to do with the cities which depend upon entirely federal spending through military needs, for instance, i mean, we're talking 5 lot of people's lives changing. we're talking about disappointing a lot of people paying into pension funds who now can expect not to receive a proper pension. this is a brutal truth that no retail politician would volunteer for, and i can't see, after all, they didn't have to say it's hayek that they are doing, but i can't see them doing it. >> host: well, thank you so much. it's a terrific book. >> guest: thank you very much. it was great fun, thank you. ..

thrilled to be welcoming these legendary tel dan on the occasion of his new book quite enough of calvente trillin 40 years of funny stuff. he has been a guest speaker here before and is also frequently

seen on the staff. contrary to the title of the featured book, we can never get enough of calvin trillin. he's been a staff writer for the new yorker since 1963 coming and he's written a weekly peace for the nation since 1990. his nonfiction book -- we have a love of his books over here, include american fly come adventures of a happy easter, adventures of a happy easter, for third helpings, and sold to the party some trouble with alice. his works of nonfiction include doing out and american stories. his books include oblivious, oblivious lee which is a bush administration, heck of a job which is more of the bush administration.

he's written and performed to man shows of the american place theater in new york city. in quite enough of calvin trillin, he addresses the subject including the horror of witnessing the economics are money. the collection features poems about sarah palin, john edwards, bill clinton and chris christie. frankly i think it is hard to be bowled with material like that. for tonight's format, calvin is going to talk and then we are going to open up for questions from you if you don't mind i will pass along the microphone and she could stand up because we have a really big audience so everyone can hear and then calvin will stick around and sign copies of his books and please welcome me in joining one of america's great humorous, calvin trillin back to the strand. thank you. [applause]

one thing i should say about that introduction is nancy asked me if there's anything special low wanted her to say and do would be nice to work from the word dashing in there. [laughter] let me explain that. it's nice to be at strand and c. fred who i've known for years, and in his father said that's the third generation of strand prop. i've known. this is a book of so-called schumer will, some sometimes asked aren't you ashamed of making a living by writing slide underhanded remarks about respectable people? my only defense is it is not much of a living. [laughter] there is a piece in here about dealing with a fee parsimonious debrowski.

i think the first pew mur peace a published was in a magazine called monocle that he edited. they were not big payers, monocle. i send them a piece and they accepted it and send me a bill. [laughter] and then went on to become the editor of the nation and asked me if i would write a column for the nation and i said how much are you thinking of paying for each column? he said something in the high two figures. [laughter] i said what you mean? he said we've been paying 65. i said that sounds like the middle to figures to be. so i got my high-powered literary agent on the phone and i said play hardball and he got

him up to 100. a month or two after started, he came to me and said what about these quotes? i said what are those? he said the john foster dulles really say you can't fool all the people of the time but you might as well give it your best shot? [laughter] what i said at these rates you can't expect real quotes. [laughter] so, there are some things in the book about the this. and there are various sections of the book. there is a biographical section, and i fought since we are at a bookstore i would start by reading something from the biographical section from i guess you would call it my childhood in kansas city.

there is a quote at the beginning of each section and the one in the biographical section says i found that a lot of people say they are from kansas city when they aren't just for the prestige. [laughter] this is a piece called chubby. it's common these days for memorex childhood to concentrate on a dark secret within the offer's ostensibly happy family. it's not just common, it's pretty much mandatory. more in america is an atrocity arms race. a memoir that reveals incest trumped by one that reveals bestiality and that is driven from the best-seller list by one that reveals a incestuous bestiality. when i went into the more i knew i was working at a disadvantage, a horrible disadvantage. as much as i would hate this getting around in literary circles of new york, the fact is i had a happy childhood. at times i've imagined how embarrassing this background

