>> he has just got the touch. >> bret: texas tea. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced, and unafraid. pacific, 3:00 eastern "studio b." right now it's mr. bill. >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight. >> t.s.a. have indicated to me that procedures that they have been putting in place. [beeping] >> are the only ones effective. >> bill: president obama once again with chaotic problem intrusive severance at the airport. should the president step in and stop them. brit hume and i will analyze. >> there is nobody else that i think wants to do the job and willing to make the tough decisions, then i would be willing to make the sacrifices and run for office.

[cheers] >> bill: throox like far left pundits want sarah palin to get the republican nomination for president in 2012. but why? we will tell you. >> i hunger for quality news. there is a little bug inside of me which wants to get the f.c.c. to say to fox, out, off, end. >> shepard: senator jay rockefeller would have the federal government ban fox news. bernie goldberg will take a look at that also tonight glenn beck on jimmy carter. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. trusting president obama. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. so now we have chaos at the airports because security people are patting us down or putting

us into intrusive machines. just three days before thanksgiving, the nation may be looking at a big mess for the holiday travel season. there is a good reason why the federal government wants stringent security on airlines and president obama articulated that reason on saturday. >> in the aftermath of the christmas day bombing, our t.s.a. personnel are properly, under enormous pressure to make sure that you you don't have somebody slipping on a plane with some sort of explosive device on their persons. >> bill: of course that is true. the jihadists would blow up any american plane if they could but the price we are all paying to protect ourselves is becoming a huge issue. unpleasant to go to the airport and the extent of the searches should not happen in a free society. so the feds should be looking to modify the airport security program. talking points believes in selective body scans. not everybody. use whatever formula you want,

but random searches are just as effective as universal searches. the big political issue, is that president obama faces yet another situation that is making americans angry. tick them off. civilian trials for al qaeda killers. ground zero mosque. the oil spill. unemployment not improving. one thing after another for the president. no question the trust in mr. obama's ability to run the country is eroding and quickly. some of it is the president's fault and some is not. he must face the facts that his presidency is not a success at this point. i spent a ton of time researching barack obama for my book "pinheads and patriots." i learned a important thing he is not a nimble man. he does not react quickly to urgent situations. he is more of a cleaning professor type. mulling things over. in the age of 24/7 news, much of it hysterical that approach is not going to cut it most americans don't like what's

happening in the country and many of them are blaming the president. right now mr. obama should order a reevaluation of the airport screening process, stop the madness before it gets completely out of control. random searches, combined with the traditional security machines should be enough. no system is perfect but intruding upon the entire flying population is simply unacceptable. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight, what about the trust factor as far as the president is concerned? joining us now from cambridge, massachusetts where he spoke at harvard today, fox news chief political analyst brit hume. we will get to those pin medicines in -- pinheads in a moment. i was in the virgin islands last week. big obama territory. big democratic u.s. territory. i talked to a number of people about the president. they are all very very weary now. i think it's because they are going, you know, we just don't have confidence. we don't have the confidence we used to have. and it is the truth factor. am i wrong? >> well, i think the t.s.a.

controversy feeds into the perception that people have had about this administration that it overgoverns. too much government intrusion and this is an example of that. the factors you mention a certain loss of confidence in the president. and i think obviously that's a political liability that he carries as he heads into these second two years of the first temple. i think can he recover but he has got work to do. >> bill: looking back on your experience of hard news coverage of the president, was there any one that you covered that lost the trust of the folks in its first two years in office as much as the president obama? >> >> brit: well, the two that come to mind are reagan and clinton. reagan was in pretty deep political trouble and way down in the polls during the midterm election in 1982. the economy was in a very deep and nasty recession. a lot of people forget how nasty

it was. his party only lost about 25 or 26 seats in the house and none in the senate that that election. people had a greater sense than they do now that the country was on the right path, that there were policies in place that would eventually bring the country out of the trouble it was in economically. bill clinton faced major rebuke from the voters in 1994. brought the republicans -- they lost, what? 50 some seats and brought the republicans back into power for the first time in 40 years. and he looked pretty weak at that point. and as we all now know, he recovered to win a landslide re-election. so, it's happened before. >> bill: okay. but let's take president reagan first. assessing his first two years, i don't believe that the folks lost confidence in him as much as they lost confidence in the way that the recovery was progressing in the sense that they still liked reagan. they didn't repudiate his

