having us in your room tonight. the five republic candidates here on fox news channel right after o'reilly. have a great night. see you tomorrow. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: o'reilly factor is on. tonight. >> republicans have scheduled their debate martin luther king without any regard for the civil rights issues that this state has faced. >> bill: democrats tieing race relations to the g.o.p. debate tonight. is that fair or smart? we'll hear both sides. >> the vision of the founders of this country and what they created when they wrote the constitution that constitution must be our blueprint if we're going to remain the hope of the earth and the greatest nation of the history of mankind. >> bill: new polling says mitt romney begins to build a big lead in the republic sweepstakes. karl rove will have thoughts on tonight's big debate. a column in the "new york times" calls governor romney the whitest white man to run

for president in recent memory. bernie goldberg another white man will analyze that caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. some big political moves today that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. jon huntsman dropped out of the race today endorsing mitt romney. huntsman was pulling in 6% in south carolina. you can expect huntsman to get a job in the administration. there is a fox news poll out among republic voters nationwide as governor romney at 40% now. rick santorum 15, newt gingrich 14, ron paul 13, rick perry 6%. now, the obama re-election campaign in conjunction with

the progressive media is already crafting a narrative, mitt romney is is a rich greed head made millions by firing regular folks. is he a terrible, terrible person. you see that theme playing out in the liberal press and talking heads representing the democratic party. talking points is not here to root for anyone but we are here to tell you the truth which we have done throughout the campaign. early on we told that you mitt romney would most likely secure the nomination. that angered some of you. i read your mail. but it is my job to tell you the truth. here is another truism. liberal press is ramping up the 1 members theme saying romney is in bed with rich americans and solely wants to win the presidency to help them get richer. look at the stats. irs are about 1.4 million households that earn about $345,000 a year. thereof qualifying to be 1%ers. that small group paid roughly 37% of the nation's total income tax in 2009. the average compensation for

the 1 percenters 960,000 bucked a opposed to the median income in the u.s.a. which is $50,000. half of us earn more than that, half less. also in 2007, the one percenters accounted to 30% of the charitable giving in the u.s.a. according to the "new york times." let me repeat 1% of americans pay 37% of the total in connection with tax. fair share? we report, you decide. there is no question that obama romney race will be class warfare at highest level. governor romney is a rich guy. his father was a rich guy. the tends are rich people are they not and so were the vose velts. while most americans were suffering during the great depression franklin roosevelt was living large. he had plenty of money. so this whole thing is bogus. with a capital b. what really matters is which presidential candidate can restore prosperity to america. that's the talking points. it is dr. martin luther king's birthday holiday.

like everything else it has become political. >> you hear mitt romney, all these folks very subtlely infusing race. by the way, the republics have scheduled their big debate for monday, martin luther king day, without any regard whatsoever to the civil rights issues that this state has faced. >> bill: now, that sound bite confused me so joining us now from columbia, south carolina is dick harrpootlian? are you offended by the g.o.p. debate tonight because it's mlk day? >> no i'm not offended by it what i was trying to say in a state where one out of three voters are african-americans, there has not been one single other than newt gingrich going to a church, one single ad on african-american radio, no mailings to african-americans. no outreach to african-americans in a state where we have a african-american republic congressman no effort made whatsoever to reach out to the african-american community and attempt to convince them their

policies or their positions are better and adding insult to injury, of course, is the debate on martin luther king, sort of ignoring martin luther king's birthday. let me point this out. >> bill: whoa, who is ignoring martin luther king's birthday? who is doing that? >> mitt romney, newt gingrich, santorum. >> bill: why would they be ignoring his birthday? how do you know they are ignoring it? >> well, they have made no statement about it. they -- there was a march here in columbia where many, many people gathered to commemorate his birthday. and,. >> bill: do you think it's fair to say they are ig norgs it? you don't know they are ignoring it you are offended they are having the dog and pony show which these debates are inevitably on mic -- martin luther king day. are you offended they chose that day? >> here is my point on that. in 2003 i hosted a debate as chairman, george stephanopoulos did it and we were going to do it on a friday night.

