it's banned and they claim the great satan gave away tickets to fill theaters for this quote, ahistorica. the government green lit a different version of the events. the movie entitled "the general staff" will be released. ben affleck has spurned a diplomatic brouhaha. i think this is a tremendous badge of honor. so why and iran so offended? first of all, iran has a rich history of slow-moving allegorical cinematic masterpieces. >> the rule is don't be boring and entertain your audience. those are the rules. i tell my students don't believe movies. >> reporter: al qaeda could remake "zero dark thirty" osama bin laden gets away at the end. good luck to them. affleck took some liberties. that's fine. >> there was a movie called "we bought a zoo" it's based on a true story. the only part that is true is a guy who bought a zoo. it's called dramatic license. >> reporter: and the iranians are no stranger to dramatic license. this is an intelligent minister cartoon showing john mccain in the white house trying to stir pan iranian revolution. they understand bending the truth. do they think tha

one of my big high horses is this idea of journalists as totally, totally ahistorical.ou know, academic journals and everything, maybe it would still be ahistorical -- >> less of an excuse. >> right, right. but i know when i was starting out, i would be researching a story and my first approach was to find out the history, you know, and i would always run into this wall marked j. store. it impoverrishes the discussion. as a journalist it's easier than it is for an academic to speak to a broad audience but i'm only able to access certain information. this was brought home after the revolution in egypt. i caught a talk show on tv, and i won't say the name of the show and i'm watching the show, i'm interested in egypt, and it's like, a former adviser for mccain and, you know, some democrat saying -- and i know that somewhere there is some guy in academia who's been studying egypt for 50 years, why didn't they find the article this guy had written, research it and get him on -- >> speaking about egypt, like an arab spring, there's an academic spring going on right now, too,

the country's government plans to produce a movie in response to what it calls an ahistoric film.eneral staff." it will about 20 american hostages delivered to the u.s. by the revolutionaries. [ laughter ] >> bill: we look forward to this very objective documentary from the government iran. >> that's too funny. >> sports memorabilia collectors are set to make big bids on a old baseball card at auction. this 148-year-old card is an original photo of the brooklyn atlantics taken in 1865. it was found at a yard sale in someone's house in rural maine. cvs reports it is expected to fetch well over $100,000. that is only one of two such photos known to exist. the other is stored in the library of congress. the man who bought this photo along with a couple of other coke bottles and several oak chairs for $100. >> those are always the finds you dream of when you go into a junk store, right? >> that's amazing. >> bill: i never heard of the brooklyn atlantics. >> old, old league. part of a league that doesn't exist anymore. eventually became the national league of baseball. but years ago. >