Natural resources not just in terms of gold or copper or trees that can turn into paper but because of a grand expanse of beauty which involve photographers and enthralled many groups of people, not allowed to get to the west in that particular way. I could go on and on. There are certainly people i have known about like an dickenson before, a revelation to me in many places as well. I didnt know she existed when i wrote about Emily Dickinson and come came up, cant you get their name right . There is an dickenson, she is enormously important in history. When the abolitionists and her out like a canary in the moorings like pennsylvania coal miners to talk about anti Slavery Movement and republicans in a hostile environment, they sent her out. It worked okay so the rest of us will come out afterwards. Can you talk about coming from literature and writing history . Yes. I am intrigued that i am often introduced as a historian which is fine. I am very flattered. History writing, historians were Something Else i had to throw out of my barrel of received wisdom and prejudices against. As i mentioned in the book, and dickenson and higgins and in both of those cases i am writing about writers involving those cases, part of what always interested me is that they live in time and as i mentioned, Something Like that, really didnt meet lincoln, he went to manassas and was close with the man who invented the term manifest destiny call of those things. I was never that far from history or writing about history. It just was filtered through literature, literature is something that i love very much. But it exists in time. History is embodied with literature in that way. When i wrote the book on dickenson and higginson that i mentioned earlier some so much of that book is non literary. It really is about anti slavery, the abolition movement, what happens to poetry, how it gets published, that is historical too. We dont just need words or another destination of native peoples to the history, history can be power a poem gets published so that is moving into this book with this particular, ecstatic nation confidence, crisis, and compromise, 18481877 was a tremendous opportunity, it made me very ecstatic in fact to have the opportunity to be able to do what i had been drawn to all along which means i didnt sideline literature if anything is cultural and political history in that sense because i think of them as the same. That is what i mean about reading the newspaper on the front page where you have egypt and chase bank you also have a story about an art critic who love them a lead dickenson and longfellow. There we are. Thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] for more information visit the authors web site brenda wineapple. Com. Only the most willful desire to avoid reality can assert that this did not occur as described or that the regime did not do it. It did happen and the assaid rich beem did it. Remember iraq. Secretary hegel remembers iraq. General dempsey remembers iraq. Secretary hegel and i and many of you remember iraq in a special way because we were here for that vote. We voted. And so we are especially sensitive, chuck and i, to never again ask any member of congress to take a vote on faulty intelligence. That is why our Intelligence Community has scrubbed and reese scrub the evidence. We have declassified unprecedented amounts of information and we ask the American People and the rest of the world to judge that information. This weekend on cspan john kerry and chuck hegel from tuesday at Senate ForeignRelations Committee on syria today at 10 00 eastern. On cspan2s booktv roar looks at the impact of foreclosures and the evictions in africanamerican communities lose later today at 7 30 and on cspan3s American History tv lectors in history looks at the 1955 murder of emmett till sunday at 1 00 p. M. Up next, author and columnist ben shapiro, an editor at large of breitbart. Com talks about hollywoods influence on how americans think, the types of personalities voters wanted a u. S. President and what he says is the tendency of the lead to intimidate political opponents. Mr. Shapiro is the author of five books including primetime propoganda the true hollywood story of how the left took over your tv and his bullies how the lefts culture of fear and intimidation silences americans. Host your newest book bullies how the lefts culture of fear and intimidation silences americans you write president obama was elected at least in part because he was black. With a positive for him. Many americans believed america needed to elect its first black president to move beyond issues of race once and for all but instead they got a champion race boule masquerading as a racial unifier. What do you mean . Guest is great wave of american approval, this idea he was going to unify the country on racial lines and instead the president has really suggested in multiple ways not only the continuation of american racism but that is one of the most Serious Problems still facing the country. It manifest in everything from the George Zimmerman trial to continue focus on voter id, the attempt by the Obama Administration to paint voter id as a racist thing instead of an attempt to quash voter fraud. The motivations of the American People at least his opponents is something the president likes to do on a frequent basis and it his tremendous dividend. The only sector of the racial population that showed up in larger numbers than the previous election cycle in 2012 was the black community, they showed up in numbers far out waiting their proportion of the population which is great and it is wonderful they showed a. Lot of folks showed up because they were convinced by voting for president obama they were