so it's perfect, perfect cartoon material. >> reporter: the prestige that comes with the pulitzer hasnot only boosted the number of hits mark fiore's work gets, but he's convinced it will encourage the entire field of internet political cartooning. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: the goveror of arizona signed a tough new immigration bill into law. president obama called it "misguided" and asked the department of justice to look into whether it violates civil rights. and, a new wave of bombings swept across iraq, killing at least 69 people. they targeted shi-ite worshippers at friday prayers. the "newshour" is always online. the coast guard called off its search for 11 works missing after an oil rig blast off the louisiana coast. the "newshour" is always online. hari sreenivasan, in our newsroom, previews what's there. hari? >> sreenivasan: find more of spencer's interview with cartoonist fiore. jim lehrer is still on the road, but we caught up with him via skype today as he visits pbs stations and continues his book tour. on "art beat," jeff talks to pbs preside

>> my first response would be it's not a human being, it is a cartoon. you know, i think -- this is -- this was a touchy area because the idea was, keep in mind, this is a play within a play. and this is an instance where you see the griffin family in the audience reacting and in a way that is -- they themselves are a little pit off and we have done this a few times on the show in which there's something that's done in extreme -- you know, one could argue questionable taste but you have to have somebody there reacting to that in a negative way and that's something we sort of tried to include with brian and chris sitting in the audience reacting wide eyed at this show. it is kids putting on a play. you know, whether the -- whether that term is denigrating is for the viewer to judge. >> larry: did you have second thoughts about it? >> we didn't because this was something that was exploited by the media long before we even got to it. this is an instance of something that was out there forever. i mean, it was -- it was all over the press everywhere. and for

. >> the cartoon character is being credited with helping to save a life. a new york seventh grader knew just what to do when her best friend started choking on her gum in music class. >> her hand's around her throat. and she's turning purple. and i'm going oh, my god. >> and miriam, she goes, allie, are you choking? >> the 12-year-old hero says she learned the heimlich from an episode of spongebob. spongebob had done the heimlich on his neighbor, after he swallowed a clarinet. >> it's okay to watch cartoons. >>> the $258 million powerball winner worked in a gas station convenient store. the same one that sold him the ticket. chris shaw won the tenth-largest powerball jackpot in history. his lucky win came at a pretty good time. chris says he plans to pay off his bills, buy a hot rod and a boat. and take his kids to disney world. >> that account balance got a lot bigger. >>> we'll update today's breaking story next. tornadoes touching down in three states. just a hint of what may be to come today. >>> and sarah palin, prepared to take the stand in the e-mai

absent that rock would feedback, i never would have stood up there and drawn cartoons. i was getting to the people in a way i never could have when i was being sent on the scientific walks. it's an unusual expense. i finally get the talks only times i will throw up if i give this talk again, like right around the second, i can't do it. but i continue to do. i decide to make a film. every time i give the talk someone would raise their hand and say to you have a film on this? and i said no, but give me a name in if i ever make what i would say that i had a shoebox full of names a business card that i had a friend who might be here, she filmy giving the talk live and we took the film to free range studios, which is a fab as communicator and storytellers. we took the film to them. they were so funny at first when i called and said i want to make them about how materials go to the coming. and they were like great. [laughter] >> but then they saw the stock and said that about a lot more. so they came up with a bunch of different ideas on how to make the film. we made the film

after sam told the committee a parable about pigs ears, this cartoon is same in the kitchen appeared in the new york daily graphic. dallas is not to say that seems alone as a paragon of virtue and all other lobbyist for corrupt. among its us its the lobbyist of the great barbecue, some more play tent, some are gross, somewhat stoop very, very about to back down bribe, but many were none of these things. it is to say that stands about from the rest because while he has some of the method, excuse me, in many lobbyist bag of tricks he alone employed entertaining so deftly and so often to win his ends. it's true that wish philadelphians had wine and dine members of the early congresses in the late 1700's in hopes of influencing their votes. men like samuel colt had brought their share of food and drink for a congressman in the 1850's. but then enlisted the combination of delicious food, fine wine and sparkling conversations in his lobbying efforts in a systematic and central way that set it apart. sam's style of love and require patience inside warfare to pull off. he often gave dinners

