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jon stewart enters the no spin zone. and then another sage dennis miller will have some conversations on my conversation with stewart. miller has some thoughts on those and those reports after these messages. host: could switching to geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance? host: is ed "too tall" jones too tall? host: could switching to geico 15% or more on car insurance? host: does a ten-pound bag of flour make a really big biscuit? [meow] desperate for nighttime heartburn relief? for many, nexium helps relieve heartburn symptoms caused by acid reflux disease. and for the majority of patients with prescription coverage for nexium, it can cost $30 or less per month. headache, diarrhea, and abdominal pain are possible side effects of nexium. other serious stomach conditions may still exist. ask your doctor if nexium can help relieve your heartburn symptoms. if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. >> bill: personal story segment tonight. seems like just yesterday but it was 2004 whe

jon stewart enters the no spin zone. and then another sage dennis miller will have some conversations on my conversation with stewart. miller has some thoughts on i'm jennifer lopez, and here's a sound no mother wants to hear. [ baby coughing ] it's pertussis -- whooping cough. and if you think it's hard to listo for0 seconds, imag@nú aring it again and again for an hour. then two. imagine it continues over the course of the day, and, with little rest, into the night... for weeks, even months. now imagine this sound is coming from your baby. pertussis is most often spread by parents. and it's potentially fatal to infants. even when babies themselves are vaccinated, they're not protected until after three or four doses. so do what i did. help protect your baby by protecting yourself. ask your healthcare provider about the adult pertussis vaccine. 'cause what would you do if your baby caught this from you? >> bill: personal story segment tonight. seems like just yesterday but it was 2004 when comedy central guy jon stewar

jon stewart enters the no-spin zone. pulled no punches and went after the president. >> he has decided the congress is an an equal branch of government. you can't say let's go back to three equal branches. no! you gotta go in there my friend. you want to pass -- here's how we going to do health care, boom, boom, don't like it, get in line. bill: too much of a team player? >> eight will yous too much room for different narratives to take hold. bill: you say president bomb ma so everybody can understand what he's -- president obama so everybody can understand there are too much discussion leading to too much sniping and you don't get anything done? >> if you allow too much nitpicking on the edges of legislation it will be necessarily turned into a type of lobbyist . that's the -- lobbyist greul. without making a strong case to the public you have no leverage because the real power takes place -- [ talking over each other ] >> we get the table. you see what i'm doing here? bill: yeah i see it. very impressive. you want some

. >>> and jon stewart and bill o'reilly go at each other. we will get to you the tape in the side show tonight. >>> but we begin with the republicans and whether they can really win the house of representatives and the senate. chuck todd is nbc's political director and chief white house correspondent, and jonathan martin is the senior political writer for politico. we're going to assume the republicans are in good enough shape to hold on to the seats they have. let's talk about we're playing a game of poker here. let's imagine the republicans get not too great a hand. suppose they get a pair of -- well, an easy pair of republicans they could pick up. there's delaware, you see the map pictures there. and north dakota. that's beau biden, decided not to run, the vice president's son, he's not running. castle looks strong. he's a republican. congressman mike castle and governor john hoeven look to be pretty easy winners. your thoughts, chuck, is that a pretty much a gimme for them? >> it is. i would say delaware, democrats did find a good candid

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jon stewart is a smart guy, funny guy. he's dead right about what's going on over at fox, where they yell fire every night in the movie theater. >>> the next video, comes courtesy of carly fiorina running for senate out in california. unveiling an attack ad against tom campbell. she makes him out to be a demon sheep. you've got to see it to believe it. >> tom campbell, see what he tells us. or is he what he's become over the years. an fcino? fiscal conservative in name only? a wolf in sheep's clothing. a man who literally helped put the state of california on the path to bankruptcy and higher taxes. fiscal conservative? or just another same old tale of tax and spend? authored by a career politician who helped guide us into this fiscal mess in the first place. >> that's a pretty nasty ad this early. the republican primary is not until june. now for the number. over in england, members of parliament got wacked last year for charging the government with highly questionable expense accounts. they were using taxpayer money for

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i often have people say to me i only watch jon stewart. and i said i like jon stewart. if you watch him and me, your complete. [laughter] >> but even more so, more important, who do you think jon stewart watches quick he gets his information from somewhere. and he gets it as it happens from us as close as. that is a different point which is we keep thinking, we keep imagining that our children and young people are going to come to look at politics and public service the way we did. know, they are not and they will use technology and other ways of reaching out as ways of expressing their interest and engagement. i think that people in the older generations have to remember that they have to speak to them, not just at them. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> hi. do you think that, do you think that the commercial mainstream media was reluctant to talk about race early on in the early months of the contest? and do you think that if it were, that it helped obama? >> i think we talk about race a lot but we always talk about it. we love when there was a fight. what bil

