it's the larry flynt and the salman rushdie and the nutcase down the street who is protecting your speech, not you and me. we just live our lives and so we have come to believe that free speech itself is a risk a source of harm rather than a reward of society. i think the lesson of the lingering conscience from verses and the cartoons in a diverse society offense is no longer the price we pay for freedom. it's something we shut down and i personally believe that is incompatible with what free speech is. >> since we are on this heavy of her personally been censured or felt the need to? >> well you know yes. in fact i think i know where you're going. i have self-censored on this book itself in a very painful way. you taught me when you were my journalism professor that a reporter should never be the story but in this case i was. i was writing about this and this published in the united states and the uk. my publisher was run by an extremely brave woman who was goading me the whole time, don't pull punches, tell the truth, be bold. okay and i was writing about what you and i were just talkin

there's no publisher of hustler magazine like larry flynt. there's no gary coleman, the child star.be a mary carey, an adult film star. there's not gonna be 135 a parade of people who were ferret enthusiasts and performance artists and things like that. uh with that captured not only california's attention but international attention. there's not gonna be that there's zero buzz on this thing right now. um, so that's going to be a challenge that again that plays in the effect of that will be perhaps lower turnout that could affect newsome and also can affect the republicans on some level to yeah, the key is going to be enthusiasm and turnout here as we are now. two months away, election day coming up pretty soon here on september, 14th always appreciate your insight your perspective, joe carefully from the chronicle. thanks for doing it. good. good to see you. thank you. yeah. enjoyable weather felt over the bay area this afternoon. we started out with morning clouds along the coastline and inside the bay, and this afternoon temperatures are running a little bit cooler than yesterday