weekend starts shortly. enjoy. enjoy. >> bill: o'reilly factor is on. tonight: >> not since the days of frank lib roosevelt had so much fallen on the shoulders of one president. >> president obama launches re-election campaign with the help of actor tom hanks. the president's theme seems to be it's all bush's fault. will that work? we have a special report. rick santorum telling puerto puo rico puerto ricans they should be speaking english. uo, herald will weigh in. >> there is no algae that's going to come out of in this summer. >> they must have been founding members of the flat earth society. >> heat up big time. obama care will cost much more than expected says the congressional budget office.

lou dobbs will analyze. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone from boston. the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. reporting tonight from boston, massachusetts. thank you for watching us. president obama launches his re-election campaign, that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. today, the president held five, five fundraising events two in chicago and three in atlanta, georgia. so the game is on. president obama has kicked his re-election campaign into high gear. this time around actor tom hanks is the point man for mr. obama. >> how do we understand this president and his time in office? do we look at the day's headlines or do we remember what we as a country have been through? not since the days of franklin roosevelt had so much fallen on the shoulders of one

president and when he faced his country who looked to him for answers, he would not dwell in blame or dreamy idealism. as president, the tough decisions that he would make would not only determine the course of the nation, they would reveal the character of the man. >> bill: all right. we will leave the character of the man for you to assess. let's look at the course of the nation as tom hanks so eloquently put it here is the latest fox news polling on the president. his approval rating now stands at 47%. 45% disapproving. that's not a good number for incumbent president. as as far as the economy is concerned 54% disapprove of the way president obama has gone about things. 42% say he is doing okay. on gas prices, 61% disapprove. about the way the president is handling them just 26% approve. obvious the president is

taking big time blame at the pump. finally has president obama taken responsibility for the economy on his watch? or is he still blaming the bush administration? 47% believe he continues to blame mr. bush. 38% say the president is taking responsibility. so, those are pretty troubling numbers for barack obama. but he does have plenty of time to turn things around. now, it's clear the obama re-election campaign will have two primary focuses first their contention the economy is improving but slowly because the disaster they inherited was so intense. secondly, that the president's investments in high tech and alternative energy will pay off, so the country must be patient. obviously mr. obama can't run on fiscal responsibility as america is more than $16 trillion in debt with no end in sight. he can't run on containing gas prices because they have doubled under his administration can't run on leadership because the future

of america is unclear. it's not a partisan analysis. this is real life. the president will once again ask americans to believe in his vision. that will be a much tougher sale this year than it was four years ago. do not underestimate barack obama, is he a brilliant campaigner. he have enormous amount of money at his disposal. whoever ends up at his opponent will have to run a nearly flawless campaign. that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. one of the g.o.p. contenders rick santorum has run into some trouble in puerto rico which has a primary vote on sunday. obviously puerto rico is a spanish-speaking territory so the senator is causing controversy. with us is geraldo rivera, himself half puerto rican,

right? >> i'm all puerto rican. my father is the puerto rican. my mother is jewish. i'm all jewish also. i incorporate both these great people into my d.n.a. >> bill: genetically. >> genetically i'm 50% puerto rican. >> bill: i was accurate? >> accurate but harsh. >> bill: stop, will you? mr. sensitivity. so now this is what we are going to hear you from a lot of whining. >> that's the other side. >> bill: shouldn't all american territories, samoa, puerto rico, wherever it may be, shouldn't they all have one common language? >> rick santorum sabotaged his chance to get 23 delegates, bill. he put his foot in his mouth. english is already an official language in puerto rico along with spanish. you know, remember, he is running for the republic primary on sunday. puerto ricans care about one issue. statehood. people opposed to statehood, half of them is the fear they have to change their lives.

cultural and linguistic heritage of five centuries will change if puerto rico combings rather than a territory on commonwealth now is a state. santorum fuels the flames of that fear and anxiety. puerto ricans will not vote for santorum. tornado his campaign, insensitive. unnecessary, picked a fight he didn't have to. so clumsy i'm of the opinion that perhaps he did it to appeal to the english-only crowd here in the continental u.s. because in terms of the puerto ricans, republicans voters on sunday and also he is endorsed by the mitt -- mitt romney endorsed by the governor. but santorum what he did will be a crippling -- >> bill: it wasn't a wise political move for sure. >> it was dumb. >> bill: you didn't answer my question. shouldn't all american territories have one common official language? it's fine if anybody want to speak french or italian or

