this is a true story. i m hiking beautiful fall foliage, i m watching for bears and all of a sudden this lady comes up and goes do you really know juan williams? i go what are you killing kidding me, lady? let me tell you what i know about juan and then she went screaming off. you are unbelievably famous. has that changed your life? you know what? the last few at as, bill, and i say this to you as someone who does know me, i have had to process the hurt. i mean people come up to me and say now you work for fox, congratulations, all this kind of stuff. i am emotionally still focused on the idea that they first tried to demean me and say i m crazy and all of this. and secondly i m a bigot and third, this is ongoing and this is where we are today. we is may have handled this badly but we made the right decision that as a journalist we have got problems. you heard what she said to jesse waters. what is that madness about. i was there for 10 years. i was a host of a program. their senio
proverbial bubble and nobody will penetrate the bubble with a question like that. that s right. bill: $420 million is not chump change. that s how much money, 420 million goes to the national public broadcasting. they sift of shift it around to pbs and npr and other things. they are going to lose it. i hope so. bill: they are going to lose it? i will say yes but not by much. i will tell you this, bill, related to that i didn t want to see helen thomas fired for what she said. i don t want to see rush limbaugh fired. i didn t want to see rick sanchez fired. and i don t want to see juan williams fired. this woman who runs npr, this vivian schiller woman, i want to see her fired because she is incompetent. bill: but you are a mean guy. no, i m not. i m a very nice fellow. she is incompetent and this ombudsman. bill: is worse. she doesn t know what she is talking about. bill: because in galic ombudsman means going out to lunch. that s what it means. bernie goldberg, eve
if the proverbial man from mars came down he would say i m a little confused here. why is it okay for nina totenberg to say this. bill: we assume that ms. totenberg was scolded. i don t know whether she was or not. let s assume something more realistic, that the elites at npr didn t have a problem when she said that jesse helms should die of aids or might die of aids or ret tri she said on i understand said talk show juan williams committed a crime against humanity. he said it on this show. bill: thought liberal media including msnbc and the new york times have not really covered this story very much. why? the new york times, the bible, the one that the networks take their cues from, have had no editorials on the subject. by the way, they have had editorials on the coming of
brit: that helps. what the tea party really is is a place, is a rallying point for this protest vote. and the republicans will benefit from that and the tea party is kind of a symptom of that. the tea party is a sign of intensity. that s what the tea party has been all along. the fact that much large number people of people have turned out for tea party events how angry and disappointed people are. bill: brit hume, everybody, thank you. brit will be with us a week from tomorrow on the election night coverage. we will all be here. it will be very interesting. in a moment democrat alicia menendez will give us her election preview. also plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. clinton eastwood comments on president obama. that s pretty interesting. we will play you the clip. and the now world famous juan williams will check. in we ll see how he is doing and analyze some anti-juan comments.
if the proverbial man from mars came down he would say i m a little confused here. why is it okay for nina totenberg to say this. bill: we assume that ms. totenberg was scolded. i don t know whether she was or not. let s assume something more realistic, that the elites at npr didn t have a problem when she said that jesse helms should die of aids or might die of aids or ret tri she said on i understand said talk show juan williams committed a crime against humanity. he said it on this show. bill: thought liberal media including msnbc and the new york times have not really covered this story very much. why? the new york times, the bible, the one that the networks take their cues from, have had no editorials on the subject. by the way, they have had editorials on the coming of