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a leopard print bvest? we will see you again, and until then, keep it here, on the most powerful name in news, and i think tom delay is a good sport to do that. i do not know. it is pretty wild. bill: reports are that the commander in afghanistan may quit if obama does not send more troops. is there a crisis brewing in the afghan war? >> i am just one little person. i have got 50 things thrown at me. i am like, what did i do? bill: the state of california says the doctors that dave anna
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nicole smith were both sexually involved with her. is it legal has been investigating. >> ♪ wild thing bill: and what is this all about? tom delay a wild thing? this just might be too horrible to think 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 am bill o'reilly. thank you for watching tonight. is there a crisis in afghanistan? that is the subject of tonight's talking points memo. general stanley mcchrystal has asked president obama to give 40,000 more troops to contain the taliban in afghanistan. >> we are not going to make any decision about any further troop
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deployments until we know what exactly is our strategy, what are the tactics, how would troops be used, can we justify taking those steps, and i am going to be asking some very hard questions. bill: well, today, there is word that general mcchrystal may quit if he does not get those troops. there is no question that the war in afghanistan is not going well, and there are three reasons why. plus, they are corrupt, led by hamid karzai, the government there. second, there are not enough nato troops to protect the afghan people from the taliban, said the terrorists of it, and three, afghanistan does not encourage democracy. it is a tribal country. we are really up against it in that country. the taliban gets all of the money it needs because of drug dealing. the afghan army is weak and disorganized, even after eight
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years of the presence of nato. president obama is well aware of that and is getting pressure to get out of afghanistan. even some conservatives want to give up the fight, but if america doesn't give up, the terrorists win. it is just like iraq before the surge, but there cannot be a surge in afghanistan, because there are no troops. nato is pretty much out of options. of course, that will be a disaster as a world, and some muslim terrorists, will declare a victory and have a big sanctuary, and president obama will look weak. the top story tonight, a very disturbing situation, our guest joins us, a senior editor of a magazine, and from washington, a democratic congressman from long island, dennis kucinich. you oppose almost all wars, and you did in iraq and in afghanistan -- >> but i was right about iraq.
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bill: the surge gave the iraqi people at least a chance at freedom, and all the americans that died did not die in vain, so that is debatable. >> every american dies serves this country with great honor. bill: we know that, but when you are in it, you win it. when you are in it, you win it, and now, we are in afghanistan, and if we lose it, then the terrorists to win. it is as simple as that. we lose. terrorists win. correct? >> it is absolutely right, what you said about afghanistan. it is not a democracy. so when you think about that, they cannot have an honest election. the government is run by drug money. we have to ask some hard questions. also, look at the map, bill, look at the map. we are going to destabilize the region the longer we stay there. we will have to worry about
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going into pakistan. we will have to deal with iran. the situation in iraq is always troubling. we need to get russia and china and iran and india together and say to them, "help us solve this problem." bill: we also have to give everybody health insurance with no money to pay for it, and miracle of miracles, that is not going to happen. if we pull out, the terrorists win. it is as simple as that. we pull out, we leave, they win. >> it is not as simple as that. it is conservatives that should recognize exactly what this is, a government boondoggle that is getting worse every month, and the results are getting worse and worse. this as a body count of american troops. that is horrendous and getting worse. we can get out. we do not have to manage the al qaeda threat by having all of those troops on the ground in
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afghanistan. bill: but you both surely know that if the united states gets out of afghanistan, chaos will sue, and it surely will, and they will say that they won. that is what they are going to say, and chaos will break out. that is what is going to happen, and you know that. >> chaos already reigns, and it is getting worse and worse. bill: they are not dying in the numbers that they died in iraq, but every human life is precious, particularly our military. >> they are dying in worse numbers every month. bill: but just like iraq, congressman, the tide could turn it is it is managed properly. look. i do not like this war. i do not have any confidence. i have been to afghanistan. i do not get any confidence that we can impose our type of democracy on that nation. i do not like it, but i do not wanted united states to lose to
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the taliban. i think that is a disaster with unintended consequences all day long, congressman. >> we have got to have some new thinking on this, because the idea of a safe haven, yes, we could stay in afghanistan, but at what price? at the price of escalating a war with pakistan? more troops? russia had i think 112,000 troops at its peak. general mcchrystal has a plan that would put us over 100,000. the track that we are on is the same track that russia -- bill: is a continuation, and the afghan people by and large like us. they like us, but they heeded the russians, but they feared the taliban because they do not have security. now, you mentioned pakistan, congressman. pakistan has taken pretty good action to kurt the taliban itself. the afghan war is not hurting the pakistanis right now. in fact, if we pull out, but
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taliban will be stronger, and they will become more a threat to pakistan. >> pakistan has to account for the security of pakistan. the united states cannot take it upon itself the burden of protecting pakistan and protecting afghanistan and taking on iran and keeping a war going on in iraq. do we not have some things to take care of back here at home? that is exactly my point. bill, that is my point. bill: i will give you the last word. i say we give him one last shot. we give general mcchrystal what he needs. >> one of the things we cannot afford is this war. it will cost a lot more. we are never going to achieve the goal of a stable afghanistan. tons of empires have found themselves running aground in afghanistan. let's not let america become one of them. bill: thank you. we appreciate it.
