the cartoon carryig sutff. -- stuff. >> the highlight of our final season was the new gingrich show. the outlet for liberalism and conservatism in the country. take a look at this fascinating discussion. >> the power of the media to carry messages from the party to the voter? >> i think the media, the traditional elite media -- where it became a surprise was if you go back to the '40's and '50's and early '60s, this was an interesting phenomena. there was this belief you could go the journalism school and the value neutral. you could cover the news, the editorial page was over here, and you were different. that began to break down in the mid-1960s. it began to break down because younger reporters were anti vietnam. younger reporters were pro emigration and anti watergate. you get an entire judgmental personality that began to replace the so-called objectivity of the edward r. murrow generation. what has happened with the rise of fox and rush limbaugh, we've really gone back to a nineteenth century model. if you study abraham lincoln, every newspaper in america was partisan. if you we

to that cartoon. think what the release of these photos would do to our relationships. the military leadership, general petraeus, both oppose the release of these photos. they persuaded president obama to change and they oppose the release of these photos. it will serve no good purpose. and i'm disappointed that the conferees did not include the instructions that we gave them to protect these photos from disclosure and i urge my colleagues to oppose this supplemental and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from wisconsin reserves. the gentleman from california. mr. lewis: i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the the gentleman from virginia, the finest that virginia has ever produced. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia is recognized for three minutes. mr. cantor:. i rise in opposition to this bill. america has the best military in the world. i think all of us who have traveled and have seen the commitment of our arme

[laughter] in the 1980's i remember there was a wonderful cartoon you may remember gerient larsen cartoons, little animals and they would say these funny little things. i remember one it is a single panel, it has got two deer standing in the forest. one has a bull's-eye on his chest and the one without bubbles i says to the one with a bull's-eye heck of a birthmark, pal. [laughter] that is what it feels like to be jewish. you woke up thinking what did i do? why are people targeting me? why are people at the other end of the sniperscope, why do they want to tell me? what did i do to them? i am not saying the jewish people or the state of israel has never done anything wrong. but no more wrong than everybody else in the world we are all sinners. the bible says we all stand and have fallen short of the glory of god so why is everyone he doesn't want to annihilate us? throughout history this has happened. throughout history people have had to make choices. whose side are you on? are you going to be on the side of evil or are you on this side of god? are you on the side of the am i leaders or w

to that cartoon was irrational given the nature of what went on. how much worse will the action will be for the release of these photographs of these detainees being treated however they were treated? general petraeus has said in his judgment that the release of these photographs will help recruit additional terrorists, additional jihadists to the team and they will be used to spur actions against our military, against our troops in the field that might not otherwise be there. and so i don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that the release of these photographs in all likelihood will result in additional deaths and injuries to american troops that don't have to occur. the senate language would restrict acksess to these photographs which is the right thing. the white house said these photographs should not be released. i encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support our motion to instruct because it does make sense to not release these photographs. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of

there was an overreaction to a cartoon that displayed how one person was treated.some have persuaded president obama to change their original position. i'm disappointed that they did not include the instructions that -- and to protect the focus from being disclosed. >> he yells back the balance of this time. -- he yield back the balance of this time. >> the german from virginia is recognized. -- the gentleman from virginia is recognized. >> america has the best military in the world. we have seen the commitment of our armed forces and are overwhelmed by their patriotism. the success of our military has much to do with the courage of the men and women in uniform. the fight every day for our freedom. what we can do as members of this congress to speak to that courage and commitment is to stand up and to remove politics from bills affecting their ability to execute on their mission to protect us. we can pass a bipartisan bill. this house has shown several weeks ago we passed a bill. it was a bipartisan bill sending the message that this congress can support our troops