would be if i found myself discussing the childhood with other memoirs late at night where some hang out. after talking about their opinions for a while, the glue sniffing and nonviolent a grandmother for instance or the family tapeworm. they will look towards me. there looks are not totally respectful. they are aware that life at net imprint on never heard my parents raised their voice to each other. the reason to suspect from bits of information life without from time to time that i was happy in high school. i tried desperately to think of biggar dark secret from my upbringing. all i could think of was chubby, the collie dog. well, there's call the dog i said, this is a true story. >> chubby the call the dog, they repeat? they're really was a colony with chubby. i wouldn't claim this is certifiably traumatic but maybe it explains and otherwise mysterious loyalty i have as a

boy to the stories. we don't chubby when i was two or 3-years-old. he was sickly. one day he disappeared. my parents told my sister, the oppressor, we call her, and me that he had been given to some friends who live on a farm so that he could thrive in a healthy country air. many years later as i remember i was home on vacation from college. chubby's name came up on my parents while we were having dinner. i asked why we had never gone to visit him on the farm. my sister looked at me as if i announced i was thinking about eating the mashed potatoes with my hands for a while just for a change of pace. there wasn't any form, she said. that's just what they told us. he had to be put to sleep. >> put to sleep, i said? he's gone? [laughter] somebody, my mother did point out he would have been gone in

any case since they don't ordinarily live to the age of 18. isn't it sort of late for me to be finding this out i said? my father said it's not our fault that you are slow on the uptake. [laughter] i never found myself an a memoir gathering that required me to tell the story of a chubby but as it happened i did relate the story in a book read a week or two after it was published i got a phone call from my sister. of the cali wasn't called chubby, she said. he was called george. you were called chubby. [laughter] there's one section here called 20 years one poem each, and of the quote leading that section is i believe an implicit political system that prohibits from public office only those whose names have awkward or

difficult to rhyme george bush. i know it sounds like an easy name it rhymes with tusche but that's disrespectful. fortunately when george h. w. left office he had a lot of middle names, so i wrote a poem farewell to you, george herbert walker never treasured as a talker you're predicates were prone to wander off alone. you did your best in your own way the way of the greenwich country day. so just relax and take your keys and never ordered japanese. [laughter] here's one about mitt romney. mitt romney is bowl it's called. yes, he is so slick and speech and garb he reminds us all of ken and barbie so quick to shed his moderate regalia he may,

like ken, be lacking the genitalia. [laughter] and here's one about sarah palin if i can find it. it's a barbra streisand standard as some press sarah palin. on a clear day i see that a loss dhaka. on a clear day i see it so in the world affairs. don't say no way though i know a lead stock it is osmosis that does it well bad and our prayers and joe biden sees new jersey from his short and that's just a state that doesn't rate it's me who knows the score. on a clear day i see vladivostok. fred, you can hum along if you want.

[inaudible] month and i thought i would do a timely piece to knowledge. i'm not usually that timely with this is called crystal ball. this is the section of the book called criminal justice, criminal justice's but probably no criminal justice is. the quote is an absolutist on the first amendment except for people who show slides of their trip to europe. they should be a arrested. they can't be held they can at least been locked out at the station house. [laughter] how many dead on predictions does a person have to make to get a little credit are not here. in a booklet published in 2006 called a heck of a job more the bush administration and crime here is what i said in one of the non-riming passages about

the so-called shoup bomber of 2001 pontiac so i'm convinced the eshoo bomber business was a prank. what got me on to this was reading that the shoe bomber richard reid had been known as a very impressionable. i had already decided that the man was a complete bozo he made such a goofy production of trying to light the fuse is hanging off his shoe that he practically asked the flight attendant if she had a match. the way that i figured, the one terrorist anyone with a sense of humor, a man known as the troll said to himself a bit i can get them all to take their shoes off at airports. [laughter] so this prankster set up more impressionable and won his bet. now he is back there cackling at the thought of all of those americans expressing the holes in their socks on cold airport

