# but at the same time i love these streets.# the sound of hip hop made in barlinnie, scotland s largest prison, which once held the lockerbie bomber. for the last two months, for the first time, there have been workshops to encourage the prisoners to rap. this is b hall, where 279 prisoners are held, a mixture of those who ve been convicted and those who are on remand. we re going to go up to the second level and meet barney and his cell this is barney s track, which is playing. he s 32 and from govan in glasgow and ended up in barlinnie on boxing day just over a year ago. hello. hiya. what s your name? i m colin. colin, i m bernie. is this your cell? aye, aye. how many hours a day spend in here? well, normally it would be 23 years a day. i ve done everything. i ve been a bad boy, and i ve also been a good person. but i ve done a lot. i was running about breaking into businesses. to fund my habit.
challenged frank. sir, you keep talking about revenue and the infrastructure and the fact that we what v the capabilities we have the capabilities necessary to respond to something as atrocious as this. do you feel like your are capitalizing an making political hay of this event that happened? that i m capitalizing? well, that you are making a political arguen t about revenue right now. yes. exactly. bill: joining us now from boston is barney. so in hindsight do you think you should have waited a few days before making those points? no, for two reasons. first, that is a partial quote of what i said. when i was called on that day, in every case there were three or four interviews i began by talking about how terrible it was that some people were there with people they loved and all of a sud thane were dead. and every one of those interviews i began when they asked me my reaction by talking about the sadness we all had to feel. several of the interviewers
outsider president. let s talk about the dogs. to me, painting 50 dog portraits says something about one s personality. does that say to you that he s just perfecting a certain style? does it speak to an obsession? is barney his muse? well, i think it might be all of the above or maybe a discomfort with people. the idea of being alone. the idea of being private. the idea of these dogs being surrogates for himself or karl rove or whoever they re supposed to be. but he s obviously really good at painting them. i wish he would paint more self-portraits. i think his landscapes are better. he s painted a couple of buildings, that you re looking at it from one wall and then another, and watermelons. i actually think the whitney museum of american art could give him a very small survey. i would write about it. jerry saltz, this may be george w. bush s greatest contribution to american society. thank you very much for joining us and your art expertise. that is all for now.
welcome back to the ed show. the holidays are fast approaching. in the spirit of the season, the white house released a video of the first dog. bo obama doing his part in the preparations. tis the season. bo was seen padding through the halls of the white house inspecting the decoration, coming face to face with a few bo lookalikes. simple fun stuff, don t you think? it s a far cry from the blockbuster days of barney bush. the president is counting on you. i don t want you pushing that soccer ball around while playing with those golf balls until everything is done. it s really difficult to judge where to hang this wreath. where should i hang this wreath? barney? barney? where s barney? i have to go back to work in