i'm shepard smith. look like you care. bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight. >> it wasn't just george bush. dick cheney, and donald rumsfeld who broke iraq. it was the united states. bill: how walter cronkite influenced the liberal media and his coverage of barack obama. bernie goldberg and i will analyze. >> going to put the naacp pass. >> naacp has a resolution. i'm the national black chamber of commerce and you are trying to put up some other black group to pit against me. it's racial. bill: why is the head of the black chamber of commerce so angry with senator barbara boxer? >> i think it's important. grill. bill: he will be here to tell us. ♪ working at the car wash

♪ working at the car wash, girl. bill: the make-a-wish foundation says no to a bikini car wash donation. >> those kids would be happy to receive anything. >> the culture warriors will weigh in on that. bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. walter cronkite, barack obama, and the american media that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. the death of mr. cronkite at age 2 creates an opportunity to explore how the press is behaving in america right now as opposed to when mr. cronkite was the nation's most powerful broadcaster. now, i was hired at cbs news shortly after walter cronkite was forced out by the network. in fact, i was one of dan rather's first new correspondents. a few years later, i actually

interviewed walter cronkite while anchor the news in boston. it was clear he was bitter about being replaced by rather. he did not think dan was up to the job. subsequently, mr. cronkite was proven correct and it is important to understand why. walter cronkite came out of the world war ii experience. his war coverage was superb. and after seeing how america defeated tyranny, he believed the u.s.a. was essentially a noble nation. in his later years, mr. cronkite did move into the committed left area. in his younger days he was not an idealogue. he was a reporter. detective country a great service by telling the country the truth about vietnam wanted as well as other major stories. dan rather, on the other hand, was a product of the vietnam era and the watergate fiasco. he believes to this day that the establishment, especially conservatives, are flawed people. mr. rather skewed his reporting left, taking the entire cbs news operation in that direction. although i was there only briefly, i saw it happen.

rather, of course, is not alone. after watergate, all the other networks and many major newspapers became left wing organizations and that remains to this day. enter barack obama. as the president said at a recent media dinner, most of you voted for me. and that is true. that could also be hurting the nation. as mr. obama may take this country into bankruptcy. it's happening very fast. his health care plan will create more debt the country will ever be able to repay no matter how much in taxes. the "new york times" and other left wing media don't care. they want the health care entitlements seeing it as a human right. so there is little scrutiny about the president's incredible spending by the press because the press is sympathetic to mr. obama's agenda. walter cronkite in his later years would probably have bought into that but in his early years he would have been sceptic call of it as all journalists should be. that is the profound change that has happened in walter cronkite's lifetime. media challenged authority while

seeking the truth to a media that champions ideology. these the memo. now for the tore story tonight. let's bring in fox news analyst bernie goldberg. you worked with bernie cronkite for 12 years saw the transition to dan rather. am i making any mistakes here, bernie? >> there is a very sharp analysis, bill. i wouldn't say that if i didn't believe it. let me start out briefly with how it was, very briefly and then pick up on your talking points. just this morning i spoke to one of walter's senior producers on the old evening news. he said "i spoke to walter every day the newscast was on the air. i spoke to him four or five times a day about that night's newscast of." he said, "i didn't even know if he was a democrat or a republican." obviously he was a democrat based on the liberal and far left things that he said after he left cbs news. but the point is somebody with such passionate liberal views, you would think, if he had a

tendency to bias, would sprinkle them all through his newscast but he didn't. now, that was then. i think a lot of journalists now come from a generation that believes that the role of the journalist is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable that's not the role of a journalist. that's the role of a priest, a social worker, a politician, but not a journalist. when you start thinking that way, in the 60's and 70's, which is where this all started, and you have -- you have movements like the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the environmental movement, the antiwar movement, you could see how easy it is for liberal journalists to cross the line from covering the news to as you correctly said, to championing a cause. and that's what happened. bill: ok. now, you saw it firsthand. the hand off of the baton from