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bill: last night, president clinton. >> a hard-core right-wing republican party took over their party. in the late 1970's. we have become more partisan and polarized. i remember i was kidding newt gingrich the other day. you know, we are out of politics, so we can be nice to each other now. we were at the portrait and dealing of senator trent lott, and the worst thing he ever said is that i was a spoiled brat, but newt gingrich said i was the enemy of normal americans. bill: newt gingrich, who has a
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new dvd with his wife called "rediscovering god." this is becoming a big deal, this inwardness factor. i have been doing this 13 years, and i guess i am the poster boy of rudeness. i am the problem here, ladies and gentlemen, but what we try to do is have a vigorous debate. once in awhile, we will get a little rude, but i did not hear this from the media when they were kicking the daylights out of bush and cheney. >> when several dozen democrats were borrowing -- booing president george w. bush during the state of the union, that was somehow not important, because, after all, he deserved to be booed because he was not a liberal, and when it was said about ronald reagan by tip
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o'neill that he had ice in his starts, he was a lovely iris democrat, so therefore, whatever he had -- that he had ice in his heart, and he was a lovely irish democrats, so therefore, whatever he said did not matter. his justice department just dropped a case which they were winning against a group of left- wing activists who were filmed browbeating and intimidating voters last year. bill: the black panther case in philadelphia. >> exactly. so as long as you are a left winger, violating rolls, disrupting meetings, imposing nor will, yelling at people -- violating rules, that is not bad -- bill: we do not justify a bad behavior. i think you'll also be made that mistake. you win the debate and the long run -- in the long run with the
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facts. you do not win it by calling people names. you do not win it by being disruptive to the president of the united states. even if you disagree with him, you do not do that, but i have to submit to you that there is a lot of mean is going andrea i think it is worse than it as ever been in the media -- a lot of meanness going on. i think it is worse than it has ever been in the media. >> anybody who wants to can write what they want to, and that has led a lot of people to anonymously write a lot of painful things because they can do it and get away with it, but let's be clear. what joe wilson did was wrong, and he has apologized to the best of my knowledge, not a single one of the democrats who booed president bush has apologized. not a single one. there is a double standard.
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bill: i agree. >> every time i go out on the road, and i am in a situation -- i have done some things with howard dean. every time we are civil, and we have had the kind of conversation you and i are having, they are eager to have people who can disagree without being disagreeable. bill: they are, but sometimes you have to, and i probably do this too much, confront. barney frank, on "the factor," came on here and lied. >> sure. bill: he lied about freddie maac and fannie mae when we had just played the clip. howard dean did the same thing. there, you have to go after them. you have to say, it "yes, you did it." and then people think you are rude.
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there is a place for rudeness, but it has to be last. >> i would rather think that there is a place for directness. bill: i like that. ok, we are going to hold the speaker over because i want to find out three things that speaker newt gingrich thinks would make health care reform acceptable to all of us, three things. later, in california, investigators say the doctors who gave anna nicole smith drugs or also sexually involved with her.
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bill: continuing now with us is the former speaker newt gingrich, who has spent a long time studying health care.
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we could have a genuine health- care reform, which we need. everybody knows that we need it. give me three things. >> one, we have got to have a system where you know price and quality. bill: , ok, let me stop you there. so all of the procedures and the drugs should be listed somewhere on the internet so people can say, "this is how much it should cost." >> the state of florida discovered shockingly that people went to the less- expensive places. bill: there you go. there you go. >> and it brought down the price when everybody knew the price. bill: and then you have copays. >> number two, allow the insurance companies to sell across state lines. if you allow the federal employee health benefit plans to automatically be available in every state, there would be 305 different insurance choices available tomorrow morning for every small business in america. bill: that seems to be simple.
