RUSSERT: Tom Cole, the former head of the NRCC said, "He scored many points. He did really well." For an hour and a half Barack Obama was able to refute every single Republican talking point used against him on the major issues of the day. It was almost like a debate where he was front and center for the majority of it.

One Republican said to me, off the record, behind closed doors: "It was a mistake that we allowed the cameras to roll like that. We should not have done that."

BECK: If you're cheating on your wife, and she's got pictures of you doing it with a chick, and you're like, Honey, no, absolutely not, do you have any respect for your wife? But if you're then treating her like an imbecile -- she's got access to the information -- there's no respect. No respect, and no fear. None. She's meaningless to you. That's what we have in the president.

Impact Segment

Some snap polls following last night's address seems to indicate a small surge of support for the president.

O'REILLY: I don't care about the spin; I just want the law.

KELLY: OK.

O'REILLY: All right? I'm in Poland. I own a corporation. I want to give money to an American politician. Can I do it?

KELLY: No.

O'REILLY: And what happens if I try?

KELLY: You did -- you're not allowed. I mean, if somebody caught you, you could be prosecuted. It'd be a violation of the law.

O'REILLY: OK, so if I'm in Poland and I want to go to Disney World and I show up and I gave money to John McCain or whoever, they could arrest me.

KELLY: Yes. That's not allowed.

The Court's blinkered and aphoristic approach to the First Amendment may well promote corporate power at the cost of the individual and collective self-expression the Amendment was meant to serve. It will undoubtedly cripple the ability of ordinary citizens, Congress, and the States to adopt even limited measures to protect against corporate domination of the electoral process.

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Note: People like you are running our great country into the hands of evil doers like Obama and his evil minnions! Gleen is totally right and i do not mean that in a bad way.. He is trying to wake up normal people (of which you are not) to how we are being taken by Obama... I guess when you make history you have to know the History of this country and we do not want our freedom's taken away as Obama has in mind to do! Glenn Beck is a true patriot! You are a progressive nut!

Conservatives believe in doing whatever it takes to promote their ideas. Richard Viguerie wrote a book in 2004 called America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media To Take Power, in which he explains how the right wing used talk radio among other tools. Viguerie stresses that conservatives understand that ideological change does not usually occur over night, that it takes patience and long term thinking to build a movement.

In 1976 Rupert Murdoch bought the New York Post and it has lost money every year since, the total loss estimated to be more than half a billion dollars. In 1983, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon created the Washington Times, which has also lost money every year. Reports place Moon's losses at over $1 billion on the Times and other political media including a purchase of UPI. These money losing properties have put dozens of conservatively slanted stories onto the national radar screen, altered the framing of every important political issue, and nurtured virtually every right wing pundit who now thrive as TV talking heads.

More recently, Phillip Anschutz bought the money losing Weekly Standard from Murdoch and announced plans to invest in more conservative media and his fellow billionaire and former Republican Treasury Secretary Pete Petersen started a digital news service called The Fiscal Times.

The fatal flaw in Air America was the pretense that liberal talk radio was a great business opportunity, that progressives could have their cake and eat it too, do well and make big salaries while getting a great return on an investment.

O'REILLY: Factor Follow-up segment tonight, getting charity to Haiti. As you may know, a TV telethon last Friday raised nearly $60 million dollars, but now comes the hard part: getting the money to the people who are suffering. Now, we tried to get someone attached to the telethon to speak with us tonight. We were not successful, and that is not a good sign.

I want to be very careful in this discussion. I want Americans to be charitable to the Haitian people. I think they need it. I, myself, have given money to that island nation for a long time. We called up the telethon, which was based out of MTV, and said, Look, we just need somebody to just run through the process where the money goes, how it's distributed, what the time frame is, all of that. We've got DVD albums in play. We've got all kinds of stuff coming in.

They could not or would not supply us a spokesperson tonight. And that just worries me.

O'REILLY: I'm seeing a guy who's very, very committed to the government. To government, the government's going to solve the problems, and I'm going I don't know how that's possible. If you've ever been to the South Side of Chicago, I mean, it's a disaster, all right? It's like Haiti, it's like -- I've been to Haiti a couple of times.

