and i went to the john stuart routing and at the end he should this video with cars merging into thetunnel in new york and this is america. we are so polite. i go when you go and that is what politics is and i was screaming know it is not! i do like being polite and try to be civil too bonet there is a difference between the two parties and there's a difference between the tea party and the republican party and the democratic party and i think the tea party is dead wrong on a lot of issues. when they say they're against government spending and i say where were you when we went to war in iraq against a country that didn't attack as first. i just submit i think there are legitimate differences. we can disagree and not pretend we are all in the same boat. >> broadcasting has been my pension. my little sunny transistor under my pillow. >> i did not understand a word. speech i said broadcasting. broadcasting in the passion of month since i was all lay listening to mike a.m. radio under my pillow. i had a blazer just like you guys. i agree with you. language is not the issue. the second el

. >> when you look at john stuart-- jon stewart and his success, his demographics, and the fact that he's sort of at a place where it's comedy but taken seriously for good reason, he puts together stuff in a way that has a point. uses comedy to make a point. >> write. >> if he came to you and said my contract is up, you know this business like few do, what should i do? where should i be? >> well, i tried to hire jon stewart, you know b eight or nine years ago to do a half hour show at 8:00 every night of the week on nbc. i wanted him to take the show he was doing, the daily show and basically bring that over to nbc at 8:00 every night. i thought that, you know, it would be, it was probably the precursor to what we tried at 10:00. >> but very different, much more hip. >> no, obviously jon appealed to a different demographic. we had conversations, at the end he decided to stay where he is. look, i think jon stewart is -- >> go ahead. >> which think he's one of the most important voices in information in this country. just because he delivers it with a comedic point of view doesn't dimi

you know, john stuart in his rally to restore sanity one of his suggested signs is i disagree with you, but i'm pretty sure you're not hitler. [laughter] that's good advice for us all now. if you have a problem with a president of your party being compared to hitler, that's a problem. the hyperpar sanship is hurting our country and stopping debate and stopping us from being able to unit. we are increaseingly segregating ourselves in media season summing. that, itself is danger and says everyone is entitled to facts and people approach politics as war. conversation reaping out across the aisle is condemned as if the parties were the most important thing in politics, and they are not. this book is an attempt to look at the way that the extremes are increasingly dominating our debate and political parties to remind us we've seen these forces before and confronted them. i was trying to update the classic of paranoid style in politics so show we've faced the forces before and demagogues do well in economic downturns and in the 190 -- 1930s, but we don't appreciate how much of the stuff you

scott and john standing by, stuart scott, matt millen, steve young here for the postgame overtime athouston. texans rally from down 21 with a 301-yard second half to force overtime. >> ron: well fortunately for the ravens, if their defense had to go on the field. they had no shot of stopping the texans, i think they have to be very aggressive with the ball. they can't allow their defense back on the field. there's nothing left. >> jon: and billy cundiff, long range kickoff man of the baltimore ravens will be getting loose at the sideline. >> mike: neil rackers sends it away to david reed. this is five yards deep and he'll take a knee. >> jon: before that two-minute drill, mike. ravens had third and two. flacco decided to throw the ball. a lot of us thought they were going to run the ball, run clock and try to get out of town. that's why when you're an offensive coordinator, you make those call, that's why you earn the big buck, jaws. >> mike: that's with 2:54 left and clock stoppage. 40 seconds difference. houston came down the field and able to do it. >> jon: this is the chance for

made it to prime time other than one appearance as a very less than best selling author on the john stuart show, you have arrived. you led us through many difficult and protracted debates through all of it. you've been agile, courteous, and with a good sense of humor keeping us to the -- together on votes as least as much is possible on keeping 40 minds together, or 40 frogs in a wheel barrel. i thank you, mitch. i occasionally caused you heart burn. i appreciate that. i appreciate your leadership, friendship. you and elaine are very close friends of linda and mine, and we wish you both the very best for the future. while, three years ago i announced my retirement in the united states senate, and that time has come. i want to thank my colleagues and constituents for making this job one of the best a person could hold. there's no greater honor than being given the trust of the people at home to represent them, and i've done my best to keep my faith holsaert with my con -- faith with my constituents. to everyone in the membership and this great body, sometime delaying body, i participated in

