star outshine or shed light on the cause they ve come to promote? often hearings in congress are not about members of congress learning something that they don t already know. it s performance art. if they wanted to really learn about issues, they could get it from a briefing book. reporter: today oscar winner ben affleck arrived in washington to speak about the crisis in the congo. just a pleasure to be back here in the real state department. i had to fake it for argo. reporter: the argo director has brought his cause to the table time and time again. my name is ben affleck. fought on congolese soil. i m working with and for the people of eastern congo. reporter: and a few marble pill ars away the actor seth rogen testified about the effects of alzheimer s which his mother-in-law suffers from. sure, these appearances bring some buzz, but ultimately does anyone remember why stephen
ambassador when celebrities come to washington, the media and the politicians take notice. but does the spectacle of the star outshine or shed light on the cause they ve come to promote? often hearings in congress are not about members of congress learning something that they don t already know. it s performance art. if they want to learn about issues they can get it from a book. today oscar winner ben affleck arrived in washington to speak about the crisis in the congo. pleasure to be at the real state department. i had to fake it for argo. i get to see the real thing here. the argo director has brought his cause to the table time and time again. my name is ben affleck. i m working with and for the people of eastern congo. and today just a few marble pilars away actor seth rogan testified about the effects of alzheimer s, which his mother-in-law suffers from. sure, these appearances bring some buzz.
was really unique. i kill you, i m not gonna crack nirvana gave the record industry a wake-up call and said, here is your new audience. so start looking for the people with the clothes with the holes in the knees and you better run to those clubs to buy up the next one. i would go to the clubs and see bands like cat butt and bands like screaming trees. it was such a refreshing change from the competitive sort of l.a. hollywood 80s and it was just suddenly so cool to be from seattle. one of the biggest music biz stories these days is the so-called rain city renaissance with the emergence of noisy grunge rock. bands like soundgarden, alice in chains, and pearl jam from seattle, washington. outshine, outshine
he has huge numbers. with democrats. but it did in some ways upstage and outshine president obama who is sitting this looking at the body language, and he is like i am out of here and bill clinton holds court and no notes and talks the next 20 minutes why everybody should get on board. dave: and charles krauthammer said the democrats may have won, president obama may have won with the largest stimulus in the history of the country. clayton: and charles saying this is the way president obama could get re-elected with the compromise but you look at the tax bill and the additional add-ons that now democrats have managed to, through back room deals been able to put quietly into this thing and everyone was out at christmas parties look at these things: wooden arrows for