benjamin franklin. >> ♪ my country tis of thee sweet land of liberty of thee i see land where my fathers died led freedom ring ring ring to be free >> freedom has its life in the heart. the action, the spirit of men, dwight d. eisenhower. >> we stand for freedom. that is our conviction for ourselves. that is our only commitment to others. john f. kennedy. >> ♪ free free ♪ >> give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teaming shores, send these, your homeless, tempest tossed to me. i lift my lamp to the golden door. >> ♪ [applause] [cheers and applause] >> the next time you take a muni bus or train, there could be new technology that could make it easier to get to your destination. many are taking a position of next bus technology now in use around the city. updated at regular intervals from the comfort of their home or workplace. next bus uses satellite technology and advanced computer modeling to track buses and trains, estimating are bought stocks with a high degree of accuracy. the bus and train our arrival informati

i described benjamin franklin turning north in 1775. real ordeal for 70-year-old mad at that time of year. his instructions make for fascinating reading. my favorite line is you are establishing free press and give directions for the frequent publication as needs to be observed at the time. franklin failed but gave the british quite a scare and so doing inaugurated an american conquering into liberty being played out today. let me give you one more example of how the book draws connections between now and the present. summer of 1777 emerging forces evacuated for ticonderoga in the face of an invasion from canada led by the general. the retreat turned into a route. the americans lost their equipment and a lot of their self-respect. some of that self-respect was beginning a few days later. the only real battle ever fought, action at which the british pursued -- it is about the battle. a year after the events, general arthur sinclair, a veteran of the british, a real regular in his out look. he had been at odds throughout the campaign, par

the name is in honor of benjamin franklin. , bonhomme richard good man richard. in france, it was captain by john paul jones. it went on the campaign off but the british isles to take the word to the british. it ended in a battle against a top of the ship. the bonhomme richard is not. the bottom line is that they had no right to win. there were sinking. half the crew was dead. the crew did what they had no right to do, and they won that battle through climbing in the yard arms, hand-to-hand, and they eventually to the other ship. bonhomme richard sunk next day. it is a great testament to what sailors can do in a testament to defeating diversity. the crew on board today are just as a heroic, when you see the things they do every day, as those heroes were in 1779. again, i want to welcome you here. i hope you get a chance to see some of the ship as you walk around when you do tours talk to some the sailors and marines who operate it. i am is available for questions about the sheep. i will turn it over to the fleet week folks. thank you again for your hospitality. [

franklin. a new public school in baltimore. one with a heavy heart. season is dedicated to a headband to be the sixth man this season but was until this summer. the team has played very well in his honor. he led the way with 16 points. we will keep our eye on the bay hawks all season long. the military ball showcased teams all game long. they delivered at the where it -- reasons promise. tied at 28, working a drop to perfection. he makes the pick and he gets off running. he goes about 75 yards. it was worth it. late fourth inside a minute to play. thousands down one touchdown. defense tripping over themselves and walks in for the score. extra point. it is fake. he coughs it up well before the goal line accurate -- some air force players a little interested in the last place election. the gatorade shower. >> stay with >> quiet and 45. new year's eve will be dry and the next week it gets cold. >> that is all for a 11 news tonight. we will see you back here tomorrow. >> have a good one.

franklin were to come back now, the only thing he would recognize would be our education system. it is the only thing that has not changed in terms of how we educate. it has not changed a whole lot. your thoughts, your sense of whether or not the way we go about teaching kids, the methodology, is there something wrong? >> we have to rethink the way we are educating kids. this is not an issue just with teachers. it also has to do with us as a community. i have sent to children. -- two children. what to our want to see in a classroom? i want a grandmotherly teacher. that is the vision i have for kindergarten. nowadays, not necessarily. technology. ere had been some early studies at classrooms across the nation that are using technology in a hybrid approach. they have more kids in the classroom. it is completely decked out with new technology that helps to individualize instruction. some parents think about, my kid is going to be in a larger classicize. maybe they will have headphones and be looking at a screen. is that which you want? if you look at the data, it shows that classroo

