bret: maybe a new pitch. we will see. that's it for "special report" this time. the only place you will get the whole story. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. we will see you right back here tomorrow. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] 27th, 2009. i'm shepard smith. thanks for having us in. here's bill. bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight: are you going to be running against barack obama in what's his main weekness? >> inexperience. shepard: are those words coming back to haunt the nation? is president obama's inexperience causing chaos in america? we'll analyze the leadership factor. >> democracy depends on you. that's why our troops are willing to die for you. in honor of the american soldier you quit making things up. bill: sarah palin goes out taking shots at the media will she make a new career doing that that? >> our new governor has a very nice family too so leave his kids alone.

[cheers and applause] >> the president obviously -- all he has to do is just produce the original birth certificate in hawaii and be done with it. bill: new outcry to fire cnn commentator lou dobbs. we will tell you what it is all about. 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. president obama and the leadership factor. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. the president has now been in office six months. last week by far was the worst seven days of his ten venue as you know the president could not articulate his health care vision in a one hour press conference and he foolishly got involved in a massachusetts beef which he knew nothing about. that one-two punch has shaken

some americans. the poll numbers bear this out. when asked by rasmussen if the president handled the race deal well, just 26 percent said he did. 46% believe he did not. the latest rasmussen poll today has just 30% of americans strongly approving of mr. obama's job performance. 40% strongly disapprove. a new gallup poll asked americans if they want health care reform passed this year. 41% do. 54% do not. so obviously none of that is good news for barack obama. the problem is his leadership. again, he couldn't explain the complicated health care deal. mr. obama is asking us, the american taxpayer, to invest trms of taxpayer dollars into a new big government program that's murky. he can't explain it. and the race deal was also a failure to lead. why bother, why bother getting

involved in a local cambridge massachusetts beef, even your friend is involved. especially when obama ran as a post racial candidate, a man who appeals to all the people? a president should never get involved in an undefined dispute or issue a harsh statement like saying the police officer was stupid, acted stupidly. unless the president has every single fact. and obama didn't. the most powerful man on earth has to understand his power. and president obama does not seem to. now, millions of americans voted for barack obama because they were fed up with the establishment who failed them. obama ran on hope. some folks said ok. but hope can turn to disdain pretty darn fast. and that's what we saw last week. to be fair, the president did show strong leadership on one vital issue. nuclear weapons and iran. secretary of state clinton made things very clear. >> what we want to do is to send a message to whoever is making these decisions that if you're

pursuing nuclear weapons for the purpose of intimidating, of projecting your power, we're not going to let that happen. first, we're going to do everything we can to prevent you from ever getting a nuclear weapon but your pursuit is futile. bill: good. on the record. in stone. no wiggle room. good. the u.s.a. will prevent the insane mullahs from getting the ultimate weapons of mass destruction. that's strong leadership. and now president obama must show more of it. that's the talking points memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction. joining from us kansas city juan williams. and from washington mary katharine ham. both are fox news analysts. how worried are you in the leadership -- i know you are a conservative, mary katharine. but take yourself out of the ideology as an american. 10 is most worried. one is least worried. how worried are you about barack obama's leadership and experience? >> well, i guess i'm worried

above a 5 i'm worried. i think thus far his lack of leadership has done a lot to hurt his own agenda which i am actually opposed to so i am not terribly upset about that specifically on health care, once you get out of the forrest of the campaign. your rhetoric has to reality. it's done that huge on health care. one hand bend downward and the other hand congressional budget office that measures these things says no you are bending the curve the wrong way. one hand investment and 10 years from now things will be cheaper. the congressional budget office says again this week they are not going to be cheaper. the deficit is going to grow faster. this is a huge problem for him. simply a matter of rhetoric meeting reality. bill: juan, i couldn't surprised how that gates thing went down? because when i heard that at the press conference, i didn't cover it that night. we spent all the post press conference on health care. that's a much bigger low racial

