>> reporter: tim tebow is on a roll, a holy roll, you might say. the quarterback for the denver broncos is the talk of the sports world right now. leading his team to victory after improbable victory, four straight seemingly miraculous wins. at the heart of everything he does, all his effort and all his success is one simple thing, his christian faith. >> first and foremost, i'd like to thank my lord and savior jesus christ. >> reporter: tebow says that in every interview after every game. >> first and foremost, just have to thank my lord and savior jesus christ. >> reporter: on the field, tebow openly prays and gives thanks, taking one knee in a pose that's become a verb to tebow. something is happening here. the power of prayer, the hand of god? for millions of fans, something is happening here. for others, not so much. >> i hate tim tebow. >> reporter: last year, comedian john oliver of "the daily show" summed up the content many more secular americans and plenty religious fans too have for tebow on a rant caught on tape and posted online. >> if

>> reporter: tim tebow is on a roll, a holy roll, you might say. the quarterback for the denver broncos is the talk of the sports world right now. leading his team to victory after improbable victory, four straight seemingly miraculous wins. at the heart of everything he does, all his effort and all his success is one simple thing, his christian faith. >> first and foremost, i'd like to thank my lord and savior jesus christ. >> reporter: tebow says that in every interview after every game. >> first and foremost, just have to thank my lord and savior >> reporter: on the field, tebow openly prays and gives thanks, taking one knee in a pose that's become a verb to tebow. something is happening here. the power of prayer, the hand of god? for millions of fans, something is happening here. for others, not so much. >> i hate tim tebow. >> reporter: last year, comedian john oliver of "the daily show" summed up the content many more secular americans and plenty religious fans too have for tebow on a rant caught on tape and posted online. >> if i was in a ro

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we talk about tim tebow later. tebow believes in god, expressing it and people in the sports world mock him and tell him to shut up. if he put on earrings and had tattoos and got arrested for shoots himself in the leg, we'd probably praise. >> i'll tell you how it changed. i believe whether he believes in god or not isn't the point. he is positive, has a great attitude. great shape. >> role model. >> i have no interest many in my sons being like tim tebow. none. but he has a great attitude. for himself, he drive himself to a level that is fantastic. i know other people that do it also. whether it's god or whether he believes in buddha. >> sean: we make fun of people with values and morals. if a guy says he is 28 and we would laugh at him. >> i'm sad you would laugh at him. i'm sad that you as a parent wouldn't want tim tebow a role model for your kids. most people watching tonight would want a tim tebow to be -- >> sean: i would. >> i didn't say he wasn't a nice guy. >> outstanding guy. >> i also don't buy a car wi

i'm like tim tebow. the only thing that would have made that better, the answer, if he ended the segment by tebowing. >> we're going to get a shot of that if people don't know. go check out tebowing.com. buzzer beater for you now. 20 seconds left. talking about gary bucce. he was backing newt gingrich. now he's backing off that endorsement. yes, the actor, maybe a crushing blow to the gingrich campaign. here's one person's late night opinion of it all. >> speaking of the campaign, yesterday gary busey withdrew, this is big political news, by the way. this was worth standing in the rain for. yesterday gary busey withdrew his endorsement of newt gingrich. yeah, mr. busey has gone back to his prior position of endorsing a jar of rais so ns. >> we love him, don't we? south carolina governor set to endorse mitt romney. maria, start with you. who's the better endorsement to have and why? >> well, i think clearly nicky, but for this question i don't know what's more offensive to nicky for being compared to gary

i was fascinated by the phenomenon of tim tebow. there was something extraordinarily compelling about him to watch, even if you're not a football nut. he's a fascinating character. why is that? >> i think it's really the words you used, character. he's got a ton of it, and that's what impacts people and affects them. he won a high school state championship here in florida where i lived. he won two national championships at university of florida. you get the feeling if he's on your team he's going to give you a chance to win the championship. i think that's the phenomenon. >> from a technical point of view, how good is he? what makes him special? >> well, what makes him special is his will to win, his drive, his desire. he's not a polished nfl quarterback yet, but he's a winner. he's the guy that's going to make the play that you need to win the game. the other thing that he does is he inspires belief in his teammates. he's a strong runner. he's an athletic quarterback. he's a powerful guy, but all of that really kind of falls undern