cronkite to rather. >> yes. >> and so cronkite didn't want to go. i guess they talked him into it and then he regretted it and didn't like rather at all. right? had no use for rather, correct? >> well, neither -- walter would never say that walter would never -- bill: he said it to me. >> on the record he said i have no use for dan rather? bill: he didn't say it on the record. he said it after the interview was over he said to me, quote, in boston, you are really on to something. dan is not going to succeed and shouldn't. >> well, here's what happened. i don't think it was just dan. i think -- here what i what i know. dan asked me to come to new york from my base in san francisco with cbs to be on the brand new cbs evening news on w. dan rather. and in january of 19 1 when ronald reagan became president, that's when the lights went out in journalism. that's also when dan rather took

over the evening news. because now liberals were on the outside looking in and they didn't like it. that's when the biases really began to take hold. bill: did you see it when you moved from strand to new york right away? i saw it. i was in new york. you used to cut ahead of me in the cafeteria line. i don't know whether you remember. i came from local news in new york, channel 2. and then i went in about the time that you moved in. and they sent me to el salvador and to the cover the falkland islands war in argentina. i kept seeing that they were telling me when my script would come back to throw things in that weren't news. they weren't news,. >> you are absolutely right. i will give you two examples. i didn't see it in san francisco. i'm in new york. i'm going to work on west 57th street. talking to homeless people

talking to space ships in the sky sticking paper cups in my face demanding money. then i watch the evening news that night and the homeless people have blond hair, blue eyes and look like they all live on a farm in kansas what's this about? that's not homeless people. aids. at the same time, i kept hearing that heterosexuals were going to get aids. it's going to break out in big, big epidemic. well, i kept looking around and i'm saying well, where are these people where are these heterosexuals. liberal journalists started championing liberal causes. they used, to in walter's day, as liberal as he was, but we didn't know it, he used to cover the story. in about 1981, as i say when ronald reagan took over. bill: that changed. >> and when dan rather took over

they started supporting and championing these issues. bill: flash forward to today, barack obama. i have been fair to barack obama. i have been giving him a chance. i'm not condemning him on any front. i will say. this if we continue to go in this direction, the united states of america will be bankrupt, perhaps. >> completely agree. bill: perhaps by the end of this year. that's how fast it is going. the media is not reporting that story. they are continuing to report that obama's vision, this giant federal apparatus to solve everybody's problems, whether it be health care, the environment, whatever it may be, you have to, have to, have to do it, and the country is headed for the california cliff. it's not skepticism reporting, it's pro obama reporting. i think that that walter cronkite, as i said, now would have said go, yes, that's right 35 years ago would say don't do that challenge obama. give you the last word.

>> my last word is i think you are absolutely right. you said it very well. the old walter cronkite would have said, wait a second, it's not enough for us to say -- to put on the confrontation that republicans don't like it but obama wants it. let's outline what's in this health care plan and all these other plans and see if we like it or not. the latter walter cronkite who was just outspokenly left wing would have probably said everybody needs health care. it's a good thing. bill: that's right. it doesn't matter what happens. we have got to do it. bernie, thanks as always. we appreciate it wield like to you vote in our brand new bill o'reilly.com poll. we asked you did you respect, did you respect walter cronkite? yes or no? next on the rundown, mary katharine and juan on the cronkite analysis. later a bikini car wash wants to give money to the make-a-wish foundation for the kids but wish will not take

with bill lead story, president obama and the media and you. mary katharine ham and juan williams. all right, juan, once again, on the brilliant scale, 10 being the highest, my talking points memo was? >> i will give you 7.5. bill: oh, juan, come on, man. i advanced the story. what we said, bernie and i said i don't think you could disagree with, can you? >> no. in fact, that's why i gave you 7.5. i think this is not just about saying here is the problems with obama's proposals going to bankrupt the nation. it's premature to say that we don't know the outlines of what obama is going to say. here is the reason i said 7. a, bill. where was the analysis that said this healthcare system was broken.

