>> bill: okay. years of james bond movies. the news quiz will ask you about it. and then a cartoonist insults fox news. we'll deal with it in pinheads and patriots. and patriots. coming right back. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight, the great american news quiz, the james bond edition. here now fox news anchor martha maccallum playing for will goodrow. "fox & friends" guy steve doocy representing marie from columbia station, ohio. if you would like to win great prizes sign up on bill o'reilly.com. 50th anniversary of james bond movies. do women care about james bond. >> women love james bond movies. >> bill: they love him. there have been seven of them do they love every james bond movie. >> we will find out. >> bill: you are engaged here? >> absolutely. >> bill: doocy was worried this may be too macho. >> is he a handsome man james bond. we like that. >> bill: we are looking out for you maccallum. the james bond franchise as i said has been entertaining movie fans for 50 years. ♪ [explosion

bill o'reilly. >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight. >> the republic party is gay bashing, muslim bashing, latino bashing. >> bill: wild guy howard dean has made an oracle out of me. his attacks on republicans are over the top and we pricketted it would happen. >> young people are just not going to vote for romney. >> unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. i'm pretty confident that this court will recognize that and not take that step. >> bill: president obama's criticisms of the supreme court have teed off a bunch of federal judges and the justice department was ordered to explain. megyn kelly will tell us what happened today. >> there will be justice for trayvon martin. >> bill: and an african american scholar says al sharpton is full of bologna that black teenagers are not afraid of whites they are afraid of other black teenagers. we have a controversial discussion. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning service

>> bill: roll the tape. >> bill: that is right. a >> bill: that is right.r and next, george w. bush werewolf. are they running out of ideas? one of my friends produced it. >> this is hardest quiz. i've never seen anything like this. >> coming up the great american news quiz. academy award >> bill: greatm news quiz. academy awards edition. nominations were announced this week. i have not seen any of the movies and that is spooky because i used to review films in college. melissa mccarthy was no, ma'am nate for her role in "bridesmaid." >> bill: brilliant performance. actress's cousin of what other celebrity? >> bill: cards up please, "a", jenny mccarthy. >> they kind of look alike. >> bill: they kind of look alike. their eyes or something in the eyes. there is resemblance. >> bill: i don'tlike.now if peoe look at jenny mccarthy's eyes but who knows. >> and here is sally fields. >> i haven do had an orthodox career and wanted to have your respect more than anything. first time i didn't feel it. this time i feel it and i can't deny the fact that you like me ri

>> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight. >> we are very honored today to have the man currently holding the office and aspiring for it for another term. >> bill: a big shot at the associated press drops all pretense by lavishing praise on president obama. there is no doubt anymore. a supportive press wants the president reelected. >> how have you enjoyed being part of the mainstream media for the last hour? >> oh, organized chaos. >> i have to be honest with you, getting up this early was a lot harder than i remember. >> bill: so who won the battle of the divas on morning television? sarah palin or katie couric? we will have an opinion on that. >> i like oprah. she is one of my neighbors. >> bill: dennis miller has some advice for oprah on how to succeed in cable television. caution, you where 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. the battle for america begins and that is the subject of this eveni

i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. is the entitlement society strangling the u.s. economy? that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. we are about to give you amazing stats about america becoming a welfare state. we'll start with the overall picture. during the last two years, 09 and 10, the feds spent more than a trillion dollars on programs to help poor americans. most of that money goes to what is called means tested entitlements. that's direct assistance, medicaid, food stamp, child care, nutrition, checks to needy family, things like that. the recession, of course, driving some of that assistance. but since 1970, means tested entitlements in america have increased. ready? an unbelievable 5500%. right now an astounding, 150 million americans live in households that receive some kind of government assistance. it's almost half the population! social justice, the primary reason the usa is changing into an entitlement country, like the western european nations. politician

