this monday, april the 16th, 2012. for the journalists of fox news, i'm shepard schmidt. opinion and analysis begin now on america's choice for news and info on cable. >> shepard: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight. >> if it turns out that some of the allegations that have been made in the press are confirmed, then, of course i will be angry. >> bill: huge secret service scandal. apparently the men who are guarding the president are also entertaining prostitutes. how dangerous is that? we'll have a special report. we have got to go far quickly. which means we have got to get our act together and let's start it right here. >> bill: did you know that al gor one of the cheapest guys ever when it comes to giving to charity. and joe biden isn't much better. we will tell you which politicians are generous and which are mizerly. >> you saw glenn beck on fox

news and bill o'reilly. i think that damages the fox news brand. >> bill: another far left loon telling america, that i, your humble correspondent, am in the tank for the republic party. bernie goldberg on that. caution, you're about to enter the no spin zone, the factor gibbs right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. we'll have the latest on the secret service prostitute scandal upcoming. first, talking points memo. personal generosity and social justice. president obama and vice president biden have released their 2011 tax returns. once again what they donated to charity is instructive. as you may know, the president and the democratic party in general want tax dollars to be redistributed in order to impose social justice on the nation.

republics oppose that. supporting safety nets but not cradle-to-grave entitlements. last year the president and mrs. obama made about $800,000 and they donated 22% of that to charity. very generous. the largest contribution was to the fisher house, which helps military families. but vice president biden is another story. he donated just over 1% of his entire income to charity. that's paul tri, some might say that's cheap. but that is what the vice president has done every year since he has been in office. by contrast, its estimated that mitt romney donated 19% of his 21-million-dollar income to charity last year. we won't know for sure until his tax returns are released. in his second-to-last year in office president bush the younger donated 18% of his income to charity. dick cheney donated 5.5%. however, in 2005, the cheney's donated a whopping 77% of their almost $9 million in

income to charity. bill clinton was also generous in his personal donations but not so al gore. in fact, in 1997 as vice president, gore made about $200,000. he donated $353 to charity. 0.2%. and gore is a rich guy. his father made a fortune in oil. a book called "who really cares" studied donations made by liberals and conservatives. brooks says that conservative americans give about 30% more to charity on average than households headed by liberals. and that's backed up by a google study which says conservatives give almost twice as much to charity as liberals do. there is no question that americans who believe in self-reliance are more generous to those in need than folks who espouse a federal nanny state. the importance of this data cannot be underestimated because millions of americans are now locked into a mind set that the feds will take care of the poor and the sick. and that they themselves don't have to do anything. i mean, vice president biden and al gore should be

embarrassed by their lack of generosity. charitable giving is obviously a personal matter. but it does say something about character. we're living in a very very selfish time and that trend is becoming more entrenched but the cold truth is, the federal government is almost bankrupt. so we the people have to help each other. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. reaction. joining us from atlanta, mary katharine ham and from washington juan williams, both are fox news analysts. juan, your guys biden and gore, your pals. what say you about that? [ laughter ] >> well, i guess they are not church-goers. because i think the key element that you looked over there, bill, was that really, what you see when you say conservatives give more than liberals is that conservatives are more likely to go to church. if you took giving to the olms basket out of your calculations in fact liberals would give slightly more than conservatives. it's a surprise but its true gays are the most generous in terms of their giving to charities and secular

conservatives who don't go to the church are the stingiest. i think your point is really about public policy, about the buffet rule that's being debated here in washington today. >> right. look, it's more than that i mean, when you say people tithe to their church, well, that's true, mitt romney is the best example of that but that money, okay, that goes, for example, when i go to church and i put it in the basket. that money is not going to buy cadillacs to pastors. it's catholic charities, it's going overseas. it's going to things that the catholic church does. i don't think superstitious religion people you know who they are. >> no, no, no. hey, i didn't say that. >> bill: little horns going like this. i saw them. >> i'm saying this is how people who are in the church community give to the church. >> bill: that's because he they are supposed to. if you are religious you are supposed to give and help the down trodden when you are a greed head who doesn't go to church and worships at the

