he was a great pamphleteer whose pamphlet, common sense, described the declaration of independence very vividly. now it was turning out to be quite hard. it had turned into a bhard. it had turned into a bitter and painful and depressing and demoralizing series of defeats. it said these are the times that try men's souls. washington said it first you win the argument, then you win the war. people had believed. i just came to say to you that we have no reason to despair. we have no reason to back off. we have no reason to surrender. we have every reason to behave as americans. look for the questions. [applause] [applause] speaker has been kind enough to give us a few minutes for some questions and answers. we have people in the aisles with microphones. you can wait until we get a microphone in your hand so everyone can hear it, that would be great. we will start over here. >> i would like to congratulate you and thank you for coming out and for being a man in the arena who is willing to fight the good fight. we do appreciate it. [applause] and i agree with you that we have not lost the wa

pamphlets can be published. books can be written. sometimes it's that singular image that makes an abstract concept a very personal one and a very individual one, and we find throughout the history of abolitionism that images move the conversation in important ways in the same way that works of fiction do as well. uncle tom's cabin had an enormous impact on the santa alivery movement in the way that decades of writing pamphlets about the horrors of american slavery had not yet reached the right audience, but with the combination of uncle tom's cabin, which is ilustrate, and it's that combination of telling stories stories and stilling stories through pictures that helped spread antislavery sentiments to a much wider audience. >> host: when did photography, become an issue, given the subject, slavery and abolitionist. >> guest: only begins to play a role in the u.s. civil war. as federal troops begin to occupy southern cities, it was not at all uncommon for them to photograph sites of slave auctions, although not as many as i wish the

there is a pamphlet about hearing dea -- nearing death. this is a dead rabbit.his is what i am working on now. this is a greeting card that i found, making it embroidered. it is for a very special friend. >> while we were looking at this, i glanced down and this is amazing, and it is on top of a book, it is ridiculous and amazing. >> i am interested in the serendipity of these still life compositions. when he got to the garbage and to see the arrangement of objects that is completely spontaneous. it is probably one of the least thought of compositions. people are getting rid of this stuff. it holds no real value to them, because they're disposing of it. >> we're here in another recology studio with abel. what attracted you to apply for this special program? >> who would not want to come to the dump? but is the first question. for me, being in a situation that you're not comfortable in has always been the best. >> what materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here? >> there are a lot of books. that is one of the thing

extensive pamphletting, bingo nights and a specialty of hers and sunday church services and reaching out to everyone at every opportunity, gog any and all events no matter how not related to the election or small. we see the same people in many places and at the college board and sometimes the candidates would out number the citizens coming to attend the event and in fact that wasn't unusual at all. many of you here know this world but i did not. some made me smile, and some things inner vaiting and later milton turned this into a lifelong variety of running jokes. one is for example if he was running late and a pta meeting or five year old birthday at a play ground and he would arrive "did i miss the introduction of the elected officials". what? >> [inaudible] >> yeah. milton wanted to reform this process. god knows i don't know how someone could reform that process at this point although i wish they would. it's completely antidemocratic. the first idea was start with a political and get everyone to stand with every behind and instead each democratic club having a large questionnair

it's not the time where the pamphleteer could stand on the corner where someone could necessarily blockade a street the playing field is change the means of protest will evolve as well. the playing field has changed but it doesn't seem like the government has updated many of the laws regarding technology has the time come well you know separate but equal was lawful in this country as was slavery denying the right to vote for one hundred fifty years i think the time has come i think that congress will increasingly understand that the patriot act and nine eleven has been used as a sub to fuse and a pretext to to pass these incredibly oppressive laws would seek to suppress free speech which seek to control the discussion of the dialogue and would seek to keep people out of the debate that's what the first amendment stands for and that i would suggest as would be the us actions as covered by right lastly i do want to mention the last attack is considered illegal and this is under the. an abuse act and currently there's fourteen people that have been charged under it for carrying out this very