anything. shouldn't there be one common language taught in all the public schools under the banner of the united states? >> i interviewed marco rubio yesterday, the florida senator who is being talked about as the wonderful vice presidential nominee on the ticket. as he pointed out to me the last state admitted into the union along with alaska was hawaii. came into the union with both english and hawaiian as official languages. i think the two are exactly comparable. the island of hawaii becoming the islands of hawaii becoming the 50th state. puerto rico becoming the 51st state and both the native language is retained but, of course, english becomes an official language. >> bill: i think that's reasonable. did rubio say again that he isn't going to be vice president candidate like he said on the factor? did he reiterate that? >> he said no, no, no, no for now. i said when is for now up i

tried to get him what about july? what about august? he still was negative on the whole idea but i believe that marco rubio would be a wonderful vice presidential nominee. >> he may see my country needs me? [speaking spanish] >> bill: you could go either way and you do. >> bill: talking about voting. we just want everybody to be clear here. you could vote democrat or republic. >> i have. >> bill: laid out the position president obama has. he is asking americans to once again vote on a hope. on a hope like my vision for alternative energy and my vision for the economy it's all going to kick in and turn around. there is no hard data to show that. and is hard data to show that he has made things worse economically. >> your survey pointed out one statistic that's very vital, bill that is the price of a gallon of gas. that will be crucial to his re-election. there is another statistic that you did not include in

your survey. that's the dow jones. now the dow jones is 13200 and change. if that's 14,000 come november, there is no candidate on earth that will be able to beat the incumbent president presiding over. >> bill: you think the stock market is going to drive it? i don't think so. the few who invest in the stock market they prosper with the working class. >> it's bigger than that. it would indicate a kind of a groundswell rising tide lifting all boats. >> bill: working people don't have boats. you have a boat. you are rich. >> tide coming in and you are lifted. >> bill: i'm not sure about the stock market analysis. i will ask lou dobbs that question coming up. last question. if tom is committing career suicide by being such a partisan. is he not? as an actor? >> hollywood is essentially a very democrat place. >> bill: he is the point man now. >> nobody is not going to go see a good tom hanks movie

because he happens to be the point man for barack obama. >> bill: what about the last one with the noise level nobody went to see that. >> incredibly loud and extremely close. >> bill: nobody went to see. i can't even find bosom buddies anymore on tv. >> forrest gump. i feel like i have been here like every friday. i keep showing up. >> bill: should have narrated. he is committing career suicide. >> well, bill, here i am again. >> bill: state of california will vote for barack obama no matter what. but why? we will find out. later obama care estimated to cost twice as much as the president predicted. we are coming right back from boston. [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of people are choosing advil. my name is lacey calvert and i'm a yoga instructor. if i have any soreness, i'm not going to be able to do my job. but once i take advil, i'm able to finish out strong. it really works! [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] make the switch. take action. take advil.

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>> bill: continuing now with lead story. california has 55 electoral votes by far the most in the country. mr. obama doesn't even have to campaign in the golden state. he will win it no matter what. but why? joining us now from los angeles political observer adam corolla. why can't a -- i guess you could have mother teresa running, one of the saints come down and barack obama would still win. why? well the question is, first off, no one from california is from california. i'm the only one from

california everyone from california is either from new york or tijuana. mixed bag of people here. really the most progressive self-aggrandizing folks or poorest folks coming in from different directions. it's a bizarre mixed batch from california. nobody is from here. >> bill: a lot of states melting pots, texas, arizona, down on the border, certainly. new york, but new york will vote for barack almost no matter what. what is it about california that drives the vote into the democratic precincts when the democrats have controlled sacramento for, what? two decades now? your state is bankrupt, people are moving out of it. it's chaotic and they still keep voting democrat, democrat, democrat. i don't understand. >> i think the unions have taken control. the teachers unions. the prison guard unions. just about every union here in california. it's very union oriented it's

not business oriented. big business is considered the devil here in california. we drive them out and we replace them with more federal jobs and more unions and that's why we are bankrupt. but that's where the votes are coming from. >> bill: okay. so the unionized workforce. got to get a stat on that. the big population centers like los angeles, san francisco, not so much san diego. san diego is a little more conservative. they go for the democrats no matter what. they like the progressive vision. but, again, the social problems in los angeles are huge. it's an enormously complexity. things aren't working that well and the economy is not that good there. so you would think that they would i don't think they listen to the republic side. they have npr on all day and night. just listening to that they won't even watch. fox news channel gets a will the of viewers it's a mind set out there. the mind set is, what? what is californians priority?