. >> rob: that reminds me of a peanut -- peanuts cartoon, charlie brown getting his glove hit off.his is a shot right back at him. look out. frasor takes off and then what happens here? he just keeps running. >> bob: the shortstop marco scutaro finally told him to forget it. >> rob: one more look. i can't believe that happened. >> bob: here is nick johnson. >> rob: i think he wanted him to keep running into center field. >> bob: can nick johnson get on base one more time? he's walked twice, three hits tonight. each bullpen has one pitcher remaining. there's his left-hander b.j. ryan who has a 5 5.71 e.r.a. and nationals remaining pitcher is their closer mike macdougal who closed and put away those two games in new york. guzman doesn't run much at this stage of his career. 1-4 in stolen bases this year. 118 steals, but very few in recent years. bottom 11, 1-1. the count, 1-1 the score. and number 11 on deck. i'd love to see a two somewhere, but not strike two. guzman at first. one out. a lot of hitting room right side. rolen way off the line left side. nick johnson came into this ga

host: the editorial cartoon in "the washington times" yester day. next to the firefighter is judge sonia sotomayor with the gasoline used to put out the fire. caller: one of the things that gets a little lost in this discussion is that we are having this discussion about sonia sotomayor as though she single-handedly made this decision. she did not. the court ruled originally. she upheld it. the entire second circuit denied re-hearing on this. i think the reason she is being singled out for this race prism is because she is hispanic. we need to be careful asking ourselves if a white guy who had issued to this decision were now up for supreme court confirmation, would we be imputing all this racism, reverse racism, racialism, and all these words we keep hearing, or is that something she is getting tagged with simply because she is hispanic? i want to add to that. there was a hispanic man who brought suits, too. if you're going to argue that she puts a thumb on the scale for whites and latinos, she did not do that on this case. she voted against them.

from "the pittsburgh post- gazette," a cartoon, president obama arriving in saudi arabia. "remember, he is not just any world leader, he is the president of general motors." gary, from minnesota. caller: i am against this. people who have a stake in the company should be paid first. a few calls ago a gentleman brought up the fact that bankruptcy laws that are 150 years old are being ignored on a whim. and you have got to have to pause and think well. what laws will be ignore next? it is a slippery slope. are we trying to keep jobs or benefits? a person that wants a job will work. as a couple of other of callers have said and, unions have priced the cars out of existence. paying workers not to work anymore, things like that. another caller mentioned that these cars were supposed to have this and that, but when the conference -- congress and the senate puts cafe standards on cars, you either comply or do not sell in this country. everything mandated on these vehicles is on there, which is why they do not sell, they are so expensive. host: george will is going to join us for

it was like a line of anson the cartoon carrying stuff into the studio. >> that shows the commitment of the newseum to this television show. we were proud to work with you guys and we appreciated. >> the highlight of our final season was the newt gingrich and james carville show. this was on the outlook of liberal and conservatism in this country. >> the power of the media to carry messages from the party to the voters. >> i think the media, the traditional elite media is a fact. i think where it became a surprise if you go back to the 1940's and 1950's and early '60s, there was this belief that you could go to journalism school and you could be valued neutral and cover the news. that began to break out in the mid 1960's. that began to break up because younger reporters for anti- vietnam war. "reporters were pro integration very young reporters for anti- watergate. he began to get a judgmental personality that began to replace the so-called object to the of the edward r. murrow generation. what has happened with the rise of fox and rush limbaugh and all the others, you are going back

we have lots of examples as bad medicine, the labels are exactly the same, the cartoons of the same. everything looks the same. the packaging is the same but the pill won't work. how many people would die taking a pill that will dissolve or just because it has the right chemical compound and until we can have assurance i don't think that is a bigger quest, some assurance that would be met to. i can't vote for it to. >> thank you very much mr. chairman. as we have been sitting here i have been in beijing to this amendment and thinking about the broad debate. much of the conversation has been about examples of bad medicine as the senator from wyoming has appointed to. that is occurring and its existing structure. this is fraud and outside the existing structure of a long. it would make sense to have an amendment that sets up a structure for importation then says that that the importers and exporters had to be qualified and, they have to be licensed. they have to be reviewed and if they break the rules of their kicked out. the madisons are checked, the medicines are the same chemical fo

in the overreaction to the cartoon, think of what the release of these photos will do to our relationships. the military leadership both oppose these photos. they have persuaded secretary gates and president obama to change their position. they now oppose the release of these photos. it will serve no good purpose. it will give young americans hurt. let disappointed that they did not include the instructions we give them to protect the photos. i yield back. >> the gentleman from its costs and reserves as time.