you have the luxury of along historic called the taxman from einstein and benjamin franklin but here you write a biography of a very compelling living per cent of close and personal over 40 interviews. have a day maintain that necessary detachment that you could not spend with einstein are franklin. >> when steve did his stanford speech he said let me tell you three stories. you become a storyteller and you don't try to preach i try to let the stories tell themselves. one of the things i discovered by having so much time with them in 150 other people who worked with them is how much more we know that i could know about him than benjamin franklin or einstein. we think he wrote to a lot of letters come a 40 volumes of paper science guy they're still compiling, but like flying a kite in the rain. one little journal entry, a newspaper clip, but with steve, everything that happened i would hear about at great length then other people's versions and i probably end up knowing 100 o thousand times more about him and each story in the book the new wide doing it through letters or journal's. >

. >> because the bully hell benjamin franklin middle school band had just been loved. >> this was the cash box that was found today. >> how much was in that? spivak over $700. >> cameras were rolling as the total of four suspects case to the auditorium. >> the first time, they came around and circle the auditorium. >> two suspects then crept in to the foyer, blending in with spectators paying $5 per person and literally snatching the cash box from the appearance hand. >> so they had no knowledge that the suspect was going past? >> they did it fast walk in and ran out. >> then they joined the other two suspects and did this. >> they turned their hooded sweatshirt inside out so they were different color and it was difficult to pinpoint who they were. >> you will recall that the start of the school year was in jeopardy after thieves stole to cover, copper wire to cover up the ball field in. >> the students played on mostly because parents didn't have the heart to tell them that the money had been ripped off. >> it hurt me. i don't know why they would do something like that. >> this distr

franklin were to come back now, the only thing he would recognize would be our education system. it is the only thing that has not changed in terms of how we educate. it has not changed a whole lot. your thoughts, your sense of whether or not the way we go about teaching kids, the methodology, is there something wrong? >> we have to rethink the way we are educating kids. this is not an issue just with teachers. it also has to do with us as a community. i have sent to children. -- two children. what to our want to see in a classroom? i want a grandmotherly teacher. that is the vision i have for kindergarten. nowadays, not necessarily. technology. there had been some early studies at classrooms across the nation that are using technology in a hybrid approach. they have more kids in the classroom. it is completely decked out with new technology that helps to individualize instruction. some parents think about, my kid is going to be in a larger classicize. maybe they will have headphones and be looking at a screen. is that which you want? if you look at the data, it shows that classr

benjamin franklin's own son was i am prisoned. we're obviously divided at the beginning of the civil war because it was about the division of the country. the entry into world war i we're divided. 50 members of congress voted against division of the country. even after september 11th we became divided quickly. only in world war ii we completely united and stay united for three years and eight months. >> wow. what do you want folks to take away? >> i hope they buy a lot of them. >> what do you want them to know? >> history. the great historian, those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it and we need to study our own history so we know more about ourselves but also know about future problems that we might confront. >> all right. craig shirley. his book is called december 1941. very appropriate to see on the anniversary. >> thank you. >>> well, again, this is the anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor and the school where the first daughters eat their lunch and get education served with items that may be considered jap

benjamin franklin was really keen on this. the continental congress was really keen on this and lafayette -- at the end of his life to be polite it get to bring canada into the united states of america, fringe aristocratic stuff. the story there is how washington does him in. goes beyond his back -- congress is really enthusiastic and he finally goes up to the person and says let me tell you. you cannot trust the french. even if they act with genuine intention of turning canada over to us once you have a french fleet and a french army, the marquis they lafayette says i am not so sure. and he encourages the marquee to take a long overdue leave to go back to congress. lafayette never tweaked this. he had no idea. is good buddy george washington who really put the, bosh on this project of his. he used this for information purposes, he puts the word out that this is actually going -- to canada or can't do any damage and the marquee falls for it. washington who did not visit the warpath until after the revolution is actually -- >>

