>> what was with lincoln chafee?ad more nervous ticks than a baghdad parking valet for god's sake. he is such a p.c. narcissist no doubt he wants christmas trees to be called lincoln logs. lincoln chafee is just a small man making grandiose pronouncement about minor issues in an effort to look larger than life. that's all that he is. >> all right. now, blagojevich, getting hammered. even though we asked the court for mercy. 14 years and he will -- in a federal time got to do 85% of it so he is 54. we will see him when he is 70 years old. what do you think? >> 14 years for what? i'm sure blago goes back home tonight thinking i'm getting 14 years in the big house for essentially many of the same things that barack obama finally got four years in the white house for. this is the coin of the realm in chicago. i can't believe. bill, wasn't i watching you the other nightenned had you a story on megyn's law? trying to get a 10 year minute mum for child molesters in illinois? blago is a bit of a political scum bag. i think m

lincoln chafee. a couple of weeks ago chafee had the audacity to invite americans to a "tree lighting." or, judging by the reaction, a jesus tipping. >> it's a christmas tree. keep christ in christmas. >> for folks who are watching right now and thinking that's cray shirks i should call the governor. we've got his phone number. >> it has lights and ornaments and a decoration on top, it's a christmas tree. >> for the past eight years before this governor, your former governor in fact did call it a christmas tree, right? >> he did, gretchen. >> jon: yes, and while that's not true... (laughter). who cares? it makes them angry. see, the previous republican governor's 2009 invitation to this very same ceremony also uses the offending phrase "holiday tree lighting!" i mean, somehow that not akin to wiping your ass with the shroud of turin? i mean, really. (laughter) that's a rhetorical question, obviously. now, who cares if the story is true or what it actually means? the important thing is is to allow thi

like in rhode island where governor lincoln chafee is chafeeing my ass by referring to the state house evergreen as a holiday tree. oh come on, a holiday tree? what other holidays have trees. are we going to offend the shinto winter bon zy festival? yes, christmas is under attack in america and it's not just holiday trees, it's store greeters saying happy holidays. and hotels naming themselves holiday inn. it's christmas inn, read the constitution. (laughter) so i've got to say christmas too, i guess this is the blitzkrieg on grinchitude. (cheers and applause) jess cuss really do that stuff. folks, our first gaggle of grinches are large department stores, macy's, nieman marcus, lord & taylor and j.c. penney have stopped offering free gift wrap. according to nieman marcus, more and more people like to wrap their own packages or are happy with a beautiful box. or really? you want to swhee comes in a beautiful box? (laughter) >> that man needs a gift basket from clinique. nation, i am a red blooded american male and there are some things i will never learn. what a duvet is. the names of m

who on this earth can explain rhode island governor lincoln chafee. every year the ocean state puts up a big tree in the public square. this year some folks wanted the governor to call it a christmas tree. but to quote john belushi, no! governor chafee insists it's a holiday tree. >> lawmakers voted to call this a christmas tree. but the governor calls it a holiday tree. >> i have my own religious views but as a government official i want to keep it separate. >> you call it a holiday tree. >> yes, i am. >> amazingly dumb. off the charts stupid. governor chafee must know that the christmas tree display began in germany in the 16th century for the specific purpose of providing celebratory decorations for december 25th. the day day of jesus' birthday honor. we asked him to appear on the factor to explain history. predictably is he hiding under his desk. here is the question. maybe the staff can relay it to the governor laying on the floor. what exactly is the rhode island tree representing, governor? arbor day? whether he knows it or not, chafee has offe

governor chafee loses., this opens a big opportunity for you. >> i can go up there and write hot checks? >> bill: no, i'll have waters kidnap the governor and you just sit there and reverse everything he's done. >> doesn't that make other people watching this accessories? if he goes missing -- >> bill: they never watch this program. we'll work on it. martha, thanks very much. lincoln, thanks for coming in. pinheads and patriots patriots a moment. cnn anchor mocking fox news for a first, big thank you to everyone buying christmas and hanukkah stuff. that means even more money donated to charities, and of course our military charities, so check all of them out on bill o'riley.com. if you wanted signed, get the orders in now. and if you been a bill billoreilly.com premium member, great gifts. the mail. emily: >> richard, rock lynn, california, why win newt gingrich gets testy, he i applauded for it but romney is held to a different standard. >> please stop using dennis miller. >> steven, sampson, las vegas. my

