what made you want to spend time looking into the book and the bob dylan quotations? irst thing is that i am a bit of a dylan freak myself. so when i saw -- >> nerd, perhaps? >> i am a bit of a nerd. when i saw these things and -- considering the previous difficulties he had had with the plagiarism charges and other things that people had accused him of, taking a passage from malcolm gladwell, and i decided to read his book. i read the first chapter and stopped at the first chapter. i still haven't gotten beyond it, incidentally. the first chaptd was about bob dylan. a few smelled fishy. the sourcing was a bit off. so i looked. >> and when you first contacted layer er a lehrer he insisted the quotations were real and tried to convince you that there was nothing there? >> when first contacted he said he couldn't account for them because he was away from his notes. eventually he tells me that -- did concede that a few were franken quoted, hybridized, taken from here and here, different subjects to put together to make a "super quote." there were others, three couldn't be

then his chapter on bob dylan came under scrutiny.eeks of digging, he admitted that "the toyotas in question either did not exist or unintentional misquotations or represented improper conversations of pre-existing quotes. the lies are over now. i want to apologize to everyone i have let down, especially my editors and readers." layerer are has resigned. to find out how moyer cracked the case, i sat down with him in new york. welcome. what made you want to spend time looking into the book and the bob dylan quotations? >> the first thing is that i am a bit of a dylan freak myself. so when i saw -- >> nerd, perhaps? >> i am a bit of a nerd. when i saw these things and -- considering the previous difficulties he had had with the plagiarism charges and other things that people had accused him of, taking a passage from malcolm gladwell, and i decided to read his book. i read the first chapter and stopped at the first chapter. i still haven't gotten beyond it, incidentally. the first chaptd was about bob dylan. a few smelled fishy. the sour

i want you to think quick: what is the difference between bob dylan and joe biden? ♪ the times they are achanging, achanging ♪ >>neil: joe biden is trying to keep his career politics alive maybe he should take a cue from bob dylan. we explain with our guest. nowhere in the book is joe biden mentioned but we are always pegging news to authors and i thought of you. your idea with bob dill -- dylan in your fine book is something about reinvention. >>guest: it is all about reinvention. dylan is rusty. joe biden should read the book. news news i don't -- >>neil: i t think biden can sing. the president can sing. how does he do it? i think he is not always in the public eye and he avoids the public eye. >>guest: he is not the bee gees or sells five billion cd's. he is an icon. some are too famous, too fat. they made money fast but then where do you go? >>neil: he has reinvented himself. >>guest: he is a folky country guy, a blues guy, gospel guy, different genres all time. >>neil: not a political guy? >>guest: he is about justice, not politics but injustice, the times are

was it bruce springsteen, bob dylan or robert plant? >> debra cook said bob dylan would be my answer. >> we'll have the answer on our 6:00 show. >>> i bet on the eastern shore don't have our reporting stations coming in yet but likely to be some fog goodrich all the tremendous rains they saw yesterday. still looking at a few showers south and east. that will pull away from us by 9:00. low to mid-70s, we head toward lunch time, upper 70s to low 80s. then this afternoon, an isolated storm at worst with highs in the mid to upper 80s. enjoy. >>> good morning, everybody. what's become a reversal of roles this season the washington nationals went into this weekend's series against philadelphia looking to maintain their lead in the division. since the phillies aren't going to win the title this year, they get to play the role of spoiler. jordan zimmerman man, phillies up, jimmy rollins adds two more. an inning later lance nix adds another, phillies up 4-0. cliff lee solid. he allowed seven hits in seven innings, striking out five batters, allo

