>> nationally syndicated radio host presents his criticism of the obama administration. he contends that the president's tenure has been defined by a pra lack of preparation and poor decisions. this is just over an hour. the. t >> i was 20 at the time when i gro took over the library. sandy was 30 at the time.th so we have gone up together youd around the library, and it is so wonderful to be back.la i'm glad you mentioned my friend mike spoke will be a tremendous mist seller. so if you have a chance come back to semite.his he is, in fact, performing in

memphis the week after next as d he has a great role. play i'm going to go up and see him play in memphis which is going to be, i think at the pantages.k the wonderful speaker.ou if you have never seen mike,de come out to it hear him. we have been friends, opposite each other on the radio in lostr angeles. i like to point out that larry, and, and i are all graduates of the university of michigan law school. differing years. larry sullivan i am.m the and a little bit younger, with the three of us are graduatedcko from law school.mpu s now one of us has been invited back to campus to speak. go figure. in three nationally syndicated talk show hosts with a lot of ys audience and none of us have been invited back to ann arbor. every five years i'm invited back to harvard to be the person that they stone. i'm always asked to debate theio

very good friend of mine.rpmmun president clinton's deputy chief of staff and duval patrick, ther governor of massachusetts, ander grover norquist. a slight groundhog's day.over ia we sit down in front of our class and we're the only two conservatives. us they just throw things at us.hee it's always amusing. alice had to add salsa to tell you the meet the presidentfor series is very good.llm he a very short program. you don't want to miss that oned william henry harrison.to i visited his tomb in a small town along the ohio river.s ande as an eternal flame which mayt have been out for decades. it has a 2-car parking lot.

a 2-car parking lot, so you really have to go out of yourasa way to see the tomb. he was a great american. he did not last for long in the presidency.ome r i give you a little bit of presidential trivia as well.e ni for those of you watching on o c-span, if you have not been tot the nixon library in your iny, southern california, it is a remarkable place. aon i never met anyone who came here and did not think it was an it extraordinary visit.rele they may have voted againstagai nixon five times which only onef other person in history of the t united states could do either of for or against five times, andfn that is frank and delano roosevelt. you could vote on a national ticket five times. 1952, 1956, 1968.g c-sp so if you are in a national audience to come. f you will find a great deal thatm will amaze you.united here's my presidential trivia. there are only four colleges in the united states which have graduated presidents and starting quarterbacks in the

super bowl.ht now what are those? your thinking right now. now give you the easiest one ofd thll. the united states naval academy? in jimmy carter.enthe that is pretty easy. and the university of michigan, which i already mentioned.ba gerald ford and tom brady.wh of course the startingou quarterback for the navy was roger stop back.it's py and then it's pretty easy to come up with stanford from which herbert hoover graduated and from which both jim plunkett anr john denver graduated, both laso starting quarterbacks in the super bowl. then the last one is really har really hard. i've given you a clue. i have already said his last name.ulatedmi it is benjamin harrison who matriculated at miami universita of ohio and whose quarterback, of course, is been a rough as burger of that team for antial pittsburgh-on not otherwise be named.i al

sos that is a little presidentil trivia for you. i also give the little mixesme u story.ce i was thinking about my prepared remarks. you hear me talk about the practice of law.d sa when the library was being billed.tor of sandino's this as well as it and he designed it and he oversaw it and every detail was of interest to him. probably the thing he was least interested in was the room which isn't even here anymore, the domestic policy room, which has been redone. the kind of slapped it together at the last minute and one of those exhibits was about the endangered species act. president nixon as you may or may not know signed into law the clean water act, the clean air act and the national environments of policy act and the endangered species act. i've been for 22 years an environmental lawyer practicing in the area of nepa but especially the endangered species act in the clean water act. after couple of years of practice in the area i knew it

was a screwed up law, terrible law. it doesn't work, doesn't save species, it destroys lloyd's and opportunities and property. i said to them back in new jersey one day what were you thinking when you signed this law? he said, seemed like a good idea at the time and that was the full extent of president nixon's consideration of the endangered species act. so i say that more as a justification for oversight. i do mention as it began to talk about this book, "the brief against obama" that it's informed by my three careers which sandy mentioned. i'm a radio talkshow host and also a law professor and a lawyer. i'm a law professor around here at chapman university school of law where i've been a member of the faculty for 15 years since we opened the doors, teaching constitutional law as part of a truly extraordinary faculty and the law school over 15 years have gone from not affiliated, not existing to the top or second top tier of the united

states law schools. it is led now by dean tom campbell and extraordinary scholar and a wonderful leader for law school and it's an enormously diverse place effectively they goes from the left to the right to center. graduates are not practicing law all across the united states and pass the bar at an extraordinary rate. it's a great place to teach law but i wrote "the brief against t obama" with effect in mind that i have got a lot of liberal friends among my colleagues on the faculty. law professors are quite compulsive about the level of their scholarship so that when you write something that you want to have available to your colleagues it's got to be overwhelmingly documented and footnoted sewing in "the brief against obama" there are 45 pages of footnotes and 235 pages of text. when i tell you anything to make a statement about the president tonight in about his record you will find in "the brief against obama" and this documentation

that takes you exactly to where you can find the facts that i cite and the quotations that i put forward in the arguments that i make a cassette have in mind that when chapman law school reconvenes in a few weeks here i will be the copy of the book and each of my liberal colleagues dell boxes and see their head spin around a little bit. we are actually wonderful faculty and we stand back-to-back and there are 50 of the other ones, 50 liberals into conservatives and that's about there. i just wanted to make sure that it would stand up to the most rigorous analysis. the second part of it though is i'm a lawyer as sandy mentioned. we have been practicing law for many many years. by pratt the endangered species law i'm not a trial lawyer. i do some apollo work but it's mostly administrative love of my partners are all trial lawyers and they bring trial lawyer sensibility to our arguments. how many of you are trial lawyers here? i usually have lawyer show of. are there any trial lawyers who?

