arianna huffington, as you were about to say?> i just want to defend really the state in which so many of my fellow americans, immigrants and not, find themselves. there is a lot of legitimate anger out there. the sense that somehow the game is rigged, that if you are powerful enough, if you are running institutions that are too big to fail, you can get away with anything. we never had the equivalent of a... in the 1930s who could actually run an investigation on what happened. how we got to be where we are, how we got to be in a place where millions of homes are being foreclosed and millions of people are losing their jobs without any real sense of recovery around the corner. and that lack of accountability, that lack of identifying what needs to fundamentally change and how we're going to go about turning our lives and our communities around is, i think, what is perpetuating that anger and putting us in that state. that edmund described, which is a very unamerican state in very profound ways. >> schieffer: bob woodward. >> yes.

[talking over each other] [inaudible conversations] >> arianna huffington. you were on the show today. tell us what you think. >> a standard fare for doing anything that is happening. you are a model for a way to be. not just a way to think or to do. the book is incredibly critical of certain aspects of the way we are running the company but also compliment you for using the energy and criticism which is very valid to get a path towards a solution as opposed to just using it to channel anger which is disruptive to the country. >> how did that come about? >> when i wrote the book, under the title find your own calcutta people who volunteer with that, talking about that. got time to help out. that brought them together. [inaudible conversations] >> i am not here -- i am here to deal with reality. i am going to give you a little bit of reality. i start with my own reality and we will talk about yours. based on most of the polling, myself and -- where is chris matthews? i saw him somewhere. they don't like the media. the unemployment problem is about to get wors

anyway. >> glad to be here. >> arianna huffington, dylan. ylan, arianna was on the show today. >> yeah. >> how's she's doing on the book? >> she has a standard fair of doing anything that can happen. truly, you are a model for a way to be. not just a way to think or a way to do. i think what the book represents is that. because the book, while it's incredibly critical of certain aspects of the way we are running the country, the book ultimately uses, and compliments to you for using the energy and criticism to try to cart a path towards solution, as opposed using it as a way to foster undeveloped anger or unchanneled anger in the country. >> how did that come about? >> well, i wrote about susie in the book. find your own target. which is what mother used to tell the volunteer. we have been talking about her and about seth green. he has time to help out. he loves his job. it's great that dylan brought the two of them together. >> i don't care. whatever it takes for him to get there. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. [applause] >> so i'm actu

that's why they were bounced out of there unceremoniously, i might add. >> larry: arianna huffington, do you agree? >> well, i agree that the democrats and especially the white house did not listen to the american people. that they underestimated dramatically the degree of economic devastation. you know, larry, when you have 27 million americans either unemployed or underemployed that means that 1 in 6 americans is basically suffering. that means everybody's affected. even those who still have their jobs or still have their homes know somebody, a relative, who's been profoundly affected. yet you had the president's economic team and the president himself constantly talking about how we've turned the corner, the reception is over, we're in recovery. and people were not feeling that. people don't feel that the recession is over. today, at least the president acknowledged we're still in the ditch. incidentally, he needs to retire all those car metaphors. first, we're out of the ditch. then we're in the ditch. the bottom line is the priority that he's claimed, you know, the jobs were goin

. >> arianna huffington, dylan ratigan. tell us what you think of the book and i do think she's doing? >> arianna is a standard for every day for watching anything that's happening truly. you are a model for a way to be. not just a way to think or way to do. i think what the book represents is the book, while it's incredibly critical of certain aspects of the way were running the country come in the ultimately uses and complements you for using the energy and criticism which is very valid to try to start a path toward solution, towards bridge building as opposed to just using it as a way to foster undeveloped anger, on channeled anger that is ultimately destructive to the country. [inaudible] >> -- how did that come about? >> i would about siouxsie and the book under the title sandra -- [inaudible] and have been talking about her and about seth reams. so it was great that dylan put them together. [inaudible conversations] [applause] >> thank you. thank you. though, i'm actually not tear to confront, but i am here to deal wit

arianna huffington, in middleton, connecticut, the co-founder and editor in chief of "the huffington post." her latest book is "third world america, " how our politicians are abandoning the middle class and betraying the american dream." it's a best-seller. there you see its cover. we'll start with ben stein. can we quote james carville? it's the economy, stupid? >> well, it is the economy partly. partly that. it's partly just general dissatisfaction. look, we've got a long-lasting reception. we have two wars that don't seem to be going well at all. we have a health care debate in which the president blatantly went against what the people wanted. last night was an incredibly heartening night. a few guys with hand-made signs started a movement that took control of the house of representatives. that's an incredible sign of how young and how healthy and how vibrant our democracy is. these guys don't have all the answers by any means. this is a vibrant young democracy. it's a great night. >> larry: nicolle, the next two years going to be negative, positive or status quo? >> well, i don't

