salman rushdie. why write in the third person? >> i started to write in the first person, and i did not like it much. me, me, me. i did not like it. there was too much of that self- regarding stuff. it was easier for me to be objective, including about my own behavior. been rougher on yourself than anyone else. otherwise, it looks like you are making excuses. nobody wants to read hundred -- hundreds of pages about everything i did is right. the reader must know that this is someone who understands himself. these are the things he did wrong, things he could do better. he knows his weaknesses as well as his strengths. for some reason, i found that easier to do when i took this one sideways step away from myself to talk about it in the third person. tavis: speaking about being objective about yourself, which i think is the most difficult thing for humans to do, did you developed any sort of, i am reaching for the right word, empathy for persons who might have misunderstood or taken offense to what you said, although not intended by y

our guest tonight, the author salman rushdie. i can't imagine which events currently in the news will be discussed. (laughter) hey, remember the republican conventions that took place two weeks ago. big opportunity for one mitt romney. >> he will have his first major national platform to introduce himself and his ideas to the american people. >> jon: yes! (laughter) after only a solid, let's say, seven years on the campaign trail. (laughter) mitt romney finally had a prime time television slot to introduce himself to the voters. and ultimately ended up getting upstaged by a piece of wood. all right. (laughter) a piece of wood who spent most of his time talking to a chair. boom! (laughter) boom! (cheers and applause) no. i still love clint eastwood. i'm going on record. still love clint eastwood. all right, just three weeks after being upstage bid a chair and completely botching his response to the horrible events in libya, a new announcement from the romney campaign. >> the romney camp is said to be engineering a reboot. >> call

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. >>> author salman rushdie has a unique perspective on the anti-american demonstrations going on around the world tonight. he's had a bounty on his life by islamic extremists for more than two decades. he will join me on the current crisis and it will be a cable tv exclusive. >>> and next, guess which presidential candidate is giving terrorists advice on how to attack the united states of america. hint, it's not barack obama. ana marie cobs and john kay part next on more of the romney tape. ? anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating?

salman rushdie spent the next nine years living in hiding. his account is in his new mem r memoir.rspective on what's been happening in the last week since this video has entered the news stream. i am reluctant to say and have not said, this video has caused anything. what is really happening here? >> can we just say one thing about this bounty thing. >> the 3.3 million? >> yeah. i think it's becoming clear that this is just really one priest looking for a headline and that the news coming out of iran today has suggested that nobody is really taking it seriously there. >> can you comfortably sit here tonight and leave here tonight and feel, it's nothing. >> yes, i do. >> it's linike when i see an ug tweet about myself. >> exactly. this is pretty much rhetoric rather than actual. i remember when it was actual and this is different. >> what happened to it? at what point did you feel i think i'm out of the woods on this? >> well, essentially the real threat to me always came from the iranian state. it came from agents of the iranian state. this bounty offer, nobody ever took it seriou

this morning we're going to get some unique perspective on what's going on from salman rushdie who faced a similar backlash to his fictional book "the satanic verses" some 23 years ago. >>> also, new details on a case that gripped the nation in the '70s. you'll probably remember it. a former green beret and doctor convicted of killing his pregnant wife and their two daughters. jeffrey macdonald's story was made famous by the best selling book and tv movie "fatal vision." for 42 years he has maintained his innocence and is now hoping new dna evidence can clear his name. we'll have more on that story. >>> on a much, much lighter note. it was a big weekend for korean pop sensation psy following his live performance on the plaza on friday. i leave for one day and look what happens out there. >> i was going to say. matt, you weren't here because you were worried your invisible horse dance wasn't up to snuff >> i was worriedhat i would have to do that and i watched some video of you guys doing that. meanwhile, he had a very big appearance. >> made a surprise appearance on "snl" and his single

but schools and sbeembassies we closed and stay closed until the anger sub sides. >> in 1989 salman rushdieublished the "satanic verses." he went into hiding for nearly a decade. >> 23 years later as new violent protests rage throughout the middle east as result of perceived insults rushdie's name has popped up again. his new book is a memoir. it tells the story of his life as a marked man. good morning. in 1989 when the ayatollah khomeni condemned you to death did you understand immediately what was happening? >> pretty quickly. i did not -- initially we had a little confusion. we didn't know if it was rhetoric or something farther backed up with actual force but the trouble with khomeni's regime is they had professional killers who did this, you know who killed members of the opposition and so on and even in europe. so it became very clear very quickly that it was a real threat. >> you essentially go into hiding then for nearly a decade living like a prisoner. what was that like? >> just bizarre for anyone, any individual let alone a writer to be plunged into a spy novel. i was surrounded

