r-rated film bully. unfortunately, that rating will keep kids from seeing it. now, activists, lawmakers and celebrity, meryl streep, johnny depp, they want the motion picture association of america to make this film pg-13. but will that happen before the film opens nationally on march 30th? bully filmmaker lee hirsch is here in studio with me. great to have you here. congratulations on the process and the product that you ve put out there. obviously the plim is gfilm it lot of attention because of the rating it was getting. just seeing that clip, the boy featured, one of the children featured, the abuse that he suffers is infuriating. you krur self-admit you were bullied as a kid. as a filmmaker, did you ever want to jump in there and save this kid from the crap he was getting from these other kids? first of all, thanks for having me. yeah. absolutely. i mean, i think the whole film was a giant act of wanting to
the jellies do have a particularly unpleasant sting and that s not really that much fun but that s not keeping swimmers away, no-no , no. officials say there s not a lot they can do other than raise flags and say look folks, there s jellyfish in the water. they are as far north as south carolina. watch out for the jellyfish. bill: you know how you take care of that, don t you? nineteen minutes before the hour. here s our top story again, president obama confronted by a tea party leader over civility or rather a lack of it in politics today. he was part of the exchange from last night in iowa. watch and listen:
bachmann, true conservatives, you know, they have walked the walk and have not just talked the talked and rick perry has really created a lot of jobs in texas and through the majority of jobs in the united states have been created by rick perry. and, that is what we need to do. that is what our president is not doing, our economy is in the tank, because of barack obama. our economy is on a rollercoaster ride right now and it is about job creation and, experience and, rick perry brings it to the table. bill: interesting, i ll continue the conversation, and we ll do it next time when we can see you, okay? okay, sounds good. bill: you are a good sport. talk to you guys later. martha: we have more on the breaking news we just brought you moments ago. is the g.o.p. field done? paul ryan, this is just crossing moments ago, now reportedly in the final stages of deciding whether or not he will shake up the race for the g.o.p. nomination, more on that, right after this break. bill: also, a th
ravel tickets you get and the only reason why he put each kid s name on it, they had to identify somebody when they called the number out. it wasn t like he intentionally wanted to defraud anybody. martha: what do you think, tom? a little more to it than that. here s what people don t realize when you see the hole in one contests at a golf ball or nhl hockey gale and there s an insurance policy involved. a lot of people have the impression that the team is paying for the prize or the golf course but what they do is buy an insurance policy and sea in the unlikely event someone hits these miraculous shots like we saw young nate do, you re not going to shell out the $50,000 out of pocket, you pay for the policy and they pay for it. so when they purchase that ticket or better yet when they go to fill out those claim forms, if they re misrepresenting certain facts then it s actually insurance fraud and that s a serious offense under minnesota law. but the insurance company is in the unc
selectquote. we shop. you save. bill: a fox news alert, right now, steven hayes is a writer for the weekly standard and a fox news contributor, and writing that paul ryan, the republican out of wisconsin, is strongly considering a run for the white houses. he s 41, on the house budget committee and has been a central part of all the debate with health care reform and the budget and the debt ceiling debate we watched over the past several months and paul ryan, apparently, according to him is in the final stages of making his decision. but has not take then possibility off the table and we ll follow that and see where that leads, a lot of people from different parts of the republican party have encouraged paul ryan, and chris christie of new jersey, saying there is room for one more on the campaign trail and now, a sharp shift in popularity for the tea party,