. >> this book covers the a sweet from benjamin franklin and beyond, sex lives of politicians and american reactions to a. let's hear from providence, road island. >> can you tell me how has the book been received so far and are you surprised at its reception? >> we have had great reviews. everyone who has read it has had something positive to date. there are some who resent that we are telling these stories about the heroes of america. the important thing, not trying to tear down the heroes or seem like they weren't important figures and good figures. just trying to show their live for more complicated than what you were taught in high school and college. >> you are a member of the academy. professor at columbia. what is the reaction of colleagues to your project? >> supportive. i teach at columbia and we have a long history of being supportive of alternative voices and they understand this was a huge opportunity to work with someone and not only has a different perspective on history but who made history themselves and is an important figure. >> host: larry friend refers to you as his fr

and benjamin franklin was really keen on this. the continental congress was really keen on this. and lafayette, this was his dream. and, in fact, after -- at the end of his life he says, this is my only regret, that i didn't want get to bring -- that i didn't get to bring canada into the united states of america by the force of french arms which i would have led. you know, french aristocratic stuff. and the story there is how washington really does him in. and he very quietly kind of goes behind his back to the president of the continental congress and says we have to stop this. and the congress is really enthusiastic. he finally just goes up and person and says, let me tell you, he said, you cannot trust the french. even if they act with the genuine intention of turning canada over to us, once you have a french fleet there and a french army, their view will change. and by the way, the marquis de lafayette says this is his idea, i'm not so sure. and then he encourages the march key to take a long overdue leave to go back to paris. lafayette had no idea that it was his good buddy,

if you had benjamin franklin tweeting from the constitutional convention, there would be a lot less books printed about the constitutional convention because we would know. i do not know how you pay brian williams so much money, but how does that affect your reporting? in no way, had you compete with those folks? >> i do not care whether anyone -- where anyone watch as a single one of my news reports, on an ipad or on their walk in the metro and there i popped up for a few minutes, that is not my concern. that is for the brainy at technology people. unfortunately the big corporation who delays the technology delays how quickly i can get my report you. i want people to consume news and product. one of the biggest challenges is the steve jobs case, where steve jobs dies one day, wednesday night, after most of the american nightly news cast had finished. the next day, they all led with his death. at 730 on thursday, there is nothing that i learned just by normal, regular consumption of the reformation. -- information. i did not go out of my way to do anything. just by logging on the internet

benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson and james madison we seem to have forgotten how to win wars consistent with those kinds of values with those and lightman values but george washington understood this at the battle of trenton for example he'd captured a thousand has sions these were german mercenaries base and he ordered his troops to treat them in accordance with the values that this new nation it was not yet even a nation actually was fighting for then the battle of princeton washington sent this order to his troops in regard to how to treat british prisoners of war he said treat them with humanity and let them have no reason to complain of our copy in the brutal example of the british army and their treatment of our unfortunate brother and who have fallen into their hands is the fact the matter is the british army when they took american soldiers as prisoners they would torture them many of them died being tortured they would indefinitely detain them they could they kept them in in stinking cells and fed them virtually nothing or just water and bread indefinite detention and torture a

. >> bbrowitz: and so benjamin franklin would be in some of hilarious! [laughter] compared to james madison, yes, he was really, reallyú like, wait a minute, i want this to be, and i think you would make thhs assessment,3 i want ttis to be an awesome bathroom book. >> smith: right. >> borowitz: i want this to be the first bathroom book in the history of library of america. >> smith: right. yes. >> borowitz: you know because they'')re uued to doing -- >> smith: it's not exactly their brand. >> borowitz: no, i mean their books are usually you know these very black, serious looking volumes of things like the collected works of herman melville, or edith wharton, so i want to brand. >> smith: right, well and success. >> borowitz: and success. >> smith: i love it. >> borowitz: it's just -- it'sspersonal, it's not, it's not definitive. >> smith: and yet it says 50 funniest. >> borowitz: it says, well it says -- >> smith: you would be led to believe that it was definitive on the basis of the name. >> orowitz: right, it says the 50 funniest american wriiers. ass