bruce springsteen in bob dylan or robert plant? >> well the answer is bruce springsteen.elieve it or not this was back in 1976. he had a tour stop with the e street band locally and said let me go before we move on to check out elvis in graceland. sees the lights on scales the fence, goes through the front door. >>> the security said yeah, not going to help you. but i was famous i was cover of time and newsweek, they were like i don't care, get off the property. >> you are not elvis. we can't find any place where elvis knew about this. >>> more check of traffic and weather, right after this >>> we wanted to mention neil armstrong once again after he passed away over the weekend. here's a picture of him right now. one of the interesting things his family released in a statement was he was a humble man and if you would like to honor him, serve your country. and every once in a while if you think of him, look up at the stars and give him a wink. >> a lot of people would like to honor him with a state funeral, usually reserved for presidents and chief justice and his things o

steve calls bob dylan.bob dylan with all respect slightly spacey, doesn't quite do what they, the sort of his manager. they're all trying to figure out. steve jobs talked them into it. and he finally says to bob dylan, i will write you a check for $1 million if you'll stay out at the itunes store but that box set for here. and dylan come i hate to say it because i love dylan, takes the money. innovator andy lack has moved out of sony and the box that not only goes on to the itunes store, dylan doesn't ipod ad you may remember with silhouettes in dylan wearing a cowboy hat. and you know what? it held still and even more than it helps the ipod for the first time since 20 years he debuted with an album at the top of the billboard charts because itunes and the ipod has such a cachet about him doing that ad for a new generation. >> you look skeptical about some of those questions. >> i'm not skeptical. there's a lot of questions. my expression is that they were to westar. another question before we get into the

that creates bob dylan. john baez, -- joan baez, woodstock, sexually revolution, that leads to bill clinton and then gay marriage. [cheers and applause] you proud of your work there banjo man? >> this book is -- turned out a professor in wes leann university in connecticut said can i read your letters. i have files of carbon copies of letters. i said sure. any of them? sure, i was not thinking. he said he might like to reprint some of them. i thought maybe woe write an recall in a little magazine. behold he and his son selected not dozens but hundreds of short quotations he felt from me, some of the magazine articles i had written and a few paragrfs from books -- paragraphs from books i'd written. put them all together. 20 chapters. you see, i contradict myself here and contradict myself there. at one time i was a member of the communist party for a few years. >> stephen: i'm getting to that. i'm getting to that. in 1955 you refused to testify before the house on american activities. >> well that was -- >> s

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. >> bob dylan would have been absolutely hopeless if he hasn't basically been incredibl -- incrediblylatively nice. >> and let me ask you about your olympics. you've been relatively vocal about this. it's been a big year for the gay and lesbian community in america. are you happy with the speed and advances and rights now bestowed out? are you still thinking a lot of talk not enough action? >> having been on the journey of getting towards gay and lesbian rights equality, understanding, diversity in america, 20 years ago, started, no, i was hoping in 10 years it would all be -- we'd all feel comfortable about it. this is deep-seated fear that comes. religion and all kinds of things involved. so this changed -- this change of paradigm with understanding, love, relationship, family, society takes time. are we moving in that direction? absolutely. >> you grew up in kansas. you came up -- i know when i grew up, gay was a bad word, homo, and -- there were so many then, blacks and poor, the immigrants, them, now the them is me. it was a very poignant way of putting it. do you feel the then t

. >> bob dylan would have been absolutely hopeless if he hadn't been basically pissed off all the time'm right. >> yes, yes. >> i know you like your politics. you've been very vocal. it's been a big year for the gay and lesbian community in america. are you happy with the speed of the advances and the rights that have now been estowed down? you still think, you know what, a lot of talk, not enough action? >> having been on the journey of getting towards gay and lesbian rights, equality, understanding diversity in america, 20 years ago, started, no, i was hoping in 10 years it would all -- we'd all feel comfortable about it. this is deep-seated fear that comes. religion and all kinds of things involved. so this change, this change of paradigm of understanding, love, relationship, family, society, takes time. are we moving in that direction? absolutely. >> you grew up in kansas. i know where i grew up, gay was a bad word. ignorance and fear ruled the day. there were so many themselves back then. the blacks, the poor. then there was the immigrants. them. now the "them" is me. it was a ver