as part of the problem and he took a few swipes at the student rallies biggest cheerleader arianna huffington. would likely find glass and put it on all the things that are working in this country just because it would you want to get close to it was very hard it was no accident on the highway one is not a good night's sleep i mean this is you can make. fun of what you're proposing because if you're just. you know he really seemed like he was trying to keep it together there's best responsible but clearly chris was upset well it's now been over forty eight hours since the rally and there's been article after article written about whether or not it was a good thing whether or not it served any real purpose other than to the unite liberals and their superiority over the right but the clear loser here was m s n b c who was portrayed as an equivalent to fox and for that they were not pleased you know what maybe you guys should actually listen to what jon stewart said and sort of cry about it maybe you should realize why i think you guys are so completely different than the other part of the netwo

booktv attended a reception for arianna huffington editor-in-chief of the dignity and post for third world america how our politicians are abandoning the middle class and destroying the american dream. the party is hosted a private residence in washington, d.c. and the program runs just over 30 minutes.-- >> >> how are you? have t [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> you can wear a sign aroundo your neck.he be careful i'm a lawyer and you can find it in thenk y. huffingtonpost.com. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] >> i've been around the countryn and huffington post "third world america" section and people have been sharing overcoming obstacles. that encouraging people to show their own story. >> i want to talk to you and get your thoughts on elections. we're less than a month away. there's a lot of talk is the gop is going to take over the house. what is your thoughts? do you see it happening? >> well, everything can change between now and the election. that's the amazing thing about politics. who would have predicted who would be now two years ago; right? i

. >> arianna huffington? >> i didn't know -- >> bill: she likes you. >> hello, darling. she loves fox avenue. the huffington post is getting money from the tide center. they are a project of the tide center. george soros is one of the main funders. >> bill: 5 million a year? >> he has got a lot of money into the tides. the tides center is this inseenous thing that is basically a store front. if somebody comes to him and says i have an idea. i want to run an investigative report with huffington post. aryana says i have an idea, darling, i want to do some investigative reporting. what the tides center says that is fantastic. you come on in here and we will make sure you have all the irs things done and we will run it like a store front. we will run all of the stuff in the back room. do you your little investigation thing. we will make sure your taxes, we will make sure your attorneys, we will make you're everything is run completely right in exchange for everything that you raise we get .5% back to tides. >> bi

nobody pays attention to it hosted by arianna huffington, surprise, surprise. >> bill: you say to allse people i don't think they have as much power as you think they have. i could be wrong. soros actually got in touch with you, right. >> yes. soros, not soros himself soros' number two guy got in touch with my number two guy. >> bill: is that the midget? dr. evil? ♪ one-eighth your size. >> i think he did bring a cat. >> we have got a lot of work to do. >> bill: they had a meeting in a restaurant in a public place. >> bill: who is paying? >> i hope the billionaire is. i mean, he is devaluing my money. >> bill: you set that meeting up and you and i will go. >> they already had the meeting. basically it already sent something like this. i don't think you hear me. you are hurting mr. soros and mr. soros' interests. >> bill: that's pretty ominous. >> yeah. and then he gave a little gift. we invited mr. soros on to the program. that was declined. and it was about three weeks before they started a campaign with a million dollars plaintiff soros' money and npr -- it was almost like they were

arianna huffington is with us and chrystia freeland.being here. >> before you launch, may i say how happy i am that i'm at a table with two women and you. usually, i'm swimming, pedalling and treading water. >> i'm fighting up hill already. >> you are going to be singing opera before we are done with you. >> we are talking about tough economic issues. it's nice it's a female dominated panel. >> i'm breaking out in hives. >> we can segway from hair to qe 2. >> it's a boat, right? let's bring this back to reality, please. what's happening here? arianna -- >> i'm surprised you went there. >> i just read the script. i go off-script too often. the debt commission. do you buy the notion it could be a political ticket back for barack obama, but some back in the limelight in the position of leadership. >> it would have been possible if there was a jobs commission at the same time. the problem is, before we see the debt commission report, the fact there's no jobs commission and the emphasis is on the deficit rather than creating jobs is a proble

