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That we will not have enough money to handle crisis problems that come up later in the year. The way we define crisis is a family receives their benefits but then something happens where they lose jobs or someone becomes ill and they cannot afford to pay their energy bill anymore and we can provide some kind of supplemental payment for that. The real opportunity is that yes, we have funding to reach families but it is tight. Surplus not a lot of capacity in the program now. It has been cut to the bone. Host for more information, you can go to the National Energy assistance Directors Association da. Org. Nea thank you very much for being with us. That does it for todays washington journal. This is Martin Luther king day and thank you for watching and we will be back tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] 2014] a live picture of the Martin Luther king memorial. Washington, d. C. The memorial is sitting next to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and between the lincoln and jefferson memorials. Dr. King gave his i have a dream speech at the memorial. Section of the memorial on the granite wall facing the title basin features 17quotes from dr. King but none of those quotes are from the i have a dream speech. There are several events today. President obama and the first family are taking part in a Service Project in the d c area. We are recording a portion of that and will have that later for you today on cspan and the National Action network is hosting a breakfast this morning with speeches by Vice President and the reverend al sharpton. Coverage of that is coming up later on cspan. Congressional leaders are offering statements today about dr. King. House Speaker John Boehner said that for all the laurels he had done, Martin Luther king jr. Reminded his audience as he was simply also this from the Democratic National to medicare Debbie Wasserman schultz coming up in a few minutes, super pack founder and philanthropist Steve Phillips will discuss race and politics in america. This afternoon, Supreme Court Justice Stephen breyer talks about the constitution and partisanship in washington, d. C. , evant over an hour sayet talks about president obama and the ideal of american exceptionalism. Here is a look. [video clip] barack obama was asked point blank do you believe in american exceptionalism . He gave a very clever and very polished answer in which he said yes, and made it very clear he meant no. Yes i believeas in american exceptionalism just as the greeks believe in greek exceptionalism and the brits believe in british exceptionalism. In other words, its not a believe based on anything other than the fact that he lives here. Our constitution he finds exceptional, its not our judeochristian heritage he finds exceptional, its not our protestant work ethic he finds exceptional he happens to live your. Live here. It is like living in chicago and being a cubs fan, you are stuck with it. If america is not exceptional, then how is somebody like barack obama to explain americas success . Given that we are the most successful nation in all of human history, barack obama and the modern liberal has no choice but to pick up this idl is he. Short of that, given that america is the most successful nation in all of human history, the modern liberal has no choice but to believe we are the greatest injustice in human history. When you go back to the journals and you wonder why they are so vicious and they lie about if there is because no difference between judaism and islam than how do you explain tel aviv and the gaza strip . Orchestrasexplain 70 and theied . If there is no difference, there is nothing a journalist is allowed to report so they both want peace thats what the liberal journalist testability. Otherwise, theres something wrong with islam and they are not allowed to believe that. If they both want these, they want to coexist, then why do the muslims murder jewish children and blow up buses in jerusalem . Another buses blown up in jerusalem, lets say. God forbid. Says thealist goes and palestinians must want peace or why would they do something so horrible . If they both want these, they want to coexist, thenthey say e provoked it. Now they need to look for what that from vacation is. Provoke it,did not they have to find something erotic. Something murano. Moronic. Youve got to be a. Moron. There is nothing out else they are allowed to believe. If it was a welltimed mass murder of our ambassador and other heroes in benghazi based on fascism, there is something wrong with islam. What couldve made them do this . It doesnt matter how stupid it is. I laugh except for the fact that it is so horrible but how moronic must the New York Times be to believe something so obviously stupid a portion of his comments and you can see this in entirety after 11 00 on cspan. Truthfullyi know that every single problem in if morewould be after people could read, write, and comprehend. I just know that. We would be able to compete with the rest of the world, we would not have these children who are committing crimes because their families dont have jobs. They dont have jobs because they cannot read. They cannot write. Understand. I think every thinking american is coming to that conclusion. We have got to educate our children. Weve got to educate their parents. Understand. Its not just a whim. Its a necessity if we are going to compete in this world. First Lady Barbara Bush tonight at 9 00 eastern live on alson and cspan three and on cspan radio and cspan. Org. Andve phillips is a lawyer philanthropist to help create the countrys first super Political Action committee, power pack, which supports Democratic Candidates and he recently spoke of cleveland about changing demographics, race and politics in america. This is under one hour. Good afternoon and welcome to the city club of cleveland my name is paul harrison. Im president of the city clubs board of directors im very pleased to introduce today speaker Steve Phillips president and one of the first 50 founders of power pac as stated at its website power pack as a nonprofit advocacy and Political Organization established in 2004 to champion democracy and social justice in states and communities across the country. Before i comment on pacs i want to say a few words about our esteemed speakers background. Good afternoon and welcome to the city club of cleveland my name is paul harrison. Im president of the city clubs board of directors im very pleased to introduce today speaker Steve Phillips president and one of the first 50 founders of power pac as stated at its website power pack as a nonprofit advocacy and Political Organization established in 2004 to champion democracy and social justice in states and communities across the country. Before i comment on pacs i want to say a few words about our esteemed speakers background. Mister phillips grew up in cleveland, Cleveland Heights so is back on this day and he has a lot of friends in the audience gathered up throughout this room. He attended Stanford University where he majored in english in African American studies and it was very active in student organizations. He later earned his law degree from Hastings College of law in San Francisco. He worked for four years with the Public Interest law firm Public Advocates and at the young age of 28 was elected to the San Francisco board of education thereby becoming the youngest elected official in San Francisco history. He later became president of the board of education and served on the board for eight years. Our accomplished speakers appearance today is timely as we enter an Election Year that is certain to be a very active one with pacs and super pacs playing a role in the political process now a prepaid and history on pacs packs exist at both the federal and the state level and the federal level. The first pack was actually formed in 1947 and in the 1970s, Congress Passed laws governing pacs including establishing contribution limits. More recently in their wake, Court Decisions including the United States Supreme Courts decision in Citizens United which was rendered in january of 2010. Socalled super pacs now are prohibited from making contributions directly to a campaign but theyre able to make unlimited political spending independently of campaigns. The impact of money final two packs a super pacs continues to be hotly debated. Our speaker will present his informed views on that subject as well of course on another hot topic from the 2012. The president ial election impacted demographic shifts in our country on the 2012 election and on future elections. So with that im very pleased to present on behalf of the city club of cleveland, Steve Phillips president and cofounder of power pac, thank you. [applause] im very grateful to be here im just a addendum in turn to the bio part so what are the things that weve created last year through power packs or they should be called pac plus doubt or pous they actually be material to pack plus dot org be referencing through the site and theres things on the table that we had had here as well. We were talking about how there are a lot of friends here and its very touching, moving to me to think that you know if you ever is probably that the close you can have actually seeing what it would be like and who would come to your funeral but theyre actually dying and hopefully this wont be a near death experience for me. [laughter] i want to give a special thank