up next, scotty mccreery and runner-up lauren alaina. concert series on "today" brought do you by toyota. >> at just 17 years old scotty mccreery is the youngest winner in the "american idol" history and the first to take the title. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. >> i feel like i know you so well. a few months ago you were a high school student in north carolina, bagging groceries on the side, watching sports, eating chips on the couch, playing baseball. has this sunk in? >> oh, no. this is pretty wild for me. it's -- it's not going to sink in for a while, i don't think. >> are you used to people sinking, we love you, scotty? >> it wasn't like this before. >> so truth be told, throughout the entire competition, you were never in the bottom, so was there a moment when you said to yourself, i think i'm going do this? >> i don't know about that. it was about top five or top four that i looked at my mom and said, mama, i think i'm going to learn this thing. i knocked it up a gear. >> that's when you knew you had picked it up. e

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. >> scotty mccreery! [cheers] >> it doesn't matter your background. competition. the apprentice.ty tv by the way, i think the explosion of reality tv is a reaction to liberalism scripted. >> bill: good book. thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> bill: will the left-wing media apologize over coverage of anthony weiner and sarah palin covers paul revere. bernie goldberg is >> bill: thanks for staying with us. i'm bill ol o'reilly. joining us now from asheville, north carolina, to analyze, the purveyor of bernard goldberg.com mr. goldberg. as we have been discussing breitbart, the guy who broke, this andrew breitbart who will be on hannity coming up next really crucified by the left wing smear machine on the net. some bleedover into msnbc and the other liberal precincts. now, what is the liberal media have to do because of weiner's confession? >> well, they are going to cover the story as they would cover any hard news story at this point. there is no more covering for anthony weiner after this confessional that we saw today. so, that's what they are going to do. but wha

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. >> meanwhile, scotty mccreery's second single has apparently been leaked on line.listen to it. >> ♪ summertime get away she's the one that keeps me awake at night and i've never ♪ >> just last week, the "american idol" winner's song "i love you on big" became billboard's highest charting deb debut for a new artist. >> we know he had to come back after winning and take his math final. he admits to shady behavior on line but new york congressman anthony weiner won't be stepping down. >> last friday night, i tweeted a photograph of myself that i intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in seattle. once i realized i had posted it to twitter, i panicked. i took it down and said that i had been hacked. i then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake. >> so will congressman weiner survive and stay in congress or will he be forced to resign? let's turn it over to our radio rumble. >> joining us from orlando, mark brunier, from san francisco robert thompson and here in new york, loose cannon. for you,