i had a great time at tulane university. i recommend anyone going to new orleans should have a great time. i graduated 20 years ago. i am admitting to my flaws the way that barack obama admitted he did cocaine when he was in college. would you ask barack obama in an interview, would that be one of the 10 questions you ask, what is his relationship with cocaine? host: you just talked about quite a bit. that's where it came from. next caller, go ahead. caller: i was listening this whole time. from the very beginning, i was struck by something. your guest regards himself as a default liberal. he said his parents were conservative republicans. i find that to be intellectually dishonest. people are more likely to change their religion from their childhood than to change their political affiliation of their parents. it seems to be underscored by this reliance on anecdotal stories. that seems to be the only evidence for this rather ironic claim that the left is constantly and selectively editing. that sounded across the board. you

tulane university in new orleans and east china normal university are collaborating to improve the conservation of wetlands. we have seen many other examples. we are also laying the groundwork for potentially significant future collaboration on development from working together to innovate and distribute clean cooko stoves and feels to strengthening public systems and countries. our people to people programs continue to expand, most notably, are 100,000-strong student exchange initiative which has already raised the stated goal of dollars to go along with the very generous chinese government support for 20,000 american students. all of us are committed to increase more people to people interactions and opportunities. we want to translate these two real-world benefits for our citizens, our countries, and the wider world. just as important, although perhaps harder to quantify, are the habits of cooperation and mutual respect that we formed through these discussions. we believe that to keep our relationship on a positive path as foreseen by presidents obama and hu, the united states and china have

going out with my friends, watching television, going to a prep school and then going on to tulane university. at no point in that entire experience in west los angeles where the executives in holy -- you know, executives of hollywood studios live and actors and such and people in the industry -- at no point during that period of time did i hear conservative thought and at no point did i have the opportunity to become anything other than liberal so i considered myself a default liberal. >> host: let me interrupt you, in your book talk about one of those life-changing moments. you're watching the justice thomas/anita hill hearing. what happens to andrew breitbart? >> guest: well, i just graduated from college, a place where -- it was like my bar mitzvah i thought i would learn an education about judaism but i left feeling very empty and i learned how to chant. i was open for a spiritual sxeerngs and i didn't get it. i felt the exact same way in college where i was an american studies major. and the stuff that i was reading was incomprehensible. and it was jargon. it was noam chomsky-like to a

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eight minutes of this and i appreciate you writing the book, what do you say to those kids at tulane universitysouth carolina state harvard, yale, university tennessee who are still lacking and being manipulated and used for not making the most of their college education and one day they will wake up and say i regret this. what do you say? >> guest: i do. as a matter of fact i've got to say that. i go to the young americans foundation, which for republicans and i beg people to keep your college campus, and if provocateur. you're either a little classmates are going to like you and going to put on a show for you. i want to tell them the story of what happened to me and how i had my awakening and this is the most exciting time in the world. i didn't have the internet. you have the ability to change history. >> host: that's not willing talking about. don't waste your education. don't allow yourself to be manipulated and brainwashed. >> guest: that's fine telling you is the video cameras are to be turned on. you know longer have the ability now to be in a math class telling your students that sarah

going to three to four movies, week, going out to my friends going to a prep school and going to tulane universityn no time in that experience were the executives of hollywood, executive of hollywood students lived and actors and such and people in the industry -- at no point in that period of time did i hear conservative thought. at no point did i have any opportunity to become any other liberal. so i considered myself a default liberal. >> host: let me interrupt you. in your book you talk about one of those life-changing moments. you're watching the justice thomas/anita hill hearing. what happened to andrew breitbart? >> guest: i just graduated from high school, it was like my bar mitzvah and i left feeling very empty because i just learned how to chant. i felt -- i was open for a spiritual experience. i didn't get it. i felt the exact same way in college, where i was an american studies major and the stuff that i was reading was incomprehensible. and it was jargon. it was noam chomsky-like in its lack of comprehension to a person who doesn't understand that language. and it was demoralizing. an

