>> trace: but it was indeed a date that would live in infamy 70 years ago. for this harbor day we are grateful for those who serve. that's it for "the fox report." o'reilly is next. >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" from washington is on. tonight: >> i believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot. >> president obama's channeling teddy roosevelt, saying that america's economic problems are caused by greedy big business. but is that true? we will have analysis. >> don't you think a holiday tree -- a holiday tree. what holiday is it, governor? >> jesse watters visits rhode island governor lincoln chafee over the christmas holiday tree controversy. we'll show you what happened there. >> my fellow americans, night i humbly come before you to declare war on

christmas. >> and once again our pal jon stewart mocking the war on christmas scenario. we have a reply to that. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone from d.c. the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly, reporting tonight from washington. thanks for watching us. president obama channeling teddy roosevelt, that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. as you may know president roosevelt despised capitalism even though he was a rich guy himself. did he not like monopolies or rich organizations exploiting american workers. he fought hard to get fairness into the private marketplace. now president obama says he wants to do the same thing in the face of a faltering economy. >> i believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot. when everyone does their fair

share. [ applause ] >> when everyone plays by the same rules. these aren't democratic values or republic values. these aren't 1% values or 99% values. they are american values. and we have to reclaim them. >> bill: okay, nice speech. the problem is mr. obama seems to be blaming the bad economy on wealthy americans and corporate greed heads. talking points believes that is a reuse. there is no question some companies are piggish. they short change their workers while lavishing benefits on executives. private companies can do pretty much what they want in the compensation area. personally, i won't do business with exploitative people and all americans should consider that philosophy. president obama says he is angry about corporate abuse. well then why hasn't he condemned government mortgage agencies fannie mae and freddie mac they owe we the american people $40 billion. they are lavishing bonuses on

top executives. the president could do something about that so far he has chosen not to. so, once again, i'm a bit skeptical of about mr. obama's motives here. it's certainly possible that he doesn't know how to recharge the economy so he is blaming fat cats in order to create a distraction. today the "new york times" laid out the true liberal agenda on the economy saying quote elected officials can step in to keep competition fair and ensure the government has enough money to protect the vulnerables. there it is the "times" and many liberal americans want elected officials, that's the government, to run the private sector, to dictate who gets what hello cuba. unlike some obama commentators i don't believe the president is a socialist. i think he is an ardent liberal who wants income equality and believes the feds should impose that some say that is socialism. it's close, no question. the difference is mr. obama not proposed seizing private

assets. he does want the wealthy to carry most of the tax burden. president obama's administration has not served america's economic problems. and talking points believes it has run out of ideas. so now the only play, the only play is to convince voters that greed heads are holding the economy back. and we must take more from them. i don't believe the american people are going to buy that. but i could be wrong. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. just two republicans, newt gingrich and rick san forum have agreed to a debate moderated by donald trump at the end of this month. joining us from our new york studios to analyze the purveyor of dick morris.com and the author of big new children's book dubs goes to washington. what about this trump debate deal? mitt romney says is he not going, ron paul is not going, huntsman is not going to go. first of all why do you think there is resistance to mr. trump. >> any debate ron paul and huntsman are not in would be a really good debate.

think think that romney should go. i think he will go. i think he is being foolish for saying no. originally i guess they were they saw it as limited tv exposure, news max the group sponsoring it has a wide reach and i suspect by the time the debate happens it will be on a great tv screens throughout the country. we reached a tipping point in that foreign policy debate the last big one where the american enterprise institute and the cato institute asked the questions. not some tv anchor person who doesn't know anything about anything. and you really had good questions, substantive questions. i think it would be terrific to have donald trump ask these guys what they are going to do about the economy and then critique their answers and engage in a give and take. i think romney should jump at that opportunity. this is his issue. frankly when you are 15 points behind you go to debates. >> bill: okay.

i don't disagree with any of that if i were the candidate i would go to trump's debate and make fun of trump like i do here. by referring it that anchorman reference you are not referring to me rumor his. >> you are not an anchorman you are a commentator. >> bill: i am in a way. i thought i would have to slap you around. >> anchor management. >> bill: very good. now gallup poll out today has gingrich in a big lead. it correspondence to herman cain's being out of the race. all, it seems, of herman cain's support has gone over to newt gingrich which is very bad news for rick perry, by the way, ohio think their campaign thought they would pick up some of herman cain's support. they haven't picked up any. in fact, perry is down a point. romney, i don't know if they expected to pick up any herman cain support two very different people. but, it is now a two-man race according to gallup. do you buy into that? >> i think that the evidence is certainly pointing that way. there is a big debate on saturday night and i think that will be decisive.

