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| All content taken from The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel. Each weeknight by 6 PM EST a preview of that evening's show will be posted and then updated with additional information the following weekday by noon EST.
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Guests: Mary Katharine Ham and Juan Williams
"Some conservative Americans believe President Obama intentionally wants to hurt the country, but Talking Points does not speculate about things can not be proven. However, there are hidden agendas on the left that can be proven. We all know about the 'medical marijuana' ruse, and now we have something that ups the drug ante. The New York Times has editorialized that some hard-core drug dealers are actually victims who should not be put in prison. This is another ruse to try and get hard drugs decriminalized in the USA. About 30,000 Americans will die from drug overdoses this year, and another 23-million are drug involved. If your daughter turns up dead from an overdose, do you think the person who sold her those drugs is a 'victim' who does not deserve to spend time in prison? Selling drugs is a violent act; they hurt people, enslave them, and cause people to commit heinous crimes. But far-left loons don't care about that, they want the drugs legalized. Then there's Occupy Wall Street, which the liberal press praised all over the place. Now we find out that the city of Oakland has been just about destroyed by these punks, who last week even attacked President Obama's campaign office. According to the New York Times, the Occupy movement is awash in drugs and hard-core anarchy, but you won't hear that reported on the network news. We are living in an age where the truth is hard to come by, where there are hidden agendas all over the place. It's my job to expose those agendas."
The Factor invited reaction from FNC analysts Juan Williams and Mary Katharine Ham. "We've had three decades of this 'war on drugs,'" Williams began, "and we have more people selling drugs and more people doing drugs. So why shouldn't we think about rehabilitation or doing something differently?" Ham also questioned whether some offenders are being punished too harshly. "What makes you a 'drug trafficker' in Florida is to have seven pills of Oxycontin, so you're actually ensnaring people who are addicted and who are victims. When you have a mandatory sentence, sometimes you're catching a girl who's hooked on drugs, not the person who is selling it to her." But The Factor still recommended a ten-year mandatory sentence for anyone guilty of selling drugs: "If you sell hard narcotics, whether you're addicted or not, the states have a right to say these are dangerous and if you sell them you are going to spend a lot of time in prison. I want aggressive prosecution of people who traffic in poison!" |
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Guests: Paul Kengor
The Factor was joined by Paul Kengor, whose new book documents Barack Obama's early friendship with radical communist Frank Marshall Davis. "He was clearly Barack Obama's mentor," Kengor stated, "and Barack Obama refers to him repeatedly in his memoirs. During those formative adolescent and teen years, nobody qualified as a mentor as much as Frank Marshall Davis, who bashed Wall Street and called for universal health care and fundamental change. Davis is another of those radical influences on President Obama who help explain his development and how he became a man of the left." The Factor made it clear that while Davis was an avowed communist, President Obama can't be tarred with the same brush: "Davis gave him advice, but I don't see anything in your book or President Obama's book that says Davis tried to inculcate him with communist doctrine." |
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Guests: Mary Anne Marsh and Margie Omero
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, offering no evidence, claims Mitt Romney avoided paying income taxes for ten years. The Factor asked two Democratic stalwarts to evaluate the accusations. "This is a no-win situation for Mitt Romney," said strategist Mary Anne Marsh. "When he responds to Reid he's keeping this tax issue in the news. On the other hand, Romney knows he has to respond because if he doesn't defend himself voters will say, 'If you're not sticking up for yourself, you're not going to fight for me.'" Pollster Margie Omero agreed that Romney is being damaged. "There is a sense that he feels uncomfortable being open and honest with the American people, and this reinforces what we know about his tax policies. He supports tax breaks for the top 5%." But The Factor contended that Reid's allegations could actually backfire: "Independent voters are going to say, 'Okay, Harry, you made that accusation, now back it up.' Reid seems to be saying Mitt Romney is guilty until proven innocent." |
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Guests: Jesse Watters
This week Factor producer Jesse Watters will visit some cities whose residents aren't generally big fans of Fox News. First stop, San Francisco, where Jesse elicited these comments: "It's because you're terrible" ... "The news is slanted more toward the dark" ... "Because they lie all the time" ... "Why do you work for Fox, were they the first people who would hire you after your dad made a phone call?" Back in the friendlier confines of the New York studio, Watters concluded that 'tolerant' San Franciscans aren't all that tolerant: "When I'm doing interviews on the street, people walk by and say, 'F--- Fox News and then run away." |
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Guests: Bernie Goldberg
The accounting firm Ernst & Young has released a study showing that raising taxes on the wealthy will harm the economy, but FNC's Bernie Goldberg reported that the study has been widely ignored by the media. "Ernst & Young says that if Barack Obama gets his way," Goldberg said, "about 700,000 jobs will be killed off, which strikes me as significant. So why does the media ignore something like this? One possibility is that the so-called mainstream media at the networks don't report stuff that hurts their guy, and Barack Obama is their guy. Journalists are his most loyal base; they will not abandon him, they have too much invested in him." |
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| Wade Michael Page, reportedly a neo-Nazi, opened fire at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, killing six people before he was shot dead by cops. The Factor's Check: "This is the second mass murder of the summer and questions are being asked about the state of America. The country is changing, not for the better, and many unstable folks are being stoked up by hate websites." Also, Arizonan Adam Smith taped himself berating a young Chick-fil-A employee because of the company's stance against same-sex marriage. The Factor's Check: "Mr. Smith was fired from his job, but has now repented and apologized to the young woman. Check says he should get his job back because in America we believe in redemption." |
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Peter McClelland, Waxhaw, NC: "Mr. O'Reilly, you are just plain wrong about the Constitution! The equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment allows gays to marry."
Tony McCabe, Country Meath, Ireland: "The reason President Obama remains competitive despite a positive approval rating in just 13 states is that Mitt Romney has not yet connected with the voters."
George Colson, Pembroke Pines, FL: "Wake up and smell the petroleum, O'Reilly. The government drives higher gas prices with taxes." |
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| Monday's Tip: If you keep a large jar in your kitchen and have every family member dump all their change in it each evening, you'll soon accumulate enough money to help pay for a vacation. |
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