"President Obama took a heavy blow Friday when the unemployment report indicated a net loss of jobs in July. After 19 months in office, the President has not improved the job situation very much, despite a half-trillion dollars in stimulus spending. The President seems inclined to tough it out, believing the feds can control the economy enough to turn things around. The average working American is caught in this terrible ideological war between a liberal President who wants to continue spending, and an angry opposition that wants to let the free marketplace loose. Right now it appears that the President will stay his liberal course, and that opens him up for withering criticism. For example, First Lady Michelle Obama is under fire for taking a vacation in Spain. Some Americans believe this is a slap in the face, that the First Lady should be helping the American economy by traveling here. Summing up, the economy is not getting much better and the White House does not seem to be making adjustments. The clock is ticking on President Obama."

The Factor asked Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer about Michelle Obama's lavish holiday. "The optics are terrible," Krauthammer said, "and choosing a foreign location is not exactly smart when you have a recession. So the politics are stupid, but I can't get really excited about the substance. A mother has the right to take her child to Spain." Krauthammer went on to question the first family's priorities. "President Obama has a sense of entitlement and elitism; it's always been a problem. And here you have the First Lady, who literally tells us to eat our spinach, having a great time at a five-star hotel in Spain. It's a clash of messages." The Factor expressed bewilderment at the Obamas' attitude: "I don't begrudge the First Lady going to Spain with her daughter, but if I were in the White House I would have said no. It doesn't seem like President Obama gives a fig about PR, he just doesn't seem to care."

FNC's Mary Katharine Ham and Juan Williams joined The Factor to scrutinize the trip to Spain. "The man's under tremendous pressure," Williams said, "and the family is under pressure, so I think this is catty and it's the 'bash Obama' crowd going nuts. The amount of attention being given to this is way out of proportion." But Ham advised the White House to be more cognizant of public perception. "If you're a public figure you have to deal with the political side of things, and if you're the First Lady you have to know that this doesn't look good. Democrats care because they say this is hurting them - the First Lady can have a vacation with her daughter, but they would have been smarter to take it somewhere else."

While subbing for Rush Limbaugh on the radio Monday, FNC contributor Karl Rove focused on the anemic reception President Obama received in Texas. Rove entered the No Spin Zone to elaborate. "Not a single Democrat Congressman," Rove reported, "was waiting at the airport for President Obama in Austin. Democrats don't want to be anywhere close to him, and this is not just in Texas, it's in a lot of states." Rove, who advised President Bush, also opined on Michelle Obama's recent vacation. "The toughest thing in the White House is not to walk into the Oval Office, it's to walk into the First Lady's office. I'm not sure anyone went to her and said it would be a PR disaster, why don't you vacation somewhere in the United States. This is going to do long-term damage to the image of this President and his administration."

The vast majority of New Yorkers oppose the building of a mosque near Ground Zero, as do some Muslims. The Factor spoke with one of them, author Raheel Raza. "I oppose the idea," Raza explained, "because it's confrontational, it's in bad faith and it doesn't set up any kind of dialogue on tolerance. How does building a mosque where Muslims murdered so many Americans create respect? I read in my holy book, the Koran, that we should be very sensitive to people of other faiths, and we don't show our caring for them by being intolerant. Mayor Bloomberg and other bleeding-heart white liberals don't understand the battle we moderate Muslims are faced with in terms of confronting radical Islam." The Factor lauded Raza for expressing "the most articulate indictment of this whole crazy thing that I have ever heard."

FNC analyst Bernie Goldberg reacted to the news that Rosie O'Donnell will host a daytime talk show on Oprah Winfrey's new cable network. "When it comes to politics," Goldberg opined, "Rosie O'Donnell is a fool. She thinks 9/11 was an inside job, she has said that 'radical Christianity' is as threatening as radical Islam, and she has said we shouldn't fear terrorists because 'they are mothers and fathers.' Rosie O'Donnell's main contribution to our culture is that she mainstreams stupidity and hate. But having said that, Oprah Winfrey understands American women and has been tremendously successful." Goldberg turned to the New York Times' profile of PFC Bradley Manning, who leaked classified documents to WikiLeaks. "It's a piece about how kids made fun of him when he was growing up and it's a very sympathetic profile about a man who is accused of leaking 90,000 classified documents. This is how it works at the New York Times - if they like what you stand for, you get an easy ride." The Factor sounded the death knell for leftists in the media: "It's my theory that if you are a far left person, it's over. The Obama administration was the last chance you had to succeed in the mass market media. I will point to David Letterman, Air America and Joy Behar."

A newly-discovered tape shows Congressman Barney Frank standing on the floor of the House in 2005, proclaiming there could never be a collapse in home prices. The Factor's Check: "Unbelievable! And he gets re-elected and re-elected. Of course, the housing bubble did collapse, partly because housing lenders gave money to folks who couldn't pay it back. Mr. Frank remains responsible for a portion of that debacle." Meanwhile, an organization in Seattle is giving out free crack pipes, ostensibly to help curtail the spread of AIDS. The Factor's Check: "Of course, there is no evidence that smoking anything leads to AIDS."

Bob Perron, Tumon, Guam: "Bill, I agree that President Bush and the Republicans drove the country into an economic ditch. But President Obama and the Democrats then jumped into the car and proceeded to drive it off the cliff."

Phil Grady, Collierville, TN: "Bill, it would be an honor to have a copy of Bold Fresh signed by the best cable newsperson on earth. Please have Gretchen Carlson sign your book and send it to me."

And there was this limerick from Mandy Albin of Owasso, OK:

"Cheers for O'Reilly and Beck
Who may be pains in the neck,
But they do have our backs
Protecting us from hacks,
So do a reality check!"

Monday's Patriot: Former NFL running back Emmitt Smith, who emotionally and effusively praised a former teammate when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame. And the Pinhead: Roseanne Barr, who announced she will run for president on the platform of legalizing marijuana.