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Explain why the secretary of agriculture jumped the gun so quickly. the media is another matter. let me -- let me get your overarch on this story. is this an important story for the administration? >> its important in this sense, bill. if, as the administration says, it -- if as the white house says, it was indifferent to whatever secretary vilsack originally decided about shirley sherrods future meaning it was informed but not consulted about the decision to fire her, and then late last night r...

-- >> billy, this is -- you know, i dont know. >> this is a big story, billy. >> it is big. >> its a big story. and were -- and in a world where the estate is lined up outside the courthouse for lindsay lohan like lindhberg arriving, this is a pretty big story right here. and, of course, in the 24/7 cycle, things are going to happen quickly. but she could have her job back tomorrow if she wanted. ill be interested to see where this story goes tomorrow because i heard the rest of that speech. was...

Youre passing them all in ratings. >> thats true. we will cover it and we will cover it fairly. >> just tell everybody in the united states that if you didnt watch fox news, oreillys show on monday night, you dont know whats going on. >> right. dick morris, everybody, check out his web site at dickmorris.com. in a moment, explosive press conference about the sherrod situation. major garrett and james rosen will weigh in. and later, dennis miller following the twists and turns in the story. cant ...

Movement. you might remember, was it the tea party federation? theres a couple of different groups that tried to act as though theyre the national group, the national spokesperson group. i dont play into all that because i think each individual group can speak for themselves. >> somebody had a -- somebody had to make the statement that this guy was no longer welcome in the tea party. >> yeah, one of those groups, i think, with the tea party federation told him, all right, this doesnt jive with u...

Administration. how do you explain the -- those three departures? do they really have nothing to do with the campaign that had been waged against them? >> i was asked a larger question about this and my answer doesnt change. why do you do stories on all three of them? >> you can fault the media, if you want. >> im not faulting the media, jake, but -- hold on, im not here to fault the media. i apologize on behalf of the administration. >> one of the lessons to be learned here that the administrat...

Lately on this issue of health care. >> all right. >> some of the racism we thought was buried, here -- now, we endured eight years of the bushes and we didnt do what the republicans are doing because you have a black president! >> so here we have blatant partisanship, publicly put forth by miss sherrod, also very unusual for an appointed public servant and a possible ethical violation because, according to the hatch act, federal employees are forbidden to endorse political parties while on duty...

Pronouncement to fire miss sherrod way before -- not way before but hours before "factor" came on, "hannity" came on and greta came on. they didnt know what we were going to do about it. its true they may have been anticipating. >> they probably could guess. >> yeah, you know what? all right. thats fair. >> they said oh, my god, fox has a hold of this story. theyre going to beat us over the head. and if we dont get out there and fire her pre-emptive ly, were going to look terrible and were going...

>> what happens, though, and we have to do this to be fair if we do and there are, as i said in the talking points memo, some very dubious statements made by the woman about politics and about characterizations of their own kind and this, that and the other thing. as mara said, theyre stuck with her, major, no matter what comes out and i suspect theres going to be a bunch of stuff that comes out. >> well, whatever comes out, thats a story for another day. what robert gibbs is trying to do today ...

Coming it. admiring people like hugo chavez and castro he wants to make a movie about ahmadinejad. heavy odds are it will be produced by pinhead productions. thats eight for us. check out the factor news website. i eat a little crow. thats billoreilly.com. also spout off at oreilly@foxnews.com. when wig the factor no bilge when writing to us. again, thank you for watching tonight. i am bill oreilly. please remember, the spin stops right here. again we are going to have more on the shirley sherro...

>> what happens, though, and we have to do this to be fair if we do and there are, as i said in the talking points memo, some very dubious statements made by the woman about politics and about characterizations of their own kind and this, that and the other thing. as mara said, theyre stuck with her, major, no matter what comes out and i suspect theres going to be a bunch of stuff that comes out. >> well, whatever comes out, thats a story for another day. what robert gibbs is trying to do today ...