don imus at the 1944 radio correspondents' dinner.g on radio, the president is a cripple. you know, i guess what imus was trying to do was sort of demonstrate his shock-jock bona fidies by showing he's willing to speak in front of 3,000 people and offend pretty much everyone. that is not my goal tonight. let me let you in on my goal. if, at the end of this evening, the speaker of the house, newt gingrich walks out of this hotel thinking, you know, that al franken is a pretty funny guy, then i know i will have failed miserably. and let a lot of people down. if, on the other hand, the president leaves thinking, hmm, you know, al would make a pretty good council general to bermuda, mission accomplished. the correspondents' association was afraid of a repeat of the whole imus debacle so the board of governors had a meeting and drew up some ground rules for tonight's talk. for example, there are a number of subjects i've been instructed to avoid. white water, specifically web hubble, susan thomas, either of the mcdougals. i'm not to do jok

has imus has function more like a medieval court than a modern organization danny what do you mean by that well when i said i enjoyed the auto i thought i'd look at it from first principles somebody who really believes in democracy how would i look at another thing on the i.m.f. . and there are some ways in which it's very clearly undemocratic and some ways in which it's not so clear so on the clearest side i mean if i the western european heads for fifty plus years and the next head is likely to be european as well i mean that's clearly underpriced the fact that america which has less than five percent of the world's population has a veto if there was it's clearly undemocratic but also if you know the weight so for example one reason politicians really like the i.m.f. is that it often enables them to. abdicate responsibility for austerity so in other words if they screw up and there are problems with their economy or even if there are problems which are not of their own making rather than trying to blame for it they bring in the i.m.f. or maybe they can say what is the i.m.f. that's

imus spoke. -- i misspoke. tom coburn is one of these people who says what he thinks. he often votes against people he really likes. i believe him, that he was just tired of banging his head against the wall. >> let me direct this to the former banker on the panel. this week we reached the debt ceiling of $4.29 trillion. what does it mean to the average taxpayer? >> at this moment it doesn't mean anything, because we have not yet the threshold where all of a sudden we will default on our debt. when it happens, we will have an economic calamity if the u.s. defaults. you will see it in the cost of everything, especially interest rates. >> didn't the treasury secretary say he would have to suspend payments -- >> it would be like lehman brothers. >> he is already doing that for the time -- >> he is moving money around. it would be a calamity, although some say it let's have it, let's go to the debt ceiling. it is crazy. >> what do you think, charles? >> as the sun rises in the east, but the debt limit will be raised, but it will be a heroine process and it should be. the r

what was imus in all my life? i never saw professor longhair life. -- what was i missing all my life? tavis: what is the point of this documentary? so much has been said, done, written about new orleans. what is the point of this particular documentary? >> a hurricane did hurricane damage to the gulf coast but what almost killed new orleans was not a hurricane. when it passed by new orleans, this was on a category one or a weak category two, it was a catastrophic failure of the hurricane system. it took them four and a half decades to almost complete the project and it failed in more than 50 places under storm surge conditions that were less severe than was supposed to withstand. it was a catastrophic situation. people talk about the government and all of that. unless you have read these reports by the investigations, you don't know why those people suffered, why those people drowned. >> i heard you say that it took four and a half decades to almost complete. >> it was not completed. >> i have heard of government

excellent i couldn't be happier the first round yesterday exactly how i wanted by really joined today imus fair of the competition today and it went perfectly the trio enjoying the taste of victory with historical sites reminding them of the winners of centuries past when it's back to training single is the battle for the championship will take a much bigger stage next month over forty thousand spectators are expected at france's laura shellharbour for the fourth leg of extreme daredevil action in gaza gorski r.t. . fine let's take a look back at the goals and the highlights from we ten and russian premier league and our weekly goals on all sections. the. list let's live. live. live live. live. live. live live. live live. live. live. live. live. live live. live . rather outside moscow coming up in just about so last conversations about what is coming up next and always going to hear with headlines. for the full slate we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. all .

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greece should leave the euro zone that has put under strain the euro choi is one of the imus top bikers contributing tens of billions of euro ruled it is an asian chief who's not likely to be as europe friendly as trolls because he has been very personally very important in getting the i.m.f. involved and assisting in designing the bailout packages but also coaxing and encouraging politicians to do the reforms necessary now you may not get the equivalent kind of person with the same kind of convictions coming from the emerging markets. when one of the world's biggest investment banks bill three years ago it triggered a global recession we're still reeling from today but it's still true if you would your road to extinction really make matters worse the consequences probably would be higher and much higher that was for instance as the bankruptcy of lehman in two thousand and eight with e.u. economies that this tour is the team that toppling the world's leading banker comes at the worst possible time this is not just the end of a career dominic's was instrumental in risking the eurozone as

