look, the $16 muffin. do we all know what the $16 muffin is? >> jon: what?'t even know what the $16 muffin is. >> jon: what neighborhood do you live in? what makes a $16 muffin? >> this is great. i'm glad. look... >> >> jon: all right. >> $16 muffin. brock this story last week on "the factor." you were otherwise occupied, making your little wise remarks. not reading what's happening. they had a bunch of conferences for pinheads, the federal government, and they ordered $250 muffins at $16 apiece. >> jon: that's a lot for muffins. >> yeah! and you know what, i paid for the muffins. >> jon: i understand that. >> and so did you. >> jon: i understand that. are you familiar with wall street? >> no. [laughter] >> jon: because there's this idea... >> is that run by the federal government? >> jon: no, it's not. >> not yet. >> jon: no, it's not, but interestingly enough, they had a little problem that added up to what i believe is more than, what's $16 times 250 muffins? so capitalism also finds itself going astray sometimes and wrecking our economy. if you believe w

[cheers] >> how about the $16 muffin day? do you know about the $16 muffin? do you know about it? yes? no? maybe? have big conferences, the department of justice, swarngy hotel. >> coffee and muffins. >> bill: muffins 16 bucks. come on, get an $8 muffin, all right? >> bill: not too dumb. >> he had no idea what you were talking about. >> bill: like stewart last week. >> that's because they have no problems with government spending because to them that's their charity. they don't have the to spend the money as long as the government is spending it. >> bill: you say. >> i was surprised you didn't say go for the $2.50 muffin. >> bill: i was being facetious. gutfeld made a good point shocking in itself. >> oh, wow. >> bill: letterman is a devoted liberal. he wants more government spending, so does stewart. jon stewart. and neither of them know about the $16 muffin. >> the weird thing is you obsess over these muffins. >> it's a metaphor. >> no they are small. you don't like small things. >> get the $16 muffins at the baby gap. here is the third one. roll the tape. >> 9% of the american

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. >> do we all know what the $16 muffin is? all right., you don't even know what the $16 muffin is. >> what neighborhood do you live in? [ laughter ] who makes a $16 muffin? >> this is great. i'm glad. >> all right. >> bill: $16 muffin, broke the story last week on the factor. you were otherwise occupied. making your little wise remarks. not reading what's happening. >> bill: that was a genuine. i was there. i know what it was. did you pick up anything interesting there? >> what i love is that you are playing the audience. you are endearing them to you. you talk to the audience. you are charming more likeable to audience have dominance crews, palms down. here, palms down. fingers aren't tensed. >> your hand is side. hand is loose. no tension here. >> bill: look at the finger. finger is up though. >> finger is like this. >> finger is bent from getting killed. >> when we look at the next clip you will see a very big difference. you can hear the inflex of your voice is different. >> bill: what you say is i'm completely dominating stewart. >>

so it is misleading to say that the muffin cost $16.at much. so mostly false. >> okay. the muffin came with a lot of other things, right? >> exactly. exactly. of course that's what the truth-o-meter's all about, putting things in context. >> all right, bill. thanks. we appreciate it. as always. we like to hear from you. today's "talk back" question, should a candidate's religion matter? tyler says, look up the definition of a cult. a as a leader of a christian faith, you should not be judging others. practice what you preach. more of your responses next. >>> you've been signing off on today's "talk back" question. should a candidate's religion matter? carol has your responses. what are folks saying? >> varying responses. this from nick -- no, no, no! i would much rather see a candidate who didn't have a religion than one who bases their political views off of their religion, off their religious commitments. our fournding fathers didn't have this problem, therefore no political candidate should ever have this problem. julia -- yes, a can

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