a great day for sarah palin. the president of the united states got in a real tiff with her and, like it or not, chris, she speaks in sound bites. that's the way most people -- >> pat's rule, the nixon rule in the old days and a darn good rule attack up. don't attack down. attack up. >> right. >> there's the president attacking sarah palin, which is attacking down which gives her a direct shaft of opportunity to go right at him. >> she did it here today and i must say this whole group, really, the whole republican party is attacking up. you know, i think there's a straw poll here and everything. i don't think this crowd is that concerned with picking out a presidential candidate right now because barack obama so dominates the landscape that he is the motivating factor here. he's what is on everybody's mind here. his plans, what they view as his evil intentions. his desire for world domination and socialism of government. >> here's palin, by the way, on republican slogans and i don't think you can settle back into

sarah palin behind him. it's like watching the masters. isn't it? sarah palin. there's newt gingrich at 18. way back in the pack is mike huckabee. fox news hasn't been that good for him and then pawlenty can't get out of the basement. >> pawlenty can't get out of the basement. huckabee needs a better time slot apparently. like saturday night. it's not working. >> i'm going back to the central -- tid they like you down there, howard? did they see you as the lenemy? or treat you as an independent? >> the reporters were in the back at the tables in the back. i made it my business to get up and stay away from those tables and wander the crowd. >> did you turn your back on the media and separate yourself? >> when necessary, yes. >> let me ask you the central question, can a party based upon the teed off party, not the tea party, based on anger and negativity which that woman was kind to give you that interview, say we rather run against -- say we're going to burn down the democratic house and enjoy the concession speeches and beat the hell out of them. >> that may wo

i'm not going to think sarah palin knows much about nukes. i'm not going to take her advice. >> the president who has a higher position than anybody has wider license than a former governor of alaska who resigned in the middle of her term. megyn: do you think it's better coming from him or worse coming from him. >> it many better because he' the leader of the free world who has achieved enormous results this week. megyn: he's supposed to be above that. >> this advisors decide coming back at her in her language would be effective. it's sad for america that that's the case. megyn: don't you think she thrives on that? >> the dirty little secret is they both thrive on it. and ultimately the voters in the middle are quizzical. megyn: i'll leave it with what tucker said in the last segment. i'll see whether the tone changes. i don't feel hopeful about it. >> i don't either. megyn: they had spirit, yes, they did. but today not much. pep for this high school cheerleading squad. what they are accused of doing. you may find this too disgusting for tv b

sarah palin? she probably could be a good candidate for the republican party she has all of the values the party stands for and i think she would be a good candidate. barack obama common at many americans enough fighting al qaeda or the economy but they're fighting and because who he is. they probably need somebody who looks like them and they would be happier who is a republican. thank you. >> host: do you think sarah palin will run in 2012? >> guest: i will not try to get inside her head but we believe she has good reason to and candidates find it irresistible when they have the base urging them to run so we would not be surprised. >> host: the independent line from tennessee. >> caller: listening to the most recent callers believe from brentwood that mentioned the fact she did not want to be considered a racist as an african-american who supported him three clinton i definitely would not say anything against her support of hillary clinton. she had a lot of african-american supporters i don't th

>> the way michelle is presenting the opposition here, you would think sarah palin -- sarah palin is leader of the opposition in parliament, elected, and a future prime minister. there is paul ryan, john mccain, thune -- i can give you a dozen republicans who speak the conservative point of view and we now twice have had palin and zero anybody else. she is fun, but she is not -- this is a character of liberals who think that -- [crosstalk] >> it is shi'a threat to the republican party? >> she is a celebrity, not a leader of the party. >> issue a threat? asset to democratic party question of >> she may be if she was -- if she does, she will lose. >> wait a minute. let me say a word on behalf of sarah palin, please. gov. palin is an important figure in the republican party -- gov. palin is an important figure in the republican party to the extent that john mccain, john mccain had to call her into his campaign to help save his but because he is in trouble politically. she had to go out there and bless him as being a good conservative. now, that is influenced, impact, star power. she is

