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difference between tyranny and salvation would come down to whether the nice lady who looks like katie couricthe nice lady who look like bonnie hunt. [laughter] you know what's interesting... [applause] people from the midwest, no matter their political stripe, never look like [bleeped]. they just look like nice people. i know there must be [bleeped] out there. they just never look like them. that's the problem here with us in new york. we're very nice, but we just all look like [bleeped]. [cheering and applause] anyway, back to the fate of free peoples everywhere. >> and the republican candidate, alberta darling, has been declared the winner by the associated press with six contests at stake, the democrats needed to take at least three of those races to take control of the wisconsin state senate, which they have now failed to do. >> jon: well, there you have it. at i don't have a watch eastern time, it appears that the fight for the people's house, the people have been soundly defeated by other people. boy, you got to feel bad for the people. look, everyone fought a good fight. it was a real

it's no longer -- it's not just the katie courics that get the multimillion dollar contracts to host the evening news but nobody gathers around the tv every night with their families every night to watch the news. if they do, it's not my generation. it's a different world, we have d.v.r., people's lifes are busier and more hectic, the internet you can watch whenever it's convenient for you. but i think people are tired of it too. i do feel like there's a deliberate effort to dumb television down for the audiences. and i don't think that's what they want. i think that they want to be spoken to like they have a worthy audience, like they're on the same intellectual level as you. that's why wit and satire is funny because they feel like they're being challenged, as well as entertained, as well as learning something, not just hearing this mind-boggling casey anthony going on and on and on. >> tool time. what is tool time? was that your name for it? >> tool time, i have to admit, i don't know if i'll get sued for this, but i definitely watched, what was the show with tim allen with the ki

and you have the other networks that are hiring people like katie couric and paying them millions, inspiring other people because of it. . and that is failing for them and that's because there's either a void in the sense that regular mainstream news isn't news any more. you don't learn anything from it. you want to learn something you go on line and you can read the facts, you can read the details. be it on an actual newspaper website or be it on some type of a blog. but other than that it's just boring because it's mindless. so then you have fox news which knows how to whip people up and play upon their emotions and i think that's where my show is trying to really find a new nish for people and that same nish that i said that john stewart andstein cobeert manage to fill for people that they want a logical argument, they don't need to be scared all the time. they know what's going on but they want it to be funny, they want it to be sar castic. they want you to talk to them about issues that matter to people these days. the cold war is long over. for my generation that doesn't matter. we're

you saw our new colleague katie couric, she lost her husband, she lost a sister.old it together. >> nobody else did. >> i know, i know. >> thank you, george. >> all your former colleagues at espn where you are so loved talked when i was there about watching your fight and watching this, it's just so nice to be a part of your life now. it's such an honor. it's such an honor. >> thank you. >> you really honestly looking at you in the video, you are the face of the fight and of the strength that it takes to get through such a challenge and it is such a pleasure to sit next to you every day. >> we are done with crying nowow >> yes, we are. >> we are going to party. we got lmfao coming in the next half hour. >> should we get up and dance? ♪ hey ♪ party rock is in the house tonight ♪ ♪ everybody just have a good time ♪ ♪ >>> a police standoff has dagged on nearly 24 hours continues at a san rafael though tell. an joys stretch of 580 has reopened. police put a piece of steel over the window where the again man had been able to over like 580. he fired shots over the freew

and because it's no longer it's not the katie couric's, i'm sorry, that people like her that get these multi-million dollar contracts to host the evening news, but nobody gathers around the tv every night when their families anymore to watch the evening news. and if they do, it's definitely not my generation. i think you can blame some of that on the fact that well, this is a different world. we have dvr. everyone's lives are so much more hectic and so much busier and you have the internet you can watch whenever it's convenient for you, but i also think people are tired of it. and let me go back to, you know, a point that i was making earlier there is that i do feel like there is this deliberate effort to dumb television down for the audiences and i don't think that that's what they want and i think that they want to be spoken to like they're like they're a worth audience, like, they're on the same intellectual level as you. and that's why wit and satire is funny because they feel like they're being challenged as well as entertained as well as they're learning something rather than jus

