so what else is new with this joke of a "man" and i use the word man loosely here.

Romney's presidential campaign is going to lead to a huge FBI and SEC investigation of himself and everybody he ever worked with.

this "man" wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in the a^&. he's flip flopped so much he must have whiplash! his behavior almost seems pathological. remember, he stands by whatever he said whatever that was in his own words. he cannot even stand up to the likes of trump.limbaugh--don't want to offend anyone. and this "man" wants us to trust him--his allegiance is to his rich friends who look down on us. anyone who votes for this joke of a candidate needs to have their head examined.

A new report shows Romney was misleading about Bain Capitol....really "new", we learned that from all his Republican opponents in the primary tearing apart his fake job creation and entrepreneurship record. It's not new and the GOP even admits it. Which is saying alot.......

Still nothing from Ed or anyone else at this network on the the huge JP Morgan new details...you know the fact that their loss was more than two billion and may turn out to be as large as nine billion dollars.

Or the huge Barclay's banking scandal and their manipulation of LIBOR...huge that determines the rates for trillions of dollars of worldwide commerce. Almost every contract that involves percentage rates on say a credit card is determined by this. It is HUGE.

The off label marketing scandal in the pharmaceutical industry. Glaxo-Smith-Klein just had to pay a fine of around three billion dollars. Nothing from you. What are these just not important and you'd rather blab on about things we've long known Romney lies on? Are you kidding?

You've got the GOP saying we don't need any regulations on the financial industry and corporate business and you can't figure out how to hit them on it. Pathetic! Major disappointment!

Ed you and your guest better have hard evidence of this felony you and the Obama campaign is erroneously accused Romney of doing. its a crime to call some one a felon with any proof it is called slander

WaPo, the Fact Checker, FactCkeck.org and Fortune Magazine all have written article debunking this claim this has also been conformed by the Mass. election Board

You and the Obama has sunk to a new low accusing some one as a felon with not one shred of evidence you are hoping that you audience is to ignorant to know how investment firms change ownership. its not like selling a car or a house it takes years of paper work and negations and yes during the 3 years it took for Romney to officially cut all ties with Bain there will be some SEC documents with his name on it that is expected. Romney left Bain in 1999 to run the 2000 Olympics that is a fact he had no involvement in any of the decision in Bain after 1999 that is a fact and i will dare anyone to prove me wrong

Ed you are one despicable SOB to call someone a felon or allow any one on your show to do the same with not one shred of proof

MSNBC sister station (NBNBC) saying there is nothing to this story about Romney. That is a flat out lie and fact checks have showed none of this to be true. Funny how you do not hear that on MSNBC. Even CNN gave both sides to the story. Really the best you can do is have Joan Walsh on again. She is getting old and I turn the station whenever I see her. Maybe that is why your ratings are so low.

Wow Big Head Ed's head is getting big tonight.

He's acting like he uncovered the crime of the century...

Snoozefest.

I have never seen a Republican yet who doesn't lie like a sidewalk! Why should this crook be any different?

I guess the Boston Globe now prints fiction:

"The Boston Globe on Thursday blew a giant hole in Romney's claim that he left the private equity firm in 1999. The Globe reported that Bain's own filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission suggest that Romney remained deeply tied to the company until sometime in 2002."

"Bain described Romney in 2001 SEC filings as the "sole stockholder, chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and president." Another form stated that he owned 100 percent of the company in 2002 and received a six-figure salary from Bain in 2001 and 2002. His listed title: 'Executive.'"

I see we have a couple more re-regs tonight. Should be fun.

ED your a BIG fat lier!!!!!!!!! WaPo, the Fact Checker, FactCkeck.org and Fortune Magazine all have written article debunking this claim this has also been conformed by the Mass. election Board.That is a flat out lie and fact checks have showed none of this to be true. Funny how you do not hear that on MSNBC. its a crime to call some one a felon without any proof it is called slander.

VOTE NO Obama 2012!!!!!!

Why does it matter when Mitt Romney left Bain Capital?

Millions of dollars of attack ads by the Obama campaign are hanging in the balance. If Romney left Bain in February 1999, when he departed to run the Olympics, then a number of business deals that went sour (such as KB Toys) can’t be counted as part of Romney’s tenure. If he actually left in 2002, as the Obama campaign alleges, then those deals are fair game.

We have looked at this issue before, back in January, and thought we had settled it.

