chris: sean hannity conceded that the birth certificate put that to rest but he came up with a new loaded topic that night. >> we have this issue the birth certificate. this was never a defining issue for me but i find it odd. all the president had to do was what he did today. release it and move on. we're going to talk about a controversy we discussed last night on the program and that has to do with the church, that barack obama and his family takened on easter sunday. >> let's talk about the black church now. rush limbaugh on that same day. >> the first black president icon offereded nothing but a weak song entitled "hope and change." we have recordings from the ruling class admitting they don't know what he stands for. chris: he put out the burtskert all of a sudden this other stuff kept coming. grades in school, basketball, the black church. your thoughts? >> my thoughts are that the people who don't like barack obama are trying to erase him from history, that they refuse too accept his legitimacy. george w. bush, if anything, was considered to be somehow almost dangerously too much

last night sean hannity gave this racist lunatic a platform to talk about why it's ok to torture people. leon panetta and three cia directors have said former cia directors we have more intelligence from enhanced interrogations that all our intelligence agencies and most of it was bad you know what it's they have bad karma you do bad things bad things happen none of these people none of these camel jockeys ever should this started with us this is what they get when they play with that camel jockeys really. suffer so much for us trying to win over hearts and minds in the middle east it's a terrorist want a recruiting tool. you have to do is watch fox news and that's very very good. does your member of congress supported age pregnancies drug abuse and violence. last week canadian members of parliament brought up an important issue in the house of commons wealth inequality a motion was agreed upon across party lines that read this house notes the findings that societies with smaller income differences between rich and poor have fewer health and social problems such as teenage births violen

just listen to what sean hannity asked this crowd last spring. >> how many of you would like to see a palin/bachmann ticket? >> well, that sounds kind of cool. >> reporter: a year later, it looks more likely they could be running against each other. >> we know that our best days are yet to come. >> reporter: palin isn't in yet but check out this campaign-style video she released today. it touts her upcoming tour of american landmarks. bachmann has been looking like a candidate for months, and listen to what she said today in iowa. >> i've had that calling and that tugging on my heart that this is the right thing to do. >> reporter: on another recent iowa trip, bachmann told us she wouldn't hesitate to run against palin. would you run against sarah palin? could you envision doing that? >> i love sarah palin. i love her. she is a wonderful individual. >> reporter: but if palin runs, does that make it any less likely that you would run? >> my decision would be based upon what i believe is the right thing to do. >> our man on politics, jon karl with us here tonight. and jon, when do we ex

we have intelligence and military community people who planned this not barack obama alone that sean hannity is second guessing. you have a right to do that, but i'll respect their judgment. >> sean: you are saying bin laden deserved a 40 minute funeral. >> i don't think he deserved anything, he's a murdering thug. >> sean: murdering thug deserving of -- >> our intelligence community -- >> sean: that seems to be your fall-back. >> sean: brigitte, think the muslim world that maybe the president was trying to appeal to, are they going to see this as strength or weakness? >> weakness. forget respect, the man was a murderer and we are respecting him and giving him these rights. >> we are making a strategic judgment. >> sean: what's the judgment? >> wrong judgment. >> you are in a television studio not in the field of battle. >> i understand arabic. i come from the me east. i can tell you one thing, revenge, revenge. [ talking over each other ] >> you don't win arguments by shouting over people whether you are from the middle east or not. >> i was not shouting over you, you kept interrupting. you

you have sean hannity. you have all those other people. you never have me. it was so embarrassing. i had to give in. i said ok, neal. you can be a presenter. that's why, ladies and gentlemen, he is a presenter and tonight's first presenter. the truth of the matter is i was delighted to hear neal say that. he's been a presenter on this program several times before. he's always been a smash hit. he's always been a favorite of mine. if i could i would abuse his friendship every year by asking him to be a presenter. ladies and gentlemen, i give you the very dangerous neal boortz. >> i'm going to have so much fun with my granddaughter with that tomorrow. did brent just tell you about the palm beach speech i gave to him? is that what -- he talked about me being a whiner. is that it? when he invited me down there to speak and i'm sitting in the back and he's talking about the great hannity and limbaugh are going to save the world. notice there's no teleprompters. and -- [applause] i have trouble with bow ties. ann? where's ann. thanks. i had to go to ann's room to get the bow tie done. li

there are quotes that glenn beck likes to use, sean hannity that washington supposedly said it is impossible rightly to govern the world without god and the bible. and this coa quotation -- quotation is all over the place. you can find it all over the internet. there's no evidence that washington ever said it or wrote it, and it was most likely made up in the 19th century by somebody else. but, again, there's this need to believe it. now, what was washington? was he a christian? what did he really believe? it's a very difficult question to answer. we can be certain on the one hand he was not an atheist, he was not a deist. he was also, on the other hand, not an evangelical christian. he was not powerfully interested in the theology and in the forms of the christian religion. he did go to church, but he was very careful not to take communion and not to kneel. why he felt that way, we don't exactly know. he didn't mention jesus christ in his correspondence, and he didn't talk about god on his death bed. i believe he was a very moral man, a very virtuous man. he was influenced by the stoics. he

. >> sean: welcome to a special edition of hannity.the race began officially this evening near greenville, south carolina. where all the -- gop candidates pawlenty, santorum, paul, cain and johnson went head-to-head and they debated the nation's most pressing issues from the disastrous state our economy to the dangers of obamacare. you are going to hear from four of the five tonight here on this program, except for ron paul. he decided to go to the tea party rally, instead. who won tonight's debate? we check in with frank luntz. standing by with a group of south carolina gop primary voters. >> sean, we got 29 of the most important people in america sitting behind me. who won the debate? how many of you think herman cain won the debate? we can stop right there. sean, a word or to describe herman cain. >> he answers the questions most direct. >> breath of fresh air. >> common sense. >> talking points. >> clear and concise. >> very aggressive. >> the godfather of business sense he can attack obama well. >> clear-cut plan on which way to t

but he could be anywhere he >> sean: were they hiding osama bin laden bin laden? hannity starts right here, right now. tonight, the white house is still debating whether to release a photograph of bin laden's bodying following the raid. cia director panetta hinted that a picture of the body will be released. officials are debating because the most identifiable image of bin laden is the most gruesome. despite panetta's claim say the white house will make the decision about the release of the picture. we are piecing to the key details of the raid that lead to bin laden's death at this pakistani come upon. even the white house seemed confused about how the white house unfolded. particular whethers an was anned. whether he used one of his wives an a human shield. and whether she emerged dead or alive. we know a team of 24 seals repelled into the compound operate president's orders, bin laden some of his family members and two other families were living in this mansion. reports say bin laden weather and his family occupied the second and third floors. the seals entered on the