floors. if someone is arrested one of these days and is immediately because of his m.o. referred to in the press as "the underwear ballmer," you will know i was on to something. that's right. i predicted the underwear bomber in 2006. you can look it up. out of the same time i repeated a prediction public appearances and as i remember a couple of times on television, i firmly believe in the world of ever diminishing the irreplaceable resources using a line only once represents the sort of wastefulness our society can afford. what transpired on christmas day three days later? another bozo tries to blow a hole in an airplane and succeeds only in setting his underpants of flame in a manner that might have rendered him ill-equipped for the 72 heavenly virgins that were to be his reward if he succeeded. [laughter]

and where was this bozo educated? the university of the college in london with a distance of the diabolical trickster. has that name had been mentioned even once in the press and television interviews with so-called security experts who prowl along about connecting the dots and fostering the interagency cooperation and eliminating stovepiping? no, not once. not once to the people who pontificate from washington on sunday morning talk shows, the people i refer to as the gasbags say somebody should have followed up on the underwear tip. [laughter] not once has anybody consider the possibility that after the scheme to perfection called on us when they've had a few years of taking off their shoes i but i can make them exposed their private parts to full-body scanners. not once has one of these after the fact analyzer's considered the possibility that he is

engaged in an elaborate scheme to embarrass us to death. it turns out one of the television shows they said the bomb was the daily show and after the underwear bomber was caught, they showed it on their moment of the zen, they repeated it and my older grandson who was then six salles a tivo and he said he said underwear on television. [laughter] well, since we are in new york, if i can find it i will read something from kepler isn't going out, which i'm not here to boast but we think it is the first novel ever written. this is a little section of it

called kepper is in front of sons and daughters. as he glanced to the newspaper on sunday shoppers he noticed one of the counter man was standing on the sidewalk about to tap on the window recognizing the past trips he slid open the passenger over toward the passenger door and rolled down the window. hauer using the counter man said bending down on the door and? fine, he said, howard you? i thought i recognized you he's come to when locks sometimes on sunday. sometimes it is very occasional. i've noticed you out here a few sundays now, he said. i figured maybe you were having trouble getting around. i could get you something. thanks anywhere, he said. the counterman started to straighten up and he said are you waiting for somebody? no, he said.

oh well, he said that he made no move to lead. just here parking? exactly, he said i'm just here parking. then he said you are just your parking because you feel like it and if someone wants the spot it's too bad because it is your spot and it is legal, right? listen a lot of times i feel like doing something myself, like this myself. it can get pretty irritating. i bet, he said. they will say give me a nice white fish. so i will say one white fish, coming right up. a cheerful, pleasant, and they will say a nice white fish. [laughter] can you imagine? this happens every sunday at least once. i could hit it off, you know i could prevent it.

welcome he said, i suppose of course the interrupted. i could just repeat after them exactly a nice white fish but i won't. i won't give them the satisfaction. what i feel like saying when they see one white fish coming out and i say a night flight fish? well i'm glad you said that because i wasn't going to get you a nice white fish if you hadn't said that i would have looked for a white fish that's been sitting there since the last an old greasy fish because that's what we serve your mostly, that's our specialty, that is how we managed to stay in business all these years. that is where the family is synonymous with quality integrity in the city for more than 75 years because they sell their study customers stinking white fish that's why they did before in the morning to go to the suppliers before his competitors otherwise if he

slept until civilized hours maybe he deserves by now he might get stuck with nice white fish. there's always something, he said. they saw from the speech the only mod and look back less income he said to you mind if i sit with you for a minute. it looks like it's quiet in there i could take a little break. why not, he said. he opened the passenger door and slid over to make room for the counterman. thank you. [applause] the mid i'm sure that reading is given a profound questions.

one. i find that they taste good. they are sort of like the bass family. i guess they are now on their fourth generation. you guys are one generation behind it. i think the whole was the founder and now he has his great-grandchildren running at. >> did you watch at all the republican debate? i would love to hear your comment. the question is whether i watched any of the republican debates. i tend to watch people talk about the debates. i find the debates with eight people so slow and boring and they usually show the best.

