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Rick Santorum pumps his fist at a rally wearing a sweater vest.

I find it amazing that one man using one word on a stage in front of a couple hundred people can start a national debate over snobbery. ( I am not talking about the shutter of judgement that went down my spine when I heard Mitt Romney say "Mornin' Y'All" and "Cheesey Grits"). No, Rick Santorum calling President Obama a snob is still with us, probably longer than his campaign would like thanks to a drawn out explanation that led to Santorum admitting yesterday that his wife, Karen Santorum let him know that while it is quite alright to say there is something "snobbish" about what Santorum (falsely) claimed the President said, he should not call the Commander-in-Chief a "snob".  

But now we are left with the aftermath of the snob. Rick Santorum admitted last Sunday that he actually agreed with what the President had actually said, that people should have options for education beyond just a 4 year degree and it turns out some others have found truth in what Rick Santorum said. 

You can now add President Barack Obama to the list of people Harvey Weinstein has rejected.

The Hollywood movie exec told the Times of London earlier this week that the President of the United States pitched him a book to turn into a movie. And Weinstein turned him down.

“The President sent me a book the other day and said ‘Why don’t you make this into a movie?’” Weinstein said. “I can’t tell you [what it was]. It was a spy novel.”

How did Weinstein brush off the leader of the free world?

“I sent him an email back saying he was the most overqualified book scout I’ve ever had,” recounted Weinstein.

The Huffington Post reports that Weinstein has donated over $75,000 to democratic campaigns this election cycle, including a $35,800 check to Obama's own campaign.

For those of you who think the president should make better use of his time, NPR has compiled a list of former Commanders in Chief who also meddled in the movie business. Maybe President Obama is more like Ronald Reagan than we know...

Below are the links to all of the "Very Last Word" videos from this week. Enjoy exclusive web interviews from all of our New York guests and of course our host, Lawrence O'Donnell. Above is my favorite video from the week - former campaign staffer Nicolle Wallace talking about the film"Game Change," which debuts this Saturday on HBO at 9:00 pm.

• California Attorney General Kamala Harris and the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza preview the upcoming general election between President Obama and as of now - an unknown Republican candidate.  
• MSNBC political analyst Karen Finney wonders why people are still listening to Rush Limbaugh after his offensive remarks about law student Sandra Fluke.
• Washington columnist EJ Dionne says what Limbaugh said about Fluke was "truly scandalous."
• George Washington University student Will Healy talks about the big issues on his college campus.
• Lawrencerecaps his trip to Washington and the "great debate" between him and Ann Coulter.
• Salon.com's Steve Kornacki breaks down the Super Tuesday exit polls out of Ohio.
• Santorum supporter and author, Eric Metaxas, says Senator Santorum is "the most genuine and most humble politician he's met in his life."
• The Daily Voice editor, Keith Boykin, reminisces about his former Harvard Law colleague Barack Obama and his uncanny ability to unify people.
• Our Thursday dream team of Alex Wagner and Chris Hayes talk about the upcoming Obama documentary.
• Lawrence talks about the momentin HBO's "Game Change" that absolutely blew him away.

Mitt Romney - former Massachusetts Governor and GOP Presidential candidate - wants you to know that he likes grits. Grits, a porridge prepared and eaten mostly in the South, became a talking point for the candidate when he credited his aide, Garrett Jackson, with turning him into an "unofficial Southerner." Romney went on to say that he was learning to say "ya'll" and that, "strange things are happening" to him.

The comments were made at a rally in Pascagoula, Mississippi Wednesday afternoon - presumably in an attempt to help humanize the frontrunner after a string of gaffes have led to criticisms that he is out of touch. The gaffes include, but are not limited to, saying that corporations are people, placing a ten thousand dollar bet during a debate, saying he wasn't concerned about the very poor and that he may have had illegal immigrants working for him.