and i think we've captured that in the cartoon. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: in the cartoon.a bit unfair, right? >> well -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it doesn't really look like you thank much, i don't think. >> well, it's -- well, i haven't got the orange jumper on, have i? [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: it's not because you're not wearing an orange shirt. but i mean, it's cute. it's good. >> but, yeah, we did these podcasts. >> jimmy: they blew up. >> they've been downloaded 200 million times. >> jimmy: gosh. >> and so, we, with hbo, we've made these little animated episodes. and it just got its second series, which will come out next year. but it's halfway through its first. it's great. you just -- it's just like eavesdropping on three blokes, sort of, chatting. >> jimmy: yeah, it's so funny. >> it's just -- he's just -- karl is just amazing. he just sees the world differently. he said to me the other day he's looking forward to getting old. i said "why?" he said, "well, because old people are never any trouble," he says. he said, "when you're old, you can you just sit in a cha

the images that was given to us through his cartoons. the image of that amazing girl nadal, who has become the symbol of iran and iranian youth. and definitely you would not have -- nobody would have thought when they thought of iran of a group of young girls sitting in a room overlooking the snow capped mountains of tehran and reading lolita. when you think of each one of these images you would not think of iran. iran was defined at that time by wmds, by terror. and the first image that came to your mind -- because his image was all over the media here. from larry king to anderson cooper to charlie rose. everywhere you looked we had our wonderful president, mr. mahmoud ahmadinejad with a shirk on his faisst as if he had broken the neighbor's window and gotten away with it. and by golly he had gotten away with it. he reminded me of a george clooney or brad pitt this fascination people had with mr. mahmoud ahmadinejad. the questions like how many kids do you have? do you love new york? how many kids are in your jails? how many are being r

but later after i show my cartoons. so if the cartoons are ready to show, i'll talk about them.his is about the fate of iranian reporters and citizen journalists all together. many have had to leave the country after the election. in june, 2009. and many of them are in turkey, france, iraq and other places in need of help. and why am i bringing this up? one important thing is that many iranian journalists turn into citizen journalists. what you were mentioning was a reporter who also used to blog. so many iranian citizen journalists are actually journalist/citizen journalists. it might sound weird. as ms. nafisi was talking about, we transform islam in our own way. we transform the mongolian army to an other -- what's the name, being. so we also transform citizen journalism into something else. that's our art. and the second one, please. yes. this is about iranian journalists in total. they bear their own cross. and we know we will be crucified in the future but we love it. we love it. the next one, please. i call this the sound of silence. of course, not from the movie "the gra

but later after i show my cartoons. so if the cartoons are ready to show, i'll talk about them. this is about the fate of iranian reporters and citizen journalists all together. many have had to leave the country after the election. in june, 2009. and many of them are in turkey, france, iraq and other places in need of help. and why am i bringing this up? one important thing is that many iranian journalists turn into citizen journalists. what you were mentioning was a reporter who also used to blog. so many iranian citizen journalists are actually journalist/citizen journalists. it might sound weird. as ms. nafisi was talking about, we transform islam in our own way. we transform the mongolian army to an other -- what's the name, being. so we also transform citizen journalism into something else. that's our art. and the second one, please. yes. this is about iranian journalists in total. they bear their own cross. and we know we will be crucified in the future but we love it. we love it. the next one, please. i call this the sound of silence. of course, not from the movie "the g

i believe it is ecka cartoon in. >> it was 80% correct on that. >> is that what they would say? allison, there is a question as to whether this guy created the point himself. one of the charges on which he was convicted was making indecent images of children. >> right. >> professor, you asked if anyone considered that the husband might have just been watching child porn and this is just a convenient excuse. well, yeah, the husband was initially arrested, but the police found evidence it was a frame by this guy. they just got a computer that contained the entire content of the husband's computer and other stuff in a garden shed at his house. >> maybe he is framing the other guy. >> that's a good point. >> that's why i have a phd. >> to me it is a note to you kids out there, if you are thinking about framing someone for child porn, get rid of the evidence afterwards. >> thank you, andy for that. >> the more you know. and lastly, on this racial -- the rachel making 10 million. this is what happens when you have a lot of mistresses. you know this how? >> i can't say. i don't want to