I support some charities there, but Haiti just never gets better, no matter how much money you put in there because they don't have a system. And I said the government can't do it but, Obama really believes the government can do it.

O'REILLY: Check one: Very divisive issue in America is coerced interrogation of captured terrorist suspects. Generally speaking, liberals oppose it, conservatives support it. The hot button is waterboardings; and once again, it was debated by former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen, and CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour.

[begin video clip]

AMANPOUR Do you support torture? I know you do not call --

THIESSEN: It's not torture.

AMANPOUR: I know you don't call it torture --

THIESSEN: It isn't torture.

AMANPOUR: -- but the extreme pain, the enhanced --

THIESSEN: There's no extreme pain.

AMANPOUR: -- interrogation techniques --

THIESSEN: There is no -- the techniques -- there have been so many misstatements told about the enhanced interrogation techniques, comparing them to the Spanish Inquisition to the Khmer Rouge. And I have to tell you, Christiane, you're one of the people who have spread these mistruths. You --

AMANPOUR: Excuse me?

[end video clip]

THIESSEN: I'm sorry. You went to S-21, the Khmer Rouge prison.

AMANPOUR: Yes, and we saw the waterboarding there that they used as a torture technique. That's called spreading the truth!

THIESSEN: We did not submerge people in a box full of water.

AMANPOUR: That is called waterboarding, you can say in whichever way you want! You're trying to obfuscate the debate here.

In a 2005, OLC memo, Steven Bradbury, the Bush administration's deputy assistant attorney general, wrote that individuals undergoing the military's Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape training are "obviously in a very different situation from detainees undergoing interrogation; SERE trainees know it is part of a training program, not a real-life interrogation, they know it will last only a short time, and they have assurances that they will not be harmed by the training."

"I'm not a socialist. I don't begrudge people trying to make money," but that's not what the tea party is about, said Antonio Hinton of the Knoxville Tea Party. "That convention has nothing to do with the tea party movement, as far as I'm concerned."

American Majority, a leading training outfit for tea party organizers, canceled two planned sessions at the convention and withdrew its sponsorship after learning about the convention's for-profit structure and the criticisms of Phillips.

"Who is this guy? What are his motivations? And what gives him the credibility to try to step in and insert himself as a leader of the movement?" Ned Ryun, president of American Majority, said he started wondering of Phillips.

O'REILLY: Fox News had almost six times as many viewers as MSNBC primetime, five times the audience of CNN. That's not a victory. Now, most of the liberal media ignore that story, and will not tell you how dominant Fox News has become. That's why many newspapers are failing. They simply don't tell you the truth. But writing in The Miami Herald, TV critic Glenn Garvin did tell the truth.

O'REILLY: To be fair, CNN has covered the Haiti story very well. There's no question about it. And I applaud the CNN correspondents who have done such a good job. But our Fox News correspondents are just as good.

BECK: If you can't win the argument, you have to shout them down, you have to call them racist, you have to call them names. You have to do whatever it is you have to do."

O'REILLY: Why do you think there's a level of hatred against you and against me that there is? I mean, look, I was kidding about Bill Maher before. I don't hate Bill Maher.

BECK: I don't either.

O'REILLY: I mean, he's not my kind of guy, but I don't want to hurt him. I don't, you know -- I'll make fun of him. But these people want to hurt us. They want to hurt us. Why do you think that is?

BECK: I think because that's the only way you can win the argument. Look, I mean --

O'REILLY: But they can't win the argument.

BECK: No, I know that. So what do you do? It is -- I mean, it's why Woodrow Wilson put thousands of Americans behind bars. If you can't win the argument, you have to shout them down, you have to call them racist, you have to call them names. You have to do whatever it is you have to do. If that doesn't work, the revolutionary way is as Robert Creamer -- as I pointed out on the show.

Here's a guy who went to prison for embezzlement -- has designed the progressive blueprint that Obama is using. David Axelrod says that. In a newspaper article when I expose him, he says that we must do whatever we have to do, whatever it takes, to shut him down. Well, what do you think that means?