being accused of being pirates and pirating novels and whatnot they're also publishing subversive pamphlets information that would embarrass the government etc so essentially if you can if centralized institutions and i believe it's the case it's my opinion that because of this technology and other developments centralized institutions are losing potential control over the information that people share as that control starts to loosen i think you'll increasingly see the rise of these distribute. suppose hidden the copyright cartels really are now calling them they will argue that there is no economics whatsoever with peer to peer file sharing that this is an attempt to overwrite all the laws of of capitalism of supply and demand with free p.d.p. however if you look at sites like well google for example here's a site that's a hundred billion dollar plus company based on the free aggregation of information which they organize to an algorithm and then sell the advertisers a piece of that organism organizing algorithm so there's the economics of free turn into a multi hundred billion dollar ent

being accused of being pirates and pirating novels and whatnot they're also publishing subversive pamphlets information that would embarrass the government etc so essentially if you can if centralized institutions and i believe that's the case it's my opinion that because of this technology new developments centralized institutions are losing their control potential control over the information that people share as that control starts to loosen i think you'll increasingly see the rise of these distribute. attempts to share information whether that's for political purposes. to promote democracy. leaks or whether the. well the kinds of purposes of sharing information centralized and don't don't when you couldn't financial services where you want financial services or information sharing systems with degrees of trust built on top of that right now you talked about p.d.p. systems and you talked about it in terms of being economic and there being an economics involved which is to both. hidden the copyright cartels really are now calling them they will argue that there is no economics whatsoever

i didn't see any of the pamphlets. but it was incredible.o one was able to think their own thoughts or i'll kick you articulate their own words. john: where will the money come from? the crowds didn't see a problem with that. >> he is a big spending president, how does he curtail spending? >> i would like to differ with that. bush spent a lot of money and never did anything. >> have you looked at the numbers? >> i would like to differ with you on that. >> you can like to differ, but it's not true. >> it is true if you look at how much president bush spent, it's more than what obama spent. >> i think we can do it if we stop spending a lot of money on wars. >> taxing people that have a lot of money is not unfair. we don't need people to be as rich as they really are. john: for the record, bush did spend an astounding $3 trillion per year, but obama spent 3.8 trillion per year so far, and that is adjusted for inflation. so obama spent 25% more. but they don't believe that. they think it's all bush's fault. >> it's a special kind of kool-aid, it

i didn't see any of the pamphlets. but it was incredible.e was able to think their own thoughts or i'll kick you articulate their own words. john: where will the money come from? the crowds didn't see a problem with that. >> he is a big spending president, how does he curtail spending? >> i would like to differ with that. bush spent a lot of money and never did anything. >> have you looked at the numbers? >> i would like to differ with you on that. >> you can like to differ, but it's not true. >> it is true if you look at how much president bush spent, it's more than what obama spent. >> i think we can do it if we stop spending a lot of money on wars. >> taxing people that have a lot of money is not unfair. we don't need people to be as rich as they really are. john: for the record, bush did spend an astounding $3 trillion per year, but obama spent 3.8 trillion per year so far, and that is adjusted for inflation. so obama spent 25% more. but they don't believe that. they think it's all bush's fault. >> it's a special kind of kool-aid, it is

another advertisements for a new edition of common sense, which suggests just how quick he this pamphlet is moving. which brings me to the history discoveries. no taxation without representation. that argument springs to life in newspapernewspaper s. in particular the may 10, 1764 issue of the pennsylvania gazette. on page two is one paragraph that details the forthcoming sugar acts. in that article, it says the scheme of taxation that has been previously debated in parliament whether they had the power to lay such tax on colonies collins which had no representative parliament and determined in the affirmative. also interesting to me about this article is this is where you get the first teaser for the forthcoming stamp act that everyone knows so well. and internal tax that is cut off and you can see that but an internal tax is forthcoming. violence and mobs and riots are also something that struck me because of the sheer magnitude of the violence that is reported in the newspapers of the day. in particular, this is a supplement to the boston newsletter from september 5, 1755. extraordina

