tony perkins on deck. [applause] >> thank you. barbara gilbert of florida volunteered as a local coordinator for one of the 850-plus tea parties that were held on april 15. like 1.2 other million taxpayers on the treats on tax day, she is concerned about the out-of-control government spending and taxing. barbara is unique. she has been diagnosed with what can be a terminal illness. she knows intimately that her time on this earth is limited, and she's made a commitment to herself, her family, her two grandsons, her community, and her country, to use whatever time she has left to serve her country. our country. america. tea party patriots with the help of people like barbara gilbert around the country are mobilizing grass roots activists who are the heart and soul of the tea party movement. we are going to be doing several things to defeat nationalized health care to promote fiscally responsible government spending. and what we're doing is taking the expertise from panelists like you guys and we're putting it on the ground with our

as champions of those standards, they are held to a higher standard, said tony perkins, president of the family research council, which promotes marriage and family as the foundation of civilization. if you are going to hold to these issues, you have to live by them. governor mark sanford admitted his affair yesterday. it was an 18-minute press conference. at >> the bottom line is this. i have been a faithful to my wife. i began their relationship with someone who started out as a dear, dear friend, from argentina. it began very innocently, as i suspect many of these things do come in just a casual e-mail back and forth, advice on one's life there and one's life here. but here, recently over this last year, it developed into something much more than that. and as a consequence, i hurt her, i hurt your wall, i hurt my wife, i hurt my boys, i hurt friends like tom davis. i heard a lot of different folks. host: some of the headlines from the new york tabloids. "run away governor." "daily news" says "buenos airhead." the question that we are asking, the private lives of public officials.

[applause] >> tony perkins. thank you. if we have some questions, i'd like to -- can i see hands up? i want to wrap up in a few minutes here. guys? question here. >> how does anyone compare today's media coverage in an environment with that in the 1990's battle over health care? >> i can speak to that. if media coverage of this debate over having the government take over health care compared to when they were taking over the health care. >> they were rooting for government takeover then and they're rooting for government takeover now. i would say -- i was talking about this. i think in 2000, the media wanted to carry it away. in 2008, they enacted the role of ensuring. barack obama won. as a result of that, thf a stake -- they own stock in this administration. so i think in that instance, as far as how they're covering the debate now thus far, they are so over the top in a way that they weren't in 1994. they were definitely for it in 1994. i think they almost see themselves in ann having an ownership role in ensuring that

we are now joined by tony perkins, president of the family research council. >> thank you, grover. we have heard about health care in other countries, but as a former member of the louisiana legislature that served on the health and welfare committee there we are one of the few states that has a state run public health care system so if we want to look and how public health care is conducted we can see that even in on country where you often get pterosaurs before you even get a bed down in louisiana. so i encourage you to take a closer look at how we are providing health care in these public systems and on country. but what has been pointed out here that is of grave concern to many americans is rationing of health care and that concern is magnified when you face the very real possibility that taxpayers will be denied certain treatments and procedures what the same time they aren't taxed dollars going to find a mother who will terminate the life of her unborn child. now at present the bills do not specifically state that abortion will be covered either in the house with the senate v