. >> there is a point in the film where you're on bill maher show and jay leno, who is an nbc talk showost at the time basically asks you why you're still alive? >> why you still alive? are you paranoid? >> everybody laughs except you. >> yeah, well first of all, i was thinking, my mom is watching this show, she's horrified when things like that happen. but i was also--i felt the sense of shame because i know really brave reporters, and they don't have the option to go and be on bill maher show because their entire life is lived in yemen or somalia or journalist who is are killed every week in mexico. i feel embarrassed or ashamed when people say you're brave. you take risks. i can show you reporters who you never heard of who are rock stars to me because they're doing it on a daily grind. we parachute into a place. we report and then go back to wherever it is that we make our life. our friends who live in somalia, yemen or elsewhere, that's where they live and the war is their neighborhood. >> let's talk about your new job. this organization funded by the ebay founder. glen greenwald i

jennifer, you were on your sofa watching bill maher that night.ou saw that exchange and you said what to yourself? >> well, i was glad, but i was disappointed he hadn't done it while he was still in office. i think it makes a big difference if you imagine a room full of 100 white men and one black or latino man or woman walking into the room. the conversation changes. it matters if you stand up for what you believe. >> and the point is barney frank had no problem coming out as a gay man and people were accepting of that. but the atheism he saved until he was already out the door. ron reagan, let me ask you this. if people tell a pollster and the totality is that 7% are atheist, i say there's a hidden vote there. if they admit, it's probably in double digits. what's your hunch? >> yeah. i would guess that that's probably true. i think there are probably many atheist members of congress. they simply can't admit to that. let's be honest, michael, we're all atheists in a way. you don't believe in the divinity of zues, do you? i guess you're an atheist

starting with bill maher. you know the comment. i won't repeat them. david letterman more re-kently martin bashir. i know you accepted his apology. i don't remember you ever saying to target their advertisers, boycott them or even desiring to silence their voices. >> no. i'm a free speech kind of gal. i got e-mails on this one. a friend of mine who happens to be gay said she's outraged for the hypocrisy here, the things they air on their program that she finds offensive. yet a & e doesn't fire a star or somebody involved in their programming based on what they have said but they would when it comes to phil on "duck dynasty." this friend, she said she would boycott a & e and the network. she's not the only one. i have received many e-mails from people saying, you know, why give them our money, our eyes, our ears, our resources. there are other channels out there to be watching. >> this specifically tells me the religious aspect is gq asked him specifically what he thought was a sin. he mentioned a number of things. it wasn't just this this one particula

listen to bill maher, and we'll speak on the other side. >> when working people can't make a living wagethey take from the welfare that conservatives hate, but they never stop to think, if we raise the minimum wage and force mcdonald's and walmart to pay their employees enough to eat, we, the taxpayers, wouldn't have to pick up the slack. [ cheers and applause ] >> i've got to ask you, does bill have a point? >> no, when you raise the minimum wage, you remove those entry level positions, you create more unemployment. and that's not a good thing. what you need to do is you need to actually make the manufacturing base of this country more robust. how do you do that? you make america an attractive place for business investment, business expansion, job creation. we have an onerous regulatory environment in this country. obama care is part of that. we have uncompetitive tax rates. if you're a german manufacturer, manufacturer for one of the largest economies in the world, are you going to site your plant in toronto at 15%, or detroit at 35%? it's not rocket science in terms of what we have to

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capital expenditure an increase in savings are we seeing any of that we're not seeing any of that bill maher carney just came out he said we're going to stimulate demand by making it easier for people to borrow money should they be saying isn't a man stimulated by increasing people's savings account i think what they need to do to stimulate demand is increased business and create businesses that actually make productive goods and make productive things and i don't think they're doing that i think that the debt and leverage we didn't learn a lesson from two thousand and eight slash two thousand and nine i think debt credit and leverage has gotten to a point where it's bigger than ever was so it's making the original crisis look like a pimple compared to what we're going to see when this one blows up put their lives company here in the day in britain it's a new manufacturing company they're in the business of making underwear that absorbs the odors from flatulence and this is a new standout u.k. company that is really proving that the engineering spirit is still alive here and in the u.k. i me

