politically correct you are not supposed to use facts that run comfortable. bill: ron paul once again saying it is america s fault that foreign terrorists are targeting us. we endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us? bill: the best debate coverage anywhere on the factor tonight. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services bill: hi, i m bill o reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the best debate so far. that is the subject of this evening s talking points memo. lots of action last night in myrtle beach as the republic guise brought a search of urgency to the floor. everybody knows mitt romney is building a commanding lead so his challengers had to make some points and to some extent they did. let s run it down. frontrunner mitt romney had a so-so night. not making any dramatic
against president obama. i should let you know that there that the news about gary johnson dropping his libertarian party bid and endorsing ron paul was a hoax. so oh that will happen. that will happen. live television. tell happen. i don t know if she made the mistake or a producer. in terms of the lineup on the field here, you know, five unabashed liberals. is that the approach a news network should take? well, in 2004 or 2008, i m sorry, if you remember, they had chris matthews and keith olbermann leading their debate coverage and got huge amount of pushback from people internally at nbc saying, how can we do this, how can we let primetime bleed into what is supposed to be standard news coverage? to the point that when it came convention time and election night, msnbc brought david gregory over from the nbc side so a neutral journalist
rick santorum s political career will be ending soon. he will go to the republican convention next year not as a candidate but as a fox news contributor again. santorum has traveled all of iowa, and he s still gaining no traction. there s a reason for that. then of course, santorum finished in a virtual tie in the iowa caucuses. how could news outlets make this mistake again and fail to scrutinize santorum s record in the process? mitt romney faces skeptical questioning despite winning iowa because his margin was a measly eight votes. what does did say about your candidacy that you actually won fewer votes than but in 2008, and you fought rick santorum to a draw? perhaps the press is just trying to keep this race alive? plus, we ll talk to the political director of the dominant tv station, wmur, about covering the nation s first primary as a local story. i m howard kurtz and this is the new hampshire edition of reliable sources. the media narrative here in new
america? let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. we re just an hour away. eight republican candidates vying for the party nomination. they are all taking to the stage tonight. the topic, national security. it has been 109 days since america lost its aaa credit rating. that s going to turn the rate on our mortgages and a whole lot more. we re not doing anything about it. we re still mad has hell about the super committee failing yesterday. fitch said the committee s failure would most likely result in negative action. so we re upset about the super committee and they are mad, too. panel member john kerry was watching outfront last night. he got mad and he called in. i think people are upset. i think nerve the country is upset. they are looking at congress and saying, why can t these guys get something done? but it s not enough for people just to say, oh, it s broken. you got to ask, okay, why. what is the matter that it is broken? so what now? we re hoping for a shock a
problem. i believe in fixing the problem. secondly, if we fix the problem with the personal retirement a account approach like i described like they use in galveston, texas, like they use in chile, this is going to help people have more money when they retire. i don t agree with that. secondly, the social security fund has been raided for years and so they they borrowed against they borrowed against it. that s what they ve done. with no intention with no intention of putting the money back. it s not sustainable the way it is which is why i believe we should restructure it. all right. mr. cain, good to have you with us tonight. i appreciate your time. thanks so much. more debate coverage is coming up. thank you, ed. you bet, sir. more debate coverage coming up.