conservative values as much as the actual state of the union. that was my opinion. that they didn't turn on reagan. but i see people turning on president obama saying, look, we just think his philosophy is right. >> well, look, this country is more conservative than not. and if you're going to impose liberal policies and a liberal agenda, you better get some spectacular results or you are going to be in a lot of trouble. president clinton was not fighting economic conditions nearly this bad in 194 but he had taken the country farther to the left than the country wanted to go. reagan obviously had not done that and he was more in harmony with the public although his approval rating was down and down steeply. nau the analogy with clinton is closer, i think. >> bill: you are at harvard at the kennedy school at the shorenstein center. did they take down that picture

of me as distinguished alumnus? >> no. they were talking about doing that but i insisted that i wanted to be seated in front of it. >> bill: put flowers in there. >> think won't even admit that i graduated from that school they are so embarrassed. what did you tell these pinheads there? did you wise them up at all. >> bill, i must say you act as if i didn't belong up here. that hurts my feelings. i'm bound to say that i found the reception up here not least because i was in the company of my good friend charlie but -- >> bill: he is teaching up there. >> charlie is a fellow at the kennedy school here and at the shorenstein center. i came at his invitation. i was here under good auspices, that helped. >> bill: anybody can put up with anybody for one day, human. -- hume. try going there for a year like i dncht that's why i'm leaving

in the morning. >> bill: 30 seconds. did you tell them anything that, you know. >> well, they asked me some of the same questions that you ask me and i gave some of the same answers. >> bill: so it was obama centric? >> well, there were questions about the midterm. there was a lot of questions about fox news as you might imagine and whether fox news was contributing to the division in the country and bitterness of the debate going on now. i argued that whatever you hear on fox news and the cable channels is more reflection than cause of the current atmosphere. >> bill: all right. very intellectual, hume. can i see why they invited you up there. [ laughter ] >> thank you, bill. >> bill: you are welcome. next on the rundown the far left is getting behind sarah palin. they want her to run for president. we will find out why. later bernie goldberg on the center -- on the sator calling

>> bill: impact eggment tonight, if you peruse the left-wing media you might notice that some say sarah palin might win the republican nomination for president in 2012. why are they saying that? because they want it to happen, i believe. recent cnn poll matched up president obama against sarah palin. the president beats her 52% to 44%. of course that means nothing with the election two years away. joining us from washington juan

williams and mary katharine ham also analyst for fnc. i think the left wants governor palin to get the nomination because they believe that president obama can beat her no matter what. >> right. i think they do think that. >> bill: do you agree with that? >> i am not sure i agree with that i think you cannot underestimate the amount of power she comes into the primary with. >> bill: i'm not saying whether president obama could beat her or not but who knows but that's what the left wing wants. >> i think they have a tendency to under estimate her. it would be open and shut deal if thee ended up getting the nomination. she certainly has weaknesses though. that's what they're looking at among independents and women. >> bill: what would you say is her biggest weakness. >> what she has to look at is the coalition that crumbled under obama went to obama in 2010. a lot of people at tiewdz are negative about her in those segments'. and are stuck there. >> bill: sarah palin is coming up with sean hannity in a full hour after this program.

and she has a new book out. she seems to be able to handle herself well in almost every forum. she hasn't melted down anywhere. i'm not understanding what the big weakness. >> i think there is some baggage from 2008, a lot of the unfair attacks she got. >> bill: you think that the media attacks some people believed them without taking a look. >> i think she has sort of taken the reality show route has maybe people think does she want to be president? >> bill: doesn't have the gravitas for the job? is that how you see it, williams? >> you know, first of all, let me say that i saw sarah palin the other day and she gave me a big hug. it's a very difficult segment for me to do to just be the analyst here. she is very supportive of me. i will say this, that i think that the polls, especially the polls in terms of favorability ratings, not head-to-head with obama but how do you view sarah palin, more than half of americans have unfavorable view of her. >> bill: ham submits that's because the media has worked her