altar of satan you don't have to do anything. draw pentagon pen that grams: i don't know what gore is, gore 353 bucks. you know what, mr. vice president, keep it give nothing. that's better than 353 bucks. and have you ever seen this guy's house in tennessee, mary katharine? have you ever been invited over for a solar dip in the pool? >> i think they should be embarrassed. i think they know they are going to get a pass. most of the media is not going to pick on them about. this they are liberal and they have their compassion card. >> bill: explain what's the compassion card when you don't give anything to charity. >> here is how it works. that's what i say. two different completely different versions of compassion. for conservatives they actually say i give of my heart. i give of of my free. >> bill: bill my heart? >> in my community, freely as opposed to having the government take it from me and i give it to community

services and programs that i know i can be involved with. >> bill: that's not true. these studies the book study showed that conservatives give more blood, in blood drives. >> that's what i'm saying. they give in their own communities to places they know that are accountable, that they can check up on, that they can be involved with that are close to them because actually helping people matters to conservatives. for liberals, many liberals, although many are very generous they get this compassion card for being democrats for advocating taking money from other people to serve lower income groups. here's the thing, do those problems -- do those programs actually work? that's what liberals sort of let go by the wayside. >> bill: tomorrow a report on the factor about -- wait, juan, you are stepping on my promo. >> certainly. >> bill: i have eject ter button here, juan, few that again you will go flying off the screen. >> like james bond. >> bill: tomorrow we have a program about entitlement spending and how much good it is doing. >> that's what i'm saying, rick santorum is all about

smaller government, individual responsibility and the church, i think he gave about the same thing that biden gave. i want to get back to your point. >> bill: he has got seven kids. he has got some bills and a little baby who is in and out of the hospital all the time, come on. >> i agree. but you know what? i have always given and i think you probably have, too. but i just wanted to say let's get back to the public policy, i disagree with mary katharine. i think that unless the tax system is fair, then you can't say to the middle class in this country, remember, you have had 0 plus% of republicans. 70 members of democrats who say they want the buffet rule. they want 30% tax on anybody who is making a million. what you see there, i think, people are saying unless the tax system is fair, then we can't start cutting entitlements -- >> then we form it. >> bill: wait, wait. juan, your fair is somebody else's con. i will give you an example. almost half of american workers pay no income tax, zero.

wealthy people, some, not me, some say that's not fair. they're riding on the roads. they are getting protection. they are getting all the benefits of america. they pay nothing. okay? >> they pay sales tax. they pay social security tax. >> bill: they don't pay any federal income tax. and you say that would be fine, right? >> but they don't get the loopholes. >> bill: they don't need the loopholes, juan. they are not paying anything. >> mitt romney has offshore tax shelter. a poor guy can't get that. >> bill: he doesn't need it, juan. he doesn't need it. mary katharine, wrap it up. >> here's the thing. if obama wants to reform the tax system to make it fair and take out all the. >> bill: he could have done it for two years and he didn't do jack. >> he is not going to do it -- liberals just need to shut up about calling the rest of us heartless because we all work harder in our communities and work on programs that actually work unlike head start and give money to gsa go off and have these billion dollars conferences. >> bill: new study out of kato

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embarrassing prostitution scandal. agents and military people as well hired hookers in the coastal town, allegedly some of the secret service guys refused to pay the prostitute and all hell broke loose. this is troubling on a number of fronts because these guys are in colombia to protect president obama. consorting with prostitutes on the job is unbelievable breach of security. with us is lt. colonel ralph peters author of big new book "cain at gettysburg." what i heard this over the weekend, i could hardly believe it secret service has a good reputation, does it not? >> secret service is a great organization that's done tremendous work over decades. over a century. but, you know, as you see with the military, sometimes a sociopath or a bad leader slips through and you get this sort of thing. so i think you had three factors in play. this is a morally slop'y administration. can i tell from you personal experience latin america, has always been regarded as the

party continent. and three, this is clearly an indent of poor leadership because the leader of the team sets the tone. if the leader is misbehaving or tolerating misbehavior, you know, the troops will go bad. >> look, i don't know what's going on here since i don't know what the culture is at the secret service. but there are a lot of people involved. and the security breach is enormous. wednesday, just two days before president obama was to arrive they were doing this stuff. and then, you know. you have got these guys and they are consorting in this hotel and they know they are being watched. they have got to know they are being watched there. and these women go in and all kinds of bad things can happen from this. and, to me, it's such a shocking breach, such a shocking breach. and you can't say it's the first time that it happened.

