. ♪ sing polly wolly doodle all the day ♪ ♪ hah >>> mixing the class room with the classifieds.week the school committee voted to let its elementary schools sell ad space on the back of school notices. parents know just how much paperwork comes home with their kids. now in peabody, the back of the permission slips will look like this. covered with ads the size of business cards. dave is a committee member and told me the schools need money, but his fellow board member is worried about what ads in school could lead to. >> my biggest fear was an overall fear of overcommercialization for the students, especially at the elementary level. and we had been going through several different proposals about advertising some of the things we're advertising signs in the athletic complex. and this came up, dave brought this suggestion in. and it did seem to be a better compromise compared to some of the other ideas we were being presented with. >> but beverly, you're not the only one who feels this way. the campaign for a commercial-free childhood gave us this response. it is not hard to imag

gloom be on your way ♪ ♪ though you haven't any money you can still be bright and sunny ♪ ♪ sing polly wollyh >> time now for hits an d >> paul: time for hits and misses of the week. dorothy? >> times square bomber was sentenced to life prison not before getting an opportunity to speak. this is exactly the reason that people like feisal abdul-rauf and the 9/11 ksm should not be given federal trials in court. what should have been done is say, yes i understand the sentence, given shackles and marched away. >> paul: james? >> a british environmentalist group that put out a film showing a teacher pushing a button and blowing up students who didn't care about reducing carbon emissions. they say it is comedy, but it is not funny. it is horrible. depraved fantasy of totalitarian violence. >> bob woodward the latest to float the idea that hillary clinton should replace joe biden on the 2012 ticket which was denied why would hillary clinton jump on the deck of a sinking ship. i would missed by end. i think the obama presidency has gotten brim grim. it would be unbearably grim if biden weren't around

gloom be on your way ♪ ♪ though you haven't any money you can still be bright and sunny ♪ ♪ sing polly wollye day ♪ ♪ hah >>> time now for hits and misses of the week, kim, first to you. >> hits of china's wealthyest man invited to a dinner which warren buffet and bill gates tried to convince chinese tycoons to pledge some fort yoouns to charity. he says he's skeptical of fill lan thopy and thinks real charity is creating jobs for so. it would be a great to see a businessman talking about how fundamental capitalism is to the general well being of average people. we can use more guys like this in the u.s.. >> the communist capitalist. okay. >> this is a big miss to your federal government at work which is forcing new york city to change the fonts and move some capital letters to lower case letters on street signs costing the state of nork $26 million. it's a bush regulation. >> why are they doing that? >> good question. in that millly second before you turn, you can read this font better, quicker. >> all right. >> and steve? >> paul, this morning i must choked on my cheeroes. i saw the postal

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. ♪ sing polly wolly doodle all the day ♪ord... ♪ hah i took emergen-c.ms of vitamin c and energizing b vitamins, it made every performance count. emergen-c. feel the good. >>> all right. time for a little water cooler action. the bible says thou shalt not steal. right? somebody didn't get the message and actually stole three air conditioners from a church in jacksonville, florida. the congregation responded with a sign, and it says, "to whomever stole my air conditioners you're going to need them" it's signed, god. >>> and hailing a cab is so 20th century these days. in san francisco, you can summon a limousine way tap on your iphone these days. once you sign up with this cab company. a special iphone cab than shows you where the limos are and aloys you to actually contact the driver of your choice. you can follow the driver's progress as he or she heads to your location. the trip is automatically billed to your credit card. so, so easy these days. you don't have to do this -- anymore. jut do this. >> no getting splashed, as the cars, you can just -- sha

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. ♪ sing polly wolly doodle all the day ♪ ♪ hah >>> something in our new poll today caught my eye, iart people to help me sort it out. let's check in with kathleen parker and new york's former democratic governor and attorney general, elliott spitzer. their new program "parker/spitzer" at the top of the hour. looking through the polling today, the question is who has been a better president, barack obama or george w. bush? the american people are now split on this question, 47% for barack obama, 45% for george w. bush. just a year ago it was lopsided 57% to 34% in obama's favor. i think that says it all about what the past year has been for this president. >> wow. that's really something. i'm shocked. but, you know, i think i'm shocked. i think it's more a referendum on obama than it is on a reappraisal of george w. bush. >> we're shocked by it. we're living with pinpaul politician. last year we were uphoric action and we need to get some grounding, take these things seriously, not throw people overboard so quickly. the president has to govern, let's give him some support. >> we did

gloom be on your way ♪ ♪ though you haven't any money you can still be bright and sunny ♪ ♪ sing polly wolly♪ hah >> bill: , race is getting nasty. andrew cuomo -- >> most people consider a smear. >> i want to know why you sent you're goons after my daughter. >> what does this have to do with your charge against cuomo? do you have the evidence or not. >> no fingers, don't poke. >> this guy is the attorney general of new york and you are mistalking to him. you are his bird dog. you send another goon to my daughter's house and i will take you out, buddy. >> you will take me out. >> yeah. >> how are you going to do that? >> watch. >> are you threatening me? >> bill: with us now fox news anchor geraldo rivera. sounds like you. >> fridays with the people o'reilly. do you have any white people on this show? >> bill: i think leslie and dana were on this show. aren't they? >> bill: shows you the diversity of the factor. >> very diverse. >> bill: for people who don't know karl palladino, is he a multimillionaire. >> developer. >> bill: takes no garbage from anybody. won the republican nomination basi

. ♪ sing polly wolly doodle all the day ♪ ♪ hah >>> we're calling this program "bullying: no escape"son. it's because the taunts and jeers that used to be limited to places like schoolyards and locker rooms now follow today's kids around 24 hours a day. everywhere they go, everywhere there's an entire online social scene that your kids are using that you probably don't even know about. your kids could be the victim of these websites or could be doing the bullying on these websites. maybe have you heard about one called formspring or topix or 4chan or myyearbook.com. these are some of the sites experts tell us they see the most cyber bullying on. with me dr. phil mcgraw, justin patchen, co-director of the cyberbullying research center. justin, you say the biggest site is formspring? >> formspring is maybe the most recent site that a lot of parents just don't know about in terms of what it's about and why kids are interested in it. >> what is it? >> it's basically a social networking site where users have the ability to ask questions to those who have profiles. one of the key features

gloom be on your way ♪ ♪ though you haven't any money you can still be bright and sunny ♪ ♪ sing polly wollye day ♪ ♪ hah ♪ why can't you just let it be i'm all right ♪ >> crystal bowersox, "american idol." you would think the worst anyone could ever call her would be runner-up but she was called far worse in high school. she was bullied for the way she looked, dressed, how her classmates perceived her to be or how they wanted to paint her. she hasn't forgotten the pain of that. it's important to point out she made it through, and i'm glad she's here with us. tonight i also want you to meet daniel harrison, a tenth grader from kalamazoo, michigan. daniel used to be on the other side of this equation. i say used to be. he was a bill, taunting some of his fellow classmates for years. also with us, dr. phil mcgraw and rosalind wideman. what would people say to you in school? >> i got a lot of different things. i guess i'll start off by saying i had a chaotic home life, and that carried over into school with me. in the hallway, a lot of the -- i don't want to single anyone out, but, you know, ju

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