when joe mccarthy went around this country attacking people's patriotism, he was wrong. senator from connecticut stood up to him named prescott bush, your father was right to stand up to joe mccarthy. you are wrong to attack my patriotism. i was opposed to the war, but i loved my country. we need a president who will bring this country together, not divide it. we've had enough division. i want to lead a unified country. >> a great moment. >> looks like he was prepared for that one. >> that was brilliant. i didn't know you were coming from na debate, and i'm in the same debate in my favorite pick. this is a beautiful moment from the little guy. run ross perot. >> to those of you in the audience that are business people, pretty simple. if i pay $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory south of the border and pay a dollar an hour for labor and don't care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south. >> a giant sucking sound going south. what a great line. >> i miss ross perot. my moment is also something of a sucking

draw connections between paul ryan and joe mccarthy and mitt romney. it was the recall that people didn't understand or feel was the right expression of protest against scott walker but the great occupation of the state house in support of workers, teachers, nurses, police, of wisconsin i think is going to play a role in this election where people came out to support a different kind of politics. >> i think we're reminding of the fairness of the american electorate, the fact they have more nuanced views than we ascribe them as having. in your book "the signal and the noise" you talk about the difference between hedgehogs, people who know one big thing and foxes, people who are more nuanced and know many things. i'm probably a hedge hog just declaring things you say hedge hogs tend to be wrong, foxies tend to be right. give us your fox hedge hog analysis of the campaigns. i would say team obama tend to be fox like they're data given. where would you square the romney folks? >> i think the romney folks are maybe more date ta driven than they let on poten

in my third book, a large part of that was telling the truth of joe mccarthy. that covered about five years. liberals have reread the history to cover 200 years. republicans or the party to talk about slavery. it was for the next 100 years with platforms endorsing justice marshall -- attorney 30 marshall's -- ternate thurgood marshall -- attorney thurgood marshall's victory in board versus the border -- brown versus the board of education. and the troops to enforce the victory down in little rock. at that point, the democrats had to pretend to care about civil rights. the first sell rights legislation pushed by a democrat -- far more republicans voted for it. it was about 80% republicans. they had voted for every other civil-rights bill. they were liberal democrats. albert gore sr. all of these characters were ferocious opponents of joe mccarthy. robert byrd had 100% rating. do not believe the light they were conservative democrats. there was one of 18 liberal democratic segregationist who became a republican and that was strom thurmond. this line is pulled off

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your father was right to stand up to joe mccarthy. you were wrong to attack my patriotism. i was opposed to the war, but i love my country, and we need a president who will bring this country together, not divide it. i want to lead a unified country. [applause] >> we are going to pause just a second. we have to put up the house lights so they can see this. this is the town hall debate. i sometimes speak to groups that have people who are coaching candidates or who work with candidates, and i want everybody to know this -- the following always give you -- usually, not always -- usually give you extra time. lisa is asking me a question. i want you to get me to stop. you are going to tell me that time is up. i cannot see lisa right now at the moment. you are hiding. [laughter] yes, ma'am, this is what i would like to do for the economy. number one, go ahead and stop team. -- stop me. number two. no. 3. number four. when i would get there would be a lot of media bashing because he is interrupting me. the other thing that works -- you may see him use -- "could i please have a ch

entries and i tell the story of joe mccarthy and their liberals only had to rewrite five years of history and here they have rewritten 200 years of history. for the first 100 years liberals were -- liberal democrats refuse to treat blacks like humans and for the next century they refuse to treat them like adults. and that is what we are living with now. they have switched their own history and played these games of oh i know, you poor irish cop living in queens, i will be a civil rights champion. so we get all this faith-based bravery and we are right back with liberals pretending to care about why people for five minutes and then they started slapping a civil rights label on everything they cared about. homeless rights, gay marriage and voter fraud, voter fraud. what does that have to do with black people? they are willing to slander blacks by saying that black people are too -- to get a voter i.d.. vote fraud. so that is the art, that is a summary and i hope some of you heavily started so i can start taking questions from the audience now. [applause] >> c-span is taping the land so if y

