Dr. Ben Carson Lays Out Rx for Health Care Reform, Talks 2016 on ABC's 'The View'

Facing a respectful if at times skeptical panel as he promoted his just-released book, One Nation, on ABC's The View today, world-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson described his prescription for fixing health care in America, which revolves around market-oriented changes which empower consumers rather than bureaucrats. 

Asked about his presidential aspirations, Carson made clear he doesn't desire to seek office and hoped a solidly conservative candidate would enter the race, but, failing that, "as a patriotic American, I certainly have to think about" running. Carson received a rousing round of applause from the audience after his brief appearance, whic

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[VIDEO] Krauthammer: It Took Barbara Walters 5 Years to Realize Obama’s Not the Messiah? It Took Us 1 1/2 Hours

Barbara Walter’s admission Tuesday evening that she used to believe President Obama was the next messiah is predictably the target of derision and satire in conservative circles.

Making a guest appearance on Fox News’s The Five Wednesday, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said, “Five years to realize the man isn't a messiah? I think it took some of us…an hour and a half” (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Well, I mean, it's remarkable that it would take half a decade for the veil to be lifted from her eyes. Five years to realize the man isn't a messiah? I think it took some of us – [Looking at co-host Bob Beckel] well, almost all of us – about, you know, an hour and a half to realize that he gives a good speech, but he's shown no aptitude at governing. So I'm glad that she's aboard, but she's a little late.

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‘She Was Targeted’: The Five Clashes Over Lara Logan Suspension

The hosts of The Five debated Wednesday whether CBS News was right to suspend Lara Loganfollowing an internal investigation into the botched 60 Minutes Benghazi report. Brian Kilmeade was convinced that Logan was “targeted” for her outspokenness on the Benghazi attacks, while Andrea Tantaros admitted that despite Logan’s reputation and reporting chops, CBS News made the right decision in suspending her.

Kilmeade highlighted how Logan previously spoke out in favor of going after the perpetrators of the Benghazi attack, calling it “the entire reason she’s paying the price right now.” Bob Beckel, however, wondered if her passion and emotions “colored her 60 Minutes piece” and so she was desperate enough to believe a liar and “didn’t use her normally good journalistic judgment.”

Eric Bolling defended 60 Minutes, urging caution and saying, “We can’t make the leap and say 60 Minutes rushed to judgment and gave her time off because she made a mistake.”

Andrea Tantaros brought up the fact that CBS News head/60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager did not get in trouble, and in the internal report released he “acts as judge and jury on this matter, rather than a co-defendant.” Kilmeade found it discouraging CBS didn’t stand behind Logan, but Tantaros said, “They’re making an example of her.” And because of the journalistic reputation 60 Minutes need to uphold, the suspension makes sense from their point of view.

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Former press secretary for George W. Bush and current Co-host of The Five on Fox News, Dana Perino shares a story about forgiveness from her time in the White House.

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MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Jabs at Fox’s The Five

At the conclusion of a Wednesday Ed Show segment, MSNBC host Ed Schultz took a jab at his Fox time slot competitor The Five, mocking that the subject matter contained within his discussion was “over their heads.”

“I know this is over The Five‘s head across the street,” Schultz said after a discussion with Joan Walsh about their belief that Obamacare will benefit most Americans in the long-run, despite Republican protests to the contrary.

“And I know they need five people to talk about it,” he concluded, “I just need Joan Walsh and me.”

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[VIDEO] Beckel: WH ‘Bludgeoned’ Me For Suggesting Obamacare Delay

Bob Beckel, a liberal co-host of Fox News’ The Five, said he received an angry phone call from the White House after suggesting on the air that the administration enact a six-month to one-year delay of Obamacare’s individual mandate due to the problems afflicting the online exchanges.

“I got a call from somebody at the White House who absolutely bludgeoned me over it,” Beckel said Tuesday. According to Beckel, a former campaign manager for Walter Mondale, he told the unnamed White House staffer that the dysfunctional website is frustrating potential customers and dissuading them from returning to the website.

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Eric Bolling: Wussies! Every Last One of You…(Liberal Media)

By Eric Bolling

Imagine this folks... A journalist's big moment... Finally arrives... All the tests... All the research... All the homework… The years in journalism school...

And there you are… You find yourself face to face with the President of the United States: The Government is closed; we’re on the verge of economic catastrophe, and you have 5 minutes and a chance to ask the President whatever you want… C’mon reach back… Clocks ticking, Games on the line, Go deep…

For Diana Williams of ABC News…The moment went like this:

“My daughter asked me to ask you, what is the coolest thing about being President?”