>> bill: roll the tape. >> bill: that is right. a >> bill: that is right. are they running out of ideas? one of my friends produced it. >> this is hardest quiz. i've never seen anything like this. >> coming up the great american news quiz. news quiz. academy award [ leanne ] appliance park has been here since the early 50s. my dad and grandfather spent their whole careers here. [ charlie ] we're the heartbeat of this place, the people on the line. we take pride in what we do. when that refrigerator ships out the door, it's us that work out here. [ michael ] we're on the forefront of revitalizing manufacturing. we're proving that it can be done here, and it can be done well. [ ilona ] i came to ge after the plant i was working at closed after 33 years. ge's giving me the chance to start back over. [ cindy ] there's construction workers everywhere. so what does thean? it means work. it means work for more people. [ brian ] there's a bright future here, and there's a chance to get on the ground floor of something big, something that will bring us back. not onl

so -- >> -- bill. >> bill: go ahead. >> what i was going to say, bill, let me tell you today i was speaking folks in the department of homeland security people ha work along the border. those numbers are misleading. those apprehensions are down doesn't mean they aren't getting them. >> bill: the border fence much more extensive than it was in 2005. i can't imagine what that all of this manpower and hardware down there and they are not getting them? >> it helps. >> bill: that would mean that the border patrol would be the most inefficient force on earth if that were the case. >> it's not that they're inefficient. they have been inhibited in some cases from doing their job. look what's happened in arizona. arizona felt two years ago it needed to pass sb 1070. you know, their bill, their immigration bill which is right now in the supreme court. there is a reason for that. and as you note, there is an influx of illegal drug trade in the united states and that hasn't slowed down either. >> bill: that is one thing that i don't understand. there are narcotics on the streets of almost every city in

>> bill: roll the tape. >> bill: that is right. a >> bill: that is right.ter and next, george w. bush werewolf. are they running out of ideas? one of my friends produced it. >> this is hardest quiz. i've never seen anything like this. >> coming up the great american news quiz. academy award >> bill: greatm news quiz. academy awards edition. nominations were announced this week. i have not seen any of the movies and that is spooky because i used to review films in college. melissa mccarthy was no, ma'am nate for her role in "bridesmaid." >> bill: brilliant performance. actress's cousin of what other celebrity? >> bill: cards up please, "a", jenny mccarthy. >> they kind of look alike. >> bill: they kind of look alike. their eyes or something in the eyes. there is resemblance. >> bill: i don'tlike.now if peoe look at jenny mccarthy's eyes but who knows. >> and here is sally fields. >> i haven do had an orthodox career and wanted to have your respect more than anything. first time i didn't feel it. this time i feel it and i can't deny the fact that you like me

captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. big week for the republic party, that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. tomorrow is the wisconsin primary, consensus leading rick san form by seven points. voters will castings ballots in maryland and washington, d.c., governor romney is ahead in those places. if the governor does win wisconsin it's pretty much all over. the republican party can shift into trying to diminish president obama. latest gallup poll has the president beating mitt romney head to head 49% to 45%. with all the problems governor romney has had in the primaries, that lead should be much bigger. the fact that mitt romney is so close to an incumbent president is very telling. truth is the polls will not matter until the first debate next fall. that is where the election will be won or lost. three debates will be heavily watched, of course. and if mr. romney can hold his own, is he likely to defeat barack obama. that's because mr. obama's leadership is in question

, bill. >> bill: me, i'm going to be in that we then. i wanted it and i talked from the very beginning. i don't think it's we a certain segment of the population. let's get on to the fear quosht as shelby scott talked about. you basically have in chicago and we have a report coming up right behind with you jesse watters black teenagers in chicago fear other black teenagers in gangs. that's who -- whose doing the murders. you can't sit there and tell me they don't fear them. the good black kids fear the bad black kids. >> well, i don't know if i make distinction between good and bad black people. >> bill: wait wait wait. the bad black people are the ones that murder, okay? so if you don't have it clear, now you do. so the good black kids. >> i don't make the same distinction do you. >> bill: good black kids fear the killers who are running wild in chicago. that's a fact. there are no white gangs running wild in chicago. that's not who is doing the homicides. >> okay. well, two things. i don't know anyone who doesn't fear killers irrespect

>> bill: roll the tape. >> bill: that is right. a >> bill: that is right. w. bush werewolf. are they running out of ideas? one of my friends produced it. >> this is hardest quiz. i've never seen anything like this. >> coming up the great american news quiz. academy award edition. we have classic clips to show you upcoming. greetings from the windy city of chicago. people here sure are friendly but some have had a hard time understanding my accent. so to make sure people get every word of the geico savings message i've been practicing how to talk like a true chicagoan. switching to geico could save you hundreds of dollars on car insurance... da bears. haha... you people sure do talk funny. geico®. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >> bill: greatm news quiz. academy awards edition. nominations were announced this week. i have not seen any of the movies and that is spooky because i used to review films in college. melissa mccarthy was no, ma'am nate for her role in "bridesmaid." >> bill: brilliant performance. actress's c