i've written a little bit about one perry. one of the things i wonder is why he wears cowboy boots and is always talking about texas he was a cotton farmer and you don't need horses to plant cotton. so if he were really authentic i think that he would wear a big overall and have a hayseed coming out of his mouth. he's been a little disappointing to. when michele bachman said god sent hurricane irene to warn us against all this spending, i wrote a poem that said why be so hard on vermont? if god doesn't like the spending why do you pick on vermont? they don't spend any more than anybody else, in fact they are thought of us thrifty new england.

so they would trump out and christi out all the hair jokes and fat jokes. i think what in a way which people in this trade it's not good for the country we say the same thing dentists say about 2-cd de que it is a pity but where would business be without it they are obvious as the target. i think that dan quayle was one of those. the full title of full palm the title came from was of little oblivious league with marks not quite as good as quayle. i think that perry had worse marks. that is a to line poem which i

like to write because i get paid $100 a poem. at that time the highest paying magazine was the new yorker which made $10 a line don't understand why there's not a huge crowd at the poetry both at the career of a fair. but i get $10 a line and i mean $100 a poem no matter what, so when i want that sort of those from working for the top dollar in the field i white 82 line poem. one of my early ones was about lloyd bentsen the former texas senator when he was named secretary of treasury dealing

with special-interest groups the man known for pro quickness that is how folks do business. [laughter] its $50 a line. [laughter] that's not my shortest poem is the political societal and philosophical implications of the o.j. simpson trial, that is the title. titles don't count and the whole poem is oj oa ave. it may be anybody's shortest poem. >> do you ever hear from politicians who say you're being too hard on him? >> i never have come and i've had this sort of nightmare which i have during the day. one of the reasons i don't hear from the one even admit they've read the stuff but also i don't run into them because i lived in new york and most of them in

washington, but i start having about ten or 12 years ago started having this sort of daytime nightmare that i went to a dinner party in new york and all of them were there, and in my nightmare on our arrived early because i found a parking spot and the only other guest was steve forbes and the host isn't even home from the office yet and says i've got some things to do in the kitchen i am sure you have a lot to talk about. [laughter] and i try for an icebreaker. i say i guess you will be wanting to know while i refer to you during the campaign as a robot and before he can answer, al gore comes across the room and is in the earth termed closed and is irritated because i refer to him as a poem as a man like object.

[laughter] and then robert, who was then i guess running for the senator came over very angry because i had suggested as a campaign slogan never been indicted and then here comes out a model of and again it's a problem with the rhine in a poem. i said it doesn't really rhyme with much and people say tomato point from kansas city and i can't bring myself to say this but it does rhyme with sleaze ball above abagato abagato and then here comes henry kissinger. i think my god henry kissinger is still mad about that one criminal mentioned. talk about hypersensitive but it turns out that's not what he's

mad about. i said in the column once why is it that george shultz and former secretary of state is always referred to as mr. shultz, and henry kissinger, former secretary is always called dr. kissinger and the only thing i can figure is maybe kissinger had a podiatry practice on the side but that the dinner party has not happened and i tell you who i hear from is animal people come and buy animal people i don't mean people who are thrown clear of a plane wreck in africa and raised by a bunch of a running it things i mean people with a special concern for animals. i mentioned one in a column that to the breed of dog it seemed to be assembled from parts from other breeds of dog. [laughter]

not the parts those dogs are all about sorry about giving up. [laughter] you would be surprised how many voters there are here in the united states with computers and things, typewriters. anyway, i hear from the animal people. i wasn't one of the people who said dan quayle had a scare like a deer in the head headlights but people who did write that got more, even though dan quayle had a very loyal quality got more letters from deer people than dan quayle people. >> my question is about which and humor because it is a difficult thing to achieve. is there an editing process when you write something is it not funny enough? can you talk about making something deer

