tom engelhardt wrote it. thank you for coming tonight.[applause] >> the republican primary has caused romney to move so far to the right he is off the board. your 10 kennedy appearing in new hampshire. they have a question. the question is would you agree to 1 dollar in taxes for 10-dollar cut? anybody in the civilized world will now that i say that company be that excludes those cannonade, with the of course i would give you 1 dollar in taxes for $10 in cuts. but not one hand when a. not huntsmen, not anybody. it was a well-kept secret, but i ran for the republican nomination in the 1996 vehicle and i was in new hampshire and there were nine people and the question was how many of you promise to abolish the department of education and eight handspring up continuously. ridiculous question that you can't always the department of education. just can't do it. so here you have her main cane, michele bachmann and one after another, pushing, pushing romney so far to the right. senators sent four men come up prodigious worker, covered all the co

>> tom engelhardt, i just wanted to say that i am a very proud supporter of hay market books. that old saying that the press is only free if you own one. and when hay market was created, it really was like the people had a press to do stories, to tell stories and to produce books that had a social justice focus that were not interested in a trickle-down telling of history, but a rising-up telling of history. and i think it's very fitting that someone like tom engelhardt would be publishing with hay market books because it really is a match made in rebellion. [laughter] for years i, actually, thought tom engelhardt's name was tomdispatch -- [laughter] because i subscribed to this wonderful newsletter that was, it was covering the issues of the day, but covering them in a way that was totally anathema to the way the corporate media functions in this society, getting in-depth, tapping experts, highlighting whistleblowers, analyzing u.s. policy, and i think that tomdispatch is some of the deaths we have to offer in this country in terms of citizen journalism and journalism that ch