over. >> that's right. >> bill: take the time to figure out what her record was in alaska. >> that's her point. her point is that her record has been unfairly portrayed. when the american people look at her record, unfortunately people say hey, she quit as governor. they say is she smarter than i am? is she smarter than bill o'reilly? why trust her to lead me on foreign policy? on economic policy? on tax policy? and people say, you know what? she is a wonderful person. i'm not sure that i trust her to that level. and give her the gravitas. >> bill: do you agree that the left-wing pundits, at least some of them, want her to get the nomination, the g.o.p. nomination? >> absolutely. i don't think there is any question. >> bill: that's why you see the spate of articles that she should go and it could be done. >> yes. let me just tell you, she is also given, you said a moment ago she will do well on tv. she does well here and there you know like she has got this new book out and she take as shot at

mrs. obama. people think we don't want that. we don't want that. >> bill: what's the shot? i don't know what the shot is? >> mrs. obama says that thing not being proud to be an american. jeremiah wright and she is sitting in those pews all those years. people want somebody who is going to take us to a another level. >> bill: that plays to governor palin's audience, does it not? that kind of stuff. >> the question is whether that audience broadens. i think she does have some work to do to win those people over. it's partly because the media coverage and partly because of the very unorthodox path taken to entering the race. she does have work to do earning those people's votes. that doesn't mean she can't do it. which is why the left is mistaken a assume it's all bad if she runs. very charming -- >> bill: i think they are looking at the potential challengers to barack obama. and they are saying that, look, if you have this person with high negatives.

same thing with newt gingrich. i don't think anybody would say newt gingrich isn't a smart guy. he is a smart guy. but he has got high negatives. now, i don't know why they are pushing sarah palin over newt gingrich, juan. did you ever think about that? newt gingrich says he is going to run for president. he has high negatives. why do the left favoring sarah palin over here. >> i don't think there is anybody in the america who doesn't think newt gingrich is a smart guy. he has been speaker of the house. he has a record of accomplishment contract with america that had tremendous success with the republican party. people may say, you know, i don't like some things about his personal life, negatives, all of that they know he has got a reported. with sarah palin, you know, mike huckabee said the other day, he said republicans get ready. she may run away with the primaries. the republican establishment is worried about her. and democrats for that reason love her. and barbara bush said the other day, barbara bush said the other day she hopes sarah palin stays up in alaska. >> bill: i want everybody to know i didn't use that sound bite because i don't know what

the context of it is. >> i think there is a guilty pleasure element here too beyond sta teeng could mess themselves up. secondly during the primaries when she was endorsing her negatives with independents were less than obama's. that's an interesting point. >> bill: okay. juan and mary katharine. thank you. directly ahead jimmy cartedder once again calls fox news dishonest. we will let glenn beck loose on the former president. a little revenge. bernie goldberg on senator jay rockefeller saying fox news should be banned by the government. right back with beck.

>> bill: in the at your beck and call segment tonight, because it is thanksgiving week, we are bringing in the beck meister a bit early to comment upon this.

>> the talk shows with glenn beck and others on fox news, i think, have lib deliberately distorted the news and become highly competitive. my republican friends say that msnbc might be just as biased on the other side in supporting the democratic party, the liberal element. >> bill: here now the author of the big best seller "broke" and a guy who will not be going camping with president carter any time soon. >> he likes me. he really likes me. let me ask you. this i mean, really he has republican friends? [ laughter ] >> bill: this is what i don't get -- this isn't the first time carter invoke your name. he never mentions my name. >> i'm small. you are the one that shall not be mentioned. >> bill: right. not the first time he has done this. that intentionally distort the news. what is he talking about? do you know? >> no, i have no idea what he is talking about. i mean, look, bill, have you

ever made mistakes on the air? you correct them. >> bill: shirley shah sherrod. >> you didn't make the mistake. >> bill: i didn't check it out. >> so did the white house. >> bill: don't point to other bad behavior and excuse your own. i didn't use the mrs. bush sound bite on sarah palin tonight because i don't know what context that's in. i learned my lesson on shirley sherrod. you made a couple of mistakes. van jones you said he was a convicted felon. you corrected it? >> as soon as i found out. he went to jail but he wasn't a convicted felon. i also, i love this. i also corrected this one on van jones. i called him a czar. i was corrected by the white house green -- didn't ask me to correct that he wasn't a communist. >> bill: let's get back to carter. this isn't the first time we have heard. this first time he has mentioned your name. what is it that he is trying to