who is in washington for talks says it's a concession he will not make for the meeting president of imus said his condition must be fulfilled in order to create any future palestinian state but as i mentioned sharon has more. that was a very cordial meeting but the talks between friends as they kept calling each other has reached a dead end obama mentioned his thursday speech and his suggestion for israel to go back to the screen nine hundred sixty seven borders prime minister netanyahu said realities on the ground have changed the need is unrealistic to build up going back to one thousand nine hundred seven would mean giving up the west bank east jerusalem and the gaza strip that's something that many israelis find unacceptable but according to president obama that's a solution that could be the starting point to then negotiate land swaps with with the palestinians to create new borders all the other members of the quartet of middle east peace negotiators are supporting the idea that the european union the u.n. and russia russia has long been putting forward that solution as he put the

as it is if you show all right we have to distinguish between a position which i believe the ok mr imus and i just i want to go back to a point you were making earlier about the direction of the palestinian leadership is going so where do you think their leadership is going from here from south of just very briefly. very briefly that that should go. forward a lot of. the conciliation occurred. in the conciliation agreement with the us you know. we are going to impose on all the other info that a lot of rules for the it all to convince the community is to accept. the proposal by the coming to him but because the senior leadership the i belittle. him but the general assembly. and asking the international community to admit that it is in the doing that for the success of it all right thank you very much for your time and your insight ramadan our political analyst there in gaza. now as the nato bombs continue to fall across libya there is still no sign of an end to the bloodshed and deadlock russia has called for a cease fire between the libyan government and the opposition in order to stop

ago so i'm going to read one of the provocative sentences and i think it's the first sentence the imus's i missed as function more like a medieval court than a modern organisation danny what do you mean by that. well when i said i enjoyed the article i thought i'd look at it from first principles somebody really believes in democracy how would i look and understand the i.m.f. and there are some ways in which it's very clearly undemocratic and some ways in which it's not so clear so on the clearest side i mean if i have the western european heads for fifty plus years and the next head is likely to be european as well i mean that's clearly under book i think the fact that america which has less than five percent of the world's population has a veto of the i am if god is clearly and i'm a critic but also in other ways so for example one reason politicians really like the i.m.f. is that it often enables them to. abdicate responsibility for austerity so in other words if they screw up and there are problems with their economy or even if there are problems which are not of their own making rat

up his violations campaign finance laws lobbying loans very serious of genesis issues but i think imus this time of the arrest of the guy who's the head of the i.m.f. and and some of the details of ensign's you call it an affair it seems to me like him it's close to rape actually or at the very least abuse of personal power st paul wrote most of the new testament but never met jesus in person has always seemed a bit massaging mystic to me had these guys adapted the anti-woman view that paul arguably expressed for example in his first letter the cranky ends when he said that if a woman didn't shut up and keep her head covered in church she should ever head shaved and live in shame and these guys have been looking at the wrong time the inner circle the organization hues to this idea called the male ship it sounds like a dirty when it would be as their idea the idea is it as christ. is so a man should be to the women in his life and that women have a role this. described within the family they do this with no historical sense they say separate but equal women have a similar but we were wr

and from fox news imus and you see i mean we're going to be a lot more of what we saw in the ramp up to the war in iraq where you know it was all let's get ourselves on the shoulders and not ask the bigger questions about what this actually means for the war on terror what this means for the erosion of civil liberties and a lot of the the things that your previous segment talked about and i thought that was a huge failure i mean i felt that i needed to go to twitter to find other sources of information because everyone was busy and i just plastering there trying to american flags on the networks and sort of focusing on the wrong without the questions well it wasn't just the media that was doing that in fact if you went to the white house last night there were it was crazy i live a couple of blocks away so i decided to check it out and there were people sprinting down the streets holding american flags everyone is screaming every car is doing the honking thing and i got down there and there are thousands of people most of whom i also think were drunk and just kind of trickled over fro

but i think what's more important is that it brings it back to -- it gives us, much like the don imuson did, it makes us look at the issue of standards of beauty and how it affects young girls of color. there are so many message that is are -- sorry. >> there's a delay here. i'm in new york, you are in l.a. finish up. >> i think that there are -- this adds to the many messages that devalue and dehumanize and insult and disrespect black women. and oftentimes the messages go unchecked without repercussions, which is why i started this to reinforce to women that we matter and are important. >> so, sofia, our first lady is black, obviously oprah winfrey is black, and you can't get more high profile than these two women. so aren't these role models enough to counter something like this because beauty really is in the eye. >> first, thank you for the kind compliment, don. second, you showed the clip from the movie "the color purple." it is one of my favorites. it is two black women talking to each other. sugar is talking to the whoopi goldberg character. she says, you sure are ugly. it fits

why then i whereas on imus one day, and one of the reporters picked up on it. we almost did it. then, of course, other interesting stories that came about in the city concerning the performing arts center. i always tried to be a big supporter of the arts community, i always remember in 1977, maybe '76, i got a call from some business people who said do you know mr. dario? i never met him. name is dario baciacki and he owned the ocean state theater, and they said he wants to tear that place down. i said, that was terrible. they said, cue call him and make an appointment and convince him not tear it down? i said, why do you think i can do that? they said, you're italian, i thought, that's real sensitive. so i did call him and went to see him at his house, and i remember going up in the big car, and when i got out of the car two german shepherds came running at me, and i jumped back in the car. and he finally came out and put the dogs down, they were heeling, and so i went in the house. he invited the dogs in the house. so we started talking. then we went out to dinner, and i gave

