times" reporter, professor of media and public affairs at the george washington university, margaret carlson, columnist for bloopberg news and washington editor of "the week" magazine and matthew contenenti author of the book "the persecution of sarah palin." steve roberts, sarah palin deserve this avalanche of coverage or she boosts ratings and web traffic? >> sarah palin in many way this is is unusual that the main stream media, the lamestream media. she's created her own network, pnn, palin news network. robert gibbs the white house press secretary saying she sits up there in alaska, issues. the tweets and we have to react to her. >> we don't have to react to her. we choose to. >> he feels he has to react to her. pnn is not really the story. she's really oprah. you know, that's what she's become with her own tv show, her own book. i mean, except oprah is not running for anything except queen. >> it helps to have fox news as a platform and margaret carlson i want to play sound from a radio interview that governor palin did with the bob and mark morning show in anchorage asking about the cu

lauren green in for margaret hoover tonight and "fox & friends" gretchen carlson.you going to go through this full body scan deal? what are you going to do. >> i don't care about it that much. my 4-year-old on international flight back right after the christmas day bomber was given a full patdown i thought that was extreme. but, let's face it, americans are been clamoring for better security at airports so we don't have to keep taking off our shoes and traveling with liquids. now we appear to have it and now people have a problem with it that's upsetting to me. >> bill: you yourself and your family full body scan thing doesn't upset you. what about the muslim deal? this is getting into theology and getting into the belief system. you know, the muslim women not going to go in the machine. not going to get patted down, that means they don't fly. >> well, you know the council on american islamic reels cair has put out advisory to women who wear the full head scarf basically saying to them before you are patted down be sure to tell the t.s.a. that they can only pat dow

she is in for gretchen carlson this evening and here in new york margaret hoover.ame old story overreaching government try obligor protect the kids against irresponsible parents because as we although millions of parents don't care what their kids eat and the school, you know, a lot of their cafeterias have all kinds of sugar stuff and the kids go for that pennsylvania is trying to restrict it? >> i don't know. i hate to be a spoiler here. but what actually happened is the pittsburgh tribune review reported a story that the state of pennsylvania was going to ban sweets in the classroom. and then they ended up retracting it. >> bill: they retracted it? >> it was sarah palin that took sarah palin on -- if you want to make a larger nanny state play. there is are plenty of place does that. example in san francisco is good and new york is good. mayor bloomberg has banned transfat in every restaurant in new york city. private sector. big government regulating private sector. that i do not support. >> bill: you don't? so you say that the government should say forget it if