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that seems to be easy. let's try that. why will they not do it? >> because it would work. bill: there has to be another reason. >> i do not want to be rude, but i will be direct. if you are liberal, and your number one goal is to get more bureaucracy with more power in washington, d.c., and we, along with a market-oriented solution that actually wakes -- mix washington less important -- there is a man who works with us at the center who wrote a book called "stop paying the crooks." we believe there is between $7,120 billion per year stolen in medicare and medicaid -- between $7 billion and $120 billion per year stolen. bill: the president will do that. >> well, i am glad you believe that. bill: i am just saying what he
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said. >> there is nothing in the bill that says that. bill: but he is going to do it. you do not understand. >> i am and old-fashioned american. i want to see the legislative language. bill: george stephanopoulos agree with me. that is impossible. >> when someone comes up to me and says, "i really do have the brooklyn bridge for sale," i would like to see the certification. bill: ok, i have a beef with cuba and on something you like, and that is putting the medical records -- i have a beef with you. >> why is that a beast? bill: because if you have anything on the internet, it can be hacked into -- why is that a beef? bill: because if you read anything on the internet, it can be hacked into. >> there are 13 million health records at kaiser. the v.a. has millions.
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the virtually everyone who watches us uses an automatic teller machine. bill: do you want your medical records to be accessed? >> you are in greater danger of people's xerox in your paper records -- i mean, look at the george clooney case from a few years ago. bill: be patient-doctor confidentiality that supposedly exists in this country -- the patient-doctor confidentiality -- >> i think there should be a lot to make it a felony to hack into health records, because it is so important that you have confidence in your electronic of record that anybody who hacks into that goes to jail for a really long time. bill: it is very hard to catch these people. it is a double edged sword. yes, it would save millions. >> if you are in a car wreck somewhere, and you are in a coma, and they can accenture
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record and save your life -- i think you could have an opt out procedure -- and they can access your records. bill: all right, newt gingrich, not too rude. plenty more as "the factor" goes on tonight. john travolta testifying at an extortion trial in the tragic death of his son. and with the death of anna nicole smith, sex and drugs involved.
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bill: indeed barack -- in the barack and a hard place segment tonight, what has the president not done well? >> well, in his media blitz this weekend, where he appeared on everything and from nickelodeon to the playboy channel but not fox, he appeared somewhat baffled that americans were not doing back flips excitement over his health-care plan.
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he said he really needed to step up his day. "i really have not done so well ." i am not breaking through. the problem is, and i do not know if it is ego or narcissism or whatever it is that is blocking him, it is not the messenger. it is the message. according to rasmussen last week, 57% page what he is doing. i will tell you. there was a little-noticed a gallup poll released this week, where they asked americans about government, and 57% of americans say that government is trying to do too much in the economy that is better left to individuals and businesses. bill: ok, so is the intrusion of the government that most americans are against. i think that is true. colmes? alan: specifically, i think people what to change the health-care system. bill: but they do not want it
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run by the feds. as the speaker and i just discussed, they do not want it run by the feds. alan: what he has done wrong is not come out with his own policy based on his general policies. bill: here is where the mistake was, and we discussed this with the speaker, as well, saying "i am going to pay for this by knocking out waste and fraud in the current system." even you -- even you -- alan: look at that finger coming my way. in the speech, he should have been specific about where the money is coming from. that is the problem. just the converse of what monica crowley said, he appeared on these shows, and we say that he has been on pi number of shows.
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"meet the press," "letterman," spreading the wealth on these shows, and then he goes on letterman, and he says that he was black before he was president -- bill: is he trying to charm the audience? alan: people need to know that he is a regular guy. >> alan, they already know that. bill: he is getting beaten up, right? you do it. he is getting beaten up. >> that is true. bill: so what is the antidote to getting beaten up? >> every american president gets beaten up. where are all of his surrogates? the president of the united states should not be the one
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making his case. bill: i want to see him on fox. >> but, bill, he has got no decent surrogates, to make his case, not nancy pelosi or harry reid. alan: traditionally, you had bush, and people like that put their surrogates on the shows, and he goes and does it himself. what is wrong? >> the american presidency should retain some mystique, all right? bill: misty? alan: mystique? >> when he goes out carpet bombing the media like this, there is the risk of diminishing returns. bill: colmes, he is overexpose. come on. he is on all of the tide. i cannot get away from him -- he is on all of the time. the perception is he is always
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on. alan: he carves out fox, so he is not always on. bill: real quick. >> people started to tune out bush during the second term, and obama really runs this risk. that is right. it is very dangerous. bill: barack and a hard place, there you are. up next, some explicit charges from the state of california concerning the doctors of anna nicole smith. also, wal-mart and some pictures of children. if you're still one of the guys who's going over and over... going urgently... waking up to go... it's time to do what lots of guys everywhere have already done-- go see your doctor, because those could be urinary symptoms due to bph, an enlarged prostate. and for many men, prescription flomax reduces their urinary symptoms due to bph in one week. one week.
