each other. it was during this period the president said more black people drive and own cars in south africa than there are cars in the soviet union and to him that sort of rationalized, this was, you know, communism is the evil system. and you had po to do everything to stand up to communism. i remember clearly he reached for two cookies and said he had half a sandwich for lunch. pat buchanon was a speech writer in the white house then. i recalled this memory to him. he said he wrote that lean. he got it from commentary magazine. he said reagan loved it but the secretary of state george schultz was furious at him for putting it in. it made if president look like simpleton. but that was a part, anything that could be released anti-communism, that was the ultimate he believed in that. he had the assistant secretary of state was chester crocker,
who is founding publisher is skeptic magazine and the skeptic society. thank you very much for being with us. we didn t the world didn t end. we are all still here. shouldn t these dooms day predictors be admitting that they were wrong right now. they will spin doctor it and rationalize their failed prophesy. one of the favorite books is when prophesy fails. he went to the mountain top of the cultists, waiting for the mother ship to see what would rap. when it didn t, they doubled down and increased the intensity of their belief and rationalized that they miscalculated the day and that in fact it was a spiritual change. been hearing the last two days. was that the mayan calendar thing was not about the physical end of the world. it was about the spiritual end and rebirth of the world and that we ve already now begun the new world that we re now living
what was a question in my mind quite frankly was why general petraeus was granting paula broadwell the kind of access he granted her. i never fully understood it. i always sort of rationalized in my own mind he felt he could control and that because it was so public, that both of them felt there was never any danger of it becoming anything other than, you know, journalist/subject, professional relationship. martha: lobe says he had no idea when the affair began. he says his wife thinks he is the most coolest man in america. catherine herridge was telling us it was somewhat open secret a lot of people apparently were aware of. which raise as big question why it had to become so public at this moment? bill: the last man to head the cia was leon panetta. petraeus took over from him when he took the job as defense secretary. now panetta was asked about
the truth is, there s a difference between maximizing the common market which is in the interest of europe, and maximizing the eurozone. the eurozone needs to be rationalized, somewhat smaller, needs to have a lot tougher fiscal policy and more enforceable fiscal policies and hopefully the europeans will recognize that reality. but trankly, a lot of americans might say why should they care? the reason they should care, because we have an interconnected and interdependent economy. financial markets will be affected, the european economy if it s weak it s going to affect us. very a temporary reprieve on our interest costs because of the uncertainty in europe. frankly the other reason we ought to care, when you look at our comparable numbers, 134% of debt to gdp based upon comparable numbers which is less than two years away from greece when greece had its initial problems. michael steele, you ve heard mitt romney talking about never bailing out europe in any way. how does this play pol
that by following what i dictated she may have rationalized if i do he won t do more damage. and she might have a cognitive impairment. there was substance abuse also involved. tell us about the psychology. why would he want to view the videos of these girls? a talent hunt of sorts? well, i think when you re dealing with someone with these destructive drives, looking at an anti-social personality. it is sociopathic traits. this impulse, this drive was so overwhelming that he looked out to procure, first, a wife who would help hip. but the impulse was so strong he didn t have control over his own impulses. it was there to pillage, rape, exploit society. someone who doesn t have any empathy with society. he found a wife he could puppet,