Interesting is the one we are going to discuss tonight, james carville. For quite a number of reasons. First of all, garfield is one of the most intelligent president s that we have ever had. He is up there in the top half dozen. When we go through his life, by the end of it or the middle of it youre going to start laughing because you are just going to say, no, that cant be. He cant be that good in that field, it is just not possible and then we will find Something Else and you will say no. He is just incredibly bright and the hope for his presidency was enormous. And so we are going to discuss an absolutely brilliant human being. I was chatting with a friend before and he asked me if i thought garfield was the most intelligent. I dont know how you test Something Like that. Its not as if you give president s iq tests. It is a lot easier with things that can be measured. Tall and short. We all know that madison was our shortest president and lincoln or tallest, that is easy. I dont kno
Satirists p. J. Orourke. He has appeared on booktv close to 20 times. First up in 2007 on our monthly call in program in depth p. J. Orourke discusses politics, writing and why he uses humor to discuss political and social issues. Is that a real picture of you . Guest oh yeah. Not a we. That was 71. Not quite positive. Host what were your politics in 1971 . Guest a martian left would be the easiest way to summon up. I was a leftwinger but didnt make enough sense to be a communist or anything like that. Host when did the transformation occur . Guest it was gradual. I just wrote about this. There is a book coming out from the Hoover Institution backing this called why i turned right, the story, it is a long story and i wont tell it. I will give the short version. I was a radical leftist very much in favor of a marxist socialist thing in america. I got a job paying 150 a week. I was a messenger in new york, 150 a week was a lot of money, living on the Lower East Side and i was very broke,
Hello thanks for watching r. T. Of the weekend with me kevin o. In im here with 30 minutes of the latest from world news h. Q. Here in moscow 1st as mentioned overlooked by its president ial predecessors its Mount Rushmore donald trump took aim at people wanting to tear down monuments in an address on the eve of Independence Day this years 4th of july celebrations come them with the backdrop of course of weeks of anti racism protests which is seeing demonstrators seek to remove or destroy statues linked to slavery along with symbols of the civil war confederacy which are indelibly linked to that era. Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history defame our heroes a race of their use and indoctrinate our children angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders to face our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of Violent Crime in our cities a few hours before that address those a standoff between the National Guard and protesters led by native americ
Tariffs on china but nevertheless theyre getting blamed for the fact that the pandemic has caused the collapse and consumption of lobster which all comes from maine and canada but a lot of canada apparently has some trade deal with europe and theyve sold more of their lobster to europe and so we have an excess of lobster and we bought some from me and i got shipped overnight from maine so were celebrating having some lobster down overnighted lobster from maine is delicious and you know lobster is just one part of this global commodity breakdown and they look at the commodities commodities told different stories them stock markets and bond markets right stock markets and bond markets responded money printing in a big way and not so much in the commodity market so the oil market the gold market the agricultural markets Coffee Market lobster market like they actually reflect more of the supply and demand of whats really happening around the world theres more of a price discovery in those
Hello thanks want to go to the weekend just turned 4 pm here in russia kevin oh my im here for the next 30 minutes for the latest my world news h. Q. Moscow saw it with us that is mentioned overlooks postpresident ial predecessors at Mount Rushmore donald trump took aim at people wanting to ted monuments in an address on the eve of Independence Day this years 4th of july celebrations come with a backdrop of weeks of anti racism protests which is seeing demonstrators seek to remove or destroy statues linked to slavery along with symbols of the civil war confederacy which are indelibly linked to that era. Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history defame our heroes a race of values and indoctrinate our children angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders to face our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of Violent Crime in our cities a few hours before that address those the standoff between the National Guard and protest is led by native amer