now tonight we'll speak with matt welch and nick gillespie about their new book the declaration of independence how libertarian politics can save america we'll get an update on the case of the newburgh four who received their sentencing today and will speak with advocates varying from the young turks about a new trend that affects women but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to miss. while sarah palin has managed to make her way into the headlines again and this time because somebody else decided to make a movie about her because the media then used that movie as an excuse to follow her every single move and once again skip over anything that actually matters in this world sheryl paling brought her brand of celebrity to a movie premier attended by about three hundred it is a wonderful story about american values even if the reception you're getting here no no no it's no warm and literally no other way oh nice to get to office now even though i know that of course is the million dollar question is she going to run no answers to that here just a lot of speculation an

congressman who might actually do the speaker of the job give you more on a leaner gate when nick gillespie editor in chief of reason c.v.s. reason dot com joins me in just a few minutes. into the we're making use of the doodle we're going to bring justice we're going to. write you know what might. government's true if you want to know why i pay taxes. i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story.

people don't know exactly what it means a couple guests that have been on your show recently nick gillespie and matt we all should reason magazine are trying to define libertarian not as a as a noun but as sort of an adjective a pre-clinical instinct that sort of attitude that you bring to politics that i'm just skeptical of government in general and i'd rather just have my individual choices about the way i do business now if you define it that way broadly you can see or look much larger group of americans willing to identify themselves that way well since you brought up well actually there's a point that he made when also writing about this this poll today he said that basically americans have always been more radical than the people they actually elected to office we just never really see that manifest into any kind of action do you agree with that that's a very good point it almost seems like that radicalism even catches up two or three election cycles late so for instance libertarians have been complaining since the bush years about all this spending and now going to hold all the repub

happened to our media culture and who the hell is really watching that here discuss this with me is nick gillespie and they're in chief of reason dot reason t.v. and reason thanks so much for being here thank you. just so i can you explain to me what's going on i wouldn't even be covering this honestly because i think it's so stupid i wasn't so taken aback last night when i was flipping through every single channel and all i saw was when are we in are we in are we are sometimes we all have days like that especially during puberty but you know part of it it's a slow news cycle right we've only got three wars and counting who knows. but secret wars were involved and we've got a debt ceiling crisis we've got an entitlement crisis we haven't had a budget for over a year and a half and probably won't have another one for two thousand and twelve so you know what are you going to talk about i do think though that this story which the new york post today called the battle of the bold choice was kind of clever you know this is the type of spectacle that fascinates people and it's you know it's somewhat lur