you to Sabah Chandra who introduced me, to dan who arranged this opportunity to speak here. Here possible so i make no lawyer here in town he might have been friends. On saturdays at stanford in the 1980s now is news about suppose a smart guy you had Great Potential but he really proved it when you decide to marry a woman from Cleveland Heights. In im very proud a leadership thats the boat email provider on issues of equality and justice. I was privileged to work with about a 2008 around a lot of voter turnout work on to bring out people of color to the polls in that in that election i want to thank all of you for coming out today. It is good to be home. It is great to see so many friends from my days at Hawken School and my days on dark moor road. I would like to dispel one rumor at the outset i am not here to interview for the browns headcoaching position. [laughter] although as a longtime browns fan, my brothers and i got tickets for merit dad when we were seven years old. I am a passionate and longtime fan and are easily following this process. As always, im looking forward to next season. [laughter] its an honor to be invited to speak at the city club. This is a prestigious platform for anyone to speak from. For a kid from Cleveland Heights, this is a special honor. But after the podium is not daunting enough, my father told me he has heard two people speak at the city club in his whole life argan luther king and bobby kennedy. [laughter] no pressure, dad. Cleveland is the Perfect Place to have a discussion about brown is the new white, the future of u. S. Politics in the context of the demographic revolution in america. Long before america elected a black president , cleveland blazed the trail by becoming the first major American City to elect a black mayor, carl stokes. For those of you under a certain age, that was 1967. I still remember my mom making a point to drive is by the mayors house when we were children on the way to see my grandparents on east 128th street. A lot has changed in america since 1967 many a National Politics have been slow to appreciate these changes. There is a new Majority Coalition in america. That coalition is built on the Solid Foundation of the countries rowing members of people of color. That is what we mean by brown is the new white. State the obvious, for the past 400 years or so, United States has been a majority white country. It is worth noting that many native americans and mexicans prior to the arrival of the. Uropeans for the purposes of understanding contemporary american politics, the majority of the countrys voters have been white. Addressing the needs and interests of whites has been the essential organizing principle of u. S. Politics for a long time. When people talk about winning over swing voters were not alienating moderates, the picture they have in their head is the suburban whites, often women, frequently in ohio. 1960s, it was nixons silent majority. In the 1980s, reagan democrats for it in the 1990s soccer moms and in the early 2000, exurban voters. Hes constituencies have been seen as pivotal and the focus of politicians and their consultants. Similarly, Public Holiday has been hypersensitive. The polling and impressions of what might alienate moderate white voters. Recently, we have seen a lot of articles about how americans feel about obamacare. Those americans who are Getting Health Care for the first time are feeling pretty good. The premise of the question is articulated as to how middle class whites will reactivate Affordable Care act. That premises now out dated and an anachronistic. One of the masters of american six was willie brown, former mayor of San Francisco. There was a failed coup against him in the late 1980s and i saw the speech after he had defeated the coup. I remap or him saying that the first law of politics is you have to learn to count. Those were most effective in 2014 and beyond will be those who know how to count. As bill clinton famously said in his 2000 12 Democratic Convention speech its about arithmetic. Lets do a little math today. As i mentioned, those who are following online or outside of the room, theres a document we have that downloads the statistics i will run through here. We ask that you have a paper of color. 29 26 55. That is the new equation for this new era. Allow me to explain that010 census confirmed there has been a profound demographic revolution in america over the past 30 years. Latinos, asianamericans, ever can americans, and mixedrace americans are now 36 of the entire u. S. Population. One response when i do these numbers that i hear from people is that not all people of color are progressive. Leave me, i know. I shake my head wondering what these folks are thinking. [laughter] the closest statistical measure we have in the country to a political ideology is the National President ial exit polls. That data shows the vast majority of people of color vote democratic. In the last election, 80 of communities of color voted for obama. Composed 36 of the population and 80 of them represented 29 of u. S. Population. You look at those numbers and think the percentages of whites are have struck but they are still the majority. Percent who seven are conservative. This brings us to another very important and historically neglected and overlooked Minority Group in america. Progressive whites purpose of whites are the Rodney Dangerfield of american politics. [laughter] they just dont get any respect. [laughter] they are frequently belittled or dismissed as irrelevant tree huggers or vegetarians were both. Or both. The caricature of progressive whites was captured during the 20 2004 president ial campaign when the conservative attack that took aim at howard dean supporters by saying howard dean should take his tax hiking, government expanding, latte drinking, sushi eating, volvo driving, New York Times reading, body piercing, hollywood loving, leftwing freak show back to vermont. [laughter] city ofn a very liberal separate cisco and i confess that some people do drink lattes and read the New York Times. They are still lovely people. Historically, we will see that the role of progressive whites in American Social change has been both heroic and vilified. From the abolitionist and john brown at Harpers Ferry in 1859 to those who gave their lives in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. People such as reverend james goodman,rew progressives have a long tradition of rejecting privilege in refusing to stand idly and courageously standing with disenfranchised people who are struggling for justice, equality, and margaret. This tradition has touched and improve my home i personally. As far back as 1964, when my parents could not buy the home e road ined on darthmor Cleveland Heights on their black but i progressive white lawyer who worked with fair housing bought the house for them and he did it over to them and that became my childhood home. Terms of u. S. Politics, people have always thought there were too few progressive whites to matter. Both the growth of latino, black, and asian population but that is no longer the case. If we look at the exit polls, going back to the jimmy carter 34 48 , anywhere from of whites have voted for the democratic candidate for president. In some years, that was more courageous than others. That is an average of 41 of whites voting democratic. Back to the arithmetic city four percent of the country is white, of that population, 41 are progressives. That means that the progressive white population in the country is 126 in the entire United States for it take that 26 and add that to the 29 of people of color gives you the 55 which is the new majority in america. This demographic and mathematical theorem is now been tested and proven twice at the National Level with the election and the reelection of president obama. What does this mean for u. S. Politics Going Forward . The census data has given us a geographic map that shows the future of u. S. Politics is in the south and the southwest. The new battleground states are andold slaveholding states the southwest, the land that used to be known as mexico and now that we call texas, new mexico, arizona, and colorado. Two less numbers 19 and 24. 19 of voters of color is the threshold for whether a can win an election. In the 2010 republican tidal wave, three states withstood the weight and reelected democrats to the senate, colorado, california, and nevada. All three of those democrats won those elections lost the white vote but were able to prevail because of this coalition. Itsrado had 19 of population of voters of color and use that as a benchmark. This is where the picture starts to become sharper. There are 24 states in america that will soon have 19 of voters of color. Those dates are overwhelmingly in the south and southwest. Arizona, georgia, and texas are the new battleground states. Yes, texas. One of the most important races in the country this year was the wendy davis run for governor in the state of texas. Taxes, itocrats cut will cut the legs out of the conservative political machine and make it impossible for republican to win the white house for the next 20 years. Barack obama only lost six Percentage Points in georgia. It represents the democrats best opportunity for senatorial pickup this year as Michelle Nunn runs for the seat her once helper and what these 24 states have 351 electoral votes. It takes 270 to be elected president. These 24 states have 303 congressional seats. 