>> bill: it's not really a big debate because nobody is going to watch it saturday night in the christmas season, nobody is there to watch it i think the fox news debate and i am not saying this to be jinguistic. i love that word. fox debate tomorrow is going to be the slam dunk knockout debate a week from tomorrow fox news. everybody will be watching. >> well, i think these debates are certainly going to be very important now. it's no longer of a question if you campaign in iowa and then that effects the country. you campaign nationally over fox and other networks in the debates and then that imposes if you won iowa. >> no doubt about it. >> bill: let me put you. >> voters who started off with bachmann and then they went to perry and then they went to cain and now they are at gingrich. >> bill: all right, morris, we know all of that des moines register says 600% of juans might change their vote. that's enormous. i will have you advise romney

and have you advise gingrich. okay? first romney. romney is running third second in iowa, but well behind newt gingrich. he has got four weeks to make up the ground and the voters say they are willing to listen. so what does romney do to convince iowaians to go for him and not gingrich or one of the others? >> i'm going to answer your question but it's within the context of my not supporting either of these guys. i will articulate the case for each of them. i like them both. the case for romney against gingrich is i have been a businessman for my whole life. i have created hundreds, if not -- hundreds of thousands of jobs. >> >> bill: he has done that. he is doing it. >> it will be effective against newt. i think he can really in effect say if you want someone who specialized in the economy, that's me. and i think the other thing. >> bill: morris, wait. do you not hear me in your ear piece? that's what he has done for the past five months.

i think he has got to do something different. that's been his message. >> and the second message will be because i think it will be effective against gingrich. second message should be i can win. the very factors that make him a hard sell in the primary, romney care being pro-choice and before -- that kind of stuff, gay civil unions. those all make him much more acceptable in a general election. >> bill: that's a slap at gingrich if he says i can win and he can't win. that's what's going to have to be. >> i don't think he can make the case that newt can't win. i think he can make the case that he has a better chance of winning than gingrich does. i think a lot of republicans could care less who gets the nomination. they just want someone to beat obama. >> what would you tell gingrich to keep his lead? what should he do? >> everybody agrees is he more conservative than romney. everybody agrees that he sticks to his positions more than mitt does. those are the two things he needs to stress.

gingrich is sui generous. he is in a category by himself. what he needs to do is what he always does, go out there and be brilliant and on 00 strength of his intellect get votes. >> bill: he has to do more of the same and romney has to just kind of tweak it a little bit over to say look, can i beat this obama guy and gingrich might not be able to. dick morris, everybody, dubbs on dick morris.com. michele bachmann ambush in south carolina by an 8-year-old boy. we will show you what happened and it's pretty troubling. then later once again jon stewart sticking up for the anti-christmas forces. we are coming right back from washington. we know a place where tossing and turning have given way to sleeping. where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep. and lunesta can help you get there, like it has for so many people before.

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>> that mother using her will-year-old boy to make a political point to the congresswoman. joining us now from new york political commentator and gay activist sally colmes. that disturbs me. it was obvious the little boy was coached what to say fixing. 8-year-olds don't say stuff like that. they don't talk about gay controversies. and so he was told what to do. he hesitated as you saw on the tape. and i don't thi that's right. i think that mother did this child a disservice. so, what say you? >> yeah. i disagree with you. bill. i actually -- i have a 3-year-old. ry know a lot of 8-year-olds. anyone with a kid knows there ain't much you can make them do or tell them to do and also that they can be shy. look, i suspect that this kid, and second of all, you know, kids aren't raised in vacuums. they see the political

discourse going around them. this kid probably sees his family, his mother being attacked by politicians like michele bachmann. and no doubt he has a very clear opinion that his mom is a great mom. and shouldn't be a political football, so good for him. >> bill: i think you are living in a land of oz. i have an 8-year-old son. i know more 8-year-olds than you know. i know tons of them. none of them are thinking about gay rights. none of them. none of them would say as this child did my mommy is gay but she doesn't need any particularsing. that's not what an 8-year-old would say. i am telling you sally you are a absolutely dead wrong. if this mother wanted to say it herself, that's fine. she is online. she is buying a book. she goes up there. you say it, lady. let your kid be a kid not be a political commentator to a sitting congresswoman. >> sure. >> bill: i think it's appalling. i really do. it's doesn't help her cause or