they indeed are not normal people. [laughter] trial lawyers are aggressive, fact-driven, argumentative. they like the confrontation and my colleague, gary belinsky and janet hickson and elizabeth nolte and especially tim cook, they are all tremendous with skills and all her young associate trial lawyers. i began this book i sitting down with gary because gary is among the best trial lawyers in the united states. he was hired by the biggest corporation in the united states to represent a -- their product or service. he has to persuade juries all the time of the correct is that his arguments. i was interested in writing a book, "the brief against obama" that would persuade people to correct some of my arguments, not merely to fire up the truce but to persuade the independent voter or the undecided voter or

wavering democrat or waving republic in one way or the other, that they really ought not to vote for president obama. i want to read you from page two in the "the brief against obama." quote if you make a promise in your opening statement gary told me you had better have kept it for the jury will hear about it in closing arguments. gary continues, gary belinsky one of the countries most accomplished trial lawyers in the manufactures of automobiles and voter cycles, medical devices, sporting goods and consumer devices where americans are sadly sometimes severely injured and sometimes even kill. gary is also my law partner so we know how hard he works to when and how patient he is in the stimulation of facts via discovery and the interrogation of experts and witnesses. he loves to go to trial when lesser hearts want to settle and he is furniture -- for version

version client to know they have done no wrong to press onto a jury. the gary loves juries. he believes nowhere in the world is there a better model than the american civil justice system. he loves the jury selection process and the variety of potential jurors doing their civic duty day by day. how many of you by the way have served on a jury? hardware, thank you offer showing up. facts matter to juries gary wolinski is fun to say. promised to show them the facts and exonerate your client and you show them those facts and you have a great chance of winning. it is that simple. the idea of a fair trial that has been drilled into every juror for the lifetime of the media and the judge hammers home and already deeply embedded idea doing one's duty by the republic. last paragraph, if you have the facts you when. if plaintiffs counsel has the facts, he wins. if either of you overpromise the one that fails to deliver will lose provided his opposing counsel make sure that jurors

know that they have been cheated. you cannot hope to cheat the jury gary said, but you promised you have to deliver. i put that on page two. much to my regret because whenever i'm with gary he said he wrote the book now. [laughter] at but one page out of the book and that's a trial lawyer for you. i put that they're because of the way i approach this. i wanted to write a book that would persuade people not to vote for president obama and i knew it had to be fact-based because of my background that i knew it had to be argumentative and i knew i had to make it work for the independent people who are not otherwise exposed to -- disposed to agree with me and therefore a console that a trial lawyer and he said if you overpromise and you don't deliver you lose. so what i did to begin this book, "the brief against obama," as i went back and made a long list of all the promises president obama made, all of the predictions that he put forward and all of the polemics that he

used. each chapter of the 25 chapters ends with a quotation or a series of quotations from president obama, not later -- not earlier than 2007. i'm not interested in what he did is he young men and i'm not interested in a biography. i am interested in what he promised to do as a candidate and what he predicted would be due as a result of his candidacy. in fact he is a serial failure when it comes to delivering on its promises and therefore i don't believe he is owed your voter anyone's vote waste upon what he said he would do and did not do. based upon what he predicted and what happened and did not happen in based upon what was in fact the most hyperpartisan set of rhetorical devices that we have seen in the modern presidency. i'm going to come back on "the brief against obama" in a moment that i want to talk about

another book before he do that. this is a book that i wrote in 2007. a mormon in the white house. things that every american should know about mitt romney. i wrote this in 2007 thinking that romney would be the nominee and i wrote it with a great confidence that if he was you is going to win and with a bold prediction that john mccain could not win the presidency. based upon the fact that he was a great american but a lousy republican in a terrible senator. i was sadly correct. senator mccain remains a great american but he was a terrible candidate and not only was he a terrible candidate in the middle of a crisis but probably the best -- with an incumbent president which was penned wrongly and the republican party when it fact it goes back to democratic housing policies of 20 years duration. nevertheless i wrote in the book at romney would make a great presidential nominee. when i wrote "the brief against obama" i didn't know the nominee

was going to be. i assumed it would be romney. there a couple of references in the book but it's not a book about romney. i do want to say that i was proven remarkably prescient by the 2007 book so much so that when i got a call in month ago from the new yorkers, nick lemon, nick is the dean of the colombia school of journalism and the political reporter and always their go-to guy for national political stories. nick called me up because he profiled me in 2005 for "the new yorker" and was a very nice piece, sort of. he told his democratic reader said hugh hewitt is the most influential conservative that you have never heard of. okay. [laughter] that's okay i guess because i don't really speak to the manhattan crowd or "the new yorker" crowd. how many of you subscribe to "the new yorker"? i rest my case. there is one back there. i did too. nick was saying to his audience

you have to follow what hewitt has to say in the rough is very nice profile but he remembered i'd written this book about romney said he called me up about a month ago and he said well what do you think about romney now? heavy read the book lacks no i haven't. go back and read the mormon in the white house and then calmly that are go he did and called me back in about a week and i said alright what you think of the book? we talked about it and in fact i made predictions about this campaign which have it comes to be true about how they it would be his greatest vulnerability. i am quite confident that he is desperate and primarily with the book was about was the enormous capacity that mitt romney has and i want to begin tonight by saying the only reason i thought president obama could win re-election based upon the work i complete in "the brief against obama" is if we republicans, and i say we, i am a republican, if

they nominate a terrible candidate. if they nominated someone who would not win the confidence of america. luckily we have nominate an extremely well-qualified individual who is ready to be president on the first day. i think that is becoming very very obvious. budnick asked me to summarize it so i want to summarize with an example, and it don't know if it's going to make it into "the new yorker" piece in october but i wanted to tell you what i think -- why i think romney is such a good nominee. one example, we are now in the process of seeing the olympics unfold and they are marvelous and extraordinary and it's always fun to watch the let the games whether it's winter or summer. when that romney was asked to take over the hobby games in 1999, it they were scandal plagued and they were broke. they run efforts of cancellation they had no sponsors. not only did they have no sponsors, no one wanted to be near them because of the

scandal. it was a nightmare and disaster. three years later in the 2002 olympics were an enormous success. 70 countries sent about 2000 athletes to participate in 72 events across 20 venues each one that had to be built and supervised i romney. he was almost -- also -- this was after 9/11 so there was a huge security issue involved the state government of utah many local jurisdictions through utah because the venue was not a one city and not just those jurisdictions but the international olympic committee began a olympic committee the olympic committee of each of the 70 nations participating in the organizing committee of each of the sports that were involved. in addition to that you have all of the sponsors that you have to nullify and the international media and an audience of the billion people. at the end of those games, everybody saluted me at romney for his organizing ability. everybody was happy in the 2002

olympics which came from the edge of despair and disaster to an enormous internationally recognized success. we need that kind of capability. i think by the way that kind of capability will be displayed increasingly throughout this campaign as it was in the veterans of foreign wars speech in on the speech from israel and has been discriminated -- and has been demonstrated to be the plan unfolding about time and the people who are concerned about the campaign thus far to say he he is not aggressive enough and i've said to them repeatedly it's a campaign with 100 plus days left in it. those numbers are getting fewer and fewer and you don't pull out all the stops until it's time to pull out all the stops. that is after the convention so i'm very confident in -- confident about romney and here's why i'm confident about the election. we have it terrible record is his as is documented in the belief -- "the brief against obama" and we have electoral dynamics which i think are very strong in favor of the