218 is the magic number for majority in the house. These states have the power to elect the next president and secure control of the congress. When Jesse Jackson ran for president , the hand that once picked cotton can now accentures and governors. Democrats were smart. They would be massively investing in communities of color in the south and southwest. Conservatives have done the math and its no accident that they are investing in efforts to restrict Voting Rights in the south and southwest. Did spendas campaign considerable resources mobilizing and turning out these new majority voters in north carolina, virginia, nevada, and florida and colorado, for several months in 2012, what is the result . There is still no lasting Strategy Program or leadership pipeline carried out by the democrats in these key areas. Apparently, too Many Democrats have trouble with math. There is a shocking underinvestment in the communities of color as too many campaigns continue to chase the ever shrinking block of moderate white voters instead of building up the coalition of the future. Many republicans, on the other hand, are apparently better at math than democrats. It looks like, republicans are locked in a fierce internal battle. Fightingthe tea party the last losing battle of the civil war, to structurally trying to tear down the entire government and rather than theck obama addressing nations problems for the early indications are that the Tea Party Movement has crested. With the implosion of the Tea Party Challenger to governor kasich. We hear that happening in ohio. Other more sophisticated Republican Forces are asserting themselves. They know arithmetic. Eight years after losing to the first black president , republicans will likely steal the president ial candidates of color. Marco rubio, ted cruz, bobby jindal are running as fast as they can but the democratic bench is surprisingly empty. Although Chris Christie has a new set of problems on his hands which i enjoyed watching, [laughter] he has nonetheless spent the last two years meticulously distancing himself from the reactionary portions of his party. He is courting latino and black voters and recently made a point to sign Immigration Reform into law in the state of new jersey. Democrats run the very real risk of getting complacent in the face of republican internal squabbles have underestimated the republican threat to their base. Has starkly, republicans have been so bad on matters of race and equality the democrats have not had to do anything. Soon, they will actually have to contest for the votes of people of color and make an argument about why they are better than the republicans in addressing the needs of the communities of color. That is an argument that few democrats are familiar with were comfortable making. What are the policy implications of the emerging new majority in america . I tell my friends who spend time andloping position papers influence Public Policy debate that as a general rule, elected officials who support any policy that they think will get them reelected. That brings us back to the question of who they think are doing the electing. Who will be the voters of the Upcoming Elections . Lets look at health care as a case study. If youre primarily concerned about moderate middle class white voters, you might well be nervous about obamacare. There will undoubtedly be people whose premiums go up to pay for more robust coverage but if your objective is to solidify loyalty among the rapidly growing latino population in america, you should note that latinos have the least access to health care of any Demographic Group in the country. 35 lack health insurance. Rather than wringing your hands and worrying about how obamacare is not popular among moderate whites, they should be champing how many people are now Getting Health Care, how many children can now see a doctor, how many sick people can finally get treatment. Then they should be smacking their opponents upside the head with ads asking why they think the richest nation in the history of the world should deny people access to basic health care. How is that moral or right or religious . In one stroke, you could win over your growing base, put your opponents on the defensive, and also win over churchgoing moderate whites by appealing to their sense of morality and religion. The bible does command us to care for the sick and address the needs of the least. Of policyample implications of the new majority is economic inequality. If you look at a map of the distribution of poverty in america, you will see the heaviest concentrations of poverty fall largely along the same lines as the rising lack and latino populations, south and southwest. Although these regions are seen they arevative, unnaturally conservative and made the least to conserve. A smart politician would target this as an argument to win over low income whites as well as people of color. The party who cracks the code will rule politics in this country for decades to come. I want to get peoples attention and thats why i call this brown is the new white. One way to do that is to be exposed about rate issues of race and ethnicity. Like its attention is because addressing race touches on deep seated fears and insecurities of how the country is changing. These are fears about how a cherished way of life is perceived to be disappearing. In fact, you cannot truly understand politics in America Today without appreciating the interplay between the demographic revolution and the efforts by too many demagogues in congress who whip up fear and stoke and security in an attempt to foment opposition to anything that is proposed by our African American commanderinchief. Let me close with the good news that you have nothing to fear. You know that people of color like good food. [laughter] you know we make good music. [laughter] areurns out that many of us sociable and smart and share the same values. In fact, those of us who come from communities that have faced his commission and oppression are often the most hopeful and idealistic of all. Dr. Kings famous speech, he said even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, i still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream. Worried, put aside your fears and lets Work Together to build a better america. If you are a progressive white, your time has finally come. As my friend says, if blacks dont vote, greens dont win. If you are a person of color, grasp the role of responsibility that history has presented us. The bible says that the rejected stone will be the cornerstone of the new order. Grasplets use that cornerstono build a new social structure in america that we can all be proud of. The structure of opportunity, equality, and justice for all. Thank you very much. [applause] today at the city club of cleveland, we are listening to friday forum featuring Steve Phillips, president and cofounder powerpack. We will return to her speak in a moment for our question and answerperiod and i would ask that you start forming your questions now and try to keep them brief and to the point so we can get as many innocent possible. We welcome all of you here and those joining us via broadcast 104. 9, wtam ord one of the many broadcast partners we have across the country. The broadcast of the city club are made possible by Cleveland State university and pnc and our live webcast is supported by the university of akron. Friday, january 17, city club will host a breakfast bonaparte,h norton city manager for sanford, florida who helped the city managed emotions and policies after the Trayvon Martin killing. We will also hold a lunchtime chieffeaturing sue helper economist of United States chamber of commerce is part of our Business Leaders series. Or complete list of our upcoming programs, to make a reservation or to order a cd or dvd of one of our many programs, please visit our website and thats www. City club. Org. We welcome our many guests today at tables hosted by baker and hostettler, Cleveland State university, Hawkins School which as steve mentioned is his High School Alma mater, policy lawers ohio, thechandra firm in our strategy. Thank you for your support today. We welcome students to todays program, student participation is made possible by a generous gift from the fred e. Shawl foundation. We welcome students from Cleveland High School and students from the Hawken School so students, stand and be recognized. [applause] a reminder that students do get to ask questions. We will return as promised to our speaker for our traditional city club question and answer period. We welcome questions from everyone. Holding the microphones are our development associates. First question please i want to thank you for being here. Your presentation was wonderful. My question is there is this arrogance problem with a lot of people who feel like they do everything. Though what you are saying is really logical, it is still difficult to get some folks to say you are right. My question is im speaking of democrats basically how do you move them off of that my way is the best way i know what im doing to begin to embrace some of your ideas . I know thats a hard question. [laughter] i was hoping you would have the answer for me. That is one of the big challenges. It is endemic to the proposition. If you help elect somebody president of the United States, you will think you are a big deal. Oft is part of the challenge people not actually appreciating that. I dont think its as much of an issue is making the logical numerical argument. People know what they know and what they are familiar with and they tend to do that. There are a couple of things we have been looking at to move forward. About what isnk the pipeline and Leadership Development work we are doing. Identify people from diverse backgrounds to go into a campaign and support them to do that and helping them move forward in that regard. It applies every different level. I want to acknowledge and turner whoator nina has an African American woman running her campaign. That is unusual thing in u. S. Politics. We need more candidates who will do that. When cory booker ran for the senate, he had an African American man who ran his race. Type of apprenticeship expresses start to create and put people in place. We will also have to raise our voices. 