Even as the 2012 primary season rolls on, questions about Romney's ability to win over southern voters loom large days before the Mississippi and Alabama primaries on Tuesday. However, he has more delegates than Rick Santorum and it is doubtful that anyone can unseat him as the presumptive nominee in the general election - despite his lack of connection with voters.

Since it was posted on Monday, more than 40 million people have now watched that short film "Kony 2012" online. The video was created by the Organization Invisible Children to bring attention to atrocities committed in Central Africa over the past thirty years by a small army of religious zealots called the Lords Resistance Army. Invisible Children has raised millions of dollars using social media and film in the U.S. to support charities for schools and education.

Critics have been questioning the group's financing and overall message. Invisible Children later released the following statement, addressing those concerns:

This statement is our official response to some of these articles and is a source for accurate information about Invisible Children's mission, financials and approach to stopping LRA violence.

Invisible Children's mission is to stop LRA violence and support the war-affected communities in East and Central Africa. These are the three ways we achieve this mission; each is essential:

George Washington University hosted a free form political debate between "liberal warrior" Lawrence O’Donnell and "conservative maverick" Ann Coulter (not my monikers, see poster). Moderated by professor Frank Sesno, the event covered issues in the current news cycle: contraception as a part of medical insurance, the race for a Republican presidential nominee, Iran, Israel, Rush Limbaugh, the legal drinking age — a topic on the minds of many college students.

College Democrats president Joe Maniscalco first greeted The Last Word crew and I at Lisner Auditorium in D.C. The doors soon opened and students began to spill in. I also met Elaine Cuasay and April Sands, Twitter followers of @TheLastWord who received tickets from Lawrence online.

Team Obama turned to Hollywood for a lengthy promo video short documentary. The loveable Tom Hanks narrates the 17-minute video capturing President Obama's dramatic first term in office (matched with a dramatic soundtrack, naturally). And Academy Award-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim directed the short, which was described in the newly released trailer as a "film about determination and progress." Vice President Biden, Rahm Emanuel and Elizabeth Warren make cameos.

Back in 2008, ties to Tinsel Town became the subject of campaign attack ads. John McCain called Obama the "biggest celebrity in the world," up there with Britney Spears and Paris "I'll-see-you-at-the-debates-bitches" Hilton.

"The Road We’ve Traveled" makes its debut online on March 15.

Here are some links that are making us think, as we prep for tonight's show.

• Why isn't the GOP race over?
• Santorum for vice president?
• A highly unequal U.S. economic recovery
• The last days of Osama Bin Laden
• Obama campaign finding voters with high-tech tools
• "KONY 2012" video goes after African rebel leader
• Gingrich solely focusing on Southern strategy
• What did Harry Reid promise Bob Kerrey?
• Sen. John Kerry slams Romney on Iran
• Rev. Al Sharpton's latest civil rights crusade
• Vice President Biden to GOP: "Have another 20 debates"
• Scott Brown's Mitt Romney problem
• Biggest solar storm in years hits
• The real cost of living: $150,000 minimum
• Director James Cameron plans deepest ocean dive ever
• Subject to debate: Are women people?
• Wild turkey terrorizes Michigan woman
• Is prostitution really the world's oldest profession?

In the latest Rewrite, Lawrence O'Donnell explains what the results from Super Tuesday's vote show about religious intolerance in American politics.

On Super Tuesday, Republican primary voters in Ohio were asked, "How much does it matter to you that a candidate shares your religious beliefs? 1). A great deal 2). Somewhat 3). Not much 4). Not at all."

Only 18-percent of Republican voters in Ohio say they cast their votes without any religious prejudice at all. Meanwhile, the rest of the media and exit poll analysts were only interested in which candidates these people voted for.

Mitt Romney, for instance, lost badly among the 29 percent who cared about the religion of the candidate the most. Yet, he won decisively among those voters who said they didn't care about religious beliefs at all.

Like Sandra Fluke, President Obama once took a stand in law school. Buzzfeed.com exclusively licensed an old video of a young Barack Obama from the archives of WGBH, Boston’s PBS station. The video shows him speaking at a protest in favor of controversial professor Derrick Bell, who pushed for Harvard to give tenure to minority and female law professors.