republicans. let me explain that. in order to win the presidency you have to win 270 electoral votes. those 270 electoral votes, two-thirds of them are pretty much decided. we know for example that texas is going to vote for mitt romney and we know that new york and california are going to vote for president obama. we just know that. that is -- national polls don't even help you very much. national polls are almost beside the point in that they include people from states in which are not anyway competitive. what we know is that there are 10 key states and three knots of key states. up those 10 key states we know that indiana and north carolina are certain wins from at romney. democrats will try and tell you oh no we are going to win north north carolina. it isn't even close. yes president obama wanted in 2008 but is traditionally red state. they had and enormous turnout in

its african-american population that it won't be able to replicate. i'm simply not worried about north carolina. and indiana is the reddest of red states. that was a temporary stroke on the national scale. it hit indiana voters. put those two in romney's column so you're getting closer to those 270. romney has to win really four plus one. he has to win these four states that i'm about to mention, florida, ohio and virginia, excuse me, three states, florida ohio and virginia plus just one more of the following, pennsylvania, wisconsin, new hampshire, iowa and colorado. those are fundamentally favorable electoral dynamics. i want to walk through the specifics. in 2000 president obama won florida by a grand total of 237,000 votes. president obama won ohio by a grand total of 250,000 votes.

he won virginia by a grand total of 232,000 votes. pennsylvania was kind of a wipeout. pennsylvania was carried by president obama by 620,000 votes. wisconsin, a smaller state than ohio, smaller state than florida, bigger folk margin, wisconsin was carried by 210,000 votes for president obama. new hampshire went for obama by 60,000 votes, smaller number but smaller state. iowa went for obama by 146,000 votes in colorado went for obama by 150,000 votes. i could total facelle up and they total up to 2 million votes. for mitt romney to win the presidency he has to change about 1 million mines. he has to take 2 million of those voters and change 1 million of their mines. it's actually fairly easy to do. it's a very small number. do you realize in the campaigns we spend approximately

$2 billion on each side, more than $2000 per fod will be spent on influencing those 1 million votes. into those campaigns and in three other states matter little bit. michigan, nevada and new mexico. if mishkin comes home for its home state son romney, the election is over. nevada and new mexico are very difficult to imagine going for romney at this point. they might do a landslide and i think they will but that is not where we bet the farm. here is how you get to the romney 270. he is going to win florida and i know you follow the polls some of you do -- is -- it shows neck-and-neck romney had a couple of points and a bad sophisticated polling romney significantly ahead in florida. he is not going to have to put marco rubio -- marco rubio but if it is its lock stock and barrel. it's growing more so as republicans continue to increase the population from the northeast into florida.

ohioan which is my home state is pretty easy for me to predict the is that go there a lot and i have been going there on thursday for five days and i try to stay in touch not with political elites in columbus go governor kasich is a wonderful governor bad like to talk to him but i like to talk to believe it or not people and warn all tied -- warren ohio my hometown. they are going to vote for mitt romney because they want the oil and natural gas industry which has begun to revive the state, to continue unimpeded and it spread of wealth and jobs. the first new to steel plants in ohio have opened last for years and produce piping for the fracking industry which president obama wants to shut down. a ohio was not going to vote to give up its jobs by turning them over to the epa. if rob portman is a member of the ticket that will solidify the ohio vote but that means ohio is a solid yes vote for the president. what is the hardest of those three states? virginia is a hard state to

predict. virginia's the home of the good senate campaign by george allen against a very good democrat tim kaine. both of them are former governors. dortch allen of former senator. there is a large veteri and reservists vote in virginia. he is definitely gets a military and cutting what ought to be in the 13 -- 313 ship navy. cutting 20,000 marines and 80,000 army and another 20,000 sailors and airmen from the rolls. he is canceled the f-22 and numerous other weapon systems. he is messing around with military pay, military benefits and military retirement and that should put that romney over the top in virginia. but it's a close date because of the fact that the least recession impacted state in the union is virginia. the reason that virginia is the least impacted state in the union is because the only industry that has been a growth industry in the last four years

is the government and there is no recession in washington washington d.c.. i go there quite frequently. there are trains all over the city. the place is awash in money and its employment statistics are better than the rest of the country because we spend and spend other states money in washington d.c. and that has an impact in the northern virginia suburb's. virginia is going to be a catfight and a lot of people have overlooked governor bob mcdonnell as the possible vice presidents nominate along with that romney. i don't but i think he is probably going to give virginia anyway so i'm feeling good about those three states. he needs just one more. from all the other states combined pennsylvania, wisconsin, new hampshire, colorado nevada and new mexico. he needs one more state. can he get that? yes, easily. i am personally optimistic about pennsylvania. if anyone has been watching in philadelphia or pittsburgh or anyplace across pennsylvania, if pennsylvania when the polls

close at 7:00 on election night 4:00 our time if they can't call in for barack obama immediately mitt romney has won the election, not in pennsylvania but nationally. if they can call it for him immediately that means -- you will know at 4:00 in california whether or not that romney is going to be the president because if they can put pennsylvania into that column it's over. if they can put it in the romney column it's not over. it's not only not over its 1980, it's a wipeout which i believe is very possible as ann coulter as well as a number of pundits out there, we believe the president is stuck at 44% in the gallup which is the granddaddy of them all and you can get any further. there is nothing absent an international crisis and i will come back to that but absent toms following gory war breaking out somewhere, don't know how he can recover with 44%. no present republican or democrat has done so. at this point in the campaign in 2004 george bush was at 48%.

he had been 1.lower three weeks earlier at 47%. 47% as the lowest george w. bush went in 2004 and then he climbed steadily back up so he got to 54% before the election. in 1996 when bill clinton was running for re-election at this point in the campaign he wasn't at 44%. he was at 54% approval. that is the 10% difference president obama has so destroy the confidence of his own party and independent smack that he is lacking 10 points behind where bill clinton was. he is in terrible political cheybenne for reasons i will review here shortly he is going to get worse before it gets better for him. i personally believe that 44% as a ceiling, not a floor. that is inflated.

