later alan colmes with why he is proud to be a liberal.will be back in just a moment. >> i am just angry. it is senseless to have people take on a position of the public trust and of these it. to do it in such a way to almost thumb and their noise it -- noses at individuals. it sounds like a stretch -- you can tell that to me. so a journalist. my job is to do what i do. people who really believe and say "the government is wrong. they're out to get me. there are trying to do it because i care about you. i support people." the supporters believe them. to me, that is despicable. >> tonight on "q &a." >> is joining us is a columnist from the national review and a co-author of a new book titled "who is counting?" he will talk about the book and just a moment. first-year assessment of the two party conventions. caller: the job of a convention is to rally the basin to present to the american people. i think of did that very effectively. president obama did have a big lift from bill clinton's speech. the best defense of the obama years you can ima

top story, let's bring in alan colmes and he is the author of "thank the liberals for saving america." colmes pointing at the title. as well as his partner, monica crowley. what say you? >> first of all, you said you would mention me in the talking points. the money was off the books before you north texas it's on the books. you have to figure it in. >> at this figure it in. >> but it was off the books. >> i don't care about off the books. on the book. it's 10%. >> it's a big amount of money. we could do a lot with that money. >> wait, wait, wait. i think we did do a lot. we defeated al-qaeda. >> we did. we did a great job over the last four to eight years doing that, and yes, the money that was spent in iraq could have been spent for a whole number of things. the war on terror, you know, also is we've sacrificed our security, we're sacrificed our liberty for security and franklin said once do you that -- >> maybe you sacrifice your liberty, but i'm as free as i've ever been. >> that may be true. >> i think -- did you sacrifice any liberty? >> no, and i will gladly. >> -- >> except go

alan colmes and monica crowley. one of the most glamorous women in the world, kate middleton, photographed topless in an outrageous invasion of privacy. she and her husband, prince within, are fighting back. is it legal? on the case (it's happening, people. it's on. here it is. >> bill: jon stewart already in training for the big rumble in washington. >> oh, yeah, it's on! >> bill: when he will debate me live on the internet. he will be here tonight. >> i'm so scared! >> bill: caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. >> bill: hi. i'm bill o'reilly. mitt romney, the truth and the folks. that is the focus tonight. now we have a controversy over governor romney telling supporters that a large portion of the american population is dependent on government and most likely will not vote for him. here is my question: why is that controversial? that's true. mr. romney said that back in may at a fund-raiser in florida where he was secretly videotaped >> bill: i believe the governor over

and alan coles, the author of the new book, thank the liberals for saving america and host of the alan colmes show. i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. >> he's been loyal to his sons, to his country, to his employees, and to his church, well, i'm sure now that the press is going to tell you, he isn't perfect. but my friends, for the past four years, we tried the one that the press thought was perfect and that hasn't worked out all that well for us. that's why tonight i tell you, we can do better. >> jon: former g.o.p. presidential candidate and current fox news host, governor mike huckabee addressing the republican convention this week, remi reminding america of the media role in the 2008 election, so when you think back to the coverage of 2008 and looking forward to the democratic convention this coming week, jim, has neg changed? >> oh, i think the media are being the media. the mrc, rich noise did a research. >> research center. >> yes, sir had a study of the media coverage since 1988 and every four years, showed what the coverage looks like and it's just a quaddreniam. and if c

and alan colmes is host of the alan colmes radio show.n i know whenever it is suggested that the mainstream media are in the tank for president obama you fire back. >> it's amazing how many conservatives get elected and how we have a conservative congress while the media is in the tank for the liberals. all the mainstream media or any other media has to do is report the facts. romney bungled the statements. he got the timeline wrong. he said it was an apology to people who were committing violence when it was not, there was condemnation. he got the timeline wrong on the condemnation. he confused the embassy with the consulate. not even conservatives who have gone after romney and shaking their heads at the way he is running his campaign that is not the left-wing mead kwhra doing it. you have dissension in his own campaign. jon: you say he got the timeline wrong in what way? >> he was wrong to immediately say that there was some kind of apology after there was this breach at the embassy in cairo. there was actually not an apology but conde