Wow hard hitting journalism Diana!  I didn’t go to journalism school but allow me to offer you a tip: Turn on FOX News before the next time you have the Commander in Chief one on one… Jot down the questions we are asking and topics we are debating… But don’t expect to see President Obama answering from a FOX studio... He knows I wouldn’t ask him how “Cool it is to be President” with my time…Nor would any of my colleagues, I assure you.

Then there’s my old Twitter adversary Tommy Christopher. Tommy blogs for Mediaite, A media watch blog... I  love Mediaite… It’s a great media blog… But this week, the little blogger takes the award for dumbest question of the year... At the White House Press Briefing Tommy asked Jay Carney:

“Is there a chance the President would be willing to delay ObamaCare for a year if Republicans would agree to delay heart attacks for a year?” Tommy… Dude... What kind of a jackass comment was that?

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Fox’s Ed Henry Explains His White House Press Briefing Walkout

On the Kilmeade & Friends radio show Monday morning, Fox’s White House reporter Ed Henryexplained his controversial “walk out” of Friday’s White House press briefing. According to Henry, he did not leave out of anger, but because he had been overlooked twice and needed to run and make a live appearance for the network.

“What happened Friday? It looked like you got fed up and said, ‘To heck with this,’ he’s not calling on you,” host Brian Kilmeade asked.

“Nah, that’s not it,” Henry replied. “What really happened was that the briefing went on for about 40 minutes and I didn’t get a question. For whatever reason. I guess Jay Carney will have to answer that. I don’t know why, I guess, maybe he was upset. I wasn’t.”

Henry explained that the briefing was lengthy, started about three hours late, and that he had been overlooked a few times, and so he made the decision to exit the briefing in its last few minutes in order to make a live TV hit with Fox’s The Five.

“I was going to be late,” Henry continued. “I would have stayed longer if Jay had called on me. But he didn’t. I had work to do.”

The White House reporter also pointed to the fact that NBC reporter Chuck Todd got his question answered and then walked out afterwards. “I don’t hear anyone saying, ‘Oh my God, he staged a protest.’ No, he had to go file a piece for NBC’s Nightly News, just as I had to go do a live hit with you on The Five, and I had to file my piece for Bret Baier and Special Report.”

Ultimately, he said, at the next White House briefing, he would anticipate that Carney will call on him for a question or two.

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The Five’s Gutfeld Claims Obama ‘Didn’t Care’ About Obamacare Launch

It’s been 10 days since enrollment began in the Affordable Care Act exchanges, and Fox News’The Five continues to pile on the problems with the law’s rollout. On Thursday’s show, Greg Gutfeld went on a particularly aggressive rant aimed atPresident Obama, who he claimed “didn’t care” enough about his own legislation to see that it was implemented flawlessly. He even suggested that Obama didn’t read the bill before it passed.

After watching video of Obama and his administration officials promising Obamacare would be “ready to go” on October 1st, Gutfeld unleashed his rant:

“You know what kills me about this whole thing? Obama loves to say about everything, ‘We knew it wasn’t going to be easy.’ He says that about everything single thing. Well, guess what? Easy is often a marker of success. When something unfolds, like an Apple launch, it’s because there’s all these people that work really, really hard to make it happen.

He somehow believes that we deserve the punishment of failure. That ‘this is going to hard, never said it was going to be easy, and it’s your problem.’ It shows that he didn’t actually work that hard on this. He never read the bill. He didn’t care.”

Gutfeld’s assertions were not challenged by any of his co-hosts, including the left-leaning Bob Beckel, who previously endorsed the idea to delay aspects of the law at least temporarily if not for a year. Dana Perino hit the administration for promising success and claimed Americans will be fined if they do not have health insurance by December 31st of this year. The actual date is March 31, 2014, but as the AP reported, that means applications will need to be submitted by mid-February.

But it was Andrea Tantaros who wholeheartedly agreed with Gutfeld. “Greg, you’re absolutely right,” she said. “President Obama had his hands off this thing from the beginning. Reid and Pelosi did it. I don’t understand why he doesn’t take the delay of the individual mandate. I’m actually angry that Republicans would offer it. I can’t believe Republicans would give him an out like this.”

The idea that conservatives would suggest that Obama has tried to distance himself from the Affordable Care Act is particularly ironic given the fact that he embraced the term they coined for the law: “Obamacare.”