>> i took a course in college called daily themes where we had to write a little vignette every day and they had a bunch of deer i leader wrote about the course and they had a bunch of rules and one of their rules was individualized by specific detail. that seems to be a rule of humor if you talk about a philadelphia cheese steak tasting better leaning against a car sort of funny but if you say leaning against a pontiac it's funnier. not quite sure why. but i think a lot of humor is in detail, and if you can only try to please yourself because schumer is so subjective and it's just not funny to hurt you can pull her fingernails out and

she will laugh. [laughter] i think all you can do is just find something that you think is funny. i actually make myself laugh about every two or three years, so if i were taken hostage i would not be completely without resources. i could have a little every couple of years but it is unusual. it's usually something silly. >> you made me think when he talked about the dream and making yourself laugh. have you ever dreamed, literally, while sleeping and logan yourself why up laughing with laughter? >> no, definitely not. [laughter] what am i doing that it is 2:30 in the morning, so i have a frown on my face. i haven't done that. i haven't thought of anything. >> i'm sorry to hear that

because i'm not a writer. i can write but i am not on your level, but i do dream and week myself up laughing in my dreams and maybe it's just pathological. but deer >> maybe you should see somebody about that. [laughter] >> i read your book of nonfiction essays. could you speak about one of the essays and how long it took to write, how many months when you were on the ground at the time in these places and do you have any follow-up on the woman that killed her husband or deer >> you're talking about the new yorker pieces, the murder pieces. >> well, ordinarily there are

two different sizes. for 15 years later kpps every three weeks for the new yorker are around the country and i would normally leave on sunday night or monday morning if it was real close and get back maybe deer always got back in a workweek may be friday or thursday night. i did that for 16 years. magazine writers used to say how do you keep up the pace and newspaper reporters say what else to do? [laughter] some of those pieces are from that series and that meant i was roughly in the city for four or five days and then spent the next week writing at so a lot of those pieces were for two weeks and there were some longer pieces in the book called american stories, but i found

that the reporting didn't take that much longer. i felt u.s. journal, the original series was unusual for the new yorker that in those days the new yorker didn't say the story should be about 70,000 words long. it was sort of against the philosophy of the new yorker which is one of the reasons the pieces ran so long. everybody thought it deserved more. but, the u.s. journal was specifically a 3,000 word piece every three weeks, and i was afraid of sort of creep if i went over that, so a couple of them, maybe 3200 words, but basically i stuck to that and i felt i wanted to write in a little more just the fabric of it a little loose but i found the reporting didn't necessarily take that much longer just maybe

i still do for the weekend my girls were growing up then so i went home. usually i found that if i started knowing what the answers to the questions were probably time to go home and the reporting was fit into any space he wanted to fit you could stay for a year i have to be sort of a barbiturate to this would take about a week. your book about alice is so touching and loving towards your wife. did you find all of the single ladies were contacting you after that? >> i found that if you carry one of those electric cattle potts you don't even have to use it, just turning it on as they come out you it will do the trick.

i think they should make personal models of those that easy to carry around. no, i found that i did not need the protection, and i was on a television show when it cannot in the interviewer said you were in touch, can't remember what they said your feminine or sensitive self or something like that and i said i read that review and only can think of is i hope none of my high school friends read that you and i will never hear the end of it. but there were nice responses which i thought was going to be about alice and it turned out to be about marriage and couples.

>> i'm just about finished with the common trilogy which i have never read before. i realized a lot of the writing is about 30 years ago and my question is how was your appetite? >> it's holding up. >> great. did you ever think or need to do any research at a farm because for someone having a three or four breakfasts and then maybe having a couple of lunches seemed like you might at some point have needed some. they are not exactly collections. i rewrote everything but a lot of the raw material is pieces from the new yorker or travel magazine so when you read them all together it seems i do nothing but eat. or think about eating.

in fact, i mean, i like to eat but it gives a false impression in which people use to call me up and say we're shelley eat somewhere they never started this if you might think about what is the best for french restaurant in chicago. i have no idea if when you put them together i seymour glutenous i'm not at all. thank you. >> nancy and i decided i would be the last question. that would be when deer i like a

lot of places but i live in the village. i used to live in the village my house is in the same place and i'm told i live in the west village the realistic people decided it's the west village i usually describe the village as a place where people from the suburbs come over saturday night to test their car alarms i find i eat at my house or in a chinatown and when i see something about a restaurant in that column in the times i read from the bottom-up and so on on east 64th street i think a lot of people in new york even their own neighborhood. well, thank you. >> thank you free much. [applause]

