs family, and their respective bands, Kentucky Thunder and Songs of Water, enjoyed a L&C luxury train ride excursion to the Catawba River and back before performing at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster on Saturday night.
Nobody wants to get old before their time.
But this week, I'm sort of wishing I was born in 1950 instead of 1960.
Why? It's simple.
If I was about 10 years older, it would mean that I would've gotten to see both Tracy Mc-Griff and Jimmie "Buck" Sistare grace the gridiron.
The late Hobert Skaggs always had a hidden reason behind everything he did.
The mandolin that 5-year-old Ricky Skaggs found in his bed one Saturday morning some 50 years ago, and the G, C and D chords that Hobert taught his son weren't just learning tools and a musical instrument.
It was Hobert's connection to his Eastern Kentucky childhood that was lost when his brother was killed in World War II.
Andrew Jackson State Park will have a different aura Saturday night when stories are woven around burning campfires and shadows cast by flickering candles.
However, these won't be ghost stories or tall tales.
It's the annual Life in the Waxhaws lantern tour at the park which bears the name of a president.
The lantern tour offers a historical look at 18th century life in the Waxhaws during the 1780s when Jackson was a lad.
With its timeless traditions, foundation of leadership and emphasis on community service, the Boy Scouts of America has made a difference.
Since its inception, volunteer scout leaders have worked to instill the values of duty, honor and country in young men to provide a strong foundation for future generations.
Until now, many of these local scouters have been unnoticed, except by those whose lives they have impacted.
But that's about to change, said Art Harris, Lancaster district executive for the Palmetto Council for the Boy Scouts of America.
There's nothing wrong with a good scare this time of year, especially when it's for a good cause.
Halloween is only 16 days away, "witch" means you're probably looking for terrifyingly terrific way to get your scare on.
Beginning tonight, you'll have that chance.
The Lancaster County Rescue Squad Haunted Forest opens at sundown in the woods adjacent to the squad equipment building on Great Falls Highway.
It took more than a quarter of a century for Barbara Bowers to meet Brenda Elam in person, but the wait was worth it.
What started out as a complaint between two textile-based industries 28 years ago turned into a lifelong friendship that defies age, miles, 28 years of phone calls, cards, letters and gifts.
That bond was strengthened in September when Elam came to Lancaster to visit Bowers.
One day in 1981, Bowers, who was a claims manager at Grace Finishing for Springs Industries, fielded a phone call from Elam, who worked for the Haggar Company.
Stories on Col. Elliott White Springs abound.
"So many people can tell tales about the colonel and the kind of man he was," said C.D. "Bubber" Gregory.
But there is one – that few people know – that can be told.
The "camera-doesn't-lie" formal photo taken by the late Lavoy Bauknight, is proof.
But it's the one photograph of Springs that was almost never taken.
A renewal of sorts is under way with the Lancaster Chamber Choir. Having seen a drop in both membership and concert attendance the last two years, they are trying to get the "we're back," word out.
When former director Michael Miller left to pursue a doctorate degree out of state, the choir lost its leader. Margaret Walsh, music director at First United Methodist Church, temporarily took over.
A jack of all lanterns
Versatile artist Jamie Ouzts excels in pumpkin carving
Ron Smart knows a lot about choices.
Smart, an ex-death row inmate, had the opportunity to speak to students at Buford Middle, Andrew Jackson High and Buford High schools about that very thing Thursday.
"I can tell you plenty about making the wrong ones," Smart said during a telephone interview Wednesday. "I spent 46 of the 50-plus year span from March of 1955 to September of 2005 in prison for the bad choices I made. I would say that makes me an authority on what not to do."
Things were looking up in Lancaster in mid-October of 1959.
Fifty years ago, the undefeated Lancaster High School Blue Hurricanes had just beaten the Clinton High School Red Devils on a soggy, rain-soaked Presbyterian College field.
Julian Starr, publisher of The Lancaster News, Dr. J.P. Sims and local attorney D. Glenn "Rock" Yarborough had been named to the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce board of directors.