the gay cause at all because i know 90% of people watching right now agree with me. >> well, i appreciate your confidence. look, i know that if that kid had gone up and said look, please make sure that my mommy can have a good paying job or please make sure i can afford to go to college you probably wouldn't be be be objecting. >> bill: i would be objecting. i don'ti don't think you use 8-year-old children or any children to make political points. if you want to come up and say something to the congress person and you are a woman and aan adult you have a perfect right to do that as long as do you it respectfully but not a child. you don't coach and use a child to make political points it's cheap and it doesn't help the child. he is confused. he doesn't know what's going on. >> oh see again, i disagree. he very much knows what's going on. >> bill: wait, you think this kid elijah knows who michele bachmann is? are you kidding me? >> come on, you are not giving this 8-year-old a lot of

credit. frankly suggesting that he is confused very clear on is we don't know what happened. we don't know the conversation. the reality is i know there are a lot of americans out there unlike me and you who don't feel they get to get their political opinions heard. who don't feel that politicians listen to them. they only listen to the corporations that put big money in their pockets and she came up -- >> bill: the woman should have said that the woman should have spoken for herself and she could have referenced her child. she could have said here is my child elijah and i'm a responsible mom. i'm doing the same thing that you did congresswoman bachmann. i'm trying to raise him as a good american and a moral person and i would appreciate, you know, a little more open-mindedness on your part. then everybody would applaud the mother. >> true. >> bill: this is cowardly. she is hiding behind this kid. >> bill, with all due respect if she just done that we wouldn't be having this conversation. so in a way she did what she thought was appropriate to get this into the public conversation and moreover, again, i know i can't tell my 3-year-old what to say or do i'm pretty arey sure she couldn't tell an 8-year-old.

>> bill: come on. you can't say tell your 3-year-old what to say and do. 3-year-old is going to have trouble when he is 13. all right? look, this is a situation where i don't like, you say i'm optimistic about people agreeing with me. i'm telling you, i don't think people like children being ejected into controversies, political controversies that are far beyond their understanding, far beyond their understanding. an 8-year-old doesn't know what homosexuality. >> yes they do. >> nor should they. they don't know or understand what it is. they may know the term. they may know that mom and dad are different, okay? but they don't understand it they are not emotionally equipped to understand it. to inject an 8-year-old into this, to a sitting congresswoman, i just -- there is nothing right with this. i will give you the last word. >> where i disagree, bill, what this kid does know in his innocent happy 8-year-old bubble is he has a good mom who, i don't know if she is partnered or not. but he has a good mom who is a

lesbian. he knows that what's injected into thinks world is the ventricle none and vitriol that michele bachmann brings. that is using his family as a political football. >> you can protect your children from that stuff. thanks for the debate. jon stewart once again becoming involved with christmas controversies. we will answer back. and then dennis miller on rod blagojevich going to prison for a long time. right back. i take an omega for my heart.

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have. >> fact for follow up segment tonight, jesse watters will confront lincoln chief about his refusal to call a christmas tree a christmas tree. but, first, our pal jon stewart is following the various christmas controversies very closely.

>> it's fox's war on christmas it's back. this year's did he go cyst signature nateed scrooge rhode island governor and steve doocy impersonator. [ laughter ] lincoln chiefy. -- chafey. he had the audacity to invite americans to a tree lighting or judging by the reaction a jesus tipping. >> it's a christmas tree keep christ in christmas. >> why do these pilgrims brave incredibly difficult conditions to live here, die here and to try to start a new way of life. >> religious freedom. >> and now religious freedoms is on the rocks. >> yes. yes lady wearing cross on television. [ laughter ] >> religious freedom is on the rocks. the rocks.

of course not as on the rocks as it was in the 17th century when your friends, the pilgrims outlawed christmas celebrations as a sacrilege and declared christmas and a fine on anyone saying merry christmas. fox, you take for granted the you bic equity of christmas. if there has been a war, christmas is the ayeser nation. right now every public space in the country looks like it got hit with a 500-pound tinsel bomb. the white house looks like a yuletide episode of hoarders. [ laughter ] many of these displays are subsidized by, what's that thing you don't want to spend on anything? taxpayer money. what if we all did go back to always calling them as christmas trees and saying merry christmas?

