it s undoubtedly the case that he has been thinking about it. can i just make one other point. quickly because i have to get to the break. sorry go ahead. i have doing a lot of reading about world war ii. one of the remarkable things about people like george bush is here was a man who was at the top of american society and who felt obliged to go and fight for the country. he was a tremendous war hero. many many people in that generation it s part of what makes them the greatest generation all through society from the ivy leagues down to the farms went to fight. and that is i think something about national service that we might not have the same kind of spirit today, and you know, it s quite admirable in george bush. i think the country ought to take pause and think about that. i keep going back to the love story. i think if i have the number correctly i think he named three of his planes when he was in the war barbara. i think that s fine and dandy.
into what he did at west point that someone could be so disrespectful to burn a flag? kat: it s a huge sacrificed . i wouldn t be upset on his behalf that the person did it. to say it means they don t care about the people who fought and died, that s harsh. carrie: that s not even when i was saying. what i was talking about, like i said, was elite, liberal cultural institutions like hollywood, the ivy league, who fundamentally think of the military as a blue-collar look down your nose at them. don t you remember don t you remember eric: hollywood is antiwar. ben: being antiwar does not make you anti-troops. a lot of troops don t enjoy going to war. we have to separate the wars
we struggle with so many issues, civil rights, slavery. we are not a perfect country but the founding documents are about a more perfect union. not supporting our troops, it s really sad. eboni: who didn t support our troops? carrie: i went to harvard. for a long time, you couldn t recruit for the armed services, all of the ivy leagues. when freshmen come in and they come out, they are more liberal than when they started and i m convinced it s because they are not sitting next to their classmates, there are no military servicemen and women sitting next to them. eric: we will get to the libertarians and a second bread we know you have a right to burn a flag. every year, there are four or five incidents where kids on college campuses decide to burn the flag in support of some sort of antiwar rhetoric. it s disrespectful to the men
clerk. look at partners in major law firms. look at federal court judges. where did those students go to school? they graduated from the ivy leagues. they weren t at these lesser skills. if we want diversity and see african-american latino and asians in federal courtships, want to see them clerking for the supreme court and partners in law firms. they have to be admitted to selective universities, ivy leagues and not relegated to these quote unquote lesser schools. for my kids, when they get out of school and they enter the real world, regardless of what their class mates looked like when they were being educated they ll be interacting with people of all stripes. i want them to have those diverse experiences while they re being educated so they re prepared. that was a great conversation and i was glad you re here. where do you stand at this tweet me and i ll read the best.
areva, you get the final word and i hope you ll draw reference to your own educational background as you explain your sentiments. well, there are students like me who were highly qualified to get into universities and excel in selective universities who don t are not given an opportunity to do so, and you talk about wanting your kids to be where kids are going places, that s such an important point. you look at every u.s. supreme court clerk, you look at partners in major law firms, you look at federal court judges, where did those students go to school? they graduated from the ivy leagues. they weren t at the, quote, unquote, lesser schools. if we want diversity in federal courtships, if we want to see them clerking for the u.s. supreme court, if we want to see them as partners in law firms, they have to be admitted to selective universities and not relegated to these lesser schools. for my kids when they get out