Welcome to politics and prose. Im brad graham, a coowner of a bookstore along with my wife Lissa Muscatine and were very pleased to be hosting professor, author and journalist Samuel Friedman this evening. Hes here to discuss new book into the bright sunshine Young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights. Now sams journalism professor at Columbia University and formerly reported and wrote columns for New York Times as a reporter in the 1980s, he worked in the culture of the times. Then in the mid 2000 wrote the papers on education column. And then for ten years he was responsible for. The on religion column. Hes also written nine previous books on a wide range of topics from high school to american jewry to college football, to his mothers own story. In his new book, sam delves into the early life of humphrey, who spent three years in the us senate representing minnesota and four years as Lyndon Johnsons Vice President , but is largely remembered for losing to Richard Nixon the
asner: i ll tell you about the golden age of television. this period in time will be looked upon as the platinum age. lear: our obligation is to entertain, and if we ve left something to think about, so much the better. kunta. kunta kinte. television should not be just entertainment. charges were leveled at the commercial television network. congress has no right interfere with the media. well, excuse me! we have a responsibility to give the audience what it tuned in to see. the years of the 60s, which end in a few hours, have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously, but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. what was allowed that hadn t been before? it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in the living room. i want to watch an al
my angle on the border fiasco in moments. but, first, the u.s. military launched an air assault against dozens of sites in iraq and also in syria. that were used as staging grounds for iranian backed militias. these are the first military strikes after that drone attack killed three american soldiers and, of course, injuring more than 40 others in jordan just last weekend u.s. airstrikes hit 85 targets. command and control centers and aerial vehicle sites. fox news national correspondent mike can tobin has been watching all of this from tel aviv. mike, what can you tell us? i can tell you, laura, we have confirmation now from the u.s. central command that some 85 locations were hit by 125 u.s. munitions. seven different locations or i should say 85 targets were hit at seven different locations. three of them inside of iraq. four of them inside of syria. now, an iraqi military spokesman, despite a claim from john kirby, that the iraqi government was informed. the iraqi milit
that you couldn t have on network television. - people are really trying to do something adventurous. [both gasp] all: channel 7, shame on you. - this is more a celebration of culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on inside. - there s always something on television, and some of it may be better than we deserve. - [laughs] that was cool. [dramatic music] - listen to it. oh! [crowd cheering] they know when it hits the bottom, it ll be 1990. good-bye to the 80s in. all: ten, nine. all: eight. eight! eight! eight! - oh, will this horrible year never end? - when the 90s begin, we re starting to see a lot of experimentation. [gunshots] all: [quickly] seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! [cheering] - and the simpsons, i think, in some senses was inspired by not necessarily a hatred of television but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. - tv respects me. it laughs with me, not at me. - [laughing] you stupid - d oh! -
this is the ingraham angle . thank you for joining us. my angle on the border fy in moments. but first, the u.s. military launched n ai air assault against dozens of sites in iraq .and also in syria that werer in used a staging ground for iranian backed. now, these are the first u.s. a military strikes after that dronettack killed three american soldiers and of course, injuring more than 40 others in jordan just last weekend. now, us warplanes struck.s more than 85 targets. they hit facilities, such as the command and control centers and aerial vehicle storage sites. fox news international correspondent mike has beenhing watching all of this from tel aviv. mike, can you tell us?ion now i can tell you, laura that we have confirmation now from the u.s. central command that some 85 local russianst by1 were hit by 125 u.s. munitions at seven different locations, or i shoul hitd say 85 targets t hit at seven different locationm ins, three of them ine of iraq, four of them ins