[inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen please give a warm welcome to the stage john meacham. [applause] i hope youre having as much fun as i am. And the best thing to do is a teacher and not the course in here to take these incredible authors to be in a room with them but the only problem with this is that there is somebody in every room. But today there are wonderful people weve all heard from at one point or another written by then most of us have ever heard of but this book is on the space program. American moonshot so be watching for that. And then to have some basement studio and vl john meacham. [laughter] and trying to make the same deal of course the great historian 1919 and john meacham was written so many wonderful biographies and no us from his basement. [laughter] good morning joe but with your favorite historical figure so one or two and why and then other elements. John, start us off with your favorite. The way the question is often phrased is that i used to say j
Reagan president ial library in california where radio host mark levin offered his thoughts on the press. Cnn is not a free press. Msnbc is not a free press, the New York Times is not a free press. Washington post is not a free press. This is a press that isnt pushing the theological agenda, it isnt in the back pocket of one party or another party. It isnt pushing social activism whether its Climate Change future on the tv today most of the trials they are browbeating you in their propaganda and leftwing agenda to. But the leftwing agenda isnt freedom of the press. Press. Freedom of the press is occurring outside of those typ types. Its with newspapers over the roadroad, they are the pamphlet. The difference between the modern media today and the Patriot Media that helped found this country to demand with the Printing Presses and newspapers they were trying to transform the government. They wanted a representative government. Today the press is trying to transform us, not the governmen
Changing it is fentanyl but as you write about in your book it is mixed with cocaine, metha. So i just want to start off with the big picture what got you into this . What gave you incentive to spend four years of your life and how did you keep going with it . It is fascinating. I had a friend who died in 2010 from fentanyl before people were talking about it and before i knew what it was. It wasnt until four years ago i was a music journalist primarily in doing a report on why so many people were dying at raves. This big electronic music where there is tens of thousands of people partying and somebody would always die and the deaths would be blamed on ecstasy. I have never heard of ecstasy being such a lethal drug and i find out almost all of the ecstasy was adulterated. It had been mixed with chemicals there is no true ecstasy its all these new chemicals i want to find out what these drugs were. It turns out there are hundreds of new drugs i have never heard of the most people have n
Social activism and when you turn on the tv most of the channels are beating you with their propaganda and leftwing agenda and so forth. That is not freedom of the pre press, it is actually occurring outside of those, its on the internet for bloggers, newspeople all over the world. The difference between the modern media today and the Patriot Media that helps this country, the Patriot Media, the men with the printing press, 30 some newspapers, i was there. They were trying to fundamentally form government. They wanted to represent the government. Today the press is trying to fundamentally transform us in the Civil Society and the individual. That is opposed of what the press is supposed to be. When is the last time there was a leak to the New York Times that was helpful to the president of the united states, and never happens. When was the last time there was a next hos was negative two nany pelosi. It never happens, they beat this president and beat this president and the people that
[applause] [cheers and applause] good evening. I have the honor of being the executive director of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation, and as always here at the [applause] if you would in honor of our men and women in uniform, who defend our freedom around the world, please join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please be seated. [cheers and applause] before we get started, theres just a few people in the audience i want to make sure i recognize tonight and i wail start with marks wife, julie and his son, chase. Julie, mark. [cheers and applause] this is special. Mashs motherinlaw, sylvia strauss, silverra. [applause] first, before the great one takes the stage, i want him to know how grateful all of us are that he once again has taken three days out of this incredibly busy life to leave the bunk