sharing the back of the book with dawkins is glen beck. >> she there. i am friends with glen beck. when i sent him the book he really read it right away. it was not like, i will give uh blesh. i love talking to glen beck. i love the fact that he shakes things up. we get along and he says kind things about me. i get so much hassle for simply saying glen beck is an okay guy. >> you get hassled for doing fox, right? >> yes, people say you should -- tommy smothers went crazy on me and said you should no go on glen beck or fox. i said what have i said that is wrong and you disagree with? he said you don't lie, but you tell the truth. i said i went on "glen beck" and i said there is no god and glen beck talked to me in an honest way and president whated to hear the dialogue. what is dwrong with that? why are we not allowed to talk to certain people? it is come part mental liesed. my idea is i will do parker and glen beck and dawkins and it will show everybody can enjoy the book. what it will really show is i won't buy a book that has a mention of dawkins. i will buy a book of glen beck.

you mention big education and glen beck, we need everyone on all fronts. some people think the national review doesn't do and never would as our nature as a publication but it is all for the good. if you conseco this country and our founder's principles you need everyone on all cylinders. >> trevor carlsson of the university of san diego. i was hoping you could comment on the creation of west frigid new with reference to article iv section iii. >> west virginia is more problematic. do we have west virginians in the room? your state never should have existed. are you really a west virginian? the creation of your state was dubious but we love you anyway. desperate to get support in the border areas he thought were so important. you had virginia in a state of revolt and you didn't have a legitimate government you could work with so you worked -- in terms of constitutional niceties it is difficult to defend. never gotten a west virginia question before. >> jeffrey washington from denver. you make a call to return to lincoln but this is a question i don't hear

that's why you're mentioning andrew and big education and glen beck.e pushing on all fonts. some of the people that do think the "national review" would never do because of our nature of the publication, but it's all for the good. if you can save our country and our founder's principles, you need everyone going on all cylinders. >> chuck carlson, university of san diego. i was hoping you could comment on the creation of west virginia with reference to the article 4, section 3. >> you got me. i think west virginia is even more problematic than habeas corpus. do we have west virginians in the rhyme? your state never should have existed. the creation of your state was constitutionally dubious. he was desperate to get support in the border areas that he thought was so important and you had virginia in a state of revolt and you can't really have a legitimate government of virginia to work with, so you worked with a rough government. but in terms of constitutional nicities, it's probably difficult to defend. i've never gotten the west virginia question befor

i should have listened to glen beck. one way to put it. >>> let's go to andrew stevens in hong kong where the hang seng tumbled by more than 3%. judging by asian markets you wouldn't have thought there would be any light at the end of the tunnel because some investors in the world who think we shouldn't be poo-pooing this. this is serious. >> this is -- if you take it from this perspective over here, there are people who are taking it very seriously. it's interesting, though, because if you talk to the analysts and people who have been following the s&p downgrade very closely they'll say this is things like a blow to the ego more than anything else. but here in asia, all it does is adds to what we were talking about on friday, this crisis of confidence, crisis of credibility. asian investors woke up on monday and the markets opened and all they knew there was a downgrade, saw the s&p futures pointing sharply lower, so they hit the sell button. interestingly opposite to europe a big sell-off early, people got out early do