for the average american. bill: i did that on last thursday. >> ok. but it wasn't in this memo. in that case i will give you more like a 10. here is the thing. you have got to make sure that everyone understands. bill: look, everybody knows the healthcare system is broken. i'm for oversight, strict rules instituted by federal government but they can't run it. >> i'm going to surprise everybody and not go after the media. in some instances some news so bad tore the obama health care plan they have been unable to ignore it one of the things i appreciate is one guy doesn't have nearly as much influence as he used to have. bill: you as a youngster who did not experience cronkite as yuan and i did. but you never saw him. but you absolutely right. cronkite, brinkley, huntley,

they controlled the attention of americans. you say that was bad. why was that bad if they were good guys? >> certainly as somebody on the right who knows that the entire media is left and has certainly shifted in recent years to taking on that and pushing liberal positions, it is helpful to have other outlets and the fact that, you know, all of the cable nets and the talk radio and the web sites have come up is very helpful to us. i think it helps influence these debates. if you are not getting the news from the mainstream media, you can go other places to find out the deal about obama's health care plan. which by the way, juan, the reason we don't know the numbers is on purpose so he can pass it before we know them. bill: you are right in the sense that we don't know. look, the whole health care thing is 1,000 places plus. that's what the house came up with. nobody is going to read it nobody is going to understand it. it doesn't matter. the democrats want to pass it obama wants to pass it they don't care what's in it, juan. they want to put up here we have

it president's promise fulfilled. we don't care if it bankruptcy the nation. we just want it. they might get it. the press should be outraged and it isn't. >> there is another side of the story. lobbyists in this town, especially the lobbyists for the insurance companies and big drug companies they want things to stay just as they are because they are making a ton of money. bill: we can get them. >> we haven't gotten them so far. bill: we need a change we can believe in. even you can understand it. change we can believe in number one priority for any president, don't bankrupt the country. that's change we can believe. in we don't want a bankrupt change. so, if we have to forego health care for two or three years, we forego it. because we don't bankrupt the united states united states. that's where we are headed, juan. >> hey, don't bankrupt the united states, protect the united states. but the american family, you say two or three years, it's been

generations. you know, over the last. bill: we have got to do it when we can do it. i want to give mary katharine the last words. go. >> american families are turning against this plan. bill: that's right. >> he is under auto% on health care right now. the reason is because they are seeing the huge numbers from the c.b.o. he should run for office. bill: that's the congressional budget office w.b.o. >> and the mayo clinic doesn't like it. these are real stories coming out. not responding to them. bill: they are being told. >> american families know that the cost is the problem but we don't hear those stories. everybody is bibusy attacking obama like senator demint saying this is going to be his waterloo. this will sink him. that's wrong. bill: should america explore mars? there is raging debate over that the head of the black chamber of commerce let's senator boxer have it. >> i take offense to that. >> offense at the fact that i would quote -- >> -- you are quoting some other black man. why don't you quote some other

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bill: media has gone wild over the moon landing. three astronauts completed the first man mission to the moon where they planted an american flag. more than 40 million american homes watched the event live with pride. and because of that exploration, many technological advances were made. things like hazardous gas censors, even kidney dialysis. right now 51% of americans want to explore mars that would cost hundreds of billions of dollars. joining us now from washington former astronaut dr. tom jones author of the book "sky walking, an astronaut's memoir."

dr. jones, you know, i would like to go to mars and i think that would be exciting and a big victory for the nation if it happened but we don't have the money. we can't go to mars because we are in outerspace down here with all the spent would he go have. do you see it that way? >> no, i don't, bill. i think that mars is an ultimate distinction where we will learn a lot about the evolution of life in our solar system and the galaxy. but that's not the real reason to go into space. the real reason to go into space is to keep our country at the forefront of technological development to make us economically competitive and to use the resources that we will find in space to make our standard of living rise here. i strapped on to the space shuttle four times not to plant a flag somewhere but to make life better for my kids and to keep my country at the forefront of leading the world. bill: ok. i understand the in theory what you are saying. but basically a risk reward deal. you can get up to the red planet and go absolutely into the red trying to get there and then you are walking around and there is