governor chafee loses.ns a big opportunity for you. >> i can go up there and write hot checks? >> bill: no, i'll have waters kidnap the governor and you just sit there and reverse everything he's done. >> doesn't that make other people watching this accessories? if he goes missing -- >> bill: they never watch this program. we'll work on it. martha, thanks very much. lincoln, thanks for coming in. pinheads and patriots patriots a moment. cnn anchor mocking fox news for veve [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of people archoosing advil®. [ regis we love to play tennis. and with it comes some aches and pains. and one way to relieve them all is to go right to the advil®. tennis is our game and advil® has become part of our game! [ male announcer ] take action. take advil®. spark card from capital one. spark cash gives me the most rewards of any small business credit card. it's hard for my crew to keep up with 2% cash back on every purchase, every day. 2% cash back. that's setting the bar pretty high. thank

>> lincoln chafee? my look-alike? take a look.h portions of new england. it has brought a lot of rain over the last 24 hours and some snow in some spots. so still kind of a challenging go up in portions of new england. maine in particular. current temperatures, it's cold. look at that, right now, it's freezing in san antonio, texas. it's 25 in el paso. albuquerque has 20. chilliest spot on this map would be missoula, montana at 11. warm up across the southern third of the u.s. of a, 50's and 60's for the most part from raleigh down south. then you'll have 40's from the big northeastern corridor cities back across the central plains. 20's continue in portions of the northern plains. only two dozen today in rapid city and in caribou, maine, the high there should be 31 degrees. now, let's talk about the mob and soccer, mr. kilmeade. >> a major controversy in world soccer. f.b.i. investigating allegations the russian mafia rigged the bids for the world cup. you may remember the u.s. entered a bid to host the games in 2022. we did unbe

here's a statement from lincoln chafee.e term "holiday tree" is a continuation of past practice and does not represent a change, of course, on my part. i would encourage all those engaged in this discussion whatever their opinion on the matter to use their energy and enthusiasm to make a positive difference in the lives of their fellow rhode islanders. what he's telling people to do is if you're steamed about this, go out and volunteer for something. i understand you are steamed about this and in the future you may not donate a christmas tree to the governor. >> that's correct. we have donated trees for probably the last six or seven years. we support representative doreen costa in herursuit and we will also donate a tree to doreen costa and we encourage her. we back her 100%. >> sure. yesterday when we had her on the program, we encouraged people who are not happy with this decision to contact the governor of the great state of rhode island. so folks, if you didn't get the phone number yesterday, his phone number is 401-22

as president, roosevelt chafed against but largely deferred to the intensely partisan politics of his era. out of office he started to think and then write and speak more exiplicitly about the uniqe role the president could play in bringing the flation together. the first sentence true about president obama he hoped washington would be different. but as president, couldn't you insert obama, chafed against but largely deferred to the intensely part pan politics of his era? >> i would say the president came into an environment in which we face really tremendous economic challenges and so he had to balance against what he wanted to achieve as a vision for us as a united america with the real live situation of having to rescue us financially and fiscally over this last couple of years. in addition to trying to play out that vision. i think part of what excited me today about hearing the president was also a message about what kind of economy we could grow that could work for all americans, one based on research and development and innovation and technology and all of the things we know wi

s favorite christmas warrior went on a tirade against rhode island governor lincoln chafee's decision to put up a holiday tree rather than a christmas tree not only was chafey ambushed by o'reilly's little sidekick jesse waters he was also but he also had to endure quite a tongue lashing by grouch. what is the debate. what's the debate december twenty fifth is christmas there's no debating that i don't get it that's just an easy way to try and push people aside and follow the p.c. mode that we have fallen into my the way the governor defended the exact argument that the people against him are using yeah back when you went to elementary school we said the lord's prayer in school and slowly but surely things have changed and maybe christmas more be a federal holiday coming up if it continues down this path is that more and maybe santa claus will be thrown in jail and maybe rahm rudolph will be turned into glue who could be the next casualty of the war on christmas it's unclear how long until fox news realizes that america is home to all sorts of religions and not just christianity sadly

