rushmore, and i tell them i don't think anyone should be on mt. rushmore, because of what i said earlier, i think it's unhealthy for society to defy politicians like that. and so this whole 200th anniversary is sort of like that. it's mostly a celebration of the american state. i don't think if the people on this commission are so in love with abraham lincoln, or the government that's funding it, i think it's sort of a celebration of itself with regard to the government, the federal government, that's putting all this money behind this celebration. and so and a lot of the people will go along with that, but i think that's unhealthy for society. >> what's your relationship with the commission? >> i'm on the advisory council that was set up by the bicentennial commission. there are i guess about 150 or so of us who are on that. and what i've been doing in the last several months is working with people at the commission -- well, people on the educational committee of the advisory council and with people at howard, and we're going to put on, going to

rushmore of quarterbacks, because brady is going to the hall of fame.ie beats him and beats him twice, where does he go? >> he's going into the hall of fame. >> you know where else he's going? ahead of peyton manning. because he will have two. enough said. >> i agree. we are both taking giants, which means the house on the patriots. we'll see you next week. >>> thank you to super bowl xlvi. giants over patriots 24-21. and jim harbaugh has been named the coach of the year. in his first season, he led the niners to a 14-3 record. aaron rogers is the mvp. that's all for us. good night, everybody. >>> thank you for watching sports xtra. brought to you by your washington area nissan dealers. 

>> she really was mount rushmore, the mount rushmore of singers, somebody people looked up to, wishedver expected to be on mount rushmore alongside her. christina aguilera saw her work, wanted to be like her, emulated her in certain ways, just like christina aguilera emulated etta james. hip-hop was just coming into dominance, people thought that r&b couldn't cross over and compete with rock 'n' roll and other stuff that was going on, but she showed that, yes, people were interested in the human voice and tell stories in that way and succeeded on her own terms. >> she was multitalented. it wasn't just the singing. she started out as a model for "17" magazine and you saw

that's why we put them on our monumentes, our mount rushmores, and our camel cash.r forget general joseph camel leading his troops into flavor country. the liberals were always trying to sully the things our founding fathers did by talking about the things our founding farthers did. take chris matthews. >> everybody knows thomas jefferson had a relationship with sally hemings and had kids. james madison who draftlet the constitution had over 100 slaves, had them all his life. didn't even free them in his will. >> stephen: of course he didn't free them in his will. imagine the shock to his children-- first they lose their farther, then they lose their slaves. plus who is going to dig the grave and pass the biscuits at the funeral. and why, why, folks needlessly tarnishing his reputation for banging french who ares. i prefer to think of him banging american whors. o. ( cheering ) bravo. worst of all, folks, there's the new exhibition, slavery at jefferson's mont shell oh, paradox of liberty, which turns jefferson's historic home into a reminder that over the course of

rushmore without taking heat from the lamestream every one, actually newt say pretty shrewd politician. i'm sure will take steps to blunt that line of attack. >> i'm going give a set of goals and then i will make a set of observations about how to achieve those goals. by the end of my second term-- (laughter) >> jon: why, why limit yourself to two. but you know what, i'm sure it's more modest and humble than it sounds. probably going to say something about his second term, have some budgetary schridging, solid, achievable conservative aspiration. >> by the end of my second term-- we will have the first permanent bates on the moon and it will be american. (applause) >> jon: a moon base? your solution to being accused of groonsdity is give me eight years and i have have a [bleep] moon base. did you start with deathstar and got kind of reigned in? by the way mr. moon bas base-- mr. moonbase what was your problem with ron paul again? >> you look at ron paul's total record of systemic avoidance of reality, there will come a morning people won't take him as a serious person. >> jon: yeah, no

rushmore. there's one missing in the shot.uld run with a 45 pound costume on. abe lincoln showed he knew how to fall. the mascot race is the fourth inning of every nationals -- what is he doing? fourth inning of the home game. talk about being top heavy. they say babies are top heavy sometimes. maybe teddy will have a chance of winning. >> maybe not. >> we need a ringer to wear teddy's uniform sometime. >> we need to get an olympic sprinter, right? >> absolutely right. >> let's talk about the forecast. a little snow maybe. >> with each passing run of the computer models, we get less and less excited about the possibility of any real amounts of snow around the area. snow flakes will be flying. but snow amounts may be very, very limited. keep your expectations low, everybody. outside now on a saturday night, it's breezy and turning a little bit colder outside after a mild day today. 59 degrees in february. wow, what a nice day. hope you had a chance to get outside and enjoy it. tomorrow will look a lot different than that. there