and i'm going to show you the cartoon, and it's one of many, many cartoons that have been put out about you. basically, people are saying because of some of the positions that you take or do not take, that you present yourself as one thing but that you are an islamist in sheep's clothing, as some people have said. you are a closet fundamentalist. or as the french academic caroline forest says, i don't see anyone today as effective as tariq ramadan in furthering fundamentalism in france, for instance. you are very controversial because you do not take absolute positions against certain things that people in democracies, people in the west, believe should be condemned out of hand. >> i think that this is -- >> such as stoning of women >> this is completely wrong, because you have to come to what i'm saying and not the way it's described. >> can i show you then what you were saying? >> yes, of course. you can do that. >> in a french debate with then interior minister nicolas sarkozy back in 2003. now, these are the pictures. what basically you were saying was we should have a moratorium on

but later after i show my cartoons. so if the cartoons are ready to show, i'll talk about them.this is about the fate of iranian reporters and citizen journalists all together. many have had to leave the country after the election. in june, 2009. and many of them are in turkey, france, iraq and other places in need of help. and why am i bringing this up? one important thing is that many iranian journalists turn into citizen journalists. what you were mentioning was a reporter who also used to blog. so many iranian citizen journalists are actually journalist/citizen journalists. it might sound weird. as ms. nafisi was talking about, we transform islam in our own way. we transform the mongolian army to an other -- what's the name, being. so we also transform citizen journalism into something else. that's our art. and the second one, please. yes. this is about iranian journalists in total. they bear their own cross. and we know we will be crucified in the future but we love it. we love it. the next one, please. i call this the sound of silence. of course, not from the movie "the gr

but the point is look at what has happened with a cartoon and what has happened when they move on --sprigg admission. >> no, the other one, what he was doing afterwards. if you listen to what is happening with muslims and what has been in europe and muslims, the first reaction in the cartoon by danish muslims was not what say we don't understand. they didn't react for three months and what he should understand the something that happens in that month which was a political gain and the ambassadors of the pie minister to welcome them and talk she refused and then came back to the country of origin and they played with this and it became the political issue. had nothing to do with danish muslim citizens saying no you can't do this. it was not the case. now we have demonstrations and people refusing to face but look at what has happened with builders in the netherlands. he did this and we abide by double and the distance from that and this is my position legal to do. i think it is silly. to be critical distance on that and i would say that even more on muslims in the western society may

a lot of anger about that and political cartoons. that only happened because of very strong popular pressure. house of representatives voted to change it and the late 1890's, but the senate for complex reasons took their time. but there was public pressure that made it happen. >> i had senator dole talked- about -- talk about his career here, and the portents of working closely with the leaders of the other party. how we important is that in terms of maintaining a sense of civility and even cooperation and the possibility of compromise? >> it is absolutely vital. every party leader knows what a thankless job the other party has and sympathizers. it is crucial and for most of the 20th-century, the party leaders have worked pretty well together. there is a story that tom daschle tells when he was the democratic leader of the senate, he had just become democratic leader in the mid-1990s, and lo and behold, here comes bob deaoe to have been meeting with him in his office. daschle as the new guy on the block. he was so flattered, spending

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that's the cartoon character in the video soon to apparently be part of the virginia school curriculumyesterday, we featured the story spotlighting some outrage from supporters of gun control. well today, we have sharon from winchester, virginia, who writes, you have got to be kidding me? i had to laugh out loud when i heard it was stated in your news segment that eddie the eagle and the nra was indoctrinating our children. my children now have this video from their elementary days. it's about gun safety. what to do if you find a gun. there are many areas where i feel our kids are indoctrinated, this is not one of them. and similar from bruce in cliften, virginia. comparing eddie eagle isn't trying to sell guns, the nra isn't trying to indoctrinate guns, just trying to teach them what to do in the presence of a gun. as a police officer and a parent, my children know, do yours? and our good friend, deb from arlington is sorry it's come to this, but she says kids need to know about guns. in a perfect world, we wouldn't have to do this. in a perfect world, kids would be allowed to stay ki

