play. and that s the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction and a new republican ad mocking president obama. joining from us washington, fox news analyst father catherine ham and juan williams. juan wrote an article about the tea party coverage in the wall street journal last week. what did you say, juan? what i said was the democrats are, in fact, putting themselves in danger by trying to continue to demonize the tea party. just like you said in those polls, bill, what we are learning about the tea party is that the tea party represents mainstream american upset with government. people who don t trust government. people who are upset about deficit spending, about the expansion of entitlement programs. people who are upset with big banks and the bailouts. this is people who think the country is headed in the wrong direction and don t trust politicians. that s not some fringe movement. that s now mainstream american political thought. and the tea party is not the issue. you
our mission here is what good about the president and what is bad. no. our mission is to use our power and founding father s privileges that they gave to the media not to inform anymore but to defend a sitting administration. that s corruption. i totally agree. and that is the premise of the book i wrote a slobbering love affair. precisely what you just said. in the case we are talking about tea partyers racism and all of that and absolutely disgraceful comment by congressman cohen, he based that comment on news reports of racial slurs and spitting. the more i look into this, bill, the more i m convinced that it never happened. now, if it did, it is shameful, period. but one congressman, a black congressman said that he heard the n word shouted 15 times. shouted. not whispered. not once but 15 times.
play. and that s the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction and a new republican ad mocking president obama. joining from us washington, fox news analyst father catherine ham and juan williams. juan wrote an article about the tea party coverage in the wall street journal last week. what did you say, juan? what i said was the democrats are, in fact, putting themselves in danger by trying to continue to demonize the tea party. just like you said in those polls, bill, what we are learning about the tea party is that the tea party represents mainstream american upset with government. people who don t trust government. people who are upset about deficit spending, about the expansion of entitlement programs. people who are upset with big banks and the bailouts. this is people who think the country is headed in the wrong direction and don t trust politicians. that s not some fringe movement. that s now mainstream american political thought. and the tea party is not the issue. you
mr. lew i have no blanking idea what he just said. i have no clue. joining us from washington, two people who may be able to straighten me out. i hope so. mary cath rib catherine ham and juan williams. what did he say there, juan? little bit of green shade of count and talk. we are going to grow our way out of this problem. he believes with the added spending in terms of infrastructure and investment in education and the like, that with the u.s. economy already recovering, he sees more recovery in sight and the u.s. will. bill: that wasn t the question. that wasn t the question. the request, juan was a simple question because as you know chris wallace is a simple man. here is the question. president obama said in 2009 he is going to cut the deficit in half at the end by the end of his first term. yeah. bill: wallace was nice. he said he didn t come close. he increased the deficit by a trillion dollars. cut it in half. here it is. the president said he is going