.. is a given number of people, not for reasons related to race, but reasons related to the nature of the democratic partisanship who are refusing to tell pollstersal that they're not going to voter for president obama. of they are, quite frankly, scared [lauhe machine. and if you are a fan of chick-fil-a, you know what i'm talking about. [laughter]

[applause] interestingly enough their is a potential less presidential pick for each of these reasons andhri each of these states.ma if you pick chris christie thate would mean that governor romneyt was thinking about making a huge play for pennsylvania because ic the new jersey media market ishi heavily covered andu philadelphia's suburbs, the ve philadelphia suburbs of the key aordhiladelphia. christie plays well, and he b plays a national game very, very well, extraordinarily strong and charismatic. not likely to be the pennsyan vice-presidential nominee, but if he is thatle means there goi for broke and pennsylvania. of course, tim pawlenty who ie personally predict will be the vice-presidential nominee. minnesota is a pretty far 4, reached for republican's ho candidates. we did not carry it in 1982. 1984. r of course there was walterto mondale's home state. .. in the enormous appeal in

iowa and wisconsin and the ability to connect with people that is rare along elected officials on television and radio. he is the best that is out there. i've interviewed him scores and scores of time. senator portman makes ohio a lock. senator rubio makes florida a lock and can play plague quite effortlessly in the spanish language campaign which is ongoing even as we speak on tell commune dough and the other spanish networks and spanish media across the united states. lots of americans who are latino descent who are absolutely citizens voters and listen to a lot of spanish television and radio, and whether it's spanish radio to have a candidate who is fluent in spanish is a considerable advantage to participate in the campaign that we continue see as nonspanish speaking volters. senator rubio would have an enormous impact as would jeb bush who is famously fluent in

spanish. ic at the end of the day rule one don't hurt yourself. win one state. it adds up to governor pawlenty or senator portman. a million vote necessary the ten states. i've already told you that i think mitt romney is extraordinarily well qualified and he's proving that speech after speech. the o'speech in vale and israel foreign war was great. and the question is going to come down about the argument made about president obama it's not going to be an argument it's going to be about reminding people. when i set out to do the brief against barack obama. i how many you listen to the radio show? thank you. way to go! how many of you call the show? isn't that remarkable? i always people if you call the show, if i've been mean or nice? [laughter]

i'm that's about four of out of 200 plus people who have actually called the radio show. come on, people, pick up the phone! it's a national show. in 100 cities. people can call from all over. when i got the idea we said what's the worst thing president obama has done? phones light up. they could have gone for a couple of days. i made a list. no friend of israel yahoo! in the basement or didn't help the iranian revolution. or unemployment at such and such rate at such time. i made a long list. and i had aist will have more than 50 suggestions and i narrowed it down to "24" and the 25th chapter is a summary chapter. let me read you the table of cop contents. you need to buy the book so i'm not going go through all of them. the nightmare of obamacare.

the failed stimulus. stimulus 2.0. the biggest spent thrift in history we. the community organize who collapsed housing. stwelling the ores ever unemployed. soaring gas prices. the dodd-frank head fake. the fast and furious debacle and cover-up. the president's attacks on catholics, congress, and the constitution. standing by as iranians die abandoning israel to the fate. hallowing out of the american military. resetting the russian button. ignoring boarp. bowing to china. ignoring the north korean. arab spring. gitmo and the trials of terrorist. chicago ward healer. the unilateral rich of the anticonstitutional president. the tell prompter defense. and finally a number of rounds of golf he has played. and followed by the decline in

despair rhetoric. it's a pretty good list. [applause] what i wanted to do is to put people with fun facts and i'm not going run through them i'll. in january of 2009, the president counsel and economic advisers put out a report that the president later referenced that said that guaranteed that if the stimulus were passed, as it was, that unemployment would never rise above 8%. in fact, unemployment has never been below 8%. for forty-one months. that is a jagged record of incompetence that cuts at the heart, not just to the unemployed but the employed who worried a about the jobs and the

family members who worry. how many of you know who has lost their job in the last four years? show by a raise of hands. almost nearly universal 100%. it didn't have to happen. it was a choice that was made not intentionally with the effect of raising unemployment to the highest state levels since the great depression but an intelligence choice that resulted in the that many people told him would result in that. fun fact part two. 878 billion spent on the stimulus. can anyone point to anything that it built? you say solyndra. [laughter] but generally speaking, no. johnathan adler who is a friend who is on my show frequently. he's a reuters cool limbist. i quote him. he's a fine man and a good historian.

came on the radio i said, where did it go? the $8 78 billion? it helped -- no. what did it buy? we made improvements on route one in 1. he said. i quote him. the problem is you can't point anything. and then i begin to educate him and other about the works progress administration. in 1933, when the works progress administration was put into place by fdr it began to bay pay for things it did it usually. we will pay for 45% of anything you want to bill right now. and so state and local governments got together and came up with a long list of building projects that were generally shovel ready or which they would make. i point often in the speeches to with a dell park in pools ohio where i had any first pool. it's still open today. it was built with wpa dollars and local dollars.

i was talking about it recently with tim cook. he is from ramsey, new jersey. and ramsey high school was constructed in 1936 -- excuse me 1935 after the process of 14 months using wpa money. when came online the city of ramsey new jersey said let's get together and build a new high school. they found the land, raised the money, it was open in 14 month finance stands to this day with a wpa marker on today. it is the ramsey because that's how you do public works project if you want to get them done. you don't give $8 00 million to slin solyndra to put into the private pockets of the president's crony capitalist funds. you don't pad pensions that are going broke. nevertheless, i won't use the crude word, but you don't leak it away. that's what happened with $8 78

billion. that's an accountability principle people have to step forward with when it comes up to the president. those are fun facts. the book is full of them. case after case after case. all we have to do is remind people of certain words and faces. if i say fast and furious. how many of you know what i'm talking about? if i say solyndra how many ever you know i'm talking about. this is not hard. the campaign ahead is going to be reminding people of all that he is done and said that disappointed and left people disillusioned. i want to read to you my three favorite obama quotes. from september 30th, 2011, in a speech in interview he had with tv jim in orlando. this is great, great, country has gotten a little soft. -- [inaudible]

a month later in hawaii, he said, we've been a little bit lazy over the last couple of decades. now i don't believe we are lazy, i don't believe we lost our ambition, i don't believe that we are any way on our back and that the american century is over. i also don't believe that the private sector is doing fine and that you didn't build that. i don't believe in any of that. [applause] the very best arguments to make against president obama are his own statements. i want to wrap up by talking about a third book that i said i would mention to you. i wrote this book in 1998. it's called "inbut no out" it came out again it was released in paperback because it continues to sell.