i'm going to look to my joint chiefs of staff on this, not sarah palin. it was a good line. >> i'm not sure she is a front-runner yet. but you know what? i think what he did is smart. he is setting her up. he wants to promote her. he wants to engage back and forth because you know what? the more he does that, the more it helps her, and you saw the reaction she got from that republican audience. >> do you want to promote her? do you want her at the face of the republican party right now? >> notice i'm going to keep calling her the front-runner. >> it was smart play for both of them. smart play for both of them. >> a smart play for both of them. we'll score it that way. let's close with a little bit of fun. michael steele is in hot water. >> who? michael steele. the national republican committee chairman. one of his staffers goes to a risque nightclub in california and the rnc ends up paying for it. they're all down in new orleans this weekend and bobby jindal knows bourbon street is up the street. he knows what is going on and decides to have a little bit

that's so palin. >> it's the sarah palin channel. all right, not really, of course that's tina fey as sarah palin on "snl," again. just hysterical. but who wins in round in the tina/sarah battle? does sarah actually come out looking better here? >>> jon and kate together again? the unbelievable reports today that jon gosselin actually wants to do another show with his ex, kate. you know the one he's battling right now for custody of their kids? is another jon and kate plus 8 a terrible idea? >>> and speaking of terrible ideas heidi montag and her ten plastic surgeries revealed today. heidi's brand-new bikini body. nightmare or no big deal? this is "showbiz tonight" on hln, news and views. >>> now the "showbiz" news ticker. more news making news today. ♪ ♪ i examined her >> whether you won the olympic gold, play professional football or even owned your own team, those reaping the award of tonight's celebrity gala are the stars of the show. welcome to the red carpet at the sixth annual aspire gala, a tribute to life's coaches. >> w

>> if my choice was sarah palin or barack obama, i would rather have sarah palin. >> reporter: just for giggles, we report to you the results of the straw pole of 1800 activists here at the this conference. the presidential preference winner is the man who wasn't there, former massachusetts governor, mitt romney. romney and just behind romney by one vote, congressman, ron paul, triumphs of organization over celebrity. it was palin coming in third overall with gingrich nine votes behind wechlt didn't want to leave the sarah palin subject without sharing some of saturday night live. >> it seemed like the next logical step was to launch my own network. if you like fun, you are going to love our afternoon block of game shows. at 2:00 p.m., tea party wheel of fortune. at 2:30, catch me in "are you smarter than a half-turned governor." i think you will be surprised by the answer. i know i was. >> reporter: up next, our discussion with an actor and the creator of a powerful new hbo series about post-katrina life here in new orleans. ♪ 'tis of thee ♪ sweet land ♪ of liberty ♪ of thee i

sarah palin and the president. but who is right as far as the controversial new nuclear policy? >> we have already had our daughter murdered and now we have this attack. and the vile protesters set their sites on a 20-year-old student brutally murdered. we will tell you how the community is fighting back. you are about to enter the no spin zone. we begin right now. >> i am reporting tonight for bill o'reilly, thank you for watching. prepare yourselves for a supreme court show town and that is the subject of the talking points. when supreme court justice stevens announced the retirement today conservatives were sounding demoralized, some think it is a done deal president obama will get the second nominee confirmed before the fall. perhaps. but here are a few things for conservatives to consider: first, the balance of the court is not going to change since stevens, an activist, will be replaced by another activist. and here is what president obama said today about the qualification he will look for in the new nominee

they met with sarah palin. they had never met her that she was a stranger to them and asked by john mccain to talk to her in arizona before he meets with her and to talk to about what the jobs going to be like if they offered a position. one of the things in that meeting, late at night on the eve of john mccain election, was the importance of her understand even though she would would remain at a sitting governor of alaska she need to understand the focus now need to be on the national campaign. that she is basically now an appendage of the campaign, that she would probably not get back to alaska invest in some sort of natural disaster and she needed to be focused not on her home state, but on the national ticket. and the sprint to the election next. from the point of view of the senior mccain statute not live up to that. she and her husband were consumed with what was an 80% approval rate in alaska cut into something less than that. they were consumed when typing would go back to alaska and second campaign in

