hurdles to make the project a priority. >> people are worried about what is happening with iran. it doesn't have to do with the domestic oil production. so we are drilling all over the place. right now. that's not the challenge. that is not the problem. we're opening up 75-point of the oil resources offshore. america uses 20% of the world's oil and we have 2% of the world's oil reserve. >> eric: grossly misinformed or willing to say anything to get re-elected? >> bob: first, i want to dissociate myself with that new thing. said we have a new -- i don't. the president made a good point. drilling more today than in a long time. i go back and i don't know why i have to go over this over and over again -- >> eric: before you get that. the producers want to know why you are wearing sunglasses. >> bob: my eyes are hurting me. you're hurting me. >> andrea: corey hart just calls and he wants the sunglasses back. >> bob: very funny. >> eric: president obama claims that we are drilling more. >> bob: any republican in this, in the house who called for alternative energy. it's all about drill, drill, drill. i'm telling you, i just take -- what is called again? >> eric: barack obamater. >> bob: did you create that? that's impartial right there. >> eric: there are a lot of missed statements. he is speaking as we speak later at ohio state university. talking about alternative energy. claiming on board with drilling for a long time. >> dana: there is capital on energy, but give him credit. he decided to go out there and say the same statements over and over, factcheck.org, they go over it every morning to say wait, these three things are stretches of the truth or are not true. yet, they still don't change their tune. saying he will move it forward, this is a minor routine check that the army corps of engineer does regularly. 1,179-mile gap that actually needs attention that would have been helpful, but that's one he personally lobbied against last week. >> andrea: he has been openly hostile to fossil fuel for a long time. thank you for your meter, eric, but i think every person watching his speeches continuously, though he is trying to convince us otherwise see it's not adding up. this president has come out against drilling. it was his administration that shut it down. after the b.p. spill. now they gave b.p. a safety award. yet they shut down the drilling in the gulf. much to dismay of democratic senators. he has a problem on his hands when he says he's doing everything he can. drilling is up because of bush and clinton. not because of barack obama. >> bob: there are 4,000 more drilling rigs today under barack obama. [ overtalk ] >> eric: that is not right. >> bob: it is right. leaving that aside, you say -- i see, we had the biggest oil spill in the history of the world and not stop oil drilling. >> andrea: a big car wreck on the highway do you shut down the highway? >> eric: you are wearing sunglasses. greg, jump in here. >> greg: well're overlooking an important fact. can we show picture of obama speaking today? a little known fact that america is not aware of is obama is four inchs tall and he's standing in front of a pack of cigarettes. >> andrea: fascinating. >> greg: ugh every photo op, president obama keeps losing an article of clothing. roll up his sharifs, removes his tie, unbutton his shirt. if the campaign doesn't turn around he will only be wearing the harvard glass ring by memorial day. i'm concerned. >> bob: are you in favor of alternative energy? >> greg: i'm in favor of all energy. especially positive energy. >> bob: besides fossil fuel? >> greg: wind mills are a joke. solar power i can live with. we are exaggerating the importance. >> bob: so your important is drill, drill, drill, and we'd be fine? >> andrea: i don't know what this position really is. greg talks about rolling up his sleeves. isn't that half the battle in politics to convince the public you are doing something, when you're really not? >> eric: can we bring this back to what this is? president obama got on his airplane and jetted around a couple of states. four stops. a couple of things he is saying. we use 20% of the world's oil and only have 2% of the world's reserves. unequivocally incorrect, even his energy department says it's not so. why is he using the numbers? >> dana: i'm baffling by the decision-making. it's not fair and it's ridiculous to say that people on the republican side just want to drill. if that were true they wouldn't have the doe loans because they're passed by democratic congress. >> bob: but if -- >> dana: if i could get one thought out without you interrupting me. >> bob: sorry. >> dana: it's not just the republicans that came up that the pipeline, he didn't have to approve the pipeline. bloomberg news said it won't be if pipeline. cnn, more theater than substance. the problem is not with the vast right wing, reporting the wind mill or solar power and geo thermal. the market is doing that. the problem is they have a record