with john amos from "good times".ds from high school. [ laughter ] >> quite a softball team photo right there. >> it was a blast. >> this looks like you visited from another century. [ laughter ] it's something. >> we were on the base and those are local afghani people they hire to work on the base. they pay them and help maintain a lot of things on the base. i was like on a humvee driving through this base. i said, can i get a picture with the guys? sure. all the soldiers get off with guns. hey, guys. any chance we can do a group photo? yeah, sure. >> that was well worth it. looks like you were practically becoming one of the locals there. >> i tried. >> well, great to meet you. congratulations on the movie. called "the ugly truth". it's in movies now. eric winter. coming up, music from parachute. 7 big day. big opportunity. hi. ( whimpers, inhales ) ( sobs ) - hello! ( shakes and exhales ) for big moments anywhere, keep a little strength in your pocket. ( ding ) altoids smalls. are you in mint condition? are enjoyin

we knew that s should be on her own show, and brought in john amos. hadplayers in the bush agues, the werein the bush leagues and earned a right to the majors. tavis "the jefferss." >> the black pss for "good times" want to know why all of these peopl why does heave to have three jobs. why is there no showthat's upwardly mobile. that' where we got the show. 're movg on up. >tav: if you can't sing the theme song, you don't get your blackcard. mary hartman? >> i want to do a show with the effct of media on a simple person, a midcountry housewife. she was in fernwood,hio, with a blue collar huand. and th media,n the last episode, she was on the david suskind show with three ersonalities. a in the best 20 minutes i have ever seen, she went crazy at the hands of the media. tavis: "sanford and son" and my time is almost up. >> we fell in love with red fox vegas,nd thereas a show, steptoend son. that has to be red fox. tavis: you had to clean him up, ut he worked. we missea athur, "maude." >> nobodyver made me lau the way she did, shegot to paces i didn' kno

let's consider current pollg, for ample, amo catholics in the unitestates on president obama. rit now obama isolling among catholics at 54%. john mccai-- and i'm sorry these are exit polls. thesare exit polls from the election. obama,54%. mccain,45%. that means and i he argued this politically before. what that means is afar as i n see, catholics no longer function as an interesting subgroup in plling because the behave and have for many years, ey behave identically to the poll. e whole ved forbama 53%. catholics voted for him slightly more at 54%. so what exactly is it that we're talking about in american politics, e.j., when we talk about catholics? we're talking about this group that sms toepresent identically the tire population. >> well, the way i like put it ishat there is noatholic vote andthat it's important. >> yeah. >> by which i mean that really among cathics it's very hard for any republican to get less than 40% of the vote. it's very hard for a demoat to ge less than 40% to 45%. but you have a big swing vote in the middle, a it'soved ound consideray om electiono election. but ur underlying point i think is right. c