I already bust my first appearance on cspan. I guess i would like to first think cspan book tv for featuring my reading on your program. I would like dependent machine treat festival for making me a part of the leonard literary lineup. Thank perry lives not only for hosting this, but for giving writers like me and many other people a place to ride in public. Much of this book was written at the coffee shop. American wet and wisdom began. In december 191732 edition of the pennsylvania gazette Benjamin Franklin been the following advertisement. Just published for 1783. Poor richard, an almanac. Writing under the name Richard Saunders in not only narrow down the day of his death, date and time october 171733 at 3 to 9 00 p. M. But also the exact moment when too worldly bodies aligned at the very instance of the convention. He was a rationalist product of the enlightenment who heaped scorn on astrologers. More crucially he was a business rival. Often achieved by stepping on competitors. Fr
I recently found like in my archives like this really ridiculously poorly written press release, but somehow news stations showed up, nbc and abc local affiliates, and then it rippled out to most of those affiliates throughout virginia and it eventually made its way onto cnn story about we are still living the story about controversial sports teams, like the redskins and the braves are ever used the three it i depeg with antlers into that. My grandmother called me from wichita i thought it was on drugs, asked if i was on drugs. And can become it just got me thinking about, you know, if i, a kind of clueless 20 yearold College Student who had no idea how to write a press release and i had a budget for about eight stamps, if i could do this, imagine what Big Companies are doing all the time along with the lobbying firms and the publicity firms that they hire to shape what we read. So it fundamental change the way i think about media, and it also sort of kicked off sort of quasipranks. Th
Population of 7. 5 million left a city with the. 1 million people. A lot of that has to do with the fact that it energized the private or. Thats the difference was going to happen with taxes depending on the choice the American People make on november 6th. Were either going to be fighting a battle all of next year about how high this president about what to raise our taxes. I dont care if he raises taxes on the rich, the poor the poor dont pay taxes. The richer the middle class. For every raise taxes, its too much money being given to a government that does know how to spend money. Whatever Ronald Reagan did nice to be put on a diet. And its less money. It is to figure out how to get a loan on less money. It has split the money in the private sector. If romney gets elected, thats a debate showhouse. So the how high do taxes go . If romney gets elected, the debate will be how low can they keep taxes. How can we reform the tax system . How do we go to a flat tax or flattener taxes so tha
They regret they have informed me that is not accurate. Governor rendell is someone who speaks his mind freely on nbc and obviously served as governor of the great state of pennsylvania. I want to start by asking them about their home states. Can mitt romney win . I would say yes the pennsylvania is in play. And i would say that it is probably the best bellwether of what happened over the last three weeks. The their campaign is particularly active in a pennsylvania. They have not been running Many Television ads because most campaigns thought it was going to be in the obama camp and felt that an expensive state like pennsylvania, one, four republicans, which has been four republicans it has been called fools gold for a long time. To move pennsylvania, from a doubledigit rates to a handful race or less, really, with national movement, not anything the campaigns were doing in the states, i would make the argument that one of the reasons we have not seen the race changed that much in a lo
54 of you picked that one. 12 named Debt Reduction and another 13 named immigration. And another 14 said voting rights. 18 of politics nation said other. The minimum wage was a popular writein here as well. Thanks for voting and you keep the conversation going on our Facebook Page and twitter. And thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. A special election edition of hardball starts right now. Catching Mitch Mcconnell, lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Let me start with tonights bik electoral contest, leading off with the two state where is the
democrats had the best chance to snatch u. S. Senate seats now held by republicans. Those contests in kentucky and georgia could end up as this years big democratic morale boosters. Both being contested by women with impressive political roots in their state, the kind of strong name and family idea that could help them withstand what threatens otherwise to be a brutal november. In kentucky, Allison Grimes at the age