alan colmes, cal thomas, thank you.s across the middle east, are they under attack right now? what should we do about it? we have a supersized panel to weigh in on the events over the last 48 hours next. ed. jenna: the riots in the middle east raising questions about u.s. foreign policy and american leadership in general at this time in history. joining us to talk all about this, we have a great panel for you. retired general jack keane former vice chief of staff of the u.s. army. he is a fox news military analyst. kt mcfarland is fox news military analyst. tom johnson. his expertise is terrorism. bret stevens a foreign affairs columnist for "the wall street journal" welcome to all. great to have you. a lot has happened in the world over the last 48 hours. so a simple question to start. bret, take your chance with this one. what does this all mean? >> i think beyond the immediate tragedy and the proximate causes i think it is a moment of global weakness for the united states. i think of it as 1979 all over again. americ

. >> jim pinkerton joins us and alan colmes the host of the alan colmes show and a familiar face on theews channel. this is a tragic situation all the way around. apparently in the aftermath of the attack on our embassy, alan, a cnn staffer finds this book, opens it up, it turns out to be the musings of the diplomat, christopher stevens. they had it, read it and even though the family did not want some of this information put out on air about his concerns over his personal security and so forth, they went ahead and did it. what do you think of that? >> what troubles my is that apparently after many, many requests in a telephone conversation the family said, please let us look at this before we give you the go ahead, and whether or not it's a journalistic issue that there was real news there that they were obligated as journalists to report, once they said to the family, okay, we will sit on this until such time as you see it, you vet it and then get back to us and then cnn apparently breached that a dream, that is what i find troubling about it. if there was not that agreement i would u

alan colmes host of alan colmes show and lisa. thanks for joining us. lisa, i'll begin with you. brought this topic to my attention. you have the opportunity to speak to several military wives. >> when i was doing into from my broadcast to rnc. i was really outrage and upset. this is unprecedented. these are people that enlisted in our military. when you enlist you can't quit. you go to jail if you go awol. how could uncle sam quit on these people. i did an investigation and there is navy times reporter who has been covering this since november and in fact it is true. they have been fired in the middle of their enlisted duty. i think it's i am movl and illegal. >> heather: they have been enlisted for 7-15 years. many aviation fields and specialties that the navy has determined had too many people. >> the chairman of chief joints of staff it is performance based. secondly he said, this would not be compromised by this. and this is part of sequestration which was agreed upon by republicans and democrats. they are cutting $487 billion. this is what happened and come to an agreement

shannon: alan colmes is host of the alan colmes radio show and "thank the liberals for saving america." and the author of "50 things liberals love to hate." shannon: alan i'll start with you. accuse something one of a fell any during a campaign, you can't take that lightly. >> stephanie cutter said either felony or lying. she didn't say he's a felon. he is lying. i was just watching the clip you were playing. i just made notes of the live stream. he repeated the lie that obama says you didn't build that. that clearly was out of context. he talked about student loans. they want to make it harder to pay back student loans. obama wants to reduce the interest on student loans. the bus driver had nothing to do with helping the kid get to school. he repeated that ridiculous statement. and i didn't see any video to say this a few moments ago, you belong to the government? i didn't see that. i was in charlotte. i watched much of that. i don't know what video he's talking about. i didn't hear anybody say you belong to the government the he has misstated item after item. shannon: i did see the