2016, wevetoward got to be asking about this and pushing people at every level. Path of an the career woman who used to work for me we were doing our work in 2007 in california and we wanted to stateo ohio doing the campaign and that put her in a position to be the executive director. You move up from level to level. Your county or region or state, you must ask the question of who you are promoting and who are you investing in. I think it largely will be incumbent upon those of us who want to see this happen to be a squeaky wheel as well as trying to be nurturing and elevating the next generation of people who want to do this kind of work. Your statistics seem to be based on the last two president ial elections were a very charismatic African American was up. What would have happened and how with those statistics have been fact, we very well might have a white candidate . That is the 64,000 question. We will see how that will play itself out. I was thinking about doing a gathering about after the black resident. Black president. That was helpful and should not be minimized. Lost in the understanding of what the Obama Campaign did, you had a lot of technology and cuttingedge tools. At the end of the day, they had thousands of paid staff people doing methodical doortodoor work and identifying people and turning them out. That there is is a challenge around what is the we articulating a policy agenda which will speak to people and bring out people who dont necessarily usually vote. Many of them are minimum wage campaigns. It becomes more of a tangible point as to why you are actually voting be on this particular person. The 2008 election was a culmination of the Civil Rights Movement in many ways. There had been such a history about what this meant. Of what is pentup within this country in terms of leadership is the issue of womens leadership and empowerment. Strong as there is a sentiment that propels people around electing the first africanamerican president , i am already seeing it could be a symptom a similar sentiment around electing the first woman president and i be a big factor in 2016. If i look back at history, in the 1800s, there were signs that the irish did need not apply. Italians were not allowed in Shaker Heights early on. To what degree do you see what is happening with people of isor as an extension of what of what has already happened. It used to be that irish and italians were considered outside the fold and now everybody think of them as white. I think that is taking place. The writer James Baldwin wrote a collection of works called the price of the ticket. He says the price of a ticket for a european immigrant was to become white. That definitely has taken place and you feel it indifferent regards particularly in terms of different elements of the female and hispanic community. It is the desire to be treated in that mainstream fashion. Is thatlenge of that color is so ingrained in terms of our society and the perceptions and a lot of the prejudices. Dr. King talked about the numbers of synonyms for the word black. There are a number of synonyms for the word white. This was deep within the culture of psychology of the country around color issues. It is more difficult when you look that different to just be assimilated. I think that would be part of the challenge. I think the hope would be that we would actually move to appoint not wanting to sublimate the distinctive pieces but to embrace and validate and weve been together. You talk about a melting pot and a salad bowl. You see the distinctive characteristics of the communities. As a conservative and someone who believes in liberty i would probably come out with a different solution but i accept the challenge that those of us who believe differently also have an obligation to communicate with the Brown Community. My question is with respect to your statistics, i think it was the university of akron, there was a seminar and it talked about one of the best predictors of voting patterns was religious affiliation or religious belief rather than race or anything else. Coloris a lot of folks of , africanamerican churches, hispanics who are very active in their churches, i think the polls suggest comes out to a than the point progressive point of view on a number of issues whether its the social issues or limited government, fiscal conservatism and many other things. Isnt there the likelihood that what we need to do is come together somewhere more in the middle rather than the extremes of either and then have a conversation more about a range of ideas and a range of solutions . I would agree with that. We used to talk back in 1980s that its not about left wing or right wing but the moral center. Have ofhe critiques i progressive faith communities is that we dont associate the Progressive Agenda with a strong religious and biblical underpinning in dealing with poverty and addressing health care. I think that is a potential area to be able to come together. Point is it is also a challenge to progressive than democrats that they cannot take peoples color for granted. Texas validated the cultural realities of the latino community. His faithbased Initiative One over a number of different folks. In those communities towards being allied with them. With him. Addressinging about and improving the conditions of people in the society and extending the benefits of the American Dream broadly. I think there are things that can be done in that regard. My wife and i were talking about how there is more Common Ground now among conservatives and liberals around criminal justice issues. Its a very expensive proposition to go about terminal justice work the way we do. Some of the Republican Leaders in the south like mississippi are talking about in frustration alternative, ways to rehabilitate people. Thats a type of solution and we were supportive of cory booker who we went to college with. He is reaching across the aisle to get republicans around these reform issues. Past thehing can get current situation, where we can find agreement, i am all for that. It shouldguing that be a proposition that moves in one regard. There are many things that democrats have been slow on as far as validating different pieces, the values that flow from that and building an agenda that speak to that as well. I think we have work to be done. I want to say that as a hawkins alumni, i will try to be brief. We are proud of you. Reminiscing 35 years ago that i used to sit in a tv and wed eat french fries thought you were kind of weird. [laughter] i want to say how impressed at how happy we are as to what you are trying to achieve. I know youreote, talking is the browning of america and the new states now to look at. Itselfways seems to hold around election time as being a pivotal and important state. That, we move on from what would be your recommendation for ohio specifically . It always comes down to that last night and we never know which way we are going to swing. I would love to have maybe a blueprint or a plan from your view as to what ohio can specifically do for 2016 and with our governor election coming up . Back in high school, you did not think i would amount to much. [laughter] ohio remains one of the bellwether states in the country. Because of ohio is almost split right down the middle in terms of its electoral trends, everson ohio make a bigger difference. The margin is so small. You can actually increase the participation that has an impact. It is worth studying and understanding better what obama did to be able to win here. The increased significance of the africanamerican turnout in ways that shocked the romney people and shocked karl rove. We watched his meltdown on election night. We could not believe it. It was transpiring. Their models were wrong as to how many africanamericans would turn out. The challenge is that the work should not just the episodic. It should not be every four years in october. What is the Civic Engagement infrastructure involvement and Leadership Development is going on around the clock . Civic lovek to the type of days. People who are precinct leaders turning out for obama, can they be supported to be Civic Leaders and getting people to the City Council Meeting or be part of a block club. You know who your neighbors are you continue to have that relationship so when election time comes around, you know people. Senator turner talked about how much has been proposed preserved from the obama infrastructure. We need to think about how to actually sustain the activists, the organizers who get inspired and do this work between election cycles. That way we can preserve that kind of infrastructure. That will continue to have the outcomes we want to see. Divisionte