[ laughter ] and sure, obama was actually just a law school classmate of raddatz's husband julius genachowski who raddatz divorced in 1997. but what woman doesn't love doing favors for her ex-husband's friends? [ laughter ] so clearly the debate -- the whole thing is meaningless until ryan wins. point is, everything about obama is suspicious. unfortunately, not as suspicious as it used to be. in the good old days, we had a new obama scandal every week. he was a secret muslim; wasn't born in america; doesn't have a birth certificate; and was trained by joseph stalin, jeremiah wright, and general grievous. [ laughter ] [cheers and applause] it's like we've run out of ways to make obama seem like a menacing "other." until tonight. folks, the report you're about to see is so explosive, that if you're not wearing socks, please go put some on. because i don't want to blow your feet off. [ laughter ] jim? i've been a fighter pie lot. i've run for president. i've been an astronaut. i've fought a minataur. i've seen things that would blow your mind. but this changes everything. on tonight's edition of

the controversy stems from her 1991 wedding to julius genachowski. he invited all of his class mates from then the harvard law review, including barack obama. obama later was called upon or genachowski later was called upon by obama to head up the federal communications commission. now, raddatz, who divorced genachowski in 997, said she never had a friendship with barack obama, and the commission on presidential debates says it was aware of the wedding guest list when raddatz was considered for this position, in fact, the wedding also included a member of the george w. bush administration. abc news sent out a scathing response saying, quoting here: this reckless and pitiful attempt to attack martha in the lead-up to the vp debate is nothing more than a desperate my for web traffic and attention when what the american public wants is a thoughtful and probing debate on the great issues of the day. still, if you read the blogs, many are questioning martha raddatz's objectivity. again, she divorced the head of the fcc back in 1997. she has since been mar