and for a moment in time there is a blending together a lot of commonality of fundamentalism and the ku klux klan. this is something we have a difficult time acknowledging. they have a difficult time repudiating it because it is difficult to acknowledge it was part of the package. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> now on booktv, james dowlingpaul argues the modern environmentalism is made of socialists and communists. his main goal is to rule the world. it is about 50 minutes. >> good afternoon and welcome to the heritage foundation. as director of lectures and seminars it is my pleasure to welcome everyone to those who join us on our heritage.org web site and those who will join us on c-span on a future occasion. we ask everyone in house to make the courtesy check that cellphone 7 turned off as we proceed. always good that the speaker does that especially. and we will post a program within 24 hours on our web site for everyone's future reference. hosting our discussion this morning and introducing our special guest is nicked lawrence, policy analyst and

moment in time there is a blending together of a lot of the commonality here of fundamentalism and the ku klux klan. this is something that evangelicals of -- and i am one -- have a difficult time acknowledging. and one of the reasons, i think, they've had a difficult time repudiating it is because they've had a difficult time acknowledging that it was, in fact, a part of the past. but there was a lot of affinity between the klan. the klan was, basically, about three things in the 1920s. it was, of course, a racist organization as it's always been, but it was always anti-semitic as it's always been, but that was very prominent, anti-zionist, the movement was coming along at that time, but it was also, and this is where the story sort of comes in particularly here in texas, it was also anti-catholic. it was sort of a throwback to the old know-nothings. you know, rum romannism and rebel yang. and it was this anti-catholicism that really, i think, was part and parcel of its popularity, particularly in the american south. and so you have the 1920s. it's certainly the breeding ground for the c

the ku klux klan wanted it, but so did the naacp. >> stephen: strange bedfellows with only one bed sheet progressives wanted it. so did conservatives. the industrialists wanted it. so did the wobblies. the workers of the world, the radical labor union, they wanted it because they thought alcohol was a flaw that weakened the working man. everybody wanted it, but it was prohibition for someone else. this is a story of single-issue campaigns that passed with unintended consequences. the demonization of immigrants, the loss of a civil discourse. >> stephen: how could we possibly understand a political system like that? >> yeah. well, it gets even better. there was a whole group of people who feel like they lost control of their country and couldn't take it back. do you know acliewz yas seize 19? there's nothing new under the sun. >> stephen: did we really stop drinking? >> no. it actually did go down for a time and cirrhosis of the liver dlined and drunk driving accidents declined. >> stephen: how many... >> that's the thing. it coincided with the mass distribution of cars. so everybody now

many customers took the costume of a vanilla cone with sprinkles as a hooded member of the ku klux klan. the owner says sales dropped as soon as they started using it, though, it took her a while to figure out why. some customers understood and others weren't so sure. >> can you see where people would be a little bit confused about it? >> yeah, he is kind of waving like that. >> i mean, it is kind of pointy. >> i know what a kkk outfit looks like and that is not one at all. well, the sprinkles are on it! i've never seen a kkk guy with sprinkles on his head! >> reporter: well, the shop has dropped the costume. the owners are from puerto rico and say they didn't know what the klan was. >>> a new list of nominees for the rock 'n' roll hall of fame is out. women nomted finated for the fi time include joan jett, heart, and chaka khan. still eligible are the beastie boys, red hoted chilly peppers. they will be nominated into the hall of fame in october. good luck to all of those. >>> pop star rihanna got a dressing down from a farmer in northern ireland. rihanna was shooting a video in a fiel

was very big at least for a time in the 1920's and certainly even here in the state of texas was the ku klux klan. it had seen a revival. there had been many manifestations even up until our time. many of them marginal but the most significant emergence of the particular movement were of course during the reconstruction with the original plan, but in about 1915, there was a regrouping of the klan and by the time we come to the 1920's, this group very patriotic, very pro-american, very anti-immigrant, antiforeigners kind of thing really takes hold in the culture and there was a commonality here of the fundamentalism and the ku klux klan. this is something the evangelicals -- and i am one -- have a difficult time acknowledging and one of the reasons i think they've had a difficult time repeating it is because they've had a difficult time acknowledging it was in fact a part of the past. >>> now one book tv james delingpole argues that the modern environmental movement is made up of socialists and communists whose main goal is to rule the world. it's about 50 minutes. >> good afternoon now