beef in massachusetts. were you surprised at president obama obviously took this on, knowing the question was coming and said what he said? >> absolutely. i couldn't believe it. and i thought the language, you know, stupid. where does that -- that's not a presidential word. certainly not talking about a case where he doesn't have all the facts. and the idea that he then, you know, and he did know the question was coming. he apparently in his mind prepared himself to go back to his time in illinois state legislature and talk about its had efforts with racial profiling. but this is not a case of racial profiling. this is a case of the police being called to a house by neighbors who are concerned about a break-in. bill: that being said we don't want to rehash because everybody knows what it is. >> right. bill: it does speak to the president's maturity level, i think. and the experience of saying, look, i am the most powerful man in the world said in the talking points memo. if i say the police acted stupidly, ok, that's going to be

an atomic bomb. and then there is the race factor, juan, that you have a lot of people who thought. >> yes, indeed. >> you know, is he not looking at the prism of race. he is operating for the benefit of all americans. that shattered now. i don't know if he can put that back. >> boy, he is going to try to walk it back. he has got them coming over to the white house sergeant crowley and professor gates this week. but he has got to repair his own image because, remember, the key to barack obama's success in the 2008 campaign and so far as president has been the people trust him. high credibility. even if people might disagree or not be sure, they think, you know, he is a good guy, he is a smart guy. is he rising above the political fray, the polarization in washington. all of the sudden it looked like he was taking sides, being partisan and in being partisan in an explosive and i understand said area racial issue. weighs contributing to the divide not healing. that's not good for him. that's going to bring his numbers down. bill: it already has. go ahead, catherine. >> i would say at the root of

the issue on both of these things the health care and the gates issue. i think he has sort of an overconfidence in the power of his own words and his own rhetoric. on health care he thinks if he just keeps sayings same things it will change the congressional issue and the actual legislation which will t. will not. on the gates thing, the media told him all during the campaign that he had said the greatest things on race ever said. so he thought he could pontificate that on that with confidence. it turns out that he couldn't. i would disagree with you slightly where i'm more worried about his leadership is on things like iran or i think hillary actually was stepping back some comments she made earlier last week on wednesday where she was offering a defense umbrella to the middle east in the event that iran did get the bomb. that's where i am more worried about -- bill: no. look. no matter how the iran thing is goes down the obama administration is on the record as saying it ain't going to harassment vitally important. can't back down from it. ok. now, the final question about barack obama is that when

anybody takes the offices of presidency, anybody, george washington, teddy roosevelt, it doesn't matter, they are stunned for a year. i mean, nobody can possibly understand, juan, the completion city of the job. however, when george w. bush became president, he had karl rove, his father, and dick cheney, like him or not. three guys who knew all about it. obama rahm emanuel. that's it. all those other guys are chicago guys. now, i'm telling you, to me, to me, juan, he has nobody in there who can say, hey, you better handle in this way. he is out on his own, juan. is he walking without a net. >> yeah. it's tough. and, you know, the experience issue comes back. but, you know what? the thing is, he has got joe biden there i think he has got

lots of democrats. bill: joe biden? joe biden probably would have said the cops were -- stupid would be the mildest thing. joe biden would have said, juan. joe biden is the voice of reason? is that what you are telling me, juan? >> joe biden is a good experienced politician. but your point is, look, you can't just go out there on your own and. bill: right, have you got to have somebody in there. >> continuously ad-lib. >> have you got to have joe biden. >> think what you are doing. that's what worries me right now. he had a bad week. let's hope he can start to walk it back. bill: he needs to hire george mitchell or somebody to sit there. that's what he need to do. mary katharine, juan. thanks very much. next on the rundown, fire lou dobbs that's what some organizations are demanding cnn do but why? later sarah palin firing at the press as she leaves office. what was -- was that a smart thing to do ♪

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bill: impact segment tonight, a call for cnn commentators lou dobbs to be fired. all has to do with lou dobbs allowing conversation on his program that alleges president obama is not a u.s. citizen. that theory has been around for a while. the factor investigated found out its bogus but mr. dobbs is still engaged. >> we have been reporting on the accusations widespread on the internet that president obama wasn't actually born in the united states and, therefore, some believe he is not eligible to be president. it's out there. it has passionate supporters. the questions won't go away because they haven't been dealt with, it seems possible, to straightforwardly and quickly. bill: and, again, we found that president obama was born in hawaii. we were sent the documents. what have you got to do? that was more than a year ago. now the southern poverty law center is demanding cnn fire mr. dobbs for promoting racial