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well, he's being called god's quarterback, the denver bronco's tim tebow. he is also being mocked steadily for his strong expressions of christian faith, by some in the media, some fans and even other players. if tebow was not christian would he be the subject of such criticism? would we even be having this discussion? it's a double standard that has sparked a nation-wide debate. bernie goldberg is a fox news analyst and he joins me now. you can follow him on twitter at bernard goldberg. thank you for being here. it's an interesting question. we've seen so much mocking of tim tebow, i thank my lord and savior jesus. a lot are saying, yeah i get it, his reference to jesus christ. some are weighing now wait a minute, is this right? where do you come down? >> it's fascinating that tim tebow is probably the most polarizing figure in the entire world of sports, not because he once killed defenseless dogs, not because he drove drunk and killed somebody crossing the street, not because he beat up his girlfriend, or used illegal drugs, or shot himself in the leg in

why can't the left just let tim tebow be tim tebow? and be tolerant if the left is so tolerant as they say they are. his mother didn't give him up. and have an abortion. what i get from this, the left is against the kids. they'd rath ver the mothers abort children when they are told due to a faulty medical test, and that is sick. >> kimberly: i agree. >> i think it's unfair to say. though i'm pro-choice, i would never make that choice. i have had a son that died. i had 13 mistak 13 miscarriages3 cycle, i went through hell to have my kid. >> eric: isn't this disgusting? isn't this a pro-choice person using tim tebow just to get, to call attention to -- like bill maher. he is on hiatus and he trashes tim tebow. nothing to do with the ideology. everything to do with using an athlete, conservative christian as a method to "a," raise money ; "b," raise eyeballs. stop it. >> first of all, bill maher would say this. you know he is an atheist. >> eric: would he say this if tim tebow was a muslim and praying to allah? would he say that? i don't

[ laughter ] just seems like -- as you know, tim tebow -- tim tebow and the broncos lost this weekend to tom brady and the patriots. [ cheers and applause ] well, you gotta wonder. you gotta wonder who the lord favors more. i mean, he gave tim tebow six wins in a row. but then again, he gave tom brady gisele, you know? so, you gotta -- [ light laughter ] [ scattered applause ] figure out which way it goes, there. and nba superstar, chris paul, attended his first press conference as a los angeles clipper last week. you know -- [ scattered cheers ] well -- well, you know something -- he said something that caught the reporters -- off guard. take a look, here. take a look. >> i'm excited to be here in l.a. with this unbelievable franchise. you know, there's so much history behind it. [ laughter ] >> jay: yeah, nobody -- [ applause ] what history? and listen to this -- because the clippers obtained chris paul, some people are trading in their laker tickets and getting clipper tickets. yeah, you know who did that this week? kobe's wife. yeah, she traded in -- [ audience ohs ] [ rim shot ]

. >> just like the denver broncos quarterback, tim tebow. this is how it appeared in new york state. >> did it to honor tim tebow. seems like a cool thing to do. he is a leader in every aspect on the field. i just don't think we did anything that warranted a suspension. jon: they were suspended. didded cool go too far. andrew napolitano, fox senior judicial analyst. >> the young man says we did it this honor tim tebow. if he said we did this because we wanted to thank god for our victories or pray to god for a victory, then the behavior would be almost absolutely protected under the first amendment as the free exercise of religion. so if we assume this was a religious act, the school was wrong to interrupt it. if we assume it was an act of defiance or an honor of tim tebow the man, there is time, place and manner for it and the hallway is not one of them. martha:, judge, martha here. >> yes,. martha: that. martha: i look at video. i understand the school's argument. it was going on and on. they were blocking the hallway. people need to get t

i'm not doing it out of the blue. >> it comes back to tim tebow. the lakers may have lucked out on chris paul, but they have one big name. while ron artest may have a new name, not much else has changed. >> i was home just thinking about it, and i was like wow, what if i lost my team and i'm 32, you know. i did my new teeth to grow back in. i was thinking about that, that is brilliant. he actually thought about people's image and persona. you would be ugly with no teeth. >> we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] they've been tested, built and driven like no other. and now they're being offered like no other. come to the winter event and get an exceptional offer on the mercedes-benz of your dreams. it's our way of showing a little holiday spirit. but hurry -- the offer ends january 3rd. ♪ >>> i'm still wondering about the baby teeth thing. >> th

i'm not doing it out of the blue. >> it comes back to tim tebow. the lakers may have lucked out on chris paul, but they have one big name. while ron artest may have a new name, not much else has changed. >> i was home just thinking about it, and i was like wow, what if i lost my team and i'm 32, you know. i did my new teeth to grow back in. i was thinking about that, that is brilliant. he actually thought about people's image and persona. you would be ugly with no

tim tebow is an evangelical christian. the author of the article has personally apologized. >>> i cannot get over how mild it was today. >> spring fever, and we have not had winter yet. >> i am sure it will be here soon. >> not tomorrow. outside now it is another beautiful night. there is our capitol christmas tree. outside, our temperature now a balmy 62 degrees. one degree down but from the high. the cold there has yet to arrive. we are not that far from the record in 1971. high temperatures all over here. down in fredericksburg, it was close to 68 degrees. hagerstown and callbacks 59 degrees -- hagerstown and colfax, 59 degrees. this is the cold front coming our way. by tomorrow, you'll notice the colder air. along the trailing front this is an area of rain down around mississippi. there is birmingham, alabama. that will be coming through us as we get to tomorrow night. here we are in washington. there you can see that overall pattern changed. that will mean there will be an area of low pressure coming to ourselves. ove