and alan colmes, the author of the bag "thank the liberals for saving america." monica, slavery, touchy issue. >> right. >> bill: okay. first lady was using it in a political context. right or wrong? >> well, i do think all is fair in politics. so i'm not going to condemn the first lady for telling this story. it was a political context. it was a rally and the objective is to motivate the base, black vote railroads a big part of president obama's base. they do need to be motivated. there was a record turnout in 2008. less so in 2010 and they're worried about it this time. what she's trying to do is sort of light a fire your honor them. >> bill: you didn't see the objection -- you don't have an objection to the slavery -- >> i think it is a bit exploit favor, but we're talking about politics. let's not be -- >> i think she was talking generally we as americans together have evolved our society beyond the kind of society where slaves did the work to help build a country and now that there is an african-american family living in the white house, it's to the benefit

alan colmes joins me now the host of the alan colmes radio show.n ham ellis a spokeswoman to the house american conference and director of public notice. as governor romney rightly points out in this case it has been called terrorism by some folks within the administration. jay carney said it was self-evident that it was terrorism and the president on the view said we don't really know yet what happened. alan is that discrepancy worth pursuing. >> no it's not, jay carney speaks for the president. mitt romney is playing politics here and it's hilarious to see him ask for candor and transparency when his campaign has done the opposite on a whole range of i shall eyes. he jumped to the conclusions at the very beginning of this before we had all the facts and accused the president and the administration for apologizing for america when nothing of that sort ever happened. he's hurting the country by playing politics during an international interest dense like this. martha: it all boils down to something quite serious, which is whether or not al-qaida is

alan colmes the host of the alan colmes radio show.w book out by the way "thank the liberals for saving america." and we thank you both for being here. we were interested in the segment on the cbs show "face the nation" when the substitute host was talking to paul ryan. all kinds of issue that could be addressed, the unemployment report and, you know, the unemployment situation in this country, but she spent time, jim, asking him about his claim from some i guess 20 years ago that he had run a marathon in under four hours, which he has since said was wrong. what do you make of that? >> well, it's the same mainstream media that made romney's dog, the one on the car roof into a household name over the last couple of years, and it's the same mainstream media that ignores every, to coin a phrase, big fing blooper that joe biden makes. remember joe biden was laughed out of the 1988 presidential campaign more than two decade ago because i was playinger rising someone else's speech. how the mainstream media let him get off the matt from that

alan colmes joins me now, host of the alan colmes radio show.e snyder is chairman of the 2012 virginia victory fund and also a fox news contributor. welcome gentlemen. good to have you here. >> hi, martha. martha: alan, is mitt romney sort of articulating the debate here in a way and by bringing up those comments by then, senator barack obama in the original comments? does it become more defined? >> "joe the plumber" incident four years ago didn't hurt barack obama. in terms of the 1998 tape that you played, he said distribution of resources, government resources. he didn't necessarily say money, said to a certain level. isn't tax breaks for the rich redistribution? breaks for small businesses redistribution? thinking the money will trickle down redistribution? he wasn't talking specifically about money but if we want to specifically focus on money, we could look at the trickle down theories of redistribution of wealth. we found out over a number of years that that kind of redistribution, making wealthy, wealthier has not worked in terms of it h

alan colmes, host of the alan colmes radio show and gretchen hamel, executive director of public noticespokesman for the white house republican conference. good morning to both of you. where are we on this when netanyahu is out there with this tough, tough speech, wait for what, wait until when? >> that is what everyone is wondering wait until when. you had the president last night very big miscommunication on between the white house and netanyahu whether they would be meeting or not meeting. when it comes down to it they're not in new york city at the same time because the president put campaigning for the re-election over his job of governing. we see that time and time again. he doesn't have time to meet with his jobs council. doesn't have time for his intelligence briefings. he doesn't have time to meet with some of our closest allies while they are all in new york city. bill: just to update viewers on the flurry of reports from yesterday, it was reported that netanyahu requested a meeting. that was denied because of skid lincoln flicks. later white house said there was no request an

