i was on a rooftop in iraq, i was on with "hannity & colmes". i'm standing next to one of those who had been in a gunfight, and i've said on the air ground combat is the worst experience a human being can can have, and combs actually debated me about it as though he knew something about it. and so in the aftermath -- and here i'm standing next to one of these hard-charging young americans who had been in that gunfight, and right afterwards we go cold on this show, but we keep the satellite up, and i start seeing the e-mails who are coming in from people watching that segment. this is an actual honest -- this is feedback in the media. quote, colonel north on tonight's "hannity & colmes" you said ground combat is the worst experience a human can have. this is not true. the worst experience any human can have is spending time with my mother-in-law. [laughter] my best friend -- this is a -- this is really -- my best friend spent two years in iraq, did a tour of duty in afghanistan, he lost his right hand in fallujah. he's met my mother-in-law. i jus

and the takeover of the republican party by the rush limbaugh, sarah palin, sean hannity types because this at some point people are going to get tired of the democrats and the only alternative is going to be the republicans and they are going to vote for the republicans. and these are the republicans then we have a real problem. we have a serious, serious problem on our hands. they've shown their incompetence and governing and that has led to some horace, and if you add on top of it this craziness, it is something to worry about. but i do think we may have a generation -- conservative ascendancy. i'm hoping that we are kind of entering a bumpy just as the conservative sentence seat was always -- did not always mean conservatives in charge of everything. i hope we are entering a bumpy kind of incidents each and what i really hope is there will be increasing attention given to this kind of political hydraulics that i've been talking about of looking at our system doing instead of worshiping the founding fathers in the take the founding fathers, do what the foun

i don't -- sean hannity is not a hard target. let's be honest that i would love to go on his show and talk to him, so that was my self publishing process. i would say if there's anyone out there who wants to self publish, just be ready to do a lot of work. the amount of editing, you can find any mistakes in my book, please let me know. but it was probably six or seven and getting process that i would encourage anyone out there that they're passionate about just go for it. don't like. >> you've got a booth here at the l.a. times festival. you have to put this together. a cost of a bitter, chevy put into it? >> all in all, it's probably been a couple, two or 3000 to get to this point. i would say that it's -- if i had to do it over again i would do it exactly the same way. i think i would prefer to self publish this book. i refer to myself as a political activist, self-publishing is part of the self-publishing activist that i would encourage those out there if you're passionate about it, you've got to go for yourself that you can't

no matter how much you pay o'reilly or hannity is a lot cheaper pain and talkshow format than having chris john aubin pour in tehran and nic robertson in baghdad and doing a reporter. i still try to have reported news that cnn be the core of it with anderson cooper, aaron brown, and many others. it is cheaper and it's easier to get a solid audience for last by having very strong opinionated talk shows. and that goes not just for cable tv but for the blogosphere as well. and the blog is here, if your pc, if you have those great one-liners, you can get a following just as surely as if you were really courageous and scraped up all of your money and went uncovered what's happening in helmand province now in afghanistan. so that worries me as well. what is the antidote to that? one of the antidote is what i talked about at the beginning of may speech. if we have a system where people could pay for it. most news would still be free, most news would be generic. opinions would be freak as they proliferate on the web. but if people get paid for it easily, you would need a whole lot of people.

that was pointed out that sean hannity was not using the arch will footage. -- the actual footage.will say that with his health care, even though it was somewhat watered-down, the train has left the station. you could not deal with this man in one year. he still kept us from going into a depression. he got us health care. he got a peace prize. if his opposition is just simply going to do all these silly things that they do to him, it's going to cost the republican party. host: a couple of stories on soldiers. we will be speaking with military service members from afghanistan this morning. that is from the times of london on line this morning. and here is a look at the open court orange county register" this morning. that is from this morning's "orange county register." go ahead, butch, good morning. host: happy holidays. the most important to me was the situation with a and bin laden when we have the mentor bora -- when we had him in the torah borah, we pulled our special forces out. this was under bush. if you go back a little ways and realize that after 9/11, the only plane that

people like rush limbaugh and sean hannity, they could crush the health-insurance bill in two days if they wanted to. i think it was a trade-off. republicans get the war and they are happy, democrats get their health insurance and the people get screwed. host: roanoke, va. caller: no matter what they decide i would like them to be able to implement whatever it is and run it honestly. right now they're not doing a very good job. maybe they can put unemployed people to work. host: dallas, republican line. your thoughts? caller: they need to start over again entirely. they need to concentrate on reducing costs, to start with, then see a thing need to increase. we are going to lose a lot of doctors in this country. ridiculous, thinking that we would add 30 million people to this health care situation. thank you. host: delaware, good morning. caller: good morning. i think it is sad but we do not all have rights to health insurance. i do not see what the bickering is about. why can we not all have health care? host: all right. bob cusack, you have been listening to the phone calls for the l

that was pointed out that sean hannity was not using the arch will footage. -- the actual footage. but i will say that with his health care, even though it was somewhat watered-down, the train has left the station. you could not deal with this man in one year. he still kept us from going into a depression. he got us health care. he got a peace prize. if his opposition is just simply going to do all these silly things that they do to him, it's going to cost the republican party. host: a couple of stories on soldiers. we will be speaking with military service members from afghanistan this morning. that is from the times of london on line this morning. and here is a look at the open court orange county register" this morning. that is from this morning's "orange county register." go ahead, butch, good morning. host: happy holidays. the most important to me was the situation with a and bin laden when we have the mentor bora -- when we had him in the torah borah, we pulled our special forces out. this was under bush. if you go back a little ways and realize that after 9/11, the only plan

people like rush limbaugh and sean hannity, they could crush the health-insurance bill in two days if they wanted to. i think it was a trade-off. republicans get the war and they are happy, democrats get their health insurance and the people get screwed. host: roanoke, va. caller: no matter what they decide i would like them to be able to implement whatever it is and run it honestly. right now they're not doing a very good job. maybe they can put unemployed people to work. host: dallas, republican line. your thoughts? caller: they need to start over again entirely. they need to concentrate on reducing costs, to start with, then see a thing need to increase. we are going to lose a lot of doctors in this country. ridiculous, thinking that we would add 30 million people to this health care situation. thank you. host: delaware, good morning. caller: good morning. i think it is sad but we do not all have rights to health insurance. i do not see what the bickering is about. why can we not all have health care? host: all right. bob cusack, you have been listening to the phone calls for the l