created by bobby moynihan from "snl" so why not big bobby moynihan? >> how are you?i guess these fans are not fans of superman and batman. >> no. just sidekicks who can't get work and spend their days drinking away and complaining about it. >> you're the brick bleep house. >> sorry about that, by the way. >> how exactly would you apply this talent in a superman situation? >> his power didn't really help him. >> i think i broke his hammock 42 times. >> he became a bar owner. >> how much fun was it to open up your creativity a lot more. >> this is something i don't think i could have done on "snl." >> there she goes. >> sometimes just one joke will stick in your head for years. i had one joke. sidekick named normal man and every time he walks into the bar like in "cheers" they all go normal man. i literally based the entire series based on that. >> easy to convince your friend to put on blue butterfly wings? >> that just happens. >> his name is chris. i've known him for 16 years. i've done crazy things for his comedy shows. he owed me one. >> the entire series is all i

the moynihan report began with slavery.y in its analysis of black family structure in this country. the report then had a separate section on reconstruction and on jim crow and the particular agonies that were then reserved for black men. the report went on to consider what isabel wilkerson's masterful book calls "the great migration." the moynihan report went on at length about unemployment and poverty and how no group has suffered more in the employment market than black men. harvard sociologist william julius wilson tells that story movingly and with scholarly rigor in his important 1997 book "when work dispears." professor wilson and his friend, the former harvard professor moynihan, would never consider discussing or analyzing family structure in the black community if that discussion did not begin at slavery and include all the dynamic factors, good and bad, that have shaped the black american experience since slavery. and unlike bill o'reilly, they have both praised the determination and creativity that most black wo

it's because we have had -- in a talk about daniel patrick moynihan's report, the moynihan report that he wrote to president johnson. and the whole report is about how we saw a breakdown in the black family and simultaneously parallel to this breakdown he was seeing a rise among blacks on welfare. he said, this is a disturbing trend, and he said, i am seeing a lot of black families headed by single black women. i'm very concerned. at the time it was around 20 percent of black homes headed by single black women. today you have -- on sorry, the illegitimate birthrate is about 23% born to unwed mothers. today it's 73 percent. the reason why we have more is not because of sentencing guidelines for crack verses powder cocaine. it's because you have 73 percent of black babies born into homes without fathers. you don't have a marriage to support and welcome the child. he have the failed politics by democrats who think that they should just throw money at it. our system, not have been in the home, no foreigners. i'm not saying that white americans are on welfare. this is the number of people t

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joining me now is michael moynihan, editor for "the daily beast." jay rosen at knock university and author of a web log about journalism and john cassidy, staff writer at the new yorker and a columnist at "fortune" magazine. jay, jeff bezos is a guy who owns a literal rocketship company. he has a company that makes rocketships. he has a clock that is going to run for 10,000 years in the can desert. and he owns amazon. he's a distributor of industries and now he is buying one of these gatekeeper players, an entrenched institution that's been around for a long time. the kind of thing that in other times he disrupts. why do you think he's buying "the post"? >> i think it tells you about the scale of the ambition this generation of entrepreneurs have. i don't think they're simply interested in building huge businesses and dominating markets, they want to actually change the way we do things. and if it can be done better, it should be done better, is sort of the mott the toe of the geeks in silicon valley. and i think for me as i reflected on why bezos w

his name was daniel patrick moynihan.'s a crisis in the african-american community because 24% of african-american children are born to unmarried women. today it'saled, 72% and that not an absence of rights is surely the biggest impediment. >> what do you say we compound the problem by making sure we don't fund their schools and their neighborhoods? is not the first time george will has blame add single mothers for the failures of conservative policies. >> 79% of detroit children are born to unmarried mothers. they don't have a fiscal problem. they have a cultural collapse. >> joining me is our rapid response panel, author lizz winstead, zir lena maxwell and joan walsh of salon.com. i'll tell you what, i've think i've heard it all. joan, the conclusions that george will comes to, your reaction. >> i want to congratulate donna brazile for the look on her face and not strangling him. she was very brave there. it's ridiculous. we all know it's ridiculous. first of all, the white community, white people have is the exact same

and daniel patrick moynihan was sent as u.n. ambassador to new york essentially to destroy the united nations. this is a very interesting story which i have quoted in the here from the nixon archives. because here you get the discussion between henry kissinger in one chair, nixon in another chair and moynihan. they had read moynihan's essay in "commentary" magazine. not about, you know, the black family which is moynihan's famous essay where he suggests that, you know, in the black community men need to join the military to create masculinity. that sort of argument. he wrote another argument about the u.n. and they brought him in. this is the great liberal senator from new york. and his mission was to go to new york and to cut down the general assembly to size and to move all important business to the security council. hence, today when people say can't the u.n. do anything, they just mean the security council. this was not as it was before the 1970s. people saw the general assembly as the main body of the u.n. now we all see th