unique perspective from author salman rushdie. the growing scandal over the topless photos of the duchess, as attorneys had to block them. the teenager who became a sensation with their makeup tips on youtube. big news followed a breakout performance on the plaza. it's more as we get started on a monday morning. >> we will put our own music video together. >> he is fired up. 53 degrees at the airport. >> we'll take a last look at weather and traffic together before you head out to start your day. >> time to get to your answers to our water cooler question of the day. >> this morning we asked -- what do you think is the most to blame for the ravens' week two loss to the eagles? >> a lot of monday morning quarterbacks. >> we will post more answers on our website, wbaltv.com. traffic.take a look it >> we are seeing a lot of volume. 36 on southbound 95 from white marsh down to the 895 split and heavy volume on the west side. 29 miles per hour down towards edmondson. here's a quick, live look at traffic. this is southbound 795 down the

does anyone think ronald reagan's policies caused the death threats with salman rushdie? does anyone think any of what president bush had anything to do with the cartoons of prophet muhammad. for example, our decades-long support for dictators and monarchs, our policies toward the palestinians, our concerns about oil supplies, but the frustration being unleashed on the region today is a response to much longer term trends. some of it is a result of powerful internal political struggles that have begun in arab countries between moderates and radicals as they vie for power in new and fragile democracies. there is a kind of bipartisan arrogance that's often at work in washington where both sides believe that everything happens in the world is a consequence of american policy. if only we had implemented a different speech or made a different policy or sent out a different tweet. the truth is what's happening in the arab world is not about us. it really is about them. for more you can read online. in "time" magazine or on time.com. let's get started. ♪ >>> president clinton, t

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was, salman rushdie, but the incident began to be increasing.e you mentioned in the intro of the sweet -- the danish cartoonist who did the cartoon prophet muhammed. this is a big issue for the major danish newspaper in coppenhagen with those guys, and, you know, the security in that building is extremely intense. denmark is another very open society with very little crime. the cartoonist not only received threats, but he also received a very serious attempt to kill him, which is a somali man linked to the al qaeda affiliate. he traveled to denmark to his house and got inside his house and tried to stab him to death. luckily, this guy had a safe room in his house into which he disappeared and -- >> let me ask you -- >> pardon me? >> i just want to ask you -- i have been looking at the front page of "the morning post" today, and the headline is "it's just a stupid movie." the picture shows all the violence behind them. with each of these incidents that we cover that there is some perceived affront to the prophet muhammed or the religion islam, do

salman rushdie. thank you, pleasure. >> thank you. >> rose: back in a moment. stay with us. >> rose: martin amis is here. his new novel is called "lionel asbo's fate of england." it tells the story of a violent young thug who wins the lottery. despite the fame and fortune, the internal question mark, like a rusty hook, somethat thats his inarchdiocese. he has displayed a keen eye for satire for his debut novel "the rachel papers." almost four decades have passed since that book was published but the "new york times" called amis fiction's angriest writer and he has not mellowed. i am pleased to welcome him back at this table. you may not have mellowed but you have change it had place of your residency. >> that's true. >> rose: because? >> it was all sort of personal stuff. we talked about it. my mother died two years ago and we got to thinking and my mother-in-law is at that age and chris hitchens was still alive and there was a prospect that he would have lived for another five, ten who knows years. so that was what... >> rose: we had talked about it but a prev

you can catch all of salman rushdie's interview this sunday, 10:00 a.m. eastern on fareed zakaria's gps. great program. great interview. in the meantime a muslim outrage over that film that mocked the prophet muhammad is the latest political football to, of course, consume our battle for the white use here in the united states. about the only thing that the democrats and the republicans are agreeing on is that ambassador chris stevens and three of his colleagues were killed in an attack on that u.s. mission in benghazi, libya, on september 11th. that's the fact. but you could also add this. there are a lot of unanswered questions. arwa and i were just talking about this. take, for example, this. was the attack planned, or was it spontaneous? the story's different on either side of the ocean. was it just the result of the anti-islam film? or the rapid rise of islamic extremists following the revolution of the arab spring? was there a total breakdown in security, and do we have warnings? yesterday the secretary of state hillary clinton discussed some of the

this morning we're going to get some unique perspective on what's going on from salman rushdie who faced a similar backlash to his fictional book "the satanic verses" some 23 years ago. >>> also, new details on a case that gripped the nation in the '70s. you'll probably remember it. a former green beret and doctor convicted of killing his pregnant wife and their two daughters. jeffrey macdonald's story was made famous by the best selling book and tv movie "fatal vision." for 42 years he has maintained his innocence and is now hoping new dna evidence can clear his name. we'll have more on that story. >>> on a much, much lighter note. it was a big weekend for korean pop sensation psy following his live performance on the plaza on friday. i leave for one day and look what happens out there. >> i was going to say. matt, you weren't here because you were worried your invisible horse dance wasn't up to snuff >> i was worried that i would have to do that and i watched some video of you guys doing that. meanwhile, he had a very big appearance. >> made a surprise appearance on "snl" and his singl

