videos and get up to date information on events, facebook doom dom/book tv. this fall, booktv is marking our 15th anniversary and this weekends we look back at 2003. living history, a look at life in the white house, by hillary clinton, was a best seller that year, as well as michael moore s book, dude, where is my country, and al franken0s, lying liar, and who tell them. al franken and bell o reilly had a heated exchange. called bill, and you were nice you called me back you said, what is it, al? and it was very warm. and i said, i saw you on c-span, you said you wanted to well, we did. i said you should talk to the pea body people about that because they don t think you did. he said i ll call you back. he calls me back, says, it was a poke. i say, a poke. he said, yeah, a very it s a just as prestigious as pea body. so i said temperature two prestigious awards. i said, don t you think it s odd you got it wrong about a journalism award, and he says, al do you want to g
movies some good guys will ride in wearing white hats and the bad guys right away wearing black cats are that kind of thing. the characters are complex, and there are good people in a wide variety of positions and bad people. most people who are sometimes good and sometimes bad, it s not easy to make snap moral judgments. for instance, there are many who judged that their best interest lay with cooperating with the united states government. the crow nation as a general practice decided that their best interest, the way to maintain their homeland was to be cooperative with the whites who were coming into their country. so there is a great, as i say, variety and complexity in the kind of responses to encroaching white society and white government. for more information on this and other cities visited by c-span local content vehicles, visit us online, at c-span.org / local content. you re watching book tv on c-span2. here s our prime-time lineup for the night. book tv cont
senator blumenthal, what is telephone c? guest: telephone cramming is the practice of putting unauthorized third party charges on telephone bills. in other words, charging consumers for supposed services that they never ordered and never received but sometimes don t notice, and even when they notice, have to pay. and it is a practice that is literally costing consumers billions of dollars. there are legitimate third party vendors and third party charges on telephone bills, but it is a little bit like having a credit card or using your telephone number as a credit card, but the practice of cramming is literally cramming charges as you would on a credit card for unauthorized and unauthorized unordered services. host: can you give an example of who may be placing those charges on a telephone bill or what kind of a charge it might be? guest: the charges can vary from supposed entertainment venues to services that may purport it to be provided, any manner of service. the t
it s a thick book, there s an enormous amount of information about what s going on today in it, both qualitative and quantitative data. so survey numbers and accounts of what people think, what they do and what the consequences of their actions are. i can t possibly tell you everything that s in the book tonight, but i m going to give you a sense of the phenomenon of global anti-semitism, its rise and its threat so that i hope you emerge from here with a greater understanding of something that everyone, really practically everyone, jew and gentile, old and young at some point wonders about, why the jews? why are they hated so much, why have they been persecuted so much? so, first, relate me tell you a let me tell you a few snippets of things that will give you a flavor of what s out there. in surveys of european union, we find regularly that 40-50% of them, of europeans, say that jews have too much power in business and too much power in international finance. if we just st
Jewish history is a series of encounters with evil rulers. Pharaoh, whom we have been reading about up until this week’s Torah portion of Beshalach, was just the first tyrant who persecuted us. …