bigotry. joining us now from montgomery, alabama richard cohen the president of the southern poverty law center. i don't know why you guys are overreacting to this. it's not true. mr. dobbs trying to get ratings, trying to be provocative. he said three times that he believes president obama is a u.s. citizen. is he using this to stir the pot and get viewers. why are you overreacting? >> i'm not sure how innocent that is, bill. i mean, bill, lou dobbs has been trading in these right wing conspiracies for years. the idea it is ok just because he is trying to get ratings, that seems like kind of a poor excuse. i wouldn't think you would do the same thing. bill: some people would accuse me of doing it? >> no, no, no. bill: sure they would. you know what they do here. it's not an excuse, mr. cohen, it is an explanation. see, look, here is what if you want to watch lou dobbs, watch him.

if you don't, don't. nobody is forcing watch him. if is he going to push a story that's absurd. it is, it's an absurd story. you know, americans can decide, you know, whether they want to watch or not. why do you want his head? i don't understand why you want his head. >> we have a right to call for cnn to get him off the air. niece right to be on cnn. cnn is being kind of irresponsible by having him on the air. you know, bill, there is a real kind of big segment in our population that is not ready to accept a black president we have dead police officers in pittsburgh, dead police officers in florida who are upset over the obama presidency. for lowe to kind of add to this air of ill legitimacy about him is really playing quite, quite a dangerous game. i think that he is trying -- if is he trying to get ratings. that's not a very legitimate way to do it. cnn ought to do something about it. bill: look, i don't mind you coming out and saying you

disagree with him. it's totally absurd. it's wrong to exploit it. he is playing upon fears. there might be a racial component. although i don't think lou dobbs is a racist at all. >> when is enough, bill? when is enough enough? bill: it's never enough, enough. it's a -- freedom of speech society, never enough is enough. it allows to you go up to the line. if lou dobbs was causing danger to someone, then you would be legitimate in calling for his firing. but he is not. all he is doing is bloviating. it's just bloviating. [ laughter ] bill: that's all it is. >> there is a difference between lowe, i think, and you, bill. you don't pretend to be a newscaster. you are an opinion person. bill, -- lou wants it both ways. he's to pretend that he is a newscaster and really the reality is is he a propagandaist. we are not telling the government that they have got to fire lou dobbs. we are telling cnn they ought to exercise some editorial judgment and take off an irresponsible

voice from the airwaves. bill: the southern poverty law center was so outraged about mr. dobbs and the illegal alien take that he came up with that isn't this a little pay back? aren't you paying him back for the illegal alien deal here? >> i think we are calling him for his misstatements of fact like we have been doing for years. bill: not just a birth certificate thing this is illegal aliens and other stuff too. >> i wouldn't put it that way. lou has been saying ridiculous things about undocumented persons. 7,000 new cases of lip leprosy. no one knows how many cases have comes from persons undocumented. for years and years. bill: if you are going to ask for the firing of every irresponsible commentator in the country. >> except for you, bill. except for you. bill: look, many want me fired.

what i'm telling you is it never ends. you can parade them out. any mistake, any opinion you don't like. they ought to be fired, they ought to be fired. they ought to be fired. the marketplace takes care of it lou dobbs's ratings not very good. cnn is having a very, very hard time. the folks are deciding, you know. for you to get on there and demand cnn fire him, number one, you help lou dobbs because the people who don't like you and don't like that approach will probably go watch him to see how he responds. so you are helping him. and cnn is never going to fire him. you know that. so you would be better off in my humble opinion to make your case, say you don't believe it's fair. you believe it's exploitative, possibly dangerous. and then walk away. it's the marketplace of ideas, mr. cohen. i will give the last word. >> i'm not quite as cynic kel as you are, bill. i think if enough people speak out, cnn will listen and be more responsible in the future. bill: you want to bet? >> i don't know. bill: i got 10 grand for habitat on humanity for the table. >> how about 10 grand for the

southern poverty law center, bill. bill: i'm not going to take your money. so there is no real bet there. is he not going to get fired. mr. cohen, thanks for coming on. we appreciate it? >> thank you, bill. bill: here is the latest on the bill o'reilly.com poll. we asked if you respected water cronkite. 5 percent said yes. 42% do not. ahead a death scene compiled in michael jackson's home. we will give you disturbing information about that later, the culture warriors on a wedding situation that some americans are upset about. whoa. what's going on there? the warriors coming up.