. >> what about sarah palin? she electrified this conference, and yet when you look outside of the totality of the country, she really stirs up a lot of negative emotions as well. do you think she's qualified to be president right now? do you think she's had the background and the experience, if she does run, to be qualified for the job? >> well, of course, i don't think president obama had the background and experience to be qualified, so the fact of the matter is, she is legally qualified and after that, it's up to the american people, just like it was for senator obama, now president obama. >> have you ever felt this sort of angry kind of country that we now -- you can feel it when you're out there. i think you see it with -- on both the left and the right. is this reminiscent to you of any period in time when you lived through as a politician? >> yeah. there's a history in this country of people being vehement, sometimes to the point of being terrible, awful, indefensible, stupid, so that's gone on in this co

it's not hard to make fun of sarah palin. she says so many things that are untrue or exaggerated or kind of willfully, as she said herself there -- or tina said -- willfully ignorant and woefully unprepared. while i love having tina fey do sarah palin's impression i'm not sure if they are really necessary in order to make her a joke. >> anna marie cox, washington correspondent for "gq" magazine. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> i'll see you back at 3:00 eastern. tamron hall picks up next. the latest on the tennessee family that sent an adopted son back to russia with nothing but a note and some candy. did that adopted mom break any laws? >>> plus, did oprah winfrey have a relationship with singer john tesh? she's got the scoop ahead. personally, i thought i was invincible. once it happened, i realized it's a different story. i'm on an aspirin regimen now because i never want to feel that helplessness again. [ male announcer ] aspirin is not appropriate for everyone. so be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an

slater, that can draw a crowd or money like sarah palin. now, if that's foaming at the mouth that might be what you call it where you come from and where you broadcast but the fact is she is a political force and right now i'd like you to tell me who is the political force greater than sarah palin in the gop? >> she is one of many forces and many voices. >> give me another name. that can compare to sarah palin in the republican party right now. newt gingrich doesn't get these crowds. mitt romney doesn't get these crowds. none of them get these crowds. so tell me who in the gop can get crowds like sarah palin because if we know we'll go cover them, too. >> ed, this is what you don't understand and what you need to understand. we don't look to them. we look to ourselves and to the constitution. we look to the declaration. it's great she gets these crowds but it's no more than that. >> okay. >> it's not that important. it's something. >> okay. >> does that make sense at all? >> stephanie, they say they look to the constitution. it naes the con

recently on cnn she came down hard on sarah palin. >> sarah palin could do no wrong for so many people. she is a female, larry the cable guy, minus the class and intelligence. so, she could do no wrong. she is a wal-mart mom that's made $12 million since july. >> bill: wow. with us now is ms. larue. what's your primary beef? i mean, larry the cable guy without the class is pretty harsh. so what is your. >> she can take it. >> bill: what's your primary beef. >> she can take it. >> bill: she can take it. she is a big girl. she makes a lot of mope. it is pretty harsh. explain to the audience how you arrived at that conclusion. >> i really arrive at it because she does portray herself like larry the cable guy. i'm your next door neighbor. i'm your sarah six pack can i drink beer with you. i don't believe she is. i believe she eats caviar and drinks champagne. i don't believe she has been larry the cable guy even though she wants us to believe that. >> bill: you believe she is a diva. do you have anything to back that up. >> she made $12 billion since july. >> bill: just because you make mo

i need sarah palin. thank you, pat buchanan, thank pat buchanan and thank you, ron reagan. >>> coming up, the new republican governor of virginia has declared april to be confederate history month. that's got a lot of people in virginia a bit upset. why are we going back? pat wants to say so hard but he has to leave. i'm sure he'll be able to get by. the first ever african-american elected president -- governor of the country, has the thought on this. he was the governor of virginia. he doesn't like this go back to confederacy stuff. you're watching "hardball" -- by the way they go south, west. the republican party's going all over the place. it's real... boring. ♪ are you up for some sandwich-kicking flavor? are you miracle whip? >>> midst of all of his republicans, michael steele has been talking up the rnc record fund-raising take last month. $11.4 million he's raised. the best march the rnc has ever had during a non-presidential year. it sounds good until you look at how the democrats did last mont

