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Going to get this thing. i hope he says? >> hes not getting anything done. >> unbelievable numbers last year. >> ed, this aint politics. this is sports. i told you about debating this with me. the fact is this man has thrown the interception in the nfc championship game two of the last three years. he hasnt won a super bowl in 14 years. it was super bowl xxxi. thats the last time. >> youre the man. >> come on, now. stop it. >> good to have you with us. coming up, fox news is getting a front ro...

Welcome back. its time for a special edition of club ed with "daily show" creator liz winsted. see liz do standup at comics in new york city coming up august 5th. go to comicsnewyork.com for tickets, and believe me, shell knock it out of the park. all right. fox news, liz, is going to get a seat in the front row, and oreilly says hell be there sometime or another. beck and hannity will be there. what do you make of in? >> its sort of unbelievable. quite frankly its sort of like having gloria alr...

This, that you think its okay for americans to lose their health insurance when they get sick because thats what that law does. >> no. actually, ed, you and i have talked about this over the year. i think it is a ridiculous infringement upon the american constitutional system we have here when the federal government for the first time is using the commerce clause to say that an american citizen must buy a particular good or service from a private entity. thats ridiculous. >> thats not the point ...

And in my playbook, here we go again. minnesota vikings brett favre says hes retiring. the 40-year-old hall of famer reportedly told the team hes not returning, sent text messages to teammates saying, quote, this is it. joining me now, stephen a. smith, nationally syndicated talk show host and columnist for "the philadelphia enquirer" on vacation in l.a., but hes fired up to talk about this one tonight. this better not be it. i need one more year out of this guy. is it it? what do you think? >> ...

Administration, and on issue after issue i dont think that they have been very competent in their application of the law to the issues at hand. >> joan walsh, your response? >> first of all this, administration has had amazing success in bringing in, killing, capturing, otherwise dealing with al qaeda leadership, so thats the first thing hes wrong on, and, you know, ed, your friend and mine, governor dean, was paying compliments to newt gingrich a couple weeks ago saying he would bring intellect...

Its not uncertainty. you were right at top of the show, ed, when you were talking about what they want is they are afraid that the tax -- that the tax cuts they got from george bush for people making half a million, a million, 5 million a year, that those tax cuts are going to be taken away, and they want it the way it was, and thats what the elections are about. weve got three guys in ohio running this year, three republicans. all three were in the house or senate. one was the presidents trade ...

>> its been an issue -- >> wheres the republican party been on this for the last 100 years? >> ed, ill tell you in 1995, i introduced the bill, birth right citiz citizenship act. >> it didnt go anywhere. >> it ended up with almost 100-plus co-sponsors. youre right. they were worried about the perception here, but what im saying to you, do you think that a wealthy foreigner should be able to fly into the united states, stay here for a few weeks and get automatic citizenship for their child even t...

tea partier sharron angle admits shes trying to control the media. im throwing her in the zone because thats where she belongs and a tough day for this broadcaster. as a minnesota viking fan brett favre says hes retiring for the third time. steph stephen a. myth and the playbook, i think hes serious tonight. this story has me fired up tonight. i believe big business in this country wants president obama to fail at everything. wall street versus main street. thats not what it is anymore...

At a time like this? thats idiotic, ed. >> was it idiotic to -- why didnt sarah palin ever talk about outsourcing and american jobs going overseas? thats the soft underbelly of the republicans right now and the democrats are going to have to expose their talking heads on the right that they dont have an answer for that. >> does this show confidence that speaker pelosi wants this vote before november? what does that show? >> i think speaker pelosi has been speaking the truth on a lot of things la...

Saying that private first class manning whos being held at quantico marine base just south of washington, d.c. will probably face an article 32 hearing, the military equivalent of grand jury proceeding. >> j house speaker nancy pelosi wants a vote on whether to extend the bush tax cuts before the november elections. there are heated arguments about whether to allow taxes to increase for the wealthiest americans will actually hurt this sluggish economy or simply make things easier for the rich. l...