so people were saying, we're going to be seen as criticizing a government program, unpatriotic, we're going to be seen as -- people are going to boycott the product. they are -- whatever. ben as the and entrepreneur and founder -- all you guys out there, entrepreneurs and founders, you ready for this -- he shoved it down the company's wrote -- throat. [laughter] mr. greenfield: and we did it and nothing bad happened. nobody boycotted the company. sales were fine. even people who did not agree respected that the ben & jerry's was willing to take a stand on an issue that was not in its own financial self-interest. it was for the common good. that was the big difference. business is always taking political stance. business is a very political animal. it is always lobbying to not raise the minimum wage. business is always lobbying to not add any more environmental regulation. business is always looking out for its financial self-interest. but when business takes a stand for the common good, people stand up and take notice. this is something that is different. that really set ben & jerry's

in the years after world war i, to do business with a german company was still considered unpatriotic. they threw bars in his way of executing that commission. this was his payback. you'll see that, again, the equally ubiquitous washington crossing the delaware is in the background. but it's really fading, isn't it? it's a faded legacy of the american revolution. i see -- i haven't read this, but i see these images, they remind me of byzantine icons. the elong ated necks, which i imagine he wanted to show their other worldliness. robert caldscott paints george washington carver crossing the delaware. he intended it to point out racial stereotypes that are embedded in the american psyche. so you see he paints in george washington carver, steppen fetchit, aunt jemima, et cetera. in his own words, this was his personal statement on the forthcoming bicentennial, 1975. robert shimamora does the same thing, you've probably seen this, it's in the national gallery of american art. same thing. another version of the crossing i wanted to draw attention to in my last minute is larry rivers from

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certain segment of supporters, the un-american types out there that are saying things that are unpatriotic and damaging to the united states but of course it would be far more damaging for the u.s. to clamp down on freedom of speech. john: now after making his nasty comparisons of donald trump i want to end by pointing out there are a bunch of things he seems to be doing that we think are good. >> one of the best things about his election campaign was he often spoke about the crushing burden of regulations on business and i think that's why a lot of people voted for him. they are concerned about their ability to earn a living. john: ca has a school choice advocates an education department. >> people want to be left alone, a lot of people do. john: are you excited about the next four years? >> it's so hard to cut through the rhetoric to figure out what he mean seriously what is joking about. is trump true believer or a pragmatic politician? hopefully he's a pragmatist. john: thank you ryan mcmackin. next how clueless or some people? why did they protest the very system that makes their live

so people were saying, we're going to be seen as criticizing a government program, unpatriotic, we're going to be seen as -- people are going to boycott the product. they are -- whatever. and ben as the entrepreneur and founder -- all you guys out there, entrepreneurs and founders, you ready for this -- he shoved it down the company's throat. [laughter] mr. greenfield: he said, we are going to do this. and we did it and nothing bad happened. nobody boycotted the company. sales were fine. even people who did not agree wihe

certain segment of supporters, the un-american types out there that are saying things that are unpatriotic and damaging to the united states but of course it would be far more damaging for the u.s. to clamp down on freedom of speech. john: now after making his nasty comparisons of donald trump i want to end by pointing out there are a bunch of things he seems to be doing that we think are good. >> one of the best things about his election campaign was he often spoke about the crushing burden of regulations on business and i think that's why a lot of people voted for him. they are concerned about their ability to earn a living. john: ca has a school choice advocates an education department. >> people want to be left alone, a lot of people do. john: are you excited about the next four years? >> it's so hard to cut through the rhetoric to figure out what he mean seriously what is joking about. is trump true believer or a pragmatic politician? hopefully he's a pragmatist. john: thank you ryan mcmackin. next how clueless or some people? why did they protest the very system that makes their live