but i think it would be a mistake to underestimate sarah palin. but i'd like to say something about what congressman paul said. i really believe america is ripe for a political realignment. i think both parties are basically controlled and owned by the big powerful special interests. the political industrial complex that does business in and around washington. congressman paul knows exactly what i'm talking about. both parties basically decide what the solutions are that confront the american people based upon the different special interest groups that descend on washington. your success in minnesota, jesse, i think had a lot to do with the fact that even in the late '90s there was a real hunger for some sort of new political way. and i think america particularly now with the economy being what it is ripe for that. and i think congressman paul says it exactly right. why are we in america in so many far away places fighting wars in different places when you really have to ask yourself whether or not that is really a vital american interest. and so

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sarah palin telling the media to get it right. about the meaning of her call to arms. something nbc ignored when they aired a report by correspondent george lewis, tying ms. palin's energized appearances apriled at congressional members who voted in favor of the health care bill. she gave matt lauer a lesson and fair and balanced. i love george lewis i think he does a great job. how do you go from sarah palin giving a speech to saying did she rile up the people too much and then talk about death threats? i think that kind of reporting really is what drives people crazy about the dinosaur media. >> well, there have been some people who say that some of her comments and some of her graphics that she's used over the last couple of weeks have perhaps incited some people and maybe. >> yeah, i know they say that. >> and maybe misrepresented her thoughts and she cleared it up herself why wouldn't you connect the two. >> for the same reason that the media didn't connect the film the aassassination of george bush to any threats against the president. look, free speech is suppos

sarah palin, she will fit in right at home with this new show. she's lying about death panels and obama palling around with terrorists. she's never been big on details, has she? she didn't even care enough to interview people, yes, for her own first show. now, this show goes right to the heart of what fox news and sarah palin are all about, just throw it out there, no matter if it's right or wrong, remember, palin, always has a reality show coming out. she has no idea what reality is, yet in the midst of all of this fabrication about sarah palin, bill o'reilly is saying that we hire bad people here at msnbc? it's interesting this show is coming out now because i've been on this program for exactly a year, this is my week's anniversary, some righties thought i wouldn't last six weeks, i lasted 12 months and i'm happy about that. i hope i can do it again. if i had come on the air a year ago and told the liberal audience, who is happy i was getting a tv show that, you know, i'm going to interview this person and this person and show the videotape of

sarah palin and michelle bachmann. and in the state of tim pawlenty, who was a presidential contender and probably still is. f>> backstage, michelle and i were talking about the tea party movement. we wanted to give a shout-out t the tea party movement and do w have any today? >> i thank you then for being part of this beautiful grass movements sweeping across our country, full of common sense conservatives ready to take our country back. i thank you for being a part of this. >> no shout-out for this guy, gop michael steele. cnn contributor gop advisor alex, saying the party needed to change direction because chairman steele has lost the trust of any party's lifeblood major donors. talking about the latest gaffe on steele's watch, rnc money spent at a hollywood bondage theme called voyeurs, called itself an art club. there have been a number of other missteps since steele became chairman. let's talk "raw politics" with cnn contributor ed rollins and former bush speechwriter, david fr frum. should michael steele step do

and sarah palin was new. and part of our challenge was to talk to these national operatives in the campaign and other people around sarah palin who are literally amongst the only people we know who have had exposure to her behind the scenes to see what she's like when she's not on tv or giving a speech. they met with sarah palin two of john mccain's advisors -- they'd never met her. she was a stranger to them and they were asked by john mccain to talk to her in arizona before he meets with her. and to talk to her about what this job is going to be like if they offer her the position. one of the things they discuss with her in that meeting late at night on the eve of john mccain's selection was the importance of her understanding that even though she would remain as a sitting governor of alaska she needed to understand her focus needed to be on the national campaign. that she was basically an appendage of the campaign. that she would probably not get back to alaska unless there was some sort of natural disaste

