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Well, the race for oscar gold heating up in hollywood, now that we know who the official nominees are. they were announced this morning in l.a., let's get to it. the nominees for best actor, jeff bridges for "crazy heart," and george clooney and colin firth, and morgan freeman for "invictus," and jeremy renner for "the hurt locker." and sandra bullock for "the blind side," and helen meren for "the last station," and carey mulligan for "an education," and gabourey sidibe for "precious," and meryl streep for "julie & julia." and "avatar" for the best picture, and then "the hurt locker" and "ingl...

Okay. before we go, we will dip our toe in the shallow end. speaking of shallow, it is oscar time. the first time ever the nominees have expanded from five to ten. it is so craven, hollywood desperate to pump up movies, give all of these guys a chance to say oscar nominated whatever, making the list for best picture, "avatar," "the hurt locker" my choice, "up in the air," the blind side," "precious," "district 9" really? "a serious man" "inglourious basterds" and -- >> we get to see the word blastered it on the air. >> only time it is authorized. >> say that word. >> that is it for "the dail...

District nine. you can guess how well that works out. this is urban planning by tom tancredo. "district nine" is a smart, tart, alagory how we treat each other which isn't pretty, which is how we treat creatures not like us. cute aliens? ah. ugly aliens? blast them. makes me wonder, would the humans have accepted the aliens if they looked like this? of course to them, we would look better like this. point of view is everything. >> excellent, kent. i have a quick cocktail moment for you. check out this clip from yesterday. >> we bang into rocks.

But the president's position is pretty logical when you think about it. if they pass just a pay roll tax cut, on what grounds would the president go ahead and veto that? so all it is is an admission of reality. what they're saying is that if they pass little pieces of it, like say just the extension of pay roll tax cut, or just something to keep teachers employed, or just something to fix up schools or roads, et cetera, then yes, he'll sign that. and he'll keep pushing for more of it down the road. and at the same time, he'll keep barnstorming the country and blasting republicans for not passi...

They don't sit at home and watch tv. they listen to radio. they don't read the papers because of the literary rate. when they see government it's fixing the road, water, electricity, a policeman. so if we're trying to connect them to their government, they've got to trust it. so improving security enough so that more qualified, able people will come and work here and then you -- then you defeat the insurgency by taking away the base of support for people that would normally support the insurgents, because they trust their government. all right. now we're moving into district 9 now. >> you can ...