a bunch of puddles. yeah, you might get a couple of things that help out in our machinery or whatever. you know, the tab could run a trillion dollars. the fact of the matter is the united states is broke. we don't have any money. unless we find money up there. maybe we will find money up there now, if there was that possibility, i would say ok, go get it? >> we don't spend the money on mars. we spend the money back here to hire the most talented people and keep those people trying to take on tough subjects like math, science, engineering so we have the problem-solvers that we need to tackle all of our problems. bill: it's interesting but it's another government big-run program. and, yeah, you will get some jobs out of and it yeah get an industry and nasa will love it but the american taxpayer is going hey, you know, it's you are at the limit now. >> i think we put ourselves over the limit with some the spending we have done this year. the stimulus bill passed this year is over 40 times, bill, the annual nasa budget. i think we ought to collectively invest half a% of the federal

budget, which is what the current nasa space funding is on on investment in our computer. by getting ourselves out beyond the space station for example where i worked. we are going to harvest resources that could provide us with limitless energy beamed back to the earth. find materials lower the cost of space exploration. that invites sector industrialize space. find wealth. bill: you see a big, big upside on mars. let's get specific about mars. that's where the word mation martian comes from. there is no life there. there aren't any caterpillars or anything. there is nothing floating around up there. >> we don't know the answer to whether there is life on mars. that is the intellectual reason to go there. bill: are you telling me there could be martians on mars? >> beings the size of bacteria.

bill: owe mean bas that type of stuff. >> they may still be hanging on by fingernails after billions of years of changing climate on mars. closer the moon and nearby steroids they are the stepping sphons and economic jackpot that will. bill: you said industrializing space. you get to mars. i want to keep ton mars now. that's really what the next frontier there. then you think you are raw material type stuff? you will find stuff that helps in advancing technology? what do the scientists think there is a probability of finding? >> i think you hit the nail on the head in terms of going to mars. by developing vehicles, robots and then vehicles that can carry humans there. we will develop such high technology, such advanced technology that that keeps us competing on the global level on earth. bill: not what you find. it's the vehicles and things that do the exploring that that's what's going to be the

benefit of a trillion dollars. >> when you say to young people that you are going to be involved in the con quest of space and the eventual exploration of mars and you are going to be able to do that for your whole career, then you get a reason for the kids to sign up for the tough courses and tough disciplines that they will need to study. then of course they become problem solvers on earth. it's the goal that makes it exciting and challenging. bill: you put forth a good argument. i don't think obama is going to do it? >> i think he will scale back. bill: not going to do a mars exploration. maybe the next president. he has so much trouble right now here with the money flow out that i don't think he is going to do it. doctor, it's always a pleasure. thank you very much. big shootout between a black executive and senator barbara boxer. things got very intense. the executive will be here. and then, the culture warriors on why the make-a-wish foundation just said no to the bikini car wash money. bikini car wash money. we hope you stay tuned for thosñ

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bill: personal story segment tonight. the head of the black chamber of commerce harry alford was testifying before a senate hearing about the economics of president obama's clean energy policy. cap and trade, things like that. mr. alford is opposed to the climate bill saying it would reduce earnings for the american worker. when senator boxer supports a bill. presenting endorsement by other african-american groups. mr. alford took serious offense.

>> we'll quote john grant, who is the ceo of 100 black men of atlanta, quote. clean energy is the key that will unlock millions of jobs in the naacp's support is vital to ensuring that those jobs help to rebuild urban areas. so clearly there is a diversity. >> madam chair that is con descending to me. i'm the national black chamber of commerce and you are trying to put up some other black group to pit against me. >> if this gentleman were here he would be proud that he was being quoted. >> he should have been invited. >> just as he would be proud. >> it is con descending to me. >> just so you know, he would be proud that you were here. he is proud, i'm sure. >> proud, proud. that's con descending. i don't like it. it's racial. i don't like it. i take offense to it. as an african-american, and a veteran of this country i take offense to that. >> offense at the fact that i

would quote -- >> -- you are quoting some other black man. why don't you quote some other asian or -- i mean, you are being racial here. bill: all right, now senator boxer would not appear but joining from us washington is harry alford. before we get to the racial aspect of this, why do you object to the climate industry that president obama is -- wants to build and senator boxer supports? why do you object to it? >> certainly i want a good clean climate for the globe but we want and the natural black chamber of commerce has been espousing an energy policy that will make the united states self-sufficient. self-sufficient for its energy needs and also to deliver energy to american families and businesses at an affordable rate. at the same time, help clean up the environment. and keep our position economically in the world. bill: they say cap and trade and all the green wind mill stuff and all the stuff that they want to do will create more jobs. will help all americans