palin. >> couric: speculation continues about the political future of sarah palin, but a new cbs news poll shows she doesn't have much support. only 24% of americans have a favorable opinion of her and even among republicans her approval rating is less than half, just 43%. meanwhile, palin address add g.o.p. gathering in new orleans today and dean reynolds reports she continued a war of words with president obama. >> reporter: she entered the hall looking and sounding like a candidate for something. do you love your freedom? (cheers and applause). >> reporter: the former alaska governor whose foreign policy credentials were mocked during the campaign picked a fight on that ground with the president. >> now we've got the makings of the obama doctrine. the obama doctrine which is coddling enemies and alienating allies. >> reporter: to loud applause, she belittled his newly announced nuclear strategy. >> with all the vast nuclear experience he acquired as a community organizer and as a full-time candidate, all that experience, still no accomplishment to date. >> reporter: it's the kind o

i'm sarah palin. good night. >> i thought she was going to say "and i'll leave the lights on for you." >> joe, program tonight. we'll have more of "360" right after this. [ tires screech ] ♪ [ sighs ] that's two for doubting. [ chuckles ] you hit like my sister. really? i'd like to meet her. [ male announcer ] the volkswagen cc. award-winning design for just $299 a month. it's a whole new volkswagen. and a whole new game. ♪ and a whole new game. what's on the minds of independent investors? let's ask. when you're trading a stock, every penny counts. i hate when the trade is done and you find out you paid more than the quote price. i want it at the price i expect... or better. td ameritrade's unique trading platform uses multiple market centers to help you find the best possible price. i like those odds. i know they can't flat out promise a better price, but they're always looking for it. they know what matters to me. every online stock trade is always $9.99. not a penny more. and no maintenance fe

it's sort of like if sarah palin does a great speech at a tea party rally, wow, america loves sarah palin. it's not exactly a crowd that tells us what fans really think about tiger woods. now as for your second question, any commentator who said that tiger woods would not make the cut at this tournament, i have to tell you, just does not know what they're talking about. this is a tournament that tiger woods has only finished out of the top 20 once. he was hitting balls all week, practicing all day, and everybody who saw him, and these were public practices, saw he was hitting the bejesus out of the ball. there's just no way anybody could have looked at this. and think about it like this, tiger has spent the last several years winning tournaments while juggling 18 mistresses. now he's playing with none of those distractions. >> you just used the word bejesus which is in opposition to some of the words, the colorful language tiger used on the sixth hole. what happened there? >> well, all right, tiger lasted 42 holes before breaking his pledge that he said would be to not to cuss anymore on

here's andrea canning. >> reporter: it was sarah palin against, well, everyone today. >> now we've got the makings of the obama doctrine, which is, coddling enemies and alienating allies. >> reporter: this week, she compared the president's nuclear policy to a kid on the playground who is asking for a punch in the face. a criticism that seemed to strike a presidential nerve during an interview with "good morning america's" george stephanopoulos. >> last i checked, sarah palin is not much of an expert on nuclear issues. >> reporter: this was palin today. >> the president, with all the vast nuclear experience that he acquired as a community organizer. still, no accomplishment to date with north korea and iran. >> reporter: and if it wasn't enough to take on the president, palin set her sights on a potential presidential candidate. newt gingrich came to the conference with his own plan. >> i think we should decide we're going to be the party of yes. >> reporter: palin took on the former speaker of the house. >> there is no shame in being the party of no. >> reporter: she can clearly fire

you dismiss sarah palin at your own peril. and when november rolls around, this year and november of 2012, we will see who is laughing then. >> laura: tammy, i want to move on to the fact that people are saying oh, well, republicans don't have a frontrunner yet. and i have been saying hey, let republicans get through november of 2010, then they can start worrying about whether john thiewn has the magnetism or chris christie, george will writing about him today or chris christie or somebody like a romney again or huckabee or palin. whoever. you have got to get through november. do you not? >> well, here is what is thrilling about it unlike the democrats, the republicans like sarah palin really have the entire field open. they don't need to rush. this is theirs to control. and just like in massachusetts, i don't know if people like your other guests at massachusetts either. something is happening in this nation that shouldn't be dismissed. the republicans have to take it seriously as well. we have rejected the politics of the pa