i mean what these guys just stumble on down there. i have been there. i know the town. it's a libertine town, yeah. this raises all kinds of questions. i think there has been to a drastic realignment in the secret service. >> well, first of all, real men don't hire hookers anywhere ever. >> bill: what are you saying that the secret service aren't real men? these are the best guys? >> no. >> bill: they are sending guys down there. not screw ups. >> i don't care how muscular you are or how many guns you have under your armpit. real men don't hire hookers. bad judgment. what worries me real intel hand, contrary to the movies, foreign intelligence civilians like cubans, vendsens don't go after the big guys. go after the mid level and lower level guys. white house is spending this it wasn't the president's immediate security team it wasn't the most advanced team, these are the guys that monitor physical security that

run metal detectors. but those are the guys you want to hit. those are the guys you can draw in. and they though the president's itinerary. and if you are an intelligence agency and you want to either maybe just stage an anti-american demonstration effectively or a terrorist who wants to set up a hit, you want the president's detailed itinerary in advance. oh, by the way, with those military people and the secret service, you have got to worry about the communications devices that they had in their room. >> bill: absolutely. it embarrasses this country worldwide. i mean, it looks us look like a bunch of jokers. you know, look, if i were president obama, man, i'm telling you, i'm going right, in i'm saying, look, we can't have. this i just reorganized the whole thing. that's what i would do. over the weekend, also, there was a big attack in afghanistan by the taliban a number of places. it got worldwide video because but not a lot of people were killed. not a lot of casualties. i don't think any americans were killed in this thing.

this was just a show, right? this was just like let's do this for the press and show everybody we are still around and that's what i took away from this. >> yeah. and you're exactly right. but it really mattered. because just as, you know, you dominate the ratings here on cable tv news, in afghanistan, in pakistan, the taliban dominate the ratings. although i'm not directly comparing the factor and the taliban just to be clear. [ laughter ] but, seriously, this was about ratings. about making global headlines. >> bill: yeah. p.r. >> creating impressionist strength. they won. it matters here. it matters in europe. >> bill: you just can't stop that no matter how good your security is, no matter how good your military is. if these guys spend all winter saying look we are going to go on a saturday and blow things up in kabul and a few other places, nobody can stop that. >> well, you know, right to an extent. if the afghans had an effective intelligence service, if they weren't -- >> bill: yeah, maybe they got

wind or something. >> we do better. but the bottom line is this. it did take considerable spill for the taliban to stage these attacks. committee force attacks relatively cheap. got world headlines. on the good side the afghan security forces they looked ragged to a professional but they responded pretty well. they closed it down ultimately without a lot of american help, but that said, kabul, those are the elite of the elegality of the afghan forces. out in the provinces they are not very good. so, the result is a mixed bag that we killed taliban guys, but the taliban did score a big propaganda victory. >> bill: all right. thank you colonel as always. we appreciate it directly ahead, another scandal this one about a federal agency sending guns to mexico. will that effect president obama's re-election effort? take a hard look at the situation. later, another far left pundit accusing me of being in the tank for the republic party. bernie goldberg on that upcoming. i'm doing my own sleep study.

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>> bill: will the gun scandal hurt president obama's re-election chances? federal government investigating a program to send guns to mexico in an attempt to find out who was buying down there. they lost control of some the weapons and one of them killed a border patrol agent in arizona. joining us is katie pavlick author of the new book out today "fast and furious" barack obama's bloodiest scandal and shameless coverup. quite a subtitle there. >> it's factual. >> bill: it may be factual, ms. pavlick but it has not gotten traction. this story has not hurt president obama as much as talk radio and some conservative pundits are yelling and screaming and you and your book not there and i

want to know why. why aren't people responding to this? >> first of all, people don't know about the details. he is being protected by the mainstream old media about. this because they know if the american people knew about the details of this program and what they did to push a political agenda that it would definitely swipe a second term from obama. >> bill: let's walk through this very specifically. who is they? who hatched this thing. >> nbc has failed to. >> bill: no, no, not the media. >> okay. >> bill: who is they? who hatched fast and furious. >> justice department. at officials from the justice department. highest levels. eric holder. >> bill: do you think holder knew in the beginning before these guns went south of the border that they were heading there. >> absolutely. in my book i say that one of the main priorities of the obama administration in the beginning was to stop trafficking guns as a direct order from the president to make sure that guns weren't being trafficked into mexico. top priority. >> bill: stop the guns from