>> the problem is we don't really have a priority other than just sort of good vibes and mommas and the pappas and california dreaming and, you know, pacific coast highway and malibu like we are laid back and the democrats are the party of the we're cool, we're laid back. we're friendly. we're compassionate -- san francisco and los angeles is nice. and we look at the democrats as the nice party. >> bill: californians don't want confrontation. they don't want to be challenged and self-reliant. they want everybody to get along and the government to provide a lot of services and stuff when do you that the government has more power

telling you what to do and you can't buy a goldfish. you can get heroin for free but can't buy goldfish. something going on out there. >> i had to go to new mexico to buy my kid a gold fish two weeks ago. the damn thing died in the trunk on the way back because it was hot. >> bill: it did? >> i should have put it up in the car with me. >> bill: if you would have gotten caught you would have gotten far more for smuggling a gold fish from san francisco than if you would have been illegal alien crossing the border into imperial county. >> sure. >> bill: probably would have got one to three whereas the other one just got released. >> would have been funny if i was sitting in a cell with a guy and he said what are you in for and i said smuggling goldfish and he said me too, brother. >> bill: we should explain to people that the city council of san francisco believes it is cruel to have a goldfish in a tank and, therefore, as mr. corolla rightly pointed out california got to be nice so you can't have the gold

fish. nice word, adam? >> that's right. well, you know, it's all about the environment. all about good vibes and all about hope and change and being nice and not being the man and not being a big corporation and working for the man and that's what california is about. >> bill: all right. next on the run down as we continue from massachusetts. newt gingrich mocking president obama who, in turn, mocks the speaker. a lot of mocking going on. we will show it to you in just a few moments.

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>> bill: energy vision. >> i don't think the president quite gets it. there is no algae that's going to come out of in this summer. ' this is the dominant device by which the american people fill their cars and trucks. >> bill: lately we have heard a lot of professional politicians, a lot of the folks who are, you know, running for a certain office. [ laughter ] >> who shall go unnamed. [ laughter ] they have been talking down new sources of energy. if some of these folks were around when columbus set sail they must have been founding members of the flat earth society. they would not have believed that the world was round. >> bill: joining us is janine turner in fort worth, texas. do you think alternative energy is a good thing? let's start.

>> there i think alternative energy eventually is a good thing. we have to have a reasonable transition. we didn't blow out all of our candles until we had dependable electricity. and we don't have anything reliable. i mean, you know, he jokes about the telephone and ruth ford b. hayes and yet the telephone is not solyndra. so i -- can i throw out some statistics here that i think are really interesting? >> bill: sure. >> if you don't mind i think this is fascinating. 24 billion barrels of oil recently discovered in north dakota which could exceed almost 500 billion barrels of oil. sitting on 1.44 trillion barrels of oil and 2.7 thrill cubic feet of natural gas that can bring in $18 trillion worth of royalties to the u.s. government which could pay off our debt. i mean, we have all of this. why don't we harness both of these things at the same time? >> bill: i can't even bet the stats. just to continue the conversation into the political realm.

you don't have any beef about alternative energy. you just don't believe it's ready and i assume you don't want all of this money to go into solyndra to try to get it ready. you think it's a private marketplace deal, am i right? >> i absolutely think it's a private market deal. >> bill: all right, now, leslie, you are now, you are seeing a president who is basically defiant. even though we know that a lot of federal money has been wasted, money we don't have money we had to borrow from china and that's coming up later, okay? the president still says, you know what? my vision is right, even though we wasted all of this money, and guys like newt gingrich who, you know, are saying what janine is saying you have got to drill, drill, drill and develop what we have here. they are flat earthers. and you say? >> well, i wouldn't use flat earthers but two plus two is four. all of the scientists, all of the economists, regardless of political party, bill say even if we have the keystone pipeline, even if we drilled every possible drill or hole that we could drill, you are talking about a cent or two

difference at the pumps because you are talking about the price of crude oil is an international marketplace commodity. so, on a global level, you are talking about a less than 1% difference. that is not going to bring prices down to $2.50 like newt gingrich said. >> bill: i don't know about 2.50. who knows. we have plenty of oil here in the united states. plenty. there is about a big, big oversupply as we said and said and said. look, the oil prices are doubled under president obama. 61%, leslie think is he handling the energy crisis badly. 61%. that could knock them out in november. you know it. >> well, i don't disagree with that number and how the american people feel. but, you know, a simple search of google will show you that historically whether it's a republic or democrat in the white house, if the price of crude oil goes up, the price at the gas tank goes up. period. no one president can single-handedly change that because it is a market issue.