including african-americans and you seem to object to their point of view. well, we got the charles rivers associates group to do a study for us. they're very reputable group. it showed in the end if this cap and trade hustle were to be delivered to the american people in the end we would have 2.3 million less jobs than we do now. it does not make sense to have less jobs higher cost of energy still the world is in the same predicament carbon emission wise. bill: your position mirrors my position. it's interesting. you are not an ideological group the chamber of commerce. >> nonpartisan. not for profit. we espouse capitalism and entrepreneurship. bill: ok. so now you are presenting your objection which i think is absolutely valid transition i call it cap and con you call it hustle. we are pretty much on the same

page. boxer, in order to debate you, puts up the naacp a liberal group who thinks that cap and trade and the other green industries is just terrific. now, you say that's a racial deal. explain that further. first of all the naacp had a resolution saying they they are for a better environment. i'm sure bill o'reilly is for a better environment. it did not address cap and trade it did not embellish. tried to make it seem like something supporting the wax and markey bill. it was not. bill: general statement by the naacp. but i seem to object to the fact that she was pointing out a black group was counter mannerring your black group. you didn't like that. >> it was pure race. like down there in mississippi back in the bad old days when one black preacher would rise up

against the big boss. he would find another black preach tore fight against that black preacher. it was ugly. and she jumped -- she opened up a mud pit that i wasn't going to jump into. bill: you shocked her. you stunned her with that analysis. and she had no answer to it. she kept saying he would be proud. i mean, it was almost comical. you stunned her. i don't think, mr. alford, maybe you see it differently. i don't think ms. boxer had any intent to bring racism into the debate. she just wanted to win the argument and say well, look, i use the naacp. i will take it out of context to throw the guy off his game. i think that's what she was doing. >> actually, bill, i think it's her persona. i don't think she can help herself. when she gets caught up in a rut like that or against the wall, race comes out. she is -- the brainchild of aneath hill at-anita hill attacking clarence thomas. go back to that all of that

garbage against ken blackwell the secretary of state of ohio saying he rigged the election that was barbara boxer. bill: she would say, mr. alford, i love black people. i want the best -- i'm a liberal. i want the best for black people. now, two people mentioned are conservatives. attack conservatives using any and all methods as any liberals will do i love black people. i will vote for everything that will help them. affirmative action and down the line. so, i think -- i don't think she feels that it's a racial argument. it's an ideological argument. if you oppose her views. then we'll come get you but it doesn't have anything to do with race. >> she loves poor black folks and she loves black folks in their place. she does not love -- you take condoleezza rice, who i would love my grandchildren to emulate and the way she treated condoleezza rice during her confirmation hearings was just

terrible. bill: again, a conservative woman. you know. i get what you are saying. >> professional. bill: i get what you are saying. i think boxer has it out for anybody who is in the right. now, after you took her down, and you did, mr. alford, what kind of reaction did you get? >> well, i have got a great fan club now. a lot of people don't like her. i have gotten about 7500 emails and 98% are cheering me on. i think -- bill: after tonight you have 25,000 emails. you stood up for what you believe, you told her what you thought, she had no reply and then you came on this program to further explain and she would not so i think that everybody knows what's going on here mr. alford we appreciate you coming on very much tonight. >> thank you, bill. when we come right back, why did the make-a-wish foundation turn down bikini car wash money? the culture warriors have been

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bill: thanks for staying with us. i'm bill o'reilly. in the culture warrior seeing want tonight, two hot topics. jack welch sells women who take time off to raise kids will have trouble reaching the corner office. but, first, the bikini controversy. in federalway washington, the wants to offer promotion raise money for the make-a-wish foundation. the problem is the ladies wash the cars in buy continue anies. also the car wash would make money off the promotion as well. the business said it would give half of the proceeds on a select dated to make wash. the charity said not taking it. feeling the situation was exploitative. with us now the culture warriors juliet huddy in for gretchen carlson and margaret hoover.