>> for more information about calvin trillin visit thenationme dhaka, and search for his name. >> all eight of your books about liberals, is that fair to say? >> yes. the first book was on the ground for impeachment on bill clintonn and on the various ways thatnto. liberals lie. actually the one, the column book covers everything under the includcluding washington. >> slander, treason, dhaka become guilty, demonic. are those fighting words? e [laughter] like i said i was thinking of calling this book, demonic, i was thinking of calling it legion but a small slice of or christians would understand what i'ma meta lking about. i want them to read my book. chi i put a lot of work and to them

and they're interesting and youp will learn things. boo you will see the world in a of different way and understand i things in a different way so yes, we give them these titles. we'veorld in a different way so, yeah, we give them zippy titles. we put me on the cover in the black cocktail dress usually because it annoys liberals. >> host: from if democrats had any brains, they'd be republicans? could be the best of ann coulter according according to you? >> guest: it's more of a quote book, yeah. >> host: here's one quote: >> host: steven in south jordan, utah, you're on "in depth." good afternoon. >> caller: hi, ann. i'd like to thank you for alltt i the trim the conservative quest, but i have some comments about religion between the conservative and the liberals. there are principles, conservative principles that

have applied and acted upon that are conduct today the social, spiritual and economic well being of individuals as well as nations. and these principles came from god himself, and they formed a foundation of civilized society, and they're commonly referred to as the ten commandment pes. what the liberals have done in probably the last 50 years is turn these into the ten inconvenient truths. and you can go back to lyndon johnson's great society, his welfare program. he turned honor thy father and mother into honor thai mother and big government. and we can see what that's done to the black families and a lot of families. i don't know, have you ever read the keynote address given by obama? >> guest: um, no, but i think you need to read my book, "godless," where this point is made more pithily, i think. that is not an inconvenient truth. no, the platform of the democratic party is breaking

each one of the ten commandments one by one by one. thou shalt not murder. what is the most important issue to the democratic party? yes, that's right, abortion. sticking a fork in the head of little babies sleeping peacefully in their mothers' wombs. thousand shalt not steal, their entire tax policy is to generate class envy and steal money, redistribute worth. certainly put no gods before me, they put every god before the real god. um, i don't think there's a living liberal who wouldn't give up his eternal soul to attend the carters' "vanity fair" party to be cited favorably in in the "new york times." the worshiping of idols is sport for, it's more than sport. it is religion of the left. their religion is breaking each one of the ten commandments one by one. >> host: and from "godless" you write:

these pro-choicers treat abortion the way muslims treat mohamed. it's so sacred, it must not be mentioned. the only other practice that was both defended and unspeakable in america like this was slavery. >> guest: uh-huh. that's true. and interestingly, even, um, even in places where slavery was accepted, and it wasn't in many parts of the world, people would not let their children play with slave traders the way i imagine people wouldn't today let their kids -- it's one thing to say, oh, i'm pro-choice and let a woman decide. it's a different thing to let your kids play with a child of a local abortionist of which there are not very many. it's a repellant practice. but it is peculiar that they'd elevate this and pretend it's a constitutional right, and yet we can't use the word. you don't have, you know, gun rights groups refusing to use the word "gun." it shows you what a hideous thing it is and what a hideous thing they know it is. >> host: now, another recent

tweet from ann coulter, why doesn't barack obama tape the same speech and have them run it every night? new berlin, wisconsin, you're on. >> caller: okay. good afternoon, ann. it's wonderful to talk to you. i just finished, i have finished reading your book, and be i love it. >> guest: thank you. >> caller: and, basically, i'm here from the home of joe mccarthy, scott walker, paul ryan and also bass teague days -- bastille days. i just read your book at that time. i asked people why are we celebrating bastille days? so we had a lot of fun with that. but i want to know one of my main questions, because i do watch all this back and forth and all this stuff. so many times that if we would just follow our constitution, we wouldn't be in this mess. and one of these main things is article i, section 11 of the constitution. you know, basically, all the powers are vested in congress. they are not vested in the bureaucrats. they are not vest candidated.