>> bill: no one president can influence the world market by doing certain things as presidents in the past have done. they can release the oil that mr. obama is talking about. now he is walking that back. but there is a whole bunch of things you can do that haven't been done. reign in speculators. we're going to talk about that a little bit later on with lou dobbs. but, the president has done nothing and americans are holding him accountable. now, i think mr. obama is stubborn, janine. just as a guy. i just think he is stubborn. he says to himself i'm going out on the way i came. in once in a while he will do a little flip or flopper. is he basically saying, look, i don't really care about solyndra. i don't care about the stuff that hasn't worked. i'm going to keep doing it, you either take it or leave it i think that's his platform, janine. >> well, i think it's his platform too, bill. it's not reasonable. because if they were reasonable you would care about the american people, not what he thinks should be the vision for the american part-time. and if gas is really difficult, i mean i fill up my

gas it's unbelievable. sitting on a wealth. he wants to stifle oil, stifle oil, stifle natural gas drilling. it doesn't make any sense. if you are reasonable harness what we have here. not be dependent on the middle east. in the process start to work on a transition. >> bill: that's how the republicans are going to go after him just what janine said we have plenty here. he doesn't want it. vote for us. leslie, last word please, you have got 30 seconds. >> on a domestic level the demand has gone down but on an international level the demand has gone up and like janine said alternative energy is a good idea at some point we have got to start sometime and president barack obama says the time is now and i agree with him. >> bill: you agree with all the federal money going in and there is no results. >> yeah. >> bill: all right, leslie you are entitled to your california opinion. we have a brand new bill o'reilly.com poll question for you is the afghan war worth fighting anymore? is the afghan war worth fighting anymore? "yes" or "no," bill o'reilly.com. give you the results next

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we have gone from 1 million barrels a day of that to 2 million barrels plus a day of that. right now we are sitting here with a daily usage of let's call it 19 million barrels a day. we have to bring about half of that in for from overseas. i worry when refiners say this is a win-win. i don't see how this is a win-win for the u.s. economy. >> bill: 19 million is what the u.s. consumers use every day. all right, 2 million barrels go out. if it stayed here, that would bring it down to 17. and then we produce 8.5 of that or half from the united states and then we import basically what you are saying is we import close to 9 million barrels of oil a day from opec and oil producing nations. now, why, you know, this is what gets me. the oil companies say it's a free marketplace even though they have to get very special permission to operate under the government and you can't fund an oil company. they say it's free. under the free market banner

they are free to refine any company they will and china will pay for for it? >> i will take issue with the free oil market. nothing is free. a lot of the oil we will use in the next few months on our shores is on a ship out at sea and we are protecting that protecting it through the straits of hormuz or wherever it is coming from to our shores. the ott oil companies are getting a great big subsidy in the form of protection. one of the things that's happened is because we have done such a bad job of mining our own assets or drilling our own oil, we have added two additional wrinkles to the classic supply/demand equation. those are, number one, logistics and number two, speculation. and it shouldn't be the case but those are now just as important as supply and demand. >> bill: we're going to talk about speculation with lou dobbs coming right up. the other deal is that china seems to defy the united states every day. best example being iran. china is pretty much their big patron now.

everybody sells isolating them. even russia is starting to cooperate now a little bit. china now vetoes anything they can to help iran and still trades with iran a very high level, correct? >> you are absolutely right. china right now buys about 20% of all iran's oil exports. that's more than the entire eu combined. in fact, four countries buy most of iran's oil exports. china, india, japan and turkey. why that is important is we're in the middle of trying to do something important for world peace, which is embargo and put economic pressure on iran to prevent them from building nuclear weapons. people compare it to the cuban missile crisis except unlike us, where we could surround cuba, iran is getting a back door to sell their oil to china. china is working directly cross purposes to u.s. interests in iran. >> bill: okay o. so we can't do anything because the chinese do not fear the united states anymore. knowing that we owe them more than a trillion dollars. we need their trade and all of that. china pretty much does whatever they want.

