. >> mao zedong. >> i live right down the street from mao. it's a big street in cambodia. i live a block away from it. >> wow. >> isn't that cool? >> how many years ago what was that? >> mao zedong? >> no, where you're living. >> december a year ago. >> really? recently. >> all right. here's the situation in china. after the war is over there is a civil war that engulfs china between the forces of the nationalists and the communists. a civil war. long story short is, by the end of 1949, mao and the communists drive the nationalists out over to the island of formosa, taiwan, and china falls to communism. this has not been a good couple of months for harry truman. if you stop and think about it, he is informed that the soviet union has successfully detonated anatomic bomb and then a couple of months later he finds out that the most populous state in the world has fallen to communism. it's not a good fall, early winter for harry truman. the largest territorial state in the world has an atomic bomb. the most populous state in the world has now fallen to communism. in our minds

>> mao zedong and mother teresa, not often coupled with each other. e two people i turn to most. >> greg: she gets a wow for mao but not from mitt. >> mitt romney has a backward looking attitude, particularly when it comes to women. it will come out. >> greg: so feminists lauds a man whose great leap forward led to many million deaths, including women but see mitt as backward looking. take mitt's back word over mao forward any day. the extreme of the women's movement hung shame around the greatest power women have, motherhood. feminists are the bouncers with a message to the unborn who approach. get a life. >> bob: time to go to commercial yet? freddie didn't you enjoy that? too deep for you, bob? complicated. >> dana: i followed it. freddie isn't being a full-time mom now an alternative lifestyle? >> dana: apparently. one of the best that i means that could happen to conservatives is to play the tape at the beginning of the sound bite from whatever her name is, over and over and over again. where is her strong voice? strong voice. you know, you don't

sort of like after mao tse -- mao zedong died and they put his wife on trial. >> i want to know -- there is still a lot of really good journalism being done. april is one great example, and there are more. [applause] >> it is an interesting question . certainly if you sit on a pulitzer journey you realize the papers would never kind of invest that -- papers would probably never invest that kind of money. mark, as you look at our coverage of china, do you find the paper has trouble now financially justifying it? >> i kinet of dispute the premise. i think there are some newspapers that pursue pulitzer prizes and create them in a way -- i think that across the country there are such newspapers. but i think that is not generally what -- i think reporters -- reporters like to win prizes. they seek the accolades. but i think most people that go into reporting and who are capable of winning pulitzer prizes are capable and passionate about what they do. >> but they don't do it all alone. >> that's right. and the institutions -- i don't think -- a pulitzer prize does not do much for you economica