it's for young even jell calls that want to influence the world. the orthodox roman catholic and the jewish vote and the social issues are much overlooked right now. but in fact, i don't recall time since the early '0eus when the even gal call community and the orthodox jewish community has been as motivate as a it is right now i say it because the hhs regulations and the chick-fil-a story is going leave a mark. when the hhs when the health and human service came out that every catholic college, organization and hospital that was not itself a specifically organized church, had to provide birth control sterilization and the morning after pills to the all of the employees, they stepped on a fundamental rights

to worship as they see fit, organize and be left alone by the government as they identify as religion believers. on friday, july 27th a district court in denver, colorado struck down the hhs regulations as applied to a private firm made up of roman catholics that provide great health benefits to the employees. they are not provide birth control sterilization in and the morning after pull because they consider to be an assault on the religion. as it is. when the president did not withdrawal the regulations but in fact doubled down on them, he awoke a giant in america he is going to rue the day when he did that. this is a great myth, in western story telling. it dates back to the ill yat. the superhero who was asleep. you wonder where is the superhero.

akill lees in the tent who will not come out and fight because he's mad at the other greeks. he will not -- it begins with him in the tent. he only -- comes out after he's been moll fied or threatened and the roman catholic church basically left the field of politics and has not been energid in politics for 40 years. they are now back, they are lead by cardinal timothy dolan, philadelphia archbishops, wish bishops who believe that the obama administration rightly believe that's obama administration has leveled a direct attack on their ability to be catholic. that is not going to pass unnoticed in states like ohio, michigan, and pennsylvania where the catholic vote is huge and motivated and not happy with president obama. secondly, chick-fil-a story, it

begun to roll out when i give the lecture. everybody already knows about it. i was at the napa substitute this past weekend a gathering of catholics and strongs supporters of the church in america. i was giving a talk on the book and how people do mix -- politics the rights way. i asked three groups, have you heard of -- you didn't build that? 50% of heard of that. and half of them heard of it. i asked if they heard about romney's allegedly screwup in london the disconcerning extreme. it it's not a real story. it's not the real story. doesn't matter to american voters. it was played up by the british press. you don't want to talk about the olympics and romney if your a democrat anyway. the third story that was the $1.5gdp growth less than half%. now the chick-fil-a story was a

day old. how many of you heard about that? everyone had heard about it. it was one of the storyings that moves by social media and e-mail, television, conversation across a church patio or in a group and it outrages people. it outrages even supporters of same-sex marriage. it outrages as i had on the radio show gay people. they don't want people to be bullied. when emmanuel tries to bring a tire iron beats up the president of chick-fil-a. they are democrat president of friends of the president. it means that the president and the friends will persecute anyone who disagrees with them if he is reelected. and the prosecond of re-election i want to close with and take your questions. the fact of the matter is a lot of americans wanted the president to do well.

they did. and -- in the last wednesday ever his presidency, president bush invited a half dozen talk show host i was honored to be among them back to at oval office. he's going to be office in six more days. it was off the record conversation. i won't quote the president. and the president's message was, not quoting him but the message in the room was, give the new guy a chance. it's very hard job. you have to let the president try do the best by the country. and i think most of us did and still don't want him to be absolute disaster. he has just proven that. [laughter] i believe had he actually moved to the center had had done anything governor to the hard left as documented again, the brief against president obama is no a it is a fact-based book. just chapter and verse. if they hoe moved to the center and tried to reach across the

aisle he would have been a two-term president and he could have won 60 fortunate of the vote. only by going hard left and by completely partisan hyper partisan rhetoric calling paul ryan to the white house to beat up him. accusing doctors to wanting to grab people and cut them up. if you liked your health insurance you could keep that and your doctor. the promise has been broken already. calling republicans egger to have dirty air and water. direct quote. that kind of stuff isn't consistent with american politics with our values. and so all we have to do is remind people that we really don't want four more years of a chicago-style politics and what happens if he's reelected and not even restrained by the prospect of re-election campaign. if that happens the unilateral rich the the hhs regulations, the immigration executive order,

which sets aside law and creates a new work permit without permission for the dream act kids. whether or not you're for it or against it. senate seats in missouri, nebraska and north dakota, th ght ana, new mexico from wisconsin, michigan. lots of great seats. scott brown working hard to save them in massachusetts. other places that might be inthl

trouble.lenge. theya realist, but will in the they d and the house in years to challenge. republicans get onei more chancr they don't get to do a cat but they did in 2004, which is not to be take their mandate and reform. and they don't get to hearr us. i hope speaker bonior and reform soon-to-be majority leader, wilh sit down with mitt romneyave and agree they have 100 days it lik. they wl be templed to do that. that's what republicans do as they hold meetings. and they think about it for a long time. they can't do that. they absolutely have to come out of the gate, blasting for reform. demanding have to rebuild the military. get the 313 chips. restore the terrible cuts the president is putting in place. they have a lot to do. if they do it democrats will scream, the media will scream and the american people will be applaud. they will be rewarded with a long period in time.

they'll go home. felon had the same problem. he made the same kind of promises he has to live up to the reform that barack obama maid. i'm hoping when we gather here a year from now we'll have a set of promises delivered upon and maybe a new book. now one last thing, [laughter] i said they're going to spend $2 billion in search of a million votes. i think the obvious thing is to buy million copies of the brief against obama and lead them on the states. giving they don't think that the romney campaign is going to do that. i want to encourage of you to buy a million copies. no to buy and give to a democrat. read it by all means. give it to a democrat and ask them to -- maybe an independent somebody who hasn't decided. ask them to respond specifically to the arguments. it's not going embarrass you. it's not crazy talk. i believe the president was born in hawaii.