correct? >> you know, they do. i will give you a more recent example just to your point. you know, we have had a lot of influence on the security council and we have not liked the way things are happening in syria and way they are literally killing their own people. we want at the security council to influence it by having a resolution. guess who said no, once again? china. china has an independent favor and we have got to do something to tame it. >> bill: we can't do anything because they hold so much of our debt. we can't do anything to them. >> you know, i think it's one of those things where it's hard to be too tough where your banker is also your major supplier. you have to have an embrace. i think it's fair and reasonable to confront them where they are being unfair there are a bunch of areas where they are being unfair. >> bill: i think they have tried to confront them andhe chinese have made it quite clear they are going to do exactly what they want to do and they don't care what we say. >> we have not quond much of a relationship. we not watched them as closely as they are watching us. >> bill: thank you very much. very provocative book. when we come right back major

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officials and in washington will acknowledge the fact that we simply can't beg the chinese to conform to what we want. we have got to first take charge of our own policies, bill. and it's our choice. do we trade with them? do we buy their manufactured goods or do we create a manufacturing base recreate a manufacturing base in this country? >> bill: i guess that could hurt them if we didn't buy a lot of their stuff to the tune of what we are doing now. they could say we cash in all the bonds, see you later. oh, manual if they cash them in they hurt themselves. >> bill: they are communist. they don't care. they will do what they want to do we found out one thing with the soviet union. subsequently when they collapsed in 1991. the fact is communists get greedy too. >> bill: they are greedy. they might do a greater good thing. suffer for five years. you know how the eastern philosophy is and we'll wipe them off the face of the earth. i hope not.

oil reserves are -- there was a report that president obama was going to release them but the british were going to do it. nobody could figure that out because they are in this country. we got to import herman's hermits and to get them to release the oil over here or what? i mean, i don't understand, tell me what's going on with the oil reserves. >> here is what is going on with the oil reserves. obviously they talked about it they are trying to -- send a message to the markets. the fact is that this just doesn't amount to a hill of a bean in the market. >> dropped a couple of bucks after they said it? >> ended up moving about within a range of $1.05. >> maybe release 2 barrels a day go down 30 cents every day. i would do that. roll out the barrel. >> the fact is in all of the talk over all these years about releasing oil from the strategic petroleum reserves 700 million barrels. the most ha has ever been released is 30.4 million barrels. that was last year

30 million barrels. >> bill: only two day supply for us. using 19 million barrels a day. two day supply. >> absolutely. the thing that drove prices down last year when prices hit $4 a gallon. this administration and imax don't remember this when they raised the reserve requirements. >> bill: on the speculators. i think we should execute the speculators. just shooting just a few of them maybe the others wouldn't do it. that's what the chinese would do. they would do it. >> we need to stay capitalistic. >> bill: that would be facetious for media matters out there. o'reilly wants to execute ownership people. now the congressional budget office, they are the nonpartisan bunch of pinheads who analyze all kinds of financial data. they say obama care is going to cost twice as much as president obama said it would when the legislation was up and running. i don't think there is anybody on the face of the earth surprised about that.

particularly you, you know. we know this is going to cost an enormous amount of money which we don't have. so i guess the chinese are going to have to fund obama characterization right? >> because, if they don't, we are in even bigger trouble unless we could be smart enough to actually repeal this pig before it gets to market. >> bill: you know what would be even smarter? >> what's that? >> bill: to demand that the chinese have obama care. we will import it over there they can have it. >> terrific. that would be a very smart trade. >> bill: i don't think the chinese would take it. they would probably laugh at us like they are doing. but the people who should know that this is a chart buster, as far as the budget is concerned. all right? obama care to have the central government in washington run the american health industry. >> right. >> bill: is just replete with unintended consequences in a financial arena. and they say it's going to cost twice.

it's going to cost four times as much if this thing continues to go down the lane. >> you remember when we watched our congress pass this thing as obama rammed it down their throats. they didn't count the first four years. they back loaded the whole operation so they could keep it under a trillion. 940 billion. then, now as we approach 2014 when it kicks in. the number is already up to $1.7 trillion. that's doubling. as we get to 2014, unless it is repealed. that number, i think you are right. it's going to be a factor probably two and a half to three times. >> bill: i think it's going to be a factor. >> maybe you are right. >> bill: on deck, saint patrick's day and how the o'reillys fit into. that's not o'reilly. a little vanity when we come back. this is $100,000. we asked total strangers to watch it for us.