george soros puppets were identified as, the apollo alliance, the center for american progress, arianna huffingtonamerica, the epa, john kerry, moveon.org, la rozza rich trumpka, senator feingold, open society foundation, jan voens, the tides foundation, the scs, john mccain, barack obama, msnbc, woodrow wilson, britney spears, charlie sheen, espn, and the chubb group. okay. all the ones after msnbc, i made up. then, again, all the ones before msnbc, he made up. now, apart from the paranoid psychosis at play here, i would like to ask mr. beck to quit working my side of the street and to remind him that we brought puppets to cable news, so we close with the first edition of soros puppets glenn beck left out puppet theater. ♪ i know that i can't take no more, it ain't no lie ♪ ♪ i want to see you out that door, baby, bye, bye, bye ♪ ♪ bye, bye ♪ i don't want to be a fool for you ♪ ♪ just another player in your game for two ♪ >> and just one final answer to mr. beck about puppets from this voice of the puppetmaster, you do know about the former president who was under the complete control of the brit

on cbs "face the nation," ron stern now, arianna huffington and edmund morris, and bob woodward. c-span posnerakers has norm coleman -- c-span's "newsmakers" has normm coleman. what do you think about the lame-duck session happening? caller >> it is nothing new. democrats have been in charge -- caller: it is nothing new. democrats have been in charge and they have done nothing. they have closed the doors to the republicans. they have not been a partisan at all. every campaign promise that they have made, they have not kept. for the bigger -- for the democrats to jump off the cliff is just unbelievable. they need to get to work. these are serious issues. we need unemployment benefits. they should use some of the money from the stimulus for the unemployment benefits, but they will not do that. it is just ridiculous. caller: barber from missouri. what do you think about the lame-duck session? are you with us? caller: ion with the. thank you foresees men. i enjoyed it immensely -- i am with you. thank you or c-span. and joining -- i enjoyed it immensely. there is a dog that fell thro

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> arianna huffen ton -- huffington is the cofounder and editor of huffington post. for more information, visit huffingtonpost.com. a discussion with michele norris and author of the warmth of other suns, the epic story of america's great migration. >> thank you for coming to the discussion today. i'm going to do a brief introduction for both of them and ask a question. i will leave time at the end for people to ask questions too, so probably about 3:30 we'll stop, and you can ask questions. a to explore the things left unsaid by her family when she was growing up. michelle was chosen as your list of the year and she does not by national association of black journalists as a co-owner of a dupont columbia award for the york project, raised in the two 2008 though. she is the host of national public radio's, all things considered and has appeared on "meet the press," charlie rose and the chris mathews show. as written for other commercials come the "chicago tribune" "the los angeles times." the ones about her son, the epic story of great m

huffington post." when did you figure out this was a success. >> this is insane. ken leara, i had an assistant working this and they were doing it on their own and arianna was workingher blog and it was ken and arianna and not right to say it was stolen. >> and taking care of business, willie is this money guy. that's the first one. number 2. we want people to vote on it. no opinion. >> one of their best songs. >> i thought it was their only song. look at the straight face, no reaction. "taking care of business," come on. >> we will let the voters decide! >> we will be right back. >> keep it sexy. >> keep it sexy? what is that? >> mark sanchez, jets quarterback waiting in the greenroom, has no ideas why he's here. so, during sign then drive i can get a cc for just my signature? that's right, right now you can take home a volkswagen for just your signature, like the cc or the tiguan. huh. yeah, plus every vw includes scheduled carefree maintenance. really? that's great. there you go. that guy's pretty good too. yeah, he's ok. [ male announcer ] it's amazing what you can do with a pen. sign then drive is back. for a limited time get any 2011 volkswagen for practicall

up next, booktv attended a reception for arianna huffington, for her recently published book third world america:how our politicians are abandoning the middle class and destroying the american dream. the party is posted at a private residence in washington d.c. and runs just over 30 minutes. >> how are you? [talking over each other] >> she was doing all this stuff. [inaudible conversations] >> i have been around the country and the huffington opposed -- people have been sending hundreds of stories of struggle and overcoming obstacles and most of that we share the long story. >> on want to talk to you for a second about we are less than a month away and a lot of talk the gop will take over the house. what are your thoughts about that happening? >> anything can change. that is the amazing thing. whatever we do now as two years