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The Five Diagnoses ‘Problem’ with CNN and MSNBC’s Shooting Coverage

Is the media “sensationalizing” the Washington Navy Yard shooting story? That was question that kicked off Wednesday afternoon’s edition of The Five, with Greg Gutfeld leading the charge to argue that the press should spend more time focusing on the victims of Monday’s mass shooting than on the perpetrator. “Isn’t the sad reality,” Gutfeld asked, that the “culture finds the culprit more interesting than the victim?” Beyond that, the show’s hosts singled out some of the media outlets, including rivals CNN and MSNBC, that made the biggest errors in reporting the story.

On the question of sensationalism, Dana Perino remarked that two days later, many of the major newspapers had moved on, with only one featuring gunman Aaron Alexis on the cover Wednesday. But, she said, “the truth is the good guys, the victims, they never get enough attention, ever. That’s reality.”

The group also discussed the issue of mental health care in light of comments Fox’s Charles Krauthammer about how America’s dedication to civil liberties are keeping people like Alexis out of institutions. Perino warned against a slippery slope when it comes to putting people in mental hospitals against their will. “What if they just say, ‘You’re a right-wing nut and we’re putting you in an institution?’” she asked.

Towards the end of the segment, Gutfeld steered the conversation back to the media’s handling of the story. “A lot of red faces over getting a lot of stuff wrong,” he said, pointing first to the New York Daily News cover that falsely claimed Alexis had used an AR-15 assault rifle in his shooting spree.

But it was Eric Bolling who shined the light on the cable news competitors. “Chuck Todd tweeted the wrong name of the shooter,” he said, in reference to Todd’s retweet of the false NBC News report. “Piers Morgan spent a whole lot of time on air saying ‘There’s that darn AR-15.’” Bolling argued instead that the AR-15 “probably saved lives” when officers arrived on the scene and used the gun to take down Alexis.

“Their haste to be first precedes their interest in being right,” Bolling said, “and that’s a problem.”

“Yeah, you’d rather be second or third and right than first and wrong,” Gutfeld agreed.

Of course, as America learned from Jon Stewart last night, CNN may have been the worst media offender on Monday, but Fox News was not immune.

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‘Fox News Cooties’: The Five Knows Why Media Isn’t Covering Benghazi One Year Later

Today is not only the 12th anniversary of the attacks that killed thousands of Americans on U.S. soil, but, as you would know if you’ve been watching Fox News today, it’s also the one year anniversary of the attack in Benghazi, Libya that killed four American diplomats. Many conservatives, as well as some outspoken family members of the victims, feel that the story is not getting as much attention as it deserves. And The Five’s Greg Gutfeld knows why: It has “FNC cooties.”

After playing clips of family members speaking out (on Fox) about how the Obama Administration has let them down, Kimberly Guilfoyle said, “It’s so embarrassing. It’s so shameful. I feel horrible as an American that this is what has happened to these family members that have kindly asked for some answers, that were promised that face-to-face and still no justice, no answers.” Adopting the rhetoric of 9/11, she added, “Benghazi should never be forgotten.”

Eric Bolling agreed that family members deserve more transparency than they’ve received. “You’re ready to go kill someone in Syria on the one hand,” he said, “without all the information, but we’re a year into this and allegedly a year into an investigation, you have a lot going on behind the scenes and nothing’s happening on Benghazi.”

Bob Beckel pushed back on his “Benghazi conspiracy theorist” co-hosts, saying “you can’t call it an injustice” when you don’t know all of the facts of the U.S. investigation.

As long as she was being called a “conspiracy theorist,” Dana Perino decided to offer up a “theory” of her own. She said, “The White House has done some polling. They’ve figured out internally that the only people that care about this are on the right, so ‘we can just weather this storm and wait until it goes away.’”

Gutfeld concurred, claiming the story has “FNC cooties.” He said it’s “personal” for the mainstream media, who say “I’m not doing that story if the conservative media is doing it.” Furthermore, he added, “if the media actually followed this story” Hillary Clinton wouldn’t get the 2016 presidential nomination. “But they’re not going to follow it, so she probably will.”

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The Five Agrees That Syrian Rebels Are Moderate: ‘Moderately Psycho’

The Five opened its Thursday afternoon show by looking at recent comments from Obama Administration officials assuring Congress and the American people that the rebel forces in Syria are more “moderate” than they are being portrayed in the media. Greg Gutfeld said Secretary of State John Kerry is “right” that the rebels are moderate. “They’re moderately psycho.”

Gutfeld employed an elaborate reality TV-themed metaphor to get his point across. “We can’t confirm anything about this conflict except that it’s a conflict,” he said. “Essentially it’s like the TV show Storage Wars where you show up and you’re going to buy that locker and you have no idea what’s inside of it.”

Dana Perino, who had her own experience as President George W. Bush’s press secretary trying to sell the idea of war in the Middle East, said she’s “trying to be supportive” of the administration, but is finding that “everything that you read their case seems to unravel a little bit more.”

