Including lincoln, spotlight, and Straight Outta Compton. Brian John Podhoretz, we would normally ask you here to Talk Straight politics. But, for years, you have been a movie critic. John 37 years i have been a movie critic. Brian when did you get interested in movies . John i started publishing in the American Spectator when i was 18 years old. I grew up in manhattan, and from the age of 11 or 12, i would Wander Around to movie theaters and revival houses and see stuff after school and on weekends. I got fundamentally literate in movies enough that i could write about them. That was over 37 years ago. So now, if you are 18 or 19 years old, you have another 37 years that you have something to be responsible for knowing something about, i dont know if it is as easy as it was then. Movies had only been around for 50 to 60 years then, and now they have been around for 90. And so there are a lot more movies to take account of. Brian when you read your reviews, you see politics in your rev
Interested in movies . John i started publishing in the American Spectator when i was 18 years old. I grew up in manhattan, and from the age of 11 or 12, i would Wander Around to movie theaters and see stuff after school and on weekends. I got fundamentally literate in movies enough that i could write about them. That was over 37 years ago. Now, if you are 18 or 19 years old, you have another 37 years that you have something to be responsible for knowing something about, i dont know if it is as easy as it was then. Movies had only been around for 50 to 60 years then, and now they have been around for 90. So there are more movies to take account of. Brian when you read your reviews, you see politics in your reviews sometime. How influential have movies been on what our political culture is . John it is always a great question about whether they reflect it or lead it or guide it. I think for the most part, movies reflect our political culture, and they are an effort to gain the largest p
Brian Thomas Schatz citizens against government waste. You are president of it and you have been around the organization for 30 years. What does it do . Thomas it was created following the release of the Grace Commission report. Peter grace and jack anderson, syndicated columnist, took president reagans advice which was to not let the report gather dust on the shelf and they put together citizens against government waste and the lobbying arm of that called the council for citizens against government waste. The job of the organization is to uncover, expose, publicize, and a limited government waste and fraud and mismanagement. Brian what is the pig book . Thomas it started in the early 1990s. Following the release of a list of unauthorized programs which was done under president reagan in 1988, we got the idea of taking that list and figuring out how those expenditures were getting into the bills if they were not supposed to be there. We worked with a Bipartisan Coalition of members of
Syndicated columnist, took president reagans advice which was to not let the report gather dust on the shelf and they put together citizens against government waste and the lobbying arm of that called the council for citizens against government waste. The job of the organization is to uncover, expose, publicize, and a limited government waste and fraud and mismanagement. Brian what is the pig book . Early it started in the 1990s. Following the release of a list of unauthorized programs which was done under president reagan in 1988, we got the idea of taking that list and figuring out how those expenditures were getting into the bills if they were not supposed to be there. We worked with a Bipartisan Coalition of members of congress which was then called the congressional pork busters coalition and they came up with us, a definition. It was called work but porkbarrel spending. And then called earmarks. Then we started the pig book. The first was 3 billion and it went up to 29 billion in
Dust on the shelf and they put together citizens against government waste and the lobbying arm of that called the council for citizens against government waste. The job of the organization is to uncover, expose, publicize, and a limited government waste and fraud and mismanagement. Brian what is the pig book . Thomas it started in the early 1990s. Following the release of a list of unauthorized programs which was done under president reagan in 1988, we got the idea of taking that list and figuring out how those expenditures were getting into the bills if they were not supposed to be there. We worked with a Bipartisan Coalition of members of congress which was then called the congressional pork busters coalition and they came up with us, a definition. It was called porkbarrel spending. And then called earmarks. Then we started the pig book. The first was 3 billion and it went up to 29 billion in 2006. Every year and that we can find earmarks in the appropriations will, we release a cong