. >> i think woody allen captured the situation best in "annie hall." >> i think what we got on our hands is a dead shark. >> do we have a dead shark? >> not going to be a good day for the president. >> not a good day. >> now we have tropical storm lee threatening the gulf coast. >> been a bad month. >> crazy and busy, significant september. >> the president wants to provide more work for the underemployed, especially the underemployed in the house of representatives. >> republicans like eric cantor are threatening to hold victims of hurricane irene hostage. >> second wind, big time. >> the white house may have to think bold now. >> a congressman who says he won't even bother to listen to the president's jobs plan. >> there's no reason for him to call a joint session of congress. >> delivering a speech in front of a joint session of congress, i would respectfully say isn't work. >> by 8:35, every single republican presidential candidate had sounded off. >> mitt romney led the charge. >> it's been three years, and he's out. >> and will rick perry blow mitt romney away by the end of the hur

a quote from a two line scene from a woody allen film called start up memories. woody allen plays a filmmaker and they're having a film festival honoring him and his movies but he is tired of it and the movies and the crowds and celebrities and all this and wants to give up and goes for a walk in the woods and encounters some aliens and thinks maybe these aliens have the answers so he goes to the head alien and says to him shortstop making movies and do something that counts like helping blind people are becoming a missionary or something? and the alien responds let me tell you you are not the missionary tight. you would never last. and incidentally you are also not superman. you want to do man cut a service? tel funnier jokes. i really appreciate you being here. thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen leaders will once again. michael moore. [applause].. >> professor benjamin hopkins, what is the east india company? >> the british east india company was a semicommercial company founded in the year 1600 by royal charter by queen elizabeth which gave it the exclusive ri

woody allen please those filmmaker and there have been a film fest honoring him and his movies.and he's tired of all the movies in the crowd and the whole celebrity thing and all of this and she just wants to give up and goes for a walk in the woods and encounters aliens methinks maybe these aliens have the answer. so he goes head-to-head iliad and says to them, to him or to it, shouldn't i stop making movies and do some thing that counts, like helping blind people are becoming a missionary or something? in the alien response, let me tell you, you are not missionary type. he'd never last. and incidentally, you will also not superman. you are a comedian. you want to do mankind a real service? tell funnier jokes. >> thank you very much everybody for being here. i greatly appreciate it. [applause] 's >> ladies and gentlemen, once again, michael moore. >> for more information, visit the website michael moore.com. >> up next, shannen rossmiller talks about being a self-taught terrorist hunter and the sting operation she carried out with the fbi. this is about 20 minutes. >> good afte

i mean, i can't explain it, but they have, like, two yelling deejays that, you know, as woody allen says, "deaden the sensibilities of this great democracy." but you turn on cable television, you have two people yelling at each other in 30 seconds or less. yes. they're not looking for any middle position. what is it, though-- you know, you sort of talk about the big companies that shove this down our throats, but what does it say about the american public that they buy it? you do a riff on the grammys and about how the music's shoved down their throats and mediocre talents prevail. whose fault is that? it is--it's a-- it's a combination of faults. you know, what came first, the chicken or the egg? the mediocrity or the desire for the mediocrity? i would say if you spoon-feed mediocrity to young people constantly, they think that they want mediocrity. but, you know, there is a huge, huge, huge market for good music out there. a huge market, and they're buying indie rock, and they're buying, you know, classical, all kinds of things. i just happen to prefer indie rock, you know, myself, and

woody allen's saying is 80% of life is showing up. if you just show up now you're not going get the returns you might hope for. >> charlie: you also say the book begins with china too in part because -- >> because china is in the view of many americans forge go ahead while we're falling behind. what we say is that our nervousness about china is really a reflection of our discontent with ourselves. china is a vastly important factor in the world of the 21st century but we don't needo imitate china. what we need to do in order to thrive in the 21st century is to get back to our own best traditns, our own best practices. >> charlie: like we used to be. >> like we used to be and that's why a book about the american future and how to navigate it has a backward looking title, that used to be us. if we look it our history and what we call our formula for a public-private partnership for success which has five parts and goes back all the way to the beginning of the remember to alexander hamilton. if we look to basic american values we've drif