occasionally tina brown would give me a piece or two. but it was oblique to what i was really doing. >> how long does it take you decide to take the job? about on friday. he offered it to somebody else over the weekend. that's all part. -- that fell apart. he has been a great editor in the past. i came in on monday. i had no idea what had happened with michael kinsley. he offered me be job. -- the job. he gave me about 20 minutes to decide and that was that. >> what did your wife say? >> she said, it will be a great adventure. that was 16 years ago. >> hop on board and see what happens. and what point will it become too much of a burden for you? i think the best thing editor been bobrk is and has

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[inaudible question] i had a blog that from my old friend tina brown's new website called the daily beast and i have had a column in the national review at the same time. you know about national review. and in mid-october of the election, in the company of a number of other conservative writers. david brooks, kathleen parker, a number of them. wrote a blog in which i gave my reasons in an argument about why i was going to vote for obama and not mccain/palin ticket. remember who else was on that ticket. [laughter] >> well, well, well. and then the beast, tina, put that headline on it, sorry dad, i am voting for obama. well my dad died in february and was well past giving a shit who where was voting for. sorry to put it that way but -- and i would not say it would be an exerating to see all hell bloke lose. but the tea pot was made larger when the national review fired me as a columnist which was funny because i was on the board of directors and technically owned 1/7th. and the story sort of took on a life of its own. are you asking me did i regr regret -- i would rank myself among the 41%

occasionally tina brown would give me a piece or two. but it was oblique to what i was really doing. >> how long does it take you decide to take the job? >> i talked about on friday. he offered it to somebody else over the weekend. that fell apart. he has been a great editor in the past. i came in on monday. i had no idea what had happened with michael kinsley. he offered me the job. he gave me about 20 minutes to decide and that was that. >> what did your wife say? >> she said, it will be a great adventure. that was 16 years ago. >> hop on board and see what happens. and what point will it become too much of a burden for you? >> i think the best thing editor in new york is and has been bob silvers who edits the new york review of books. not only did he edit the new york review of books but he invented the new york review of books. he is now in his early 80's. i can't imagine doing what he does. >> in his early 80's. >> he does it with a small staff. he does not write. he is more purely an editor. he is a kind of genius, too. i just can'

monica lewinsky by tina brown. about the lack of empathy shown by the feminist lobby who joined the hyena pack casting judgment on her youthful conduct. other women can often be the worst at cutting any lack towards the love interest in a sex scandal. but she is short of empathy towards the woman whose husband she was romping with. she uses the word troubling as hillary said she blamed herself somewhat for bill's straying. now everyone is leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century. the digital age has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded. monica's new musings just remind us of how the death of privacy started. and it really did start with that. it exploded across the world. >> it did. the things that shocked us at the time, the absolute violations of privacy, the wholesale dissemination of embarrassing sexual revelations, the no holds barred cast who just leaked and just put it all out there, that's w

tina brown had an op-ed, i guess you could call it, an opinion piece, urging her not to run and enjoyks of sort of post presidential life which she effectively has right now and of course being a grandmother. do you think that it is still actively a consideration not to run in the hillary camp at this point? >> absolutely. in fact, i think the further in you get to the inirsiner circlee more you hear the thought of why do this. the question that drives it is am i the best person for the job compared to all the other candidates. it's hard i think for someone like clinton to look around at the field and say, you know, i can be the best president here. and that question is going to drive it as well as questions about family and health. you're right, you've got a pretty good life. the speaking fee, fund-raising for the foundation, a big voice on policy. but it's an important not to forget that the fact that she might run for president is also a huge source of political importance for her. it itch gogives her all kinds o and importance in the party if she might run. >> it's not a bad gig.

the only editing i did was occasionally tina brown would give me a piece or a manuscript to look at andshe's say what do you think. and i would go to a meeting or two. but it was so oblique to what i was really doing. >> rose: how long did it take you to decide to take the job. >> i was talked to newhouse bit on a friday and over the weekend he offered it to someone else. that fell apart and it was someone i respected enormously and published three weeks ago, he's a wonderful writer and has been a great editor in the past at harper's and new republic. i came in on a monday morning and i had no idea what happened happened with michael kinsly and he offered me the job and gave me about 20 minutes to decide. i had a phone call with my wife and that was it. >> rose: what did she say. >> she said well, it would be a great adventure. >> rose: there you go. >> that was 16 years ago. >> rose: that's what i would expect her to say. great adventure. hop a board. >> that's the story. >> rose: at what point will it become too much of a burden for you to do other things that you really want to do? >

ball voting machine while he was guest hosting tina brown's the n.b.c. t.v. show.this is the official program that the county supervisor sees as we can see here howard dean has a thousand votes and lex luthor has five hundred so you're beating lex luthor and you see we have eight hundred votes here for you and four hundred for lex luthor let's just look at those we'll make that four hundred. and we'll give one hundred votes to tiger let's just see what happened here we go back into gems the legitimate way and as you can see now howard dean only has five hundred votes there has nine hundred in tiger woods has one hundred votes we just edited them lection it took us ninety seconds. a really is that easy in fact according to black box voting dot org a nonprofit group dedicated to investigating problems of electronic voting and rigging intellectual trying voting machine is so easy a chimpanzee can do it and if you think this is all just a bunch of hand-wringing in the think again because ever since the early two thousand when the use of electronic voting machines reall