stopping a great racist tied, swarming to the surface against president obama and get people oppose politically. Host when you hear the term post racial what does that mean . Guest the idea that we live in a country where everyone is free to make their own way and the obstacles folks face should be identified and targeted on an individual level. I think we get into a ghost hunting pretty quickly when we Start Talking about institutional racism and the idea there is this vast racist conspiracy to keep people down. I dont think that is true in america anymore people of my generation and the continued push we saw at the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther kings i have a dream speech the idea that the greatest obstacle facing young black folks is white racism not only is not true, it is tremendously damaging for white folks and black host in bullies how the lefts culture of fear and intimidation silences americans you have a subchapter, anatomy of a racial bullying, the Smear Campaign 2012. Guest what i was talking about, the racial bullying, the racial bullying of the Trayvon Martin case. That case turned pretty quickly into an attempt by the left to paint George Zimmerman as a white guy who had tracked down and murdered a black kid as opposed to what actually happened, and half white guy who is really hispanic, first time anybody ever said someone was a white hispanic bias saying president obama is a white black but George Zimmerman was hispanic and he under disputed circumstances shot Trayvon Martin after presumably having had jury ruled that his head hit against the grounds of the times by Trayvon Martin and that turned into a clearcut attempt to murder a black person by a white person and that is not what happened at all. Not only not what happened but something the left likes to do a regular basis which is to take controversial situations and turn them into a great referendum on the race question in america whether you are talking about o. J. Simpson or rodney king or something that wasnt even in fused with race like the George Zimmerman keys. The fbi has searched for evidence that was a racist for months and unable to find anything. George zimmerman was picked out and targeted and that race was turned into a race case as opposed to what it really was which was a tragic circumstance for both, more tragic for Trayvon Martin because he ended up dead. Host you say the Associated Press roading story that seemed racial in nature. Is the media part of this bullying . Guest absolutely. The media are the chief police in american political life at least to portray themselves as objective. I dont have as much of a problem with media folks who dont portray themselves as objective. That is what we do and at least they are honest about it but a lot of folks in the media say that objective and use that objectivity as a baton to wield against others so for example cnn tried to make out that George Zimmerman had actually used a racial slur in his 911 call. Not true. Nbc famously edited the 911 call to make it sound like he was a racist saying George Zimmerman tracked Trayvon Martin down and said he was black without being prompted by the 911 operator. The a peer originally reported George Zimmerman was white when he was actually hispanic. All of that was geared toward building up a racial controversy because thats old newspapers and racial controversy also pushes for a certain political line. If theres a tremendous amount of institutional racism it still pervades all areas of American Life and historically the way it has been rooted out is Government Intervention. If that continues to be the case of america continues to be a deeply racist country than what that really is is a call for more federal, state and local Government Intervention into the lives of americans to read out that racism. Host back to bullies how the lefts culture of fear and intimidation silences americans, feminists want to cheaper over differences between men and women in favor of a bizarre sort of gender androgyny. If there are real differences between the sexes and women might need plant men might need women and that would destroy any semblance of pure e quality. Guest equally according to many women on the left, many feminist left say it means to feminists saying that as opposed to eat quality. I believe women should have the ability to get a job the same as men should. My mom is not only a working woman but does Business Affairs on reality tv shows like hells kitchen. Has a company. I am a big believer of women in all work place but not ignoring the reality of the situation which is men and women are normally different in terms of genitalia but how they think. Every study ever done, Scientific Study has shown men and womens brains to operate in the same way. That is a beautiful thing, diversity is a great thing but attempting to pretend the plant with an identical especially with regard to how the sexes relate with one another is a mistake. Host who are these other believe you referred to . Guest i break it down by topic. Race bullies, sex bullies, environmentalists bullies, antiisrael belize, all sorts of belize in American Life. What i mean by belize is not just folks who disagree with you publicly. I mean folks who say you are morally inferior if you disagree with them politically and this is something the left likes to do with frequency, not that they disagree with you on the topic, that the left, many on the left think that you are a bad person if you disagree with them. If you disagreed is not because you can have honest differences of opinion or bring evidence to marshal for your argument but because you are just a nasty cuts. I said to peer is morgan on the guncontrol issue because this