>> bill: okay. years of james bond movies. the news quiz will ask you about it. and then a cartoonist insults fox news. we'll deal with it in pinheads and patriots. coming right back. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight, the great american news quiz, the james bond edition. here now fox news anchor martha maccallum playing for will goodrow. "fox & friends" guy steve doocy representing marie from columbia station, ohio. if you would like to win great prizes sign up on bill o'reilly.com. 50th anniversary of james bond movies. do women care about james bond. >> women love james bond movies. >> bill: they love him. there have been seven of them do they love every james bond movie. >> we will find out. >> bill: you are engaged here? >> absolutely. >> bill: doocy was worried this may be too macho. >> is he a handsome man james bond. we like that. >> bill: we are looking out for you maccallum. the james bond franchise as i said has been entertaining movie fans for 50 years. ♪ [explosion] >> i admire

, bill. >> bill: me, i'm going to be in that we then.d it and i talked from the very beginning. i don't think it's we a certain segment of the population. let's get on to the fear quosht as shelby scott talked about. you basically have in chicago and we have a report coming up right behind with you jesse watters black teenagers in chicago fear other black teenagers in gangs. that's who -- whose doing the murders. you can't sit there and tell me they don't fear them. the good black kids fear the bad black kids. >> well, i don't know if i make distinction between good and bad black people. >> bill: wait wait wait. the bad black people are the ones that murder, okay? so if you don't have it clear, now you do. so the good black kids. >> i don't make the same distinction do you. >> bill: good black kids fear the killers who are running wild in chicago. that's a fact. there are no white gangs running wild in chicago. that's not who is doing the homicides. >> okay. well, two things. i don't know anyone who doesn't fear killers irrespective of w

by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the talking points memo about rick santorum's campaign will be later in the dick morris segment because we have breaking news tonight in the trayvon martin case. just a short time ago, florida prosecutor angela corrie announced that george zimmerman has turned himself in and will be charged with second degree murder of trayvon martin. >> today we filed an information charging george zimmerman with murder in the second degree, a capious has been issued for his arrest. with the filing of that information and the issuance of a capious, he have a right to appear in front of a magistrate in seminole county within 24 hours of his arrest and, thus, formal prosecution will begin. >> bill: right now mr. zimmerman is being held without bond. that could change after the magistrate hearing. with us now criminal defense attorney joey jackson and from miami alex ferrera, a former judge in the sunshine state and host of the syndicated program judge alex. first of all,

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i give of of my free. >> bill: bill my heart? >> in my community, freely as opposed to having the government take it from me and i give it to community services and programs that i know i can be involved with. >> bill: that's not true. these studies the book study showed that conservatives give more blood, in blood drives. >> that's what i'm saying. they give in their own communities to places they know that are accountable, that they can check up on, that they can be involved with that are close to them because actually helping people matters to conservatives. for liberals, many liberals, although many are very generous they get this compassion card for being democrats for advocating taking money from other people to serve lower income groups. here's the thing, do those problems -- do those programs actually work? that's what liberals sort of let go by the wayside. >> bill: tomorrow a report on the factor about -- wait, juan, you are stepping on my promo. >> certainly. >> bill: i have eject ter button here, juan, few that again

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so -- >> -- bill. >> bill: go ahead. >> what i was going to say, bill, let me tell you today i was speaking to some folks in the department of homeland security people ha work along the border. those numbers are misleading. those apprehensions are down doesn't mean they aren't getting them. >> bill: the border fence much more extensive than it was in 2005. i can't imagine what that all of this manpower and hardware down there and they are not getting them? >> it helps. >> bill: that would mean that the border patrol would be the most inefficient force on earth if that were the case. >> it's not that they're inefficient. they have been inhibited in some cases from doing their job. look what's happened in arizona. arizona felt two years ago it needed to pass sb 1070. you know, their bill, their immigration bill which is right now in the supreme court. there is a reason for that. and as you note, there is an influx of illegal drug trade in the united states and that hasn't slowed down either. >> bill: that is one thing that i don't understand. there are narcotics on the streets of almost every