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. >>> what do the ku klux klan and an ice cream cone have in common? quite a bit as the owners of one store in florida found out. they've actually had to drop their ice cream mascot after passersby kept confusing it with the hood and robe worn by members of the klan. the store owners say they never actually heard of the white supremacist group before the controversy erupted. >> i think the sign that says "ice cream sandwiches" might be a giveaway. >> not exactly mississippi burning, you know what i mean? it's ice cream. relax. >> sprinkles on top. >>> here's your wednesday weather. rain again in the northeast with showers, thunderstorms. hail and gusty winds in d.c. up to new york. showers from new orleans to jacksonville, and stormy around the great lakes and ohio valley. green bay to chicago, cleveland and louisville. >> 67 in detroit. 76 in the twin cities. 82 in fargo. 80s from boise to albuquerque. 93 in sacramento. 74 here in new york. 83 in atlanta. >>> here's a story that will make any apartment dweller jealous. how would you like to spread out

and so, again, we want to state for the record, you are not a member of the ku klux klan. >> no, sir.avow their viewpoints completely. >> yes, sir. >> jimmy: you are merely an ice cream cone standing in a parking lot. >> i pledge to emergency room ameri america right here. >> jimmy: okay, thank you, daniel. we'd love to have you come visit hollywood. you could stand out right outside our building with spider-man and superman and take pictures. just think about it. daniel, everybody, from ocala. did we get that cleared up? i should have asked him what rosh hashanah was. is he still there? is he still with us? daniel? >> yes, sir? >> jimmy: happy rosh hashanah. >> it's fine. >> jimmy: sock. okay. and one more thing. it's -- [ laughter ] you better watch it over there. >> okay. >> jimmy: it's thursday night, time for our week lly tribute t the fcc, where we bleep and blur thing s whether they need it or not. it is "this week in unnecessary censorship." >> the president tonight was trying to raise his poll numbers and [ bleep ] up his supporters again. >> tonight, i remember my parents by

i could bring up david, that schmuck in louisiana the clue clues -- the ku klux klan, republican. >> excuse me -- i've been in -- >> i'll give you 10 more. anybody who calls barack obama a socialist that is a lie. when you say he's lying. point out where he's lying. he's not responsible for what everybody on the left is saying. >> when joe wilson called him out as a liar illegals aren't going to get -- >> that's ridiculous. joe wilson is not showing up tomorrow night which is good that means the i.q. goes up in the hall. >> you need to read the book on obama. obama comes from my left. his entire career was shaped, consulted and made possible by marxists from the 60s who actually a lot of them are in the white house now -- of course he's a socialist. >> another example. you just heard it. now you are calling him a marxist. i happened to be a socialist early in my career. you were a marxist now you are saying barack obama is a marxist, that is a lie. >> sean: if we borrow 40 cents of every dollar and he wants the government to take care of everything and bailout the banks and the insur

the mother of five children was brutally murdered by the ku klux klan while volunteering as a driver back and forth to selma and the demonstration. it was a shock to most of michigan and when i heard it ring discussed by jesse the barber he informed those who are getting were getting their haircut that day that she was found with some -- and the boy, married woman up to no good sticking her face and where it didn't belong. jesse's barbershop was the place he went to for enlightenment in my town. and the place was always full. jesse was a short man with a short haircut and there was always a pair of scissors or a long razor in his hand. this was problematic as he wore a lens glasses, the kind of legally blind where and it was frightening when i sat in his chair, the sharp insurance being used to make various punctuation points in the air. i asked my mother why the senators were the people on the floor were saying they didn't want some people to vote. well, some people don't want some people to vote my mother said, trying to protect us from the fact that even the united states senators

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his history about the south -- he has passages praising what was then the first ku klux klan and they were doing the right thing, and that's quoted towards the end of the movie which unfortunately i had to watch, and he was -- he was -- you know, he made promises to political leaders, black political leaders when he first ran and when he's in office, he's resegregating sections of the bureaucracies without a whim. throughout 1919, people were pleading with him, sending telegrams, people from the institute, ect., saying, you got to say something about this, speak out against this, and his answer was invariably, you know, this is a state issue. talk to your governor. see what your governor has to say. there's one quote in my -- he was delivering tons of speeches across the country at the time to get the treaty passed. he -- i found one speech in montana making a passing reference to around these riots terrible? that's it. and so i -- i don't know what his wife was like, but he was a racist on his own. >> [inaudible] >> yeah, rome, she was from rome i think. yeah? >> i happen to come acr

in it his history about the south, he has, you know, passages in which he praises what was then the first ku klux klan and that they were doing the right thing, and that's quoted, you know, toward the end of the movie which, unfortunately, i had to watch. and he was, he was, you know, he made promises to political leaders, black political leaders when he first ran, and when he got into office, he's recession regating, you know -- recession regating -- people from the tuskegee institute, etc., you've got to say something about this, you've got to speak out against this. and his answer was invariably, you know, this is really a state issue. talk to your governor, see what your governor has to say. there's one quote in all my -- he was delivering tons of speeches across the country at the time to try to get ther versailles treaty passed. he, i found one speech in montana he makes sort of a passing reference the aren't these riots terrible, and that's it. so i, i don't know what his wife was like, but he, he was a racist on his own. >> [inaudible] >> yeah. rome, right? she was from rome, i think