it's ridiculous to go after tim tebow. he can expression whatever he wants and it takes a lot of courage to put bible verses on . they discussed whether the player did a plaxico burress shooting himself in nightclub. stories from the sports world are terrible. >> bob: no question that tebow is a good person for kids to look up to. that is not my point. i think we have as christians, we have a difference of how much we display our religion. we are secure in religion. we believe in one risen christ. we have maybe for some of us it's difficult when you see it put in the arena of the secular, particularly the football stadiums. find it difficult. others don't. >> greg: when your adversary you look for a flaw in the adversary. when you play against yusuf we take out the car keys an jingle them at the fans. you find the thing that represented them. if you don't like tim tebow, you find the thing that describes him and mock him. that's what you do to an athlete you don't like or that you are up against. >> eric: we got to go. wha

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. >>> coming up, tim tebow is headlines for something field. football also coming up, and alert for parents after a man goes after two young boys. but first, the scandal at penn state. why sandusky did not fight back in court. >>> in major decision in the penn state. a twist, cherries and as attorneys waived the caboshed jerry sandusky's attorneys waived the parliament jerry's and as the's attorneys waived the preliminary hearing. they called the move a tactical decision. they claim that the media has been one-sided. attorneys for his victims disagree. >> i think he decided at the because he realized going to gowere with this. has been living in a fantasy world. >> he robbed them of their innocence. destroyed their lives. this is one more aspect of has done.he >> both sides say there are no work at a plea deal. >>> also, in the other sex abuse scandal, two men who accused the syracuse assistant coach have lawsuit.ivil >> i want to help children who ,ave the courage to tell adults family, and the police if sexually abused. syracuse anduing the h

as you mentioned, from rick perry on tim tebow. but, let's be honest, the touchdown was really scored this morning by mitt romney landing this endorsement and the tea party movement, mitt romney is way behind newt gingrich in south carolina. if he could somehow get some momentum here in iowa, win this state or finish a strong second, go into new hampshire, win new hampshire and then go strong into south carolina all of a sudden mitt romney is looking very good this morning. >> we'll let you go before the train blows its whistle, again. i hear it coming. >> i assure you, i'm not standing on the tracks. >> that's a good thing. thanks, jim. >>> now too, the countdown to a government shutdown. feel like deja vu. we've been here a million times before, but i guess the countdown has sort of stopped. >>> eight times just this year, with just 16 hours to spare, it appears that congress has reached a deal to keep the government running. an 11th-hour deal. how about that. kate bolduan is live in washington for us. good morning. >> hey, there

tim tebow led the denver broncos out of obscurity and into the thick of the nfl playoff race and while many athletes give credit to higher power when their team wins a game. tebow has many asking if god is really rooting for his team. >> first and foremost i'd have to thank my lord and savior jesus christ. >> when he was winning in high school he he had doubters and winning in college he had doubters. they say he doesn't have the mechanics to be a successful quarterback and now that he's winning in the pros,'s doubters and never considered his heart and his faith. >> if you believe, you know, unbelievable things can sometimes be possible. >> since tim tebow took over as starting quarterback of the denver broncos, halfway through the season the season turned its season around winning seven out of eight games and often winning in dramatic fashion, coming back late in games after starting poorly. >> what is it about their quarterback's ability to bring his team back. he might have explained it when he was a guest on this show last summer. >> i'm not going to be perfect. i'm never going to

>>gary: @ tim tebow breaks the mold. this guy runs all over the place, this business about his religion, we talked about this earlier, yesterday, what bothers me is when people say, i do not need to hear about his religion. then turn off the television. to watch a guy play and to see someone who obviously loves what he does, you never hear him bragging. he always says i have a good coach, i have good receivers. >>gary: there is an announcer says he stopped reading the internet because he was having its feelings hurt. >>gary: we are always looking for a hero, that old expression, someone that the kids can look up to. there is a lot of negative out there. >> there is no one like him. i am rooting for him.

