1960s to try and defeat barry goldwater. somehow it s the require, somehow it s business. that s the problem with the world today. we just tax more, have more government. we ll be able to solve the problems. my father goes on in that speech to say you would think at some point they would give us a scorecard to show how well they are doing. they never give you a scorecard because you won t want to see the scorecard and today we are living it. megyn: your dad is talking about the fatman and the thinman. it doesn t mean the fat man took advantage of the thin man to get there. a similar narrative emerged at the republican national convention. the theme that there is a war on success by the obama administration. the other theme that emerged was that the government is incruising too much in our lives. paul ryan says do we want to live in a society where everything is free but us.
reform. don peebles and the wealthy supporters like cory booker, saying don t attack capitalism and free markets. they are look at a president, that approach kills jobs. we need tax reform that s for sure. but this is a class warfare by going after some sets and trying to get that 2008 amalgamated vote to get him back in office. megyn: we talked about this yesterday and talked about how his dad viewed this demonization of the rich. listen to president reagan, this was before he was president reagan. we have so many people who can t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one. he gets right to the point.
i guess there was nobody successful around barack obama. megyn: when you look back at the speeches your dad gave and talk about success in america, what a champion he was not just for folks who wanted to move their way up the heard, but for those who had made it and holding them out as an example and trying to talk to people who would like to be like them, talk them out of demonizing the successful folks and rich folks. here is a sample of that. we have so many people who can t see a fat man standing beside the thin man without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one. megyn: well put. that speech was a time for choosing and it launched the political career of ronald reagan. you could give that speech today. just change some of the numbers around and you are there. today 40-plus years later the
let s get that. let s get the cast. hello? we got trav. what, you started with me? dude, i m blushing. killer number with one. i ll be here all weekend. jimmy, the fat man. the victim i can t remember her name. danielle. and the director, me. who wrote it! who wrote it! we did. you did, mostly. oh, ya. let s get her out of there. i survived and i m freezing and my arms hurt. if you move anymore, i swear to god all right? at the end of the tape, there s a brief flash where she s crying and seems very relieved and happy, and i think that anybody who thought or had
you just saw a clip there from the weight of the nation. it s a four-part film from our sister network, hbo, and all of us are under the microscope this morning. our habits, our behavior, our country. this film is part of an unprecedented push by doctors and government health officials, and in part what s driving it this week, we have new numbers, a projection by the year 203042% of the u.s. population would be obese, not just overweight, but obese. now, some sort of twisted way, this could count as good news. the last prediction four years ago was that 51% of us would be obese. of course, none of this is still remotely good enough. here to talk about it from hbo, john hoffman, the economictive producer of the weight of the nation. you have covered a lot of ground. it s four hours, as we mentioned. at the end of the day a lot of people say, well, it s calories in and calories out. first of all, is that true? do you believe that, or is it possible that some calories treat