Joel Pollak, our editor-in-chief, asked Rick Tyler of Winning Our Future– Newt Gingrich’s Super PAC–about why Newt Gingrich and he are attacking Mitt Romney from the Left on his Bain Capital record. Tyler encouraged Romney to hold a press conference and explain some of the lingering questions surrounding his involvement at Bain Capital. Pollak then asked Tyler if Gingrich’s Super PAC would be returning the monies that Bain and its associates had contributed to Gingrich and the PAC.

The anti-Romney film they are discussing was made by Jason Killian Meath, a former associate of Romney’s top strategists, Stuart Stevens and Russ Schriefer and former contributor to Big Government. Adding a twist tot the project, Meath once worked for Mitt Romney during his 2008 bid for the presidency.  Jon Hunstman and Rick Perry piled on, while Rick Santorum declined on Sean Hannity.

The New York Times quickly noted Newt Gingrich’s own ties to the leveraged buy out industry whose model Gingrich has attacked. Gingrich once served on the advisory board of Forstmann Little, whose business model was effectively identical to Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital.

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On August 31, I headed to the health care town hall meeting of my congressional representative, Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). I suspected that she planned to stack the meeting with paid organizers, after she vowed on Real Time with Bill Maher to bring “millions” of people into the streets to support the so-called “public option.” So I brought a video camera.

A friend and I took turns filming protesters on both sides of the issue. We caught an organizer from the group Health Care for America Now (HCAN) instructing followers to block dissenting views: “So if they stand up and start asking questions, and you’re in that area, simply stand up, and start chanting… ‘Health care now! Health care now!’”

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