franklin or einstein. you think franklin wrote a lot of letters, 40 volumes of papers, einstein, still compiling those papers, and we should know more, but the flying the kite in the rain, one little journal entry with a newspaper clip, but with steve, everything that happened i'd hear about it at great length, and then you hear other people's versions of it, and i probably ended up knowing a hundred or thousand times more about him and each story in the book than you would doing somebody who you're doing it through letters or journals. >> okay. let's talk about the story telling now, and the place i'd like to begin is his partnership with waz, the very early days. >> the blue box. >> right. >> it starts with atari, actually, doing games with steve is on the night shift because they kind it easier to work with him if he's on the night shift. [laughter] he learns a lot with atari and the notion of sub chips and how they do amazing things and also simplicity. remember that games like pong and broke out and s

most famously it divided our founding father, benjamin franklin from his only son william franklin who remains a loyalist. so this was a conflict that cut right through the center of american life and it was routinely described as a civil war at the time. who were these loyalist? stereotypes still loom large when thinking about loyalist. we tend to think of them as being white, gilead, men with strong ties to britain, members typically of the anglican church. we think of them under the label tory, which is a term meaning conservative in british political culture. again, throw the stereotypes out of love with your old images of the american revolution. this was not the only profile of loyalist. a loyalist and ranged right across the social ethnic, the geographic, the religious spectrum of early america. it included shoemakers and carpenters and bakers cosmopolitan city dwellers farmers on the frontier by thomas brown and most of all, these loyalist were not even tory in the sense of being conservative. in fact many of them resisted the idea of paying taxes to britain and many of them wa

the first ngo in the united states is the volunteer fire department benjamin franklin organized in philadelphia before the constitution was ratified. and he was doing old-fashioned ngo work, 18th century style. that is, there's always going to be a gap between what the private sector will produce and the government can provide. we didn't have enough government to afford a fire department and i went to players to make it profitable to be a private business. on the other hand, if that is your building, you thought there were enough fires. so we organize the volunteer fire department. one of the morning television shows i did today the today show after i left, they had what is fast becoming the biggest family in america. this did you see a? disabling with 18 children about to be maintained [inaudible] >> 19 about to be 20. that guy is a conservative republican and the arkansas legislature and my last year's president. that's the first time met him. 11 years ago. but we're talking to his kids because one of the kids is proud to be the fact that he was a volunteer fireman and it town i live were ree

franklin and thomas jefferson reserve to be regarded as an enormously valuable citizens peace all brand as something more than that and spoke of in this way. as we look back with wisdom and the nation's past the figures of washington, lincoln and grant these greatest men have taken their place on the great men of all nations of all the time the greatest crises of the history of the great occasions when we stood in the van of humanity and stock the two most effective blows that have ever been struck for human freedom under the law. the heartfelt memory. julia said ali, his wife, arrested in may and was warned in the sunlight of his loyal loved and now even though his beautiful wife is out it is as if some plan that disappears from the heavens but later still reaches out to me, falls upon me. thank you very much. [applause] let me say again i very much appreciate the note twitching. [laughter] i am ready to deal with your questions. as far as i am concerned there are no dumb questions and if i don't know an answer i will tell you that and in a group like this i'm sure there always is some

the person that put in the word "self-evident" on that committee was benjamin franklin, undoubtedly an atheist. thomas jefferson was by no means a christian. george washington wouldn't take communion. it's all true. >> you called mother teresa a thieving fanatical albanian dwarf. >> yes. >> anything you say about barack obama is puny compared to that. >> that's not to what she said when she made her speech in stockholm and said the main threat to world peace is abortion and contraception. i mean, come on. >> a simpering bambi narcissist you. >> that's also true. >> what do you -- >> at least no one tried to give princess diana the nobel peace prize. they did give it to another person involved in the land mine issue. >> what's wrong with him taking it? >> well, it would be like giving someone an oscar in the hope he would one day make a good motion picture. >> there he is, chri

many historians credit benjamin franklin as a first amendment champion. franklin was, himself, a journalist and a printer. his brother, james, started one of the early colonial newspapers and was jail repeatedly before the revolution before his incendiary statements. if i could only talk to ben franklin, i'd say, mr. franklin, surely you supported the first amendment as a way to make sure that the people can speak freely, without interference, right? you didn't intend it to be used as an excuse for corporate cash to buy off politicians? ah, my good friend, franklin would say, you have hit the nail upon the head. we didn't revolt against the king only to be taken over by multi-national corporations to buy ads and indirect campaign contributions, no! franklin would have been on our side, dylan. i'm convinced of it. the guy was a populist, a man of the people. and he no doubt wanted the first amendment to protect speech, even unpopular speech. not to establish moneyed interests unlimited campaign expenditures. can the supreme court make a mistake? of course