on tebowing. >> there are a lot of folks that saided tim tebow wasn't going to be a very good nfl quarterback and people that stood up and said he doesn't have the right throwing mechanisms or are not playing the game right and he won two national championships and that looked pretty good. we were the national champions in job creation back in texas. am i ready for the next level. let me tell you, i hope i am the tim tebow of the iowa causes. >> he has some amazing fourth quarter comebacks. rick perry will need a lot of fourth quarter comebacks. >> he is doing better. if tim tebow beats the patriots he may enter the iowa caucuses and do well. >> shannon: might be a bit of a miracle today if that happens. >> a terrific example and a fine young man. take a look at the sandusky thing at penn state. people say this is so horrible, how can something like this happen? well, c.s. lewis says we laugh at honor and are surprised to find traitors in our mist. st. paul said thing on the good things, celebrate those, it makes a difference. >> even as a seminole, i was never more happy than to see him grad

>> boy, i have seen tim tebow and governor, you are no tim tebow. the reality is you haven't come back in the fourth quarter yet. we don't know if you are tim tebow. he does an amazing job and flubs it for the first three quarters. the parallel is good there. you are good. he performs under his talent. we don't know if your talent is that high, but you are under performing. we don't know if you can win six out of seven games in the fourth quarter. i think it's a bit far-fetched, but i'm not mad at him for riding the tebow train into glory, but it will stop short for the governor. >> we must give credit for at least remembering his lines, but his poll numbers have collapse and he is down to 6% in the latest news poll that has gingrich wait way out in front with 40%. if herman cain was undone by his private life, rick perry was undone by his public performance. >> it's true. it's refreshing really for a politician to be flat out bad in public. >> he has nothing to hide. it's intelligence. maybe republicans are the anti-intellectual party or stra teeje

tim tebow is 7-1 with the bizarre skills set. people are like me, they don't care about the stuff off the field. watching him play is neat, kind of weird. >> say i don't want him to zip it at all. i want us to be able to have an honest dialogue on who focus on the family is. and why he get a pass on. i also like watching tebow, too, a little stat. he's last in the nfl in q.b. rating in the first three quarters of the game. and first in the fourth quarter. that's amazing. >> what matters is the score on the scoreboard at the end. you say, dave, you wrote, there is something noxious about him being manufactured as a leader. look, there are all kinds of showboats in the nfl and other sports leagues who were famous for different things. whether it's -- you know, off the court behavior with women, tattoos, mouthing off to the coach. so -- but put this, it seems, in a different category. >> because he's held up as this example that we should follow, but when you look closer at the example -- >> how about you? >> by the media. my god, t

let me tell you, i hope i am the tim tebow of the iowa caucuses. >> rick perry trying to have a little tebow mania rub off on him. >>> in other 2012 news, mitt romney is picking up the highly prized endorsement of south carolina governor nikki haley. romney is in the state where governor haley is expected to join him at several campaign events in that critical primary state. >>> today both the house and senate expected to approve a trillion-dollar spending deal just hours before a potential government shutdown. today's "wall street journal" points out agreement on that issue could pave the way for a short-term compromise on extending the payroll tax cuts. the sudden flurry of action follows a decision by senate democrats to back away from their plan to fund that extension with a surtax on incomes over $1 million. house speaker john boehner says scrapping that proposal was the democrats' only option. >> they never had the votes for their so-called millionaire surtax. they didn't even have the votes in 2009 and 2010 when they controlled everything. so i appreciate the fact they gave up o

tim tebow, great guy for praying in front of the crowd. bill maher has some sport with this particular quarterback after the denver broncos lost to the buffalo bills right on christmas eve. this is what bill maher had to say, while jesus just him bad and christmas eve somewhere in -- >>> what do you make of this? >> you can imagine all the critics that tim tebow is going to lose some game or going to have a vial remark just like that. i tend to wonder listening to tim tebow. god doesn't care about football games. he is with him to bring out his talent. god is bringing out the best in him, more than anything else. >> he is actually praying in public. if you remember the sermon on the mound, jesus admonishes the people attending not to pray in public like hypocrites and make a big song and dance about it. to go into thy closet or whatever the king james version says and pray in private. in a sense, when you make a big deal in public you are asking for something like this, aren't you? >> you ought to be able to pray however you want. i'm a bi

tebow fever. tim tebow led the denver broncoses out of obscurity and in the nfl. and many athletes give credit to higher power. many are asking if god ising for his team. >> he had his doubt are in high school. and winning national championships in college he had doubters. they say he doesn't have the mechanics to be a successful nfl quarterback and now he's winning in the pros he has a doubter. and considered his heart and faith. >> since he tock over as starting quarterback. the team turned its season around and winning sevenout of the eight games and winning in dramatic fashion and california coming back after starting poorly. what is it? >> he might have explained it last summer. >> i am not going to be perfect. i am going to mess up every day. that is what grace and faith is all about. getting back up when you get knocked down and continue that journey of faith and continuing to try to improve and get better. >> tim's credits are not limited to those who put down his game. he is awn kniling down to pray in the games and that habe moxed by opponents and tebowi