The Barack Obama of the early ‘90s in the video sounds like same guy we know today. At that time, he was only president of the Harvard Law Review. If anything, he just sounded a tad more leftie. He had less gray hairs then, but there's no "Aha" or "WTF" moment.

Right before conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s untimely death last week, he said he planned to release a tape of Obama talking about race that would alter the course of the 2012 presidential election. This video was supposed to be the smoking gun, as the GOP might say, proving Obama's radical political beliefs.

Breitbart’s website didn’t deny this was the same video. But called the Buzzfeed tape "selectively edited." The organization says it be will “releasing additional footage that has been hidden by Obama's allies in the mainstream media and academia.”

Buzzfeed has denied those editing claims.

PBS just stepped into the fray, vouching for Buzzfeed's credibility by posting the whole video of the rally. In a statement posted to Frontline, PBS said while Buzzfeed did not post the whole video of the event, they did, in fact, post Obama's portion in full.

While everyone painstakingly waited for a winner in Ohio, Lawrence O'Donnell said such murky outcomes for the Republican candidates was proof President Obama was "clearly the winner." No Republican was able to go into the state with a message compelling enough to earn a formidable win. Here are some headlines shaping the aftermath.

• Romney wins ugly — again
• Romney weaknesses brought into relief
• Obama campaign releasing 17-minute documentary
• Newt Gingrich is not dropping out 
• Scott Brown beating Elizabeth Warren
• Axelrod: If Romney can't condemn Limbaugh, "how can he stand up to Ahmadinejad?"
• Rush Limbaugh says sponsors are like french fries
• Like Sandra Fluke, President Obama took a stand in law school
• Andrew Sullivan: Romney wants to turn us into Europe
• Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker caught in red-handed lie
• Pentagon reviews options in Syria 
• Pat Robertson calls for relaxed marijuana laws
• Apple announces new iPad
• Dennis Kuchinich vows to stay in Ohio
• Unexpected TV ratings facts

Romney walked away from Super Tuesday as the biggest winner, including narrowly snatching up the prized victory in Ohio. The morning-after, he said he feels "pretty darn good" about it.

In addition to Ohio, NBC News projected Romney as the winner in Vermont, Massachusetts, Idaho, Virginia, Alaska and Wyoming. This marks a clear turning point in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination.

NBC News projections show Santorum won Tennessee, Oklahoma and North Dakota. Only a few thousand votes separated him and Romney in Ohio — a strong showing considering Team Romney dumped much more money into it. And winning in his home state, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich won Georgia.

Romney has a 2-to-1 advantage in convention delegates over his current rival Rick Santorum. No other candidates seem willing to drop out just yet.

"We're going to win a few, we're going to lose a few. But as it looks right now, we're going to get at least a couple gold medals and a whole passel full of silver medals," Santorum said last night. "We have won in the West and the Midwest and the South, and we're ready to win across this country."

Romney hasn’t been able to put the primary race to bed, even though he's winning the numbers game. He said today he's got the time, resources and a plan to see his campaign through November and again dismissed talk of a brokered convention in August.

"There's not going to be a brokered convention where some new person comes in," Romney told CNBC. "It's going to be one of the four people already running."

Sarah Palin is waiting in the wings and "open" to possibilities, she would like you to know, hint hint, should there be a brokered convention.

Super Tuesday is the granddaddy of all primary season days, with 424 delegates up for grabs. That's more than any other one day this election cycle. Eleven states across the country held contests — Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and Wyoming .

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Rick Santorum supporters hold the U.S. flag as they stand on a truck outside the site of the candidate's "Super Tuesday" primary party in Steubenville, Ohio.

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Mitt and Ann Romney talking to the press after casting votes on Super Tuesday in Belmont, Massachusetts.

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"I'm a Georgia Voter" stickers on display at a polling station in Sandy Springs, Georgia.