they say they're forming a national federation and sarah palin could play a crucial role. raw politics ahead. >>> saving haiti. time running out to move tens of thousands to safety before the worst of the rains arrive. why is it taking so long? we'll talk to sean penn on the ground in port-au-prince. >>> keeping them honest, should teaching sex ed be a crime? this is not a hypothetical question. in wisconsin a district attorney has warned teachers that if they use a new government-mandated sex ed course, they could be committing a crime and serve up to six years in prison. this is the letter the district attorney sent out to five school districts. and he's going to be on the program in a minute to defend the letter. but i just want to show you what the sex ed course that he's opposed to is actually designed to teach. it was approved by the state government. no republicans support it, i should point out, but democrats passed it. the d.a. is republican, by the way. the course is designed to be age appropriate, and it's described as an instructional program in human growth an

the last i checked, sarah palin's not much of an expert on nuclear issues. if the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff are comfortable with it, i'm probably going to take my advice from them and not from sarah palin. >> and george will have much more from his sitdown with the president when he reports live om russia later this morning on "good morning america." >>> anger over president obama's health care overhaul has led to am almost three-fold increase in threats against lawmers. members of the house and senate reported 42 threats in the first 3 months of this year. that compares to 15 in the last 3 months of last year. the latest threats have already led to at least three arrests. capital police say they have heightened security. >>> the diplomat from qatar at the center of an air scare aboard a united airlines flight is likely to leave the country later this week. thanks to diplomatic immunity, mohammed al modadi, will not face charges that he was apparently trying to light his shoes on fire. officials say al modadi was smok

sarah palin, of 52% said under no circumstance would they vote for sarah palin for president. if it chose not everybody is a sarah palin republican as part of the tea party movement. we are trying to figure out how big the group is and who they are. they have a profound effect in kentucky where the tea party- backed candidate is beating the establishment candidate in the senate race. then we see in texas last month it did not have the impact in some of the local races a lot of people thought they would. >> who speaks for them and who do they feel their leader is? >> 15% would like to see sarah palin as the next candidate for the republican party. 15% said the same thing for ron paul. there's not a leader. a lot of folks in the media want to say it's the conservative base of the american party, but the truth is a big segment of the department does not like the republican party at all. they are just as frustrated with the bush years as they are with the obama years. they want a libertarian approach to things in washington. let the states do what they want to do and let individua

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he's got sarah palin. if you're worried about tea party people turning on an incumbent, the fact he's the person who introduced sarah palin will help save him. >> in yarn mccain was ahead 53-31. it makes me want to go to arizona and walk precincts for john mccain. >> bill press, susan molinari. >>> coming up, a stagger 16.5% of african-americans do not have a job. the old white angry tea party thinks president obama does too much for the black community. i'll explain my vision for the black agenda next in the "playbook." so i was the guy who was never going to have the heart attack. i watched what i ate. i worked out. personally, i thought i was invincible. once it happened, i realized it's a different story. i'm on an aspirin regimen now because i never want to feel that helplessness again. [ male announcer ] aspirin is not appropriate for everyone. so be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. i was the guy who was doing everything right. i was wrong. talk to your doctor, and tak

palin's here, the president's here. >> that's a media problem -- >> up until 18 months ago sarah palin thought s. tnct.a.r.t. wa something you yelled at a dog. >> now the president is responding to her. >> stephanopoulos asked her the question. >> he did that just to get the response he got. >> i take your point. you know, he could have been dismisses ive and moved on and said, no comment. the thing i found surprising is that he actually uttered her name. >> twice. >> last i checked -- >> i thought you could -- >> i mean, it's a nonstory. >> the policy is what we should be focusing on. sarah palin doesn't understand. >> that shows she won this because we're debating it. >> it shows we have a bad attention span. >> huffington post. >> i'm sorry, you're right. i'll go back to drinking coffee. >> let's do the op-eds. we're going to do it, a big washington post bonanza for the op-eds, as it should be for capehart. eugene robinson writes, a lone voice in defense of michael steele. he writes, now it is also true they don't make margins wide enough to contain mike's transgressions but conside