O'REILLY: Yeah. No, OK, I think that's a good answer. There's no other reason for it -- other than jealousy.

By 47 percent to 35 percent Obama bests former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The president has an even wider edge over former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (55 percent to 31 percent), and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (53 percent to 29 percent).

Hi folks, tonight the O'Reilly Factor will not be seen, instead we will air the Hope For Haiti Telethon, so everyone who watches my show should watch the telethon and make a donation.

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Subject: Comment
Friday, January 22, 2010
From: Sal Contarino - [email protected]

Hi Steve,

You should rename your website "Steve Senti loser .com"

It doesn't matter how you "spin" it. The fact is people are not morons. No matter how much you want to blame Hannity, Malkin, Beck and O'Reilly, the people have the ultimate say so. The problem with you liberal bastards is you think people are morons who have to be led by intellectuals (which you probably think you are) and have their decisions made for them. Your wasting your time. Spend your time making the argument without the name calling. No, they are not perfect people. But you liberal bastards think you are - Oberman, that dike bitch Rachel Maddow, Tingly legs Matthews, etc. It's not Hannity, Beck or O'Reilly that brings down Obama, the democrats, the global warming crowd, Code pink, ACORN and the rest of you. It's the truth..... Those guys are just the messengers. People figure things out quick enough and realize who is full of shit and who isn't. Air America-bankrupt. Soon to follow MSNBC, GE (that might be a stretch!), ACORN, etc. Obama hasn't done a single thing right since he came into office. He is an inexperienced, clueless, hopeless idiot surrounded by college professors and ultra liberals. He thinks he is an FDR and JFK rolled into one. He will never be known as a great President. He will go down as the worst president in history- surpassing Jimmy Carter, who has held the title for 35 years. I could go on and on....but it not worth the effort. Someone once told me "Never argue with an idiot". Sal Contarino

O'REILLY: The far left is trying to say that Fox News doesn't care about Haiti, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Writing in The Los Angeles Times, Fox News hater James Rainey says: "CNN does it right in Haiti, but Fox drops the ball. O'Reilly even devoted the first quarter of his hour-long program to the quake, focusing mostly on his concerns that U.S. aid will be lost if it can't be kept away from thugs and Haiti's corrupt leaders."

O'REILLY: "Check" thinks it is disgraceful for these Kool-Aid drinkers to exploit the suffering in Haiti by attacking their political rivals. We think it's hateful and demonstrates how low these people are.

One final note. Last week, "The Factor" at 8 p.m. destroyed CNN and MSNBC in the ratings. We tripled them in audience. Once again, the folks know who's telling the truth, and the folks have made the call.

By the way, Fox News, our coverage on Haiti has been terrific. Our correspondents have been great.

A new CBS News poll finds that a large majority of Americans say they do not want former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to run for president.

Specifically, 71 percent say they do not want the former Republican vice presidential nominee to run for president, while 21 percent say they do want her to run.

When the results are split out by party, 56 percent of Republicans say they do not want her to seek the office and 30 percent do. Meanwhile, 88 percent of Democrats do not want her to run. Among independents, 65 percent do not want her to run and 25 percent do.

The poll also finds that more people view Palin negatively than positively and that her book tour did not improve the overall views of her.

CARLSON: Are you concerned about the money in your 401(k)? Who's not, right? Well, you may want to make a call to Massachusetts and get some people out to the polls? That's because our next guest, and a friend, says that your portfolio could look much better if Scott Brown wins Ted Kennedy's vacant Senate seat. Who's that friend? Stuart Varney is here.

VARNEY: Morning, Gretchen.

CARLSON: All right. So if Scott Brown wins --

VARNEY: Yep.

CARLSON: -- our 401(k)s are going to benefit?

VARNEY: Well, it's possible. Think of it this way: If Scott Brown wins, I mean, that is a revolution in Massachusetts politics, and it sends an enormous message, a very powerful message to the Democrats in Congress and to the White House that, "Hey, we don't like your domestic economic policy. Reverse course." So, if Scott Brown wins, that message gets heard, and you've got 10 months before the next big election. Time to reverse the tax, spend, and borrow and deficit story that we've had for the past year. Investors would love that. Your 401(k) could do well because of that.