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bill: thank you for staying with us. i am bill o'reilly. in the is it legal segment tonight, john travolta expected to testify in the extortion
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case involving the death of his son. there is a huge lawsuit against wal-mart. there are pictures of children, aged one, four, and five, and the parents bring the pictures to wal-mart to get them developed, and wal-mart reports them, and the children are removed from the home for over one month. the damage was done. >> trying to be strong for your children when they are being ripped away from you, and you cannot make sense of it or answer the question when they ask you where am i going, and you cannot even tell them where they are going, and you have told them, "nobody will ever do anything to you. mommy and daddy will always be your." you wonder if your kids can ever trust you again. bill: now, a huge lawsuit against wal-mart from the parents. joining us is lis wiehl, the author of a book, and fox news
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host megyn kelly. i do not think there is any malice here. if you're in wal-mart, and you see questionable pictures, what do you do? megyn: there is qualified immunity for those who suspect child abuse, and the only way you can get past that immunity is if you can show malice, and i just do not think you can support that year, so it is a tragedy. the parents are doing the right thing in terms of getting the story out, so other parents know that this is something wal-mart does, that others may do, and you do not have to shop at wal- mart if you do not want to. bill: most people with digital pictures now, they do not even do this stuff. but people were hurt. the children were hurt. the parents were hurt. the store does not think they have done anything wrong, but i do not know what the judgment is, because i have not seen the pictures. >> they would normally say that
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they would tell the parents and turn it over to law enforcement, but they did not tell the parents that. how bad you just pick up the telephone and dialed the number and say, "who are you? are you the parents?" bill: i do not know with a wal- mart clark, if that comes under their job pending. -- if you are a wal-mart clerk, if that comes under your job listing. he did not know what to do. >> i am sorry. you have got kids that are clearly just taking a bath. megyn: that is the problem. >> some of the jenna tell me what showing apparent, but that is a child you are talking about, with a pair -- some of the genitals were showing. if this were something that was put up on the internet or
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facebook, i would feel completely different. bill: this is an active lossy. it is going to go to a jury. it could get settled -- there is an active lawsuit. megyn: they have a legal defense, which is they are immune, unless they can acknowledge malice. bill: so a judge does not have to go along. do you agree with that? >> it is not malice. picking up the telephone -- the law enforcement has immunity. wal-mart does not have immunity. megyn: i am sorry, wal-mart does. i am sorry, but you're absolutely -- let me finish. you are absolutely wrong, but there is a statute in arizona that says reporters of suspected child abuse -- let me finish -- are also protected, and there happened similar laws that expand that. >> there is the unsuitable print
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policy. they did not warn them. the defamed these people. bill: i am going to stop it. -- they defamed these people. bill: we will see. if you are wrong, you have to buy her a real big dinner, and if you are wrong, you have to buy her a real big dinner. megyn: i do not think i can eat it. megynbill: john travolta's son s in the bahamas in a tragic accident, and someone is charged with trying to extort money from travolta to keep the story quiet, i guess, and now, is under way. tell us. >> they put this together and said that they were going to try to export $25 million from the travoltas. why? because he apparently refused to sign a document.
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he may not have realized how badly off the board was. bill: so they threatened him with exposure unless he paid them -- badly off the boy was. megyn: the authorities said that john travolta did not sign that document, so how is he being threatened? bill: there could be some pictures. this is what i've heard, and i could be wrong, that they took pictures of the dead boy, and they said, "unless you pay, we are going to publish these pictures." the whole case is shrouded in mystery. we will wait. we will not speculate. we do not do that here. all right, anna nicole smith. she died from a drug overdose, a lot like michael jackson, and you have some psychiatrists and a doctor giving her massive amounts of drugs, and now, the state of california, and i do not know what reason they would
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have to do this, but they are saying they are sexually involved. why would they do that? megyn: they have got video of them, and then the woman on the right was her psychiatrist, and she, too, was allegedly involved in a sexual tryst. this is according to reports. you're a psychiatrist is not supposed to be sleeping with you. -- your site , interest is not supposed to be sleeping with you. -- your psychiatrist. bill: there is no criminality there. megyn: there are two investigations under way right now, and one is criminal. they have been charged. they are charged with giving her drugs for a combined intoxication death. bill: so with the hearing on october 5, they are going to say, look. we are going to charge you with
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-- what? >> involuntary manslaughter. they prescribes an amount of pills they should not have. involuntary manslaughter. they did not intended to kill her, but as the pharmacist said, this is like pharmaceuticals suicide. megyn: the one charge is bad enough, the conspiracy to provide these controlled drugs. in addition, the d.a. came out, showing that this pharmacy -- three pharmacies had turned down the prescriptions that had been turned in by her doctors. in other words, those doctors tried to get those pharmacy prescriptions filled, and they said, "no way. that is a death cocktail, and we are not filling it." bill: a pretty serious charge. and then they just laid this other stuff on them. >> and if there are depositions out there that have already been
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bill: the news quiz starring the "fox & friends" guy steve doocy playing for david vaughn in that nasa sis, virginia. -- check out bill o'reilly.com number one. i am delirious today.
