but larry flynt himself admitted that he became jerry falwell's friend.free speech is a way to make people friends with each other by listening to each other. when you choose to suppress points of view, you end up with conspiracy theories and you end up with a divided nation and ultimately you end up with violence like what we saw with "charlie hebdo." that is all i've got to say. host: appreciate that. i tweet from jack who said in terms of the covers of "charlie hebdo," "may not be funny but it's protected speech." we get a report on jobs in the united states for the month of december. the labor department will have an appointment numbers in just about an hour or so. coca-cola announcing a plan to cut up to 1800 jobs. "sales of sugary drinks continue to decline as more health-conscious consumers adjust their eating and drinking." also from "usa today," "jcpenney, macy's to shut 53 stores in total after posting holiday shopping sales on the high-end of muted expectations. jcpenney and macy's head into 2015 with a focus on smaller operations. jcpenney is

this time over a satirical piece, targeting evangelical preacher jerry falwell. >> what a lot of peoplelize the first 200 years of the history of this country, parody and satire was not protected speech. and it is only when i won the court case with reverend jerry falwell in 1988 that satire and parody became protected speech. >> flint is sickened by what happened in paris and says magazines like "charlie hebdo" and france should be celebrated. in his eyes the world has gotten far more dangerous for provocateurs since he was shot. and he puts the blame for that squarely on islamic extremists. >> some of the european countries, have a lot of emigration by arab fundamentalists. muslim. and have got a huge problem that they have got to deal with. >> flint says we should all be worried, about the chilling effect of terror on artists, satireists and journalists. >> although that is a horrifying incident that happened in paris, we can't be scapegoated into being afraid to live our lives because we are -- because well are going to fall victim to the same sort of misfits, you know. we have it i

reach out to evangelical christians and other american to tell them what we stand or then the jerry falwell'sand the alan keyes will continue to hold sway. obama had defeated alan keyes in the senate election. still obama's confessional liberalism was on display, he did not shy away from referring to his position. just as boldly obama asked the faithful to adjust to a more pluralistic america, he said democracy demands the religiously motivated translate the concerns into universal rather than religiously specific values. jim wallis likened the speech to the kennedy all of branch to the southern baptists. obama had achieved much more, the phenomena was born. the storyline of a new direction for politics was a critical part of the obama campaign narrative. more important arguably than the actual tally of evangelical vote. especially notable from the modern evangelicals who came over. obama made a point of reaching out to robin it evangelicals who were not customarily associated with the christian right overwhelming sentiment at the time that george w. bush had damaged the evangelical brand and

the supreme court ruled against jerry falwell saying apairedy of a public fig is protected under thest amendment, justice william wren quest wrote, quote despite their caustic nature from the early cartoons portraying orange county. >> as an ass, dune to -- down to today, from the viewpoint of putt, it is clear our political discourse would have been considerably poorer without them. and falwell and friend ended up becoming pretty close friends. >> there's that. trace gallagher, thank you. me man facing charges for killing his hedge fund founding father, may still have his dad's inheritance money coming his way. dad cut off his rent money and dad lowered his allowance this 30-year-old man and the 30-year-old man is charged with killing dad. but there's inheritance from dad to 30-year-old son. might he get it? he might. that's coming up. well, a mortgage shouldn't be a problem your credit is in pretty good shape. >>pretty good? i know i have a 798 fico score thanks to the tools and help on experian.com. kaboom... well, i just have a few other questions. >>chuck, the only other questio

>> i think we also have to remember this isn't just islamic extremism, if you go back to where jerry falwellrayed as having drunken incest with his mother in a courthouse and won a $150,000 court case. it was overturned by the supreme court, 8-0. religious fundamentalists of all stripes and nationalities have this pension to be able to say, we want to tell you what you can and can't portray. >> islam is because of the age of terror in which we live is a third reel which you can show blass blasphemous photos. he was an equal slanderer or whatever you want to call it. we focus on islam because it is much more incendiary to talk about. >> it is because of a huge american troop presence in the middle east & insertion of american power that never existed before. this is a political and foreign policy question we could talk about. i want to keep the principle of freedom of expression separate. there is a sense that did didn't exist 20 years ago. >> and presence that shows little sign of abating. we have to leave it there. we could dedicate hours of programming to this. i'm sorry we have no more ti

after 9/11 we wept after jerry falwell hard for blaming the 'tox on gays, feminists abortionist and the shared a common set of values and rules of engagement the worse that could happen to us was that we would get a stern letter from their lawyer. not once did we fear for our safety. those are the good old days. when "sunday morning" approached me about doing this commentary i paused. my first consideration was, did i have something interesting to add to the discussion? you can be the judge of that. but i also paused because of this unsettling new world i couldn't know the ramifications of my decision. by the simple act of appearing on camera, denouncing the terrorists and defending the rights of cartoonists and satirists would i be drawing a target on my back? unfortunately these days those are not unfounded fierce. the far fact that i had the fierce score one for the terrorist. on the other hand come monday morning my staff and i will be back at work on the next issue of mad. what, us worry? >> we must stand up -- >> osgood: coming up. history at the movies. sometimes breathing air ca