going from the u.s.a. to mexico because they were screaming about that. >> they were screaming about it. >> bill: that makes sense. you say the attorney general eric holder knew about this sting but he denied it under oath in front of cock, correct? >> not only has he denied it under oath in front of congress, he has changed his testimony under oath in front of congress. >> bill: that's perjury if true. how can you prove, you, the author of this book, that he he did know from the conception that these guns were going down there? how you can prove it? >> look. eric holder in his first testimony in front of congress about fast and furious may 2nd, 2011 claimed he knew about it for a couple of weeks. back pedaled, find out that we have memos in the book addressed directly to eric holder a year, five of them dated july 2010, august 2010. >> bill: then a second appearance he said yeah yeah yeah now i remember but i didn't remember then. you are saying from the jump before even guns went down he knew. he certainly denies that. so why aren't the congress, the republics in congress and the senate, why aren't they

bringing him up against charges? why aren't they doing that? >> well, i think it's time. chairman issa has done a very good job of doing the best he can with the justice department. they have stonewalled and they have been acting guilty since day one. they haven't been providing any documents as people know. in the book we document and show all the connections between eric holder, barack obama, and going back into the clinton era and what their political agenda behind this whole thing was. >> bill: political agenda, again, being stopping guns from going into mexico because the mexican government. >> political agenda behind this entire thing was to blame american gun shops for cartel violence in america to put regulations on these gun shops. >> bill: gets more complicated. into the conspiracy things now not just the hardware thing about it it this was a designed thing to blame gun shops and try to get second amendment rights curtailed. >> it's not a conspiracy. it's the facts. we have emails in the book, documentation showing. >> bill: who is behind that

conspiracy or that plan? who is behind that? >> the justice department. >> bill: give me a name? who is running this operation. >> we document in the book the anti-second amendment records of eric holder, barack obama going all the way back to the clinton administration. the main players in fast and furious. burke former u.s. attorney in arizona help craft the clinton assault rifle ban with rahm emanuel. you fast forward that into the year 2010 and gun control legislation at an all-time low for approval in america. people don't want it. so, in this administration, what they do, they go around congress and against the american people and what they want to get their political agenda through. what they did, in this program, is they blamed the gun shops, didn't track the guns into mexico. the goal from the beginning was never to track these guns to act like they kind of lost track at them. like it was a botched operation it false. they never had any plans to track these guns. >> bill: send them down there hoping that a border patrol agent would be murdered so there would be anti-second

amendment movement. >> no. but the goal from the beginning was he force these gun shops in arizona to sell to these under surveillance. they knew they were bad guys and working for the cartels for a year. and then, don't track the guns. they didn't put any tracking devices on the guns. out of 2500 guns, bill, two guns had g.p.s. devices put on them. so you tell me if that shows they wanted to really track these guns? >> bill: nefariousness from the jump on this. do you believe it will come out? >> i think that we have a lot of evidence in our book to show it we have the connections between all the political appointees. why there is a coverup, the loyalties between them going back to the clinton administration. the connection between the second amendment being attacked because they were trying to prove that guns from america were going into mexico. >> bill: all right. provocative, ms. pavlick, thank you. the book is "fast and furious." >> thanks so much. >> bill: brit hume on the secret service prostitution scandal and the fast and furious situation and bernie

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calcium rich tums goes to work in seconds. nothing works faster. ♪ tum tum tum tum tums >> bill: hume zone segment tonight. you know the secret service having covered the white house. what did you think when you heard the prostitution deal in colombia. >> first thing i thought was we don't know what happened and it will probably be a while before we do. it's early to reach any sweeping conclusions about it my first thought kind of is, look, i don't disagree with anything ralph peters said about the security breaches that can occur with sloppy personal conduct when you are on a mission that has as its ultimate purpose the protection of the president. still, this is kind of a case of boys will be boys. look, it wouldn't have been much really different if the woman in the room had been -- not been a prostitute. the whole idea is this indiscreet personal behavior if that's what occurred here poses security risks when you