and jon stewart is a cultural bellwether. and he disrupt the disillusionment of many. >> and, tina, for the longest time, comedians couldn't find the funny in barack obama. >> in the history of civilization, incredible. the nobel prize, in a way, reflected that. all that voting was happening just when he was, you know, all of that at its climax. the problem for obama is, he basically campaigned for 14 months on a completely different america, really. was all about, i'm not buresh. i'm going to close guantanamo bay. i'm going to bring you health care. but the point he's elected, the curtain comes down. america is a gridlocked, baroque place. >> i don't think anybody has anything to worry about. for every one obama comedy sketch "the daily show" does, they do about 100 for every republican. i don't think anybody has to worry about jon stewart voting republican anytime soon. >> where are they going to go, the left? where are the left going to go? they may be disaffected. >> that is something that the obama team is counting on in

and jon stewart is a cultural bellwether. and he disrupt the disillusionment of many. >> and, tina, for the longest time, comedians couldn't find the funny in barack obama. >> in the history of civilization, incredible. the nobel prize, in a way, reflected that. all that voting was happening just when he was, you know, all of that at its climax. the problem for obama is, he basically campaigned for 14 months on a completely different america, really. it was all about, i'm not bursh. i'm going to close guantanamo bay. i'm going to bring you health care. but the point he's elected, the curtain comes down. america is a gridlocked, baroque place. >> i don't think anybody has anything to worry about. for every one obama comedy sketch "the daily show" does, they do about 100 for every republican. i don't think anybody has to worry about jon stewart voting republican anytime soon. >> where are they going to go, the left? where are the left going to go? they may be disaffected. >> that is something that the obama team is counting on

bill: in a moment we have a sit-down between the comedian jon stewart and bill o'reilly. have you seen it yet? facing off in the no-spin zone, don't miss this. moments away. stewart and o'reilly. >> do you understand the implications of you being important in any context? >> well, i think my family loves me. if that is what you are suggesting. >> i am stunned this has found -- >> listen mr. o i'm happy to be in the mainly leagues, here, thanks for calling me on the show. -- they were born at home in the u.s. but the new home is thousands of miles away in china, making its way to beijing, three-year-old mei lan and tai shan drew huge crowds in washington. quite a crew. martha: that is tai shan. i can tell the difference. bill: the pandas are on loan until december, the two-year-olds are china-bound to be part of a breeding program there and they know how to fly, they're going to board out of dell us international airport on a giant boeing 777, donated by fedex, and you can watch it all streaming live on the website, foxnews.com, click on the pandas leave for china at the t

let's talk about something really serious now, which was jon stewart going on bill o'reilly. let's watch. >> explain to me why that is the narrative of your network. >> it's the narrative of a couple i guys, a republican sean hannity and glenn beck who is basically every man. >> what do you mean he's every man? >> he's every man. >> every man has a show? what are you talking about? >> he's talented. >> he's very talented. where's every man. >> he doesn't go for any party but spouts what he believes. >> what? >> if you think he's for the republican party, you're out of your mind. >> stewart and o'reilly, that was last night's show. bob and terry, you can't get any better than that. >> i think that this is the classic case of, you know, entertainment meets news. a lot of these people are right, they're not particularly affiliated with any party, just as jon stewart isn't. they make fun of everybody, and people watch it. i think that, you know, people like msnbc make good money by putting opinionated hosts on television, and all the power to you. >> we'll leave the opinions to b

>> jimmy: jon stewart. you beat jon steart. you were the coolest guy -- i'll never forget that -- >> talk show host, is he? >> jimmy: yes, he's a talk show host, as well. [ laughter ] it meant a lot to that you did that. it was classy of you. >> you mean a lot to me, too. i always felt embarrassed that i ran into you on a dark street in new york and you were dressed, maybe going to the deli in a t-shirt, jeans and i had on a tuxedo and we talked for ten minutes and i never explained, i don't think, why i prowl the streets in a tuxedo. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i just said dick cavett probably goes around in tuxedoes and walks around new york city, i don't know. >> he cares how he looks. you have a big fan at the security desk. a very, very attractive lady. >> jimmy: ooh. >> i went and said, "i'm trying to get to jimmy fallon." and she said, "i've been trying to for five years." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. that's her, absolutely. i know her. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: now, you used to write for -- you wrote for parr and carso

a feeling brian williams used to lock jon stewart in the lockers. let's get a check on business before the bell with erin burnett at the new york stock exchange. >> we've got some jobs numbers. these are the best jobs numbers since -- hold on -- i believe the beginning of 2008. these are the adp number, which is basically a survey of employers, of private sector jobs. so we're going to get the formal government number on friday. this one does not always, let's say, accurately indicate what we'll see on friday, but it's a very important. so we did have job losses, but not as many -- again, it was the best turnout we've seen since february of 2008. we still, though, are losing jobs in manufacturing. hard to believe there are still jobs to be lost this, although we're still the world's biggest manufacturer. construction still continuing to lose jobs, 37,000. we've lost 1.8 million jobs in construction in america since the peak by that measure in the beginning of 2007. we saw creation in services. and obviously the majority of our economy is a services

. >> bret: jon stewart on "the o'reilly factor." thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced, and