has shown weakness in leadership and i just remind my friend and i know he knows the quote from john stuart mill who said, war is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. the decay and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. nothing with is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. i yield back. mr. franks: kind of hard to top that. i guess tonight the message that i was hoping could be relayed more than anything else is that there has been a general asleep- at the wheel of this administration when it cooms to national security. and unfortunately, we live in a 9/11 world and those who don't hold to the ideals of freedom. and this administration is continuing down this path. mr. chairman -- mr. speaker, i don't want to come to this floor in future days and have to decry what we failed to do. so i think there is still time for this administration to wake up and realize that allowing iran to gain nuclear

stuart pratt? >> uh-oh, johne lead for the show speaks volumes about how society and our lives have changed, the ability to going lg ourselves, to see what is on the internet is something that tens of millions --. >> you want information it would be the shoe leather factor, you have to retain a private eye, he would have to be hiding behind lampposts and try to get into files now. now it's at your finger tips. >> i don't think that's quite true: there's some information on the intet net that is easy to get but there's a lot of information controlled under federal laws and is not readily available through a browser on the internet. >> where do you start? you start by going lg? -- googling? i ask you evan hendricks. >> that's the easy thing. but if you pull out your wallet and start buying things, there's no way anyone can realize how much information is available, the property records, divorce records. bank records. >> the googling process will give you names, date of birth, place of birth, mother's maiden name --

. >> i'm a big fan of stuart brand's book which is called the eco-of pragmatist. it's very good. we had a e question back here. >> yes, john burr love, competitive enterprise institute. good to see you, bob. your lectures enlightening, as always. was wondering if you and other members of the panel could speak to the racism exhibited by environmental leaders, advocating and never taking back that all indian males be sterilized after their third child is born, charles worester, allegedly saying we don't have to worry about side effects of the ban on ddt because it will only effect harmful -- his quote -- mexicans negroes. and americans ugly and a blight on the land. so o o with all the focus on the racism supposedly in the tea party, i'm wondering if they're looking for racism in the wrong movement, and it seems to me this could have some real policy effect because if you don't want a new housing development near you that has blacks and latinos, you can't express it openly, but you join an environmental movement that says we can't have this because it's you are babb sprawl, and it has the same effect of blocking housing for

. >> i'm a big fan of stuart brand's book which is called the ecopragmatist, that's a new book, so it's very good. we've got a question back here. >> are yes. john with competitive enterprise constitute and author of ecofreaks. it's good to see you, bob. your lectures enlightening as always. was wondering if you and other members of the panel could speak on the racism expressed historically by prominent environmental leaders. for instance, paul ehrlich advocating and never taking back that all indian males be sterilized after their third child is born, charles worster allegedly saying that we don't have to worry about side effects of the ban on ddt because it will only harm, effect harmfully his quote, mexicans and negroes. and going back to john muir when he was calling, you know, american indians native americans ugly and a blight on the land. so with all the focus on the racism supposedly in the tea party, i'm wondering if they're looking for racism in the wrong movement? and it seems to me this could have some real policy effect because if you don't want a new housing development near you that has plaques and latinos, you can't express it op

stuart of these assets. -- steward of these assets. president john adams said facts are a hard thing. there are some facts that we have on cover. our investigation has determined that there are fundamental weaknesses in the u.s. government's regulatory approach. many will be disappointed to learn that america lags behind other countries in how we regulate and oversee oil and gas production. there is a need for alternative strategies, such as a commitment to safety procedures at a commission -- as a condition to drilling on seabeds. the oil and gas industry writ large has an obligation to respond. it is not enough to lay the blame on a few rogue companies. contractors are used throughout the world. i was impressed by the ceo's of exxon mobile and shell in their commitment to safety. they must continue to advocate for new industry-wide regi mes in the execution of these conditions. non-can's current energy policy is unsustainable. with no considerable debate, we have positioned ourselves as the user of 22% of the world's petroleum while we control only 3% of known reserves under america