"Senator Clinton's comeback had nothing to do with that dopey 3AM phone-ringing ad. What propelled Hillary to victory was the press and a few small slip-ups by Barack Obama. Here's the deal: According to a non-partisan watchdog group, from mid-December to mid-February 83% of network news coverage directed at Barack Obama was positive. NBC News led the way, openly fawning over Senator Obama. Saturday Night Live skewered NBC News for its bias and Americans got the message - a biased media was trying to engineer the election. The folks do not want the media manipulating elections, so Obama was backlashed. The polls show that Democrats who decided late broke big for Hillary, and Talking Points believes the corrupt media had a lot to do with that. Now it comes down to Pennsylvania in April, which will be yet another shootout. Barack Obama believes he will have more delegates when the primaries are over and he's probably right. So what will the Democrats do? Nobody knows. What I do know is that Obama will be on the ticket - either running for president or VP, he is in. And Hillary Clinton will now take this all the way to the convention, and anything can happen along the way."

News Link: Media Bias survey

The Factor welcomed political analyst Dick Morris, who reiterated his belief that Hillary Clinton is toast. "The amazing thing about Ohio is that even though Hillary won by 10 points, she only picked up a net gain of 12 delegates. There is no way on Earth Hillary can possibly catch Obama, and my guess is he'll add to his lead. And as long as he walks into the convention with more delegates, the 800 superdelegates won't dare override that." The Factor warned of a political Armageddon if Democratic superdelegates throw the nomination to Hillary Clinton. "The Clinton people are putting out that they're willing to put the arm on superdelegates and put her over the top. But if you disenfranchise African American and younger voters, that party is going to blow up in Denver. It's going to be bloody."

News Link: Obama, Clinton court superdelegates

Exit polls showed that older white women turned out big for Hillary Clinton Tuesday, and The Factor asked political observer Patricia Murphy about the bond between Senator Clinton and women of a certain age. "They are her core supporters," Murphy responded. "They relate to her, they like her economic message and they like that she talks about gas prices and food prices and taking the kids to the doctor." Clinton supporter Lanny Davis hinted that she will try to gain the nomination via superdelegates. "The rules of the game can't be changed after the game starts, and the rules are indisputable - superdelegates are supposed to use independent judgment. Droves of superdelegates are going to say it's more important for us to win back the White House than to have an unknown." The Factor again warned of chaos if that scenario plays out. "If you guys in the Democratic Party try to do sleight-of-hand here, you're going to have civil rights activists in front of the convention saying they stole it from Obama. I don't want to see the Democratic Party get ripped apart."

News Link: March 4th exit polls

Despite Tuesday night's losses, Barack Obama remains the leader with a healthy lead in pledged delegates. Democratic strategist Sarah Flowers, an Obama supporter, argued that her candidate is well on his way to victory. "What I find stunning," Flowers said, "is the amount of spin put out by the Clinton campaign. We watched Barack Obama push back from a 15-point deficit in Texas, and Hillary Clinton barely won. It's very clear that the Clinton campaign threw everything and the kitchen sink at Obama and he's still standing." The Factor warned Flowers that Obama is about to get more media scrutiny. "I think the press is now going to turn on Barack Obama to try and say 'we're not as corrupt as O'Reilly says we are.'"

News Link: Obama still leads in delegate count

The Factor welcomed Faye Wattleton of the Center for the Advancement of Women, who dissected Tuesday's vote. "Obama lost because Mrs. Clinton pulled most of the Latino vote in Texas, and she held her base of older white women, working class people, and people worried about the economy." Wattleton urged Senator Clinton to make her campaign even more gender-based. "Men are running her campaign and she's not really speaking to issues women care about. She has to speak to women and tell them how her presidency will make a difference in their lives." The Factor questioned why the Obama juggernaut suddenly seems vulnerable. "Barack Obama lost his mojo in the last few days, and no one can pinpoint where it happened."

Asked by The Factor about Hillary Clinton's comeback, Dennis Miller reached into his bag of movie metaphors. "In many ways," Miller quipped, "Hillary Clinton is Glenn Close in 'Fatal Attraction,' and you better hold her for the extra breath or she's coming up with the Ginsu. Obama best get used to the pricks of a thousand arrows, because that's what's coming from here on in. Hillary gets up every day and talks about going to war with this guy, and there are people in that party who want to destroy him." The Factor took a moment to question the value of Jack Nicholson's pro-Hillary Internet commercial. "Do you think anybody in the country would vote for any candidate based on what Jack Nicholson says? I love him, he's a great actor, but I don't think it's doing Hillary Clinton any good."

The Huffington Post web site overflows with venomous and vicious comments, most of them pitting self-proclaimed "progressives" against one another. Internet observer Mary Katharine Ham reported on the internecine warfare. "This is partly the cost of having very open and free speech on the Internet. On the other hand, people have to take responsibility for their own sites and the comments. They're really going after each other with the same vehemence that they go after the right." The Factor denounced Arianna Huffington and her web site as vehicles for hatred. "There is hate from top to bottom on that site. There is defamation, it's irresponsible, and she traffics in that." Meanwhile, some liberal blogs have accused the Clinton campaign of darkening a photo of Barack Obama's face. Ham accused the conspiracy theorists of overreacting. "This was a technological issue and probably not a racist issue. Hillary would have so little to gain by this and so much to lose that it seems unlikely."

Wednesday's Patriot: Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre, who announced his retirement at age 38. And the Pinhead: Rosie O'Donnell, who is upset at how Larry King conducted an interview and wants him to retire. Nominate a Pinhead or a Patriot by sending an email to pnp@billoreilly.com.

News Link: Brett Farve retires from the NFL

News Link: Rosie seeks Larry King's retirement

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