is the argument he was making, here is why i support guncontrol, because if you dont support and control you dont care about did kids in sandy hook so i said it is a nasty thing to stand on the graves of folks and claim moral superiority. Most americans thought the same thing. We all want a better life for our children, safer life, more moral life. We all want a spiritually higher life. We want a lot of the same things. Proclaiming vote on the other side dont want those things and are actually nasty deep in the corps because they disagree with you is a way to silence the debate and it seems one side of the political aisle has taken the monopoly on that. Host you write we spent decades being cowed by the publicly correct. The race beaters, class warriors, secularists and scaremongering suggs. We bowed to their wins, we tried to be polite, they spit in our faces and blamed us for debasing the level of our national discourse, tried to minimize the number of voices in the political arena and we have gone along with it because we power line for a time when americans could all share their hopes and dreams together rather than quarreling over what separates us. We want each floor of the pseudonym, they want the opposite, from one many. Guest diversity to many folks on the left does not mean that we can all share the same goals and aspirations and still have different cultures and bring those cultures to bare. What it means for many on the left is a few dont think like me than you are in tolerance and not diverse and those words have been used to castigate folks and science folks and make people feel morally inferior for taking a different political position and that should be unacceptable in the american discourse and as we are unfortunately as a response the only response is to get in the mud. Politically speaking, this is why if you y mitt romney lost the 2012 election look how he portrayed Barack Obama Al barack obama portrayed mitt romney. Mitt romney portrayed barack obama as a non competent president , not good at his job, not good on the economy or Foreign Policy, didnt know what he was doing. But he was a good family man, a good guy, somebody you want to go out to a beer with, mitt romney would say president obama is a good man. Just not good at being president. If you look how the Left Campaign against mitt romney including people in the Obama Campaign met romney was a guy who put undersold women because he hated women, but you all back in jeans, the sort of guy who specifically fired employees that five years later their wives would die of cancer because he didnt have health insurance, mitt romney stashed his money in offshore bank accounts, a ghostly version of america the beautiful because he didnt like america. The polls showed this. The exit polling most americans agree with mitt romney on a lot of issues, theres one issue they disagree, when it can to the exit polling that said which candidate do you think cares more about people like you, romney got blown away a 8020, including probably a certainly plurality of republicans, barack obama cared more about people like them van mitt romney. Said is because he spent years castigating somebody as the worlds meanest figure of you have a choice between competent president and second to mussolini you will generally choosing competent president. Host your fifth book, holes were you when you wrote your first book brainwashed how universities indoctrinate americas youth . Senorita in college. Host at the come of with the idea of writing guest primetime propoganda the true hollywood story of how the left took over your tv when i started and the first day of school at picked up the ucla daily bruin, the paper there, had an editorial comparing the Prime Minister of israel to a delphis amanda knox the. I walked to the office and asked to write a response. That turned into a Point Counterpoint column which turned into me doing a regular column for the ucla daily bruin and after that i was 17 i went to my dad and he was reading my stuff and i said do you think my stuff is good enough to be like a regular paper . Let me do some research. Went on the internet and found Creator Syndicate which was the syndicator for David Limbaugh and a bunch of folks on both sides of local Little Island sent in my columns and they didnt even know how old i was. And three weeks later i got a call saying they wanted to syndicate my column and at 17 iowas beyond a syndicated column in the country, parents on the contract because i wasnt age of consent. On doing that, it served better when it came to pr so i proceeded to email a bunch of folks and one of the people i email was David Limbaugh, russias brother and he said not only are you talented but if you write a book i will arrange it for you. I have been taking notes in class, beyond that i was interested, i was taking notes on what my professors were saying, writing down dates, times, specific quotations and three weeks i wrote the whole book. I wrote brainwashed how universities indoctrinate americas youth in three weeks from my notes from my nelson decided to publish it and halfway through my senior year in college when i was still there it came out and professors were not happy, the daily bruin did a huge spread trying to debunk the book but it did very well and i stand by it obviously. Host the forward to brainwashed how universities indoctrinate americas youth was written by David Limbaugh. At the 11, can you fall into a trap of being selective in the incidents . Wikipedia in the book is anecdotal. I cite a number of polls, theres no question every poll ever done of major universities shows professors are significantly more to the left than the general population. At ucla it was in the 2000 election t