From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

I'm so in love.

That's President Obama impressively on key.

This week, the Romney campaign sampled that footage in an attack ad,

saying that Obama's love is directed at his well-heeled Washington cronies and fundraisers.

It was Romney's retaliation for Obama's attack ad last week,

accusing the warbling Republican of outsourcing jobs in his private sector days.

This week, we start with money, who's got it, who's spending it, and how much they should be required to reveal about it.

Romney's camp charged that the president was rewarding his fundraisers with jobs

and stimulus money. But how are we to know that Romney's backers are not similarly advantaged?

Here's how Romney's advisor Ed Gillespie said in a conference call with reporters, quote,

Governor Romney's contributors are made public.

They're disclosed, and we're going to continue to do that, unquote.

So, who's more transparent?

This week, the candidates are making that the big question.

And yet Tuesday, the Disclose Act,

which would have allowed you to better know the people behind super PACs, was smothered

in the Senate by filibuster without earning a single Republican vote. The Huffington Post's

Dan Froomkin has been following the Disclose Act. Dan, welcome to the show. Thank you so much.

It's great to be here. I know maybe it's wrong to ask this of a Huffington Post reporter,

which is, you know, an avowedly liberal

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