they praised moynihan for his efforts at the bank.% in the two years since he took that large preferred stake in the company. at one point sources say buffet thanked moynihan saying he had matched a $5.27 billion profit on that investment. that's double his money. it's of course a painful fact. there was $300 million. the real money was there. 7.14 a piece. double that. the big question that remains is whether they discussed how buffet would exit that. he's tending to exercise that. goldman sacks. he got his shares in the company three years later. the potential buffet exit was not the purpose of the dinner. nonetheless, it came out. >> what did they eat? >> i don't know what they ate but i know that they -- >> they have a good buffet there. they have a good buffet there. >> one tea, not two teas. >> crab. >> just saying it didn't have a purpose doesn't mean anything. that's definitely what was going on. >> they had to have discussed it. it can't not come up when you have a two-hour long private dinner when you have one of your bigges

i was a freshman in college in 1970, and daniel patrick moynihan called the negro family: a case for national action. and at the time, 25% of kids were born outside of wedlock. and moynihan said this was horrific, this is a neutron bomb dropped on the community, and if something isn't done, this could be horrific. it could lead to greater dependency on welfare, crime. over 70% of black kids are born outside of wedlock, so more white kids are born outside of wedlock than the number that triggered this alarming book. i believe that the direct link between not having a father in the house and all sorts of social problems up to and including murder. i was on the pearce be morgan show a little while ago, and i told him the face of gun violence in america as horrific as sandy hook was is not some suburban kid, it's a brown or black kid in the ghetto. if you look at chicago, chicago's on track for two sandy hooks per month. usually against another black person. yet chicago is about a third, a third and a third black, white and hispanic. why would so many murders come from the black communit

michael money -- moynihan. >> a block. the lede. that's the first story. greg you can finally unbury me. >> how long can we ride this bull? all the way to obama's impeachment. the white house has addressed the rodeo clown controversy. spokesman josh ernest, if that's his name, said he had no reaction. as a native of missouri it was certainly not one of the finer moments in our state. meanwhile texas congressman, they have them there, michael, steven stockman has invited pote lar rising performer to come to his state declaring, quote, liberals want to bronco bust, but texans value speech even if it is speech they don't agree with. they don't agree with the speech. could this result in civil war? we asked this cat. >> talk to me. talk to me, jr. talk to me, jr. >> agree to disagree, cat. why do we use these things if we know they are fake. >> that was real. >> that was not real. jolene kent, since you mocked me earlier. >> you said my name wrong. >> joe lee. >> that's cool. >> no it is not cool. >> i said jolene. >> no you said jolie. >> do you think with th

his name was daniel patrick moynihan.sis in the african-american community because 24% of african northern children are born to unmarried women. today it's tripled, 72% that, not an absence of rights is surely the biggest impediment. >> george been commenting on the issue foremost in his mind. african-american single families. >> absurd. demonizing all of the single mothers and single fathers who do a great job and work tirelessly to raise their children. i can never understand why we can't address the structural issues. look at the prison industrial complex, the erosion of is public education, housing discriminati discrimination, disparity in employment rates, the persistence of economic and race is inequality in this nation. those issues are largely responsible for the gaps you see. going back to your earlier question, remember, there's data that shows that racial animus is on the rise on social networks but also the southern poverty law center has tracked the rise of different militia groups, some of that in response t

i was a freshman in college in 1970, and daniel patrick moynihan called the negro family: a case for national action. and at the time, 25% of kids were born outside of wedlock. and moynihan said this was horrific, this is a neutron bomb dropped on the community, and if something isn't done, this could be horrific. it could lead to greater dependency on welfare, crime. over 70% of black kids are born outside of wedlock, so more white kids are born outside of wedlock than the number that triggered this alarming book. i believe that the direct link between not having a father in the house and all sorts of social problems up to and including murder. i was on the pearce be morgan show a little while ago, and i told him the face of gun violence in america as horrific as sandy hook was is not some suburban kid, it's a brown or black kid in the ghetto. if you look at chicago, chicago's on track for two sandy hooks per month. usually against another black person. yet chicago is about a third, a third and a third black, white and hispanic. why would so many murders come from the black communit

it's because we have had -- in a talk about daniel patrick moynihan's report, the moynihan repo

>> rashida jones, ike barinholtz, bobby moynihan, taran killam. bill hader is in it.ove it. i'm super excited. i want to show everyone a clip. [ cheers and applause ] where can we see it, and how do we see it? >> you can see it on hulu whenever you'd like. >> jimmy: okay, it's fantas. here's seth meyers with steve higgins voicing "the awesomes." take a look at this. >> let me do this. i can do this. >> okay, jeremy, you can run the team. but i won't be here to help you. >> why? where are you going? >> space. >> why space? >> i've been at the beck and call of the people of earth for too long. i need to retire somewhere far away, where they can't contact me every time there's a crisis. >> what are you going to do? >> get some reading done. i haven't cracked a book for 50 years. first up, betty friedan's "the feminine mystique." sounds kinky. >> then go. i'll be fine. you can't always be there to catch me when i fall. [ screaming ] i hate it when you do that. i hate it. >> jimmy: there you go. [ cheers and applause ] "the awesomes." seth, would you like to play a game --