would that make you happy? >> the good news is now some retailers are going back to using the word christmas again. are they just doing it to make a quick buck? and if so, are you okay with that? >> we can't win. [ laughter ] sure they're saying merry christmas but do they mean it and the way we want them to mean that jesus is their safer? >> bill: now, there is no question that mr. stewart is going to hell but he does have a couple of valid points. first of all, the pilgrim slash puritans did not tolerate any outward signs of religion including christmas decorations that is true. can you go overboard with the christmas stuff and some retailers absolutely do that. the general theme of antireligious people wanting to diminish christmas is real. up until a few years ago they were making tremendous strides but then the courts began to rule against the secularists and in support of freedom of expression. the 80% of americans who do call themselves christians are entitled to say whatever they

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>> bill: the governor of rhode island lincoln chafee reefs to acknowledge that the tree the state puts up is indeed a

christmas tree. the governor believes it is a holiday tree. we sent factor producer jesse watters up to see mr. chafee. >> hey, governor? jesse watters with fox news. could we talk to you for one second? >> sure. >> we just wanted to know who exactly does a christmas tree offend? >> i'm continuing the past practice previous governors have instituted and calling it a holiday celebration it goes back to governor almond and maybe before him. it's continue ago past practice. >> don't you think you calling it a holiday tree offends more people than a christmas tree. >> that's a debate that's been going on for many years. when i was in grade school we used to say the lord's prayer. that no longer has occurred in public schools. this is a continuing debate about the mixing of religion and government. >> but christmas is a federal holiday. you don't want to repeal that, do you? >> no, this ongoing debate about this subject and as i

just said the lord's prayer in schools, one of those. and, of course, the case has gone to the supreme court and here in rhode island. but the pawtucket case, the crash that was on that can a reh on the town hall property. make sure the purity of theology is kept separate from the pollution of government. >> don't you think a holiday tree, i mean, a holiday tree, what holiday is t? it? what holiday is it, governor? >> the roger williams stuff is bologna. a christmas tree signifies no religion at all. just a reminder of the assassin. anyway, hundreds turned out for the holiday tree lighting in providence. and jesse was there. ♪ ♪ >> this is a holiday tree. >> looks like a christmas tree to me. >> absolutely it's a christmas tree. >> they are calling it the holiday tree. >> he is wrong.

he has been wrong on so many issues he is wrong again. >> a holiday tree for governor gump. >> stupid is as stupid does. >> what do you think is behind all this nonsense. >> i think it's a lot of political correctness. >> he is kind of known to be a rogue, i think. >> that was part of that gordon -- going rogue stuff. >> don't impose your personal feelings on me and the people of rhode island. >> maybe mr. chafee has a heart that's two sizes too small. >> his heart was two sizes too small. >> why is he trying to take christ out of christmas? >> that's a good question. >> for me it's a christmas tree but if other folks are more comfortable with holiday tree that's fine with me. >> i think religion is trouble. >> and you are a minister? >> yeah. >> you go out and you buy a christmas tree. you wish your family and friends a merry christmas. >> ho ho ho. >> what holiday are they celebrating? >> christmas and kwanzaa and hanukkah. >> it's a kwanzaa tree? >> sure.

>> happy christmas kwanzaa and payingen pagan too. >> put on your -- time for hanukkah. >> it's not a holiday tree it's a christmas tree. >> are you offended to be calling it a hole at a tree. >> absolutely 100%. >> those christian also have to duke it out with the governor. >> if there is anyone who know what is christmas is all about? >> how many people have we burned at the stake in this country based on quote unquote religious ideals. >> what country are you from? >> that ain't no country ever heard of. >> what do you think about this controversy? >> i think it's child like ♪ ♪ >> i thought it was pretty gutsy of him not to come forward, address the cloud and instead press a button and went away. >> anything you want to say to bill? >> yes. tell him a patriot. >> bill, i love you. you are great. i watch every evening. >> i wish i had a teacher like

him when i was in school. i would have had a crush on him, definitely. >> i stop work at 8:00 just to watch you. blue, please, you have got to have more watters world. >> santa is not a fox fan. >> no. >> the real santa is a factor fan. how many people did we burn at the stake? when we come right back from washington. dennis miller on the blagojevich going to prison for a long stretch. madonna performing at the super bowl. miller is next.