joe lieberman called and indicated that he couldn't do it because his sabbath began on friday night. we moved it to saturday night to accommodate him. no one, i submit, has raised any issue with fox about it being appropriate or inappropriate. >> bill: maybe that's because in 2008 what happened? what happened in 2008 in south carolina? mr. harpootlian? what happened? >> we had democratic primary. >> bill: had you a democratic date debate in 2008 on mlk day. did you know that? >> but -- i knew that. >> bill: who sponsored that debate? >> uh -- one of the networks. >> bill: congressional black caucus. on martin luther king. debate, democratic. >> but, but, but what happened on that day? every democratic candidate. but they also participated in a number of events leading up to that. >> bill: there is a litmus test now that any political candidate has to participate

in the event? look -- >> -- recognize it. recognize it. >> bill: wouldn't you say to me that if had you to rethink this harpootlian the republicans shouldn't debate in hindsight of what has already happened? >> no, what i said was it is indicative of a process in which they have not engaged the african-american community in this state. >> bill: maybe they feel that's not their constituency. obviously african-americans lean heavily democratic. >> but if you have never asked them or never approached them. >> bill: if it were me i would have been marching in the martin luther king day columbia parade or charleston, wherever they had it. i don't see that's a bad thing. but i think you injecting race into this is not a good thing for the country. i don't think that's good. what i'm telling you is the republicans have injected race by newt gingrich and santorum saying this will be the most important election since 1860.

now what happened in 1806? we elected abraham lincoln. >> bill: that's their opinion that the country is at a crossroads whether we go into the social justice european model or go back to the traditional capitalistic model. you can make a case. >> no, no. 1860 we elected a president who passed the emancipation proclamation. >> bill: why is it the most important election since 1860. >> why 1860? >> bill: coming in to try to keep the union together. that's what happened in 1860. surely you know that. >> we in the south have a different version on what happened in 1860. >> bill: whatever version you have. pretty important. this is the one right after that come on, you are a smart guy. you are getting killed here on this program tonight. these points. >> you are the referee and the boxer you? are killing me here? >> of course i am. [ laughter ] when you get to harpootlian

you will have that too. thanks for coming on. run down, other side of south carolina. talk to senator jim demint. more racial stuff by the "new york times." bernie goldberg is analyzing that we're coming right back. ♪[music plays] ♪[music plays] when you're responsible for this much of the team... you need a car you can count on. ♪[music plays] harpt, [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of peoe

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"now or never, saving america from economic collapse." i have an important question for the senator before the book first. do you want to reply to mr. harpootlian? >> i sure do. we have been here in myrtle beach as republicans celebrating martin luther king's birthday all day. i mean, we had a lunch presentation, tim scott was involved with it. our rights -- i mean our history of civil rights is so obvious. bill, it's fun to look at and so much revision of this history it was fun to look at the fact that our party was formed around equal rights for african-americans and the things we have done since then since 1964. the bill was written by the eisenhower administration and 0% of the republicans in the house and the senate voted for it to overcome the democrat block in the south. so it's time americans know the truth about the republic party and we have always been.

>> bill: put forth that the republic candidates in south carolina have not bought any air time in the black media did not participate in the columbia, south carolina. capital of the state. didn't participate in the martin luther king parade today. that might look to african-american voters as kind of a snub. >> well, republicans all over the state participated in mlk event. tim scott spoke to. >> bill: he is a black republic congressman i want to tell everybody. >> yeah. he spoke at the naacp meeting today and we participated everywhere, bill. that's nonsense because we weren't somewhere where dick harpootlian was for heaven's sake that doesn't mean it's not an important date. >> bill: he will dispute what you say. mr. harpootlian got caught because he did imply having the debate on martin luther king eve was somehow not appropriate. as we pointed out very gently

in 2008 the congressional black caucus sponsored the same event on the same night. i don't like this race business, senator. we have a thing with bernie goldberg. it's really building to a yes crescendo, romney is a white guy. they want to get the black out. i don't like all this stuff. we saw a little bit with it in jesse jackson in the last 2008 south carolina primary. we saw a little bit there what is this all about? bill, i think you are going to see african-americans, all minorities, all americans come together who value freedom and prosperity in this election it is is a critical election. i think you are going to have a lot of americans who want more from government on one side and those who realize that we don't want to go the way of europe on the other. that's going to include more and more african-americans. so, what we're going to do as republicans is put our message out there of freedom and opportunity and decentralize government. i think you are going to see a lot of minorities get more