it also affected the family and friends of sarah palin. as well as sarah palin herself. and i think that that incident regarding her daughter, bristol, while she was pregnant, is really indicative of how serious this is. he wasn't accused of having done the calls but it was his actions that led to that. he's facing up to 50 years in prison for what he has done. martha: that is a long time and keith you have a different take. >> sure. let's be clear, these cyber cases, internet cases because of the digital fingerprint left in cyberspace are difficult to defend. that said, this particular case was nothing more than a college prank. that went wrong. there was no harm done, the biggest outcry is that bristol palin had to go six weeks without the use of a cell phone and 17-year-old, certainly that is tragic. in this case, there are several issues, that may come up on appeal, if the individual is convicted. first of all, during voir dire of the jurors, both sides want an impartial and unbiased jury. the defense attorney was precluded from illiciting from the jurors, what their

today sarah palin took the podium. people waited in line two hours to see this speech. >> what's wrong with being the party of no? we will oppose it. or, better said by the good governor of this state, he said party of no. nah, we're the party of hell, no. >> see, if this is how it's going to be, the leadup to the november elections will be a lot more fun than i thought it would be. it will at least be way more simple. >> hell, no, you can't. >> yes, we can. >> hell, no, you can't. >> yes, we can. >> what's wrong with being the party of no. >> yes, we can. >> we're the party of hell no. >> yes, we can. >> they're really going for it. she got huge applause for that. she also got huge applause for her best lines on energy. >> and now we're going to study, more study of the south atlantic and parts of the gulf of mexico and a couple of other areas that, my goodness, folks, these areas have been studied to death. let's send the white house this message that, no, we can save taxpayer time. save money and announce, there is

>> sarah palin says we're the party of hell no. i think they are about to test that strategy right now. and i think there are divisions within the republican party about it. and some would -- some would like to go to the mat on everything and some folks say, you know what, we can't say no to everything. gwen: i'm glad you mentioned sarah palin because now we're getting to the next little key here. because there's a back drop for all of these challenges facing democrats and republicans this midterm election year, as david was mentioning, no one in washington is exactly popular. and that approval is showing its face in tea party rallies and already bruising primary battles. both sides are grasping for advantage. >> it is all about this coming november. we have to take the house and the senate and two years from now barack obama is a one-term president! >> these things go in cycles. the mood of the media and how things get portrayed and so you're like a genius for about a month. and then you're an idiot for about six months. and then,

and sarah palin and the target thing. that sounds like the sort of princess and the pea whining i hear from a different cable network of oh, oh, we are so upset. >> come on, ann. >> no, no. kill the bill? liberals act like it's assassination rhetoric. what was her name? joan benatar? hit me with your best shot. >> i would not dispute liberals who brought vigorous polymecism and metaphor to the debate when the bush administration was in office, but nobody fired at the white house. nobody fired at legislators' offices. no one showed up at rallies with guns. there is a violent tinge to what's happening now that's demonstrative, aggressive, bald. when you have people showing up at tea parties wearing a hollister. >> those are some of the black tea partiers. >> i'm not saying they don't exist, but the tea party movement, race-free, there is an undercurrent of violence happening now. the threats. after the health bill passed, i know where you live, the guy calling pelosi on the phone. >> but it's been committed by liberals. >>

here is the beauty of sarah palin. beauty of sarah palin. with her at fox news, she's not the craziest person at fox news anymore. there's something to be said for that. >> that's a good way to look at it. >> she makes glenn beck -- >> she what? >> she makes glenn beck look significantly abnormal. >> larry: george has had a lot to say about tiger woods on this show. hold on. what do you want to say? >> let me say this. everyone is trying to build a wall. they don't know the answer to immigration. i'll give you the answer. if sarah palin wins and runs for president in 2012, i have a reliable source as head of all the latinos, we will voluntarily go back to mexico. there it is. >> larry: there you have it from george himself. he's had a lot to say about tiger woods. here is a sample. >> won the masters with the lowest score in nine years. thanked his wife and then tiger woods said screw you, man. all hugged up. nice. rub it in. >> larry: by the way, tmz reported you had a pleasant meeting with tiger woods last week in the locker room at august