and what are we going to do, to me, to bring back that and make people understand? to get our power back for we, the people -- >> guest: i'm so glad you ask. um, no, this is, this is a very important point. democrat policies are so unpopular that democrats have had to stop promoting them themselves. releasing violent and, you know, child molesting, murdering criminals, for example. so instead they just nominate judges and then assure us that the judges are very moderate and centrist, and they get up to the supreme court and suddenly discover, look, in this 2 200-year-old document, we found one. there's a right to gay marriage and abortion, and we must release 36,000 criminals from the california prisons. a recent united states supreme court ruling, by the way. so now they get the courts to do their dirty work for them and tell us it's a constitutional right. and i think the only way to rein this in, i mean, obviously, we have the method we've been

trying for the last 20 years, quarter century, elect a republican president, um, wait for vacancies on the supreme court, get a supreme court nominee who doesn't hallucinate when reading the constitution. um, that really didn't work out so well. we had three, you know, three republican appointees -- sandra day o'connor, david hackett souder, justice kennedy who all voted to uphold the heart of roe v. wade though not the reice holding. as and ally ya said, i don't know how that's fouling precedent. -- following precedent. in any event, we need to get five at large supreme court justices. this is one of my plans, just for a laugh to start engaging in if conservative activism and to hallucinate the sort of rights equivalent to the rights being hallucinated by the liberal justices so that we'll suddenly have a right to a flat tax, we'll have a right to own a

rocket-propelled grenade, we'll have a right to free champagne for blonds. um, all kinds of fantastic rights i can think of. oh, i think we'll declare the withholding tax unconstitutional. and then our justices can all admit it was just a joke because liberals can never understand how heinous their policies are until it's done to them. and the alternative plan to, i can state much more quickly, we need a conservative, a republican executive to say in response to an insane supreme court ruling, for example, some of the guantanamo rulings under president bush, um, i wish he had just said thank you for your opinion, the constitution makes me the commander in this chief. i am not, i am not giving, you know, special constitutional rights to terrorists grabbed on a battlefield as happened at guantanamo. thanks, supreme court. >> host: first a tweet and then an e-mail. the tweet by scott wagner: i like the way she flings her hair, can she sell a dvd of that

while she reads "demonic"? that's the tweet. e-mail, tim johnson. ms. coulter lays it on the line, and all who disagree are, in her words, stupid and demonic. >> guest: um, no. some are misguided. mostly i think it is the worshiping of false idols, however. i think it is this desire to be considered cool and in and be not have to think about anything. >> host: her public appearances are an avalanche of gnarl words, and if serious conservatives want to be taken seriously, the first thing they have to do is distance themselves from the likes of glenn beck, rush limbaugh, grover norquist and ann coulter. >> guest: well, i don't know about the other guys, but i would say not at all for me. [laughter] snarl words. i mean, this is like what i said about joe mccarthy. what's your point? what are you disagreeing with? what's the snarl world?

was i think that was not -- because i think that was not all sweetness and nights in that e-mail. [laughter] but this is how liberals avoid talking about the issues. i mean, that was the theme of "slander" that they anat metize us. racists, sexist, ugly, mean. don't listen to this person, don't read this american. danger, danger. well, if you could argue with us on our ideas, i think you'd do so. and if we were despicable and harm? ing, i don't think we'd have -- snarling i don't think we'd have so many fans. .. with the >> i remember this. i think that is bought listen it's hell they -- it is sort of the reverse of what i just said