. >>> a cartoon is sparking outrage. one group says the creators of south park had gone too far, they are calling for a protest. we'll tell you more straight ahead. but first -- >>> first look at a police surveillance video in a police beating case. a video that went missing. when we come back, we'll get into exactly how it was found. >>> i'm meteorologist, topper shutt. scott was east of us, he is under showers. we'll take you out with live doppler. down toward the southern part of maryland, that's going to cross into huntingtown, soon. we'll talk about a strong finish to the week. >>> lawyers for an alleged police bating victim at the university of maryland have a missing surveillance video at hand. the official scrutiny of the police department that had that video is a long way from being finished. scott broome is at the university of maryland with a first look at the video in question. scott. >> yeah, they just gave it to us this afternoon. university officials say because they released it to us, they have nothing to

. >> you deal with something that was in there and the next day someone ran a cartoon of an airplane flying over with a new deal coming behind it. that's how it kind of came. sometimes a speech writer will say wait, this is definitely. gerald ford went to his speech wriletter and say said i don't know if we can use that line. it's kind of hard on dick. and he said s of evil, which is debatable whether you can have a three-point axis. but it's remembered about the bush presidencies, george bush that is. >> actually started out as axis of hatred. one of them said that's terrible. let's make it axis of evil. and sort of patted himself on the back for saving history from this awful phrase. >> can i just have a moment for the benefit of our wonderful listeners on sirius x.m. radio, i would like to identify the program. it is "white house chronicle," with myself llewellyn king, linda gasparello of this program. chuck lewis, roger slesinger, and terrence samuels who is a book writer and journalist. lovely, back to the subject. who do you think has been the great speech writers? some have go

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there was a good cartoon about obama wants to engage with ahmadinejad's government.he has to close his eyes in order human rights abuses that so this is one of the topics that has been discussed but nowadays what's very interesting, i see this debate going on about what happened in turkestan. a lot of bloggers are discussing that and they are drawing parallels with what happened in iran, even though the situations are very different from very different countries. and we have, let me go to one blogger who has fled iran. we have his picture. this is his blog. and if we can also go to his picture can we have a big picture of him. he fled iran to the mountains. is a very popular blogger, and he has been blogging about the green movement. and he was taking part in many of the postelection protest. and in his latest blogs he writes about the situation in turkestan and white in turkestan change the government and white didn't happen in iran. and briefly, he says that physical -- this is a very funny person, that's like a soap opera that he's as turkestan is such a small cou

next cartoon, please. next cartoon, please. [laughte bout citizen journalists. actually many iranian journalists turn into citizen journalists. and because of their names and their fame, many other people who were interested got involved and became citizen journalists themselves so they use whatever tools they could find like cell phones to actually record what was happening. so if 20 years ago in the tiananmen square people were able to use cell phones, they could have sent this. smile, you're on youtube. next one, please. years ago i drew a crocodile that caused a lot of trouble for me. i went to prison for it. because the name remind with the name of a powerful cleric. but i usually use the crocodile to symbolize the iranian conservatives. oh, the elephant stands for -- okay. something like that. but he was first the judge of the press corps then the chief prosecutor of tehran. and when they had to get rid. -- of him they got rid of him actually. they cut him off. if there's too much pressure through the blogosphere and through youtube and although all reader

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women, and you make them into these huge figures, right, who are doing things like all forming in a cartoon, like "avatar," and you make these people important and so they act important. what i mean is -- she is in a vehicle that is basically not a vehicle. you can take these minor genres, these minor talents, you can put a lot of money around them and advertise them a lot and have people believing that they are important. the problem is that what used to be a normal entertainment approach to the selling of a product has invaded our politics. when they put out that book about nixon winning the presidency, and they talk about the making of nixon, the selling of a president and how they had to make it look, what kind of photographs he had to have made of him, all of these things, those were hollywood devices. it didn't have anything to do with politics one of the things about john ford's movie with spencer tracy about washington politics, the fun that is made of the original nixon checkers' speech, you have this guy that is basically a dumb guy sitting with his family and stuff on my couch, s