make-a-wish foundation very good charity. kids dying and they want to do something while they are still healthy enough to do it. this charity pays for their wish. these people want to give the money no cash other than washing the car in the bikini would you take it or not. >> not no strings attached but they want an affiliation. they want pr bump. they want to say we're affiliated with the make-a-wish foundation, a wholesome foundation giving kids a wonderful experience. and these ladies are basically scantily clad, washing cars and the guy who runs it actually has an online poker hostess company. bill: what does that have to do with it. >> good for him. >> certainly within their right to consider the affiliation and the collaborative relationship. bill: you wouldn't take the money. >> if you want to give money to make-a-wish foundation, you can give money. do you have to have the -- just deny where you are getting the money. bill: you missed the pun no strings attached for the bikini.

totally didn't get it what do you say huddy, would you take the money. >> of course i would take the money. make a wish itself admits over the last year or so that they have declined in donations like 10% or something like that. the money comes with pictures of dead presidents. not bikini clad women. last time i checked bikinis are not pornographic. i wore one this weekend. i work for fox. they don't want you to go out there and acting salacious. i don't think i'm going to get fired for that you probably wore a bikini recently. maybe it was a one piece, i don't know. skin showing. >> i don't think anything is wrong with bikinis. bill: stop this and tell everybody that i have never worn a bikini. >> not what we heard. >> topless bikini. >> you would take the money and you would not. what about hoover's point though, hudy, of this car wash trying to exploit make a wish? >> why are they exploiting? bill: put it this way. they advertise heavily and people go oh make a wish. i'm going to go in and get that done. >> more people will go in and make a wish.

bill: half of it goes to the poker guy. that's your beef you don't like him because is he a poker guy. 50% goes to the bikini people. >> poker guy says the fact they won't take the money i will donate anonymously. >> bill: don't know if he is going to do it because it's anonymous? >> i believe him. >> you believe the poker guy? >> i do. bill: ok, ladies, let's turn to another woman's oriented culture warrior situation. we like jack welch, we think is he a smart guy, former ceo of g.e. he gave a little talk at the human resource management conference in new orleans and he said, quote. so what do you say about that?

>> he is absolutely right. i applaud him for saying what a lot of people don't want to say because it doesn't sound politically correct. i'm going to burst everybody's bubble. if you are -- if you take time off for maternity or paternity leave or injured on the job. the fact that you are not there, it matters. you have to be noticed. you have to be there to be seen. bill: you applaud his honesty. >> i think he makes a good point. not that way with every company. bill: some are more accessible to women raising their children than others. what do you say. >> i think you are a more sensitive guy than jack welch is. bill: mr. welch is in a lot of trouble, wouldn't you say? >> boy, oh boy. i'm stunned that i'm being compared. >> here is why you are more sensitive than him. he is from a different generation of white male ceos, frankly. he literally has been out of the game for ten years. wouldn't you want to be able to say we want more women ceos.

2.9% of fortune ceos are women. bill: he says he wants them. wouldn't the next logical step be what we need to do with our company is to make them more worker friendly. have flex time. have other policies that encourage women. bill: isn't that affirmative action, affirmative action, absolutely not. look, the reason we are different from the taliban is because we use all of our resources. we have women in the workplace, men in the workplace. one of the many reasons we are different from the taliban. >> i don't disagree with you. welch wasn't talking about what should be. he was talking about what is. as huddy pointed out he was honest about it he said look, the competition at that level, the ceo level to the highest spot of the land is very, very inat the bus stop. if you are not in the workplace because you choose to raise your children which i think is a much more noble endeavor, by the way than being a ceo. if you make that choice, you are probably not going to get -- >> both are noble and it shouldn't have to be either-or. the best companies.

bill: shouldn't is theory. >> it's not theory. policies are changing. fortune 500 companies are changing their theories. bill: competition -- >> if you take time off to raise your children then, you know, you are screwed. that's not what he said. he said the probability is a lot higher if you do. bill: odds are higher. >> aren't the odds higher and should it be, no? he should demand for something better. bill: continue the discussion later. as it stands now, that could change. culture warriors everybody. reality check on deck. janine garr follow low bombed in england. weather guy gets attached by a cockroach. cockroach. >> i i i i i i i i i i to help raise awareness for the men and women who have suffered traumatic injuries