this morning we're going to get some unique perspective on what's going on from salman rushdie who faced a similar backlash to his fictional book "the satanic verses" some 23 years ago. >>> also, new details on a case that gripped the nation in the '70s. you'll probably remember it. a former green beret and doctor convicted of killing his pregnant wife and their two daughters. jeffrey macdonald's story was made famous by the best selling book and tv movie "fatal vision." for 42 years he has maintained his innocence and is now hoping new dna evidence can clear his name. we'll have more on that story. >>> on a much, much lighter note. it was a big weekend for korean pop sensation psy following his live performance on the plaza on friday. i leave for one day and look what happens out there. >> i was going to say. matt, you weren't here because you were worried your invisible horse dance wasn't up to snuff >> i was worried that i would have to do that and i watched some video of you guys doing that. meanwhile, he had a very big appearance. >> made a surprise appearance on "snl" and his singl

but schools and sbeembassies we closed and stay closed until the anger sub sides. >> in 1989 salman rushdie" he went into hiding for nearly a decade. >> 23 years later as new violent protests rage throughout the middle east as result of perceived insults rushdie's name has popped up again. his new book is a memoir. it tells the story of his life as a marked man. good morning. in 1989 when the ayatollah khomeni condemned you to death did you understand immediately what was happening? >> pretty quickly. i did not -- initially we had a little confusion. we didn't know if it was rhetoric or something farther backed up with actual force but the trouble with khomeni's regime is they had professional killers who did this, you know who killed members of the opposition and so on and even in europe. so it became very clear very quickly that it was a real threat. >> you essentially go into hiding then for nearly a decade living like a prisoner. what was that like? >> just bizarre for anyone, any individual let alone a writer to be plunged into a spy novel. i was surrounded by secret policemen with gun

we've seen these events, we have seen it when salman rushdie wrote "the satanic verses," seen them in holland with the cartoon and several of these things. it involves the clash of values with people in the west who do things and insist on freedom of expression and people in the islamic world who live on raw nerves and are willing and eager to be offended. this really is what it is. >> willing and eager? >> yes. that's what it is. ben wedeman said it well. they are there and gather in front of the u.s. embassy. and i think the u.s. embassy are like fortresses. symbols of this great distant power. and the embassy, thing that's opposite. the place to go to, and the place to go to get the hell out of the country. and it's place where is great conspiracies are being hatched. and the truth of islam. allow me one thing. i watched that trailer, this trailer. it's unbelievable. right out of the gutter, and as a muslim. i was born a muslim, i'm not observant. the vulgarity of the whole thing. it wasn't a work of art. it was intended as a work of incitement. it is sad that this cheap work of in

we'll get some unique perspective on the anti-american violence in the muslim world from author salman rushdie>>> and the topless photos of the duchess of cambridge. this morning an italian magazine published new images even as attorneys for prince william and kate have applied to block them. >>> then the acne teen who became a success on youtube with her tips takes the fashion week by storm. >>> and versailles following his breakout performance on the plaza. we'll get his reaction when we get started on a monday morning right here on "today." back to you. >> i'm wondering, matt, if you've ever tried the kun yam style ever. >> i do it at home but try not to do it in front of millions of people. i've seen the videos. it was crazy here. there's no question about it. >> it's something. all right, matt. thanks so much. we'll see you soon. take care. >> all right, eun, thanks. >>> 6:37 is our time. ahead, a tragedy at a local church parking lot. >> plus for the redskins, it really was adding insult to injury. a hot headed play cost them the game, but the team lost more than that yesterday. >>> new

if we go back to talking about salman rushdie who you had on the program last night when you see these conversations he has with these other literary figures, and you are getting a world class education in literature and character development right before your eyes. >> rose: i mean, i think doing the program that i do, this program where you have time to explore a lot of issues, it is the issue we have not even begun to understand the capacity of the magic of the conversation in real-time. >> right. >> rose: because of all the things that can happen. other shows are doing that and other programs are doing it and you see it all the time and bringing it in, but i mean the nature of this, i think the future for us to do it is bigger than most and at the same time we have done less. >> i will tell you, he think that statement is profound and insightful that we have not even begun to scratch the surface of what you will be able to do with this rich conversation that happens in real-time. you know if you think about the elections, again, it was the case four years ago and always before that