accomplish. >> i mean, i don't think he is an isolated incident here. they are going for on the internet they are going for net neutrality through the fcc. they are bypassing congress and trying to regulate the internet. next week i think they are trying to do that. >> bill: wait. i don't understand this. who is they? >> the left. >> bill: okay. they want net neutrality. what does that mean. >> net neutrality what it means is basically the fairness doctrine on the internet. >> bill: they want to regulate internet content those on the left. >> correct. >> bill: why would they want to do that it's a left wing cesspool. >> how great was it for the left when you shut down opposing voices on talk radio? >> bill: but they didn't. talk radio is dominated by the right wing. >> as soon as the fairness doctrine went away. if the fairness doctrine was on talk radio you couldn't do. >> bill: couldn't do it but have to put somebody on opposite. >> there is no way that you could do all of the paperwork et cetera, et cetera now. there is no way you could have

that. >> bill: jimmy carter and his left-wing friends want to do what. >> net neutrality. also if you look at what he said here. i think this is really interesting. he says the talk shows of glenn beck and others on fox news have deliberately distorted the news. that's total falsehood. and my republican friends say that msnbc might be just as biased on the other side supporting the democratic party. i believe what they are doing is -- they are offering up a sacrificial lamb. >> bill: that's what jay rockefeller did. >> exactly right. he wants to get rid of msnbc as well. >> bill: we will talk about that with bernie goldberg coming down. you are absolutely receptive, beck. no influence at all. >> a, it has no influence at all. about to be sold to come -- what comcast. they are willing to throw that one out. now that it has outlived his usefulness. we are getting rid of msnbc. you have got to get rid of fox news too. i'm sorry, no.

>> bill: there isn't a government agency that could get rid of us. fcc couldn't get rid of us because we are a paid subscription. they have no control. >> they are trying to regulate sirius fm. >> bill: they would have to pass the house and the senate and the president would have to sign a bill banning fox news. it's never going to hampleghts how are they getting into the internet? >> bill: i don't know about the internet. i don't know what they are trying to do there. but carter is out on the stump. and he won't come on this program. you have invited him? >> no. >> bill: you should. >> all i can think of is high interest rates. really horrible inflation. gas lines. >> bill: wouldn't you like to talk to him though. >> no. >> bill: say mr. president what are you talking about. >> no. >> bill: give me an example where i have deliberately tried. >> no. i. >> bill: i would love to do that. >> he doesn't -- look, if you were dealing with somebody who is going to give you an honest opinion as sand, hey, glen, you have got it wrong here, we have had the white house sitting in the boss' office saying you got to shut them down. you got to -- well, okay, that's

great. we will fire them if they are wrong on stuff or we will correct it tell us what needs to be corrected. >> bill: that's true. >> it was van jones with me. >> bill: i still don't know what carter is trying to accomplish he goes out and says dopey things. can't back it up or won't back it up. he is trying to persuade the choir? the fox haters already hate us. who is he trying -- recommendation actually, i don't know anybody who is actually listening to jimmy carter. i don't know who listened to him in the first place when he was president. >> bill: he got elected. >> he didn't get reelected. no because he did a horrible john. >> have we forgotten that? >> bill: no. i don't think anybody has forgotten. >> is he irrelevant. >> bill: now is he in his 80's. he writes more books than you. he is has a new back out ever three weeks. well respected because of habitat work. >> i don't think is he a is he d man. >> i'm not willing to say is he a bad guy. is he extraordinarily misguided. >> bill: you know when i knew

that at the democratic convention in 2000. >> michael moore? >> bill: him and rose lynn with michael moore and michael moore was taking their pretzels. i have to correct that right now. >> correct it that was intentional distortion of the news. >> bill: going what are they sitting with him for? >> bill that is exactly what i said at the same time. you democrats, you think you're eating and using people like michael moore for the progressive left for this fuel to get john kerry. these guys are going to end up eating you. look what's happened. the democratic socialists of america have eaten the whole party. >> bill: once again, beck, ahead of the curve. >> you know? >> bill: i want to remind everybody that beck and i are looking forward to seeing everybody on the gulf coast in new orleans on friday december 3rd and on december 34th we will be in dallas. details on bold fresh tour.com. don't forget the dvd of beck and myself. great stocking stuff. santa has been calling us.

i don't know if we can -- there is plenty more ahead audits factor moves along this evening. john stossel on rich people in america, should they pay more to the feds. bernie quoldberg on liberal senator calling on government to ban fox news. we hope you stay tuned.