they can't sustain if they will make the political argument they are making today. >> eric: jump in. all right, i'll correct one of your numbers. one of your numbers. currently 1,984 drilling rigs in america. we've had as many as 4,850. we have had 488. when the price of oil goes up, the drilling rig counts go up. on week-to-week, we track the number of rigs. the number of more four times under bush, and that's incorrect. >> bob: i did not say that. >> eric: okay. president obama has been saying and a lot of people on the left. >> greg: when they were talking about solyndra earlie earlier. >> eric: take a listen. >> obviously, we wished solyndra didn't go bankrupt. part of the reason they did is the chinese were subsidizing their solar industry and flooding the market in ways solyndra couldn't compete. but understand, this was not our program per se. >> greg: if solyndra succeeded it would have been their program. but it failed. so not our program per se. first question, who is per se and what does the french guy have to do with solyndra? [ laughter ] >> bob: they can't get away from solyndra not being the obama administration program. for sure. but the argument that the chinese are undercutting our solar industry, solar panels is right. we will see the entire industry -- >> andrea: let them. it's too expensive. even germany -- >> bob: so you are not for alternative energy? >> andrea: i am. but i'd rather have the private market do it. we're just throwing money away. why does the administration keep changing the reasons? first it was environmental reasons and now they're blaming congress. they think american public is stupid and they're not following what they are saying. they are watching everything. they're savvy on gas prices. miscalculation they are not. >> dana: the problem with solyndra they were trying to do single technology that wasn't necessary. solar market in america, especially the southwest is quite robust. we have good solar makers here. we're fighting with the chinese. world trade organization by the u.s. and european countries monday saying look at the chinese practice of subsidize the solar market. you know what the chinese said? great. look in america's too. see how that turns out. >> eric: free market -- >> bob: i wonder how many more chinese solar panels are here than made in the united states? depend on chinese to provide it for you? good. >> eric: depend on the free market. >> bob: i'd rather depend on america herself. not get your head in the sand. mitt romney has not come up with a single alternative proposal. not one. >> greg: do you think jason matero would mistake bob beckel for bono? >> dana: maybe. >> eric: leave it there. coming up, is the silent majority in america about to explode? rush limbaugh thinks so. rush when we come back. don't forget to e-mail us at thefive@foxnews.com. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: meet mary. she loves to shop online with her debit card, and so does bill, an identity thief who stole mary's identity, took over her bank accounts and stole her hard-earned money. now meet jack. enough to enjoy retirement.saved angie, the waitress at jack's favorite diner, is also enjoying his retirement. with just a little information, she's opened up a credit line, draining the equity in jack's home. unfortunately, millions of americans just like you learn all it may take is a little misplaced information to wreak havoc on your life. this is identity theft, and no one helps stop it better than lifelock. see, ordinary credit monitoring services tell you after your identity has been stolen. they may take up to 60 days to alert you-- too late for jack. lifelock has the most comprehensive identity theft protection available. if mary had lifelock's bank account alerts, she may have been notified in time to help stop it. if jack had lifelock's 24/7 proactive protection, he could have been alerted by phone or e-mail as soon as they noticed an attack on their network, before it was too late. lifelock has the most comprehensive identity theft protection available, guarding your social security number, your money, your credit, even the equity in your home. while identity theft can't be completely stopped, no one works harder to protect you than lifelock. you even g a $1 million service guarantee. that's security no one can beat. you have so much to protect and nothing to lose when you call lifelock right now and get 60 days of identity theft protection risk free-- that's right, 60 days risk free-- use promo code "not me". order now and get this document shredder to keep sensitive documents out of the wrong hands-- a $29 value, free. [click-click] [♪...] ♪ ♪ >> dana: welcome back to "the five." we'll move on and talk about something more broad-based, is there an undercurrent of frustration going on in the country, and is it about to explode? rush limbaugh has some though thoughts. >> silent majority are the people who get up and go to work. try to play by the