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the whole day. the acorn people say they are being treated unfairly. >> we are not going to take this lying down. we believe that -- in fact, we know that this was a form of entrapment. and, yes, we're going to go after this videographer and fox. waiting but that's ok. what state has now issued activities? we have been doing that >> 20 states. 29 massachusetts. [bleep]
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boat. bill: see what smoking will do? it's all about smoking. summer? bill: you were up there. >> irinterviewed the coast guard. they told me four and the paper says five. the coast coward says five. >> you are in my backyard here. bill: question number three, president obama recently scolded which famous person, not counting doocy? bill: that was an easy one.
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i like to throw one easy one in just to make everyone relax. doocy is up by one. maccallum with two to go. question number four, nolle wed newlywed gamgame, one of the longest running american game shows. >> what will your husband say is the one thing he absolutely forbids you to put on his wiener? >> onions. no onions. >> all right. nona? >> bengay. [ laughter ] bill: i don't get it but doocy and mccallum are having a great time. i don't get it. which gay celebrity couple will be the first same-sex couple to appear on the newly wed game? 30 bill: cards up, please. and the answer is c.
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the star trek guy. [ laughter ] >> i didn't know the newlywed game was coming back. that was funny. bill: you liked the bengay line? that was funny. bill: martha maccallum, everybody, email her directly. jay leno is now on at 10:00 p.m. >> did you see that video from the philadelphia phillies game the other day the dad catching the foul ball. the daughter throwing it back. i was bothered by that kevin and i were at that very same game. the exact same thing happened to us. we didn't wind up on youtube. well, here, show. [cheers and applause] bill: how many years did leno do his late night show?
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bill: doocy scores again. >> i'm going to throw all the cards up in the air. bill: second week in a row. >> four sharks. bill: we're going to put you out there and see how many show up. >> come on. bill: david vaughn. you win a lot of nice prizes. pinheads and patriots on deck tonight starring a dancing tom delay. heaven help us. right back. (woman) dear cat. your hair mixes with pollen and dust. i get congested. but now with zyrtec-d®, i have the proven allergy relief of zyrtec®, plus a powerful decongestant. zyrtec-d® lets me breathe freer, so i can love the air™. (announcer) zyrtec-d®. behind the pharmacy counter. no prescription needed.
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bill: time now for pinheads and patriots. former house majority leader tom delay has a hidden talent. ♪ ♪ wild thing, i think i love you. ♪ i want to know for sure. [cheers] ♪ come on, hold me tight ♪ i love you.
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bill: it's enough to put me into classical music. now, did you think you would ever see that? did you? just for his courage, mr. delay is a patriot. on the pinhead front general electric ceo jeffrey immelt finally signed a pledge not to do business with iran. finally, after years and years and years it took immelt to do it. as we reported, general electric was elm -- embarrassed to send money to the brutal mullahs. reremains a pinhead. thousands of letters last night. bill: i will try one more time elizabeth, i know it's a complicated issue. a public option is a government-run insurance agency set up to compete with private companies. that's unfair to those private companies because the feds don't have to make a profit and can pay expenses with taxpayer dollars. i support a marketplace where
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private insurance companies could compete nationally under federal guidelines. that would pool resources. now that would lower premium costs but profits would stay in the private sector and no government official will telling you what doctor to see. an insurance marketplace brings competition which is what is needed here. i hope everybody understands that. david hood: bill: perhaps because i'm the astute interrogator? somehow i think john is not giving me a compliment.
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bill: we're half way there. bill: well, that will serve you well in the future. bill: smith got top billing, jerry? is that what you are telling me here? maybe they will just say s. reilly daugherty. that would -- s. reilly daughtery. that's how you do it. congrats on the baby. how about our web site? www.fox news.com/o'reilly fox news memo posted there. comments from anywhere in the world. o'reilly@foxnews.com. name and town.

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