. >> when the bashir thing went on, i never said to bashir, baldwin or fire bill maher who i disagreeh. this is a slippery slope. we have an industry built on targeting advertisers and starting campaigns to get people fired. >> people should not be fired. >> don't watch it. you don't like it, too bad. >> there are circumstance where is they endpaj in horrible hate speech they should be fired. bashthe ir should have been fired. they didn't have the nerve. i'm not suggesting this man should be fired. i will continue to watch his show. it's a terrific, interesting show. when someone says something in a way that doesn't communicate what he wantses to communicate -- >> i think he communicated what he wanted the to communicate. >> i don't see anything religious about it. kwo think it is quoting the good book. >> why is that your decision to make? >> he said -- >> it is my decision to make. it's my opinion. >> it's not your decision to say what he should say and how he should say it. >> it's my opinion. >> he was quoting corinthians. we can all agree -- >> that's why he's so popular is becau

in that case, it is sad to see that it's an attack on this reality tv star when you look at bill maher he's repeatedly offending religious individuals calling christia christians herpes, calling muslims cancer. having the ability to express your beliefs and really not being completely criticized for it. >> do you want to be obedient robots reading off the the script? isn't it better to have original opinions and maybe slightly offensive? how about interesting people. who do we have dinner with? it will be boring in your world. >> tucker, i don't want robots. i agree. we do have to show some level of respect and decorum. if you don't want to, that's okay, too. >> we have to but we don't have to? you have to or you get fired. it happens to a lot of people. >> not necessarily. >> oh, yeah. the word police are waiting for you to say something stupid. the second i say something stupid, man, i can't imagine. >> same with me, tucker. >> i think with politicians and journal itselves they are held to a higher standard. with celebrities and entertainers, they will say what they are going to say

the have bill maher on all time. and they had on liberals all the time. hour, you watch the news it was unbalanced and remains to a certain extent unbalanced. brooks is the conservative. david is the conservative. conservative's conservative. he's like me, a center right guy. they gave me a show. i went off and did a show on religion. life.as my called "searching for god in liberal america." me broadcasting about religion. pbs was unbalanced and npr is most unbalanced -- it would i would the one thing have gone to to bat for to cut symbolic dget as a thing because it does not represent well the broad of american opinion that funds i want. c-span has always been very especially in the morning edition. which id logically driven is why left wing talk radio an't work because all of their listeners are listening to "morning edition" and npr. popular. ry >> great product, superb quality. >> they say whatever their are, very, very little of the money that comes feds, a percent and a half, i think they say? > that's why they shouldn't be unwilling to part with it

and listen carefully to this clip from hbo's realtime with bill maher.t with retired congressman barney frank on this subject. >> okay. barney frank, do you feel more liberated being out of congress? you must. >> absolutely. i don't have to worry that when the phone rings it's somebody who's screwed something up and said it's my responsibility to unscrew it. >> although you were in a fairly safe district. you were not one of those congress people who have to worry about every little thing. you could sit next to a pot smoking atheist and it wouldn't bother you. >> which pot smoking atheist were you talking about? >> boy, you are liberated. >> ron reagan is an msnbc political analyst. jennifer michael hek is a professor at the new school. she just wrote a new article in politico magazine about the last taboo. you were on your sofa watching bill martha night. you saw that exchange and you said what to yourself? >> well, i was glad, but i was disappointed he hadn't done it while he was still in office. i think it makes a big difference if you imagine a room

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bill simon maher. when you go into the door come what prompted up infamous adult trip. if you're buying a book, by here. help yourself and simon maher. >> okay, thank you so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> on your screen is a familiar face. tread i've come a senior correspondent for "pbs newshour." al jazeera america appear before we talk about your book, when did you make the move to al jazeera? >> just a couple days ago. my first day was november 11. so far so good. >> why did this? >> it was time. sometimes he'd been at the place for a while it done everything you can do. they were new opportunities and great chances for advanced than. if a startup with everything that implies. fresh, energetic, forward-looking. it's really, really fun. my staff keeps me on because everyone is 27 years old. >> ray suarez, this is booktv. we want to talk to you about the 500 year legacy that shaped a nation, latino americans. what sparked you to write this? >> publishers approached me. pbs is about to launch a big documentary series on the same subject. they wanted somet