okay. i'm really radical in that regard. i think he's a citizens and gooded a guy and a nice dad and i wouldn't mind having a beer with the guy provided joe biden doesn't come along. [laughter] i wouldn't -- [laughter] but he's not qualified to be the president. he's in over the head. it's been a disaster. thank you for coming and agreeing with with me tonight. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you he has generously agreed to answer some questions before he goes into the lobby to sign a million copies of the new book. the first question is the gentleman here. >> my name is kendall. with borings, how -- obama care

how do you see the -- hold with the military cut backs how do you see the military voting and with the attitude toward israel how do you see the jewish community voting? >> three great questions. i know, a super pac is forming. doctors and patients against obama. and i assume that will be funded by corrects and health care providers because they realize obama is destroying their ability to provide health care and that the president did not in any way shape, form, understand what he was signing. no one read the bill. it's a disaster for health care. i think doctors and parents together will find and vote overwhelmingly against him. the military, i believe, officers out% will vote against president obama they will vote for romney. massive cuts are happening bots the president's policy not because the congress. not because of the sequestration, they shouldn't have agreed to the scwetion ration. the president is not doing

anything to fix it. he has the gates cut. he's destroying the pentagon, running away from afghanistan, and iraq. i didn't talk much about foreign affairs. i think they're going to vote overwhelmingly against them as well. and finally, you asked about the jewish vote. i trust them, horrible peep of them. no with jeff dennis is a terrible person. i trust them both. they tell me in the entire adult life they have never seen the jewish-american vote so undecided so leaning toward voting for republican such strong numbers. it has one word, israel, written all over it. president obama is hostile to the interest of israel. he left them in the basement. he said call me if something changes. he didn't treat him like the elected leader of the best ally

in the world. and the democratic country as that freely elected leaders and a tradition of freedom that is strong and outing to supported. romney is a strong matter of israel. you wish or not in the united states. >> i'm steve levy. i think there are agreement in the room that we need to reform our entitlement programs that you mentioned. i think there's a agreement that any effort of reform is going to be fought and tooth and nail by senate democrats. so if you look ahead to january of 2013, it's a choice between leaving the major entitlement programs unreformed or abandoning the filibuster in order to be able to get the necessary reforms through, what do you think strategically is the right course to take? >> great question. i would never end the

filibuster. i think the filibuster has the roots in the constitutional government. i would never end the filibuster. i would be aggressive in the use of reconciliation. and obamacare has opened the door that reconciliation allows you to pass it out the senate with 51 votes plus the vice president. and i would be aggressive in that using that reform social security, medicare extends bush tax cut and cut spending. i don't think we have to choose between the two. i'm glad that hare reed opened the door for us and the supreme court has opened the door. the upside of the roberts' opinion so we don't need to have the filibuster killed if we were pushed to it, though, i'd keep the filibuster. the republican is stronger than any particular financial crisis the republic requires gigs of power and the filibuster helps slow things down. that's on bigger issues on

issues that will come back up and 30 or 40 years. we won the battle in 1979 and lost it over thirty years. we need the filibuster long-term. >> yes. i agree. my name is carlos. i agree that mitt romney is qualified to be president. my concern is i see the greatest weakness how he identifies with the common person or come across as appealing to them. and i'm just curious how you see that happening. because essentially how they all identify people generally vote for someone they like and identify with. if you're remember what president clinton said he felt our pain. whetherly you agreed with him or not he seemed to identify with the common person. how do you see romney i coming across? >> the question is can governor romney identify with the common person. i spent a lot of time with him in the 2006 and 2007. i found him to be imminently

fine then. i don't believe know he started out in life. he started with nothing, zero, zip, driving across the country. never went to college, grew up in the automobile industry, served wartime took over the automobile industry. took over rambler. american motors, made himself good money but not enormous money and became the governor of michigan. left the son a good legacy of education and some capital and romney turned it into an extraordinary fortunate. but they lived on a budget when they were young. what i think most appealing about him is the five boys whom i've met three and mrs. romney whom i have met. they are an ordinary american family. they are -- imagine five boys running around. it makes you ordinary. [laughter] he didn't kill any of them. that's a start. [laughter] and i think that will come across all the efforts to bring up the money and the house and

the horse and that stuff. i don't think care monies if it comes a cross one on one. how much money he had. nelson rockefeller won in new york many times. his foreign is huge. jay wins in west virginia his fortunate is enormous. there a lot of rich democrats. john kerry did not lose because he married the fortunate. he lost because he was -- not particularly approachable. and so i think that what you're concerned about is right to be concerned about about. i think as people get to know the governor and especially lit governor and the context of the family they'll believe he is in fact shares their values. if not their pain of financial necessity their valuings. pretty confident about that, actually. >> yes, sir? [inaudible] for all you do for the conservative cause and the freedom of the united states. >> thank you. >> i appreciate it.

[applause] seven or eight candidates in the beginning. i don't think i have seen or heard from any of them since romney was declared the winner. [inaudible] >> the question is what about the people this a romney against with? santorum was campaigning for romney last week. pleased to see. i was out of the country. came in second. a good friend of mine. he has a lot to deliver for the ticket. he has been out there very actor. gingrich did the same thing two weeks. i haven't seen congressman paul yet do any events. [laughter] but rand paul has been supportive. that's god. that's interesting. governor perry has done a lot for him. helped him raise money. i haven't seen herman cain do

anything yet. generally speaking, i have seen the two other financial finalist strornlg and gingrich visible. i have heard others one "exception of ron paul. i'm optimist there won't be any division in the party. >> thank you for what you do in our lives in so many ways. i want you to elaborate on what was mentioned on your show today. i'm ill literate about the issue having to do with jimmy appointed judge having made some decision . >> sure. >> i'm ill -- start with square one. >> after the obamacare case was decided by the supreme court, about law was upheld, cases challenging other parts of obamacare began to roll out. one of those cases had been

filed in colorado by the alliance defending freedom lawyers. telladf.org if you want go to. passenger's side will -- mira sorvino there's a press release. offer health insurance policy that provided sterileization birth control and the morning after pill that. they sought from the judge a ruling that that was either illegal under the religious restoration act or unconstitutionallal under the free exercise cause. the the court ruled on friday it would be granting a permanent injunction against the hhs

preventing them from imposing the requirement to provide birth control sterilization and the morning after pill because the religious freedom restoration act. it was in the opinion of the judge who was a carter appointee impossible for the government to win. that it clearly elevated their rights under riff are a and i believe if you read the opinion closely it would clearly also violated their free exercise rights. if you want to read the p.r.n. itself. it's only one court in denver, any small business owner in colorado can march into court and make the same claim and hopefully get the same result. it's a huge loss for the obama administration they're not talking about it much. we will. thank you. >> hi, mark. one of the four callers. in 1992 documentary the war room about the clinton campaign and al is giving the stump speech

the economy is up and unemployment is up and wages are down and so forth. i was wondering how do the metrics compare between the '92 campaign and this campaign? just the economic numbers on a based upon that? >> it's a great question, george bush lost in '92 if they were worse than they were then that president obama would lose even though dem graciouses may have shifted a little bit. the only comparison i know is george h. w. bush had -- president obama had in this quarter. so the economy is worse off. i also know that unemployment is higher than it was under george h. w. bush. i can't say for sure. the in next highest rate was 7.2%. under ronald reagan. i think it was under 6% for

bush. i don't know what the inflation number or what the interest rate was. i think it's fair to say that the economy was in better shape in '92 than it is in 2012. so president obama is in big trouble. >> hi, i'm johannah. i want to take the opportunity thank you. you use your gifted brain and your considerable verbal skills and writing skills and energy and fly all over i'm very grateful that you're able to do that. >> any great pleasure. thank you. my question is what can little people individual little people do the best right now to support mitt romney? i was a santorum supporter. i'm grateful to have seen it played out. when everybody was played out now, it seems like we're standing strong and firm behind romney. it answered all our questions to watch the campaign and now what do we do as little individuals? >> i'm glad you ask that.