STEVENS: That was 1962. The Council on American-Islamic Relations wasn't around. You know, there wasn't evil or an intent in that song except for fun.

O'REILLY: Right.

STEVENS: And, you know, as a kid I read Arabian Nights. I was a big fan of the whole culture. And so I wrote this song as a comedy song just for fun.

O'REILLY: So 48 years ago, 48 years ago in this country we could make fun of Arabs. We could make fun of people in a general way, and certainly, Ahab was the Arab was a general parody. But now, we can't. What has changed in America?

STEVENS: I think we've gone overboard with the political correctness just like so many other people think the same way about that. And I don't know. We've got to come out of that, I think.

BOLLING: The Obama administration certainly likes to spend your and my taxpayer dollars. Recently -- check it out -- they spent $700 billion on TARP, $787 billion on stimulus. $180 billion is either spent or lent to AIG. Don't forget the $115 billion -- these are all B's -- billion to Fannie and Freddie. $83 billion to cars. We're not going to see a dime of this. Don't forget the $1 trillion on health care, cap and trade, et cetera, et cetera.

HOLLAND, Pa. - 1-14-10 -- The Tea Party movement ignited a year ago, fueled by anti-establishment anger. Now, Tea Party activists are trying to take over the establishment, ground up.

Across the country, they are signing up to be Republican precinct leaders, a position which comes with the ability to vote for the party executives who endorse candidates, approve platforms and decide where the party spends money.

A new group called the National Precinct Alliance says it has a coordinator in nearly every state to recruit Tea Party activists to fill the positions and has already swelled the number of like-minded members in Republican Party committees in Arizona and Nevada. Its mantra is this: take the precinct, take the state, take the party - and force it to nominate conservatives rather than people they see as liberals in Republican clothing.

In a battleground district outside Philadelphia, Tea Party activists are trying to strip the local committee of its influence in choosing the Republican nominee to run against Democratic Representative Patrick J. Murphy.

We are a constitutionally conservative organization that has come together for the expressed and sole purpose of encouraging and educating Citizens in how to take part in the political process by becoming a Precinct Executive.

1-14-10 -- Citing a more "hopeful state of world affairs" in relation to the twin threats posed by nuclear weapons and climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) is moving the minute hand of its famous Doomsday Clock one minute away from midnight. It is now 6 minutes to midnight. The decision by the BAS Science and Security Board was made in consultation with the Bulletin's Board of Sponsors, which includes 19 Nobel Laureates.

In a statement supporting the decision to move the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock, the BAS Board said: "It is 6 minutes to midnight. We are poised to bend the arc of history toward a world free of nuclear weapons. For the first time since atomic bombs were dropped in 1945, leaders of nuclear weapons states are cooperating to vastly reduce their arsenals and secure all nuclear bomb-making material.

And for the first time ever, industrialized and developing countries are pledging to limit climate-changing gas emissions that could render our planet nearly uninhabitable. These unprecedented steps are signs of a growing political will to tackle the two gravest threats to civilization--the terror of nuclear weapons and runaway climate change."

"A key to the new era of cooperation is a change in the U.S. government's orientation toward international affairs brought about in part by the election of Barack Obama. With a more pragmatic, problem-solving approach, not only has Obama initiated new arms reduction talks with Russia, he has started negotiations with Iran to close its nuclear enrichment program, and directed the U.S. government to lead a global effort to secure loose fissile material in four years."

AXELROD: Rove has some impressive campaign victories to his credit. But given the shape in which the last administration left this country, I'm not sure I would solicit his advice. And given the backhanded advice he offered, I'm not sure he was all that eager to help.

Of all the claims Rove made, one in particular caught my eye for its sheer audacity and shamelessness -- that congressional Democrats "will run up more debt by October than Bush did in eight years."

The day the Bush administration took over from President Bill Clinton in 2001, America enjoyed a $236 billion budget surplus -- with a projected 10-year surplus of $5.6 trillion. When the Bush administration left office, it handed President Obama a $1.3 trillion deficit -- and projected shortfalls of $8 trillion for the next decade.