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>> bill: back of the book segment tonight, as you know, saint patrick's day is tomorrow and the 35 million irish americans will be in the spotlight as we say every year, we hope everybody bemafs. now, there are plenty of irish traditions that have taken hold in america. we asked our pal morina who runs the hot for words web site to explain some of them. so, morina, you don't have any irish blood new, do you? >> no. >> bill: no. >> not that i know of. >> bill: nobody went from russia over to the british island? >> huh-uh. >> bill: you are familiar with the irish culture which is why we have you here as the lady of words. first word we would like to you analyze for us is shamrock. >> shamrock. well, shamrock is a symbol of ireland. the shamrock came from the old irish word shamrock which is a form of the irish word for closer. >> bill: closer? >> as we all know saint patrick used the shamrock to

describe the holly trinity to the prechristian irish people. >> bill: used it, held it up three gods in one and the shamrock with the three clofers. >> right. >> bill: very good. leprechaun? >> i like this word. funny sounding word. i like the character. so leprechaun is a fairy character basically in the shape of a small man. >> you made a laughing stock of me in front of my own people. >> he was famous shoe maker because he spent all his time making shoes. >> bill: who did? >> leprechaun. >> bill: two inch leprechaun made shoes. >> made shoes, yes. very big pot of gold. >> bill: leprechaun has a pot of gold. why is he making shoes. >> that's how he spent most of his time. >> bill: he didn't have to he had a pot of gold. >> he was unhappy. very mean. >> bill: mean leprechaun they don't exist, do they?

>> no. bill i have seen a few. >> you did old irish word old body. le meaning small. prechaun little body. >> bill: hue-hooligan. >> hooligan which means rowdy troublemakers. >> you damned hooligan. >> it's actually -- you know, an island. it was a family by the last named hooli. was loud. >> i double dare you. >> nobody liked them. but they made a song out of them. >> bill: that's how the world came in from the family name. >> from the family. the family existed. >> bill: here is blarney now from the blarney stone, which is there in ireland. you can kiss it but just remember 8 million people have already kissed it before you. [ laughter ] >> well blarney, you know, is

a -- nonsense flattery talk. somebody who talks a lot of blarney. >> you haven't heard the last of this by any means. >> came from the old tradition, castle in 1602. the lord of blarney decided to, you know, defeat the castle against the british. he stood the ground, how? he smooth talked the british people with sweet promises and, you know, very flattery, you know being very flattery. queen elizabeth first she got very mad. >> ah. >> she decided to coy on the term blarney to show the worthlessness of the lord's promises. >> bill: actually blarney is b.s. is what it is. >> yes. >> bill: surname o'reilly. >> owe riley is irish origin. >> bill: yes. >> an glisized form of

o'reilly and it means agree get gregarious. had coin made after them. >> bill: money and great personalities. >> came from vikings. >> bill: came from vikings. >> yes. you came from vikings. >> bill: everybody knows that. all right, morina. happy saint patrick's day. a lot of lebanon prey cowans running around. morina, everybody. >> thank you so much. >> bill: i have got to tell you those long boats they were very uncomfortable in those viking days. in honor of saint patrick's day we would like to do something for you. about 200,000 folks subscribe to the factor newsletter which is free so you should sign up. four subscribers only. we have now instituted the luck of the irish sale. 15% everything off of the bill o'reilly.com sale until sunday. if you are premium members you add that to your automatic tis discount getting 25% off.

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>> bill: i wanted to meet your mother, terry. by the way. chicago sold out, tickets remain on rosemont. indianapolis, close to a sell on out. get your tickets at billoreilly.com has the info. >> bill: i'm going to give you a backstage pass. so we'll see you on saturday night. i'll be in melbourne, florida. check it out on our website. finally, pinheads and patriots, we all make mistakes but at the lincoln presidential library they were selling this bobblehead doll shows his

assassin holding a gun. what? they were selling it. they are not selling it any longer because it's incredibly offensive and customers say i don't want anything to do with this. i'm not going to do that. whoever designed that doll absolutely is a pinhead. let's not make mistakes like that, okay? that is it for us tonight. please check out our website. and spout off from the factor at o'reilly. >> do not be a jackinate. i just like the jackinates. it confus people. they don't know what you mean. it's a good word. thanks for -- jackanapes. the spin