involved in the republic party mitt romney looks like is he going to win saturday night. do you agree with that? >> well, the polls indicate that he will. we'll see how the debate goes tonight. we have seen things change a lot in these primaries in the last few days. but, he looks real strong now in south carolina. >> bill: you like him? he is okay with you? >> oh, yeah. i really like all our candidates. >> bill: you like all of them? [ laughter ] >> yeah, i do. >> bill: every one? >> look at huckabee's forum. when you get our candidates talking for five or so minutes they all make a whole more sense than our current president. >> bill: your book is for people who are serious about government. one thing i want you to explain to me in 60 seconds if you can. the federal reserve has printed a lot of money. a lot of it is to pay the interest on massive 15 trillion-dollar debt we have. i don't even understand it print money and throw it out

there? is that what they are doing? >> the from everyone hat bought more than half of our debt. it's more than just paying our interest. they have bought more than half of our debt over the last two years. if they hadn't, you would have seen our interest rates go up a lot more more and more, bill, it's going to be hard for us to sell our debt as countries like china realize we don't have the capability to pay it back. when we print money we. >> bill: the u.s. government is actually paying the bank. it owes. right? >> yeah. we owe the money -- actually, we buy it through intermediaries because it's illegal for the federal reserve to actually buy our debt. so we -- >> bill: hot intermediaries. >> wall street bankers. they make tons of money buying the american debt. federal reserve buys it and on their balance sheet. is it doesn't make any sense.

we have got to wake up. that's what now or never is about. we have never been at this place as a country where our debt is larger than our economy. we plan to double it in the next 10 years. >> bill: so complicated, senator. that's why i want people to read your book. so complicated and people just don't get where we are going and it's dangerous. we appreciate you coming on. thank you very much. brand new bill o'reilly.com poll question. will newt gingrich's attacks on mitt romney about bain capital help or hurt the speaker in south carolina? yes or. no we will give you the results later in the week. directly ahead. brit hume on whether the class warfare deal will help president obama. new fox news poll also asked americans about showing i.d. at the polls. crowley and colmes with the results upcoming. people with a machine. what ?

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>> bill: hume zone seeing want total. obama people painting romney to be a fat cat greed head. will that work? there is a lot invested in this already. bernie goldberg analyzing this thing romney is the whitest white guy that ever run or something like that in the "new york times" yesterday. and the one percenter greed head. all romney wants to do is give the rich guys more. so they really must think they being the obama election campaign out of chicago, axelrod and those guys that they have got something here frge i think they do think that not run on the great results of the economy. can't run on that. you will hear a lot about trying to portray the republicans as the republic nominee as the rich man completely out of touch with the average american who has no real idea to help the

average american and indeed spent his business career career by eliminating jobs. that will be the theme we have used it used by rick perry vulture capitalism and we may hear it from the democratic side before all of this is said and done. if if it's not effectively rebutted by romney it could hurt him badly. >> bill: in the polls it's not helping newt gingrich or rick perry right now to make these attacks on mitt romney. haven't surged in the poll, they are on the defensive. i don't know whether we will see a lot of that tonight or not. i don't know whether speaker gingrich is going to go full throttle after romney on the bain issue or powell back saying it's not really working for me. what do you think? >> i think that there is less danger from romney newt

gingrich and perry than there is this issue will be picked up and exploded by the democrats. i don't think the romney folks although they have begun to find their balance on this issue have been very effective in responding to this. seem to be caught off guard, caught off balance. not well-preparedprepared. they didn't have the facts on their side number of them at the ready to use in response advertisements and in the statements they put out and so on. i think the romney team has some work to do to get ledy for more of this -- ready for more of this if he comes out to be the nominee. >> bill: most famous democratic icons jfk and fdr very wealthy people. very wealthy guys and so the democratic party getting behind trying to demonize wealthy people i don't know, if i were romney i would be going back to those guys and say what's changed in america?