his teeth could actually sparkle like the little -- like a cartoon. >> i might be in love with tim myselfay from it. i couldn't beginning to tell you. >> kara: you know what? you look like an artist. you feel like an artist. that's pretty impressive. >> ♪ so i say better think i leave right now ♪ >> to say i'm proud of tim would be an understatement. >> he comes up and gives you a big hug. he's it. he's a good kid. >> ellen: that was fantastic. that was fantastic. >> i get the opportunity to do things that the rest of the world dreams about. it's an incredible feeling. this experience has been bigger and crazier and more than i ever expected. it's meant everything to me. >> ♪ i think i better leave right now ♪ [cheers and applause] >> a special needs student bullied to the breaking point. the measure she went to to make it stop. >> my eyes, ear, nose, sneezing. >> sign of spring. why the tough winter is making this one of the worst allergy seasons ever. >> rain moves out and makes way for a nice thursday. what comes next that could affect the weekend plans in the sky watch forecast. >> ♪

you've got cartoons that all of those things are types of motion pictures that could fall under your definition here of 600 movie screens. you look at a tv screen come is that a movie screen? i think at this point, you know, your terminology will have to be nailed down a little bit more inviting to really get -- right now we have a whole list of things come we're financing anything that can be put on a movie screen, including woods put on a tv screen. in my judgment. it's very concerning to me. right now, is there a defined market, are there some folks out there that really want to trade in these things right now? or is this the cantor group hoping there's good to be something happen? is a defined group looking to take the risk off of these folks do? i think probably the witnesses, on the second ballot, might be in a better position. our role is to determine whether in fact these products, some of the issues you describe meet the specifications in the act. and what indeed -- >> let me ask this question then. what d.c. is the inherent problem with the situation from your standpoint as

even if when there was a cartoon of the prophet there was no demonstration in america burning thingsn. it is a right that i cherish very much. >> what about the threat of radicalism does that make you shy away saying i'm going to put the brakes on this joke, i don't want to go there? >> i never worried about threat of death for a joke yet. >> you haven't told one that bad yet. >> i have had people like -- >> i have had some tough shows, don't get me wrong, some people wanted to kill me. any joke, someone is going to be offended. i was in new york performing before i came here. i'm sure some people didn't like even a point of view that might be a political joke that they don't agree with. that is life. you can't live your life worrying to please every single person in the audience. somics, some of us have an obligation to challenge the audience. lenny bruce almost went to jail for screaming his expression in the '60s in america. >> the dutch artist that was bruteally murdered, that kind of violence casts a pale and does have a tendency to smear an entire community. >> i agree with you

the nra has a gun safety program in use which it use as cartoon character called eddie the eagle.s bill tells virginia's department of education to incorporate the nra's program into any school plans it will develop and then go ahead and offer to these schools. >> let me ask you. shawn mentioned there are critics who don't think the nra should be there. >> some say the nra should not be the standard on this. students should be more concerned about reading and writing than learning about reloading. democrats amended this bill making sure anticrime groups are included, however bob mcdonald citing a typographical error in the listing of the name is asking to have this removed. here's what one man had to say. >> if a parent wants their child to learn about guns, the parent can talk to them. the parent can sign up for these programs on the weekend or some other time but the idea of trying to get eddie eagle coming into the school is like joe camel coming in to talk about cigarettes. >> reporter: now we should tell you, we did reach out to the sponsor of the bill, delegate lynnwood to c

. >>> now, to a new controversy from "south park," that long-running cartoon series on comedy central. the show's been able to offend just about every group you can think of with its sick jokes. now, it's got something more serious. as dan harris reports, "south park's" spoof of the prophet mohammed, is drawing death threats. >> reporter: "south park," the satirical cartoon popular with young people, is known for being zealously offensive. jesus fighting santa claus. they've taken on jews, mormons and scientologists, too. you name a sacred cow. and the creators, trey parker and matt stone, have morked it. but when the prophet mohammed was portrayed in a bear costume, it was on a website that stone and parker could end up like muslim extremists. during this week's episode, when mohammed was supposed to appear again. he was covered by the word censorsed. and every mention of him was bleeped. overnight, parker and stone released a statement saying, quote, in the 14 years we've been doing "south park," we have never done a show that we couldn't stand behind. we delivered our version of th