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bill: reality check quickly becoming the gold standard for truth telling. check one. far left comedian janine garofalo walked off stage because few were laughing at her material. before that happened ms. garofalo gave this material to bbc radio. >> bill: no liberal outlet for news commentary. is this woman on the planet? is she hanging out with amy winehouse? unbelievable. check two. also on the b.b.c. bono talked about a meeting with president bush. >> particular picture with george bush a speech at the

national prayer breakfast and all kinds of people in the audience. and he was giving me a hug. but what i was doing is i was dodging the hug and trying to hide behind the podium and when i sat down i was sitting beside senator obama. and soon to be president. and he just said nice work with the hug dodge. [ laughter ] bill: you make the call on that. check three. far left writer henry hertzberg err is a bomb thrower. he accused newt gingrich of being a homophobe and attacked the factor as well. you may remember jesse waters caught up with hertzberg. >> you called the guy a bigot what was that based on. >> long record of bigotry in almost every department. >> you can point to a specific example. >> you can look it up. i have written about it go. and google it. >> i read the article and i think you took him out of context. you owe him an apology. >> i think he owes me an

apology. bill: hertzberg is comparing jimmy carter to isaiah. >> he spoke as a prophet and i mean by that not as someone who is predicting the future but as someone who is diagnosing the national soul. this was something that an awful lot of people in the white house, vice president mondale foremost among them did not want him to do. bill: might have been a little bit better if president carter fixed the economy or the gas lines in america but fixing the nation's soul being a prophet is rather time consuming. so now we know. unbelievable. check four as you may know the fox program family guy loves mocking conservatives and religious people. >> all right. i will be the one to say it how do we know you are really jesus? you can perform miracles? >> sure. how about this. >> oh, boy. sun d.e.a.s. >> i love you, jesus. >> i love you too, fellow. >> hey, jesus, you can do

something for me? >> sure, peter. what is it? bill: well, that controversial jesus show has been nominated for an emmy. reminding me of a compassionate old saying they know not what they do. check five, think being a tv weather man is easy? do you? watch this. >> pushing across central florida so places like orlando, daytona beach, cape canaveral age, vera beach will be getting in on the heavier rainfall. [gasping] >> i am so sorry, bill. oh, my god! >> what the hell just happened? >> this is what just happened. that thing was crawling on my leg. oh, god. oh my god, there he is. oh, my god. oh, no.

>> right at the wall for me. bill: just call 911 or step on it, pal. we have that here all the time. i don't go like this. finally check 6 broadway books random house issued that's a quote. bill: somehow check is not impressed with the o'reilly guy but the book is great. that is relation check. pinheads and patriots up next. tonight starring jesse ventura and a dramatic rescue. right back with. p and

bill: time now for "pinheads and patriots." a horrific car accident in milwaukee, wisconsin.

an s.u.v. flipped over erupted into flames trapping a mother and her two little kids in an obviously life-threatening situation. bystanders tried to help, but off duty police officers showed up, and the three were finally rescued. for risking their lives, the brothers are patriots. on the pinhead front, jesse ventura had this to say about sarah palin. >> she's a quitter. let me put it to you this way, larry, and by not being sexist, she could never make it as a frog man or a navy seal because if you utter the words in buds training, basic underwater demolition training, "i quit," you're gone. bill: don't know if she's concerned about making it as a frogman, but who knows. and for comparing himself to herself when the situations are dramatically different, governor ventura is a pinhead. finally tonight the mail. we applaud billoreilly.com

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we do hope to see you again next time. remember, the spin stops here because we're definitely looking out for you. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] alisyn: good morning, everyone. it's july 21st. a mother and her two children trapped in an suv being melted by flames. look at this. >> the baby in there. alisyn: jumps into the action just in a nick of time. steve: what pictures. meanwhile, president obama signed it on day one in the white house. an executive order closing gitmo. but now he may need more time. oh, and he can't pinpoint what constitutes closure. what the heck is going down in cuba? brian? >> he beat her senseless and five months later for the first time chris brown says he's sorry sorry. >> what i did was unacceptable, 100%. i can only ask and pray that y