But now the Boston Globe has raised the issue again. The story seems to hinge on a quote from a former Securities and Exchange Commission member, which would have more credibility if the Globe had disclosed she was a regular contributor to Democrats. (Interestingly, “The Real Romney,” a book on the former Massachusetts governor, by Boston Globe reporters, states clearly that he left Bain when he went to run the Olympics and details the turmoil that ensued when he suddenly quit, nearly breaking up the partnership)

We’re considering whether to once again take a deeper look at this, though it really feels like Groundhog Day again. There appears to be some confusion about how partnerships are structured and managed, or what SEC documents mean. (Just because you are listed as an owner of shares does not mean you have a managerial role.)

To accept some of the claims, one would have to believe that Romney, with the advice of his lawyers, lied on government documents and committed a criminal offense. Moreover, you would have to assume he willingly gave up his share to a few years of retirement earnings — potentially worth millions of dollars — so he could say his retirement started in 1999.

UPDATE: Fortune obtained the offering documents for a Bain Capital Fund circulating in June 2000, as well as a fund in 2001. None of the documents show that Romney was listed as being among the “key investment professionals.” As Fortune put it, “the contemporaneous Bain documents show that Romney was indeed telling the truth about no longer having operational input at Bain -- which, one should note, is different from no longer having legal or financial ties to the firm.”

For interested readers, below is a summary of what we, FactCheck.org and Fortune magazine have previously concluded.

The Fact Checker, Jan. 18, 2012

A 2002 statement he filed with the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission on his financial interests lists ownership of various Bain entities, some of which appear to intersect with the funds that invested in KB Toys. The document says that Romney is “a passive, limited partner [with] no management capacity” in many of these funds.

In the Massachusetts document, Romney is also listed as 100 percent owner of “Bain Capital Inc.” But there is less than meets the eye here. Bain Capital Inc. was the management firm, which was paid a management fee to run the funds and actually made virtually no profit, since it existed to pay salaries and expenses. After Romney formally left Bain in 2001, a new entity called “Bain Capital LLC” took over the management function.

By virtually all accounts, Romney was focused on the Olympics in the 1999-2002 period. Yet because Romney had not legally separated from Bain, his name is littered across Securities and Exchange Commission filings concerning Bain Capital deals during this period. The crazy quilt of private-equity structures, in some ways, makes his ownership appear even more ominous, as the filings list hundreds of thousands of shares controlled by Romney.

Even so, it is a real stretch to claim that Romney — himself — “closed” these stores. No evidence has emerged that he was involved in the KB Toys transaction. Indeed, when creditors sued over the dividend payment, they named six Bain-controlled entities and three Bain executives who had served on the board of KB Holdings.

Given that the plaintiffs’ lawyers will try to list as many defendants as possible to try to force a settlement, one can be certain Romney would have been named if there had been any hint of his involvement. But he was not named, despite the SEC filings suggesting his control of the shares.

FactCheck.Org, July 2, 2012

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If the Obama campaign were correct, Romney would be guilty of a federal felony by certifying on federal financial disclosure forms that he left active management of Bain Capital in February 1999….

And after reviewing evidence cited by the Obama campaign, we reaffirm our conclusion that Romney left the helm of Bain Capital when he took a leave of absence in 1999 to run the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics – as he has said repeatedly — and never returned to active management. The Obama campaign’s recent ads thus mislead when they point to investments made by Bain, as well as management decisions made by companies in which Bain invested, after that time.

What does the Obama campaign have in rebuttal? Very little, and none of it convincing in our judgment.

Much of the Obama campaign’s letter is devoted to quoting portions of documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In summary, the letter states there are “at least 63 filings with that agency after March 1, 1999 that list various Bain entities and describe them as ‘wholly owned by W. Mitt Romney.’” That’s true, but not relevant.

We have never disputed that Romney remained the owner of Bain while he was running the Olympics committee. The issue always has been, who was running Bain? Nothing in the SEC documents contradicts what Romney has certified as true.

On that point, the Obama campaign cites snippets of a few news clippings to make a case that Romney was still a part-time manager of Bain after he left to run the Olympics. But a close reading shows these news accounts don’t contradict Romney either.

Fortune Magazine, July 2, 2012

Remember, Romney did not leave Bain Capital as part of a long-term, planned succession process. Instead, his departure was fairly sudden — borne of a desire to help salvage an Olympic Games that was $1.4 billion in the hole and tarred by a massive bribery scandal. The very first reports of Romney being considered for the Salt Lake City job were on Feb. 2, 1999. Just nine days later, he officially took over.

