i feel honored that we call it those in the know or good friends of mine call at this time energizer bunnyhe book that somehow kept going all these yeersz. i will tell you up front it was a book i thought that may be they wouldn't publish. my very first book was women of the silk. i knew that i was writing about something that was a little bit different because i didn't know about the women of the silk until i wanted to write something telling their story much the second book is the test book for us writers you hear that a lot where the publishers are wondering if the author has a second book. everybody here i feel sitting here all of you have one book in you. whether it's a family story or your story whether it's ancestors whether it's your history you want to write about. but it's the second one that's hard. i felt that when i turnod the computer and thought, now i have to write book number 2. i had in mind that i wanted to write something very different from women of the silk that was strictly about the feminist chinese women during the turn of the century and i wanted to write about my

you know jump off, i was samurai's garden, i said it was an energizer bunny. danville shoes samurai's garden the end of last year. they had the danville theatre which is a nice theatre and they were doing roamioand juliette and there was me in the middle of a balcony. it was a nice audience when i walked in my brain was exat that timic, look at the people here. it's almost as good as last years. i said who did you choose last year. and the year before. and told me. i said do you realize they are dead already? >> i'm alive and shouldn't i pull in a little more? [laughter] to go off, thank you for coming. >> my pleasure. i just this month read your book dreaming water. and i was -- i'm very glad to have read it. i'm wondering 2 things. there seems to be more of an advocacy voice in terms of the discrimination of being you know an asian american. and secondly, warner's disease. i'm wondering how you got into writing about that? and the characters were wonderful. >> okay. your first question, first. you know to be totally honest, when i sat down to write dreaming

the guy is the energizer bunny.i turned to my pal lou dobbs to deal with barny's latest. >> what is this? these are right wingers who have this philosophy going back to iran that says we should not come together to do things for the common good. that individualism is the answer and everybody should be on his or her own so feeding poor children, cleaning up the atmosphere putting out fires in older cities. those are things for which they would deny funding. >> bill: here now fox business anchor lou dobbs. okay. so i'm going to be devil's advocate. i'm going to be barney tonight. >> oh my goodness. >> bill: i don't know. >> that's going to take a real leap of faith. >> bill: don't get mad and write me letters. i'm the devil's advocate. okay? i am barney tonight. i'm not going to make any cheap shots about barny. i'm just going to be playing him. his point is because the romney ryan ticket. wants smaller government as kelsey grammer just talked about. they want to starve poor children and let fires engulf major cities,

we expect the right-wing media, of course to do the rock star energizer bunny thing with republican viceayer, not a neutral observer of the news. >> no. the media arm of the republican national committee. we know that. >> exactly. when it reaches beyond the right-wing media and this sort of -- it's not just the gushing actually, but i think it is the space they are creating for these republican talking points the misinformation around the romney-ryan plan for america, what their vision actually is. just repeating the talking points and letting that spin go unchecked. we had it just yesterday with the "new york times," of course, one of their talking points is that obama somehow is gutting medicare when obama is going to cut waste and abuse out of medicare. of course, romney, ryan consistent with ryan's budget they will cut benefits but they are out there trying to spin this as an attack on obama and when you have an outlet like the "new york times" and so many other mainstream outlets just reporting that talking point outright and sure, maybe down in the article, they have gill an obama

. >> people describe him as the energizer bunny. >> my kids joke and say, i'm the mitt stabilizer becauseart winding up and getting really highly energetic, they know i have a very calming influence. >> in the '70s and '80s, romney was also spending a lot of time with his church, which saw him as a rising star. ergetic, devoted, generous with both time and money. >> everybody was well aware of mitt romney. there was some star power even when he wasn't running for office. >> phil barlow first met mitt romney at church in 1979. like most in the church, he already knew the romney name but not the romney work ethic. >> a person that busy and successful might tend to pull out their pocketbook rather than take their time and he did both. >> for more than a decade, romney was part of the leadership of the mormon church in his hometown. the church has no paid clergy, so at the age of 34, romney was asked to lead his congregation. >> talk about a growing up experience and a learning experience. >> it is a time he rarely talks about but was surprisingly open with us. >> i was like the pastor. that

. >> people describe him as the energizer bunny. >> my kids joke and say, i'm the mitt stabilizer becauseow i have a very calming influence. >> in the '70s and '80s, romney was also spending a lot of time with his church, which saw him as a rising star. energetic, devoted, generous with both time and money. >> everybody was well aware of mitt romney. there was some star power even when he wasn't running for office. >> phil barlow first met mitt romney at church in 1979. like most in the church, he already knew the romney name but not the romney work ethic. >> a person that busy and successful might tend to pull out their pocketbook rather than take their time and he did both. >> for more than a decade, romney was part of the leadership of the mormon church in his hometown. the church has no paid clergy, so at the age of 34, romney was asked to lead his congregation. >> talk about a growing up experience and a learning experience. >> it is a time he rarely talks about but was surprisingly open with us. >> i was like the pastor. that meant if someone was in the hospital, i needed to see the

paul ryan is an energizer bunny.- seven terms in conditioning, he rocketed to the top of republic politics as the youngest chairman of the house budget committee ever. he has left an incredible mark on the republic party with the ryan budget and his proposed medicare reforms, et cetera, all have really energized the conservatives and republics and likewise, it's energized a lot of liberals and democrats who are, as he opposed to it as republicans and conservatives are for it. and that is the debate that mitt romney has been saying he wanted to have all along. and, yet, the campaign has been mired in attack ads and distractions. and so now the businessman who came into this nomination by saying that he had the experience to tackle the economy and create jobs has a guy who understands in washington how to manage the budget. romney campaign as outsider. paul ryan becomes his insider. >> how the two of them are going to be able to make the economy front and center again rather than all of these distractions like issues a

. >> people describe him as the energizer bunny and say that you're kind of the balance for him. >> ilming influence in his life. i feel like i'm the balliest tht gives him his anchor. i'm here for him always. we trust each other completely and come police italy. we are each other's best friend in addition to being our, you know, loving relationship we are each other's best friends as well. and it's just a real partnership. my kids joke and say that i'm the mitt stabilizer. >> right. >> that's the word that they give to me. because, you know, whenever mitt might start you know winding up and getting really highly energetic, they know that i have a very calming influence on him. >> well, what do you do? >> nothing. it's just who i am. >> and do you give him advice? does he come to you? >> oh, yes, of course. we share everything. there's nothing we do not know about any struggle that either one of us is going through, we share everything. of course i give him advice and of course he gives me advice. and i think we listen to each other more than we listen to anyone else. >> you know, it'