and this other guy fthat i first spoke of was from the ku klux klan, a white supremacist. they're all for the same meetithing. host: thanks, maryland, from ohio. don larsen of connecticut's its share of the democratic caucus in the house of representatives. -- john larson. there's a story in the new york times this morning about c- span's new history project. tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. eastern time and for the next 45 days we will be on location from the historic sites connected with eight men who ran for office over the course of history and lost, but wertheir policies had an effect on american history. brian writes about the series this way -- thomas dewey is one of the people profiled. william jennings bryan and his famous campaign. alongside that, george mcgovern. charles evans hughes. and henry clay. henry clay will be our first subject. that's tomorrow night from his estate in lexington, kentucky, called ashland, a 90-minute live program talking about his history and his legacy and contributions he made to american society, sometimes for good and sometimes for ill as

the ku klux klan and mlk and things like that. the fbi has grown along with the country. when i was in college, by will then go it into the stages and going to the trials and tribulations. the fbi represents the problems we have today. back then it represented those problems. it wasn't always justice. there were racial issues. we have grown since then. i would like to know how these would-be terrorists are prosecuted when they are found to be a would-be terrorist. are they 20 years, 30 years? a life sentence? guest: they have statutory minimums for sentencing. in many of these cases, 35 years is the statutory minimum. if the person was found guilty, the judge has to send them to at least 35 years. in most of these cases, the judges are sentencing to the minimum. in one case, the judge said she was skeptical of the case and believe the definition of terrorism has been extended to an enormous and extenextent. the target said he wanted to bomb a synagogue. the fbi informant made that possible. yearsfinding that 35 tends to be the sentence. host: 240 were charged with terrori

texas are scheduled to the die by lethal injection for crimes that had an impact far beyond their state's borders. in texas, lawrence brewer, a white supremacist and one-time ku klux klan leader is going to the execution chamber for his part in the 1998 killings of james byrd, a black man who was dragged to death behind a pickup truck. his death inspired the signing of hate crime laws. but this hour's execution in texas is overshadowed by another in georgia. convict eed murderer troy daviss scheduled to die the right now, but the u.s. supreme court is considering a last-minute appeal from his attorneys. davis was convicted of killing savannah policeman mark macphail 22 years ago. since davis' trial, seven of the nine witnesses against him either changed their stories or recanted their testimony, raising doubts that have gone global. anti-death penalty protesters are out in force tonight in georgia and over time, the pope, nobel peace prize laureates, desmond too tou and jimmy carter have been among those who have appealed for leniency or a new trial. the original prosecutor in the case say they are executing the right man tonight. >> there are two troy davis

charles gonzalez chairs the hispanic you kus. thank you for joining us. in the latest nbc news poll the president edged up approval among hispanics. is from concerns because of the economic factors and the pressure on the hispanic community that the president has not done enough to reach out? >> the only concern is one of enthusiasm. are we going to get the number of voters back out? we saw a tremendous increase in the percentages of latino voters that were registered in 2008 come out to the polls. that would be my only concern. but that is just across the board with all voters as far as what the democrats are confronted with when the economy is down. and of course is it a democratic president. and you don't look at exactly what congress has been doing thwart the president's plans. >> from your perspective down there in texas you have a really good view of rick perry as a potential opponent to barack obama. what about this immigration fight that erupt where had he was talking as -- you know, about the heartlessness, really of the rest of the field and the

the ku klux klan and mlk and things like that. the fbi has grown along with the country. when i was in college, by will then go it into the stages and going to the trials and tribulations. the fbi represents the problems we have today. back then it represented those problems. it wasn't always justice. there were racial issues. we have grown since then. i would like to know how these would-be terrorists are prosecuted when they are found to be a would-be terrorist. are they 20 years, 30 years? a life sentence? guest: they have statutory minimums for sentencing. in many of these cases, 35 years is the statutory minimum. if the person was found guilty, the judge has to send them to at least 35 years. in most of these cases, the judges are sentencing to the minimum. in one case, the judge said she was skeptical of the case and believe the definition of terrorism has been extended to an enormous and extenextent. the target said he wanted to bomb a synagogue. the fbi informant made that possible. yearsfinding that 35 tends to be the sentence. host: 240 were charged with terrori

. >> bryan defended the ku klux klan in 1924. did he also privately embrace the practice of lynching in the south? >> he did not defend the klan in 1924. there was a democratic convention in new york city, and it was about whether to denounce the klan by name and not. he believed that the democrats should win over the klan rather than denounce them. but he certainly had supporters in the klan, but it is not fair to say that he was a supporter of klan, and he was a racist. we consider him that now. but he denounced lynching. he was a white supremacist. but i want it clarified that his racial views are not as simple as to say that he was a klansman or he was in favor of lynching people without trial. he supported the views of most white southerners, and most white northerners as well of the time, that european americans were superior to other people. in that sense, he was certainly not a modern thinker. >> he is certainly a democratic political figure in the sense, from that period, in that he broadly believes in white supremacy. he

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