During eight years in office, the Bush administration passed two major tax cuts skewed to the wealthiest Americans, enacted a costly Medicare prescription-drug benefit and waged two wars, without paying for any of it.

To put the breathtaking scope of this irresponsibility in perspective, the Bush administration's swing from surpluses to deficits added more debt in its eight years than all the previous administrations in the history of our republic combined. And its spending spree is the unwelcome gift that keeps on giving: Going forward, these unpaid-for policies will continue to add trillions to our deficit.

This fiscal irresponsibility -- and a laissez-faire attitude toward the excesses of the financial industry -- helped create the conditions for the deepest economic catastrophe since the Great Depression. Economists across the political spectrum agreed that to deal with this crisis and avoid a second Great Depression, the government had to make significant investments to keep our economy going and shore up our financial system.

Despite Rove's assertion, it is widely accepted that the difficult but necessary steps Obama took have helped save our economy from an even deeper disaster. And while Rove conveniently ignores that it was President Bush -- not Obama -- who signed into law the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailout for banks, the Obama administration's rigorous stewardship added transparency and accountability that have cut the expected cost of that program by two-thirds.

There's an old saying that everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts. The next time Karl Rove would like to offer us some advice, I'd urge him to take that to heart.

GALLAGHER: Sometimes we conservatives shoot ourselves in the foot - people should not take an earthquake and use that as an opportunity to criticize a sitting president. And we shouldn't be doing it. The White House is doing plenty with which we can find fault; we don't need an earthquake to beat up Barack Obama.

O'REILLY: We need all the levity we can get in this country - it's a very funny song and you do it very well."

LIMBAUGH: What I'm illustrating here is that you're a blockhead. What I'm illustrating here is that you're a closed-minded bigot who is ill-informed. And if you had listened to this program for a modicum of time you would know it. But instead you're a blockhead. You're mind is totally closed. You have tampons in your ears. Nothing is getting through other than the biased crap that you read.

IMUS: You know, I'm not sure whether sometimes I'm ambivalent about whether I support the death penalty or not. I guess I do if I didn't have to do it, but in his case, I'd pull the switch on him myself. I mean he should be put to sleep. How does that contribute anything? It's insanity.

Subject: JANE SKINNER ON LAST NIGHTS PROGRAM
Date: Thursday, January 14, 2010
From: Bill Touey - [email protected]

BILL,

THIS VIEWER IS VERY UPSET WITH LAST NIGHT'S PROGRAM WITH JANE SKINNER. HER DEFENSE OF JEFF ZUCKER IS RIDICULOUS AND MADE NO SENSE. PLEASE DO NOT HAVE HER ON YOUR SHOW -- BRING ON THE LADY LAWYERS, THEY ARE MUCH BRIGHTER AND MAKE A LOT OF SENSE.

NANCY TOUEY

O'REILLY: Well, there's no doubt the poll numbers are not good news, doctor. And I think there's a terrorism component here as well, that President Obama's reaction to the underwear guy was kind of slow. And there's a perception growing among people who are not committed to President Obama, Independents, maybe conservative Democrats as well, that the guy is just not handling the job properly. Am I wrong?

CAROLINE HELDMAN, PH.D.: Well, first off, I think it's important to note that a majority of Americans did like the way that he handled the terrorist possibility on.

O'REILLY: There's one poll says that. There is one poll. That's fair. That's -- but I don't believe that for a second, but go ahead.

O'REILLY: Very slick. That was one of the slickest pieces of propaganda - and I say propaganda because it is. It's designed to make President Obama look bad by a group that opposes the president.

In the atmosphere, large rivers of air travel roughly west to east around the globe between the Arctic and the tropics. This air flow acts like a fence to keep Arctic air confined. But recently, this air flow has become bent into a pronounced zigzag pattern, meandering north and south.

If you live in a place where it brings air up from the south, you get warm weather. In fact, record highs were reported this week in Washington state and Alaska. But in the eastern United States, like some other unlucky parts of the globe, Arctic air is swooping down from the north.