generation, my mom would never buy a japanese car because of what happened in world war ii, felt it was unpatriotic, that was 75 years ago. there was an ethic that you bought american products, and i'd love to see it return to that. i'm making a point and challenge you a little what you said. i think it should be up to the individual to make the decision, not the government. that's why i'm opposed to tariffs, if you and i want to buy american, we should. but if people want to buy a foreign car or foreign goods, i don't think -- trish: up to them to do it. shouldn't the government be creating an environment that encouraging people to buy the american product. >> yes, yes, yes. trish: how do we do that when there is so much competition all over the world? >> we do it through tax reform, regulatory reform. i'll give you one statistic, trish, we add an estimated 17,000 to $18,000 to the cost of every american manufacture worker just through regulation, that's like a tax we're placing on the american worker who's producing manufacturing goods here, you move the plant somewhere else, you save $10,000, i'

items it's unpatriot tiic. we don't want to single out muslims. it will discourage a lot of talent coming from our country. a lot of folks that have started businesses, hired americans and helped to make our country the great country that it is. and so my concern is that we will fuel the flames of islamphobia with this kind of approach. it was a are morel horrible tragedy for us and bad on our image when we did it with the japanese. and it's difficult to target someone's faith because people drop out of a faith. so to base it on a person's believe, we know there are billions of muslims that are black respect white, european, african. where do you stop with this. so i think we're setting a precedent for a downturn in this country. >> as a lawmaker, how do you feel tonight ahead of the holidays seeing what happened in berlin about a potential attack here in the united states of a similar sort? >> well, i think i commend our local law enforcement, state, federal and intelligence community for having brave men and women who serve in this capacity. bra

. >> not to sound unpatriotic, but in a sense we learned that america isn't exceptional, because it happened in the uk, it happened here, and it's happening across europe as well. >> to me the lesson which relates to this is, yes, there are no guardrails. there's not some sort of natural force where nations regrow -- you know, there's more global cooperation, that this sort of like -- that we get along better, no. that absolutely doesn't exist. and also the thing i keep thinking about and brexit really does connect to this is i knew this already but it was a wake-up call. you cannot build a global order that is benefitting a lot of people. and let's keep in mind it is. there are literally hundreds of millions of people in china that were at starvation levels of subsistence who can essentially work and drive cars. so this global order has conferred big benefits on hundreds of millions of people. you cannot construct something that kwerz benefits and hammers essentially the middle class that makes up the voting constituencies across the entire first world that are the most powerful governments

if this was trump people, they would be calling us unpatriotic, they would be saying this is insultingthey would be calling us all kinds of names by this point. >> we have to leave it there -- >> and probably well deserved. >> okay. bud and katrina, merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >>> mtv is dealing with a fierce backlash over a new video that molly hemming way calls racist when you've been making delicious natural cheese for over 100 years like kraft has, you learn a lot about what people want. honey, do we have like a super creamy cheese with taco spice already in it? oh, thanks. bon appe-cheese! okay... >>> mtv, remember them? they just released a new video called 2017 resolutions for white guys. causing a little controversy. watch this. >> first off, try to recognize that america was never great for anyone who wasn't a white guy. >> can we just all agree that black lives matter isn't the opposite of all lives matter? black lives just matter. there's no need to overcomplicate it. >> blue lives matter isn't a thing. >> learn what man explaining is and then stop doing it. >> if j

. >> so, the president there framing the embrace of fake news, essentially as unpatriotic. >> a littlehe's also sort of putting the onus on fake news on foreign entities, which isn't strictly true. some of it is coming from, you know, teenagers in macedonia, but some of these fake news sites are ran by people in the united states who see this as a money grab. >> let's talk about what we heard from president-elect donald trump and his continued attack on mainstream media and what he said about the dishonesty, as he calls it. let's watch last night in florida. >> here's the bottom line -- they're very dishonest. they've written very dishonestly about all of us. this is a movement like they've never seen before. and yet, we won, folks. we won. so, what happened is this -- we went out and we watched the media, and we believe the media, and the media's very dishonest. they were even dishonest in their exit polls, right? >> christina, is there some correlation between the continued attack from the president-elect on the media and the rise of fake news? >> i think that there is. i think that