it was with -- except maybe in boston -- it won't be as mean-spirited, because manny still is this cartoon character, lovable guy that people don't know where weather -- you don't hate manny. you just go, why did you do that? >> we'll get him in the world series, don't you worry. no, you're absolutely right. he'll be welcomed tremendously in l.a. by the way, it's fruitless for people around the country to boo manny, because he'll be oblivious. that's manny. it's an astonishing circumstance that he is allowed to do this, that the agreement allows someone under suspension for 50 games to start this "rehab" assignment prior to the expiration of the suspension. what kind of common sense is that? what kind of suspension is that? it should start after. the clock should start running when the 50 games are over. in our did you to albuquerque on friday for as long as it takes. you take your batting practice against the high school team or lasorda or koufax or whoever they want to trot out there now . but the idea that he can prepare to come back is outrageous! >> well, it's being presented now to t

complicated i left on valentine's day february 2006 for their all the protests over the blasphemous cartoons was going on and i was frightened i would literally walk off the airplane and i would be ripped apart. it was a fantastic two years. and that is the basis of the book and how we got there to begin with. >> host: was struck me about the book, i read both as a reader and writer myself for about it is a very mature book. it is astonishingly objective. and may have been written by a 40 or 45 year-old except for the fact you are more energetic. you tell the story well and clean but from that you seem to have a gift of establishing not sympathy but empathy with a very dangerous people in fact, that kind of people that killed daniel pearl and we will talk more about that later but first i'd like you to talk about pakistan itself. and has so much in the headlines with a remarkably timely book, what do think americans don't know about pakistan? can you give a feel for the country? >> the do not understand the dynamism, from the 1933 treatise written by a young indian muslim before the accretio

arco -- a cartoonist did a cartoon of roseville showing and not killing the bear. it became the teddy bear. i saw the letter of brooklyn toymaker, a mom-and-pop toy shop "dear mr. president, like to make a bare called the teddy bear. i will do it unless i have your approval." roosevelt rights back that i don't think there's much of the market for the toy, but you have my blessing to make it." if the teddy bear became the most popular toy in the world and still is. taft thought he could tap into that and created a possum and had companies make a possum stuffed toy. the teddy bear stayed up and billick' and went nowhere. people that thought they could take the magic from roosevelt, there were no coattails. hso taft has become a very victimized person, ranked the lowest president. roosevelt did not help matters. even though he knew taft was a man of integrity. >> in 1909 taft becomes president. then the 1912 presidential race i have been to medora and saw the shirt with the bullet hole. that is an assassination attempt you don't hear much about. but roosevelt was runn

an occasion to make a couple of remarks because this case is going to turn into a one-dimensional cartoon of reverse discrimination and hapless victims and this and that. and what this will tell us about judge sotomayor and her jures prudence and those kinds of things. but this is a complex case. there is a lot of nuance in this case, actually. it goes to the relationship between title 7 and equal protection, 14th amendment. you all know the facts of it, right? there was a promotion for the new haven firefighters and the white and some hispanic firefighters got a score at a much greater rate that made them eligible, not entitled, eligible to be pro mode because there were more who were eligible than there were slots available for promotion, so nobody in that group could actually claim i would have been promoted, but they all would have been eligible for promotion. the racially disparity results failed what's known as the 4/5 rule. this is a regulation put out by the equal employment opportunity commission that, if there is a racially disparate outcome in some employment practice or outcom

and of course the idea that you could put cherry-flavored and strawberry-flavored and cartoon figures -- that is not aimed at the 30 or 40-year-old tobacco user but aimed at children, the 3,000 or 4,000 that begin a day, 1,000, by the way, who become addicted and half that number die prematurely. there are people that smoke, i guarantee you, mr. president, there is not a smoark in the country who is an adult that wishes or hopes their child would begin smoking. in fact, i guarantee that almost virtually 100% of adult smokers have man wishes for their children and one wish, i guarantee they have, is that their children never start the habit they did. we're told by health officials, health experts, the average person who smokes and tries to quit tries seven times before effectively kicking the habit -- seven times they try. i'm a former smoker. let me tell you, it is hard. it is hard. and i know others have not smoked and my colleague from wyoming talks about his own family members. many americans smoked. my mother smoked greets. my father smoked gars and pipes in our house with six chi