FIORE: The death threats keep coming this fine morning. I guess the Tea Party crew is determined to have "death panels" one way or another.

Another aspect of the rabid criticism is that NPR should not be funding my anti-Tea Bagger cartoons with taxpayer money. But alas, NPR does most of its villainous work using sponsorship, pledge drives and good ol' fashioned Capitalism!

A tiny one to two percent of their yearly funding comes via grants from crazed Socialist organizations like the National Science Foundation, CPB and (gasp!) the NEA.

After all is said and done, the amount of taxpayer money that changed hands because NPR posted "Learn to Speak Tea Bag" was about, um . . . two-dollars and twenty-five cents.

STEELE: I'm not defined by this job. When this job is over I will go back to doing something else. But God, I really believe, has placed me here for a reason because who else and why else would you do this unless there's something inside of you that says right now you need to be here to do this?

STEELE: So, all the talk and chatter right now means nothing because my job is determined by whether I do those two things. And I'm happy to do it and I'm around the country. You know, I've got this period - I wrote this book before I became chairman and as, because of the clock and the calender, I wind up doing it now.

But when you read the book, it is a blueprint for how we move forward. I really believe that. It touches on those things that we lost track of. We can get them back. And we can go forward in a principled way and stand on those conservative principles and win again. We saw that in New Jersey and Virginia.

"I'm the chairman. Deal with it," GOP chairman Michael Steele tells KTRS Radio in St. Louis. Critics should "shut up, step back and get in the game," he says.

Its unfair, I think the president is focused. He also said, Obama has demonstrated "firmness and decisiveness," That's been the antidote to the criticism.

KING: All right, Congressman Paul, what about - he's in - he's in your party. What about Dick Cheney's complaints?

PAUL: Well, I think he had his eight years and he's caused a lot of trouble for our country and he perpetuated a war in Iraq that was unnecessary and wrong-headed. So I would say that it would be best he not be so critical right now. But I'm still not only critical of that policy - I think the policy remains the same and we've heard it on the show tonight already. They are going to attack us and they've declared war against us. And it's always they and them. But - but who are they?

You know, after 9/11, we found out that most of the terrorists came from Saudi Arabia. I mean we didn't attack Saudi Arabia, we attacked Iraq. So it doesn't make sense.

We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a -- service in 1998 saying that Bin Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman and other U.S. held extremists.

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.

The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full-field investigations throughout the U.S. that it considers bin Laden-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group or bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives.

Tenet briefed Condi Rice about a potentially catastrophic terrorist attack on the United States on July 10, 2001. Rice ignored the briefing, just as she and Bush both ignored the August 6 "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" memo, when Bush told the CIA briefer who delivered the memo to him that he had "covered his ass" and then went fishing for the rest of the day.

Condi Rice not only ignored the briefing, but also misled the 9-11 Commission and then lied when confronted with the evidence by Bob Woodward.

The Bush Administration actually reversed the Clinton Administration's strong emphasis on counterterrorism and counterintelligence. Attorney General John Ashcroft not only moved aggressively to reduce the DOJ anti-terrorist budget but also shift the DOJ mission in spirit to emphasize its role as a domestic police force and anti-drug force.

These changes in mission were just as critical as the budget changes, with Ashcroft, in effect, guiding the day to day decisions made by field officers and agents. And all of this while the Administration was receiving repeated warnings about potential terrorist attacks.

An assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.

The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment or who have read the final document.

The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by United States intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled "Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States," asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe.

O'REILLY: The President appealed for a united front against terror, saying 'now is not a time for partisanship.' President Obama is under withering criticism because his anti-terror policies are deemed 'too soft' by some Americans.

Since I have been critical of President Obama's anti-terror strategy, I thought about his appeal. I understand it, but c'mon! Trying KSM and the underwear guy in civilian courts is one of the worst political decisions I've ever seen. I can't remain silent on that. Also, we need coerced interrogation to fight terror - talking about a plea bargain for this Nigerian loon so we can get information is insane! The military should be grilling him right now.