bill: the be with are the site tmz reporting emergency responders to michael jackson's home the day he died found the singer hooked up to iv dead. right now authorities are investigating dr. conrad murray who may have administered a powerful sedative to jackson with the death scene telling the tale. joining us now from nashville, tennessee dr. bruce levy, the chief medical examiner for the state of tennessee. ok, what i want you to do here is what you would do in your job

they try to save the life whoever is in trouble. they can't. he is dead. then they describe the scene to the police first and then you get the case the scene according to tmz. there is jackson, is he unconscious. they go over. no sign of life. hooked up. ok, to an iv that's empty with an oxygen chamber nearby. what do you make of all of that? >> well, i mean you put it together with what we know of this person's history. stressful job, putting together a big production. he is 50 years old, a very physically demanding thing. notorious problems sleeping. and you have this scenario of someone coming home and self-medicating themselves to try and relieve the stress of

the job he is trying to do. bill: doctor, i don't know any drug addict or anybody trying to go to sleep that hooks themselves up to an iv. ok? that doesn't happen. so somebody had to do that for him. >> well, actually, there are plenty of people who will inject themselves with medications. will hook ivs to themselves. bill: whole thing like in a hospital. >> whole thing in a hospital. they get all of the equipment and they do it themselves. bill: really? >> and there is no reason to believe that this couldn't have happened. of course what you are suggesting is that someone else may have done this is certainly a possibility as well. bill: i'm not suggesting anything, doctor. you have got a guy murray full time working for jackson because jackson is a nut and jackson has a rehearsal and after rehearsal he comes home and he has to be medicated this is michael jackson. is he rehearsing for his show.

he comes home and he has to get medicated to go to sleep or whatever he wants to do. murray is in the house, ok, when the 911 calm comes. in there is murray in the house. not in the room when jackson dies, apparently. but then murray starts to prevent the first responders from doing certain things. ok? i'm just saying to myself i don't think michael jackson wired himself up with this if have you got a full time physician. the drug involved is a powerful sedative that if you are taking it intravenously it can knock you out dead any time, could it not? >> well, i mean, it's not a medication that shouldn't be outside of a hospital setting. inin fact, of the warnings for s use in the hospital go on for paragraphs. so, i can't imagine it having a valid use outside of a hospital setting. bill: now, it is a drug that has been abused by people because not only does it put you to sleep but before it gives you

kind of a opium like euphoric feeling. >> it does that supposedly. also it gives you, supposedly very vivid sexual hallucinations as well. and some people have used it for that purpose. bill: now, if you are in the state of pen see and this comsz to your desk with everything that we have just discussed,. >> right. >> and you are called to testify in front of a grand jury, doctor, as you have done many, many times, you tell the grand jury, what? >> i would tell the grand jury assuming this turns out to be the cause of death that this death is related to a drug overdose, what those drugs are. i would describe the setup as you have described it and say, look, this is something that while certainly he could be hooked up by somebody else who administered this, this is still something potentially that he could have done himself.

bill: all right, doctor. appreciate it. >> and we would rule the manner of death as an accident. bill: i'm sure it was. i'm sure it was an accident. he didn't want to kill himself. it was so grossly irresponsible whether he did it alone or whether the doctor assisted him. >> absolutely. bill: unbelievable. you can be charged with that as well. >> whoever provided this is unacceptable. bill: thanks, doc. sarah palin leaves office hammering the national media we will analyze it and we told you it would happen. now people want to mayory more than -- marry more than one person are making their case. for dazzling white teeth, give toothpaste the brush off. you need listerine® whitening vibrant white™ rinse. the mouthwash that gets teeth four times whiter than the leading toothpaste. and kills bad breath germs. listerine® whitening vibrant white™.

bill: personal story segment tonight, summer rapidly flying by unfortunately. we thought we would check in with our pal morina our hot for records pal. we asked morina about summertime vocabulary. roll the tape. bill: here we go with the summertime edition of the morina show. all right? are you ready for this. >> yes. bill: of course. now, in the summer bikinis are on display. where did the word bikini come from? >> bikini is a fun word. because of the origin of the word bikini back in 1846 after two atomic bombs were droppedden 00 islands of bikini by the united states as a test. >> fire! [explosion] >> and was broadcast all over the world on tv.

