political statement and he doesn t mean it. i think bernie touched on this and bill touched on this, i think it has backfired. poll numbers 41%. not just gas prices and economy and debt. it s also he is losing women. he is losing young people. i think a lot of this has to do people see through this. they are like, you god got to be kidding. you had the moral high ground and lost the million dollars with bill maher. even now it s too late. now it s political expediency but people would laugh about that. i don t want to in a sterile world, robert dinero says something, and robert dinero is half a bigot. t word and children.
statements and say this is just a political statement and he doesn t mean it because if he meant it he would enforce it on his own side. if this was done earlier, this has backfired. the poll numbers, 41%. not just gas prices and unemployment and the economy and the debt, it is also he is losing women. he is losing his base. he is losing young people. i think a lot of this has to do with people see through this and they are just like you got to be kidding. they had the moral high ground early on and then lost it, of course, with the million dollars with bill maher. sean: the window is closed. now, it is political expediency and people would laugh at that. i don t want to live in a is sterile world where nobody can say anything. robert dinero says something and now he is half a bigot for
a political statement and he doesn t mean it because if he meant it he would enforce it on his own side. if this was done earlier, this has backfired. the poll numbers, 41%. not just gas prices and unemployment and the economy and the debt, it is also he is losing women. he is losing his base. he is losing young people. i think a lot of this has to do with people see through this and they are just like you got to be kidding. they had the moral high ground early on and then lost it, of course, with the million dollars with bill maher. sean: the window is closed. now, it is political expediency and people would laugh at that. i don t want to live in a is sterile world where nobody can say anything. robert dinero says something and now he is half a bigot for
things in the office and saying that you love them? do you really love the lamp or are you just saying it because you saw it? i love lamp. i love lamp. bad comparison but life imitating art, maybe? remember this scene from anchor man. robert dinero says he didn t mean to offend anyone over his joke that america might not be ready for a white first lady. newt gingrich jumped all over that saying it was inexcusable. what dinero said last night was inexcusable. and the president should apologize for him. it was at an obama fund-raiser. it is exactly wrong. it divides the country. no direct response from the president. but his election campaign called the remark, quote, inappropriate. but de niro said, my remarks were not meant to offend anyone. in america, we believe in a future
help. shepard: the financial fallout from the terror attacks of 9/11 was devastating in downtown new york. stores destroyed, jobs lost. months after the dust settled, times were still tough in tie becca, the neighborhood just north of ground zero. the business is pretty low. not much people coming in this area. shepard: so actor robert dinero and james rosenthal did something about it. they created the two week long tribeca film festival to help bring people and money back to lower manhattan. everybody came together terrifically. shepard: leading actors leading the way by attending the festival s debut in 2002. come on back, new york is fine. since then, tribeca has generated $600 million for the city. one of the store owners said to me that they look forward to