i wrote in sarah palin doesn't do subtle very well. these two are take no prisoners. they don't have any aspirations to leave the center of the country, but they are reffing up the tea party movement in states like minnesota and elsewhere. >> tim pawlenty, usually a headliner of events in minnesota, now the opening act today. let's take a listen to this. i want to leave you with one thought. the reverend dr. martin luther king said the measure of a person is not where they stand in times of comfort and privilege, but where they stand in times of challenge and controversy. your presence here today answers the question. your standing up to say enough is enough. you're standing township say i'm willing to fight back. you're standing up to say our values matter and we're putting a marker down and we're going to restore common sense to the united states of america. >> you look at palin and bachmann. then you look at this republican rising star. they really do represent different parts of the republican party in a way who very much need each other, i guess. how do they rela

we expect sarah palin will address this crowd and we'll show you that. bill: also the changing game of baseball. so you ask, how has technology changed it? well, that relationship between the pitcher and the batter, we've got an intriguing story coming up in a moment. bill: today we see a whole new side of britney spears, showing herself off without any airbrushing, she says she wants you to see the imperfections normally left out of a photo shoot so here we go, this is the before and the after, left and right, for an ad she's doing for candy's fashion line, this is what airbrushing does, it gives spears a smaller waist and slimmer thighs and eliminates bruises and blemishes. in the back, the computer touchup hides a tattoo, makes the bottom look a bit smaller and removes cellulite. spears says she made the decision to highlight the pressure exerted on women to look perfect. martha: the pressure is so intense! bill she also says she wants to help boost the self-confidence of girls. martha: good for her! jessica simpson did that cover with no makeup on. i

the foundation is accused of trying to tread parts of the sarah palin's contract which students found in a dumpster. she reportedly asked for bendable straw is in her water bottles and three luxury hotel rooms. she was scheduled to speak at a june 25 bela for the 25th anniversary. -- june 25 gala. if you don't like the weather, just wait for a few hours. >> they met -- the rain moved out on time and the sun should be back tomorrow. the rain has done some good. it washed the pollen out of the air and washed my car. take a look at a few weatherbug stops here. let's start in northwest washington. 46 degrees and 17 hundredths of an inch of rain. in fairfax, about the same. 48 degrees in landover now. it is just enough to whet the ground and give the moisture to the bushes and trees. most importantly, clear the pollen out of the air temporarily. we will also check the numbers officially. highs and lows were 58 and 48, a rear gate where temperatures were below average. the official -- a rare day where temperatures were below average. art hollen count was taken before the rain arrived. -- ou

let me take one thing she said about sarah palin and the coverage of sarah palin in the book. she talked about alaska. sarah palin from your reporting was consumed with how she was perceived in alaska during this election. >> guest: she was. one of the challenges and writing about sarah palin was she had never been much involved in the national politics as the governor of alaska. very few people in the national or political media life had dealings with sarah palin so it was unusual because normally the top or bottom of the ticket, people in washington and journalism circles no sarah palin was new support of the job was to talk to the national operatives on the campaign and other people around sarah palin who are literally to this day among the only people we know who had exposure behind-the-scenes to see what she's like when she's not on tv or giving a speech. they met with sarah palin, two of john mccain's said pfizer's. they had never met her. she was a stranger to them and they were asked to talk to john mccain in arizona and to talk about what this job is going to be like

and the other is sarah palin. they got that star power. >> although i'll tell you a third person who's not quite in their league but i think has benefited from the same phenomenon is scott brown. he's got -- >> but say how many books scott brown sells. >> i don't see that. >> i see him as a passing twinkie. >> the way he's done so far, i think he's got the same potential. not at the same level, but the same quality that is going to make him more than a normal senator. >> you notice how focused i am here? i just let a passing twinkie go right past me. now we're going to go back to gabe. what the hell was that? gabe, tell us more. what did you learn? >> tina's wikipedia entry and scott brown's. >> oh, my gosh! >> i think what's fascinating is that palin has decided that she wants to speak directly to her market. she doesn't need the media filter. in fact, one of her advisers told me that through facebook and her tv show and fox, she doesn't need reporters like me. there's no reason she would sit down to do an interv