this is the "bill press show." >> bill: all right.3rd, my parting shot for today summing up what we've been talking about. if you want to see an example of the federal government totally out of control in a colossal waste of taxpayer time and money, just look today at greensboro north carolina. because in a federal courtroom down there is where the trial of john edwards gets underway. yes, today when the supreme court allows corporations to give unlimited amounts of money to political campaigns and do so anonymously, yes today when because of citizens united, individuals like foster freeze and sheldon adelson will single-handedly bankroll super pacs with millions of dollars and nobody makes anything about it, the department of justice sis trying to convict john edwards for money two of his supporters gave his mistress in 2007 and 2008. this whole trial is unsane! this whole trial is insane. why is the obama administration doing it? senator brown will be here. you better be here, too tomorrow. see you then. have a good one!

verizon. >> bill: thanks for staying with us. i'm bill o'reilly.egment tonight. last year the judge threw out the case against roger clemens. the 49-year-old clemens is charged with perjury for lying in front of a congressional committee. the feds have spent millions on the case. now the second trial is underway. here now attorneys and fox news analysts kimberly guilfoyle and lis wiehl. wiehl the author of the big new thriller "eyes of justice." the barry bonds trial $6 million. >> right. >> bill: it cost the government. 6 million bucks. >> just convicted on obstruction. >> bill: now he is appealing and all of that. now this is going to cost at least that for roger clemens. >> sure. because they are going through a second trial. >> bill: why bother with this? >> to make an example of him. that even if you are high and mighty, you are the famous player. if you go in front of congress, if you take. >> bill: you say they have to? >> i think they have to. >> there was a mistrial the first time around and they could elected to not proceed forward. >> bi

>> bill: yes, do you. the denver broncho's football team auditioning a male cheerleader. >> i'm at the denver broncho's cheerleader tryouts. i'm going to try out to be the first male broncho's cheerleader ever. it's huge. i'm excited. thrilled. no male has ever made it through auditions. i don't even know if he male made it to the auditions. >> it's an open call so anyone can show up and try out. we do base everyone on dance ability. >> when i dance, i lose myself. i used to have a sign job where i hold a sign on a street corner and i would do so many dance routines for people. >> bill: gutfeld, here is what i am surprised at that you yourself weren't at that tryout for you red eye. you didn't inject yourself into this story? >> i'm not as limber as sasha. the reason why i chose this as the dumbest thing is he was not chosen. >> bill: he didn't make it. >> he was rejected out of the 200 am casts. >> bill: he loses himself. >> we live in an era of quality where women can drive and vote and men can't cheer?

she has two houses, bill. she has bills to pay.ouses she really felt she should be able to continue collecting her check. she did not report to the state that she had won a million dollars. and it turns out that the taxpayers of michigan have a problem with that. >> bill: okay. now, you were being sarcastic for those of you watching at happy hour may not have grasped kelly's delightful sarcasm was mocking the woman. >> yes. >> bill: what is the law in michigan in the law says if you are getting entitlement money and that's the theme of this program tonight, if you are getting checks, welfare, food stamps, whatever it may be, housing subsidies and then all of a sudden you come into a windfall of money, what do you have to do. >> you have an obligation to inform. if you get a job or come into windfall of money. both happened. she got a job for five months she never reported and continued to get the checks. and she won the lottery to the tune of a million dollars. she didn't report that either. it's a failure to inform, which is a fel

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: yeah. >> bill: thanks for staying with us, i'm bill o'reilly.n the lowe's the boss segment tonight it. >> it's official, america now owes more money than the entire gross domestic product. in addition the nation's economy is growing 2.2% all of this very bad news for president obama. here now to explain it economic legend lou dobbs. why should i care about the debt passing the g.d.p.? why -- what does that mean to me? >> it means there is less money available for private investment, less money to create jobs. and we are continuing to see this government just simply subsume our private economy. >> bill: nobody understands. i don't understand it. >> let me put iten iten it conte me some concrete thing why i should care. >> if we see interest rates rise another point or two. we will see the money necessary to service the debt rise to the same level as our defense budget. we will be spending on our indebtedness the same amount as we spend on defense. >> it's all about us owing money and running up the tab. that's what it is really -- it always comes