. >> reporter: many of us chafe at the rule about turning off electronic devices, but wendy stafford,a private flight attendant training course, says passengers have to obey the rules whether they like them or not. >> the flight attendants are there for the safety of the passengers and not just to serve cookies and drinks. >> reporter: if you don't obey, flight attendant can you have removed, even if you're a movie star. today, baldwin's publicist said the actor was unfairly signaled out. other passengers were using their electronic devices. but baldwin himself may now be trying to end this war. today, he deactivated his twitter account. dan harris, abc news, new york. >> and tonight we learned baldwin has posted a letter of apology to passengers for the delay he caused. >>> when we come back tonight, the blockbuster drug shrinking tumors, and you'll see it for yourself here. tumors you'll see it for yourself here. have given way to sleeping. where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep. and lunesta can help you get there, like it has for so many people before. when taking lunesta, d

steve doocy does not look like lincoln chafee. steve doocy is a very handsome man.ook like governor lincoln chafee but people are very upset about this so what we're planning on tuesday is having a flash mob at the holiday -- well, he's saying a holiday tree lighting but it's a christmas tree lighting and gretchen, what's funny is you have the gamut of people. you have the older people that they, to them, want to still sing "oh tenenbaum" and you have kind of younger crowd like the jersey shore crowd. they think the words are yo, christmas tree. your branches are so slamming. i feel it's hit a chord with people on a governor that for whatever reason is trying to lock up the atheist voting block but it's a real insult for those of us that believe in christmas. >> so this flash mob, what are you going to ask people to do? it's going to be tuesday, what time? where should they show up? >> well, part of it has to be a little bit of a secret. that's the success of flash mob but it's going to be right at the governor's tree lighting ceremony. he's calling it the holiday t

attempts by secular progressives to diminish the national holiday the governor of rhode island lincoln chafee refuses to acknowledge that the huge tree the state of rhode island puts up at christmastime is indeed a christmas tree the governor believes it is a holiday tree christmas is not a word anyone should be ashamed of it is the law of the land your member of congress not allowed to wish you a merry christmas on the taxpayer dime well how about a bit of tolerance towards folks who respect christmas traditions about ninety percent of us. that's right apparently fox the war on christmas is so important that it's even more important than our real wars you know the ones where americans fight and lose their lives according to media matters over the course of december bill o'reilly spent roughly forty two minutes covering the war on christmas and approximately thirteen and a half minutes covering the wars in both iraq and afghanistan so it's almost a third less so not only was the war on christmas more important it was much more important and it's not like there hasn't been news worth covering

presently she says promoting your appearance attacked rhode island governor lincoln chafee for calling the state's christmas tree a holiday tree given that there are people in rhode island whose taxes paid for that tree who are not christians and that the tree was originally a pagan symbol that predates jesus it was originally lit to bring back the sun on the shortest day of the year is the right in our era tax bizarre. well i mean first of all i have no problem with someone saying i'm a i'm a conservative christian i have no problem with saying happy holidays to me because they don't know i could be jewish i could be muslim you know that they don't know what my beliefs are and i think that's actually respectful i think it's actually christian to put someone else first having said that the christmas tree decorating a evergreen in the month of december in america has never been anything other than a christmas tree you know you have to go back to about the seventh century to see when an evergreen decorated meant anything but a connection with with jesus wept at the time of st st boniface

we were calling him lincoln chafee last night. you're always now., sure i win. i say i have a news program in the morning from 9 to 11 every day as well. oh, really? it's fun as always. we have a good time. all right, so more serious stories coming up here folks. we talked about it this morning in "america's newsroom" and in the past. there are nine members of a football people who have been accused ever assault in their town foray tacking two students in their school. they are in the state championships this weekend. should those nine players be allowed to play in the game? >> the children did something wrong, and they should be punished for it, and playing sports i think is a privilege, and i think they've lost that privilege. martha: we are waiting a very big decision on that, we expect to get it shortly. bill: it could be the greatest f risbee toss ever. look at this one. everyone in the nicu, all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days. everything that you thought was important to you changes in light of having a child that ne

. >> reporter: many of us chafe at the rule of turning off electronic devices.ord who runs a private flight attendant training course says passengers have to obey the rules whether nay luke them or not. >> the flight attendants are there for the safety of the passengers and not just to serve cookies and drinks. >> reporter: if you don't obey, flight attendants can hatch you removed even if a movie star. baldwin's publicist says the actor was unfairly singed out. other passengers were using their electroning devices. but baldwin himself may be trying to end the war. he deactivated his twitter account. dan harris, abc news, new york. >> we know how you feel. let me read what aleck didn't post on the huffington post. he said the level of service on u.s. carriers has deteriorated, filthy planes, barely edible meals, cuts in jet service. he really used this incident to rant against industry and its workers. >> can we agree that flying has become miserable? >> it has become miserable. it has become miserable. if it means better security i'm all for it though. i would