>> you can make the argument they inherited money, invested the old fashioned way. weren't venture capitalists. >> bill: is that running booze liked older kennedy did selling boot leg whiskey? i believe that's how they made their money. maybe that's old fashioned i'm not really sure. [ laughter ] >> let me say. this by the time ted kennedy and the other kennedy brothers were living off this money i suspect it had long been invested in. prohibition was over. >> distilleries. sure. i get that. [ laughter ] the fact is you can make a distinction. look, in the end, mitt romney is going to have to establish to the satisfaction of the country that this business he was. in was beneficial to the country as a whole and beneficial to the economy and on balance beneficial to workers. and if he fails to do that, there will be -- that will be

of serious line of vulnerability from which -- on which he he will be attacked and possibly successfully by the democrats. >> bill: okay. whether he defines it or not, they are going to use that class warfare deal. i see it as a class wore fair race right down to the wire. am i wrong? >> no. i don't think you are wrong about that that's this whole business of 1% to 99% where the democrats are hoping to gain some strengths from a slogan really pioneered by the occupy wall street people. the occupy wall street people i don't think they want to attach themselves too. i think the idea of the 1% versus the 99% is certainly where they want to be. where they want to position themselves. and obviously where mitt romney will be positioned. >> bill: right, no doubt. brit hume, everyone. more racial stuff from the "new york times" as we mentioned. bernie goldberg has been analyzing a columnist that says romney is the whitest man who run for president in recent memory. we are not kidding. later, carl rove previewing

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>> bill: barack and hard place segment tonight. as you may know the owement to require voters to show a state or federal i.d. before casting ballots. new fox news poll asked the question should voters be required to show i.d. 80% of americans say yes. 19% say. no last year the same question was asked. then 85 percent said yes. 14 percent said. no there has been a small shift in sentiment. i don't want to debate this issue because we have done that and t would be boring to do it again, colmes. no debating the issue. but it's the wisdom of the obama administration going up against 8 0% of the population, monica. a large have to be democrats in that kind of plurality why would you do that? >> president obama is someone who cut his political teeth as part of acorn community

organizing and a group called project vote in chicago engaged in a lot of voter fraud on the south side of chicago. >> bill: you are not saying he did that? >> i'm not saying that. when you are asking me to explain where the mentality is coming from. you have had a democratic party since 1960 that's been ripping off elections, engaging in systematic voter fraud across the country. for in this is nothing new. they also might feel they can't win an election without engaging in serious voter ofraud. >> bill: obama is a serious guy. he sees the poll and 80% say this is ridiculous. >> the voting rights act of 1965 specifies that in states in areas where there has been discrimination in the past. >> bill: we know that. >> the justice department has to do this. >> bill: no they don't have to challenge it all they have to do is review it. >> yes. the justice department reviews. >> bill: review is different than challenge. >> they are reviewing it or challenging it and they should challenge it. >> bill: do you know why the president and the democratic

party would goes against 80% of the people? >> i think 80% of the people are wrong on this question. >> bill: i know you do. everyone else is wrong. >> this is about republicans wanting to stop people voting who are going to vote democrat. >> bill: did i tell you we weren't going to do this. >> that's what it is about. >> bill: you disobeyed. >> that's outrageous charge. >> bill: i'm not going to do. this it's boring. you saw at the top of the show mr. harpootlian, who we like, was a little bit offended that martin luther king's birthday was the day that the republicans are going to debate but then when we point out the congressional black caucus did the same thing in 2008 he was a little flumixed, colmes? >> one out of three people voting in south carolina are african-american. they are not being talked about or talked to by republicans. that i think is key. >> bill: the senator refuted that. >> i would be curious to know how many african-americans are going to vote republic in south carolina. what kind of outreach are the republicans doing to

african-americans? >> bill: you answered my question. he seemed flumixed harpootlian. >> on the issue of the debate. >> bill: that is called dodging, go. >> that's what he did. >> this is such a b.s. point that the democrats are putting out there frankly assaulting to the american people and offensive. the idea that somehow holding a republic debate on martin luther king day is a racist act or somehow insulting to black voters is absorbed. i will tell you you will see more of this because this is a not so subtle playing of the race card. for democrats to be doing that on martin luther king day is beyond the pale. >> this is a trumped up charge the democrats are playing the race card. there is nothing wrong withhold ago debate. >> bill: why would mr. harpootlian even mention it though. >> i cannot speak for him. i have no problem with there being a debate on martin luther king day. democrats did it republicans are doing it i don't see a racial issue here. >> bill: would you say it was a smart strategy that he brought that up? >> you want me to get into the middle of you and harpootlian.