work in the security business. that's kind of goes without saying and that's obviously something we have to be concerned about. the only thing is, you know, secret service guys and a place like colombia, which is, you know, wild and woolly kind of place, you know, prostitution is legal for goodness sake so some kind of conduct of this kind doesn't shock me. >> bill: but at that level, you know, if the secret service is supposed to be the elite guys, particularly the ones on the presidential detail and while it wasn't the guys physically around the president, it was the advance team. i was so surprised. i have to tell you because it's an embarrassment to the united states all over the world. when you select secret service agents to do this caliber of work, you are looking for the highest possible guys, the most disciplined guys. i don't think this happens in a vacuum. this isn't the first time the odds are this animal house behavior kind of just crept in for me it's just unacceptable. >> look, what appears to be the case is the case, i don't disagree with you for a

moment. i think it would be better if we wait until we know what really happened. >> bill: you can't. >> of course you can. >> bill: you can't wait. you constantly lecturing all the rest of us and quite properly so about not jumping to conclusions in these cases. let's not do that here either. >> bill: you know, when the cops show up and there is tricksy he didn't pay me $47. >> we know that. >> bill: tricksy was standing in the room with the secret service guy and they pulled 11 of them out of there. the secret service didn't deny it. they put them on a plane and brought them all home. >> they brought them all home to question them to find out what actually happened and whether there were 11 of them. i don't know whether there were 11 of them engaged in this i understand could've thing. supposedly some military personnel whooping it up down there, too. we don't know for sure what really happened it may turn out to be more serious than what we're hearing or less so. >> bill: if it is less i will apologize. from the best possible

evidence this happened. >> that's not good. >> bill: fast and furious. i looked at ms. pavlick's book, i haven't finished the whole thing, it doesn't seem to be a smoking gun. what she says might be absolutely true. i mean, but i can't prove it. you know, and i do see the memos and i don't think holder is telling the truth. but, again, i can't prove he is not telling the truth. >> it never inspires confidence when you have the kind of stonewalling that appears to have gone on in terms of the -- >> bill: it's not getting any traction. it's not like watergate. >> i agree with that you are right. it's not al all clear to me that this scandal is going to have any legs for the election. but we now have three administrative scandals. one in the justice department. the one we are talking about. one in the secret service now apparently. and one at the general services administration. there may be a critical mass that gets reached here where people draw conclusions about how well the obama team administers the government. and that may be a threat of some kind. i'm not saying that's going to happen but i'm saying that, you know, we're now up to three cases now and it might

begin to resonate with people that there is something not being -- the place isn't being run properly broadly speaking. >> bill: peters said that there is this kind of lax attitude and that, again, may or may not be true, i don't know that to be true. but, the fast and furious thing is fascinating because you have got an american dead. you have got the border patrol agent dead. that's big. and there is no doubt they botched it. and now ms. pavlick is saying not only did they botch it but ill conceived thing in the beginning to impact on second amendment rights. i mean, that's a pretty strong charge. >> it is. but i heard your interview with her. and i'm not sure that she established the case. maybe she does in her book. i'm not sure she established the case in her interview with you. >> bill: you don't think this is going to impact in november? >> i don't know, bill. you never know where these things are going to go. you don't know what's finally going to come out. we have been knawing at this thing for a while now and it hasn't become exposed. remember, things like this have to compete with larger

issues, the condition of the economy. you know, the increase in gasoline prices. the people's dislike of the healthcare program. you know, there is a lot that this -- people are worried about in this administration. these things have to compete with those things for priority. >> bill: yeah, i would think though if the republicans really had anything that they would absolutely go crazy and run with it. but, again, i'm not sure. all right, brit, as always, we appreciate it thank you. >> you bet. >> bill: when we come right back, bernie goldberg on whether i'm in the tank for the republic party. that astounding charge was made on cnn over the weekend. bernie is next.