but can you talk about -- i mean, he is -- he's not just a cartoon mope.'s a lot to this manza politician and he had some gifts. >> absolutely. when he won for governorship for the first time in 2002 and he thought about running for president, he said it's not -- it wasn't unrealistic. i mean, you look at it. he had just won for governor of the fifth largest state in illinois. he had run a terrific campaign. a very populist campaign. he was an appealing character. the voters certainly responded to him. he could sure know how to raise a lot of money. and so as he was being talked about, it wasn't unrealistic. i remember doing an interview with jan schakowsky who said i think rod blagojevich i think it's realistic that he's running for president and many of hess contemporaries at that time, you know, agreed with her and when you look at the fact that there was another young politician who was exactly the same age who'd been elected to the illinois legislature at exactly the same age, with not much national, if any -- no national experience, then became elect

have happen is, you know, makes you think you're in one of those backwards worlds that children's cartoons sometimes move to. [laughter] i have to say that does the fact that the public insurer doesn't need to make a profit put it at an unfair advantage? i don't think so. there are right now for-profit and nonprofit insurers in the marketplace. i have never heard the for-profit companies complain that those pesky not-for-profit companies are having an unfair advantage and, in fact, according to health insurance colorado.net which was the only thing i could find this quickly this afternoon, they -- [applause] hearing it from denver, right? they are not. in fact, the cost of policies is about the same whether it was a profit or nonprofit. so the fact the insurance companies are using it as one of the reasons we don't want to have a public provider, that we need to have profit as part of the picture is certainly wrong. back to my sister for a second. as the dime rolled out of her hands the words formed on her lips, there goes the lord's dime, now, we forgive her because, first, she was 5 year

oriole fan -- oriole fan in attendance has his camera and cartoon bird hat. orioles jersey. can't tell what number it is. it's a 40 something. maybe -- as the birds try to bounce back an unearned run because of the error by melvin mora and he'll lead off for the orioles. matt wieters will follow. nolasco, who got out of a jam in the first, now has the lead. ball one to melvin mora. melvin has a modest two-game hitting streak going. he has not homered now in 37 straight games, 142 at-bats, 37 games that he has played in. 41 team games since his last home run on may 7th. here is a bouncer to third. bonifacio wide to the bag gets it across and cantu with fancy foot work off the bag. mora is retiredment one away. >> buck: -- retired. one away. >> buck: bonifacio is a second baseman. he's playing third base because uggla is the second baseman. cantu makes the play. cantu himself also a second baseman. there are four second basemen defensively on the field for florida marlins. uggla, cantu, bonifacio and the left fielder chris coghlan. >> jim: with uggla, the others don't have a c

tobacco companies have long taken advantage of this by promoting their products through cartoon advertisements, themed tobacco themed merchandise, and sponsorships of sports entertainment event. by reinstating the f.d.a.'s 19 96 rule, we'll be able to ban all outdoor advertising within 1,000 feet of schools and play grounds. again common sense. we'll ban free give aways of any nontobacco items with the purchase of tobacco products that appeals to children. we restrict vending machines and self-service displays to adult own facilities and requires the retailers to verify age for all over-the-counter sales and provides for federal enforcement and penalties against retailers who sell to minors. barring the sale of certain tobacco flavored products will protect the health of children who were lured to smoking by these candylike flavors with little if any impact of adult enjoyment on tobacco. the opponents of this legislation often cite the american valu of individual or personal responsibility. certainly informed battles are responsible for making their own choices and dealing with the consequence