you, what do you need. >> that's a threat. >> bill: that's a threat. >> that is a threat, bill. >> bille it goes crazy now, because 90% of americans if somebody is coming on with a gun and they have one, they are going to use it. they should be able to use it? >> on a teenage assailant. >> i don't care if he is 4 years old. the guy has got a gun on you. >> what i wrote in that op. ed is i do not understand where george zimmerman is coming from because i have been staring down the face of a gun and he wasn't. george zimmerman was not mugged at gunpoint. >> bill: you did as an american you are entitled to do it. i'm glad they caught the guy and got your stuff back. i wouldn't have done that. if i had a gun and somebody pulled a gun on me and i could have shot them, i would shoot them. that he was the law in earthquake in. that's self-defense. >> what if they were fleeing like trayvon or my assailant. >> he wasn't fleeing he took your stuff. >> he took the stuff and left. >> bill: thanks for coming in. we will check in with you from time to time on this case. is mitt romney in the pocket o

>> bill: yes, do you.broncho's football team auditioning a male cheerleader. >> i'm at the denver broncho's cheerleader tryouts. i'm going to try out to be the first male broncho's cheerleader ever. it's huge. i'm excited. thrilled. no male has ever made it through auditions. i don't even know if he male made it to the auditions. >> it's an open call so anyone can show up and try out. we do base everyone on dance ability. >> when i dance, i lose myself. i used to have a sign job where i hold a sign on a street corner and i would do so many dance routines for people. >> bill: gutfeld, here is what i am surprised at that you yourself weren't at that tryout for you red eye. you didn't inject yourself into this story? >> i'm not as limber as sasha. the reason why i chose this as the dumbest thing is he was not chosen. >> bill: he didn't make it. >> he was rejected out of the 200 am casts. >> bill: he loses himself. >> we live in an era of quality where women can drive and vote and men can't cheer? what is wron

i give of of my free. >> bill: bill my heart? >> in my community, freely as opposed to having the government take it from me and i give it to community services and programs that i know i can be involved with. >> bill: that's not true. these studies the book study showed that conservatives give more blood, in blood drives. >> that's what i'm saying. they give in their own communities to places they know that are accountable, that they can check up on, that they can be involved with that are close to them because actually helping people matters to conservatives. for liberals, many liberals, although many are very generous they get this compassion card for being democrats for advocating taking money from other people to serve lower income groups. here's the thing, do those problems -- do those programs actually work? that's what liberals sort of let go by the wayside. >> bill: tomorrow a report on the factor about -- wait, juan, you are stepping on my promo. >> certainly. >> bill: i have eject ter button here, juan, few that again

i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. is the entitlement society strangling the u.s. economy? that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. we are about to give you amazing stats about america becoming a welfare state. we'll start with the overall picture. during the last two years, 09 and 10, the feds spent more than a trillion dollars on programs to help poor americans. most of that money goes to what is called means tested entitlements. that's direct assistance, medicaid, food stamp, child care, nutrition, checks to needy family, things like that. the recession, of course, driving some of that assistance. but since 1970, means tested entitlements in america have increased. ready? an unbelievable 5500%. right now an astounding, 150 million americans live in households that receive some kind of government assistance. it's almost half the population! social justice, the primary reason the usa is changing into an entitlement country, like the western european nations. politician

by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the talking points memo about rick santorum's campaign will be later in the dick morris segment because we have breaking news tonight in the trayvon martin case. just a short time ago, florida prosecutor angela corrie announced that george zimmerman has turned himself in and will be charged with second degree murder of trayvon martin. >> today we filed an information charging george zimmerman with murder in the second degree, a capious has been issued for his arrest. with the filing of that information and the issuance of a capious, he have a right to appear in front of a magistrate in seminole county within 24 hours of his arrest and, thus, formal prosecution will begin. >> bill: right now mr. zimmerman is being held without bond. that could change after the magistrate hearing. with us now criminal defense attorney joey jackson and from miami alex ferrera, a former judge in the sunshine state and host of the syndicated program judge alex. first of all,

>> thanks for staying with us, i'm bill bill o'reilly. it legal segment tonight, three hot topics, we begin with the supreme court hearing tough challenges to the immigration law this week. here now attorneys and fox news analysts kimberly guilfoyle. there are four things in play that the feds want arizona to stop doing and they are. >> identified identification. probable cause to stop them. verify they are here legally. >> they don't want the arizona cops to be able to ask for i.d. >> well, it's the first thing. second of all they can make an arrest without a warrant just with probable cause. that's different. okay. and they make it a state crime not just a civil beef to be in the country illegally. >> bill: they don't want arizona to have the power to pass a law that says it's against arizona law if you are here illegally because that's a federal thing. >> right. that you have got to carry documents all the time with you makes it a crime if you don't carry documents. >> bill: so everybody in arizona has to carry some kind of form of i.d

