Ed rollins and it is going to get much worse. Howard dean it is a fraction of what it was before. The average age is well over 50. The average age of if you were on msnbc is 62 years old. On fox it is 68 years old. The bell curve stops at 35. No one over 35 watches any of this stuff. Facts [inaudible] [laughter] the truth of the matter is that all of this stuff, the evening route evening news, still the biggest way of getting the news out, is disappearing. We are in the big first quarter. For this problem of controlling messages, its only going to get more difficult as people get their news in different ways. Believe me, if something is on the front page of the new york times, the l a times, or one of the three big networks, its still a big story, but not as will big as it used to be. In 15 years that may not be true anymore. One of the most fascinating things to track overtimes in the white house is the seating and how its changed. There is a new seating chart. It is all that we would
About these issues. I think it is a mistake for us to suggest that somehow every effort we make has failed and we are powerless to address poverty. Thats just not true. First of all, just in absolute terms, the poverty rate when you take into account tax and transfer programs, has been reduced about 40 since 1967. Now, that does not lessen our concern about communities where poverty remains chronic. It does suggest, though, that we have been able to lessen poverty when we decide we want to do something about it. In every lowincome Community Around the country, there are programs that work to provide ladders of opportunity to young people, we just havent figured out how to scale them up. And so one of the things im always concerned about is cynicism. My chief of staff, Denis Mcdonough we take walks around the south lawn, usually when the weather is good, and a lot of it is policy talk, sometimes its just talk about values. And one of our favorite sayings is, our job is to guard against
Ed rollins and it is going to get much worse. Howard dean it is a fraction of what it was before. The average age is well over 50. The average age of if you were on msnbc is 62 years old. On fox it is 68 years old. The bell curve stops at 35. No one over 35 watches any of this stuff. Facts [inaudible] [laughter] the truth of the matter is that all of this stuff, the evening route evening news, still the biggest way of getting the news out, is disappearing. We are in the big first quarter. For this problem of controlling messages, its only going to get more difficult as people get their news in different ways. Believe me, if something is on the front page of the new york times, the l a times, or one of the three big networks, its still a big story, but not as will big as it used to be. In 15 years that may not be true anymore. One of the most fascinating things to track overtimes in the white house is the seating and how its changed. There is a new seating chart. It is all that we would
Cspan all right. You say also in the acknowledgments that, i have spent countless hours discussing this book with my beloved partner in life and work with whom i spent countless hours. who is your husband . Guest my husband is steven postrel. Hes a phd economist who teaches Business Strategy at ucirvine down in orange county. We live in los angeles. We met when we were 18 years old, freshmen at princeton. And weve been, you know, were just kind of soul mates, andintellectual and otherwise. Cspan so is thisis this a wonk marriage . Guest werewere not just wonks. Were interested in big ideas, but you know, wewe enjoywe have a lot of fun, too. Its not just policy wonkery cspan were did you get the idea for the book . Guest well, it goes back to a 1990 piece i did for the Washington Post. Ii didnt start working on the book till 95, butback in 1990 i was very interested, as a lot of people were, in the environmental movement. It was the 20th anniversary of earth day. And i took a sort of le
Private person and power that can be abused by turning the coercive machinery so this data can the people it has pledged to protect. Of course, this is a blind spot for the establishment. If theres one thing washington in writers are united on, it is love of power and a complete lack of suspicion. Sure theres other power, but it is just fine for washington in writers. The only trick is making sure it is in the right hands. For libertarians, suspicion of power is in our dna. So many efforts to reorient politics in this direction should come as welcome news on our part. And for my part, i cant think of a better leader from the progressive ranks and ralph nader whose whole career has been cared arise by principled opposition to unchecked power, notably in recent years, it is easy to find people on the last criticizing Civil Liberties abuses during the bush administration. They got a lot more on the left during the obama administration. The ralph nader has raised the abuses has consolidate