. >> is that a cartoon?it looks like he's wearing a suit. >>> i should be a little more at least even keeled. >> i look forward to that. >> 3:00 all week this week. >> we'll watch. >>> the president, i really thought senator corker's comments were interesting and i agree, the republicans, unless i don't know of something are not coming up with a stronger alternative. but what we're looking at doesn't end too big to fail, doesn't do it, does it. >> he was absolutely right. i think his comments across the board were correct. i wouldn't want to suggest disinjen use but i was very unclear about was here was a guy saying here are all the problems but he wasn't offering up a solution. >> imagine that, republicans say here are the problems. >> frankly what he's going to get criticized for is creating smoke and mirrors why the republicans are against to this as opposed to really proposing a solution which is what we need. >> the frank lund's beating drum has been oh, my god the $50 billion fund that's really helping

warning to the creators of "south park," saying they'll probably end up getting murdered because of a cartoonrophet muhammad in a bear costume. the notion that an islamic group in america would make a threat, even a veiled one, is chilling. what does the islamic group have to say about their message? we're keeping them honest tonight. >>> also the latest on the volcano in iceland. a trickle of travelers finally heading home. but one of the biggest dangers from the volcano is that it could set off another one nearby. a "360" dispatch tonight from iceland. those stories and a lot more at the top of the hour. >> larry: you talk about a lot of things in "the bedwetter," little about jimmy kimmel. why? >> no reason. i wrote -- the book is essays, personal essays, stories that i think are interesting, stories from my life. and, you know, there is big chunks of important parts of my life that aren't in there because it's just -- it just -- it's not a chronological tell-all. it's just like this was a great story, this is a great story that happened to me. you know, i mean, i'm very close with my step

collection of president coolidge speeches examples of his political thinking and photographs, editorial cartoons and the campaign, really get that stands his political career. the william k. samford library in new york post this hour-long talk. >> thank you. it's great to be back here at the library. i had a great time last year. i guess the basic question before us is why chronicle and commemorate the words of calvin coolidge, a politician and president renowned for doing nothing and for saying less. why, indeed. because the basic premise of the question is small. the modern world view of calvin coolidge as a failure, political cypher who met a man who not only accomplished nothing but who columnist and abundant walter wittman famously charged the variable genius for inactivity. it all depends of course how one defines inactivity, presumably mr. wittman him as eight unimaginable leader and that is certainly bad. but the inactivity is defined as a spirited principled often brilliantly eloquent active opposition to government intervention and the economy and the resulting tax rates that is profou

and you get up there and it's exactly how you envisioned it in the cartoons.cian. i don't care for this! i always imagined it was some sort of metaphor. no? okay --" but you're like a good, religious kid. you're like, "i guess i'll stick with it and see what happens." 10,000 years go by, "i hate it in heaven. is this it? is this all there is for me?" "no, we have one more treat for you. you get to hang out with your family forever!" [ laughter ] yeah, that does sound pretty good. you guys remember the last time you spent the afternoon with your mom, yeah? you remember that moment when you're like, "i've got to get out of here now!" [ light laughter ] well, that's when forever begins with your mom on the cloud next to you looking over at you, complaining about your harp-playing skills. how you don't play the harp that great anyway. how your brother used to get straight as and he played the harp. nobody wants to see you on stage telling jokes! [ laughter ] [ scattered applause ] sorry, i think i did a bit of overlap on that one. i should go. thank you guys very

most of the clerks later -- clerics later admitted they'd never seen the cartoons.popular tv program "south park" insults everybody. it's a comedy program that uses satire to make social statements. matt stone and trey parker did a series of episodes that insulted various world religions, includesing islam. the 200th episode broadcast depicted the founds of the major religions. muhammad was dressed in a bear suit because islam forebids its followers to depict the religion's founder. one radical islamic website called revolutionary muslim is upset and they said stone and parker would end up like theo van gogh, in other words, dead. they put up the crime scene and photos of van gogh with his throat slit and a knife protruding through his chest. they gave addresses for comedy central in new york and addresses for parker and stone's addresses. they said they pubbished -- published the addresses so people could go out and protest. yeah, right. we've seen how they protest they kill people. because of the threats of violence and fear for the safety of everyone from the rec