of ohios between republicans and democrats in president ial elections, we have up portion must of congressional districts done in such a way that they are believed to be only one competitive district in the state of ohio. That is the lake county. I would like you to address the issue on a broader basis of the apportionment of regular districts and the impact on the progressive movement. Redistrictinghat will be the most important political fight of the next 20 years. Muchunderappreciated how the republican wave of 20 10, taking over the different statehouses, and then drawing the lines of 2011 is locked in is locking in an an democratic an un democratic configuration. Democrats more people voted for democrats for congress that voted for republicans. Republicans still have an 18 seat majority in the house and that is a configuration of redistricting and gerrymandering. I feel like progressives were asleep at the switch. People signed up for the census. There was very little organizing as for as engaging the drawing of the lines. We need to be vigilant and proactive around that. It is seven years from now. Mark it on your calendar. Weve got to be engaged in that process. Are there ways to also democratize the process . A ballot measure in california that took it out of the hands of the legislation. The lines were drawn by a neutral commission, just looking at the data and the numbers and not factoring in ironically, it has helped democrats in california. You can see how the previous lines of been drawn to protect individuals and they were not as concerned about the overall configuration. They dont want you to mess with their individual district. We take a personal consideration out and cut the lines according to what the data actually shows and you get better results. Its something to think about. There was an effort to try to get a commission here that was not successful in ohio but it is not something to give up on. Lines of whatraw is the actual composition. You should not have a 2 3 majority in the state. Fight toengage in that be able to draw lines that are fair and reflective of the state. You mentioned some of the issues that the Republican Party seems to be having. You mentioned infighting and the cresting of the tea party. I think you call them sophisticated Republican Forces that are emerging. I want you to educate us about some of these forces you see in what we might want to know about them and watch what they are doing. Before his recent troubles, Chris Christie has been quite masterful at his political route he has taken with the new jersey. Of all theontrary hostility and vitriol we hear about, he is literally embracing the president and working together jointly across party lines on problems addressing the state of new jersey. That creates a certain profile and a certain image. Then he has been very meticulous around reaching out to Leaders Within the different communities of color. The housead refuses to take up Immigration Reform. They passed a statebased Immigration Reform in new jersey. He whittled it down a little bit but he basically signed that deal. More left, pro immigration Latino Advocacy groups has on their facebook page,yay, Chris Christie. Isterday, marco rubio starting to speak up about poverty issues. He is talking about income inequality in the country especially around the minimum wage. There are other ways to go about dealing with this. Historically, people have not embraced those issues. They say we stand for ending poverty and multicalled dutch multicultural inclusion and that has been the defining that is sufficient to define the distinctions between the party. Both aris saying they are for the same thing, then you have to dig deeper. Democrats are not as used to doing that. They are going to actually have to be more intentional and assertive around putting forward what they think should be the agenda. Looking at our current senate, they are notorious for not being able to pass any bills of all. Is an issue that both Political Parties will have to address. Do you see an area where we could compromise around this whereof colored voters both parties come together to create a mutually beneficial agreement that benefits all the Political Parties and the people that are voting . Give me a minute [laughter] frankly, i think it is no accident that theres so many efforts to suppress the vote breakdown. There is a very clear understanding that the more diverse the voting population becomes, the expect tatian is the worst it will be for the republicans. That is why you see these efforts to throw out all manner of legal grou road blocks. You would think it a democracy you want everyone to vote and we should do everything we can to encourage people to vote, particularly in florida with people standing in line for hours and hours. The governors own constituents not seeming to care that his people are going through that difficulty. Its going to be a challenge. The one thing i think about is some of the folks who are trying to get ahead of this curve like , staking out a position on Immigration Reform, the poverty part. Folks toook at those partner . It would be in their interest to be seen within these communities as being concerned about the needs and interests. The potential is out there but achieve Common Ground around the application of technology . When you go to the department store, you dont have to wait, you can use your credit card and buy what you want to buy it there. Why is it so difficult to vote . If they can verify who you are when you spend money, why can we verify who somebody is when we want them to actually vote . Ground around the application of technology . When you go to the department store, you dont have toi keep k at partnering with google and apple to be able to have that technological validation in ways that might cross the partisan boundaries. Welcome home. We now understand your thesis that brown is the new white and that will fundamentally change the political dynamic in our country. Could you tell us more about what your organization is doing to leverage that opportunity and what they are doing specifically in ohio and around the country and what theyre planning on doing and how people can get involved . We will create an infrastructure and vehicle to respond to this demographic change. We want to connect and coordinate people across the country and use technological tools to pool resources and move resources through strategic races. We pooled money from across the country and we supported wendy davis when she was running for reelection in texas. We will put money behind cory , the next democratic africanamerican senator in the u. S. Senate. We are looking for people like that across the country. We are trying to diversified the elected officials in the country. At in some ways people refer to us as investing in colored candidates type of model. To understand what is actually happening. Appreciation that is the basic thrust and the work. More atan find out paclplus. Rog. Us. Org. L you said earlier that a lot of communities of color want to be treated as part of the mainstream. As a result, they may shy away of grouping together to have these hard discussions about politics and race. How can communities of color overcome this barrier and start having these discussions . I am a strong believer in the power of leadership. Indemnify,be able to support identify, support, and connect Leaders Within our. Ommunity we saw the movie on mandela over the holidays. How the South African freedom struggle came together is you have leaders creating organizations and those organizations were there for their communities. Leaders connecting people, educating, encouraging other participateeople to without those people it is going to be difficult. To identify energetic, committed, conscientious talented younger people to take on a leadership role and to be able to encourage and move communities. That is one of the core proponents of it. In addition to that, getting , sole into the communities the leaders have relationships with one another. That is a you build a broad, Multiracial Community that can move the country forward. Hi. You said to ask that about 80 of all Brown America is democratic leaning. How would you see it if the republicans were smart enough to run a candidate like and lisa rice Condoleezza Rice . With the Brown Community support her . What the Brown Community support her . Why has the Affordable Care act created such a rift in america . Rift amongust a corporate america, but also a rift among americans themselves. It is like a topic you do not want to ever bring up. Thingthe Condoleezza Rice my first flip thought is dont give them any ideas. [laughter] there was talk about her running for senator or governor of california which i would be concerned about. Is a woman, she is African American, she would be an appealing candidate. But she did not fit the conservative orthodoxy. For the california Republican Party. Similarly when colin powell was thinking about running for president , he wouldve been formidable as well. Have a contentious history within this country. We dont often like to talk about it. Taking together through the southwest from the mexicans, enslaving africans the way the country has been built with all of that history is still very challenging. It is still at the core of a lot of the politics of the country. People like condoleezza or colin powell are more sensitive to that history and what to speak to that those inequities in society. There is another very vociferous far right political grouping which wants to preserve the status quo as unequal as it is because they have benefit within it. That is a big part of the tension. Piece healthcare poverty touched something in everybody. We should do something about it. It touched the morality, the confidence conscience of the nation. Part of the challenge of the history of the country is that we feel a sense of otherness. When a child looks differently or does not speak our language, there is not the same empathetic response that we attach. Should have health care because we are a great nation that has the capacity and that is what our values are that is not the way the conversation is playing out. Instead, it is like those people are Getting Health Care, taking money from me. It is a division. It is tied to historic divisions within the country. That is why he we have actually had this. Nation that is inclusive of our values and embraces all of us, regardless of what we look like or what we might sound like. [applause] today we have been listening to our friday forum featuring Steve Phillips. Thank you very much. