barry goldwater is--cronkite would say it, and you can get the old tapes out. "barry goldwater said today..." i got it. there's something wrong with the guy. there was a sense he was off the--off somewhere. he wasn't really somebody to be respected intellectually. and the media was like that, and prime time television is very secular, it's very liberal. it's liberal on things like gay rights and respect for gay people and for all kinds of things. you never see anybody saying on "frasier," "i got to go to church now." it just was that way. and i think a lot of conservatives say, "that doesn't represent my life. i've got to offer--so when fox came along, they said, fair and balanced. and everybody knew that was a joke. nobody really believes it's fair and balanced. nobody who watches it believes it's fair and balanced. they believe it balances off the liberal media, and they think it's fair only in the sense that it's getting even. they don't believe it's fair and balanced. yeah, i'm sure. that's why i don't trust a lot of polling because, yeah, sure it's fair an

here's what bear goldwater said in this -- barry goldwater said. keep it up.you get to heaven, i'm there and i want to have someone to listen to. robert byrd didn't just memorize and catalog things for the heck of it. in fact he once advised a crowd here in charleston is the purpose of an edution is not simply to make the mind a storehouse for information but to transform that mind into an inquisitive and innovative instrument of knowledge. he could never quite quench his thirst for learning. he was without lim, his nd and he was without equal. the first in his family to make it to the third grade, senator byrd once said he craved knowledge the way a hungry man craves bread and he consumed it in untold fashion. he grew by doing so and he changed by doing so. he never stopped learning. learning from others or even from his own mistakes. and with every new lesson he learned he also learned how much more there was to know. robert byrd could dispense knowledge as well as he absorbed it. indeed it was because he was a tireless learner he became a perillous teacher.

here's what bear goldwater said in this -- barry goldwater said. keep it up.n you get to heaven, i'm there and i want to have someone to listen to. robert byrd didn't just memorize and catalog things for the heck of it. in fact he once advised a crowd here in charleston is the purpose of an education is not simply to make the mind a storehouse for information but to transform that mind into an inquisitive and innovative instrument of knowledge. he could never quite quench his thirst for learning. he was without limit, his mind and he was without equal. the first in his family to make it to the third grade, senator byrd once said he craved knowledge the way a hungry man craves bread and he consumed it in untold fashion. he grew by doing so and he changed by doing so. he never stopped learning. learning from others or even from his own mistakes. and with every new lesson he learned he also learned how much more there was to know. robert byrd could dispense knowledge as well as he absorbed it. indeed it was because he was a tireless learner he became a perillous

here's what bear gowater said in this -- barry goldwater said. keep it up.u get to heaven, i'm there and i want to have someone to listen to. robert byrd didn't just memorize and catalog things for the heck of it. in fact he once advised a crowd here in charleston is the purpose of an education is not simply to make the mind a storehouse for information but to transform that mind into an inquisitive and innovative instrument of knowledge. he could never quite quenc his thirst for learning. he was without limit, his mind ande was without equal. the first in his family to make it to the third grade, senator byrd once said he craved knowledge the way a hungryan craves bread and he consumed it in untold fashion. he grew by doing so and he changed by doing so. he never stopped learning. learning from others or even from his own mistakes. and with every new lesson he learned he also learned how much more there was to know. robert byrd could dispense knowledge as well as he absorbed it. indeed it was because he was a tirels learner he became a perillous teacher. no

african-americans that the tea party movement has a duty that to show that there the second coming of barry goldwater, not george wallace." steve, good morning. caller: if you listen to the tape, and i have, they are taking this too far. i could care less if the man in the white house is purple. what we need to do is come together as a people and get these for wrought individuals out of our offices. the way that it is going well, it will take us decades to get our country back together. thank you. host: kevin, kingston, new york. good morning. caller: i agree with the man before me. we need to come together as americans here and start to look at the real problems of america. the people that say that racism does not exist anymore, i think that this is your answer. it does in america. these things need to be stopped. i do not try to blame the republican party, fox news network. their life goal is to bring down obama. we should come together as americans can help the president's come together. look at what is happening in america. we need to pull resources together online. most important of all, our spi

i remember senator barry goldwater came in into my office when justy o'connor -- the office i have now have, i have been in there 30 years, was senator goldwater's office. he came and said, look, i know i'm mr. conservative. i'm backing her. she is nominated by ronald reagan. i want you to support her. and i said, why? and he said, she will never pay favorites. she will base her decisions based on what the law is. we would be treated exactly the same. i thought that was a good test. i agreed with him. i voted for her. the 100 of us who serve in the united states senate stand in the shoes of more than 300 million americans as we have a constitutional duty for the nomination to review elena kagan's record and listen to the 500 questions posed at the hearing. i would like to see if general kagan would apply the law. i would like to see if he would support the court and democracy. and with wl she would make decisions with the law. i try to understand why the law matters, whether she has a good sense to appreciate the fact of the case in front of her and consider the kons quengss of the cou