rules. try to do everything right according to the morality, and their sense of ethics and the right and wrong. my gut instinct about the silent majority is it's about to explode. it's about had enough. a lot of small instrumental things that happened over 20 and 30 years, but now with obama the small incremental things are becoming bigger. and more impactful with each instance. >> dana: rush limbaugh has been doing this for a long time and he has an amazing knack to spot trends. he looks ahead to see what is coming. general sense of exasperation if you stand for what you believe in, follow the rules and instability. a friend of mine called it subtle majority, not just the silent majority. what do you think? >> greg: who is he talking about? i don't think he is talking about just conservatives but both parties that is mocked by the media, the silent majority of takers who we hear the most from lately. the good news is when the silent majority explodes, they don't vandalize. they don't defecate on cars. they throw a picnic and they vote. >> dana: then they go back to paying the bills. >> bob: historical perspective, silent majority was richard nixon and spiro agnew. it was used as a racist code in the south and used to turn people against the vietnam war protesters, a terrible word used. if there are frustrated people, that's why. silent majority has a history, negative history. used by two of the most corrupt approximatelytitions in america. if you want to align yourself with that, if you're rush limbaugh. >> greg: i dent neif that is tra. >> andrea: let's rename it the get your blad pressure down. the mood majority. >> greg: the quiet storm. >> eric: let's talk about what rush said. he said a group that goes to work every day, works hard, pays their taxes, just wants to be, wants to have a voice. the problem is that kind of defines the tea party. looks like a conservative, tea party. the problem is it's almost not a majority anymore. people who are takers are almost more than 50% of america. >> tea party is less than 20% of the country. >> eric: talking about people paying taxes versus those who aren't. 49% of american households don't pay federal income tax. >> bob: obama's point -- >> eric: he is pushing that line closer and closer. >> dana: can we talk about one of the stories that started the conversation by rush limbaugh. there is a fox news.com story about new york stony brook university. they decided, policy they are no longer going to offer, no holidays for either jewish or christian holidays because they didn't want people to be offended or feel left out. do you think this is sort of the feeling of oh, my gosh, lay off of us? >> andrea: i think it is feeding it. i think he is referring to, all the talk of the millionaires and billionaires and then the takers, people who are not paying taxes. there is a group of people in the midthat are middle class and people who worked hard to be successful. they fall right in the middle area. they are getting hammered. the folks in the middle class look at barack obama say tax the rich. eventually you can't tax the rich 100%. eventually you've got to tax the middle class. they are looking at this now and saying there is two classes. it's not just the makers and the takers. the politically connected and people who don't play by the rules. i play by the rules. if you play by the rules you lose. if you support barack obama or union or someone else, you get carve-out, special treatment. two classes. we're creating two classes. the president is pushing two classes. >> bob: try to say this with a smile on my face. the fact of the matter is most tax breaks have come to people who are rich. in the last 20 years. including other democrats. >> andrea: paul ryan is trying to do but you yell at him. >> bob: he is not responsible for this. the last major tax overhaul was good. it was good. most of the people were dropped off the roles at the bottom were under the bush tax plan. good idea because they were not in a position to pay for it. >> andrea: i'm what lusnating. a few days ago you demonized paul ryan budget plan that makes effort to reform the tax code. under his plan, millionaires and billionaires, the rich would be paying more than now. >> bob: $350,000 less. >> dana: i don't think this is just about taxes. this goes to storyline of political correctness and overabundance of an attempt to be tolerant at the expense of christians and jew jews who have holidays they observe, no longer going to get at this university. it doesn't have anything to do with taxes. >> eric: well, i don't know. aren't we moving to a society that is worried about ignoring religion. you know, we don't -- we want obamacare, take care of people. birth control, ignoring what the values are and entitlement society? i understand -- >> bob: what was the question? dana said this was absurd position for the university to take. it's about political correctness. it's not about entitlement society. >> dana: let's get