[music playing] the baltimore ravens select michael oher, offensive tackle, mississippi. when the nfl draft came around in 2009, michael oher brought the tuohys to his introductory press conference and introduced them as kind of his parents, which he thought they were. they meant a lot to me. i don t think i d be here without them. they showed me a lot of things. they taught me a lot. so i owe them everything. michael, do you want to introduce them? sure. you got my dad, sean tuohy, on the first row seat. mom, leigh anne tuohy, brother sean, and collins, older sis. there s always 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 truths in every story. if i looked at this story, i would say, it s about a young man who had his voice taken from him early on. do you have any place to stay tonight? don t you dare lie to me. the blind side told this story in a very boiled down way of michael oher, a young black kid coming from the projects of memphis, from a dysfunctional family, who is embraced and eventually adopte
[music playing] the baltimore ravens select michael oher, offensive tackle, mississippi. when the nfl draft came around in 2009, michael oher brought the tuohys to his introductory press conference and introduced them as kind of his parents, which he thought they were. they meant a lot to me. i don t think i d be here without them. they showed me a lot of things. they taught me a lot. so i owe them everything. michael, do you want to introduce them? sure. you got my dad, sean tuohy, on the first row seat. mom, leigh anne tuohy, brother sean, and collins, older sis. there s always 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 truths in every story. if i looked at this story, i would say, it s about a young man who had his voice taken from him early on. do you have any place to stay tonight? don t you dare lie to me. the blind side told this story in a very boiled down way of michael oher, a young black kid coming from the projects of memphis, from a dysfunctional family, who is embraced and eventually adopte
Thing. you have michael moore on the show. would love to hear him talk about the blog on guns. they said you said in your blog about sandy hook last week it may take a moment as dramatic as one of the parents releasing the pictures of their child after they had been slaughtered by adam lanza in school that day. why do you think that would make a difference? some of the parents felt it was an offensive suggestion. no. there was something on fox news. nobody was offended actually because everybody knows and i knew in newtown knows that you would want this to happen only if the parents approved of it. in my blog i talked about a young man named emmett till in 1955, a young black kid murdered down south simply because he was black. his mother insisted that there
If the parents approved of it. in my blog i talked about a young man named emmett till in 1955, a young black kid murdered down south simply because he was black. his mother insisted that there be an open coffin. she wanted photographers, the news people to see what happened to this 14-year-old boy. to see what racism and bigotry does. that galvanized the country. it was three months later that rosa parks refused to get out of her seat on the bus. images of vietnam, mi lai, the girl running down the street with napalm burning her skin off, these were images that turned this immoral war. that s why the person in charge don t want to show these images. they know what it does to people. i said in the blog that we live