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. In forum is now adjourned. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] morninge picture this at the Martin Luther king memorial in washington dc. The memorial itself originally scheduled to be dedicated on august 28, 2011. Hurricane irene postponed the event until october. The memorial is the first in the Nations Capital built in honor of a person of color. The steady stream of visitors at the memorial here in washington. As we watch live at the and Martin Luther king memorial, there are a number of events we are covering. President obama and the first family are taking part in a Service Project near washington dc. National Action Network hosted a breakfast this morning. Vice President Joe Biden and the reverend al sharpton were among the speakers. Coverage of that is coming up later on cspan. The u. S. Is suspending some sanctions in response to irans downgrading of its nuclear program. Iran has taken the initial specific steps it committed to on or by january 20 as part of the joint plan of action. Coming up today, former tv writer and comedian evan sayet on his new book, kindergarten of eden. Stephen breyer speaks with partisanship. I know, truthfully, that every single problem in america would be better if more people could read, write, and comprehend. I just know that. We will be able to compete with the rest of the world. We would not have these children who are committing crimes because their families to not have jobs. They do not have jobs because they cannot read, cannot write, they do not understand. I think every thinking american is coming to the conclusion. We have got to educate our children. We have got to educate their parents. T is not just a whim it is a necessity if we are going to compete in this world. Bush,st lady barbara tonight at 9 00 eastern, live on cspan and cspan 3. Evan sayet is a former tv writer and stand up to median who wrote the book and comedian who wrote the book kindergarten of eden. He spoke to the conservative form of silicon valley. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Good evening, everybody. Happy new year. Im in mending right up front that i am taking the easy way out tonight with my introduction for tonights guest speaker, evan sayet. There is no reason for me to invent the wheel when i can refer to comments made by 3 10 respected three respected conservatives. That he istz says simply the best political comedian working in America Today. , bill whiddle says, perhaps the most important book i have read in the past 10 years. Last but not least, Andrew Breitbart describing a lecture from the Heritage Foundation says this, one of the five most important conservative speeches ever given. By the way, this talk at heritage was the single most seen lecture and the Heritage Foundations history. In his latest talk, again delivered to the Heritage Foundation and 2013, evan talks about his unified field theory of liberalism to show how and hasthe Mainstream Media gotten literally every major story of the modern liberal era not just wrong, but as wrong as wrong can be. With their every mischaracterization benefiting all that is evil, failed, and wrong while working to the detriment of all that is good, right, and successful. And or produced in just about every medium that exists, including television, movies, documentaries. He segued into politics after 9 11. It is worthwhile mentioning that he joins an exclusive circle of prestigious individuals, those and becamed sides champions of individual freedoms or, conservatives. Mametircle includes david , david horwitz, Andrew Breitbart, milton friedman, thomas sole, and ronald reagan. Not bad company. Is divided almost exactly down the middle. This timeslot time split between political humor and serious lectures. Bisecting and analyzing the liberal mindset is not a job for the lightweight. Book is called brilliant. If you had not had a chance to read it, i recommend you do. He will be selling and signing his book after the q and a tonight. Please join me in giving a warm welcome to evan sayet. [applause] i just have to correct read up. I dont think it is that we switch sides, i think it is that we grew up. There is this belief when you are a child and liberalism because there are no consequences to your behaviors. I definition, your parents look out for you to make sure you do not get hurt so you can have this fantasy life of being a liberal. And you enter the real world and most of us grow up. I think the lights are good enough for me. Cspan, am i ok . How cool is that the cspan follows me wherever i go. [applause] you guys get to enjoy me. I have heard me. But i was really listening and join listening to rita. Enjoying listening to rita. [laughter] i never quite know how to start these talks. Having given that original lecture to the heritage that my friend Andrew Breitbart called one of the five most conservative speeches ever given. Another story that the Mainstream Media has gotten wrong. How can you be against truth . Having given this lecture that people started to call the unified field theory of liberalism. 25 people send me individually. ,aving explained it all explained why good, decent, otherwise smart people im not talking about the ideologues , we know why the marxist sides was evil, they want to overthrow western civilization and replace it with marxism. The islamist wants to overthrow western civilization. Is not an ideologue, he is not a marxist. He is not an islamist. He is just a jew. I am talking about your colleagues, i mentioned barack obama. It is the moderate liberal. It could have been hillary clinton. It could have been john kerry. It is an ideology, a way of thinking. That is what i explained to perfection because it happens to be true. Forgive me. What am i supposed to do . It is true. I can lie and be modest. [laughter] but having already explained it all, what is my next talk to be about . It seems to me i have two options. I can either give that original talk over and over and over again. How many of you have seen the original lecture . A plot because it is more impressive on tape. This is what im going to do. I want you to tell the people you who havent seen it how great it was. I will stick my fingers in my ears. So i can give that original lecture and a good many of you will be hearing it for the first time, but it will be redundant and boring for you guys who have seen it. Or i can take the unified field theory of liberalism and show how it applies in the specifics. I will show how it applies to the Mainstream Media. I have a problem. In order to show how the unified field theory of liberalism applies in the specifics, you have to know the field theory of liberalism, which means im back to giving that first talk over and over again. I start my talks with a truncated version of that original speech. It is available on my website at heritage. Org, it is available at thousand places. It is 47 minutes long. Find it, watch it. In the original talk, i began by saying to the audience, i have got to imagine that just about every one of us in this room recognizes that the democrats are wrong on just about every issue. [applause] what i said to the crowd that they is that i am here to propose to you that it is not just just about every issue. It is quite literally every issue. It is not just wrong, it is as wrong as wrong can be. Severalgive the modern liberal the chance between Saddam Hussein and the United States. He will not only side with Saddam Hussein, but he will goodusly sander slander and decent americans to do so. Bush lied, people died. General betray us. Give the liberal the choice between the vicious mass murdering dictator goss or arafat and that tiny and wonderful democracy of israel he will plagiarize maps, falsified documents, and engage in one blood libel after another. Book hesdespicable notapartheid peace apartheid. Policy, social policy. Give the modern liberal the choice between promoting childhood abstinence and childhood promiscuity. They will use their movies, their tv shows come of the will make jerry brown a law that a 17yearold man can follow a fiveyear old girl into the bathroom if he feels like he is a woman. The same time, a rather Typical Democratic Party organization, a proabortion group masquerading as a pro choice organization, will old a fundraiser they