Next up, Eric Bolling, who said he was told to keep his props at home today, focused in on a “disturbing” video of rebels executing Syrian soldiers, posted by The New York Times, that he says “underscores” that “we don’t know who the rebels are.” He asked, “Are you sure you want to help those people out?”

Bob Beckel was the only member of the panel who was willing to defend the “Free Syrian Army,” which he said condemned the executions by the rebels. He also fought back against Bolling’s characterization of the proposed action in Syria as a war, saying “this is an exercise in humanitarian relief.”

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‘Indecision 2013′: The Five’s Bolling Hits Obama’s Syria ‘Flip-Flopping’

Fox’s Eric Bolling opened The Five Wednesday with a blistering attack against President Obama’s“indecision” on a potential U.S. military strike in Syria. Bolling accused the president of “flip-flopping” on the issue and made an aggressive case against intervention.

“Has America lost influence on the world stage due to President Obama’s flip-flopping?” Bolling asked. “This president seems naive and clearly is learning on the job. What would President Reagan do? Or President Bush? While I don’t think we should be going into Syria, this president has been changing his position more than Miley Cyrus at the VMA’s and that is becoming problematic.” He said the U.S. should “back off bombing Syria. We need more proof before we kill more people.”

When he was done with his intro, Bob Beckel accused Bolling of delivering “one of the most biased openings” he’s ever done. He took particular offense to the “flip-flop” accusation, saying, “he said the same thing every time he said it. It’s a red line, when cross it, we’re going to do something. They crossed it, we’ll do something.”

When Beckel pointed out that Reagan put 2,000 marines in Lebanon where 247 died, Bolling said whatever Reagan would do in this case, at least he would be “decisive” about it. But the bigger issue, he said is “I don’t think we should go. I think we should wait.

Andrea Tantaros backed Bolling up, lambasting the president for sitting down for an interview with PBS NewsHour to discuss what she called a “do-nothing missile strike.” She said Syria “makes Iraq look like small potatoes” and said “getting involved is a huge mistake.”

Bolling went on to lay out various reasons that the U.S. should not intervene in Syria, including the idea that some people think “Muslim extremists killing Muslim extremists isn’t necessarily a bad thing for America.”

If it’s merely “Muslim extremists” killing each other, Beckel shot back, “how do you account for children in the hospital?”

Bolling seemed to admit that “women and children are dying” in Syria, but said, “we don’t know who is doing it. We are hearing through reports out of Israel that it’s the Syrian government. We don’t know that for sure.”

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The Five’s Bolling and Beckel in Heated Battle Over Oklahoma Shooting, Gun Laws

Just one hour after MSNBC’s Joy Reid examined the right’s attempts to make the Chris Laneshooting a “racial” issue, Fox News’ The Five took on the left for making it about guns. Eric Bollingwondered “how long before one of these bozos on the left starts pointing the finger at the NRA,” beforeBob Beckel jumped in with, “I’ll do it right now.”

The hosts could all agree that the three teenagers who claim to have killed the Australian baseball player out of “boredom” should be locked up for the rest of their lives. “These three punks murdered him for the sport of it,” Bolling said “They should never see the light of day again. they’ve lost the right to walk free among us. They have obviously no heart, no conscience, no soul. Lock them up, throw away the key.”

At this point, Bolling said the real question is why Al Sharpton and President Obama have not yet spoken out against the shooting the way they did for Trayvon Martin. He also asked, “Where’s the media? They’ve spent more time on Obama’s new dog than they have on this case.”

Beckel commiserated with the outraged reaction from Lane’s native Australia, but said it’s not just that country that doesn’t understand American culture when it comes to guns. “People in the civilized world do not understand when you hand out guns to everybody and people are killed,” he said. “They don’t get it and I don’t get it either.”

After Bolling brought up the NRA, Beckel said “This could not have happened in Australia” because “they have very strict gun laws.” He said, “these guns are going around, they’re illegal, they’re finding their way in the hands of kids like this, and that’s because they won’t have strict gun control laws.”

When Bolling challenged his notion, saying it would have been illegal for the teenagers to possess guns even without stricter laws, Beckel replied, “If we didn’t have handguns, we wouldn’t have that problem.”

“Guns aren’t the problem,” Brian Kilmeade countered. “This behavior is killing somebody and laughing about it, saying I was bored, and not understanding what they’re saying. That’s the issue. Guns are so far removed from the problem.”

Beckel said he understood, “but you take the evil personalities like these guys, put a lethal weapon in their hands, you’re going to have this kind of thing happen.”

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