"What I am about to tell you is truly insane, but it's a preview of how race-baiters are trying to hijack the presidential election. The latest nonsense began when Hillary Clinton said 'Senator Obama's support among working, hard working Americans, white Americans, is weakening.' Well, you would have thought Hillary had just signed up with the KKK instead of stating a fact. One of the most vicious race-baiters in the country is Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, who promptly wrote that Hillary is telling party leaders 'there's no way that white people are going to vote for the black guy.' Far-left fanatics are setting up a scenario that brands anyone as a racist who brings white demographics into the presidential race. Talking Points is tired of race-baiters using false accusations as clubs to intimidate and diminish. There is racism in America, and it is brutally wrong, but crying 'race wolf' every two minutes is un-American and unacceptable, and it will be challenged here."

News Link: Race-baiting WaPo columnist targets Hillary

The Factor welcomed Professor Marc Lamont Hill, who took issue with the Talking Points. "Hillary Clinton is playing to white anxieties about race," Hill claimed. "She is suggesting to people not to support Barack Obama's candidacy because white people will not vote for him. Hillary and Bill Clinton have always sent smoke signals to white voters that stir up racial anxieties. She can't win the election but she's alienating white voters from Obama." The Factor worried that racial sensitivity is taking precedence over truth. "The exit polls in North Carolina and Indiana showed exactly what Hillary Clinton said, that working Americans with high school degrees broke big for her. We are all entitled to report the truth."

News Link: Clinton: 'Hardworking white Americans' support me

At a campaign event in West Virginia, Bill Clinton shouted at a woman who questioned his wife's record on health care. Political journalists Mary Katharine Ham and Amanda Carpenter both criticized the former president for his conduct. "We're getting a sign," Ham declared, "that maybe it's Bubba's temper we should worry about, not McCain's. He's done nothing but hurt Hillary on the campaign trail." Carpenter agreed that Bill Clinton's outburst was inappropriate. "This wasn't a hardball question, it was a question about what his wife has done on health care. But he decided to berate and embarrass the woman. It will be another YouTube clip showing how ineffective and pathetic Bill Clinton has become."

News Link: Video: Bill Clinton lashes out at heckler

Thirteen police officers have been assigned to desk duty after the beating of three black men who had allegedly fired shots. Geraldo Rivera described the incident as one more sad chapter in a city with a sky-high crime rate. "They are cops," Rivera said, "and they are trained to be professional officers, but they are thugs in this video. It's almost as if the tribe of cops declared war on the black community. The officers are potentially guilty of assault and civil rights violations." Rivera also commented on three Wisconsin adults who forced a 2-year old boy to smoke marijuana. "This is not about marijuana, this is about child abuse. They pleaded guilty to child neglect, but then the judge suspended the sentence." The Factor argued that the "grownups" should have been locked up. "Kids are devalued all over the United States. All three of these people should go to jail for six months."

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The ratings of Disney's "Hannah Montana" series have dropped after the show's 15-year old star Miley Cyrus posed for suggestive photos. Kirk Cameron, former child star of "Growing Pains," recalled his own similar experience at a photo shoot. "Your publicists are telling you this will be great, it will add a dimension to who you are. But before I knew it I was looking like a crack-smoking transvestite, and not knowing what happened. At 15-years old you don't have the experience to draw a line and stand on your convictions, and you need to find people you can trust." The Factor extended an open invitation to Miley Cyrus and her dad to enter the No Spin Zone. "She's going to have to make some kind of public appearance, and she's invited to come on this program with her father to explain what the situation was."

News Link: Miley Cyrus shows see ratings dip

Bill's far-ranging interview with John McCain continued with the war on terror and coercive interrogation.

O'REILLY: You're opposed to waterboarding and I disagree with you. I think the president should have the legal authority to order waterboarding in extraordinary circumstances.
McCAIN: I think we're in a war against radical Islamic extremism, and I think that war is all over the globe. And I believe the Geneva Conventions call for a prohibition on inhumane, cruel and degrading treatment. The concern is what happens to Americans in future wars if they are held captive.
O'REILLY: If you believe Iran has nuclear weapons, are you going to knock them out?
McCAIN: You can't get into these hypotheticals, but I would never allow a second Holocaust.
O'REILLY: You're going to have a tough sell on Iraq because most Americans are against the war. How much more does America have to absorb for a government that is inefficient and corrupt?
McCAIN: The Iraqi government is functioning badly, but better. The problem in Iraq today is not so much the government as it is the rule of law. The war was mishandled terribly for nearly four years, but they are succeeding. And let me tell you the consequences of setting a date for withdrawal. You would have chaos, you would have genocide, and America will have to come back and there would be a greater sacrifice of American blood and treasure. Nobody hates war more than those of us who have been in them.

What made "Cheers" one of the most beloved sitcoms in television history? The Factor posed that question to John Ratzenberger, who played Cliff the mailman. "One of the secrets," Ratzenberger said, "is that if you turn off the picture and listen to the sound, it plays as well as radio as it does television. Our job description was show up to work, sit at a bar, crack jokes, and get paid for it." Ratzenberger also spoke about his current venture, a travel series called "Made in America," in which he interviews people who work with their hands. "Every single industry started with one person inventing one thing, and those people always started as a child by tinkering. We've wiped that out now, there are no more shop courses being taught, and we're losing the inventiveness that has built the culture."

Friday's Patriots Cops in Fort Worth, Texas, who risked their lives to rescue four criminal suspects from a burning car. And the Pinhead: 49-year old Madonna, who is trying her best to be as outrageous as ever on her current tour. Nominate a Pinhead or a Patriot by sending an email to pnp@billoreilly.com.

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A sampling of your e-mails:

Jeff Muratore, Casper, WY: "Bill, you were definitely more aggressive with McCain than with Hillary."

Chris Disibio, Florence, KY: "Bill, I wish you would have hit McCain as hard as you hit Hillary."

Patrick Callahan, New Fairfield, CT: "Bill, you allowed McCain to spin on sanctuary cities."

Edward Miller, Fort Worth, TX: "Mr. O, I hope you're as tough on Obama as you were on McCain."

Bill Blessing, Brookville, IN: "Bill, thanks for exposing the General Electric-Iran connection. I used to work for the company and know it's driven by greed."