during the technique on the talk radio and the internet and fox news to send out solving hysterical women to make their points and you can't respond from cindy she him to the jersey girls to joe wilson. but they had a religious right. you can't respond to the are allowed to voice the entire left-wing agenda. >> next call comes from jordan in lexington kentucky. >> caller: hello, ann. huge fan. i met murray state university and a former reagan recipient also from the phillips foundation. uu g >> guest: congratulations. nice to meet you. >> caller: that was in 2007 yo but i have two questions for yoi and i reading demonic right now

by the way it's my favorite ofht your books. i've re mayd f every one since d crimes and misdemeanors i read it i think when i was in the eighth grade. crime >> guest: you are a fine american and will go forward.s"h grade. >> guust: you are. >> guust: you are a fine american and will go far. >> caller: is it true your mother is from paduca, kentucky? >> guust: yes she is. i was down there a couple weeks ago almost, we had a family reunion. why can't figure out how to senk it to you.can'tfigure o

>> guest: i assure you cautn ge. it to me through the phillipst e foundation. >> host: what is the phillips foundation? foun >> guest: he is the owner thatds bought out regnery books and brou various other publications.. but he gives out these and it's. very oppressive that he won thi award for a young journalistawad they got an award called the, is it is called the reagan award. i haven't been judge. i'm aware of the various winners and tom phillips, so he oversees this whole complex which i'm a small part. you can definitely get the book to me through the phillips foundation. >> host: next call for ann coulter comes from new york city. hi, mike. >> caller: hello. good afternoon to all of you. i would, like to talk about the recent act of white terrorism in norway. initially this is described by people on the right as muslim terrorism, which was

incorrect. then it was described by people on the left as christian terrorism. which is also incorrect. the only way this could have been described is that and drers breivik, is a white racist terrorist who committed an act of white terrorism in a worldwide system of white supremacy. forget christianity. forget right-wing. for get left-wing. that is the only way this should be looked at. and to do so any other way is, incorrect. >> guest: i agree with part of that. and as luck would have it, i read his mannyfesto. not all of it. it gets a little representative so you can skim right through some

parts -- repetitive. i'm unaware of any conservatives who blamed it on islamic terrorism. we didn't know what it was. by the time we heard what happened he was being described in "the new york times" headlines as christian fundamentalist. gun-toting, fox news-viewing i believe. and his mannyfesto makes clear as the caller said, he isn't a christian. he uses the word christian to mean, nonislamic. it is not specifically, i don't know, black, hispanics, brown people. no, it is muslims he does not like. that's it. and yes it was very anti-muslim. he talks how he wants the jews and buddhists and all the people of europe to join with him to fight against the islam maization of europe. that is his big thing. whether or not that is connected to the insanity on some molecular level i don't know but for "the new york times" to describe him as

and started to sell my books of the person i worked with i had a rejection letter from which was kind of cool you could go to the meeting and they were like i love your stuff. what about this? [laughter] political commentator david horowitz reflects on several

moments in his life in prison since philosophical thinking one life and mortality. it's a little over an hour. >> on behalf of this of thep philadelphia freedom center it is my pleasure to welcome you to the union league club of philadelphia and to introducedad david horowitz. i'd like to thank my associate for attending today's event. [applause] >> thank you, brett nei. [applause] an'd and i'd like to offer my thanks to c-span for being here today to cover this event for its ns national audience. [applause]die >> i remind you that immediately following today's program, davio will be available to sign new t copies of his book a point inpot time at thime signing table table in the room. my name is craig snyder, i am the executive director of the philadelphia freedom center. it's a non-profit organization committed to the ideals of individual and economic liberty and limited government and

defense of the free society which are currently under attack by enemies both religious and secular at home and abroad. david horowitz was born into a family of dedicated communists whose members of the communist party. as a rigid labor baby growing up in new york, david was in dhaka made it into the intellectual world of collectivism and as a young man he became intoxicated with the hopeful idea that all of humanity can be saved from its historical misfortune's if they were only to abandon the old world institutions and to adopt the marxist ideals of the social salvation. marxist credit for me to his ability each to his own hamid begin the mantra of a generation of ultra bolshevik bolsheviks committed to the salvation of humanity david was a foot soldier in the war