i thought actually between gay and lou we have half of mount rushmore represented here this evening. it's a little bit intimidating, actually. i want to begin first of all by thanking all of you for making the effort to be here. and the ladies association and in particular gay hart gaines for whom this lecture series is a long-standing commitment to mount vernon and the programming. to join the distinguished roster which she read off of past gaines scholars is a humbling experience. that is particularly true for one like myself who goes out of his way to remind everyone that i am a washington student, not a washington scholar. and i too want to say a special word of thanks to lou erman. the generous underwriter of the series and one of the best friends american history has ever had. as some of you may know, i spent a great deal of the professional life writing about government governance. in this case, i have to say albany's loss is america's gain. it is hard to imagine anyone equaling lou's efforts to combat the scourge of historical illiteracy, a plague well captured in a recent ne

hetom brady f he wins and he beats your boy tom brady, put him right on the mount rushmore of quarterbacksse brady is going to the hall of fame. >> he is. >> if eli beats him and beats him twice, where does he go? >> he is going into the hall of fame. he is going ahead of his brother because he'll have two. >> i absolutely agree. we're both taking the giants which means bet the house on the patriots. we'll see you next week. eek.

california instead calling it jesus canyon you know suggestions i would really like to change mt rushmore to mount rush limbaugh. well you know up a good one i think you know in social in places like alabama which probably remain birmingham to obama's the city of obama or not. so i think there are way too many serious issues to discuss like operation fast and furious and by the way this network should be ashamed of itself for hiring drilling the silence absolute disgust and shame on you ok well he hasn't started yet. and my suggestion is that ditching the name america and calling it as the firesign theater says this. trying to get the italian view on the clip you know. we had we had a. little audio clip there it was too patriotic they had all you know america was named after america because they they got the the red the map wrong should invest in any of. you have thanks. did you know that thomas jefferson's tombstone of moncho makes no mention of his of him ever being president of the united states instead it reads here was buried thomas jefferson author of the declaration of american ind

>> if he wins this and beats brady put him on the mount rushmore of quarterbacks if eli beats him twice go? >> all of fame and ahead of your boy peyton manning because he will have two and he has clutched -- >> i agree. they are both taking the giants which means the house on the patriots. >>> we will see you next week >>> even if your hometown team isn't in it it is one of those days everyone can kind of get into the football spirit >> i think friends just get together it is fun they get the rivalry going on and of course food. >> and commercials. >> yes. >> we will talk about those in a little bit from barking dogs to ferris bueller they are already creating buzz. what may be the talkers to come monday morning introducing the new flip & fresh from air wick with 100% fragrance oil. it's something new to brighten your home with two scent levels to choose from for when you want something light or something more. it's the new flip & fresh from air wick. the lasting fresh fragrance that brightens your world with a flip. something in the air wick. >>> well, we are getting ready for super bo

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rushmore in santa clara or several presidential statues in st. james park in san jose. this is on the app store and it is made by bay area company, so i thought you would like it. i'll put a link to facebook as well. >> cool. >> always educating. like it. >> still to come on "today in the bay" a deadly accident in the south bay possibly half a dozen others injured. we have a crew on the way. we'll have a live update. >> plus, a midair collision, a small plane, helicopter, collide in the east bay. amazingly the two pilots were able to walk away. >> the showers are clearing. you'll be able to get outdoors today. it will be on the cool side but we've got a major warm-up as we head into the midsection of your week. i'll detail that coming up. >> we are following that deadly accident in san jose. it has a traffic impactll ll show you the latest co shoyoo ho. . >> protesters planning to occupy san quentin prison. we'll explain why coming up. >> it's a live look outside at the golden gate bridge. do keep in mind it's a holiday so that traffic should be a little smooth. might b

we think he was born on mount rushmore. not so. theodore roosevelt hung his picture in the president's office and said whenever i have a major decision to make, i always ask myself would lincoln would do. woodrow wilson who was a son of the south who remembered seeing jefferson davis in chains being led past him at the end of the war nevertheless developed something of a hero worship for lincoln. richard nixon as a 12-year-old was given a portrait of lincoln that he hung over his bed. nixon also justified what would late be seen as abuses of power by comparing america in the vietnam era to the country during the civil war. so over and over again, lincoln is always there if you want to cite him to justify the expansion of presidential power, particularly in war time. >> sreenivasan: why do you think it is that people keep coming back to lincoln to study and to wite and rewrite? >> it's a great question. he's not washington or jefferson. about whom scholars obviously continue to write but who seem more remote. lincoln seems more acce