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• Talking Points Memo & Top Story
  Good news for Egypt today
• 'Lou's the Boss' Segment
  Lou Dobbs on Obama's speech
• Factor Follow Up Segment
  Push continues to defund Planned Parenthood
• At Your Beck and Call Segment
  Glenn Beck on Egypt
• Back of Book Segment
  Stratfor analysis on the outcome in Egypt
• Factor Mail
  Viewers sound off
• Pinheads and Patriots
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"After an agonizing week, the situation in Egypt has turned out well for the United States. The dictator Mubarak is out and the army will take control of the country until elections can be held. Reports are that Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi will be first among military equals; he has a close relationship with the U.S. We don't know where Mubarak will end up, and already Switzerland has said it will freeze his bank accounts. For President Obama the events in Egypt are very good news - the Arab world can't condemn the USA because we basically supported the pro-freedom forces in Cairo. Mr. Obama played it smart by not inserting himself into the controversy. Two other countries, Israel and Saudi Arabia, have criticized the USA for not backing Mubarak, but that would have been insane. The man is despised throughout the world, and if we threw in with that tyrant the jihadists would have had a field day. The situation in Egypt is still fragile - we can expect the jihadists to move in and create as much turmoil as they can. But on the whole, Americans could not have asked for a better outcome today."

The Factor analyzed the Egyptian situation with former Secretary of State William Cohen and FNC's Lt. Col. Ralph Peters. "This was a great day for human freedom," Peters declared. "The events in Egypt are going to resound not only in the Arab world, but also in Iran and Beijing and North Korea and Burma and Venezuela. People now see what's possible - in less than three weeks millions of brave, unarmed, peaceful civilians brought down a 30-year-old dictatorship. This is a strategic earthquake and the Muslim Brotherhood will not take over." Cohen described his past meetings with Field Marshal Tantawi, who will presumably be the most powerful man in Egypt. "He has been a good friend to the United States and he was primarily interested in seeing that the United States could help modernize the Egyptian military, which we have done. Both he and Mubarak were always focused on Iran and the spread of Islamic revolution." The Factor heaped praise on the protesters who deposed a tyrant: "The only violence we saw was when Mubarak brought in his paid thugs to beat up reporters and other people. The protesters behaved in a very admirable way."

Geraldo Rivera entered the No Spin Zone with his reaction to the Egyptian upheaval. "This is the time for the Muslim Brotherhood to really mature itself," Rivera said, "and step forward from terrorism to participatory democracy. That's the only hope they really have for power in Egypt, which has an educated middle class and widespread secularism. I think Egypt has a chance to take its place in the family of nations, and I don't think this meaningfully affects Israel's security at all." The Factor reminded Rivera that "these jihadists don't want democracy, they want a caliphate."

While speaking to the Chamber of Commerce this week, President Obama urged business leaders to share their profits with American workers. The Factor asked Fox Business anchor Lou Dobbs to critique the President's speech. "He's again talking like a statist," Dobbs complained. "I don't know what he's trying to do, because in his interview with you he denied that he's a redistributionist. Now you hear him hectoring and lecturing business leaders, suggesting that they divide the national income in a certain way. The President really conveys his lack of understanding about the economy." The Factor countered that too many bosses are driven by unalloyed greed: "I'm worried about the folks who are working hard and not making much money while some CEOs are taking out $20-million or $30-million a year. And some of these boards of directors are corrupt, they make Mubarak look honest."

Some House Republicans are trying to cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood, some of whose employees were caught on tape giving advice to men posing as pimps of underage girls. The Factor pursued the story with professors Caroline Heldman and Mark Sawyer, both supporters of Planned Parenthood. "What we have here is a lot of smoke but not much fire," Heldman said. "What I see in most of the tapes are Planned Parenthood employees explaining the law to these supposed 'sex traffickers,' then turning them over to the FBI." Sawyer contended that Planned Parenthood makes good use of its taxpayer dollars. "The people who got caught are clearly and knowingly breaking Planned Parenthood policy. Planned Parenthood provides a lot of services and gives good information about birth control." The Factor criticized those news organizations that didn't even mention the Planned Parenthood video stings: "NBC News and ABC News both ignored the story, which is a pretty big omission. Their critics say this is a pattern because those news organizations are liberal and they don't want to bring any attention to this kind of stuff. 80% or 85% of those in the media support abortion rights."

While most people in the media are celebrating the uprising in Egypt, Glenn Beck provided a far different perspective. "In the long term," Beck said, "you are seeing the beginning of the coming insurrection. This is going to happen in one country after another, and the goal is the end of the Western way of life. In the Middle East there will be a domino effect and there will be a caliphate. Islamic extremists have gotten together with socialists and communists and they have sown the seeds of revolt - this is community organizing on a global scale." Beck warned that radicals are also targeting Western societies. "I've been showing tapes of communist revolutionaries who are willing to band with anyone, and they're currently saying that this revolution needs to come here to America." The Factor was skeptical, saying, "I don't see the constituency in Germany or Britain or the United States, I just don't see it."

George Friedman of the private intelligence firm Stratfor concluded Friday's program with his analysis of the Egyptian uprising. "The military was the one that wanted Mubarak out," Friedman stated. "He is 82-years-old, he wanted his son to take his place, and the army wanted to save the regime, which was dominated by the military. There was a showdown for weeks between Mubarak and the military, and when he refused to leave last night, this morning they woke him up and forced him out of office. This was not, as many have presented, a massive uprising of the people." Friedman predicted that Hosni Mubarak will wind up in Saudi Arabia because "no one else wants him at this point."

Simon Saunders, Edinburgh, Scotland: "If President Obama condemns the Muslim Brotherhood, that will be used as a recruitment tool by the jihadists."

Steve Nolan, Lincoln, NE: "Let me get this straight: a child can get condoms and an abortion without parental permission but parents should be held responsible for the kid's sexting activity? Wow."

Rich Cannon, Newark, NJ: "Only a person looking for racism under every rock would have seen it in the Pepsi Super Bowl commercial. I simply saw three people, not two black persons and a white."

Carolyn Clifford, Rocky Ford, CO: "I found the Pepsi ad tasteless. If the ad is tasteless, so is the product."

Friday's Patriot or Pinhead: Donald Trump, who proclaimed to a conservative group that "Ron Paul has zero chance of being elected." Is Trump's pronouncement patriotic or pinheaded? You can decide by voting here on BillOReilly.com. Thursday's P or P asked about Jay Leno, who created a parody video showing Bill and President Obama in a long, intense and belligerent handshake. 57% of you praised the comedy bit as downright patriotic.