franklin and thomas jefferson deserve to be regarded as enormously valuable citizens. he's a grant to something more than that and spoke with him this way. as we look back with keener wisdom into the nation's past, the mightiest among the mighty dead bloom the figures of washing 10, lincoln and grant. these three greatest men have taken their place among the great men of all nations, the great and of all time. the state supreme in the two greatest crisis of our history on the great occasions when we stood in the van of humanity has struck the two most effective woes that have ever been struck for human freedom under the law. of all that was ever about grant, nothing would have pleased him more than julia's heartfelt and worked memory of the man she called with. julia said, hi his wife arrested in and was formed in the sunlight of his loyal love the great same and now even though his beautiful life is gone now, it is as if in some far-off planet disappears from the heavens, the light of this glorious standstill reaches out to me, falls upon me and warms me. thank you ve

delano roosevelt and first american called life and times of benjamin franklin in 2000. twenty-four books. he has presented eight times here. he is a passed texas award winner at this festival at he has not one but two book said the festival this year. if you can't get enough of him now come back tomorrow and that book is the murder--the love of j mansfield along with the book we are discussing today. to agree back planet:how the dollar conquered the world and threatened civilization as we know it. sounds horrible. maybe it is. what i would like to start off with today is each of our authors talk about their books for a few minutes and i will ask a few soft ball questions and leave the hardball questions to you guys and give you a prompt to have people queue up to ask those questions and keep those questions going on as long as we can before you go out to buy their books. can you tell me about that? >> why that? why do we have that? one of the questions i asked when writing the book is what is that? one thing i was trying to explain was the strange moral power that debt

the first ngo in the united states is the volunteer fire department, benjamin franklin organize in philadelphia before the constitution was ratified. and he was doing old-fashioned ngo work, 18th century style. that is, is always going going to be a gap between what the private sector will produce and the government can provide. we didn't have enough government to afford a fire department and they were not enough fires to make it profitable to make it a private business. on the other hand, if it was your building you thought there were enough fires. so we organized the volunteer fire department. one of the morning television shows i did today, the today show, after i left they had what is fast becoming the biggest them in america, did you see it? this family with 18 children, about to be 19, about to be 20, 19 about the between. that guy is a conservative republican who was in the arkansas legislature in my last year's present, the first time i met him. 11 years ago. but we're talking to his kids because one of his kids is proud of the fact that he was a volunteer fireman in the little town whe

franklin and thomas jefferson deserve to be regarded as enormously valuable citizens. he saw grant is something more than not spoke of in this way. as we look at with keener wisdom in the nation's past, mightiest among the mighty dead, live the figures of washington, lincoln and grant, t.'s three greatest men have taken their place among the great men of all nations, the great men of all time. they stood to put in the two greatest crises in our history of the two great occasions when we stood in the vein of humanity and struck the two most effects of both have have ever been struck for human freedom under the law. of all that was appropriate about grant, nothing would've pleased him more than julius heartfelt in the memory of the man she called you this. julia said, i his wife arrested in and was formed in the sunlight of his boiled up in great pain and now, even those beautiful light has gone out, it is as if when some far-off planet disappears and i have been come to light it your hands reaches out to me, falls upon me. thank you very much. caught back [applause] >>

you have the luxury of along historic called the taxman from einstein and benjamin franklin but here you write a biography of a very compelling living per cent of close and personal over 40 interviews. have a day maintain that necessary detachment that you could not spend with einstein are franklin. >> when steve did his stanford speech he said let me tell you three stories. you become a storyteller and you don't try to preach i try to let the stories tell themselves. one of the things i discovered by having so much time with them in 150 other people who worked with them is how much more we know that i could know about him than benjamin franklin or einstein. we think he wrote to a lot of letters come a 40 volumes of paper science guy they're still compiling, but like flying a kite in the rain. one little journal entry, a newspaper clip, but with steve, everything that happened i would hear about at great length then other people's versions and i probably end up knowing 100 o thousand times more about him and each story in the book the new wide doing it through letters or journal's. >

