0 echoed the distortion that i criticized nbc news knowing they had obama administration memo justifies the drone strikes. >> now, that's kind of curious given it's t. was an nbc scoop. so o'reilly misspoke and i thought he would come back the next night and correct the record. bill, the only reason there is a drone debate right now because nbc news revealed that memo. >> bill: are you kidding me, howard? are you killed me? come on, man. the double standard of media coverage on waterboarding versus drones has been apparent for years. you don't know that? and don't give me any of this o'reilly misspoke business. you know exactly what beckel and i were talking about or you should know. so here is the big picture. by distorting the discussion i had with beckel. the left believes it can bury the hypocrisy issue but it can't. to be fair a few committed left wing people like code pink are consistent in their objection to tough measures against terrorists, not everybody on the left is hypocritical. nbc news was handed the drone memo by somebody. and it reported the story. good for them. but has analysis by nbc commentators reflected drone disdain at the level of waterboarding disdain? not even close. summing up on the issue of hard measures against terrorists, the right has been consistent. the left hypocritical flag to howard kurtz, learn it, know it, live it. with the the apologies to fast times at ring month high. that's the memo. now for' to the top story tonight. president obama will deliver the state of the union ar dress after the factor ends tomorrow night 8.55 eastern time. we would like thank the president for waiting until we are done. now brit flum boca hume from a state of the union that is optimistic -- he has got to say unlike you, hume, he has got to say everything is going in the right way. got to say that our policies are pushing things in the right way. come up with a few things. but then is he going to basically say look, i'm not going to cut spending he is it not going to say it like i say it. not reach out, i don't think. the state of the union is almost going to be like a throwdown. you know, we're going to do it my way or you guys too bad. >> well, i think broadly speaking, you are probably correct. one thing to remember about a state of the union address is that it is very long comparison, for example, with an inaugural address or your standard campaign speech. so, you know, you will be able to find passages in it in which he probably will talk, at least in passing about the need to cut spending and he will say to do it in the right way or the smarter whatever way he will say it but it won't be the kind of reforms of the entitlement programs that republicans have been pushing for for a long time and which are the big drivers of the debt. the other question bill is, will he make the long awaited finally make the long awaited pivot to the economy. the buzz in washington over the weekend has been that he is going to pivot to the economy. he is going to focus on the economy because it is still weak. i have had a suspicion for a long time, bill, that this president -- is not really very interested in or by the economy. he doesn't really fully understand it i think that he is much more preoccupied with quality of opportunity or at least or even equality of income and with social justice than he with the growth of the economy. if the economy is bumping along at 1% or 2% growth. that may be good enough for him. i don't think he is going to go out of his way and adopt any policies that aren't completely comfortable with him to try to boost the growth. i think that's a big issue that will haunt him and his parties. >> guns and immigration stuff right where he wants to have them. i think probably press advantages. last word. well, immigration is one where he might indeed gets something done. a lot of republicans' that he will get less done on guns and i think that any chance he has of getting any new taxes passed are pretty remote unless he were to agree to some really major changes in entitlement programs. shown no disposition to do that so far. >> thanks very much. next on the run down, the hard left seems to be standing by their man barack obama. but there are some cracks starting to appear. marc lamont hill on that. >> being tear rides by excop serial killer. authorities may be trying to appease him. those reports after these messages.