i wouldn't have brought it up. it's not an issue. is it a smart thing. >> no. >> the guy brought it up. >> no, because parody. democrats did it, republicans do it. there was not an issue. no racial issue here. >> bill: he he brought it it up. was that smart? >> i wouldn't have done it there we go. give him a hand, ladies and gentlemen. 45 seconds. >> i think the bigger point is you are going to see more of this. not coming from barack obama himself. coming from other members of the democratic party. other people on the left. >> bill: and the media. >> and the media. not so subtly playing the race card and tieing into the first part of the setting: the philadelphia eric holder and barack obama justice department dropped. >> there was no charge of voter intimidation. nobody filed a complaint. >> bill: club yelling at the guy. >> i know. >> no one said they were

discriminated against. we see the same six seconds of tape with the black panther five years now and this happened during the bush administration. there was no charge of voter intimidation, none. >> bill: sit back in your seat for a moment. just think of the tea party guy standing in front of a thing with a jack or a club and yelling. >> why was there no charge of voter intimidation. >> bill: you would be on here -- >> why was there no charge of voter intimidation? >> let me answer your question. >> the holder justice department is the most political sized justice department in history. >> it happened during the bush administration. they didn't press it. >> bill: colmes, they had complaints filed. >> this is out of control. that's not accurate. >> bill: they had complaints filed. >> they didn't pursue it. >> no, no. the holder justice department dropped the case. >> they didn't pursue it. >> bill: alan colmes, everybody, there he is and monica crowley and you think i'm not paid enough? come on now. >> you need a few bucks?

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memory. so, bernie, what say you? >> yeah. >> well, the first thing i say is that here is a picture, bill, of ice tea, one of the iconic figures in black culture in music spending the weekday. >> that's ice cube. that's not ice tea. that's ice cube. >> that's ice tea. >> bill: ice cube, bernie. that's how white you are. you don't know ice tea from ice cube. >> ice cube, you are right. >> bill: you can't be doing that to me. i know the cubes ice cube is spending a weekday with bernie in south central l.a. until you spend a little time chilling with ice cube or ice tea for that matter, don't be making racial references. >> bill: you didn't even know who he was, bernie. >> i meant to say ice cube. i meant to say ice cube. >> bill: all right. and in that picture you were the whitest guy i have ever

seen. >> when i see a picture with you and ice cube or ice tea, then you can talk about me and race. but can we talk about lee segal? who is this guy. >> a guy who writes for a lot of liberal magazines. is he an author. let me tell you and more importantly the viewers what he says in this op. ed. he says mitt romney's whiteness, he doesn't mean the color of his skin. the way romney comes

shallow stupidity. only masquerading as political analysis. '. >> bill: it seems to be embraced by the progressive community. here is another exphample on the liberal cable network of the same exact garbage. roll the tape. >> it is pandering sort of a wink wink that this base should be reminded that barack obama, president of the united states is one of them, an

african-american yes, i think it is very intentional. part of a hateful campaign being very methodically run and the hope it will appeal to voters who would love to see us return to the good old days of jim crow. >> that was a guy named bob frank. i don't know who he is. isn't it a shame that we have to talk about this stuff on martin luther king's birthday? when that man was so inclusive he wanted everybody to join together to have a better society, more fair society. holiday dedicated to him. isn't it a shame we have to talk about that garbage. >> let me tell you what else is a shame. liberals like the to you with had on can't see anything except through a prism of race. they fancy themselves progressives but they haven't progressed one inch from the days of segregation of jim crow. i'm starting to think that these people are laying the

groundwork for an obama loss. that way they can say the only reason, the only reason barack obama didn't win re-election is because of these racist bigots who are all over america and threw the election to the republic candidate. it's pathetic on this day and any other day. >> bill: happening big time and ramping up now it looks like romney is going to be the guy who are l. run against the president. he is going to be portrayed as you said as the favorite of the bigoted class. where was this class when obama was elected and beat john mccain another white guy, right? i don't know where they were then but i guess they are back with a vengeance. i will give you the last word. >> the last word is a word unfortunately you are going to be hearing throughout this campaign. liberals, a certain kind of liberal. not all liberals obviously but a certain kind of liberal is

going to yell racism whenever somebody agrees with president obama. it can't possibly be that conservatives don't like him because of his policies. that is something that is beyond their comprehension. it's only because conservatives are racist as i said before it is doing a lot of harm. it's a shame that it's liberals who are at the forefront of the civil rights movement who are trashing an important word like racism. they are trashing it turning it into just mush. >> bill: thanks very much. in a moment, karl rove will handicap the south carolina primary debate this evening. that's coming up. rove is next.