>> bill: stossel matters segment tonight, rich guy warren buffet successful investor says this. >> the rich are always going to stay that just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and it will trickle down to the rest of you. that has not worked in the last 10 years. i hope the american public is catching on. i think people at the high end. people like myself should be paying a lot more in taxes. we have it better than we have ever had it. >> bill: go ahead, warren. nobody is stopping you. make a big donation. here to respond is fox business anchor john stossel. you hear this from buffet and gates, the gazillionaires. oh yeah we don't mind doing. this i'm saying to myself you know i'm a first generation rich guy. i guess buffet is.

i don't know whether he was rich before. but i'm trying to set it up for my family. i'm trying to set it up for my children, other people, charitable trusts. we have a big trust. i don't want to be paying 50% to the federal government because i believe they waste an enormous amount of money. what say you? >> i agree they certainly waste a lot of money. i think it's selfish of you not to want to give them more if it would really help. >> bill: do you really think it's selfish of me. i'm kicking them more than 40% now. $4 out of every 10 i make. >> you have got so much. >> bill: who does? >> do you. >> bill: come on. this is a late life phenomenon for me. i was a reporter. come on, for 30 years. give me a break. >> you have more than you need for your needs. if you are giving the money to the government. >> bill: i may have huge needs. >> it's hard to know. >> bill: all right. >> i think the main point is this doesn't help. buffet himself he had all this money. given 1.6 billion just now to charity. he could give it the treasury

has web site contribute. $3 million last year to reduce the debt. wisely people know giving it to charity is better use of the money. >> bill: that's what i say. i mean, i don't want the federal government controlling our lives just as you don't. i mean, that's one thing that stossel and i have in common. the more money and the more spending you give them, the more they control people's lives. people get dependent like heroin on the federal government for their livelihood. and i don't want to be into to that. i think 40% is fine. if warren wants to kick more money, in kick it in, warren. stop hocking me. >> this current fight is actually between 39% vs. 35%. >> bill: you are not taking into account the payroll tax. you are not taking -- and the state and the city and the property taxes and on and on and on. this is a con and a reuse is what is going on here. why does the federal government in a free society even if you do make a lot of money, why are

they entitled to it, stossel? why are they entitled to it? >> they are not. in addition, why isn't $2 trillion enough to spend? why don't they cut spending? huge amounts they could cut. the education department, farm subsidies, deficit commission talked about cutting five -- >> bill: here is the question you have to ask yourself ladies and gentlemen at mommy when you here this tax the rich thing that obama throws at you. was the american society better in the 50s when ward and june cleaver were holding court or is it now there was no massive entitlement spending in the 50s. none. okay? >> entitlement spending. >> bill: now we have huge programs all over the place. where was america better off back then or now? go. >> entitlement spending teaches dependency. created. >> bill: that's what i just said. >> created a whole under class. we are better off because of the free part of the economy by and large has made more people

better off. >> bill: that's true we have elevated ourselves people like me and you have opportunity in marketplace. >> it's not taxes that does that. >> bill: no. they turn around and say well, we are going to confiscate. death tax is confiscation private property confiscation. >> death tax has already been paid. money in private hands does far more good for the world and for americans than money in government. >> bill: i want you to go to warren buffet's house and tell him that he lives in omaha and nebraska. when we come right back bernie goldberg on why senator rockefeller wants the government to ban fox news.ç@