>>can't, bill. your needs are going to be. what kind of materials are going to be using. what kind of skills and people you're going to need to employ. that's done in the long-term. the long-range thinking. and the republicans have shown us in congress they're not capable of long-range thinking anymore. >> no. >> even the chamber of commerce, right? the chamber of commerce and the afl-cio both supported the highway bill. >> absolutely. it was a no-brainer and there are many other pieces of legislation out there. we went through the fight on the faa re-authorization which certainly had great job-creating provisions in it to help this nation not only keep up with the pace of technology for air travel and air cargo but many other things, the way we navigate planes, the better utilization of our airports, et cetera, all good things. but they fought over just because they wanted to bash the unions a little more and take it out on employees. the republicans no longer have, in their program in their agenda

bill: that's like squishing an ant. >> hello. >> bill: you know how we do it. >> yes. >> bill: this ist. >> bill: watch him cheating because he looks over. here is question number one, mary tyler moore, a huge success as you know, with audiences and critics. >> mary, you have to be there. one, you're my friend. two, you will be neutral. three, if you're not there, i will rip her face off. [ laughter ] >> i'll go with you. >> thank you, mary. >> hi, mary. >> hi, ted. >> hello, phyllis. >> bill: now, mary tyler moore showed won an impressive 29 awards during its run. record was eventually broken by what other sitcom? cards up, please. and the answer is, d, frazier. off to a roaring good start. aren't we? question number two, the episode of i love lucy where lucy goes to the hospital to have they're baby. one of the most watched programs of all time for a tv series. >> why, lucy, you are really serious about this. >> well, i am but ricky isn't. we argued all the way home about it on the train. you know how pig-headed he can be. >> well, hooray for pigheaded ricky. >> bill: okay, now, 72%

bill: i'm bill hemmer.sed the president of the very same thaeupbg that president obamthat president obama accused him of. >> tphraoeulflying around in air force one, and everybody telling you you're doing such a great job, you might become out of touch with that. martha: let's bring p bring in brian york. a fox news contributor. do you believe that the primary season is over? >> that is pretty much the case. you have the president and mitt romney attacking each other and you have mitt romney and rick santorum ignoring each other. mitt romney's victory speech in wisconsin, he won wisconsin, maryland and the district of columbia. the victory speech was all about the general election, didn't say anything about santorum. and santorum's speech he chose not to appear in wisconsin, or maryland or the district of columbia. he was in pennsylvania. it was a pennsylvania campaign speech, didn't mention anything about the fact that he had just lost three primaries. right now the people paying attention to each other ar

the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. president obama and the poor. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. all the polls say the same thing. americans who don't have a lot of money, overwhelmingly support the president. that's because since mr. obama has been in office, welfare spending has increased 41%. right now about $1 trillion every year is spent on entitlements. medicaid, the biggest situation but there are 126 antipoverty programs on the books. back in 18964, president lyndon johnson declared unconditional war on poverty. at that time the poverty rate was about 19%. since then, america has spent roughly $15 trillion fighting poverty. yet, right now the poverty rate is above 15%. so you can see all the money has not done much to combat the problem. the reason is that poor education and poor parenting are driving dessubstitution. high school dropouts are almost four times more likely to end up in poverty than those who graduate. children growing up in single parent

bill o'reilly. ♪ will be all right ♪ >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on.ight. >> we are very honored today to have the man currently holding the office and aspiring for it for another term. >> bill: a big shot at the associated press drops all pretense by lavishing praise on president obama. there is no doubt anymore. a supportive press wants the president reelected. >> how have you enjoyed being part of the mainstream media for the last hour? >> oh, organized chaos. >> i have to be honest with you, getting up this early was a lot harder than i remember. >> bill: so who won the battle of the divas on morning television? sarah palin or katie couric? we will have an opinion on that. >> i like oprah. she is one of my neighbors. >> bill: dennis miller has some advice for oprah on how to succeed in cable television. caution, you where 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. the battle for america begins and that is the subject of this evening's