call f abstinence. , it is theust f entire word. Fold arising society is a part of the modern liberal agenda. Why . For the full answer, watch that full video. Even better, read my book. As that talk was going viral, one Million People have now seen it. That is unheard of. As the talk was going viral, i , evenminded that a theory in the softest of soft sciences, a theory is not accepted as true simply because it offers an eloquent narrative or an elegant narrative to describe things that have already happened. In order for a theory to be accepted as true, you have to be able to take set theory and then anticipate behaviors that have not yet come to be. When i give that talk in 2007, i could not have known barack obama would become the Democratic Party nominee. I certainly could not have known he would be elected president. Could not have possibly have known that as president of the United States, barack obama would bow down before some World Leaders, but not others. But yet my theory had anticipated to perfection that if a future president obama were to bow down he for some World Leaders but not others, it would be to the despot at king of saudi arabia to whom he would bow. It would be to the symbol of japanese imperialism that brought us the Bataan Death March to whom he would bow. But not to the queen of england. Known thatd not have back in 2007, that future president obama if any modern useral would order nasa to its dwindling resources to honor one religion, while spitting in to others. Death this is what he did. I could have predicted he would honor islam. Nasa to use the resources to send a muslim into space. While at the same time while the jews were imperiled in israel, he publicly snubbed the jews. He made the peaceloving dalai lama exit the white house for a photo opportunity in front of the barack obama family trash. Inould not have known back 2007 just who would and would not give a future modern liberal president. My theory had anticipated to perfection that barack obama, a modern liberal, would expect except an antiamerican propaganda vote from the socialistic Tatar Hugo Chavez returningremoniously a gift of a bust of Winston Churchill to our allies in great britain. I could not have known back in two thousand seven just where revolutions would crop up across the globe. Had i known, my theory anticipated to perfection that a modern liberal president would oppose the democratic uprising in iran, support the overthrow of americas ally who attempted peace in egypt, and would call to a less leftist coup overthrow our democratic ally in honduras. Was able tory anticipate every single one of these policies, not because barack obama is a muslim. I dont care if he is or isnt. I double layer care what he believes but what he does. Not because he is black. In the way the slanders and lies would say about us. It is because the modern liberal, there is something about his ideology that leads them to invariably and inevitably side with evil over good, wrong overwrite over right, the ugly over the beautiful, the profane over the profound, and the behaviors that lead to failure over those the lead to success. [applause] so what is that something . Let me give you the essentials that you will need for tonights stock. That is just the preamble. [laughter] the first two laws of the unified field theory of liberalism. The first two are what you need for tonight. I will give it to you the way it is written in the book. The first law is that the modern liberal was raised to believe that indiscriminate mess is a moral imperative mess. Imperative. Because its opposite is discrimination. , by no1980s coincidence, the children of the when they became the professors of the 1980s, the journalists of the 1980s, the entertainers of the 1980s in the 1980s, thinking was outlawed. [laughter] it was deemed a hate crime. Here is the concept behind it. Anything that you believe, anything that i believe, anything that you believe, even you, anything that you believe is going to be so tainted by your personal prejudices prejudices we all have, it is all part of being human the color of your skin, nation of your ancestry, height, weight, sex emma so on anything that you believe is going to be so tainted by your prejudices, that the only way not to be a bigot is to never think at all. Why their answer to everything is you are ray just racist, a homophobe, a xenophobia. The only reason you could be against something is because you are a racist or a phobic. Raised to believe that is a moralateness imperative because its opposite is discrimination. The second law of the unified field theory of liberalism, as it is written in the book, indiscriminateness of thought does not lead to indiscriminateness of beliefs. Leadsriminateness invariably and inevitably to siding with evil over good him a wrong overwrite, ugly over beautiful, and so on. Because of no religion, no culture, and a behavior, no person, no moral governing, if nothing is better than anything else, then success is unjust. Why should a person am a nation, a government, a religion succeed and it is not better than any other . Says was liberalism that everything is equal. It does not make everything meet in the middle. It makes the better bad. , as proved by nothing other than the fact that it has positivet is proof that something is taken place. Why should it fail if it is not worse than anything else . By the same logic, by extension, if success and failure are perfect then Great Success and great failure is proof of and at a certain point, great and sustained success and failure 6000 years of jewish survival, thriving when it is oppressed, i wonderiving why they hate america and israel most. Why there is this campaign to ostracize and destroy and jimmy carter will lie for jewish deaths. How is israel worse than that . Great and sustained success and noture is Proof Positive just a great and sustained injustice, but that this injustice is intentional and part of an evil conspiracy. Why . Why an evil conspiracy . Think about it this way. Lets say you are playing roulette. No numbers better than any other number. You spin the wheel, some people when, some people lose. That is the game. One thing is for sure. Arecannot say the people smarter or harder working or better than the losers. What if that same number came up 10 times in a row . And the same people when and the same people lose . That might not prove conspiracy, but it is a cosmic injustice. The losers looking over at the winners pile and sang, you did not build that. [laughter] [applause] demanding just a little redistribution. Now what happens if that same number comes up 100 times in a row . In the same people when and the same people lose . , you donthe casino have to know how the conspiracy is done. You just sit around trying to figure it out. The one thing you know for sure is that the game was fixed. Great and sustained success and thatre is Proof Positive the injustice was intentional and part of an evil conspiracy. Those are the two laws that you need to know for tonight. They were raised to believe that indiscriminateness was a moral imperative and indiscriminateness of thought leads to siding with a lesser over the better, the ugly over the beautiful. Are you with me . Almost . [laughter] whats it going to take . Just the rest of the speech. I will ask you again at the end. Lets see if my the unified field theory of liberalism applies to the Mainstream Media during the modern liberal era. The first thing that i would have to establish is has the Mainstream Media gotten every major story of our lifetime not just wrong, but as wrong as wrong can be . This byegin to prove pointing out one of the good guys. Do i get to recommend a speaker . Bret stephens. An editorial writer for the wall street journal. Many years back, he wrote a piece that began something close to this. Historian, looking back at the contemporary journalism leading up to the major events of our lifetime, looking for clues and that reporting as to the major events that were about to transpire, will have found that reporting to be mostly useless. Stevens is wrong. He is wrong and that he does not go anywhere near far enough. That reporting was not just useless, but anybody who looked for things at the time wanting to know what might come next around the world will have been led to anticipate exact way the opposite of what actually came to be. I want you to think of our news media as our personal intelligence agencies. They put their operatives in the dispatches,ng back to provide us with inside information so we can make good, personal policy. Anybody who trusted the nbc, cbs, media, abc, time magazine, newsweek, the New York Times, everybody but fox we will talk about fox anybody who trusted the Mainstream Media as their source for intelligence not only got useless intelligence, they got intelligence that was diametrically opposed to the truth. Stevens offers examples. It remember how many of us were stunned at the collapse of the soviet union. How is it we were all so completely unaware . An empire does not collapse in a day, a week on a month, a year. Anymore than it is built in a day, a week, a month, a year. How was it that we did not know this empire was about to collapse . Because to a point, stevens is right. The reporting was useless. It was worse than useless because as the soviet union was crumbling to nonexistence, they were still telling us the soviet union was a coequal superpower. In the strongest nation in all of human