. >> bret: jon stewart on "the o'reilly factor." thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced, and unafraid.

funny man jon stewart faced off with bill o'reilly, from iran to global warming and o'reilly suggested the two of them should team up and enter the political arena. >> let's play a little bit of a scenario. i'm thinking about running for president. >> i think that's a really bad idea. >> i want you to be my vice president. >> i think that's a really bad idea, too. i have pictures of me in college that preclude me from working at the post office. you have no idea the trouble you're getting in. >> this is why i've selected you as my vice president. your image is so bad, no matter what they found, it wouldn't matter. >> wow, wouldn't that be something? >>> sarah palin demanded obama's chief of staff be fired for using the word retarded. and guess who just had a field day with that. >> our political correct society is acting like some giant insult has taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards retards. i'm not going to apologize for it. i'm quoting emmanuanual. it's in the news. >> to his repeat ed use of the word "retard," they responded governor palin believes crude and dem

let me show you the way you described how far we've come to jon stewart earlier this week. >> we're coming out of the worst recession since 1929. the short run, you've got to run a deficit to keep yourself away from great depression land. as we go out of the short run -- >> can i tell you something? >> we argued about this last ti time. >> great depression land is the worst amusement park i've ever been to. i've been there. terrible. >> somewhere between king's dominion and disney world, great depression land? >> i came from chicago land where everything is a land. i guess it doesn't translate. >> it does. it translates great. it's just fine on this snowy day. thanks so much for being with us, austan. great to see you. >> good to see you. >>> democratic virginia senator mark warner, a member of the budget committee, joint economic committee and someone who ran a state as a former governor of virginia, but you know how to make money. you actually ran a business. what should the white house do, and the senate and house do to try to climb out of this situation? >> first of all, we've got to r

to jon stewart, with almost exactly the same skepticism from the left. >> goldman sachs will have a profit that we estimate at about $12 billion last year. >> let me see if i've got this straight-- the only people who have fully recovered from the financial meltdown are the ones who caused the financial meltdown. >> reporter: in a recent newshour story, experts explained how goldman made most of this money-- by trading for its own account. for details, you can watch or read the story online. but this story is about the claim that goldman has been getting most of the money to trade from you and me, via our government. nomi prins, a ten-year veteran of wall street trading, left goldman after 9/11. >> first, of course, they received $10 billion in tarp money. and even though a year later, they can say, "we didn't really need it," they really needed it. >> reporter: lets go back to the panic of 2008, says mit's simon johnson, former chief economist at the i.m.f., who's working on a book about the undue influence of wall street. >> goldman sachs and morgan stanley had a problem, which is they w

but even more so more important to do think jon stewart watches. he gets his information from somewhere and he gets it as it happens from us as well as others, but that's a significant point which is we keep thinking and imagining that our children and young people are going to come to look at politics and public service the way we did. they aren't and they're going to use technology in other ways of reaching out to as ways of expressing their interests and their engagement. there are still there, i just think people in the older generation have to remember to speak to them not just have them. >> thank you. [applause] >> 11 your mainstream media, do you think that -- >> yes probably sell para [laughter] >> looking at it in terms of the deal think that the commercial mainstream media was reluctant to talk about race, early on in the early months of the contest and you think if it weren't that it helped obama? >> , but we're going to talk about race la but always as a fight. we love when there is a fight, when bill clinton said those things in south

newt gingrich was on jon stewart the other day, and he asked him about the people who are being taken to court, the terrorists, and his explanation was that richard reid was an american, a bald faced lie. those guys can get away with it. they can get away with saying anything they wanted we have been witnessing it for the last eight years. actually, that is not the big point i wanted to make the big point i wanted to make, and you are probably aware of this -- in the last eight years, the congress and senate have been fighting over $40 billion for old people at $4 billion a year. it was $4 billion for 10 years. remember that one? it was too much money, this and that. my mother, the last few years, has been on medicare. she said she never had better coverage in your life, ok, until -- in her whole life, ok, until she got on medicare. the other thing, the biggest thing, actually -- when bush came into office, the defense spending was 300-something billion dollars a year. i pay attention to that stuff. now it is almost 600-something billion dollars a year. can anybody in this country say

newt gingrich was on jon stewart the other day, and he asked him about the people who are being taken to court, the terrorists, and his explanation was that richard reid was an american, a bald faced lie. those guys can get away with it. they can get away with saying anything they wanted we have been witnessing it for the last eight years. actually, that is not the big point i wanted to make the big point i wanted to make, and you are probably aware of this -- in the last eight years, the congress and senate have been fighting over $40 billion for old people at $4 billion a year. it was $4 billion for 10 years. remember that one? it was too much money, this and that. my mother, the last few years, has been on medicare. she said she never had better coverage in your life, ok, until -- in her whole life, ok, until she got on medicare. the other thing, the biggest thing, actually -- when bush came into office, the defense spending was 300-something billion dollars a year. i pay attention to that stuff. now it is almost 600-something billion dollars a year. can anybody in this country say