agreeing that men like benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson reserved to be regarded as enormously valuable citizens he saw grant something more than that and spoke of him this way--as we look back with keener with intonation's past, mightiest among the mighty lemon the figures of washington, lincoln and grant. these three greatest men have taken their place among the great men of all nations, the great men of all time. they stood supreme in the two greatest crises of history on the tree to great occasions where we stood on the bane of humanity and struck two effective blows that have ever been struck for human freedom under the law. of all that was ever written about grand nothing would have pleased him more than julia's heartfelt memory of the man she called you less. i his wife rested in and was warned in the sunlight of his loyal love and great fame and now even though it is beautiful life has gone out it is as if when some far off planet disappears from the heavens the light of his glorious bain still reaches out to me and pulls upon me and warms me. thank you. [applause] let me say ag

the system that madison created -- this is what benjamin franklin said. a woman asked what he created. he said a republic, madam. host: a republican in utah, cal. good morning. caller: i want to thank you for being one of the fuel law professors that police in individual rights and freedoms. one of the things that is the detention of u.s. citizens without due process. i called all by representatives from utah and congratulate those that voted against it and said those that voted for it that i would vote against them. this is about the president -- who gets eliminated or not eliminated. this coming from a guy that would fight against the death penalty in the case of people who have been tried and found guilty of heinous crimes. the thing you had on about the collective shrug from the populace -- the american people are never, ever told the truth. the mainstream media is so biased towards one side that they are not telling the truth. i will set-- remember the movie where he couldcarrey not lie, "liar, liar." you would see a dramatic shift in this country li

if i did family friends in benjamin franklin from his only son william franklin who remained a loyal list. who were the loyalists? this stereotypes live large we tend to think of them as being white, e. lee, men with strong ties to britain britain, members of the anglican church and think of them under the tory label meaning conservative of british political culture. again, throw the stereotypes out along with their images of the revolution. this is not the only profile. it ranged across the social, ethnic and religious carpenters, cosmopolitan farmers on the frontier and most of tories in being resisted the ada to pay britain and many wanted to see reform but not another stereotype we need in included a number of better futures for themselves in a better prospect under the government of the british did of the hands of the white settlers after some decades have been trying to take their land. of the various indian nations align themselves with britain. and liberalism included a number of black americans burly of the those black slaves and said it and come and join us and we 20,000 bl

they understand that in the words of benjamin franklin, he'll cheat without scruple who can without fear. when congress is free to spend more than it takes in every single year without political consequence, bad things happen. congress starts to manipulate more and more of the economy and that is something that the american people understand is hurtful rather than helpful to them, to the people on the ground, to the person who's unemployed and looking for a job, for the person who's underemployed or underpaid for the work that he does. or the single mother who's just worried about taking care of their children. for the grandparents who are worried about the future of their grandchildren, worried about the fact that for the first time in american history, americans fear that their posterity will enjoy a lower standard of living than what they have enjoyed. all of this is due to the fact that congress has known no real boundaries to its authority and recognized no real limits on its ability to spend your hard-earned money. this has real consequences. but we can forestall those negative con

itself-evident on that committee was benjamin franklin who undoubtedly was an atheist. at least no one tried to be princess diana the nobel peace prize. >> okay. what is wrong with them taking it? >> well, it would be like giving someone an oscar in the hope that he would one day make a good motion picture. >> well, because he's abnormally unintelligent, fantastically uncultured, uneducated and apparently quite proud of all of these things. john mccain is a lot older than he was in january. and it shows. he looks weird. he automatically raises the question, with all of the collapsing sceneries speeches that he's making, you don't know what he's going to say next and he doesn't know either. who does he pick for his caretaker? which makes it more disgraceful, he's picked someone who is not by any stretch of the imagination qualified, maybe not to be even governor of alaska. [ female announcer ] find yourself sometimes cleaning up after your dishcloth? bounty extra soft can help. it's super durable, and in this lab test bounty extra soft leaves this surface three times cle