primarily be focused on the crab larvae with scientists from tulane university and one of the challenges for us throughout this was, you know we have a 24 hour news cycle where people want instant answers but science is slow. the data we collected with this one small project is one small piece of the impact. we been collecting the data took months. but to analyze that will probably take them two years. so on the one-year anniversary had a lot of people asking us. what happens? was this as bad as everyone said? was it not so bad like the government and noaa was saying? the answer is i think it is going to be decades before we can look back and feel like we have a true sense of what the damage was. but we did see that the science from tulane found these mysterious orange globs in their samples that they are fairly sure were caused by disperse and. the oil and the disperse dispersant entering the food chain in the gulf of mexico through these larva baby blue crabs. we also work with the consortium of scientists from a number of universities using acoustic monitoring buoys. basically these b

primarily we focus on the blue crab with scientists from tulane university. and one of the challenges for us throughout this was we had a 24 hour news cycle where people want answers, but science is slow. the data that we collected with this just one small project to examine one very small piece of the impact come even collecting the data took months. but to analyze that will probably take them two years. so the one-year anniversary we had a lot of people asking. so you know, it's been plenty of time what happened. was it as bad as everyone said, was it not so bad bp and the government was saying the answer i think is that it is going to be decades before we can look back and feel like we have a true sense of what the damage was. but we saw the science is from tulane from these mysterious orange blobs in their sample that they're fairly sure were caused by disbursement. and so this is the oil and the disbursement answering the food chain in the gulf of mexico through these blue crabs. we also worked with the scientists from a number of universities using acou

already tulane university in new orleans and east china normal university are collaborating to improve the conservation of wetlands. and we have seen many other examples. we're also laying the groundwork for potentially significant future collaboration on development, from working together to innovate and distribute clean cook stoves and fuels to strengthening public health systems in developing countries. and our people to people programs continue to expand, most notably our 100,000 strong student exchange initiative which has already raised the stated goal of dollars to go along with the very generous chinese government support for 20,000 american students because all of us are committed to increase more people to people interactions and opportunities. now, i am well aware that these specific and very substantive partnerships may not produce major headlines. but i think they do reflect our shared commitment to translate the high level sentiments and rhetoric of these diplomatic encounters to real world benefits for our citizens, our countrys, and the wider world. just as important, a

what i learned in my prep school and american studies at tulane university, whever learned from abc,, and nbc, is that liberalism is a righteous and anybody that disagrees with it is somehow against children, the environment, and all things good. i happened upon conservatm during a time when i was driving scripts around hollywood. when i discovered a.m. radio, i started to hear a perspective that i never heard before. it made a lot more sense to me. i am indignant about the fact that the mainstream media pretends to be objective when in fact it is used by the last american people. i am a tea party guy and i am rightes about their causes. the idea that the mainstream media complex would frame the tea party from the get go as a potentially violent threat and a racist threat shows how frightened the democratic media complex is of its own citizenry of the american people. host: i want to read a little bit from your book and to get you expound on it if you would. this is on page 96. guest: is the cliche -- it is getting to become a cliche the cliche that i give in my speeches or talks is

from tulane and taught history at dillard university. she founded and was director of the publications department at the historic new orleans collection for 20 years. just published this year, in 2011, are two books, "being so gentle: the frontier love story of rachel and andrew jackson" by palgrave macmillan publishing, and another book, julia hudson, the wife of a creole artist. her biography of martha washington, "an american life," was published by viking penguin in 2005. and immediately to her right is ian mcalty, and i should say the program today had initially listed it would be discussing abraham lincoln and an author about lincoln's journey to new orleans when he was a 19-year-old. the writer, richard campanella, found another opportunity in paris -- [laughter] so he's not with us today. but we're very privileged to have another northerner who came down river to new orleans. but he decided to stay as opposed to abraham lincoln. so ian is a new orleans-based journalist and radio commentator. his previous books is a narrative abou

supportive of what's going on, our universities, i might say, the university of new orleans, tulane university, dillard and xavier have also been really on the forefront of this movement as well. let me just share these results because they are quite extraordinary. this chart will show that in 2005, 62% of students in the city of new orleans -- not 15%, not 20%, but 62% were academically unacceptable. based on standards set by our state and by the federal government, in 2005, basically 62% of all the students in new orleans were failing. they were not up to just basic education levels in reading and math. we had a terrible event happen, as many people will remember, in 2005, hurricane katrina and rita and the crashing of our levee system, the failing of our levee system, and 100 of our 146 public schools were virtually destroyed and remain unusable. through the great efforts of local leaders, state leaders and federal leaders and with fema's help and some new outof the -- out--- out of the box thinking, we were able to pool the money that each individual school and present one check to the cit