. >> larry: that's still a great cartoon. >> it really is. >> larry: he's gone but never anything likensidering all the pressure that he was up against you know taking over a bad situation from the beginning and trying to clean up and move forward and get us back on the right pace but to me you know he's doing a great job because we're in a better state than we were in two years ago. >> larry: okay you want snoop dogg to get you to your next meeting? he's going to do it. with turn-by-turn directions on your gps. here's a demonstration with me, you're not going to believe it, you're not going to believe it. it's coming up. if you've taken your sleep aid and you're still fighting to sleep in the middle of the night, why would you go one more round using it ? you don't need a rematch-- but a re-think-- with lunesta. lunesta is different. it keys into receptors that support sleep, setting your sleep process in motion. lunesta helps you get the restful sleep you need. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving or engaging in ot

. >> there was a cartoon that had "blank" is a fascist. is an anti-american, "blank" is a baby killer, we're just waiting for the nominee to fill in the blank. >> i don't think there's going to be a good fight. assuming someone is nominated who meets all of the qualifications. >> you think there will be a filibuster? >> if the republicans go to the mat again as they did on health care and oppose someone who's qualified, except for the discussion we had an election, the president qualifies someone who is not in the scalia mode -- >> they think it's working for them. >> in the short run it's working, in the long run they could be back in the desert for 41 years. >> another thing that can put them back in the desert is this immigration bill. you heard senator kyl say the consensus isn't there. for the democrats, that doesn't matter. what matters is bring it up and have the republicans oppose it. then they really lose the hispanic vote for years to come. you had in the last election, three quarters of hispanics under 30 voted for barack obama.

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. >> larry: that's still a great cartoon. >> it really is. >> larry: he's gone.ink about obama? how's he doing? >> i think he's doing a great job, you know, considering all the pressure that he was up against, taking over a bad situation from the beginning and trying to clean up and move forward and get us back on the right pace. but to me, you know, he's doing a great job because we're in a better state than we were in two years ago. >> larry: okay. you want snoop dogg to get you to your next meeting? he's going to do it. with turn-by-turn directions on your gps. it's a demonstration with me. you're not going to believe it. you're not going to believe it. it's coming up. >> larry: good night, everybody. >> good night. ♪ snoop >> turn right in 20 yards. >> larry: i feel like i'm being controlled by my gps. i'm turning right as instructed. >> make another right in 40 yards. >> larry: sweeping deftly into the right-hand lane. >> proceed east and turn right in 40 yards. >> larry: this machine is good. okay. i am now turning right. >> proceed south and turn right in

it's a cartoon, in a sense, but it works with a crowd she's working. i mean the fingers, the windshield wave. everything seems to be -- seems to be contrived for brilliant click, click, click applause lines that works dramatically with the audience. >> with a particular audience, but not the broader audience in america. we're talking about maybe, max, 20% of the country here. it may be -- it's a sizable minority of the republican party though, and this is a huge problem for the republican party. they -- they want to somehow coop the tea party movement. they want to ride sarah palin's coattails but they'll ride them to defeat ultimately. >> there's that happy guy, john mccain. happiest man in america. i need sarah palin. thank you, pat buchanan, thank pat buchanan and thank you, ron reagan. >>> coming up, the new republican governor of virginia has declared april to be confederate history month. that's got a lot of people in virginia a bit upset. why are we going back? pat wants to say so hard but he has to leave. i'm sure he'll be able to get by. the f

those of the images we have been given through the cartoons. it is now become the symbol of iran and iranian news. nobody would have thought of a group of young girls sitting in a room overlooking the snowcapped mountains of tehran and reading will be to. when you think of each one of these images, you would not think of iran. at that time, iran was defined by terrorists. the first image that came to your mind because it was all over the media here from larry king to charlie rose, everywhere you looked, we had our wonderful president with a smirk on his face as if he had just broken the neighbor's window and got away with it. he has gotten away with it. he reminds me of someone from the bad boys club, there was a fascination people had with mr. ahmadinejad. the questions about how many kids he had, whether he loved new york, how many kids are in his jails? those questions were never there. it reminded me when i thought of that view. the whole idea is that you need to look at a nation as individual through diversifies and different perspectives

