ellen ratner. >> thank you. good to be here. >> bill: ellen is also a head of a project of her own.world. goats for the old goat. you're the old goat? >> i started it for my 60th birthday. that was a year and a half ago. >> bill: i wasn't going to ask you. >> born in 1951. >> bill: proud of it. >> i'm proud of it. >> bill: we'll find out what goats for the old goat is about and how you can help out as well. and you gotta say, these are good times to be in talk radio aren't they? >> it is a wonderful time to be in talk radio. we have been at the forefront as talk radio people of every issue from guns to violence to our financial situation with the fiscal cliff, you ask a talk radio host like you, bill press and everybody like you and particularly you are so on the edge of all of this. >> bill: yeah. and tom hartman our good friend here in washington d.c. ed schultz, stephanie miller, i hate to start naming some names because i'll forget others i ought to name but you're right. we're out there every day. your talk radio news every day. shows all around the country. >> way too long. >>

and radio talk show host, and jim pinkerton conservative magazine and ellen ratner, bureau chief of talkio news service, i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. if you want to know how broken, our partisan our congress and government has become, all you need to look at is this one day in washington where tonight we're no closer to compromise on a deal to avoid that show called fiscal cliff. >> it was also warm in the nation's capital despite the chill between democrats and republicans. >> president obama dug in his heels insisting on tax increase or higher earners. >> and they both agree he that the other's proposals are ridiculous. >> just a sampling of the coverage this week as the media keep a watch on what's done or not to avert the fiscal cliff. >> jim shall the overriding theme in the media seems to be that president obama won the election and therefore should do what he wants and the media seems to forget na john boehner and everyone else won their elections as well and they're a co-equal branch of government. >> i think the media loves the story of president obama's comeba

you can get it from this old goat, fox news contributor, ellen ratner. she told know say that. is not an old goat. nor are you, ellen. but you said when you turned 60, you felt like an old goat. >> i felt like an old goat, so i started to start this charity called goats for the old goat. these are for former slaves that were taken as war booties in the war between the north, which is primarily arab, and the south that is christian. we bring them back. we give them a goat. we also give them a sack of hope and people can purchase a goat and we're the only animal group that you can actually get your picture with the goat, you know that person gets the goat. i know dave ramsey was talking about charity. i take the photo, so i make sure that person gets that goat and you get a photo. >> brian: peter, you're an example of somebody who bought goats. >> i did. i bought 50 or 60 goats and the thing about the goats is that they provide life for these people in sudan. >> brian: how? >> food, milk, cheese. it's life. now ellen is also saying we need to expand it for the two sandies, storm s

joining me is talk radio news service, ellen ratner and mike slater. thank you for joining us.s it to both of you. what do you expect the president will say this evening? >> i'm not sure what to expect. i think we need to hear a message of love. it can start with our families. there are 20 homes in connecticut with empty beds and lonely toys and wrapped presents. there are 20 grieving families that want more than anything to see their kids for one more hug and shower them with more love. i think the message of encouraging more active and engaged parents across the country. that is the message we need to hear that all the time. >> heather: they'll be two groups of people he will be speaking to, privately he will speak to the victims and families but when they listen to him when he speaks to the country they will be listening to something, the rest of us will be listening to something. what does he need to do? >> in m respects he shouldn't even speak. i think he should be there and not necessarily talk. it's true that the rest of the country is waiting for him to talk. obviously