thanks for staying with us. i'm bill o'reilly reporting from washington. in the former segment rod blagojevich sentenced to 14 years in prison by the judge in chicago.

convicted of trying to sell barack obama's vacant senate seat among other things will begin serving his sentence in a few weeks. joining us from los angeles to analyze the sage of southern california dennis miller. you have got a watters comment before we get to blago, right? >> what was with lincoln chafee? the guy had more nervous ticks than a baghdad parking valet for god's sake. he is such a p.c. narcissist no doubt he wants christmas trees to be called lincoln logs. lincoln chafee is just a small man making grandiose pronouncement about minor issues in an effort to look larger than life. that's all that he is. >> all right. now, blagojevich, getting hammered. even though we asked the court for mercy. 14 years and he will -- in a federal time got to do 85% of it so he is 54. we will see him when he is 70 years old. what do you think?

>> 14 years for what? i'm sure blago goes back home tonight thinking i'm getting 14 years in the big house for essentially many of the same things that barack obama finally got four years in the white house for. this is the coin of the realm in chicago. i can't believe. bill, wasn't i watching you the other nightenned had you a story on megyn's law? trying to get a 10 year minute mum for child molesters in illinois? blago is a bit of a political scum bag. i think most of them are. i can't believe is he getting 14 years up the river for what they won't give 10 out to for a child molester in illinois. >> bill: let me make the point here that chicago in illinois is political corruption is epidemic, it's epidemic, all right? so when they catch and convict as they did blagojevich and it costs federal government millions of dollars to put the case together and did he it you could hear them on the tape trying to get something

for appointment for barack obama senate seat when he left to run for the presidency. you have got to send a message, miller, have you got to send a message. he will be out in 68, not 70. i don't think you let this stuff go because these guys are given the faith of the people. never given the power. they abuse the power. you have got to send them up. >> well, we just disagree on the length, billy. i think that what rod blagojevich does probably happens every day in chicago illinois. i think it's like holding in the nfl. i think they could call in on every play if they wanted to. i think they cherry picked. listen, i'm no big fan. by the way, there is a silver lining, because i hear his hairdo caught the separate plea and walking today on his own recognizance. he is going to go up river. 14 years seems crazy to me because i think they all do it that way. >> they want to stop it and they being the federal government, this was a federal beef by the way. not a state beef. i think the feds want to stop it and the way to stop it is say if we do catch you, you

are going to get hurt. we are not going to look away. that is a worthy message. >> i will assume that that is stopped out there in chicago now. probably not. huh? >> look, we know that illinois is problematic. i'm optimistic guy about america. we want to clean it up. and these guys, these gangsters, and i would have given them. i would have probably given them 10. >> what about the point i brought up earlier. you can speak to just a second about that megan's law thing? that's amazing. >> you can't speak to it because the six states, hawaii, idaho, colorado, illinois, vermont and new jersey that will not protect their children. there is just no excuse for it you can lawyer up all day long but there is no excuse for it. >> you should know that if you want to go to illinois and offer senatorship to somebody in the payola 14. they have much more wider

parameters on this. >> it seems crazy to me. like you said, it's a federal thing as as opposed to a state thing. rebranding newt gingrich. you were talking about this on your radio program. what does that mean? >> well, listen, i think that if newt gingrich has had an epiphany in life and he has had some road to damascus moment where because of the love of a good woman and two grandchildren and return to catholicism, he seen the light in some way, i think that's tough to go after the guy on that point. they are going to say a lot about him. but i'm hoping that he is either had an epiphany or smart enough to know he has had an epiphany. i can't figure out what it is yet. but easy bumper sticker for it all. new gingrich. get rid of the t. say i have seen the light and hope somewhere in his hard drive when it gets ugly and it is going to get ugly with barack obama he has still got

a little ugly left in the hard drive to combat these people with. >> bill: he will come back. he would be smart, don't you think, not to come back on a personal basis. i think you are right. i think his pitch is, look, i converted to catholicism. i know i have done wrong in my past but we're all sinners. i believe in redemption. don't -- please don't judge me. and i can help the nation. he keeps it there, as you say, can be hard to attack and it still will. i don't think he should get in the gutter with president obama. i think he should just do it on policy. gingrich is a good policy guy. go after him on policy. >> yeah. i'm apprehensive, bill. i don't think they think barack obama can -- i know they will say he is the smartest guy who ever lived. really there is back room conversations saying wow can this guy hold up against newt gingrich in a debate? >> no, no, no. i debated him twice. interviewed him twice which were really debates the way we do it it he is fast.