germany and the years after world war i, to do business with a german company was still considered unpatriotic and so they through bars in his way of executing the commission. this was his payback. you will see the equally ubiquitous washington crossing the delaware in the background, but it is really faded, isn't it? it is a faded legacy of the american revolution. i have not read this, but i see these images and they remind me of byzantine icons, the elongated next, which i imagine a grant wood may have intended to show their otherworldliness. paintedole scott, 1975 not george washington crossing the delaware, but george washington carver crossing the delaware. he intended it to point out racial stereotypes embedded in the american psyche just as deeply as leutze's images are. this was in his own words, " his private exploration and personal statement of the forthcoming bicentennial." does the same thing. it was installed recently in the national gallery of american art. same thing, but another version of the crossing i wanted to draw attention to is larry rivers, 1953 "the crossing." i will

does he seem quite unpatriotic, disregard what the american intelligence agencies are saying, or does beginning to his term in office with russia? that is exactly it. president obama is both lashing out a rather belatedly, in my view, ata out a rather belatedly, in my view, at a russia and the kremlin, persecuting american diplomats in crude ways for many years, conducting a spy war against the united states. this is also leading a time bomb for his successor. this puts a real dilemma on mr trump's desk in the oval office. why do you think, and you talked a little bit why president obama waited until now to do this. he obviously feels there to do this. he obviously feels there to do this right now. it is after all the last few weeks of his time in office. is there also a calculation this will take things more awkward for donald trump? the tactical timing is very good, he did not intervene during the election campaign, he worried it will be seen as using the machinery of government to favour hillary clinton over donald trump. doing it now, in the dying days, less than three weeks of hi

if this was trump people, they would be calling us unpatriotic, they would be saying this is insultingand they would be calling us all kinds of names by this point. >> we have to leave it there -- >> and probably well deserved. >> okay. bud and katrina, merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >>> mtv is dealing with a fierce backlash over a new video that molly hemming way calls racist and sexist. she'll join us next to talk about yes why. there's a denture adhesive that holds strong until evening. fixodent plus adhesives. just one application gives you superior hold even at the end of the day fixodent. strong more like natural teeth. when are they leaving? grilled cheese and campbell's tomato soup go together like grandchildren and chaos. made for real, real life. >>> mtv, remember them? they just released a new video called 2017 resolutions for white guys. causing a little controversy. watch this. >> first off, try to recognize that america was never great for anyone who wasn't a white guy. >> can we just all agree that black lives matter isn't the opposite of all lives matter? black li

that's almost unpatriotic of him to say that. well, unfortunately, the evidence overwhelmingly points to naval involvement on the night of july 17th. now, there may have been some rogue element that snuck in there, there may have been an allied ship in the maneuvers, i don't know. i do not know literally who fired the missile, but i know that missiles were fired, and i know that missiles took down flight 800. the evidence overwhelmingly argues for naval involvement. and the smoking gun was there from the beginning. and that is that what everyone acknowledged -- except "the new york times" which chose not to acknowledge anything -- there was a navy p3 orion hovering right above twa be 800 when it blew up. there were technical manuals in which the p3 is used as a communications mode and was called a cooperative engagement capability where various ships and sub a marines cooperate to -- submarines cooperate to do a missile test or shoot other missiles out of the sky, planes out of the sky. and it was sitting right there. we also kno

it's button pushing and patriotic and it keeps people from protesting and might brand you as an unpatriotic person when you're protesting something simple. i honestly feel to get rid of these lone wolf people, would be less censorship. we have so much censorship of our muse this is why so many people call you and say thank you. that's my comment. >> all i can say is that it's very important to understand here that what i'm not talking about is censorship. if you're a 100% believer in the first amendment as i am. there's certain restrictions by law against the first amendment right in the united states and as a lawyer what we're talking about is not censoring. what we're talking about is removing content that the internet service providers themselves acknowledge and violate their own standards and that they are taking down. if there was no censorship in the united states then twitter, and youtube and google and facebook would not be taking down, taking down the sites of individuals who are violating all sorts of standards because of their own speech. whether it's radical islam or something e

so people were saying, we're going to be seen as criticizing a government program, unpatriotic, we're going to be seen as -- people are going to boycott the product. they are -- whatever. and ben as the entrepreneur and founder -- all you guys out there, entrepreneurs and founders, you ready for this -- he shoved it down the company's throat. [laughter] mr. greenfield: he said, we are going to do this. and we did it and nothing bad happened. nobody boycotted the company. sales were fine. even people who did not agree with the position, respected that ben & jerry's was willing to take a stand on an issue that was not in its own financial self-interest. it was for the common good. that was the big difference. business is always taking political stance. business is a very political animal. it is always lobbying to not raise the minimum wage. business is always lobbying to not add any more environmental regulation. business is always looking out for its financial self-interest. but when business takes a stand for the common good, people stand up and take notice. this is something that is