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>> when cnn or the cable networks hire contributors who are also party activists, so, you know whether it's carl rove at fox or hillary rosen or carlie here or others at nbc, it enables detractors when they get in a bit of verbal trouble ha ha she hillary rosen is speaking for obama the campaign put up to this. that's what happens when cable networks hire. >> that's true there is consequences and they have to start considering damaging brand glenn beck on fox news and bill o'reilly that damages the fox news brand. >> bill: well, it can't be too much damage to fox news brand as the factor is the highest rated prime time news program in the country. ms. mason is obviously woefully uninformed. dick cheney won't come on the program. john mccain very hesitant to be interviewed by me when he ran for president. i will give you scores of other republicans that don't want any part of the factor. joining us purveyor of bernard

goldberg.com. bernard goldberg. >> i hate at a time to come on the factor so you can add me to that list. look, here is the thing, bill, the honest short answer is i don't have a clue as to what she is talking about. howie cirts raised a legitimate point when he talked about people who are both commentators on shows like this and political activists at the same time, working for a party or candidate. but, i mean, if she was implying and i have got to be honest i don't know what she was saying. if she was implying that you are in the tank of the only tank that i can figure out that you are in is in the bill o'reilly tank. you love bill o'reilly. >> bill: that's the shark tank. >> bill o'reilly. benefit of the doubt. you never throw bill o'reilly under the bus. >> bill: question was clear as you defined it hire guys like carville and karl rove you are hiring the party guys. that's what they do, all right? and then when they come, in they are looking at it through the prism of the party. all the all of a sudden this

woman comes on and goes glenn beck and bill o'reilly. beck is not in any party, okay, at all. beck is where he is. and i'm certainly not in any party and gave you the examples of the republics that are simply don't want to come in and do the joust here. but, i'm so tired of this branding fox news as a republic outfit. i can't tell you. >> let me tell you what i think this is about since her answer didn't make any sense. let me give you an educated guess. i think you, bill o'reilly, have become the poster boy for every liberal complaint about anything on cable tv for a couple of reasons. not because you're corrupt or you are the most biased person. it's because you are the most well-known person. that's the problem. and, of course, because you work for fox. nobody out there is saying cable tv would be so much better if we could only get rid of dillon ratigan people

right now are saying who? who did he just say? >> you are well-known, that's the price you pay for being well-known. it is garbage, i grant you that some free advice from a friend, if barack obama attacks you, if the "new york times" attacks you, if the pope attacks you, respond. if julie mason -- >> bill: it's not about her though. it's about cnn. that's what it's about. cnn is a brand that goes all over the world. and this is why i get annoyed. because it's worth their while, they being the liberal media, that wants to reelect president obama to marginalize an outfit that is not trying to get the president reelected. not trying to get anybody reelected in my opinion. yes, we have people who are pro-republic on this network. but, it's worth it for them to marginalize. that brings me to my bigger point. the media -- >> let me just say i don't think howie cirts was doing

that i think his liberal guest was doing that. >> bill: could have said you're crazy, o'reilly doesn't have anything to do with the republic party and neither does beck. he knows that. >> he said something like this. >> bill: know didn't. he didn't slap her down figuratively not literally. larger point is the folks get it the folks know that the media is dishonest. the media is not in the business to report the news anymore. all the news fit to print my you know what. they are not there anymore. they are there to advance ideological agenda. if the folks know it. all the polls say they know it. that means the press is not going to have any real influence on the presidential election this time around. >> when you say the folks know it i think what you really mean is the folks who pay attention know it. >> bill: folks who are polled. who are polled. >> yes. but the ones who may effect. it's not going to effect anybody who pays attention because even liberals in these polls say that the media is in the tank for barack obama. >> bill: right. >> the ones it may effect are the ones who let's be generous

and say who aren't paying close attention. who aren't sophisticated when the media slants left. when they put on their short skirts again as they did the last time around and their pompoms and they slant it in barack obama's favor, that may effect the less sophisticated people if they go out to vote. but it will be minimal. it will be at the margin. it will not, in my view, determine the outcome of the election. >> bill: that doesn't matter anymore with the "new york times" editorializes we endorse so and so. that doesn't matter anymore. everybody knows who they are going to endorse. >> it matters a lot on the upper west sighted of manhattan and that's about it. >> bill: are they going to be shocked up there? come on. bernie goldberg, everybody. reality deck on check. bill maher. another controversy. this one is interesting. check is next as the factor continues all across the u.s.a. and all around the world.

