gingrich because everybody knows that he has really nasty attack ads, and gingrich was not impressed with this christmas gesture and christmas offering. so i imagine it ll heat up 48 hours after they agree to this temporary truce in advertising. jon: peace on earth, right? peace on earth. [laughter] jon: kirsten powers, judy miller, thank you both. with thank you. jon: and there s going to be a lot more analysis when i host news watch tomorrow. don t miss it, 2:30 p.m. eastern time. we ll be examining how the media covers the big stories of the week. jenna: well, right now the president is preparing to take off for hawaii to spend christmas, well, in that state with his family. and now that congress voted to approve the two month extension of the payroll tax holiday, the president can actually start his own holiday. not everyone gets to start their holiday, especially if you re part of the press corps that is following the president, and doug is live in honolulu just waiting for
maybe you will see a white christmas. hard to imagine there. here is where the snow is across the country. all the action is across parts of the west. pacific northwest and through the rockies where you expect to see that we ll see a bit of a white christmas in oklahoma, texas and in towards kansas. look at fargo, north dakota, nothing. indianapolis, nothing. last year all the floods in the spring will not happen this year because we don t have the snow back. even the northeast not looking at white christmas for almost everybody. that means you will get home for christmas. that is the good part. jon: that is the good news. i will take a holiday without a lot of travel nightmares. rick, thank you. jenna: knock on wood. you don t want to jinx us now. jon: i m knocking. can you hear me? jenna: meantime the death of kim jong il now having religious implications on the korean peninsula days before christmas. plans of public displays linking the north to the south have now been canceled. gre
war, afghanistan war, they feel that he sometimes, you know, seems sympathetic to iran. and so he just isn t, you know, towing the line, i think, on foreign policy. so they have major issues with that substantively. and then there s a lot of stuff that s going to start coming out. i know there have been some other articles written about some racist comments that i guess showed up in some newsletters that he had his name on, not necessarily made by him. and so i think they feel like he just cannot represent the conservative brand, um, appropriately. jon: if he wins iowa, a guy named phillip klein writes in the examiner, judy, his outrageous statements and ugly associations will be granted a lot more attention. is that an accurate statement? well, not if keys have anything conservatives have anything to say about it but, sure, that s the role of iowa. even though people who win iowa don t necessarily go on to get the nomination, they do get a lot of attention, and it usually builds m
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merry christmas. thank you. bye. jon: i ve got to say, he sounds awfully jocular for a guy who is missing his mistletoe season. jenna: who knew? did you know texas i would never even think of texas, you know? the texans will always prove you wrong though, just when you think you know. jon: it s a big state. got a lot of agriculture in. hey, time is ticking away for last minute shoppers, myself included, but if you re running behind, do not become a panic shopper. don t go out and just grab what you can as you make a mad dash through the mall. jenna: never a good thing. jon: a few more tips to keep your cool and keep you from busting your budget. for a hot dog cart. my mother said, well, maybe we ought to buy this hot dog cart and set it up someplace. so my parents went to bank of america. they met with the branch manager and they said, look, we ve got this little hot dog cart, and it s on a really good corner. let s see if we can buy the property. and the branch manager said,