Despite an employee's strike, the Bowater family announced a $30 million expansion at its paper mill along the Catawba River.
With their distinctive four-part harmonies and combination of country and bluegrass-tinged tunes, Little Big Town is sure to lure a few more fans into their fold on Saturday.
That's when the up-and-coming country group performs as part of See Lancaster's Performing Arts Series at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster's Bundy Auditorium. The four-time Grammy Award-nominated band is the third act to be featured in the 2009-10 series.
There's only one candle on Lallage Jones' birthday cake. Since Lallage is celebrating her 101st birthday today, she's entitled to as many or as few candles as she wants.
And Lallage, a retired educator and "preacher's wife," hasn't lost her sense of humor about reaching the milestone.
Born Oct. 11, 1908, she had one early birthday celebration with family and friends during this week's Golden Age Group luncheon at First United Methodist Church.
These days, consumers are trying to stretch every dollar as far as possible.
But if you have thoughts of partially reusing in the kitchen what you scoop from a Halloween jack-o'-lantern this year, you may be disappointed by the results.
Pumpkins intended for carving don't taste good; they are only meant as decorations for ghosts and goblins.
The stack of July 22, 2009, issues of The Lancaster News in the newspaper morgue is getting shorter.
Just about once a week now, the voice on the other end of the phone makes the same request.
"I cut out the recipe for that Butter Pecan Pound Cake that has the icing mixed into the batter, but I don't know what I did with it. Can you tell me how to get another copy of it? That thing is perfect with a cup of coffee."
One of my neighbors, Ken McManus, has a similar opinion of the cake.
Dr. John Griffin, distinguished professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina, has always been fascinated by the life (and death) of Abraham Lincoln.
But through the years, Lincoln's life has grown to such heroic and epic proportions that it's hard to separate fact from fiction.
Now Griffin has put together another biography on the 16th president entitled "Mr. Lincoln and His War."
Griffin will make a 30-minute slide presentation and sign copies of his latest book at 7 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Lancaster County Library.
Sausage is almost like barbecue. Each region (and sometimes, country) has its own kind that uses ingredients and seasonings common to that specific area.
It's sort of like mustard base, vinegar base, ketchup base and white base barbecue sauces. Sausage is what it is, depending on where you live.
In the South, sausage is usually a mixture of ground pork, pork fat, sage and peppers and other spices that's made into patties and fried.
Janie McManus loves historical fiction.
For the seventh grade social studies teacher at South Middle School, it's a way to make the textbook come alive.
Right now, she is reading "Breadwinner" by Deborah Ellis, to her classes, which is about the Taliban in Afghanistan.
"Will it be on that big test at the end of the year? Probably not," she said.
"But it's timely and they need to know this stuff.
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|Potatoes dredged in a seasoned buttermilk, rolled in cornflake or panko crumbs, and baked.
Crispy Oven FriesGeneric corn flakes are a great way to get a nice crunch when you want to oven fry, but that doesn't have to be limited to chicken. Give it a swing sometime with potatoes and add a whole other layer of texture. Try it with panko bread crumbs, or check out the variation at the bottom, using a mayonnaise coating and cornbread dressing mix. Here's how to make them.
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Recipe: Crispy Oven Fries©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 45 min | Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil, divided
- 3 large baking potatoes
- 1-1/2 cups of buttermilk
- Pinch of kosher salt, onion salt and garlic powder
- Freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
- Couple dashes of hot sauce
- 2 cups of plain cornflakes or panko crumbs
- 1/2 teaspoon of Cajun seasoning (like Slap Ya Mama)
- Melted butter to drizzle, optional
Preheat to 375 degrees F. Coat a baking pan with olive oil. Cut each potato into about 8 wedges and put into a bowl. Mix the buttermilk, salt, onion salt, garlic powder, black pepper and hot sauce; pour over the top and set aside.