have long taken advantage of this vulnerability by promoting their products through such tactics as cartoon advertisements, free tobacco themed merchandise that appeals to kids, and sponsorship of sporting and entertainment events. with health care costs spiraling out of control every year, the costs of treating these smokers later in life is fast becoming prohibitively expensive. prohibiting advertising to children will go a long way in preventing young people in america from starting to smoke and will save billions of dollars and most importantly countless lives in the years to come. it is important to emphasize that this bill does not ban tobacco products. rather h.r. 1256 allows the f.d.a. to scientifically evaluate the health benefits and risks posed by ingredients in cigarettes and takes steps to reduce the harm caused by tobacco products. this legislation preserves an adult's choice to smoke and make sure that tobacco products marketed as safe alternatives to cigarettes are in fact scientifically safer. i'm pleased to have worked with my colleague, the distinguished chairman of the h

february 2006 and arrived in pakistan at the time -- you recall the protests against the blasphemous cartoons and i was frightened i was off the airplane and ripped apart. it didn't go that way. it turned out to be a fantastic two years so that's the basis of the book and how we got there to begin with. >> host: what shook me about this book when i read i read as both a reader and a writer myself. and it is a very mature book. i mean, it's astonishingly objective. it's something that might have been written by authority-year-old or 45-year-old except for the fact that you're much more energetic. you tell the story well and cleanly but beyond that you seem to have a gift of establishing of sympathy but empathy with some very, very dangerous people in fact the kind of people that killed daniel pearl and we will talk about that later. but first, nick, i would like you to talk about pakistan itself because with pakistan so much in the headlines and obviously a timely book "to live or to perish forever." but do you think americans don't know about pakistan? can you give a feel for the country? >>

at the moment it was like a lightbulb she had seen in the cartoons before and she felt like ann frank had written that for her because like maria and so many other young women she was the bird in the cage and she never used her wings to fly so for the first time maria had hope and what finally, finally the good guy is going to make it and anne frank is going to bust out of the attic and all will be right with the world and she kept reading and every day she would come to class and ask these questions and i would think she didn't go to the video store and rent the movie or get the cliff notes or down vote somebody's paper. this little girl is actually reading. the first question she asked when i realized she actually read the book is when she quickly renamed the others in the attic her posse and she wanted to know when they were going to smoke hitler and take him out and i said it's not that kind of book but keep reading. a couple days later she stormed in and maria realized peter, this man in the attic developed a crush on anne frank so maria wanted to know when they were going to loo

a cartoonist did a cartoon of t.r. showing him not killing the bear. it became the teddy bear. i saw the letter of a brooklyn toymaker, a mom and pop toy shop. dear mr. president, i would like to make a bear called a teddy bear. i won't do it if i don't have your approval. he wrote back i don't think there is much of a market, but you have my blessing to make it. suddenly, the teddy bear became the most popular toy in the world, still is. taft thought he could tap into that and created the possess so many and had companies make possess so many stuffed toys. the teddy bear stayed up, the billy possess so many went nowhere. people thought they could take the magic from t.r. somehow, there were no coattails. taft has become a very victimizedperson in history, ranks low as president and roosevelt didn't help him any even though he knew taft was a man of integrity. >> let's do a little history. 1909 william howard taft becomes president. the 1912 presidential race and the reason i get to that is because mindora, i remember seeing the shirt with the bullet hole in it. >> yes. >> that

but, you know, the problem that you're raising about how i was kind of created into a cartoon character during the recent presidential campaign, i didn't take it -- i never took it personally. i felt that there was a sense that nobody knew how to run against this new, young, fresh candidate, nobody knew what script to put together. and the dishonest narrative that was created first by the opposition within the democratic party and then by the republican party, the dishonest narrative was he's a mystery man, nobody knows who he is, and, look, he hangs around with strange people. the dishonesty of that was partly to create, for example, in the reverend wright who is a respected, important chicago theologian and leader, to create the idea that he was somehow a monstrous, fiery, frightening black nationalist revolutionary. it wasn't true, but that was what was tried to be, you know, created. but the second part of the dishonesty is more profound, and that is this notion of guilt by association. the idea that somehow if you share a boardroom or a bus ride or a cup of coffee, that you also sh