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no so the times they are a changing quote bob dylan. here now janine turner and turner. the two janines are with us today. >> spelled differently though. >> yes, exactly. >> what's the judgment? vote for an atheist? >> no, i wouldn't. you know, it's almost counter intuitive because i have been trained as a lawyer to recognize the separation of church and state if you are a purist and believe in that. then it would seem that you would vote for someone who is not a religious person but my concern is that because we are based and our law is based on the judeo-christian ethic, from the common law forward, i believe that unless someone has that religious moral core that they are not with me. atheist would act on his or her beliefs and then in god we trust on a dollar bill. on the supreme court, i mean, do you then start tearing down the institution? do you feel that an atheist would not reflect your core values as a person? >> yes, i will tell you why. because -- i mean, when you talk about issues that are some of the most extreme issues in terms of emotions in our culture to

it does -- it's the -- i think bob dylan once said there's a -- there's a whole stream of consciousnesse moment. if you don't get it, it goes on to somebody else. i do believe that artists just know how to reach into there and open that channel and bring that in and part of the craft of it is knowing, okay, i'm at the store, i can't do this now, but i'm going to set some time aside. and be able to pull and do it. >> what is the longest period you've ever had where you literally couldn't write a song? of any quality at all? >> wow. i started writing when i was 10. >> did you get long blank periods, though? >> no, i don't. give myself periods where i don't try to write. especially -- like right now, i'm in a not writing period. songs will come to me and i'll jot stuff down but i don't have to write. i've never really held it in a way, like, i have to write. i'm not writing at all. i've never gotten that way. i just believe it will be there when it's supposed to. >> you famously battled breast cancer. you came through. 2004, you were diagnosed. your father had died of cancer. you said afte

freelance reporter exposes new yorker writer joan elyra as a serial fabricator who made up quotes from bob dylanhe lied to me in that conversation, actually. he lied to me in his confession. >> we'll talk to michael moynihan about how he feels about costing lehrer his job. >>> talk about lying, the former editor of "the new york times" is the victim of a hoax perpetrated by wikileaks. bill keller on that bizarre episode, media bias, and feelings about fox news. i'm howard kurtz, and this is "reliable sources." >>> now if you had to pick a moment, a snapshot, a glimpse of the tensions between romney and the press corps, it would have to be this. at the tail end of a foreign trip consumed by negative headlines, the republican candidate was walking toward his car after a wreath-laying ceremony within earshot of reporters. >> governor romney? >> can you comment on the mishaps during your trip? >> governor romney, do you have a statement for the palestinians? >> what about your gaffe? >> governor romney, do you feel that your gaffes have overshadowed your foreign trip? >> this is a holy site for the

this is from a few weeks ago when obama awarded the presidential medal of freedom to bob dylan.ernie's.'" [ laughter ] -- wrong dude. different dude. different guy. this next expression is one of my faves. take a look at this one. this is the "ha ha ha. oh my god, this story's so boring." [ laughter ] these next expressions are great. these are from a recent town hall meeting. this is the "hey, i just met you." this is another one from the same meeting. this is the "and this is crazy." [ laughter ] check this one out. this is the -- [ laughter ] this is "here's my number, so call me maybe." [ cheers and applause ] you know, it's -- you can just tell -- [ applause ] here's another expression. this is obama and bo, the family dog. this is the "i promise i'll never make you go on a road trip with mitt romney." [ laughter ] this next expression is one of my favorites. look at obama's face here. [ light laughter ] this is the "ain't no thang." [ laughter ] here's another expression. this picture's from a couple months ago when president obama was a guest on our show. this is called t

he play for bob dylan, peter, paul an mary, judy collins, odetta, he would go on and on and on. he was the guy, all nothing old records is him playing bass on it. >> rose: do you believe that that is the game you get a chance to do your thing, you got a shot. >> you got a shot. >> that's all you want. >> you want a shot. >> i mean if you are not in the arena. if you don't come to the plate. then you are out of here. but you have got to-- if you get that shot as you know, charlie, you know this better than me. you might get one shot and it is not together, you get that one shot, you're not going to get another one. it's like-- . >> rose: but the thing about you that intrigues me is you have always done so many different things. first time on broadway. >> first time ever. >> there was no doubt that you would do broadway. >> you do documentaries. you still make the kind of movies, redhook is going back to your own roots, so to speak. >> right. >> well, i-- my father always told me don't limit yourself artistically this was something that was pounded into me. not just artistically,