so, a french designer saw it and he decided to come up with a smallest bathing suit in the world. bill: atomic bomb is big. he wants a little bathing suit. >> he wants a little bathing suit so he named it latome after atomic bomb. he saw the fact when people see his bathing suit. would be the same as the fact of an atomic bomb like wow! bill: oh, i see, they would be you aked. >> take your trunks and head for the beach. bill: you can't really named the bathing suit latome. you have to think of a better name and the association was. >> bikini. bill: bikini island. >> lowe came up with the name. so risque that he couldn't find a model to wear it. he had to hire a stripper or a nude dancer from a casino to just show his bikini. bill: frankie and annette do

they understand bikini. i don't know if you get that in rugs shanchts that's what i call a healthy girl. [cheers] second, vacation. >> vacation, i mean the thing that we all love, right? vacation means empty. it comes from the latin word vacare where vacate comes from. it used to mean empty. but because your work load is empty you are free from work. bill: it's interesting. so vacation means empty, you don't have anything to do you just relax ♪ vacation, all i ever wanted. >> i work on vacations too. bill: not in rome apparently empty. >> vacations have to get away. bill: third one, beach. >> actually the meaning of the word beach used to be totally different. it used to mean the pebbles. worn down by the waves. bill: pebbles worn down by the waves? >> yeah.

bill: i got it. >> people would say let's go lay down on the pebbles. bill: worn down by the waves. >> that's what did made in england beach now it means nice sand. >> let's go lay down by the ocean, on the sea not on the pebbles. ♪ bill: not good to lay down and fall asleep because you can get swept away. now we know that beach came from england. >> not comfortable at all. bill: finally picnics. >> picnics, i love picnics, do you? bill: sometimes i like them but the ants and the bugs it can get complicated. >> i know, especially in russia. bill: why are they bigger there? >> oh my god. bill: giant ants? giant bugs in russia, go ahead. >> picnic comes from french word piquenique. it sounds very french to me. [ laughter ] bill: picnic french word. >> pique at the food and nique was added as it rhymes.

bill: they added it because the french. >> it was borrowed. from the french language. bill: i don't know if you go on picnics do you morina. >> i love picnics. i go lie down on the pebbles. bill: you don't lie down on pebbles but you do go on picnics? morina buy her book when it comes out. >> thank you so much. bill: that book comes out on august 18th. hot for words. marine navment when we come back, couple of hot topics a wedding that might have gotten out of control. there they go. and the polyamoris movement'sñw

bill: thanks for staying with us. i'm bill o'reilly. in the culture warrior segment tonight. it's all about marriage. our analysis of gay marriage you

may remember, we pointed out if that becomes legal, under protection other alternative marriages would have to be legalized including polyamoris marriage. what's that? >> miley is going to spend the night. >> oh, ok. >> love you. >> have fun. >> >> you want to just go to bed early like right now? >> i promised sarah i would sleep with her tonight but that doesn't mean we don't have time. >> but who is going to sleep with me? bill: maybe you get a duck or something. i don't know. here now the culture warriors margaret hoover and gretchen carlson. now, the reason we are even showing this stuff is because oprah winfrey called those people. it's all over the internet. oh, yeah, carlson. don't be little bo peep here. >> i'm not being little bo peep i think it's ridiculous.

bill: you start today. i said this was going to happen because it's just pushing that envelope. pushing that envelope. >> i agree with you on that. by the way i'm not little bo peep on this subject. i think most americans would agree it's ridiculous. bill: tawdry. where are libertarians here. we don't care what you do. but to push it, to push it to make an exposition out of it is just ridiculous. >> it is ridiculous. but i believe that this will not become a trend. this is voyeurism. people want to watch this show that they are putting together here because it's so unlike the way most americans live their lives. bill: what do you think? >> do you know why you started with her? because you didn't want to pick another fight with me about gay marriage. here is the issue, bill. these polyamoris folks are not married and they are not fighting for the right to be married. bill: what are they fighting for. >> fighting for the right to live the life they want. if they want to have relationships with multiple people and comfortable with it. fine. as long as it doesn't impede on