Not surprisingly, Bain Capital hadn’t worked out all the details of Romney’s departure. It eventually would discard the CEO position in favor of a horizontal management committee made up of numerous partners, and provide Romney with a golden parachute that included limited partnership interests in all Bain-related funds raised through 2009 (including the option for Romney to invest additional monies). But none of that was in place when Romney took the Salt Lake City job.

Moreover, unwinding a private equity firm’s ownership structure is extremely complicated. The “firm” itself is largely a legal construct of convenience, since it doesn’t pay salaries, make investments or do much of anything else. Instead, what matters are the individual funds.

In the case of Bain Capital’s funds, it’s reasonable to assume that Romney was considered a “key man,” meaning that each fund’s limited partners could have voted to end the fund’s investment period — or take over fund management themselves — if a super-majority felt it prudent. But that didn’t happen, and Bain saw no reason to expend massive administrative effort to amend existing funds. Instead, it asked Romney to sign documents when necessary, and made the managerial/ownership changes on new funds going forward….

The part about lying to the SEC is absurd, since the SEC doesn’t require an owner to be the operational decision-maker (Romney delegated such responsibilities, as is his right).

Question to gain admittance to the blog:

The top 10% pay 70 % of our countries taxes, while almost half the country PAY NOTHING !!! A) How is this fair, and B) when do you nanny staters stop suckling on the teat of Uncle Sam ?

The Republicans have been responsible for the two largest depressions in the past 100 years, Hoover and Bush. When the Democrats are in power the country thrives. For years I have asked Republicans to name three specific things that they have done to improve this country. No takers yet. Keep it up ED.you're not so far to the left. Todays Republican party is so far to the right that the sainted Reagan would be drummed out of it. Their fight to disenfranchise millions of Americans is a last ditch effort to grab control and adjust the voting laws so that only rich white men will be able to vote. It's the only way they can continue with the demographic changes that are coming.

Before you vote in Nov. 2012, think about the following.

Looking back thru the past 4 years, many "Whens" pop up. Read them all to better understand where we have gone and are going as a country.

WHEN - he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan, Muramar Kaddafi and Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - it was pointed out that he was a total newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - his voting record in the Illinois Senate and in theU.S. Senate came into question, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he refused to wear a flag lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he surrounded himself in the White House with advisors who were pro-gun control, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he said he favors sex education in kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - his personal background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco - a man of questionable character and who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home - people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he started appointing White House Czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist /Communists, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he stood before the Nation and told us that his intentions were to "fundamentally transform this Nation" into something else, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed cabinet members and several advisers who were tax cheats and socialists, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed a Science Czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed Cass Sunstein as Regulatory Czar who believes in "Explicit Consent," harvesting human organs without family consent and allowing animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual and organizer of a group called Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Education Network as Safe School Czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed Mark Lloyd as Diversity Czar who believes in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth, who supports Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - Valerie Jarrett, an avowed Socialist, was selected as Obama's Senior White House Advisor, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director, said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed Carol Browner, a well known socialist as Global Warming Czar working on Cap and Trade as the nation's largest tax, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as Green Energy Czar, who since had to resign when this was made known, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for Health and Human Services Secretary could not be confirmed because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - as President of the United States , he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, people said it didn't matter..

WHEN - he traveled around the world criticizing Americaand never once talking of her greatness, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - his actions concerning the Middle East seemed to support the Palestinians over Israel, our long time ally, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile defense system against the Russians, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops early-on when the Field Commanders said they were necessary to win, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions, and individuals that got him elected, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc., people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the government, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he claimed he was a Christian during the election and tapes were later made public that showed Obama speaking to a Muslim group and 'stating' that he was raised a Muslim, was educated as a Muslim, and is still a Muslim, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the United States through Cap and Trade, people said it didn't matter. - It's your decision. I believe it does matter. How about you?

WHEN - November 2012 comes, it does and will matter who you vote for.

Cynical, You must have been up all night doing bogus research to come up with your dribble and lies on this post. At least everything I posted is true and can be fact checked for accuracy. I could take each one of yours individually and dispute it as false, but you would never believe the truth anyway. So sad.

If was the owner of Bain Capital after 1999 he was responsible for everything they did. He's such a big liar.

one day prolly when you have to get out of mommy+daddys basement and pay taxes you idiots on left will wake up if i smoked dope i'd watch Ed Show

Go check out obamas private sector job record..

Oh wait, he does not have one, dude has been living off the tax payers coat tails his whole life.

He has never had to meet a payroll, meet a budget, lead a company, etc.