>> reporter: she says she sings from a play list of 65 songs from what she calls her generation, bob dylanatles. bobby mcgee, the song from janis joplin. >> she's in such a good place right now, especially emotionally. she is asking the support boat, hey, how's it going for you? >> i can't imagine what that must be like. i cannot imagine. >> in is a mission for her. she's so committed and so passionate. we wish her very well. she makes to it key west, she'll get there right before her 63rd birthday. >>> how was vacation for you, sam champion? >> this is the time. the perfect jelly fish weather there. it's a tough time to pick for the swim. let's get to where the fires are rolling into the west. so much warmth concentrated to the west. 35 large, uncontained fires. we talked about the one north of sacramento this morning. we think the winds will pick up. they're concern about the fires getting worse. how about the cooler air from the high and also the offshore low. not that we think the northeast will have rain today. there will be clouds and a keerl feeling. popping in the tropics, four are

. >> the best advice was from bob dylan, he had a strange line he wanted to put in the script.stood. he said to me, what's so bad about misunderstanding and i thought to myself, that is interesting. we spend our whole lives just as we are right now trying to communicate and be understood and trying to be clear but he has spent his whole life in that mode. he's interested in going past that, what kind of truth you can get to when things aren't understood so quickly. and i found that to be a very interesting trusting of the instinct and that was a great piece of advice i held on to. >> excellent advice. more advice, have a great weekend. >> i'm looking forward to that. >> that's all for us. >> "starting point" with soledad o'brien starts right now. >>> good morning, welcome, everybody, our starting point this morning, romney and obama neck in neck. the key wing state of wisconsin changed to a true toss-up. this fierce battle is getting closer. a direct attack on the president's political strengths. this. >> mr. president, you did not kill osama bin laden, america did. the rk

bob dylan just turned 71. his new album comes out next month.ntioned earlier keith moon would have been 66 today. and the late, great joe strummer of the clash would have turned 60 this week. >> wow. >> john: so if you're a classic rock nerd, there's plenty to be confused about. i come here for one reason to experience the power the awesome glory that is the "full court press" with dan henning! >> this is the "full court press." >> wow. >> stand back! >> with an intro like that. >> other headlines making news on this thursday. in sports, another day another baseball play suspended for steroid use. major league baseball suspending oakland athletics pitcher bartolo colon for 50 years for testing positive for testosterone. he joins cabrera of the fran giants suspended last week for the same reason. big blow to the athletic wild card bid. colon did not appeal. he did apologize. >> john: back in the '90s, taking steroids was called saving baseball. we would have the home runs. >> sammy sosa, mark mcgwire battle back in '99. >> john: i'm against stero

now in closing, some of you may know i am a big fan of bob dylan. i sometimes are his lyrics and some of my speeches, so i will do it again. as i think about this process and where we are, the lyric that comes to mind is, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. what he meant was, there are some things you just know. you can spend a lot of time to get a thrill of analysis, listening to the pros and cons, waiting for more from patient, but that just a bit is the situation, and you get tied up in the process. you don't need. you don't need all of that to tell you what you already know. this is one of those cases. you already know what the right answer is. everyone on wall street knows. the employers to employees of american airlines know it. the creditors watching the bond prices know it. the median as it. now the public needs to know what. that is where you all come in. by the way, i heard theresa say the media cannot applaud. feel free to applaud any time that you want. the public has a lot invested in the outcome of american, w