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videos and get up to date information on events, facebook doom dom/book tv. this fall, booktv is marking our 15th anniversary and this weekends we look back at 2003. living history, a look at life in the white house, by hillary clinton, was a best seller that year, as well as michael moore's book, dude, where is my country, and al franken0s, lying liar, and who tell them. al franken and bell o'reilly had a heated exchange. >> called bill, and you were nice you called me back you said, what is it, al? and it was very warm. and i said, i saw you on c-span, you said you wanted to -- well, we did. i said you should talk to the pea body people about that because they don't think you did.

he said i'll call you back. he calls me back, says, it was a poke. i say, a poke. he said, yeah, a very -- it's a just as prestigious as pea body. so i said temperature two prestigious awards. i said, don't you think it's odd you got it wrong about a journalism award, and he says, al do you want to good after me, go ahead. so i say, okay. so, -- [laughter] >> so i called the "washington post," and i tell him the whole thing, and he called bill, and bill says, al has a jihad against me. so i got a poke. now, bill -- i had sort of expected bill to go gee, al, thanks. okay, i'll finish for now. i could go on all day. >> i know you could. >> and i know you could --

>> just about have. just about have. >> you tell 'em, bill. >> supposed to be on for 15 minutes, this idiot goes 35. all he has gotten in six and a half years i misspoke, i labeled a poke aired of pea boyd. he writes in the book -- >> no, no no. >> shut up. you had your 35 minutes. shut up! >> this isn't your show. >> this is what this guy does. >> take control, pat, come on. >> i think -- wait a minute. i think i need a striped shirt and a broom. >> maybe i went on along because i -- >> can you please control him? this guy accuses me of being a liar, ladies and gentlemen 0, national television, because i misspoke and labeled a peabody a poke. this guy demonizes it and then other people pick its up. if it's important to you that i misspeak and label --

>> youjust misspeak. >> that's fine. that is what he does. he is vicious, and that is with a capital v, person, who is blinded by ideology and that's all i'll say. , in. >> al franken and bill o'reilly, whose books were best sellers in team visit our web site to watch all the programs that have aired on book tv over the last 15 years and keep watching as we look back at our first years on c-span2. >> booktv continues with daniel jonah goldhagen. arguing that antisemitism is more threatening today than at any other time since the holocaust. this lasts an hour and 20 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, rabbi hamilton, and thank all of you for being here. it's a big book, enormous amount of information about what is

going on today in it, both qualitative data and quantitative day data. survey numbers, accounts of people think and what they do and the consequences of their actions. i can't possibly tell you everything that's in the book tonight but i'm going to give you a sense of the phenomenon of global antisemitism; its rise and its threat so that i hope you emerge here with a greater understanding of something that everyone -- really practically everyone, jew and gentile, old and young, at some point wonders why the jews -- why are they hated so much? why have they been persecuted so much. first, let me tell you a few snip.s of thing that will give you a flavor of what is out there. in surveys of the european uni