the expert on, overabundance of tolerance. you're thinking about this lately. >> greg: i was. the wayk look at it, contraception issue ignored a large portion of society. if you compare it to thenatetive american issue about the bald eagle, that carve-out was simple. people are saying wait, there are people, groups of people that get carve-out and group of people ignored. >> dana: i think that is what he was meaning more, we'll talk about it for several months, maybe years. coming up, virginia school teacher made the students do opposition research on g.o.p. candidate and wants to learn how to pass it to the obama campaign. is that appropriate for the classroom? we'll debate it next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> greg: welcome back. virginia school teacher recently made student do opposition research in class against republican presidential candidates. the school district rep told us that the eighth graders at liberty middle school weren't forced to send the dirt they found on the obama camp. but the teacher only asked kids to find out where the stuff should be sent. nothing to see here. parents are ticked off but they're wrong. this teacher, michael denman should be teacher of the year. for all he was doing is preparing the kids for college. after all, opposition research against republicans defines most college courses. he was just readying them for the starbucks socialism in the lounges. college isn't just dinging up dirt against the right but against america. remember ward churchill, an je la davis? you couldn't find a more anti-u.s. crowd west of islamabad. this is where i'm spending my retirement. when the brats come of age, america will be plagued by brainwashed activists who can't read or wry but will know how to rage against the dwindling entitlement. i am blaming parents of both parties. if you allow activists in your school it's on you when junior sends you in. why do they ignore the fruit of their major? they spend years touting america as op res somewhere, but then they're successful and they're like john wayne. like bill ayers never existed. the school changed the policy. they are now going to include the opposition research on president obama in the this kerfuffle. a word i love to use. you are the king of opposition research. if you were a teacher what would you tell them? >> bob: get every republican candidate. and you start on their taxes, then on their personal lives and then on to anything they have done. we control the i.r.s., you get in their background. we put together a big document. anything they said since they were two years old. including blah, blah, blah. you make it part of opposition research against republicans. this school making a deseg after pressure from us to go after barack obama is obscene. stick with the republicans, that's the right place to go. >> greg: you can say this is an exception. but i heard stories from people in my family who went through similar things. how about you? >> dana: i'm at the age now where a lot of my friends have kids and going to school. the stuff they say later, it's counterweight to being at home. you don't want to say you should think this way or that way, you want to encourage independent think something you might play devil's advocate. i have a quick story. a friend of mine whose little girl was in gym class. the kids had to line up on one side of the room. game, everybody who loves blue roven that way a.m. that whittles it down. everybody who runs unicorns, you'd run that way. the last question everybody who loves barack obama run that way. she was the only one that didn't run. the other kids laughed at her. >> andrea: good for her. >> eric: i have a 13 years old. needs are 12 rapid 13. not high school kids doing the opposition research or learning something about politics. their minds areing formed. my son goes to public school. last year i went to school a opened the textbook. they read like liberal opposition research. like bill ayers wrote this stuff. i won't call out teachers but unbelievable what goes on in school. >> bob: when you talk about the universities and the schools, schools teach a liberal abbott american stuff. see if i get it right. pomota, university of texas-ame-a&m and hundreds of schools teaching republican courses. >> eric: but you can choose where they go to college. >> andrea: if i were a parent i'd be furious. look at the scores, the ice of reading, writing irith ma tick. why are we lagging behind other countrys when it comes to the basic? we study other topics that do you middle school students need to do this? this has got obvious crazy. >> bob: if you ask most miles per hours and why the department is in trouble for closing down department of education. most people think they are sending their kids to good schools. but you are suggesting they send them to comemy instruction is insult to the school. >> i'd say that but liberal blogs would go crazy. >> bob: unfair that parents do not have access to