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w.c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching bike calling us -- e-mail us -- or send us a tweet. join the c-span conversation like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> on the cover is lyndon johnson showing a scar. could you tell us about that? >> i was very moved and very upset as were the editors of the "new york review of books." they reviewed books and so wants with the same point of view is mine which was very much thinking the war in vietnam was a dirty war. and that our identification with
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it was just full of lies and full of terrible things, to read the number of american kids lost. we will never know the number or the degree of talents that went down in that war. with that kind of loading of the pistol, i would be able to come through and express a certain point of view. >> do you remember how you got the idea of the scar shaped like vietnam? >> it was not the first time i had use that kind of illusion. >> there are several drawings of henry kissinger. i understand one of them was rejected by publication? >> no, by all publications except for one "the nation."
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it was known among cartoonists that if you had to try something or you wanted something that was loaded politically, this was the place to go. i went there and sure enough they printed kissinger having sex with the globe being the head of a woman. i got a call from the editor saying that i think you should come down. there is a group of young interns that want to say some things -- questions and things you did and that drawing, which they did. they questioned my intentions. was the hand clutching part of the bed a show of passion or was it fear or anger? why was he on top of this woman? why was the woman -- why was it a woman instead of a hairy man
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? and so on. i made reference to the idea of sex taking place in a certain position. i said i thought that 99% of people in the world had sex in that way. it was to suggest that sexually, this guy was screwing the world. >> andrew keen, author of "the internet is not the answer" on how the public is being used by internet companies for their own profit. >> in the industrial age, people went to work in factories. they were paid for their labor they worked 9-5 and went home and did what they wanted with that money. today, we are all working in these factories like google facebook him at twitter. but we are unpaid labor.
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we are working 24 hours per day. we are not rewarded and not even at knowledge that we are creating the value for them. worse than that, we're the ones who are being packaged as a product because what these companies are doing is learning more and more about us from our behavior and what we publish from our photographs, our ideas and what we buy from what we say, from what we don't say. they are learning about us and creating this penopticon. they are repackaging us as the product. we are the ones being sold. not only are we working for free but then we are being sold. it's the ultimate scam. it's the perfect hitchcock movie. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern time. >> coming up next several law professors explore the origins of the magna carta and the influence of the british document on the creation of the american bill of rights.
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the professors spoke at the library of congress were a 1215 copy of the magna carta is on display. in john signed the document under pressure at runnymede, it england. american revolutions looked to the guarantees of the magna carta as they rebelled against the english crown. this is 90 minutes. >> good morning. i propose to cover three things in my brief opening remarks -- why me, why now, why are you here? the magna carta's relevance today. from an early age, growing up in america, it was good king john the lionheart emma that thing john and robin hood and his merry men, not to forget maid marion and littlejohn and friar talk and's garlic -- and will scarlet. and

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