me and my life. the difference this is apples and organization. the difference between gay marriage two people. bill: there a apples and oranges right there. stop talking for a moment. this goes back to the woodstock stuff 40 years ago with the communes. i think they all moved to vermont all these people. don't tell me they don't want to get matter there have been legal briefs filed already in some western states, including utah because that's where, you know, plural marriages is most centered. so it is going to happen. and these people, yeah, they are exhibitions, i get it and all of that but in holland, this has become a trend. >> i agree. this is going to happen. bill: see? >> i don't care what they do behind closed doors as long as my kids don't have to learn about it in first grade when they go to school. bill: how long have you going to have to plurality. they will have to be included. >> when that happens, i will be in up in arms about it i also don't want to pay for it. >> totally disingenuous to suggest that polyamoris

marriages are going to come about. bill: i didn't say standard. you can't stop them under equal protection. >> i disagree with you guys are wrong. bill: what about the apples and oranges that have to witness august of this. on the traditional marriage front, this is another thing that millions of people are going to the internet to see. this is a regular marriage between two people. roll the tape. ♪ you and me ♪ moving at the speed the light ♪ into eternity ♪ tonight is the night ♪ to join me in the middle of ecstasy ♪ ♪ it's a long way down ♪ angel ♪ it's like i waited my whole

life ♪ to see you on the dance floor ♪ bill: not exactly soul train but you get the idea. and that's not the reception. that's the ceremony. and i don't know if the priest was going, doing it, doing it or not because we didn't see him. what do you think? >> look, i actually started to rethink my own pro-essential and wondered if my father is learn to moon walk. i genuinely thought it was really lovely totally authentic real way for folks to express themselves and everybody was enjoying this. bill: what are they expressing. >> they are totally happy. bill: they are happy. >> 9 million people have seen. this unlike the amorist thing. gretchen: this happened in my home state of minnesota. the the renegade state setting trends all the time. this is absolutely fine. you know why? because marriage is tough.

and if you are telling the truth about it, it is, so why not have a little fun before you actually say the i do. i think it's fabulous they did. this obviously they agree or they wouldn't go to get a smile from watching this video. bill: again, if you want to have a disco marriage, you can have one. >> disco wedding. >> look at that move. o'reilly you could do that. bill: i absolutely could do that. you would k.c. and the sunshine band instead of here comes the bride. we have get down on it. >> all right. i like it. >> more power to them. we hope they are happy. bill: we are all going nuts here. i hope everybody understands. this and led by the culture warriors. washington state very secular progressive state. hoover, they have -- i'm sorry, carlson, they have now legalized breast feeding in public. >> yeah. bill: in public. which means that you can go anywhere at any time in

washington state and feed your baby the natural way in any kind of a format and not be bothered. >> it's not just washington state. many other states have similar laws is what i'm saying. as a mother of two small children, who breast fed, i mean, i think that when you have a screaming hungry baby and you are in public you should have the right to feed your baby. now, of course, do it with discretion. then that's going to be an issue for people who have to witness that. but i do agree that you should have laws allowing women to do. this why should they not be allowed to feed their child when the child is hungry? bill: it's always been a matter of discretion. if nobody was ever told to stop breast feeding their child when it wasn't visible and the child was just hugging the mom. it was always hey, in 7/11 and over there by the big gulp is a big gulp, and can i see it you see what i'm talking about, hoover? >> you know what they are calling the women fighting for

these measures? lactavist. bill: are you ok with this. >> totally. why are we so offended? we are we so obsessed with breast when they're big and in our face and janet jackson mishap. when it has to do with the life cycle we are offended. bill: i think it's a matter of private versus public behavior. >> no. >> sexuality versus life cycle. >> not for me. >> the women should have to be at home to be able to breast feed. >> no. but there has to be some kind of discretion as you mention. >> somewhere in the law they have have to have a blanket. bill: no, they don't. total whatever you want to do. >> most women will be discretionary. can you tell. bill: most women will. there is always those few that will spoil it for the rest of us. >> come on. you will like it. bill: i love children and i want babies to be very, very healthy. i'm telling you, this all ties in. the whole theme of the culture