>> bill: thanks for staying with us. i'm bill o'reilly in the weekdays with bernie segment tonight, get ready for outrageous statement by the

liberal west virginia senator jay rockefeller. >> i hunger for quality news. i'm tired of the right and the left. there is a little bug inside of me which wants to get the fcc to say to fox and to msnbc out, off, end, goodbye. >> bill: there is no truth to the rumor thatenator rockefeller will be moving to iran. i just want to clarify that. with us now the purveyor of bernard goldberg.com. mr. bernie goldberg. is he confused. he ate a bug and now he wants fox news to go away something like that? >> you know, senator rockefeller makes certain asuncio'ns that are both false and with all do respect, senator, not too smart. the first one and it's a technicality, the fcc has nothing to do with cable as we know. and he should know. let's call that a small mistake and move on. the big mistakes is that he

assumes things were better when it was pretty much abc, nbc, and cbs. their biases have been well-documented and not just by me. >> bill: they were bias biases to the left and that's where he lives. >> obviously, yes. >> bill: i want to make sure the audience understands the reason the fcc has no domain over us it's a paid service. not the free airwaves that broadcast. this no government regulation here. isn't it interesting that he throws in msnbc. here is why i think he did that. because he wanted to give people the impression that he is being fair. >> even handed. >> bill: right. buff there is no power at msnbc to do anything. here at fox, we have emerged and kroncke but -- correct me if i am wrong, i think fox news is now the most powerful news agency in the world not just the country but in the world. >> do you want me to answer that. >> bill: do you agree with that assessment. >> no, i don't. >> bill: what do you think is more powerful than us. >> in terms of any media? >> bill: well, yeah, any media. >> i still think that the "new

york times" is a very powerful news organization. not only because. >> bill: more than fox, huh? >> not only because everybody in congress reads the "new york times" and many of them take the editorials seriously as if they were written from mount olympus but because everybody else in the media, certainly the three broadcast networks take their cues from the "new york times." >> bill: let me challenge you on that. i think fox news can sway public opinion much faster than the "new york times" because we don't play the game that they play. we go right to the folks. >> i sort of wish you weren't doing this to me, bill, but since you are asking and let the record show that you brought this up, fox news is very important. no question about that. on election night, more people were watching fox on cable than anybody else. >> bill: right. >> if fox does softball interviews, if fox champions causes, if fox, you know, likes one candidate so it treats them

differently than another, then, you know what? it's blowing the opportunity to be the most important force in broadcasting. >> bill: that may happen occasionally here and everywhere else. what i'm trying to get across to you is i think jay rockefeller fears this network. >> it does. >> bill: fear drove those comments. that he sees that no longer is his liberal philosophy protected. >> i agree completely. as a matter of fact, let me answer this from a personal point of view. i wrote a book called "biased" about how the media treats all sorts of things, politics, the culture, all of this. it was a pretty big book. >> number one book in the country. thank god for fox. i got on msnbc also before msnbc was as political as it was. but the people at abc, nbc, and cbs they had no interest in a discussion about media bias. the media is one of the most important institutions. >> bill: well, because you were going after them. before you were on this

broadcast, i remember you going on cnbc and being attacked by six people. >> that's right. >> bill: okay. and i, of course, came to your defense. >> you did. and seriously i do appreciate that. >> bill: that was even before you were working for us. >> yes. >> bill: i shredded them. the defense that was mounted to help you, at least to be fair with you, worked. we overwhelmed them. doesn't that tell you something? >> well, it tells me that you are more important than donnie deutsche. the dufus who was the anchor of that show. >> bill: no, but it's a totality thing. you were ignored by the three networks and attacked by of the left wing cables. fnc defended you and the right to say whatever you wanted based on your experience and you won. >> right. and the ayatollah, rockefeller, who doesn't understand that nostalgia ain't what it used to be, he is living in a time where he thinks it was all wonderful because they were siding with him. does he understand that if we

did things his way, certain voices, mine for one, would be silenced. >> bill: he doesn't care about that. >> he does care. he doesn't want those voices -- >> bill: be silenced because obviously he is pining for the day, when you know, the north koreans could come in and pull the plug. that's what he wants. >> well, you know, i think your comment only half tongue in cheek about he is not moving to iran was a pretty good comment because that's what they do in countries like iran. >> bill: that's right. >> that's not what we do, senator, in the united states of america. >> bill: here is my last question. why don't you think senator rockefeller respects the folks? if the folks vote with their ratings that this is the one that they want to watch, why isn't that respected? >> because i think when you live in a bubble, it's hard to understand what the people between manhattan and malibu are thinking. and what their values are. >> bill: he is in west virginia. >> he doesn't live in west

virginia. are you kidding? that's technically where he represents west virginia. he lives in the washington bubble. you know, with a bunch of chattering people who work on capitol hill. and in that bubble, in that bubble he doesn't know what people -- >> bill: no. you think he would respect his own constituents in west virginia, many of whom think this network is very worthy. >> sent him to the senate 312 years ago and continue to do so despite what he says. >> bill: all right. bernie goldberg, everybody. reality check on deck tonight despite the simpsons mocking fox news. wow. we cannot catch a break. right back with check.