he said about katie couric, we did loose viewers. couric was frustrated.ded to spread her wings. it was not the right vehicle for her. >> i talked to jeff after that press conference and he did sort of indicate that she felt limited by the hard news environment. i think we all rulz that once jeff factor took overrunning cbs news they would be an even morhard news organization. they would turn more away from the kind of features orientation that she shines in. it made sense they would part company. >> scott pelley much more of a hard news approach, and fager trying to promote his new anchor. >> eric deggans, thanks for stopping by. >>> how do you write a book about a descent into madness when you've lost your memory? ned zeman joins me next in the studio. something deliciously different from nature valley. thin squares of crispy granola layered with creamy peanut butter or rich dark chocolate flavor. lightly toasted for a delicate crunch. 90 calories. 100% natural. and nature...approves. ♪ granola thins. from nature valley. nature at its most delicious. but

myself to be interviewed by anybody in the center or left in the media, not going to talk to the katie couricsthis world this time around, avoid tricky questions exposing me as a full mooner? can you do that in the republican campaign today? avoid regular reporters and just go to the locals? >> well i think we're going to see a test to that this time, chris. there are, rick perry is not the only one. a lot of candidates have come to believe it's possible to try to get around the filter in a way by talking only to friendly press. that's not just local reporters, also ideologically driven television, the bloggers, others who are friendly press. there are people who think that this is the first election we're going to be able to get away with that. i continue to think it's going to be very hard to do, and that maybe can you get away for it for a number of months, ultimately, the republican party, the mainstream voter will want to hear these guys in big settings talking to mainstream reporters and answering questions. i think city that's true. i hope it's true, but we're going to see. >> and ingra

includes testimonials from other survivors like sheryl crow and sharing her personal story of loss, katie couricupportive. >> reporter: later, the powerful voice behind the song, martina mcbride, stopped by to say hello. you can feel your passion behind this. >> well, it just touched me, that song. i just knew -- it was just an immediate reaction. i thought, i have to sing this song. >> reporter: ultimately it's a song about things that matter the most. for me, faith, family and friends. >> oh, wow. you're already tearing up. >> yeah, i know. >> for good reason, though. that song is called "i'm going to love you through it." it's very, very special. >> it's going to touch anybody who knew somebody who has cancer or knows somebody who has cancer. >> and that's all of us. really, really is. >> martina mcbride will take us to the break. check it out. ♪ >> i was diagnosed in may of 2006. >> april 15th, tax day. >> when you're diagnosed with cancer, everybody around you is diagnosed as well. >> at that point you realize how much someone means to you. >> all i wanted to do wawato live to raise my chil

let me get in a fight with katie couric. they don't want to get in fights with me. you punch up, you don't punch down. >> host: pennsylvania, you are on with ann coulter on in depth. >> caller: i want to thank you for your conservative sharing especially on liberal campuses. my question is why aren't we as conservatives touting the benefits of not only fiscal conservative policy like balancing the budget is good for every family and every state but also the social ones. you mentioned the graphic sex education and how much harm it is doing. there are so many social ills linked to sexual behavior especially among our youth especially black and minority populations like the number one cause of poverty is single female headed households. blacks have 70% of out of wedlock births so as a percentage of the population have more poverty. the s t d stuff. we gear hiv day and blacks have many more of all spvs linked to sexual behavior. abortion rates. we know that blacks account for 14%. they have over a third. planned parenthood killing over a third black babies and fatherles

no, please, let me get in a fight with katie couric. i'll do that. you punch up, you don't punch down. >> host: erie, pennsylvania, go ahead, laura. you're on with ann coulter on booktv's "in depth" program. >> caller: hi, ann. i want to thank you for your conservative sharing especially on liberal campuses. why aren't we touting the the benefits of not only fiscal conservative policy which, like balancing the budget is good for every family, every state, but also the social ones? you just mentioned the graphic sex education and how much harm it's doing. there are so many social ills linked to sexual behavior, especially amongst our youth, that harm -- especially black and minority populations like the number one cause of poverty is, um, single female-headed households. blacks have 70% of out-of-wedlock births, so they're going to as a percentage of the population have more trapped in poverty. the std stuff, we hear of hiv day and blacks, sadly, have many more of all stds link today that sexual behavior. abortion rates, we know that blacks account fo