warriors. >> is he so uncomfortable. >> he doesn't like it? >> we are together on this one tonight. >> ladies, thank you very much. reality check on deck. tonight sarah palin takes center stage and hammers the media wait until you hear what the exgovernor has to say. we'll be right back with it as the factor continues all across the u.s.a. and all around the world. welcome to the now network. population: 49 million. right now 1.2 million people are on sprint mobile broadband. 31 are streaming a sales conference from the road. eight are wearing bathrobes. two... less. - 154 people are tracking shipments on a train. - ( train whistles ) 33 are im'ing on a ferry. and 1300 are secretly checking email... - on a vacation. - hmm? ( groans )

bill: reality check. check one. as you know, sarah palin resigned her job as alaska's governor. she will write a book and give speeches around the country. she went out with a slam. >> first, some straight talk for some, just some in the media. democracy depends on you. and that is why -- that's why our troops are willing to die for you. so, how about in honor of the american soldier, you quit making things up. and don't underestimate the wisdom of the people and one other thing for the media, our new governor has a very nice family, too. so, leave his kids alone. you are going to see anti-hunting, anti-second amendment circuses from

hollywood. and here's how they do it. they use these delicate tiny, very talented celebrity starlets, they use alaska as a fundraising tool for their anti-second amendment causes. by the way, hollywood needs to know we eat therefore, we hunt. bill: somehow i would not want to be in ms. palin's hunting zone. check 2, proving the governor correct, the elite media just can't let go of her. >> i think there is a fundamental problem in the way that we have viewed her, perhaps, too seriously since she was a candidate when we should have viewed her seriously. she is a demagogue. she is ignorant. she is a flake, and i think that there is a kind of obesense that the conservative movement. if a liberal democrat were to be in a similar position. conservative would rightly run her out of town as would sense sensible democrats. really committed an almost

unpatriotic act in picking sarah palin because she is manifestly unqualified for high office. >> yes, i absolutely agree with karl 100%. i have been mist find and fascinated by her rise and her, you know, presence on the national stage. bill: of course you have because sarah palin's appeal is easy to understand but these people will never understand it regular folks tend to like regular folks. and she's regular folks. that's it. check three. as we reported earlier, some folks are angry with lou dobbs over the obama bitter certificate deal. here is what ann culture said. >> every conservative publication from human events american spectator dealt with this because it was raised as an issue. >> a year ago. >> and said there is nothing to it, you know, it's just a few cranks out there. it's like when networks bring on the three remaining clanners. bill: by the way, as we mentioned the factor debunked

the whole birth certificate deal more than a year ago it was easy, the state of hawaii sent us the document, end of story. check four, if it isn't where he was born, it was what he was wearing. >> the fashion police went after the jeans. >> i heard there was on my jeans. >> bad jeans, called the nerd jeans, you are married to one the most fashionable women in the world. dune do you want to defend the pants? >> no. here is my attitude. michelle, she looks fabulous. i'm a little frumpy, you know. basically. up until a few years ago, i only had four suits. she used to tease me because they would get really shiny. i hate to shop. those jeans are comfortable. and for those of you who, you know, want your president to, you know, look great in his tight jeans, i'm sorry, i'm not the guy. bill: but i am. i can wear tight slacks. just like steve martin and dan aykroyd. and i have hats like those guys,

too. i just thought you would like to know. check 5. they like us better overseas now that president obama is in office. according to a new pew research study 69% of the british now like us compared to 53% under president bush. in france 75% now like the u.s.a. as opposed to 42% a year ago. buff they still hate us in pakistan. just 16% like america. 1% more liked us when bush was in office. finally, check 6, if you watch local news on television, you know in some places things are totally out of control. >> come on, what -- you are having game, tyler. >> get it. >> you don't bring any of that in my house. >> i don't know what he means. >> who is that creep? >> oh, good job. >> make kids cry. >> i think is he genuinely crying. >> here, tyler, here. what's the matter with you? come on, let's go. >> all right.

>> in your face. >> you know what? kids these days are soft and they need to be toughened up. >> he wants to leave. >> go. that's right. tyler. i feel like the lowest person on the planet right now. [ laughter ] anyway, the cubs scored -- actually, i feel really good. i felt so powerful. bill: the lowest person is better. is the guy a pinhead you? bet he is. pinheads and patriots is next. tonight starring bill clinton. wait until you hear this. right back with it. .

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