. >> i will send you some of the pamphlets on the corn games. >> are you making me rethink this as a tomorrow. >> i think the answer to this problem is clear. we need genetically modified chicken with 16 wings. why is nobody thinking about this. >> that is a good point. >> here are a couple of headlines. chicken wing shortage forces sports bar to punt. that's from november 16th, 2009. that's from 2009. chicken wing raise sends them soaring from 2010. there is nothing new here. >> but you recognized two great puns in there. >> if there was not enough reason to reduce ethanol, the industry group growth energy which is the ethanol people, they run the chicken council statement and called it unsports man like conduct. and then they called penalties on them like roughing the facts and accused them of committing a personal foul. but they didn't spell fowl with a w. if you are making a pun take it to its conclusion. >> it is the national chicken council 2013 wing report. every year they come out with a wing report. >> they should have sliped them the bird. >> the most ironic thing is the co

i should have known when i read her arian pamphlet. she has a lot of pictures. as it turns out, she hates everyone. that wasn't a sheet she was wearing. it was an outfit. it wasn't a sexy i'm in the bed. she has a hood on there too. >> kurt, try to see this freaky dude's opinion. this is legal. is it wrong? you can fire at people for anything. >> i think this guy was probably driven to it because he couldn't fire obama himself. it is legal in that state. but it is really stupid. >> it is stupid to tell people what to do on a comment section. >> when i try to do sneaky things, i keep it to myself. >> as i tell my imaginary girlfriend, bill, are you worried you will get canned? >> i am still waiting for the returns on that. the great thing about imagineering is he can be elected in your head. >> i am president of the universe in bill land. >>> time for a break. more stuff when we come back. "the joy of hate" the nation's best seller. for an autographed copy go to gutfeld.com. >>> the next topic, news from norway. the student convinced his high school crush to have

>> too busy making his pamphlet. >> i have been writing for the ron paul survival guide. >> i don't know much about leena done ham. she went to an eastern liberal school like i did. and then she went out to l.a. where she made her fortune. she never once had a serious conversation who challenged her world view. she lives in a bubble where these things are republican. they are icky. she never debated or talked to republicans. i think that might changing if she sat and talked to somebody. >> the amazing thing is is we pay attention to those who make comments. to the point, do you know any other famous canadians or have you run out of your list? >> i know plenty. you have akroyd, bieber. >> bieber is, yes. >> i was just curious. >> keep them coming. >> lena done ham is not canadian . first would you date lena, and second of all do you have nazi ties? >> wow. >> i don't write these questions, by the way. >> i am a little tired of the nazi comparison. it is irritating. >> answer the question. >> people don't like somebody or a group of people. it is the vial under belly of society. >> people

i didn't see any of the pamphlets. maybe it was some sort of a chip activated as soon as you walked through security. it was incredible. no one was able to think their own thoughts or articulate something original. that was why it was boring. >> i am glad i wasn't there. since he plans to stop climate change and provide more health insurance yet make no cuts to medicare or social security or much of anything, where is the money going to come from. the crowd didn't see a problem with that. >> he's a big spending president how does he curtail that. >> he's not the spending president. bush spent so much mown nobody said anything. >> he's not? >> no, i don't think so. >> have you looked at the -- >> i would like to differ with you on that. >> you can like to differ but it's not true. >> it is true when you look at how much -- if you look at how much president bush spends it is more than what obama spends. >> it took 8 years to get the united states where it is now it will take another 8 years to get it back. >> we can stop

the last line of one of the revolutionary pamphlets, what did he say? he said, poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. [applause] he meant all of those who have the courage to use their imagination and empathy to conceive of the world that is better than one with their is too many ratchets of the earth be it latin america or the south side of chicago. every lawyer enact already presupposes a certain vision of what the world is, so if your dollars if your world is confined the status quo, it will be truncated to the legislation. so when we talk about public airways, we raise the question of public life. why is it our public life is so impoverished and so that u.s.? it is not just public airways, it is public education. look at the vicious attack on our precious young people with protest education grid thank god for sister lewis, wherever she is free to thank god for the union. [applause] tell the truth. how are you going to have 685 schools and 202 nurses for this precious children a c