so people were saying, we're going to be seen as criticizing a government program, unpatriotic, we're going to be seen as -- people are going to boycott the product. they are -- whatever. and ben as the entrepreneur and founder -- all you guys out there, entrepreneurs and founders, you ready for this -- he shoved it down the company's throat. [laughter] mr. greenfield: he said, we are going to do this. and we did it and nothing bad happened. nobody boycotted the company. sales were fine. even people who did not agree with the position, respected that ben & jerry's was willing to take a stand on an issue that was not in its own financial self-interest. it was for the common good. that was the big difference. business is always taking political stance. business is a very political animal. it is always lobbying to not raise the minimum wage. business is always lobbying to not add any more environmental regulation. business is always looking out for its financial self-interest. but when business takes a stand for the common good, people stand up and take notice. this is something that is

protesting because some white -- someone might without a flag and verdant and brand you as being unpatrioticto get rid of these people, the best thing would be less censorship. we have so much censorship of our news because it is in so few hands. this is why some people call you and say thank you c-span. that is my only comment. guest: i think it is very important to understand what we are not talking about is censorship. if you are a 100% believer in the first amendment, as i am, there are certainly restrictions by law against the first amendment right in the united states. as a lawyer, i am well-versed with the constitutional law this. what we are talking about is not censoring. we are talking about removing content that internet service providers themselves acknowledge violent their own standards, and they are taking down. if there was no censorship in the united states, then twitter, youtube, and google, and facebook, would not be taking down -- taking down the sites of individuals who are violating all sorts of standards because of their own speech, whether it is radical islam, or somet

otherwise you'll be called unpatriotic.so, for instance, a neighborhood was organized into small block of four or five households, and they would cooperate with each other. in other words, they would sort of -- [inaudible] on each other that they were performing patriotic duties and attending drills against possible fire or air raids actually already. also they had the job of distributing food, rationed food amongst themselves equitably. and that was also a source of resentment for many, many families, because people felt cheated. the it's just a system of mutual distrust. so, but then every sort of neighborhood association had an incomer for the military -- informer for the military police. it's speculated. there's nothing to prove, but i think it was based on fear of being singled out. so people really kept really low profile. jazz music was banned, and dance halls were closed, shut down. so there was no sort of overtly western entertainment, something that went unchecked because people were still holding american footbal

sent off from china and the home front had to show their support otherwise you would be called unpatrioticso for instance the neighborhood was organized into small block of four or five households and they would spy on each other that they were performing patriotic duties and attending drills against a possible fire or air raids. so they have the job of distributing food, rationed food amongst themselves equitably. that was a source of resentment for many families because people felt cheated. it was a system of neutral distrust. but every neighborhood association had an informer for the police. it speculated, nothing to prove but it was based on fear of being singled out. so people had a low profile, jazz music was found and -- was closed and shut down. so there is no overtly entertainment. some things went unchecked because people come i think you didn't want to be singled outth for all of the wrong reasons. >> i think i read in your book that basically private cars were banned because of the use of oil, they invented cars running on charcoal and one bottle of beer every six months or eve

otherwise you'll be called unpatriotic. so, for instance, a neighborhood was organized into small block of four or five households, and they would cooperate with each other. in other words, they would sort of -- [inaudible] on each other that they were performing patriotic duties and attending drills against possible fire or air raids actually already. also they had the job of distributing food, rationed food amongst themselves equitably. and that was also a source of resentment for many, many families, because people felt cheated. the it's just a system of mutual distrust. so, but then every sort of neighborhood association had an incomer for the military -- informer for the military police. it's speculated. there's nothing to prove, but i think it was based on fear of being singled out. so people really kept really low profile. jazz music was banned, and dance halls were closed, shut down. so there was no sort of overtly western entertainment, something that went unchecked because people were still holding american footba