c-span: one of your favorite people the book is robert mcnamara. why?guest: robert mcnamara exemplifies everything wrong with your conservative or liberal, certainly for libertarian but the hubris, you know, the hubris of thinking you know it all. that is the enemy. c-span: what does it mean that you can do your own videos, but the menu to plan your website. were never going back to what he used to be. what do you think it means on a long-term basis? >> guest: what it means is i was lucky enough to grow up in a world much, much better than my parents and even my childhood i look forward to my kids enjoyed stuff that i can't even imagine now and we're not talking about watching old reruns on ipods. and the next 20 years or 30 years come in the future will be much better, assuming that we get the parts of the world of politics control squeezed down to where they should be, we are looking at a future that will be fantastic. when it gets delivered, it will be wonderful. c-span: is their a way to wrap up in a nutshell what you think of politicians? >> guest:

monstrous births, but we agree to forgive ourselves for this and to watch real monsters such as robert mcnamaray kissinger, who calmly give the orders and instructions as they posture on chat shows in and cash in with their memoirs. but hey, forget it. forget it if you can. [applause] [applause] >> i am salman rushdie and i'm going to read a little bit from god is not great. a part of the chapter christopher called a short aggression on the pig, or why it happened hates hal. [laughter] i want to read it in part it has christopher always appreciated my story of my loss of. when i first arrived in boarding school in england on a day or i bought a ham sandwich and ate it and lightning failed to strike. thus proving to me once and for all that god did not exist. the oldest and most tenacious of all protÉges is the hatred and even fear of the pig. it's emerged and primitive judea and centuries one of the ways the other being circumcision by which could be distinguished. muslims appear to see nothing ironic in the adoption of this uniquely jewish taboo. the real horror of the pork kind is manifest al