a second pertains to daniel patrick moynihan's observation that we're going lower and lower normalizinghe deviant to accommodate our own moral decay. if you can't fix it, in other words, make it normal. divorce, pornography, unwed parenthood, sexting, whatever. if everyone's doing it, it can't be wrong. that's a little moral. i'm not sure i'm comfortable with that one. your thoughts on this. this whole idea that weiner might just fit in after a couple weeks of this. he puts up with this for a couple weeks, maybe makes a strong third, maybe tries for third but is in a position of endorsing thompson when we get into this big fight over stop and frisk which is inevitably coming from weeks from now between christine quinn and thompson, he'll just jump in on the side of thompson and play the underdog again and somehow come out of this thing ahead. i'm sure that's the light at the end of the tunnel he sees, maggie. >> i think right now the light at the end of the tunnel he sees. i don't know that i agree with what kathleen parker wrote in the sense i don't think what weiner is doing is hoping

feel male unemployment in resource conversation is latest the one thousand doesn't daniel patrick moynihan was trying to revive it or call this a similar program which the conservatives shot they'll say we can't afford it i think reviving the c.c.c. would be a great idea i did it if not then when if not now when. you've been writing a lot lately about the influence of i think her name was alyssa rosenbaum and when she came from russia iran should rename herself for the dreams of coming to america and becoming a famous novelist where she did. road atlas shrugged the fountain head and. you know we can. i sometimes ridicule the quality of her work but it's it's really hard to do at the end of the day when you look at how we can all laugh at sorceress right exactly. what what is the basis in your mind of the worldview that produced what you refer to in the land of promise as. the great unraveling and you know when carter started deregulating halfway through his presidential term and then reagan put it on steroids and there's constant calls for no taxes no government drowned at sea well i think

gathered to discuss how do we survived that very cleverly with dynamism and racism and daniel patrick moynihan with said that as an ambassador in essentially to destroy the united asian and spur growth a discussion between the kissinger a and nicks in. not the black community. but to create that sort of argument developed the un the great liberal senator from new york his mission was to move more important business to the security council. but the general assembly as the main body now the security council is part of the agenda. so it is committed to politics. and with that un reform but the second discussion was economics at is how you deal with intellectual property rights and the question of debt? because they decided the north and would no longer finance development it was interested in so-called restructuring the state of the celtic policy the imf -- but the self was its own locomotives. in with those discussions to start to see the tinkling of the new strategy ordeal liberalism emerges from the south. so a number of them may have the policy but they were not identical. not that they are g

i looked at him and said, moynihan, there's hope for you. this effort to keep drugs out of here is a complete failure. and the problem of drugs in the united states is relatively great compared with many other like-minded countries. so we ought to at least discuss this and see what other people are doing. i think there's a lot to be said for decriminalizing use and small scale production -- possession. that is possession only for your own use. if you do that, you don't get thrown in jail if you go to a treatment center and try to get some help. and you also keep the jails from being full of people who are caught smoking marijuana or something. you throw people in jail, and all you do is make criminals out of them. that's where they learn it. and amazingly, they're even getting drugs in jail. so we should take a different approach. because it's so vitally important to try to persuade people not to take these drugs, because they're so bad for them. and it's bad for society. and you can do things. look at what we've done in this country with ci

and there was the idea, and pat moynihan, counselor in the white house thought one of the things to do would be to fix it so that drugs are just not here. he had this program. the purpose of writing a to camp david, pat is in a state of euphoria. he says to me, don't you realize, we just had the biggest bust in history? i said, congratulations. but this was in marseille. we have broken the french connection. that was the problem of the time. that's terrific. i suppose you think that as long as they're is a big profitable demand for drugs in this country there will be a supply. i looked at him and said, one hand, there is so free of. but this effort to keep drugs out is a complete failure. and the problem of drugs in the united states is relatively great compared with many other like-minded countries. so we ought to at least discuss this and see what other people doing. i think there is a lot to be said for decriminalizing use on small-scale possession, position only for use. if you do that you don't get thrown in jail if you go to a treatment center and try to get some how. and you als

you are describing a situation in 2009 where my colleague dennis moynihan and i who wrote with me waking the sound barrier and "the silenced majority" were going from seattle speaking their. just two days ago we broadcast from the denver open media which is public access in denver where we broadcast every day and then we went to the studio. it was the first time the station had done the global broadcast. we would pull a satellite truck up and work with the people there students and volunteers. that is what we were doing in 2009. we broadcast from seattle and then it was thanksgiving time here. we figured that talks wouldn't be happening here so we talked to canada. we were invited by three community media outlet public radio and television in canada to give a talk at the vancouver public library. we broadcast across canada as well so we are crossing the border two colleagues and i and we are about an hour from vancouver. they pulled us aside at customs. they said we want you to come into the facility. it was pouring rain and we were already late. this was not a good sign. we went into th