benjamin franklin has often been quoted for the line that says he will cheat without scruple who can without fear. i think when looking at congress today, he might say congress will spend more money than it has whenever it possibly can, whenever it has the option of spending more. as madison said, if men were angels, no government would be necessary, and if angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. we are, as human beings, not angels, and our government isn't run by angels either. this is why we need these structural, permanent spending reform mechanisms. we cannot afford to accept a substitute here, a cheap imitation, a trojan horse balanced budget amendment like senate joint resolution 24, because if we adopt something like that, we will create the illusion to the american people that we are actually undertaking efforts to control our out-of-control deficit spending problem when, in fact, we're doing nothing because it's always the case that we're involved in a military conflict somewhere. congress will always be able to mus

this is what benjamin franklin said one woman came up to him and said, what have you created in philadelphia? madam,, " a republic, i fyou can kee -- if you can keep it." if you are a nation of chumps, you lose the republic that wa s created. caller: i want to thank you for believing in individual rights and freedom. one of the things that is really disturbing to me -- in the national defense authorization act, it allows for the detention of u.s. oil -- u.s. citizens on u.s. soil without due process. i called my representatives and congratulated them for voting against it. this thing about the president being able to decide who gets eliminated and who does not at his own personal discretion, this coming from a guy who would probably fight against the death people -- the death penalty in cases the people who the been tried and found guilty of heinous crimes -- to have been tried and found guilty of heinous crimes. i think the problem is that the american people are never, ever told the truth. mainstream media is so biased towards one side that they are truth.lling the remember the movie with

this is what benjamin franklin said one woman came up to him and said, what have you created in philadelphia? madam,, " a republic, i fyou can kee -- if you can keep it." if you are a nation of chumps, you lose the republic that wa s created. caller: i want to thank you for believing in individual rights and freedom. one of the things that is really disturbing to me -- in the national defense authorization act, it allows for the detention of u.s. oil -- u.s. citizens on u.s. soil without due process. i called my representatives and congratulated them for voting against it. this thing about the president being able to decide who gets eliminated and who does not at his own personal discretion, this coming from a guy who would probably fight against the death people -- the death penalty in cases the people who the been tried and found guilty of heinous crimes -- to have been tried and found guilty of heinous crimes. i think the problem is that the american people are never, ever told the truth. mainstream media is so biased towards one side that they are truth.lling the remember the movie with

agassi will end this by saying that benjamin franklin, who actually brought us the very first political cartoon, would be leaping if he saw the choppy -- the atrocity on the wall this -- call this weekend. c-span: why you think he was so successful? >> glen beck? i think that there is a void right now that needs to be filled when it comes to television, news, and media and information. people i so hungry for it. there are obviously a lot of fears that are very easy to play upon, be it ziff -- it -- xenophobia with immigration or, of course, when it comes to his love phobia as well because of september 11th and all the uncertainty with the economy. i do think that people want someone that they can relate to, listen to, and, like i said, i think he pulls the right strings and learn how to play upon those fears, and that is one model that is successful call whereas the rest of the media, you see the they're struggling. cnn is changing their lineup and trying new shows left and right. none of that is working for them. like us said, you have the other networks hiring people like you couric a

franklin or einstein, and he wrote 40 volumes of papers, and einstein, they are still compelling his papers, and we should know more. the flying the kite in the rain. there's a little journal entry are a newspaper clip, but with steve, everything that happened, i'd hear about it at great length, and then hear other people's versions of it, and i probably ended up knowing a hundred or a thousand times more about him and each story in the book than you would doing somebody what who you do through letters and journals. >> okay. let's talk about the story telling now, and i want to begin with the partnership. >> it starts with that -- >> very early. >> the blur box. >> right. >> it starts at atari actually doing games where steve is on the night shift because they find it easier to work with him if he's on the night shift. [laughter] he learns a lot there including the notion of how to do chips and make them do amazing things and also simplicity. i mean, you have to remember that games like pong and breakout and star trek, they had to be so simple that a stoned freshmen could figure them