most effective thing you can do is go to romney.com and do two things. register to volunteer. they have a direct dial program into the swing states. you're californians. and it doesn't matter what you do out here. the land of the dambisaed. dammed. we're going slide off to the economic hell hole that is the future for california until we hit bottom and then we'll rebuild. you want to register for the purposes and you want to volunteer in california to help the assembly men and the state senate candidates and great ones that need help and we should do that. if you want to do something from home. register at mitt romney.com they will give you a virtual volunteer pack and 96 hours before the election you call the

peep. you ought to be giving $5 or $50 or $500 and one other camp adopt a romney campaign and minimum $10. $5 for romney. i knead easy. there's a button. if you hit the act right button. 100% of your money goes to george allen or josh mandel or deny reberg in minnesota. -- montana. they're great candidates. >> i love your show. listen to to your show. >> i'm going buy your book. >> thank you. ! i'm going read while i'm supporting my alumni usc to januaries. >> sorry. >> several weeks ago monica said there was no love loss between president clinton and president obama. it came out that the democratic

national convention was going to have president clinton has a prime time speaker. is president clinton going to come to the rescue or try? >> i do think one of the things i would not rule out is secretary of state clinton become vice presidential nominee clinton. i don't see how a desperate obama. it would be better than biden. i think bill clinton will work his heart out for president obama, travel much and will mrs. clinton the extent she can even if she's not play the vice presidential nominee. she's going run for president in 2016. whether or not obama wins, she's going do that. the easy westiest way is to garner soldier.

a mattered great deal to mccain the supporters. i think you'll see the same thing from clintons they'll be aggressive in supporting president obama. no to no avail. >> we have time for two more. >> smith. i have a question. you mentioned about the potential national emergency. do you think something is going to happen with israel attacking iran in the next few months? >> i don't know that something would happen. i believe that if it does, it will benefit of the president obama and my best -- evidence is 1962 jack kennedy was president and not running for re-election. he was supposed to lose in the con congressional. he won a resounding victory in

1962. where there is a threat they quite naturally and rightly rally to the president. if there an international crisis in october of any sort whether triggered by iran, or triggered israeli or us it will help president obama significantly. i do not -- i don't imagine he is ambitious enough to start a war to save his presidency. but the israeltys are going to run on their own schedule not captive to american politics and if iran tries to break out they won't threat happen. they would be well advised to break out in october of this year if only to hope that the united states was paralyzed by politickings. pray it doesn't happen. >> from a 15-year-old high school student from san juan hills. >> i'd like to say thank you. i don't learn this stuff in school. you give it to us.

and, yeah. is the mrs. here? [laughter] [applause] >> have you taken ap history yet? when you get to ap history. california has great teachers. i don't want to paint with a broad bush. i had great teachers they didn't build my business. [laughter] , you know, you you'll get great teachers. i want you to be confident. question? >> that was it. [laughter] [applause] thank you so much. i'll be in the lobby signing books. come back and hear mike gallagher. >> for more information, visit

the author's website, hugh hewitt.com. >> his boat, "republican leader: a political biography of senator mitch mcconnell" looks at mitch mcconnell has served as senator of kentucky since 1985. >> mcconnell is the senior senator from kentucky, the longest-serving senator from kentucky. he is the republican leader in the united states senate and somewhat contend he is the foremost republican a kentucky political history. he was born in alabama, came to kentucky as a young person. got involved in republican politics, served as the county judge executive here in jefferson county, which is worth a read though, largest city is

located, ousted the democratic incumbent and has been reelected four times since then. it's been a steady upward climb in the ranks of republican leadership in the u.s. senate. he came in with really no connections and no national reputation, kind of built his reputation on issues like campaign finance reform, resisting a lot of measures of campaign finance reform. it got into the leadership then now is the leader in what is to become the senate majority leader after the election this fall. his primary legislative area of expertise is probably campaign finance reform. he still act in a rates and litigation in the supreme court, opposing campaign-finance reform that he thinks would infringe upon the first amendment. but it's also done several other things. he is renowned as the foremost

advocate for burma in the united states senate and long before the issue of aung san suu kyi and permits reform became widely known, he's been toiling in that vineyard for many years and in fact he recently went to burma to meet with aung san suu kyi, the nobel laureate in burma. he had a measure to protect a democratic institution in hong kong. during the bush administration, he was involved in a lot of legislation enacted to national security, national security wiretap, et cetera. he's a very soft-spoken person. he's a big university of louisville sports fan. he reads a lot of history. he does his own grocery shopping here and the thoughts and telling stories of people he meets while shopping for the

groceries. i think that is one of the ways he tries to keep in touch. becoming a politician whose washington rather than lugo. he does try to come home with the constituents of the ballgames and doing things like grocery shopping. he's a sense, doesn't manifest much of a temper, but that doesn't mean sometimes but he doesn't get upset with folks. i think his reputation is that of being a very canny, very clever political operator. he is thought to be a master parliamentarian. in fact, he built his reputation largely on coming up with legislative strategies, using parliamentary tactics. and he is thought to be a hardball political player. but i think senators would also say that his word is his bond. he is someone you can make a

deal with and once you've made a deal, it will stick. i think the democrats here in kentucky described him with maybe grudging respect. they obviously disagree with him a lot and they think he is ruthless probably in some respects. but they also admire what he's done to build a republican organization in the state and sailor faye, at least democratic state, but mcconnell, while making its way upwards and republican senate leadership has also hope those a much stronger, more effective republican party here in the states. you can't describe him as a beloved figure by any means, but i think you can describe him as a widely respected figure. he's been elected five times. he's done it with bipartisan support in this democratic state. the people of kentucky appreciate someone in leadership

it's been a long time since the kentucky and had been in prominent u.s. senate leadership. they like that. he brought back a lot of things to kentucky and i think every local community can point to something and say mitch mcconnell had a role in helping us get that. and it's also been flexible. mcconnell has not been just an ideologue who won't vote for change with the times. he has basically mirrored where the republican party has been. george will describe him as thoroughly marinated in the institutions of the senate. he really is the creature of the senate and the only other position that he might be well suited for a secretary of state at some point. but he sound like a lot of senators, never where they wanted to be president. i think that's very much of the fact and his success in the

republican senate leadership. he's always been a creature of that chamber and is never really thought he would be president when he looked in the mirror in the morning. worked on the books for about five years, interviewed countless people that know senator mcconnell appeared out a lot of interviews with him. i have met him before, but we were iming me as close acquaintances. and i probably would not have done the books if he had been unwilling to cooperate. the book is not an official biography, but the senator did cooperate with it. sometimes i would share with him something i was thinking of writing and he would offer his opinion as to where he thought that might be wrong. but i thought to his great credit he would always say, it's your book and i'm not trying to tell you what to write, but here's my take on it.