in trees and i tell the story of joe mccarthy. liberals only has to rewrite five years of history. now they have written 200 years of history. for the first hundred years, liberal democrats refuse to treat blacks like humans and for the next century refuse to treat them like adults and that is what we are living with. they have switched their own history and played the games, you irish cop living in queens, i will be a civil-rights champion so we get all this bravery and the liberals pretended to care about black people for five minute and started slapping the civil-rights label on everything they really care about, abortion on demand, homeless rights, gay marriage, voter fraud. voter fraud. what does that have to do with black people? they are willing to slander black plaques by saying they're too stood to get a voter i.d.. to pursue a cause democrats favor, voter fraud. that is the arc of the book, the summary and i hope some of you have at least started it so i can start taking questions from the audience. >> c-span is taking so if you have questions line up behind this micropho

and all of these characters by the way were ferocious opponents of joe mccarthy. rating from naral pro-choice america. so do not believe the lie that these were conservative democrats who were waiting for a wink from nixon to become republicans. it was only one in 18 liberal democratic segregationists who became republican. that was strom thurmond and he's the only one whose name you know. just one more point on the southern strategy. this is -- this lie is pulled off by describing the entire south as if it were one state. no, the outer southern states and the dixiecrat states in the middle. republicans -- and the southern strategy is this idea that republicans had a secretly appealed to the democratic segregationists and the dixiecrats and suddenly we swept the south. no. republicans swept the south when the dixiecrats died out. something that's provable by looking at the history. republicans had been winning the outer southern states. texas. tennessee. kentucky. west virginia. virginia. north carolina. and florida. since the 1920's. warren harding did pretty wel

your father was right to stand up to joe mccarthy. you were wrong to attack my patriotism.as opposed to the war, but i love my country. we need a president who will bring this country together, not divide it. >> i did not question the man's patriotism. i question his judgment and character. and what he did in moscow, that is fine. let him explain it. i accept that. what i do not accept is organizing demonstrations in a foreign hundred when your country's at war. i'm sorry, i cannot accept that. guest: that is an interesting example of a real disagreement. what bush thought was a strong political point to bring against clinton at that time, and of course, with the wrong response, that would have really worked. but clinton had a good response. it showed that he, perhaps, anticipated the issue and had a great response to it. and then of course, bush came back with perhaps his best response to clinton's position. host: what do the candidates have to do tonight? what does mitt romney have to do? what does barack obama have to do? guest: good question. barack obama, with small le

your father was right to stand up to joe mccarthy, you were wrong to attack my patriotism. i was opposed to the war but i love my country. we need a president who will bring this country together, not divide it. we have had enough division. i want to lead a unified country. [applause] >> i did not question the man's patriotism. i question his judgment and character to it what he did in moscow, that is fine. let him explain it. i accepted that. i do not accept organizing demonstrations and a foreign country when your countries at war. i'm sorry, i cannot accept that. >> that debate took place october 11, 1992. a reminder that the first presidential debate takes place tonight at the university of denver. you can see at live on c-span and listen on the c-span radio or watch online at c-span.org. watch and engage. live pictures from the u.d. tavis, the university of denver campus, where the debate will take place in just over eight hours straight you see the reporters preparing for the debate tonight. this is where journalists will be covering the debate. afterwards, they will

when joe mccarthy went around this country attacking people's patriotism, he was wrong. a senator from connecticut stood up to him named prescott bush, your father was right to stand up to joe mccarthy and you were wrong to attack my patriotism. i was opposed the war but i love my country and in need a president that will bring this country together and not divided. i want to bake a unified country. [applause] >> i did not question the man's patriotism, i questioned his judgment and character. what he did in moscow was fine and he explained it and i excepted. i don't accept organizing demonstrations and a foreign country when your country is at war. i'm sorry, i cannot accept that. >> all of that debate is on our video library at c-span.org. you can check at our new debate hub/ ross perot was not part of that debate. here's part of the conversation, a recent conversation, cspan had with ross perot. >> we are here with ross perot sr. with an interview. how long has it been since you have come back into the public eye and address these issues? >> i have made a number of co