he can do it, barack obama. and i don't think obama is going to attack. >> you know, newt gingrich is going to go after him hard about reverend wright. he got a pass on that last time. gingrich is going to be interesting. >> if he goes after him on reverend wright, if you are correct and gingrich goes after him on reverend writ then the gloves come off, absolutely. >> gingrich is going to say something. >> we will see. >> the material girl getting a big stage at the indianapolis superdome superdome in indianapolis for the super bowl halftime show and you say? >> well, we had to hold off on making the complete offer for a while. they wanted to see if seaworld would let go for the day and they wouldn't. they have madonna. history there. first super bowl which was the loins lyons lions versus the christians. everybody leaves just a few broken light sticks and noise

makers on the ground and she comes out to perform in cone bra nobody there. all out getting a hot dog. the way a rod and the packers are playing that game may be over by halftime. >> i think it's going to be the patriots and the packers at the game. people are going to watch madonna. >> that was a joke, billy. of course there will be. people love train wrecks, especially when they are antique trains. >> bill: i don't like the british accent, miller, that's what tees me off. she is from detroit. get rid of the accent. >> kathleen turner played higgins liza do little. >> bill: dennis miller. did you see that on deck. incredible case of welfare fraud in seattle. wait until you see this. back in a moment. last throw, prce.

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>> bill: back ever the book segment tonight, it you see that. we begin with a seattle chiropractor and his wife living in a 1.2-million-dollar single. she was living alone in this house with two kids with assets less than a thousand dollars in the bank. he claimed that he was single. he was her landlord. turns out they appear to be married. he is a chiropractor living in this beautiful home with her. she is his wife. they have two kids. they spent last eight years traveling the world to paris and moscow. they have lots of money in their banks account. she has lots of money this her bank account and they give money to charity. >> bill: let me regroup this. here they are living in a

1.2-million-dollar home we just saw. and the guy is a chiropractor which means he makes money, okay? >> yeah. >> she is a gadd fly. they received in eight years more than $100,000 in welfare payments from the feds, the state? do we know who paid them all that money. >> the feds and the state. >> they got federal and state aid, nobody bothered to come to the house and say hey, there is a pretty nice house for welfare people. nobody bothered to check them out. >> they didn't put two and two together, bill. >> bill: two and two. how about 1.2 million together? this is what i mean, huddy, this is what i am talking about. they want more of my money, all right? in taxes. >> do some investigation. >> bill: eight years, they are sending more than 800 k to these people. these drifters, and now they are charge -- i hope they go to jail, right? >> well, you know what? it's just in the civil realm. >> bill: oh man, hasn't been a criminal charge yet.

>> they went in and raided the house. they took property so they are investigating it right now. in the civil realm and they are, you know, they are due for hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> bill: they have got to go. blagojevich they have got to go in the same cell as him. >> drifters get them out of here. >> bill: huddy came up with an interesting story out of massachusetts. high school football championship game, right? >> right. >> bill: championship game. >> championship game, the super bowl. >> bill: the quarterback scores a touchdown and here is what happens, roll the tape. >> it's the play making news across the country. fourth quarter, minutes left, cathedral senior quarterback matt owens with the run of his life. a 5 yards for what appeared to be the go ahead touchdown. but, instead of six points, owens got a penalty flag. that's right, the t.d. was erased. refs ruled he violated excessive celebration when he raised his arm in the air on his way to the goal line. >> bill: are you kidding me? >> i kid you not, bill.

this is one of those life ain't fair type stories because really what the story was here, because you think when you see that story he was going to score the game winning touchdown he ran 55 yards. well, there was still six minutes left in the game. you know, the whole point though is that -- is that excessive celebration? >> bill: no, no, it's not. you are enthusiastic, you are going to score the touchdown, you raise your right hand. >> they have rules here. >> bill: what high school is. this catholic high school versus blue hill regional tech. blue hill ended up winning the game. >> bill: so cathedral high school. >> yes. >> bill: all right. and they did win the game, correct? >> blue, the other team won the game. >> bill: the other team won the game. >> this guy was rattled after he got in trouble. the flag was on that touchdown play and he actually threw an interception right after that play. >> bill: so they rattled him and blue hills regional high school in canton won the championship, they took away thed to you from this guy for doing that yup, it's wrong.

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