sometimes i thought he had a good point and i would modify what he had. but there are parts that remain in the book that he doesn't agree with it. for example, whether president reagan had coattails that helped senator mcconnell when his 1984 election. senator mcconnell disputes that, but i happen to think there's something to it. there are also some criticisms of the book, and stance he took on various pieces of legislation that i am sure he would dispute. the medicare prescription drug and effective as pastor in the bush administration is an example of our perspectives are somewhat different. but as they say in the book, for the most part, i am in agreement with the mcconnel philosophy. there's a few parts where we

park on me. i was very impressed with this person you came from another state was not a kentucky native. kentucky can be a provincial state. it's not easy sometimes for outsiders to make their way here. had done all this and is disciplined, focused and tactical thinking all intrigue me. >> book cd continues now with louisville kentucky. the city is that a rich political history founded in 1778 and named after king louis the 16th. louisville was given his first charter by thomas jefferson and zachary taylor, told president of the united states is raised in. and we go. up next, look at politics of the modern age. someone talks about his book, "rebuting american politics: the internet revolution." this is just under 15 minutes. >> the internet and

revolutionizing the way people obtain and process information the fundamental ways that we interact with government and as a result, you know, i think altering to the very core the way we think about politics, the way we elect officials, the way we interact with government overall until just a handful of years ago. i mean, we thought we knew what the internet -- how people were going to use it. we thought we had some sense of it. facebook is, twitter heads. not enough can be said about how much that has been altered and this information. there is political science that

access particularly in the united states anticipated tremendously over the last 50 years or so, just gradually declining and declining and one of the theories out there as to why is the social cap is on decline in social capital can be in the simplest terms thought of as sort of an interconnectedness between people. and then if people generate social capital, they are compelled to participate in the process. one of the ways that social capital is built through social network. and in a pre-internet world, people thought it this is joining groups, as being, you know, being part of civic groups, it being part of bowling leagues, things of this nature. and since social media -- my

co-author and i argue in the book that social media is reconnecting people. we are not going to assert that it can replace face-to-face interaction because it doesn't. that bad, it offers something that we didn't have prior to. and so people are beginning to exchange information and most people have a faith that page and they know they'll have some friends who are posting political news. some friends who aren't. nonetheless, you can begin to feel part of a community. and facebook is being taken as a step further into where they are using algorithms to predict which friends you interact with this most. so those are the friends to show up on your home page.

so if you have friends -- birds of a feather flock together. people who tend to buy friends with similar political views, those who are more likely to start showing up on their face but page. and so than the news stories that they posed, what ends up happening is allowed to look at information that reinforces their own decisions as they get things that are supportive from their friends. and what we found in the book is we use survey data and measure how much and in what way people are using social media and then test to see if it actually does increase political participation, which is social networking via the internet is stimulating social capital, then we would expect there to be a

relationship between social media use and political participation and we find that is the case, even when holding constant sort of traditional predict there is a participation. so if we control people's socioeconomic status, age, income, education and than the traditional predict there is a whether someone is going to participate or not, even holding those things constant, heightened social media use predicts an increase in voting, participation in a whole range of different ways. when we think about political participation, most people tend to think of it simply as voting. if you go, that's political participation. and yes, that is true.

but we conceptualize sort of following scholars that came before us on this for a period political participation is much broader. going to browse, providing letters to your congressman or state legislators, contributing money to a campaign, a whole range of different things of that nature to recall participation. so what we end up doing is creating measure that incorporates all of those different kinds of things and then look at how online social media use relates to those and find that online social media use predicts that type of broad participation. where i think the biggest ramifications are is around the way people process information. most of the things, sort of the formal ways that government uses

internet. campaign, whether it be for open source kind of information, that kind of thing, that is all getting worked out. what we don't know a lot about yet is the way that it changes how people perceive the world. and i think that people -- and the attitude that we have about our surrounding is really nothing more -- it is just a product of the information we have cognitively accessible. i see some object but there is political or free and then i draw upon whatever information i have to evaluate what i think about it. and when it comes to politics, most of that information is coming from media. you know, conversations with friends, these kinds of themes. that's where the information is coming from and we are

constantly updating information. now, that issue is sort of a theory about how people evaluate the world around them and how we process one would think one thing over another. as you can go in somebody's mind if you can measure they do this type of information and you can predict a range of things that they're going to think. okay, if that -- if all of this information is coming from the outside world for the most part and we have this new mechanism, the internet, that i think is coupled with the fact that people do not like to take in information that challenges their own predispositions. it's uncomfortable. the cognitive dissonance goes back to the 50s psychology theory and we don't like information that challenges their previous position because

it doesn't feel good. this is why your fox news, msnbc from two different, whether it is because they just see people information that reinforces their own predisposition. everybody's happy, everybody's comfortable. the internet facilitates this process because people can self-select even easier than they can by picking fox news. even if you watch fox news or msnbc, you are going to be forced to get some of the alternative view. the internet? not so much. i mean, it is very easy for people to pick blogs, to pick a range of information that supports are in predispositions. their social networks from the people. and so i think that the future, you know, like what is the future of this is that the internet, as disseminators of

information, a media and whatnot, becomes more and more savvy and use it as -- for marketing comment that it is going to further polarize people. because what is going to happen is people's attitudes are going to become more and more crystallized. because back to my original point, if you are nothing more than sort of a summation of the information that you have accessible and now the more and more are constantly updating this information and more and more duquette, it's just reinforcing the information, then your attitude can be crystallized from both the left and the right. and so, it creates polarization. we measure this in the book and find evidence that people do indeed self-select information and data as a result,h