it's like thelma & louise, you know. i mean, what was threatening about that movie? you know, i mean, when you look at it, it's just a cowboy movie with women and trucks instead of guys and horses, and yet it got people so upset. so you have to realize that you, even inadvertently, backed into some kind of forbidden territory held by the white heterosexual male, you know, that's threatening somebody somehow in these instances, and you know, i didn't see it coming in any of those. on some level, is there something about you that is attracted to those kinds of films? i don't know what those kind of films are. i think that i'm attracted to films which in some way explore some issue just like you're attracted to a lover at a certain time in your life that maybe brings some number of qualities to you that you're trying to figure something out, or you know, if you believe that your children choose you as parents for some reason, or whatever-- i believe in all that stuff. very often, maybe you do a film, and it has to do with the people that are involved in it even more tha

. >> and thelma, alabama, the staunchest supporters of segregation use of the fear of interracial andhe rhetoric of race to resuscitate and to revive jim crow. they use the kind of sexual mccarthyism to discredit the voting rights act, to defend the risk their lives. civil rights activists were no longer outside agitators. or communists are now they were sexual themes. intent on spreading a culture of depravity around the country. so it was within that storm, and because i think that the ku klux klan murdered viola, a white housewife who defied general and racial mores by embracing the black freedom struggle. her detractors of course a juicer of black men. if we incorporate analysis of race and sexual violence interwoven civil rights narratives, we change the historical marker of the movement. one voting rights act is often referenced as of the book the civil rights movement, one of the last legal barriers of black women's integrity fell in 1967 when the supreme court banned laws prohibiting interracial marriage in a landmark loving v. virginia decision. this law was rooted in the col

. >> this is like watching thelma and louise drive off the cliff. it really is.istic. again off what carl was alluding to, the idea that a democratic president or any president -- can't say one of the ways to figure this thing out, a 1% tax on everybody who makes over $1 million a year, put it right on the table, vote it up or down. yes or no. >> what about on the other side? with spending cuts where you have and have had for some time congressmen and senators shoving through weapons programs for the pentagon that the pentagon repeatedly says they don't want. they don't want, they don't need. farm subsidies where you're paying people not to plant crops. it is insanity. >> couldn't some of those cuts pay for some of the things we have on the table with the tax bill? or does it have to be emergency spending and crisis management? i don't know. >> whatever happened to just omnibus spending bills, to just continuing resolutions. >> whatever happened to pay-go? we'll pay as we go. republicans have passed it and ignored it. democrats passed it and ignored it. nobody is