bumper stickers that said i'm from libby montana and no i have asked this you know they would do. not to see what was right in front of them even on this show when i talk about different issues that i do people say no that isn't possible because either the media would have told me or the government wouldn't do that because they care about us too much margaret what's your response of these types of excuses for willful blindness well i would say a couple of things first of all i understand the argument i was having that argument actually my husband the other day. and he was saying oh you know if this were happening we'd know about it and i'd say you mean like the way we knew about the iraq war before it happened and the way that we knew about. you know there are a lot of things that we it turns out the media doesn't cover you know the dog that doesn't fall so as much respect as i have for the media i think unfortunately there are a great cases where it has absolutely turned a blind eye but i think it's very important to understand this is a bad people and it is a bad institutions pa

the human response to truth she joined me earlier and i first asked her to go over the example libby montana where one woman discovered that her town had an eighty times higher mortality rate than anywhere else in the u.s. . that is really one of the most extraordinary cases i came across where the evidence was uncalled for although at the time was being poisoned people's friends families and neighbors were dying of asbestosis which is a law an expensive and painful way to die and even though gail benefield got attention for this and in fact got help for it there were people who deeply resented the work that she was doing and they made bumper stickers that sad i'm from libby montana and no i don't have aspects to this you know they would do and not to see what was right in front of them even on this show when i talk about different issues that i do people say no that isn't possible because either the media would have told me or the government wouldn't do that because they care about us too much margaret what's your response of these types of excuses for willful blindness well i would say a c

max's hard work for the people of libby is the max baucus montanans have come to know but max's work for the people of montana started many years before he led the fight to help the folks in libby. the early 1970's when max started in public service, he traveled to butte to meet a fellow named harp cody. he knew the lay of the land in butte but he didn't know max and max didn't know harp. harp was impressed with max's fire in the belly. max asked harp to introduce him to voters and unlike other candidates max didn't want harp to lobby on his behalf, instead max went door to door himself to win their support. that kind of work ethic where you put your own shoe leather into the fight is the reason max's many achievements in congress. achievements that include saving social security from privatization, leading the charge to modernize the clean air act, passing six farm bills and three highway bills to strengthen montana's and america's economy. now, folks in washington don't always recognize max's hard work and in a town where too many people raise rays for the nearest tv camera, max's preference for hard work d