so it was a professional imus, if you -- impulse, if you will. the second quote is from the end graph of the prologue, and it is from toni morrison's "beloved." denver was seeing it through beloved, and the more fine points she made, the more details she provided, the more beloved liked it. so she anticipated the questions by giving blood to the scraps her or mother and grandmother told her and a heartbeat. denver spoke, beloved listened, and the two did the best they could to create what really happened. how it really was. something only stephane knew because she alone had the time afterward to shape it. so this second quote points to one of my great concerns in writing the book; the idea to recover my family's past. not my mother's, but my great, great grandparents and so forth. and realizing they were their memories and not my memories. so how could i tell the story of memories that were not my own and that had just come down to me in scraps? and how could i then give blood and a heartbeat to these scraps? so that was my second, much more pers

it was not in the press for a while and then i was on imus, the radio show.one of the reporters in the journal picked up on it i got to be a celebrated kind of thing. we almost did it. then of course there were other interesting stories that came about in the city concerning the performing arts center. i tried to be a big supporter for the arts community that i'll never forget in 1977, maybe 76 i got a call from some business people in the city who said do you know mr. dario? i had never met him. this guy named dario, his real name was -- and he owned the ocean state reader at the time which was -- and they said he wants to tear the place down. that would be terrible. do you know him? i said i don't know him. could you call them and make an appointment to convince them not to tear it down? i said why do you think i can do that? they said because you are italian. i said oh that is real sensitive, you know. [laughter] so i did call and i made an appointment and i went to see them in his house in lincoln. i will never forget going up in a dig carb and when i got

and then i was on i miss one day -- imus one day, and i guess one of the journalists picked up on it, and it got to be a celebrated thing. we almost did it. and then, of course, there were other interesting stories concerning the performing arts center. i tried to be a big supporter for the arts community. in 1937, maybe '76 i got a call from some business people in the city who said do you know mr. dario? and i had never met him. his real name was dario bakiyaki. they said, he wants to tear the place down. i said, god, that's terrible. they said, do you know him? i said, no. they said, could you call him and convince him not to tear it down? they said, why do you think i can do that? because you're italian. i said, oh, that's real sensitive. [laughter] so i did call him. i made an appointment, i went and see him at his house up in lincoln, and i'll never forget going up in that big car. and when i got out of the car, these two german shepards came lunging at me. i said to the cop, why don't you go ring the doorbell. he said, what are you nuts, mayor? [laughter] so he finally came out

and as i say, other people, don imus comes to mind have lost their jobs over slurs like this. >> saraheping it classy, eddie. would you expect that others are going to be weighing in here or will this be the end of it? >> i think that schultz and msnbc probably contained the damage by agreeing to the suspension and having the full apology, but, sure, people who don't like what ed schultz have to say are going to beat him up over this, it will reverberate over the blogosphere but he asked for. this is a totally self-inflected wound. >> howard kurtz, appreciate you weighing in, as always, thank you. >>> how would you feel if i told you there was a loophole that allows for easier purchases of high-powered weapons and avoids background checks? [ male announcer ] look at this, bridgestone is using natural rubber, researching ways to enhance its quality and performance, and making their factories more environmentally friendly. producing products that save on fuel and emissions, and some that can be reused again. ♪ and promoting eco-friendly and safety driving campaigns. ♪ one team. one plane

imu just 11 days arc the labor department denied the first three petitions filed by groups of workers asking t.a.a. and assistants under pre-2009 rules, including three workers in uniontown, ohio. the reason: they are service workers. in addition, the enhanced health coverage tax credit program also expired in february. hctc helps trade-affected workers purchase private health insurance coverage to replace the employer-sponsored health insurance coverage they lost. helps the retirees who lost their benefits when the company for which they worked goes bankrupt. the hctc prevents tens of thousands of americans from falling into the ranks of the uninsured. right now if we don't act, we're simply giving these workers the cold shoulder. so i applaud the administration for saying yesterday, we will pass no more free trade agreements without a deal on t.a.a. but this will require my republican colleagues to come to the table and agree on a package. we've seen what unfair trade deals like nafta and pntr with china and cafta do to communities in ohio and around the nation. these are americans

imus officially honored to be delivering this lecture in memory of leslie here was a dean here and andful day when flight 77 crash into the pentagon. last night when i learned about the death of osama bin laden and reflected on the fact i would be speaking here today, i thought outfitting that we gather here in her memory and through her remember all of the others who were victims of the terrible attacks on a 9/11. as the president said come it was a long time coming but justice has been done. we can never bring back those lost, but justice was done yesterday parker while the fight against sokaiya will go on a we have to remain vigilant, the fact is they lost their founder, leader, it was a good day for america and a four everyone throughout the world works for freedom and justice and peace. blair? congratulations on being the winning scholar. you and your generation have lived half of your lives under the shadow of 9/11. i know georgetown throughout and my generation is timing about being a good stewards of our future. that is what i want to talk about today. we face a lot of challeng