CBS News has learned that up to 60,000 people have cancelled their AARP memberships since July 1, angered over the group's position on health care.

Many are switching to the American Seniors Association, a group that calls itself the conservative alternative.

RIDGE: Neither the Secretary of Homeland Security, nor can the department, act on anything until they get the information. And the Department of Homeland Security could not have revoked the visa. The Department of Homeland Security could not have put his name on the National Counterterrorism Center. So while there is obviously some criticism pointed in the department's direction and at the Secretary, I think by and large it is misplaced.

GIULIANI: I think the president has to make a major correction in the way he is dealing with terrorism because I think he has mishandled the situation. First of all, it was 10 days too late. This is something you react to immediately, not 10 days later. The president of the United States, when there is a potential massive attack on this country, which is what this guy was going to do, should have been on top of this immediately, not 10 days later, 11 days later, 12 days later.

OBAMA: Good morning, everybody. I wanted to take just a few minutes to update the American people on the attempted terrorist attack that occurred on Christmas Day and the steps we're taking to ensure the safety and security of the country.

OBAMA: A full investigation has been launched into this attempted act of terrorism, and we will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable.

OBAMA: I've ordered two important reviews, because it's absolutely critical that we learn from this incident and take the necessary measures to prevent future acts of terrorism.

OBAMA: The review involves our watch list system, which our government has had in place for many years to identify known and suspected terrorists so that we can prevent their entry into the United States.

OBAMA: Good morning. Yesterday I updated the American people on the immediate steps we took -- the increased screening and security of air travel -- to keep our country safe in the wake of the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day.

OBAMA: There appears to be other deficiencies as well. Even without this one report there were bits of information available within the intelligence community that could have and should have been pieced together. We've achieved much since 9/11 in terms of collecting information that relates to terrorists and potential terrorist attacks.

OBAMA: This morning, I spoke with John Brennan about preliminary assessments from the ongoing consultations I have ordered into the human and systemic failures that occurred leading up to the attempted act of terrorism on Christmas Day.

INGRAHAM: The number one thing he's not doing, of course, is identifying what the real threat is. He renamed the war on terror, "overseas contingency operations."

And then, in the radio address on Saturday, he said this is a war against violence and hatred. Now, first of all, what does that even mean -- a war against violence and hatred? There's a lot of violence in our own country and there's a lot of hatred in our own country. But we're not at war with that. We're at war with a particular type of enemy that frankly is goal-oriented, and their goal is to establish a global Islamic caliphate.

O'REILLY: OK, but he did say that today, he did say that, you know, we're at war with Al Qaeda.

INGRAHAM: No, not really.

OBAMA: Over the past two weeks, we've been reminded again of the challenge we face in protecting our country against a foe that is bent on our destruction. And while passions and politics can often obscure the hard work before us, let's be clear about what this moment demands.

We are at war. We are at war against al Qaeda, a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9/11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people, and that is plotting to strike us again. And we will do whatever it takes to defeat them.

O'REILLY: "Simply put, al Qaeda thugs have no rights, none. They should be killed on the spot. And they are being killed by the drones. So if they're captured, they should undergo harsh interrogation and be placed in military prisons."

A Word From The Founder;

Dale Robertson is a man of courage and conviction, a rare commodity in today's topsy-turvy world. Dale, is the Founder of the modern day Tea Party and also President of TeaParty.org

Dale Robertson, a public speaker, a family man with a wife and 5 children, has lead Tea Party rallies across America from its inception.

-- America, our allies and the world were acting as one to destroy al Qaeda's terrorist network and to protect our common security.

-- Gradually, the Taliban has begun to control additional swaths of territory in Afghanistan, while engaging in increasingly brazen and devastating attacks of terrorism against the Pakistani people.

-- Years of debate over Iraq and terrorism have left our unity on national security issues in tatters, and created a highly polarized and partisan backdrop for this effort.

-- In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit new acts of terror.

-- We will strengthen Pakistan's capacity to target those groups that threaten our countries, and have made it clear that we cannot tolerate a safe haven for terrorists whose location is known and whose intentions are clear.