i wrote a little pamphlet and i hope to demolish forever the myth that somebody else could have writtenwrote this to make fun of it tore it to pieces, to give good strong practical reasons of how it just could have only occurred to people who have never been into a rehearsal in their lives that everyone -- shakespeare spent 20 years of his life with groups of actors, actor, manager, writer and that nobody ever in his time there were many malicious enemies and rivals, none of them smelled a rat and said what's this guy pretending to be the author? we can see he isn't capable of writing a single line or it's a lot of fun and it was published as a farewell to michael boyd whose last shakespeare birthday it was and it was distributed to the audience and out of that i began thinking oh, that makes me think of -- and it made me come back to the first performance of "romeo and juliet" that i saw in verona. that led to "king lear" and comes all the way throw t tempest going through a central passage called "the hour glass" which is about verse speaking. and the "hour glass" is really the image

see something john adams wrote in a letter in 1812 right next to something he wrote in a political pamphlet in 1778 and you'll see these merge together as if they form a single paragraph and not even john adams. you can see something john adams said in 1912 and something benjamin franklin said in 1750. put them together, you form just like you what to biblical texts of the single argument. >> host: is there a similar attitude between eletes and how modern eletes mabey have the struggle? >> guest: there is a lot of anger, people like you and me, people who start the plan and precious truths of the founders to make them so less than, and whether it's talking about the sites any time a liberal mentions that very strong push back or the disagreements between them. we don't want our mythic figures to be disagreeing with each other all the time. this area, there is a sense that academics -- academics are very delegitimized in this right. just because somebody has spent his or her life reading the primary text doesn't give them special insight. >> host: it could be the bible or the constitution's.

something that john adams wrote in a letter in 1812 right next something he wrote in a political pamphletin 1778 embassy besmirched together as if they formed a single paragraph and not even john adams. john adams in 1812 and something benjamin franklin said in 1750. put them together and form to biblical texts, a single argument. >> host: is very similar attitude toward elite and how modern elite hot distorted how this figure satellite time ago? >> guest: there's a lot of anger that people like you and me, professors, people who distort the plain and precious truths that the founders in order to make sense team like less than and whether it's talking about their ownership of slaves, anytime a liberal mentioned that, they're going to get a strong pushback. for the disagreements between them. we don't want her figures to be disagreeing with each other all the time. so there is a sense that academics -- academics just because somebody has spent his or her life reading the primary text doesn't give us any special in pay. the bible or the constitution. we don't need elites telling us what it

with a lot of the case the founders it's written in 1812 fax to something he wrote in a political pamphlet in 1778. you see these merged together as if they form a single paragraph. and not even coming you know, john adams. you can see something john adams said in 1812 and something benjamin franklin said in 1750. put them together, they form just ask you what a biblical text of a single argument. >> host: is there a single argument towards eletes and how modern eletes have may be distorted kind of what the, you know these hallowed figures said a long time ago? >> guest: there is a lot of anger in their ridings for people like you and me. professors, people who ask you to see to intentionally distort the queen and precious truths of the founders in order to make them seem like less than, and whether it's talking about their own version of sleeves and any time a liberal mentions that, they are going to get a very strong push back or the disagreements between -- we don't want our mythical figures to be disagreeing with each other all time. so, yeah. there is a sense that academics -- academi

an idiotic man delivering a village pamphlet. can you imagine? in this weather and at this time of night? it's branson. he wouldn't come in. why not? is sybil with him? what's going on? she's not here, but apparently she's coming soon. he'll explain what's happened when our guest is gone. something to look forward to. other men have normal families with sons-in-law who farm or preach or serve their country in the army. violet: maybe they do, but no family is ever what it seems from the outside. do you think he's on the run from the police? don't be so daft. well, he hadn't got the money for a taxicab from the station. maybe he fancied the walk. yes, that's it. i should think he loves a night walk in the pouring rain without a coat. what room is he in? i'll take that thank you, daisy. so there'll be no more gossip on that subject tonight. they turned everyone out of the castle-- lord and lady drumgoole, their sons and all the servants-- and then they set fire to it. what a tragedy. violet: well, yes and no. that house was hideous. but, of course t