Pulse the cornflakes in the food processor until crushed. Add the Cajun seasoning and pulse to mix and pour into a shallow pan. Can also substitute panko bread crumbs for the cornflakes.
Roll the potato wedges in the cornflake mixture and press the crumbs in. Arrange in a single layer in the prepared baking pan.
Bake at 375 degrees F, about 45 minutes or until tender, turning once halfway through, and drizzling with a bit more olive oil. Remove, drizzle with melted butter, if desired, and sprinkle with additional kosher salt if desired.
Variation: Instead of buttermilk, dip the cut up potato wedges in a mixture of 1/2 cup of mayonnaise with the same seasonings. Add 1/3 cup of freshly grated Parmesan cheese to the cornflakes or panko, or may also substitute 2 cups of packaged seasoned cornbread dressing (like Pepperidge Farm) in place of cornflakes or panko, along with the Cajun seasoning, and roll the coated potatoes in the mixture. Bake as above.
"Jo-Jo" Potato Logs: Substitute self-rising flour for the cornflakes/panko, adding additional seasonings such as paprika, cumin and chili powder, or others as desired. Bake as above or pan fry in hot oil.
Classic Steak Fries: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F and coat baking sheet with oil. Cut potatoes in half lengthwise, then cut each half into four wedges. Toss in olive oil. Season potatoes with salt, onion salt, garlic powder, black pepper and Cajun seasoning. Lay each wedge, cut side down and roast for about 30 minutes, or until browned and tender throughout. Total time will depend on size of potatoes.
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CLEVELAND: Cleveland�s historic West Side Market is closed for the day after an overnight fire damaged some its indoor stalls.
Media reports said firefighters were called to the market at about 2:20 a.m. to put out a fire that started in one of the stalls and spread to others nearby. There was no structural damage but extensive smoke damage.
The entire market will be closed Wednesday while it�s cleaned up.
Food throughout the market also has to be inspected for health and quality assurance before it can reopen.
No one was hurt in the fire, and the cause was not immediately known.
The Cleveland landmark is marking its 100th anniversary this year.


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Greetings friends. Please pardon the March-long hiatus here at GC. Thanks to the generous expertise of a couple of new friends in Australia (Progress Blog) and Europe, GC is blazing the trail toward greener pastures by migrating content fancy new site: ghostcapital.org. We're still under construction right now, but hope to be ready to lauch by mid April. Stay tuned!
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The last-known private collection of Katherine Mansfield material has arrived at Alexander Turnbull Library to the delight of curators and fans of the celebrated Kiwi short story writer.
The six-carton collection of Mansfield papers and related material had been held by the family of Mansfield's second husband, John Middleton Murry, and was discovered by biographer Kathleen Jones.
Alexander Turnbull Library's curator of New Zealand and Pacific publications, Dr Fiona Oliver, said the library already contained the world's leading collection of Katherine Mansfield papers, pictures, artefacts and publications.
"This latest acquisition offers very personal insights into Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, and their relationship."
Turnbull manuscripts curator David Colquhoun said the acquisition was one of the most significant in his 20-year career.
"While there are sure to be other Mansfield letters out there, we are certain this is the last big clump."
Mr Colquhoun said a display would be made early this week in the library's newly reopened reading room with the rest of the material open to researchers by October.
Digitising the material would also be undertaken for the benefit of Mansfield's large international following.
Katherine Mansfield Birthplace director Mary Morris said the arrival of the new material at Alexander Turnbull Library was hugely exciting.
"It's absolutely amazing. Some of these letters and items may shed light on aspects of her life that we don't know much about.
"The letters give us her world, the context she was living in and having that helps our understanding of who she was and that is significant for the Katherine Mansfield Birthplace.
"She has a particular place in New Zealand's cultural history and heritage and the more we can know about her the better."
Ms Morris said the Birthplace had a long-standing relationship with the Alexander Turnbull Library. Whether some of the items made their way into the Tinakori Rd house depended on future programming.