-- And that's why I've made it a central pillar of my foreign policy to secure loose nuclear materials from terrorists, to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

Quist told attendees of the Wabasha County Republicans Christmas Party in mid-December that beating the radical liberals in Washington, D.C., is a bigger battle than beating terrorism.

Our country is being destroyed. Every generation has had to fight the fight for freedom. Terrorism? Yes. That's not the big battle. The big battle is in D.C. with the radicals. They aren't liberals. They are radicals. Obama, Pelosi, Walz: They are destroying our country.

While Scott Rasmussen, the firm's president, contends that he has no ax to grind - his bio notes that he has been "an independent pollster for more than a decade" and "has never been a campaign pollster or consultant for candidates seeking office" -- his opponents on the left insist he is the hand that feeds conservative talkers a daily trove of negative numbers that provides grist for attacks on Obama and the Democratic Party.

BAKER: A half-dozen former senior Bush officials involved in counterterrorism told me before the Christmas Day incident that for the most part, they were comfortable with Obama's policies, although they were reluctant to say so on the record.

Some worried they would draw the ire of Cheney's circle if they did, while others calculated that calling attention to the similarities to Bush would only make it harder for Obama to stay the course. And they generally resent Obama's anti-Bush rhetoric and are unwilling to give him political cover by defending him.

HUME: He's said to be a Buddhist. I don't think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. So my message to Tiger would be, "Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world."

HUME: I've heard a lot of terrible comments from people who claim that I was a pompous jerk who had no business mouthing off on the subject and that I shouldn't have belittled the Buddhist faith and so on. I really wasn't trying to belittle and demean.

O'REILLY: But what do you think drives the negative comments about Christianity?

HUME: It has always been a puzzling thing to me. The Bible even speaks of it, that, you know, you speak the name, Jesus Christ, and I don't -- and I don't mean to make a pun here, but all hell breaks loose. And - and it has always been thus. It is explosive. It triggers a very powerful reaction in people who do not share the faith and who do not believe in it.

Subject: Bill the great!
Date:Monday, January 4, 2010
From: marty thompson - [email protected]

Hi,

I've been enjoying Bill O'reilly now for about 6 years. I find him truthful, honest and he looks out for Americans. Especially children.

No, I know that you are not Bill O'reilly. You are some very obvious nut case who should watch Bill and then maybe you'll wise up.

Unless of course you're some brain dead liberal socialist and in that case, there isn't much anyone can do for you and that's the truth!

Martin

DOOCY: This takes us back to the days of the Clinton administration, when things like this were treated as a law enforcement issue, and not as a national security issue.

JOHN ASHCROFT, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: In Boston, Richard Colvin Reid pled guilty to all counts in the indictment for attempting to ignite a bomb on American Airlines Flight 63, and to murder 197 passengers and crew. Today is a victory for justice and for the citizens who are vigilant in the pursuit of justice.

The historians say resistance to providing more robust resources to Afghanistan had three sources in the White House and the Pentagon.

First, President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had criticized using the military for peacekeeping and reconstruction in the Balkans during the 1990s. As a result, nation building carried a derogatory connotation for many senior military officials, even though American forces were being asked to fill gaping voids in the Afghan government after the Taliban's fall.

The report also found that the invasion of Iraq was siphoning away resources. After the invasion started in March 2003, the history says, the United States clearly "had a very limited ability to increase its forces" in Afghanistan.

"In fact, the message from senior D.O.D officials in Washington was for the U.S. military to avoid such efforts."

MARTIN: Today, I am fighting for the facts about Mark Kirk. Illinois Republican leader Jack Roeser says there is a 'solid rumor that Kirk is a homosexual.' Roeser suggests that Kirk is part of a Republican Party homosexual club. Lake County Illinois Republican leader Ray True says Kirk has surrounded himself with homosexuals.

The Illinois Republican Party disavows the statements made today by Mr. Andrew Martin in his statewide radio advertisements. His statements today are consistent with his history of bizarre behavior and often times hate-filled speech which has no place in the Illinois Republican Party. Mr. Martin will no longer be recognized as a legitimate Republican Candidate by the Illinois Republican Party.