in my third book, a large part of that was telling the truth of joe mccarthy. that covered about five years. liberals have reread the history to cover 200 years. republicans or the party to talk about slavery. it was for the next 100 years with platforms endorsing justice marshall -- attorney thurgood marshall's victory in brown versus the board of education. and the troops to enforce the victory down in little rock. at that point, the democrats had to pretend to care about civil rights. the first civil rights legislation pushed by a democrat -- far more republicans voted for it. it was about 80% republicans. they had voted for every other civil-rights bill. they were liberal democrats. albert gore sr. all of these characters were ferocious opponents of joe mccarthy. robert byrd had 100% rating. do not believe the light they were conservative democrats. there was one of 18 liberal democratic segregationist who became a republican and that was strom thurmond. robert byrd had 100% rating. this line is pulled off by describing the entire south as if it was one sta

in "treason" a large part of that book was about joe mccarthy.of race relations in america, liberals have rewritten the history cover 200 years. yeah, of course! republicans, yeah, we're the party to fight against slavery and democrats were willing to stage a civil war to save slavery. but it's more than that. it was for the next hundred years with republican platforms year after year promoting anti-link legislation, antipole tax legislation, endorsing justice marshals -- well, eventually justice marshals but attorney thurgood marshall, victory in brown versus board of education. the democratic platform did not. it was eisenhower and nixon who got throughout 1957 and 1960's civil rights act over the ferocious maneuvering of lyndon b. johnson, but at that point, with thurgood marshall's victories in the supreme court and the republicans pushing through civil rights with dwight eisenhower sending federal troops to enforce marshall's victories down in little rock, um, with bill clinton's friend, orville fava, standing in the coolhouse door, that the

. >> stephanie: dade bender said that's the best joe mccarthy he's ever heard. wednesday to do post-debate analysis. >> indeed. >> stephanie: 1-800-steph-12 toll free from anywhere. we were talking today about how all our friends use us for punditry. you have this happen. more people than i remember ever knowing have called me. what did you think? for free i'm going to tell you what i think? 1-800-steph-12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. let's go to beverly in l.a. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi bev. >> hey stephanie. how you doing? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. >> caller: all i think about is the vice president biden needs to say to channel fdr and say i welcome their hatred. i mean -- i'm -- well, yes. i was thinking of last week, president biden needs to do the same thing. basically talking about -- of course they're going to do this. of course, they're going to do that. i could just hear fdr last week and i would love to see president obama do the same thing. >> stephanie: channel him a little bit. all right. mitt romney yesterday. >> ro

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. >> like joe mccarth mccarthy's challenged younger brother. >> stephanie: 1-800-steph-12. on a bus train or hovercraft and come into nyc for the big beacon theatre show. go to sexyliberal.com. >> you can drive hovercrafts on broadway? >> they can try to cross the park without actually -- >> that's true. >> stephanie: we'll see. let's do it. eric boehlert from media matters doing the lord's work as usual. ♪ hurt's so good ♪ >> eric boehlert. >> stephanie: let's dive into the right-wing world. >> i don't know what that means. >> stephanie: eric boehlert from media matters who we love. ♪ hurts so good ♪ >> stephanie: good morning eric boehlert. you say monday's debate should be entertaining. think progress on how romney's latest attack on libya is completely falling apart. just in time for tonight's debate. >> just in time for the sit down on the foreign affairs. you know it is interesting. after last tuesday's debate, this sort of -- the moment everyone was talking about the showdown about benghazi and candy crowley mentioned that obama had referred to acts of terror in the