i would call him a barbarian. he is worse than a cannibal. he is a barbarian. what they're doing there, and it's a shock to me. i sat as close and you and i are and talked to him in a reasonable way. he is an ophthalmologist. he is british educated. he has a very cultured wife. my wife joan had lunch with her, developed a rapport. and to see what is going on now is just astounding. but listen, greta, you make peace with your enemies, not your friends. there is an old saying keep your friends close and your enemies closer. >> athens, georgia, eva, independent caller. you're next. >> caller: good morning, senator specter. >> morning. >> caller: i can't wait to read your book. >> thank you. >> caller: i would ask have you included anything in there with respect to the confirmation hearing of clarence thomas. i know you're teaching a course now in the law school. and i watched those senate hearing and the judiciary committee hearings, and you sat on that committee during the time that anita hill was testifying. i wonder if that was included in your book and if you

this is making me think kind of conan the barbarian and all that. is it?ttle bit, yeah. 100 years ago they wrote a series of novels. not that you would ever know it because disney hasn't done a great job of marketing this film. so no one knows that john carter is a civil war soldier who has been tell he ported to mars in the middle of a great war and he has to pick sides. >> okay. let's watch. >> okay. yeah. so a little sci-fi. a little, i don't know, stone age combination here. >> right. fanta fantasy. this is actually a really good movie. i don't know if anybody is really going to go see it. it cost disney $250 million. and there's a lot to like about it. i'm not even talking about all the half naked people running around this time. it's a really good fantasy that reminded me of movies from the '80s that were full of sweeping landscapes and lots of action and crazy magical things that glow and confuse you. the performances are really good. and i even did an interview with taylor kitchen as well that's on the home page of movies.com where things got reall

the cruelties and the insolence these barbarians is horrible. their souls are as black at pitch. it's an abominable way to make war what a scourge. humanity shatters and being obliged of making use of such monsters, but without them the match would be too much against us. in other words, we need them. we're outnumbered otherwise. we can't do without them. now he's writing this after -- after a battle in 1756 along lake ontario where montcalm had taken the british fort and then after the fort surrendered, there was a massacre of 30 to 50 of the surrendering of british prisoners so bougainville has that in mind. we now have 600 indians and we hold a council with them, but it is a long job. it is a long job to get them to make up their minds. it requires brandy, equipment and food and such. the problem never ends and it's very irksome. now, the fort surrendered, the fort on the southern part of lake george in 1757. ft. william henry that we had just shown previously. let's go back just a bit. this fort which the british and british colonial soldiers built surrendered over 2,500 men

he is a barbarian.- than a tenable. he is a barbarian. what they are doing their -- what is shocking to me, is i set as close as you and i are. he is an ophthalmologist. he is british educated. he is a very cultured wife. my wife had lunch with her, developed a report. to see what is going on now is just astounding. listen, you make peace with your enemies, not your friends. there is an old saying, keep your friends close in your enemies closer. host: athens, georgia. eva, independent caller. caller: good morning. i look forward to reading your book. i wonder if you included anything about the confirmation hearings of clarence thomas? i watched those judiciary hearings during the time that anita hills was testify \ -- hill was testifying. guest: it is in my book. i go into that issue in my first book, "passion for truth," which was published 12 years ago. there is great detail about those hearings. i have actually written three books -- "passion for truth," which includes my work as an assistant counsel

contemporary novels as well as our television shows and movies including the simpsons, conan the barbarian, blazing saddles, a fish called wanda, clueless, and i couldn't resist putting a few recent shows on, and that includes the sopranos, the day after tomorrow, the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind and little miss sunshine. nietzsche even made it to off broadway in richard forman's 2000 bad boy nietzsche. along the way i would come to discover that nietzsche had inspired some food including nietzsche pops, there is a nietzsche will to power bar which is the official nutritional supplement of the superman, and for those of you who are weak and eat too many of them, there's even a nietzsche diet as advertised in the mid 2000s. new diet lets you eat whatever you fear most. [laughter] and we even have a plush 11-inch nietzsche doll to snuggle with at night. so there was this quirky, harmless figure of our material culture, but, of course, we know there's also the menacing teenage rambo teach chi as well. right in the early years of the project, 16-year-old luke woodham of pearl, mississ

>> it's interesting that these are not the barbarians.e big buy outs like we used to, but you are going see a lot in the way of health care and a lot of mid-cap stocks. a lot of the health care providers have pressure on them to cut costs and mergers are one way to do it. i am thinking deals as well. if you are a company sending out about 2.2 trillion in cash, if your company is hard to grow in the low growth economy, generally speaking one way is through acquisition. hearing for private equity that it won't be just they who do the deals. >> what's going on with the ipo? is it running into trouble and is that why black stone can't get anything going towards the upside? >> i don't think it's running into problems. they added underwriters, but with facebook, that doesn't mean the ipo will be in trouble. there will be a lot of interest. firms in general have not done well. they have done well for themselves for thes, but you look at black stone and the others that under performed. they are not pounding the table and want to get in. i don't t

novels from tom wolfe to scott perot and television shows and movies, the simpson's legal conan the barbarian leader still a fish called wanda, recent shows and that includes the sopranos and the day after tomorrow, and little miss sunshine. and made it to off-broadway. and there is nietzsche -- and those of you who are weak like myself and add to many of them there is even nietzsche diet as advertised in the 2,000s. meet whatever you fear most. there was this quirky harmless figure of our material culture but we know there is a teenage rambo nietzsche as well. in those early years of the project 16-year-old exemplified the figure of the disaffected brad lidge they nietzsche text in one hand and a gun or knife on the other. and this became quite conventional in the 1990s and the 2,000s with a 1999 columbine high school massacre. and a double homicide of a husband and wife at dartmouth college and professors in their homes and most recently the shooting of congress woman gabriel deferreds and --gabri l --gabrielle giffords last january. trying to move back away from nietzsche and going to poli

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how is it possible that in blazing saddles or conan the barbarian it can open with a quirk and it hasimmediate resonance with us in part of what i try to examine in the book is because there is a long history of engagement with nietzsche that he is just part of our discourse. his terms are our terms and nietzsche is now a standard iconic graphic image in our visual culture. >> i am curious, in the archives did you get any clues into elizabeth's role in either in her voice back to these writers? what did she choose to say? i was sitting here thinking come is, is there hate mail in their or was it the throwaway hate mail? do you get another side or reaction? i mean do you, in your archival research did you, could you figure out how she contributes to fashioning what is left for you? >> thank god for really talented and hard-working historians who have cobbled together the crucial role in nietzsche's career. when nietzsche has his mental breakdown in 1889 he spends the last 11 years of his life really stark raving mad. he gets worse but in essence she takes over and it's already in this