. >> i think -- so i guess frank rich won't have to change the cartoon. >> stop. >> of the republicandsman that says "gop." or maybe country club -- white country club. i don't know. they have the same cartoon or they run it every three weeks. >> also, real small government republican conservative, can you imagine anything worse than the government going around asking people for papers? >> i think what scares tancredo, i would guess ron paul would be against this, i would think any small government conservative or libertarian would be horrified by this concept. >> yeah. >> i think this is one of the moments that call for real leadership and leadership does not follow the trends. they set the trends, and i don't see it coming from the republican side. but i think those of us that come from a civil rights point of view see this as a real violation. and, again, this does not impact directly my base community, but it's wrong just like i went there nine years ago, we're going to arizona, because it's wrong and it can be carried over into any other state in this country. >> it's wrong. and

is a big rock buster "avatar" all the way down to -- i made a list a documentary, x-rated movies, cartoons and by your box office received the academy and six movie theater screens we have made for movies which generate income from the standpoint they're put on tv and advertisers pay to have there ever ties and shown during the showing of that movie. his back in the fall of the definition here of somebody that could execute a contract on a movie that's been made for tv and if we don't generate enough advertising revenue to pay for the production of the movie, that the producers are covered? is that something that could also be construed here to following your definition of movie? >> the contract terms, when i talk about the product approval of the contract terms, each of these contracts or contracts for future delivery. they have a specification in the contract, what can be traded, which types of movies can be traded and i don't have the application right in front of me that it is specified in the application so that is what bruce ewing is what are the movies or what may be that will be su

the images that was given to us through his cartoons. the image of that amazing girl nadal, who has become the symbol of iran and iranian youth. and definitely you would not have -- nobody would have thought when they thought of iran of a group of young girls sitting in a room overlooking the snow capped mountains of tehran and reading lolita. when you think of each one of these images you would not think of iran. iran was defined at that time by wmds, by terror. and the first image that came to your mind -- because his image was all over the media here. from larry king to anderson cooper to charlie rose. everywhere you looked we had our wonderful president, mr. mahmoud ahmadinejad with a shirk on his faisst as if he had broken the neighbor's window and gotten away with it. and by golly he had gotten away with it. he reminded me of a george clooney or brad pitt this fascination people had with mr. mahmoud ahmadinejad. the questions like how many kids do you have? do you love new york? how many kids are in your jails? how many are being r

was in the birmingham and i was driving down the south where the kennedy library producers like a cartoon on the flip open often i thought now where do i start on this project. i'll ask about the condolence. i asked the archivist about it. he had the letters, explain the most of them are destroyed. i thought all that? he said no, we have some. i thought okay, can i see them? and he brought up a box. i took up the first file folder and one of the very first letters of the data, which was written by a family of eskimos in alaska. and the nature and a couple of pages and there was a letter from a coal mining family in west virginia. and then the next letter was from a republican, who really just like kennedy. she said she was looking forward to voting against the 1964 was going to be deprived of this opportunity. but in those letters, condolence letters are like condolence letters most of you so far have written. it goes to console the bereaved person, offers some reflections and that's what these letters did. what was in them, i quickly came to see there was much, much more. and what we cou

vilified he was by so many in the press, it was like he couldn't do anything right, the big ear cartoons and the big cowboy hat, it just went on and on. you know, do you see that softening from some of the people who said these very same things? >> oh, i think it already is softening considerably. i think that people look at president obama and the difficult decisions and they realize very quickly how hard it is being president. and how difficult the times that we are living in are, more dangerous or challenging than at any time in our history, arguably. so i think that people appreciate over time those presidents make tough decisions and have the ability to step out, even in the face of great unpopularity and criticism by the media. martha: interesting. >> they shouldn't be driven by the media or polls but should be driven by a sense of what's right to do. it's often not plor. martha: interesting, thank you very much for coming on and talking to us about t. good to see you. >> thanks, carry on, wereless. bill: and we shall! >>> in the meantime, in the present day, president obama pushin