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>> bill: back ever the book segment tonight. big debate coming up on the fox news channel. get to karl rove in d.c. for a preview. all right, so, from my perspective here, all mitt romney has to do tonight is not fall down or throw up, right? all he has to do smile and say there you go again, be a little reagan nesk and he has got it? >> he has got to do more than that, i think, you are right. don't make those two mistakes that you talked, about he has got to tonight sort of strike a reassuring note. not just simply survive tonight but say things about the bain capital attacks. needs to handle them in such a way that as he has done in previous debates people say can i see him in the oval office and i have confidence that he will be able to take the attack that's coming his way from obama and turn it back on him. all the polls say this bap

stuff is not getting any traction in south carolina. do you expect mitt romney and rick perry to throw a lot of stuff about him about that? >> i expect newt gingrich and rick perry. >> bill: who did i say? >> you said mitt romney. gingrich and perry. even if they don't. mitt romney finds. one thing you are right. this issue has boomer ranged badly on gingrich and perry. hurting their positives and negatives. driving up their negatives and driving down their positives. it is a general election issue that has emerged early and republicans want to know that romney is going to be able to take it on and win. second thing is it is a way to unify conservatives. jim demint, rush limbaugh and all defended romney against newt gingrich and. that's hard to bring about. those guys brought it about. this is a way for him to

positively lay the foundation for the general election as he moves forward here and wins by a convincing margin he needs to frame up the general election. there will come a point sometime this spring if romney does get a win on saturday and then wins in florida, there will get to be a point where people are going to pay less attention to the presidential contest and he needs to have seized every moment before that point in order to lay the foundation for the general election. >> bill: all right. so you expect him then to be re very well prepared tonight to put a positive face on his bain capital experience? he has got to go out and say two or three things that here is what i did. this is why it was worthy, bing bing bing bing bing bing. let me ask you something. you have been listening to the program tonight, right? the whole factor show tonight? >> right. >> bill: do you have any idea what this racism thing is all about? i don't get. this. >> sure. >> bill: go ahead. >> sure. look, the president stands --

runs the risk of not being reelected unless the african-american community turns out to the degree it did in 2008 and gives him what they gave him in 2008. he got 97% of a very large african-american turnout. now, if the year since then the promises of jobs and economic progress has fallen flat. concerned about him as a leader. as a result they are not wired up as much as they were. go to a state like florida or north carolina. the president won north carolina by o.32% turnout. if the turnout, the african-american turnout is 1% less of the turnout than it was in 2008, the president loses and everybody votes exactly the same. >> the president loses south carolina. >> bill: by doing this race stuff he alienates independents who voted for him the first time around.

so, yes. might be able to mobilize the african-american community in block to go and say yeah, it is about race and he is getting the shaft because of all of this stuff. but then white voters, hispanic voters, asian voters in the middle are going to, some of them i know are going to say this is absurd. what he gets on one he loses on the other, does he not? >> i'm not sufficient justifying it? you are right about the tactics. >> here is the deal. they are making a calculation that whatever damage they suffer from people saying well, you are unfairly injecting race into this is off set by whatever they get from the african-american community. i don't claim it's a smart calculation. >> bill: would you do it if you were an obama advisor? would you do it? >> this is offensive. frankly it involves things like eric holder going out today and depicting laws that require to you show a voter

i.d. as being racist in nature? i mean, you know i thought it was interesting earlier on alan colmes. happened in thistle and pennsylvania in when george w. bush was in office. it was the bush justice department who pursued it and obama justice department that dropped the charges. why? it didn't want to have the flashback in the african-american community from this kind of -- from pros prosecuting this kind of intimidation. they are going to press it. it's offensive and ought to be offensive to any american, republic, democrat or independent. >> all right. mr. rove. thanks very much. pinheads and patriots on deck. one last thought about tim tebow. p and p moments away. you know organization is key... and so is having a trusted assistant. and you...rent from national. because only national

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