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>> bill: back of the book segment tonight. reality check. bill maher explaining what cnn pundit hillary rosen really meant. >> what she meant to say, i think. was that ann romney has never gotten her ass out of the house to work. no one is denying that being a mother is a tough job. i remember i was a handful. [ laughter ] okay. but, you know, there is a big difference between being a mother in that tough job and getting your ass out the door at 7:00 a.m. when it's cold, having to deal with the boss, being in a work place, or even if you are unhappy you can't show it for eight hours. >> bill: the truth is no matter how you spin ms. rosen's comments, the damage is done. ann romney looks like a hero. the more the left tries to deny that the worse the situation gets. so now, the white house is telling its people to

surrender. >> i wonder if the president has a continuing problem with bill maher? you know you saw those comments he made on friday night. he has given a million dollars. single biggest contributor to the super pac aligned with the president now happened a couple of times. do you think the president is going to have to cut ties. >> the way we talk to each other matters. they have to make a decision. i saw david axelrod in earlier situations when comments have been made by bill maher say i'm not going on your show. i'm backing away, i'm distancing myself. so it's a conversation. >> bill: all right. the word conversation, we had to cut it off. i can't take anymore conversations. that's a cliche used by pundits to avoid answering questions. like a lawyer saying we'll take it under advisement. check two comedian bill cosby weighing in on the trayvon martin case. >> what is solved by saying he is a racist? that's why he shot the boy? what solves that?

this and what is he doing with it? and who taught him and told him how to behave with this? because it doesn't make any difference if he is racist or not racist. i just feel that this thing, this thing, we need to get rid of it on the streets. >> bill: all right. he is talking about handguns and mr. cosby may be well-intentioned but you will never get rid of handguns in this country. there are simply too many of them. the solution is to make all gun crimes, all of them federal crimes. with tough mandatory sentences. that will make people think before using firearms. check three, "saturday night live" lampooning the republic candidates to the tune of green day's good riddance time of your life. ♪ another turning point a fork stuck in the road ♪ a way to go

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president obama manages to get the buffett rule passed stocks and bonds will go down because fewer wealthy people will invest. all of us with 401(k)s will take a hit. next, when charles krauthammer says $4 billion is nothing the question becomes do we ignore revenue like that? the point charles made, bill, it's disingenuous for obama to say higher cap gains tax for wealthy would make a dent in the deficit. they will not. and from laugh yet, louisiana -- i'm counting on my investment income for retirement. increasing cap gains will hurt. lloyd stone from frisco, texas -- it's stupid for republicans to oppose the buffett tax. if they support it the class warfare issue goes away. and marty from missouri -- in the segment with leslie and jeanine you missed the point. what a political spouse says should be open to criticism but not the person herself. doug, from florida --

kudos for having the courage to say that americans who don't want to work hard will vote for the democrats. was it a slap at the democratic party? this isn't new, doug. right now, the democrats are the party of entitlement. so if you looking for that, who are you going to call? and from california -- love the action figures of you and gutfeld, but you are better looking than your likeness. i appreciate that, thank you. what about gutfeld? is he better looking than the action figure? ritz, from new hampshire -- gutfeld action figure was life-size. [ laughter ] that is cold, rich, even for new hampshire. that is cold. shannon, creston, california -- love the action figures and i think they could be bigger than killing lincoln which should be read by every american student. and from australia -- bill, just saw you are going to iceland, when are you coming down here? working on it, guys.

a long trip. last time i was down under i helped catch a shark off the great barrier reef. that was quite an experience. kristen anderson in new york city -- bill, just moved back to new york city after living in melbourne, australia, for four years. the first thing i did is pick up a ticket to see and miller on may 12 at the town hall theater. that's nice. i'll seasoned you a backstage pass. don't be frightened by miller. we will have security there. we have premium tickets to meet miller and me after the show in new york city and indianapolis. on june 22. and chicago, june 23. night show is sold out but the matinee has tickets. but be forewarned meeting us is a frightening experience. that's for sure. pinhead and patriots, according to the state of california, pamela anderson owes a lot of back taxes. look at that hat. very nice. more than a half million

dollars, does pamela, as the state filed a lean against her. that was back in 2009. and she still hasn't paid up. we call miss anderson's spokesperson for a comment because that's the fair thing to do. they completely ignored us. just like she is completely ignoring the state of california. pinheads, make it to the bank. does wesley snipes know about this? that is it for us tonight. check out the fox news factor website. different from billo'riley.co billo'riley.com. spout off about the factor. anywhere in the world. o'reilly@foxnews.com. name tune, name and town. if you wish to opine. brand new word of the day. brand new. never before uttered. no, do not be, do not be murc murcid when writing to the factor. do not be murcid. w,