>> bill: back of the book segment tonight, reality check where we give you a dose of unvarnished truth every monday

evening. check one, our palomar that maccallum is reporting a two part story about the daughter of presidential advisor david axelrod. laura axelrod has been suffering from epilepsy since she was baby. >> this tiny little baby, you know, and all of a sudden her one arm went back. her eyes rolled back. it was really frightening. >> the attacks held her back from school. she didn't go to birthday parties or other activities. her two younger brothers michael and ethan suffered in a different way. >> family vacations would be scrapped and sometimes family vacations would be ruined. and if you are a young child, you know, you can't help but resent that. but then on the other hand, you ask any sibling of someone with a chronic illness, well, it must have been hard oh yeah but it was a lot harder on my sister but the truth is it's hard on everybody. >> bill: march that's reports on airing on america's newsroom

which air at 9:00 in the morning. if you would like to help fight epilepsy visit cure epilepsy.org. check two, you remember that i predicted the proposed mosque and muslim community center located near ground zero in new york would never. the people applying for the project 5-million-dollar federal grant to partially fund the center. good luck with that with a republican house majority coming. in the daily beast web site first reported that story. check three. check also floated the idea that secretary of state hillary clinton might resign her position and challenge president obama for the democratic nomination in 2012. yesterday, chris wallace asked her about it. >> you made some news recently in australia when you ruled out running again for office in 2012 and 2016. why? >> well, first of all i love what i'm doing. i can't tell you what it's like, chris, to every day get to represent the united states and

it's why i feel so strongly about every issue from start to afghanistan. >> are you categorically saying that you are done with political office? >> i have said it over and over again. i'm happy to say it on your show as well i'm permitted to doing what i can to advance the security, the interest, and the values of the united states of america. i believe that what i'm doing right now is in furtherance of that and i'm very proud and grateful to be doing it. >> bill: i don't think she answered the question there, did she? why does she laugh when wallace asked her? i don't know. was she laughing at wallace? i don't know. check four. economist ray fare says president obama will win re-election with a landslide victory in 201. according to the "new york times" he puts forth the economy is coming back big time and that's all the economy needs. wishful thinking on the part of the yale guy in the "new york times"? who knows? continuing to bite the hand that feeds part of it fox broadcasting once again allows

its cartoon characters to run wild. ♪ >> stop. unbalanced. it's not fair. >> bill: pinheads? i believe so. check 6, last week i traveled down to saint croix in the u.s. virgin islands. i had never been there i had been to saint thomas. i decided to check out the historic buccaneer hotel. great place, family-owned. lots of stuff to do. service is excellent which is important in the caribbean because sometimes room service comes three days later. not here. so if you are looking for a tropical get away let's keep it in the family ladies and gentlemen, virgin islands. pinheads and patriots up next starring me and office max. right back with p and p.

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tonight pinheads and patriots. office max people have an interesting holiday deal. using high-tech you can make anybody you want, look like this. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bill: will ferrell is jealous. is giving that as a gift a pinheaded or a patriotic move? friday juan williams played a clip on jay leno, where mr. leno used an embarrassing scene of the former president. >> this is one of my all time favorites. you did this with such dignity, take a look.

>> that was in china. that's the definition of a man without an exit strategy. >> bill: 56% of you thought the clip was patriotic, because it was funny. 44% thought it was pinheaded. that is it for us tonight. collect out the fox news for website different from billoreilly.com. we would like you to spout off from anybody where in the world. let's foreign mail coming in. i would say we get between 3,000 and 5,000 letters a day. we know you are watching out there. when i was in the virgin islands everybody was watching. we want you guys to write what you think. if you want to do that oreilly@foxnews.com. name a town if you wish to opine. when writing the factor, please do not be nebulous.

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