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Thank you, thanks to all of you. It is really encouraging to see such a good crowd on saturday morning. I want to thank in particular ted and linda mohr, my hosts this weekend who have been showing me around savannah and showing me a wonderful time. Wonderful to be in this terrific city. I want to talk today for a few minutes about what led me to write this book republic of spin. My first book was on richard nixon. It was a book called nixons shadow, the history of image. It was not so much a biography of nixon as a study of nixon in the american imagination, not a story of what he did so much as a story of what nixon anmeant. Many were concerned with who was the real nixon . Some of you may recall nixon was always being trotted out in the new version, there was always talk of the new nixon, the old hatchet man being left behind, the statesman, nixon, man of the people, always a new image being brought out sometimes by nixon but sometimes forged and fabricated by his audiences. This le
Tough rhetoric and you are a man who has spoken out on the senate floor about planned parenthood. Went to get your thoughts on this debate happening among some planned parenthood officials even sane on the sunday show yesterday that the rhetoric here might have fueled what happened. Guest this is a person i think we will find out more and more similar to several other shootings. Someone with mental problems and no one would say im standing up for life by taking a life that is inconsistent with the movement focused on individuals protecting life and the focus on antiabortion is a prolife work focus and a focus on life and children and to say you are protesting for children and for life bike taking the life of an innocent makes no sense. This is not someone mentally stable. This is someone who has serious mental issues. Host adam is waiting on our line. Adam, good morning. Caller thank you for taking my phone call and i went to take a no, that republican or democrat, it doesnt seem like
In the bear foot lawyer, dangers he face as a political activist in china before skating to that united states. Look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the future on booktv. Org. In 2008 i got a call from a very wellknown work force correspondent, very extensively for iraq and afghanistan, he called me up and said hey, man. He talks to everyone with the same tone whether it is taliban, me, his girlfriend, doesnt matter, and says i got a great assignment. He said it is on the taliban still the isat ateye on of pakistan. He said you are not going to meet the taliban. I didnt answer. Said dexter wind. I learned not to answer. He spent months lining up access and the thing about south asia and pageant culture and tribal culture, they will protect the with their life. We knew that if the actor was able to line this up and invited us in they would be relatively safe. One thing to worry about is in order to reach the commander he was negotiating with