here to fill air time, monica crowley and alan colmes.ebrating the release of his new book "thank the liberals for saving america." if you can't sell copies down there, you are toast, man. >> go to the eskimos, i know. >> bill: they should be screaming for you. i got to ask you you sat question i asked charles krauthammer. ted kennedy, you may not have seen this, but they did a tribute to him. >> i did. >> bill: did you see it? >> it's a tribute to kennedy and part of his career was going against mitt romney for senate. part of that debate, i thought it was relevant. it's not as exciting as an empty chair. >> bill: no, but was it in bad taste to use a dead guy to club mitt romney in. >> the purpose was to pay tribute to kennedy. >> bill: no, no north texas! it's to club -- wait! wait! it was to club romney! that's why they used that whole thing! they could have used that to have kennedy's measurements and achievements and all that. they cut out for about two 1/2 minutes for a dead guy to club romney! >> you want to talk about bad taste? p

alan colmes offers this assessment on how the democrats are position heading into the final weeks of the campaign. steve cook talks about u.s. aid to egypt. "washington journal," live on c- span at 7:00 a.m. now, the american enterprise institute boasts a debate on student-athletes in higher education. tyler branch -- taylor branch the pates --debates john lombardi and whether the n.c.a.a. has lost the concept of student athlete and if it has jeopardized educational quality and the nonprofit status of the n.c.a.a. and the schools involved. this is an hour. >> good evening and welcome to the american enterprise institute. tonight, we are featuring a special american enterprise debate. the advertisement refers to it as a student athlete reality check. the official debate question, which is what we will frame here, is the n.c.a.a. promoting education and amateurism in major division one sports programs, and if not, what is our response to be? we have -- let me introduce myself. i am tom miller with the american enterprise institute. all i was a one-time sports caster. i am volunteering

joining me now is alan colmes. and mike gallagher, author of 50 things liberals love to hate. the president taking criticism on us. you know, i want to } what we are seeing overseas. it is very serious. it is getting worse by the minute. we are going to keep our eyes on what is happening in cairo and now jerusalem as well, the burning of the embassy in tunisia and an american school there. on it goes. obviously, part of the story in a political year is how a president is handling it. we have obviously heard comments about how mitt romney has reacted as well. >> if this had been a republican president, this would be described by the mainstream media is a major mistake. if you could imagine using the words like them in describing your own campaign staff, not just to the workers in the embassy and those that were murdered, or president obama to make that kind of comparison is just so bizarre and ridiculous and absurd -- listen, again, the media is collectively yawning over this is one more example of a double standard. i don't think that americans are deaf. i think americans hear

megyn: chris plante and and alan colmes. let me start with you, alan.ther bret baier who is just asking a question -- it's not often you see him put in that position. the question was very fair and durbin didn't like the and he seemed load for bear on that. why? >> no not load for bear. this is a real non-issue. the indication that because god is not in the platform, therefore, democrats are godless or hate god. i think the implication is what the senator was responding to. despite the fact that the platform goes on and on about faith. faith has always been part of the story. the word god isn't there but the other side is trying to make so much of this, they are trying to make the point democrats are the godless party. is that going to get people jobs? that's what republicans always say. megyn: people care about the elimination of god in the public square and that does concern a lot of americans. it did raise eyebrows that it was in and it was affirmatively taken out. he wasn't passing a judgment he was was asking why. why do you think he touched such a

joining me now is alan colmes. author of think the liberals for saving america and why you should.so mike gallagher who is the author of 50 things liberals love to hate. i will let you take the first shot at this. mike, if you go online, people are really upset. they are upset about the messing with the flag. >> they are fired up. i wish the 51st thing i wrote was the american flag. if i have to explain to allen were any liberal white americans are liberal livid over this desecration of the american flag, then i would probably be in the wrong line of work. regulations against the american flag, we are touching the ground, imagine the weight of veterans are feeling. they are profiting from it, selling it for $35 on the obama website. this is just absolute of how tone deaf liberal democrats can be of issues like this. it is extraordinary that the mainstream media is largely silent on this. i hope and pray that governor romney points this out to millions of angry americans over this defiling of our treasured american flag. megyn: and i think about how the military members -- the respe