. >>> jon jeter and robert pierre are the co-authors of "a day late and a dollar short" high hopes and deferred dreams and obama as opposed racial america. facebook recently in washington for a little more than an hour. >> okay. my name is terry michael from the center of politics and journalism which is a very pleased to co-sponsor this event tonight. i have the honor of having brought robert pierre to washington under the politics and journalism semester program he was in the inaugural class and fall of 1989. we are now in the 22nd year with about 500 alumni and robert represents all of the alumni on the board of directors. he joined judy woodruff and mike mccurry and juan williams and a number of others who run why have to answer to the board of directors of the center. robert king to the program from louisiana state university. he was a junior and he went back to school and entered the school paper and then for a while he thought about getting a master's in business education, but the "washington post" saved him from the fate of personal wealth by recruiting him as a reporter for t

jon jeter but i am jealous because i have not written a book and i am pleased he has done so.the only thing i asked if i get to ask the first question after the presentation. by the way with the exception of been a few represent-- exception never present all white people. [laughter] you say what do black people think? you can ask me what white people think. thank you. robert? and john? [applause] >> good evening. first of all, we have no need to other for about 20 years our sell and started together at the post january 1993 and we did not know each other at the time we both came to the post and both of us were skeptical of the other because what brother was to work for the post at? [laughter] we became friends. but we cover politics and a number of things i started off and that semester i could cover officials washington like ron brown and got to go to the by house and to see what official washington looks like. the goal was to become political or journalist who would not have one ideology or another to cut through that to say here is what the democrats say republicans say and

on the model lee am pleased to introduced robert and jon jeter but i am now jealous because i haven't written a book, and i am pleased that he has done so. the only thing i ask is i get to ask the first question after they make their presentations. by the way with a few exceptions i will represent all white people here tonight. [laughter] i know that you're always asked what do black people think about this, so you can ask me what white people think about this. robert, jon. [applause] [laughter] >> good evening. first of all, jon and i wrote this book because we've known each other for about 20 years or so. we started together to post in january of '93 and we didn't know each other at that time. we were both coming to the post and both of us were a little skeptical of the other because like what kind of brother wants to work for the washington post. [laughter] so we were -- that's how we start off with each other. but we became friends, and we've covered politics, we've covered a number of things. i started off as a terry setup the washington xin center for politics and journalism and

jon lester, second inning. angel hernandez says get back in there. goes back in. will take the pitch. the yankees made this their style in the late 1990's. wore down the starting pitchers. jeter did not get time but walked all the way out of the box to make sure that he did get time. what are you going to do now? hernandez has a word with him. this is a tactic they applied to pedro martinez and the red sox. burnett sees papi out. time wasn't called. the umpires are trying to keep things going and stop these guys from stepping out. doesn't seem to work. yankees won this game in three hours and 48 minutes. umpire joe west, the chief of the umpiring crew said -- >> tim, what do you think of what joe west had to say? >> well, i think he overstated things a little too much here. i mean embarrassing, disgrace to the game, i think that is taking it way too far. are the games really, really long between the red sox and yankees? of course they are. but they have been that way for 10 years. now all of a sudden to say we have to quicken the pace when these specific guys have been stepping out of the box, taking their time and being very consistent about taking pitches and everything els

. >>> jon jeter and robert pierre are the co-authors of "a day late and a dollar short" high hopes and deferred dreams and obama as opposed racial america. facebook recently in washington for a little more than an hour. >> okay. my name is terry michael from the center of politics and journalism which is a very pleased to co-sponsor this event tonight. i have the honor of having brought robert pierre to washington under the politics and journalism semester program he was in the inaugural class and fall of 1989. we are now in the 22nd year with about 500