the middle class benjamin franklin values and the hippy values, and so you got people like steve jobs, frankly, who was half new age lsd taking 1960s hippy and half computer geek and corporate titan, and so he's a ceo of a company walking around in blue genes and a black t-shirt, and so that book is really about the replacement of the john d. rockefeller style elite with the steve jobs style of elite and the lifestyles whether the good things, we get, you know, restoration hardware, a good store, and the bad things, which is, i think, a more self-satisfied religious life. >> host: what is a bobo? >> guest: if you take the word bo homian and jam them together, you get bo bo. there's people who shop at whole foods, people who eat ben and jerry's, people who buy -- one of the rules it's vulgar to buy things like yachts and lobster, but you can spend any money you want on kitchens with sub zero refrigerators and slate shower stalls. i also describe the religious lives. for example, i ran into a rabbi in montana, and i said what kind of rabbi are you? conservative, orthodox or reform? he s

if you have benjamin franklin tweeting from the constitutional convention you would have a lot fewer books about what happened at the constitutional convention because we would know. we would be able to sort it out. how does that affect -- right, i don't know how -- so much money. but how does that affect your reporting? because in what it's like how do you compete with those folks? >> first of all i want is a very pretty i don't care what anybody watches a single one of a news report. i don't care if they watch on tv, and i got, i don't care if they watch it on their watch. that's not my concern. that's for the really brainiac technology people, and a force of the big corporations who delay the ruling out of the technology and how quickly i can get my report to you. so that's one part of it. i want people to be able to consume news and products in what i think one of the biggest challenges is what i call very timely the steve jobs? no, which is steve jobs died wednesday, i believe it was wednesday night after most of you met nightly newscast had finished. by thursday the next night,

and so they combined two value sets, bourgeois values which is the middle class, benjamin franklin values, and bohemian values. so you got people like steve jobs, frankly, who was an lsd-taking 1960s hippie and half computer geek and corporate titan. so he's the ceo of a company walking around in blue jeans and a black t-shirt. so that book is really about the replacement of the john d. rockefeller style of elite with the steve jobs style of elite and sort of the lifestyles whether the good things, we get the, you know, restoration hardware, pretty good store, and the bad things which is, i think, a more self-satisfied, religious life. >> host: what is a bobo? >> guest: so a bobo, if you take the word bourgeois and bohemian and you jam them together, you get bobo. people of mixed styles. so they're people who shop at whole foods, eat ben and jerry's, people who buy -- one of the rules is it's vulgar to buy things like yachts and lobster, but you can spend any amount you want on a room formerly used by servants, so they have these lavish kitchens, slight shower stalls. so i describe their

benjamin franklin once said our adversaries should be our friends for they show us our faults. and always play it straight. i am honored by your presence tonight. thank you all. thank you. [applause] h [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> in the last iowa caucuses in 2008, barack obama won the democratic caucuses and went on to win the presidency. mike huckabee won the republican i know caucuses, but dropped out two months later. see what it looks like online through the c-span video library. our cameras are following the 2012 republican candidates at events throughout the state. every morning, political guests are taking your calls on "washington journal." tuesday night, we will show live coverage of two of the caucuses on c-span and c-span2. later on, the results of all 1800 caucuses, plus candidate speeches. use c-span's campaign 2012 website to watch videos of candidates on the campaign trail, see what they have said on issues important to you, and read the latest from candidates, political repor

benjamin franklin, one of our forefathers, was a man who believed that he could improve themselves and he devised a way whereby to do that designing several virtues that he thought would help them to be a better person. northeast started with temperance. went on from there to frugality and ultimately to chastity, which is one ofhe challenges he faces. he added the number 13 virtue -- humility, which he felt was required of any leader. what i would like to ask is, as a person ruing for president, we know how important character is a a -- personal character. we also know that every candidate has a vises and flaws. we recognize that. we want to -- we will not ask you to identify those. >> thank you. we only have so much time. >> what is the single most of virtue of character that you think you bring to the office of president of the united states? >> boy, that's a -- um. let me give that some thought for a second. the single most virtue. >> poll the audience. >> leadership is in some respects a product of character, which is that you look at people and say, why is that person a leader? wh