history, when it is actually crumbling to nonexistence. This is not a little bit off, folks. Ok . This is diametrically opposed to the truth. The mischaracterization making an evil empire appear stronger than in fact it was. There is the paradigm. Not just wrong, but as wrong as wrong can be. Always to the benefit of evil, failure, and wrong. To the detriment of good, right, and successful. Remember thell contemporary journalism of the 1980s that was telling us that japan was an unstoppable economic juggernaut. This, as they were about to collapse, into what is now a decades long recession. Juggernaut economic a decades long recession. This is not a little bit off. This is diametrically opposed to the truth. Case, the mischaracterization making a nonwestern culture appear stronger than in fact it was. Us leading up to 9 11 were stunned to learn that islam had spread across a third of the planet if not more . The most vicious, mass murdering some homophobic, misogynistic, and the somatic antisemitic [laughter] how is it we did not know this was going on around the globe . Because not only was the reporting useless, but the Mainstream Media was telling us, they continue to tell us, that islam is a religious of peace religion of peace. ,he most murderous, hateful ideology arous religion of peace. Diametrically opposed to the truth, obviously to the benefit of eighth evil, fails, and wrong ideology. You have to be a little bit old to remember this next example. Back in the 1970s when we were being told that americans it was the wild, wild west we were lawless gunslingers. Time magazine had as its cover new york city, ungovernable. We are savages. Along andani comes new york city is governable and it is the safest large city anywhere in the world. The mischaracterization making the good and wonderful people of america appear savage. I dont remember stevens remembering the vietnam war. A good many of you know that the tet offensive which was reported as a act breaking defeat for freedom was in fact a war ending defeat for the most murderous ideology in human history, communism. I could go on and on and on and on. An Islamic Court may did attack. Coordinated attack. It was our freedom of speech. I will add two more and then i will get into the why. Anyone who trusted cnn as their source for intelligence leading up to the first democratic vote was told in iraq, that our mission was a failure, that the streets were chaotic, that no one would go out and vote and those who did would be mowed down by al qaeda. Do you remember the pressure on president bush to postpone indefinitely this vote . Talk to me. I am live. I am here. Folks at home, you do not have to talk to me. I am not live there. What happened . Millions of iraqis went out and voted. A higher percentage went out and voted than americans voted in our own election. Not only did millions of iraqis go out and vote, but they dipped their fingers in purple and danced in the streets for hours. To my knowledge not a single one was mowed down by al qaeda on that day. Virtually no one would vote and those who did would be killed. Millions voted and no one was killed. That is diametrically opposed to the truth. Making al qaeda appear stronger than they were. Anybody who trusted during the New York Times during the first battle to liberate 30 million human beings from rape, torture, and genocide in iraq anybody who trusted the times to describe that first battle said that we were pinned down, that it was a bloodbath. In fact, the New York Times used to the cue word quagmire. When our forces arrived in baghdad three weeks later, it was in fact the culmination of the swiftest military victory of its time in all of human history. Never before had that much Enemy Territory been traversed in so short a. Of time. Period of time. Quagmire, in fact the swiftest military victory in human history. That is diametrically opposed to the truth. Murdering,fit a mass genocidal rapist and torturer and prevent us from liberating 30 million human beings. The question becomes why . Because i dont think there is a single one of us who thinks that katie couric is an evil genius. [laughter] on both counts. [laughter] evil. Not she is far from a genius. She is an idiot. To show you what idiots journalists are, this is a woman whose greatest credential as a journalist is that she was a daytime chat show host who once interviewed and got a secret recipe. Obviously, they know the news is a joke. Then to have the university of southern california, the Annenberg School of journalism, to give her the Walter Cronkite award for excellence him in television journalism. If she is the most Excellent Television journalist out there, how bad it must will blitzer be . [laughter] [applause] why did she do it . What is should take every news story and flip it on its head and ally like nbc news edited sound1 calls to make it might like George Zimmerman what are they do it . Why does Anderson Cooper do it . He is not an evil genius. On both counts. He is not evil. He is a confessional cutie pie. He does his job well. I dont go that way. [laughter] but if i did, i think andy might be my guy. [laughter] shirt, he a black looks serious, he must be important. It is not just those two. It is across the board. Except for fox news. And across the decades. So why do they do it . Heres the answer. The greatto poll journalists of all time i dont mean the most famous, those with the bluest eyes, the highest ratings, the richest i certainly dont mean those with the most Walter Cronkite them, if i were to ask what is the single most important trait in good and accurate reporting . Anybody . How do you get to the truth . Im looking for the truth . Would anybody have a problem with the word objectivity . Objectivity. Let me now introduce you to a man who is perhaps the most beloved and influential modern liberal of all time. Zinn. Me is howard then he is adored. Spring teen springsteen wrote a song to him. Zinn is the author of the single most assigned text on American History among Public Schools and private schools. This means that your children are learning our history from the man i am about to tell you more about. It also means that whatever administrators pick that book to be the history book, they also picked all the other books that your children are learning from. Said, objectivity is impossible. It is also undesirable. Itt is, if it were possible, would be undesirable, because if you think that history should serve a social purpose, then you make your choices based on that. In other words, he is an ideologue. The facts are not important to are the advancing his ideology. I dont think i would get much disagreement from the left that he is a leftist ideologue. Katie couric is not an ideologue. Why did she do it . It is because that in the 1980s, the hippies that are not teaching that our schools and the children of the 1960s, they used their power because they recognized objectivity is undesirable because it gets in the waves their stupid ideology that sounds brilliant, but it does not work you cannot be objective. Are you sure that is not productive . You cant be objective. That is your bigotries. They use the power. The ideologues who believe objectivitys undesirable to brainwash successive generations. In the schools, starting at the age of five. By the way, there is a book written by a liberal, where he proudly this is not self conscious or tongueincheek. Of the fact that all i ever really need to know i learned in kindergarten. It is true. You cannotrgarten, be objective, so all you learn is to coexist. You do not coexist without. Live and let live requires you to live. It is really not that deep. Those who recognize that objectivity is undesirable to the utopian ideology use the schools and the other mediums media to brainwash successive generations into believing it was impossible. What is it that makes objectivity impossible . Anybody . It is the idea that anything you believe is going to be so tainted by her personal prejudices that the only way not to be a big it is to not think at all. Thinking is a hate crime. So now, the most important trait in good and accurate reporting is not only undesirable, it is evil. It is the act of bigotry. To be an objective reporter. This is why they hate fox news. You do not hate people because they are wrong. We dont hate katie couric. We wish he was not an idiot. We wish she would go do a daytime chat show. We do not hate Anderson Cooper. They hate fox news because fox news is evil. Because fox news reports objectively. Because the report objectively, they are far more accurate. Then are any of the other news networks. How do i know this . Because a few trusted cnn as your source for intelligence leading up to that first emma credit vote any rack, you were stunned when exactly the opposite game to be. If you had watched fox news, you might not have known it would be a million, you might not have known the color of the ink, you might not have known the nobody would be killed, but when what came to be came to be, if your source for intelligence was fox news, you are far less surprised by reality. If your source for intelligence during that first battle to liberate the people of iraq was the New York Times, when what came to be came to be, you were stunned. But it fox news, you might not have known it would be three the tide could have changed along the way and so the reporting changes along the way but when what came to be in iraq came to be, if fox news that been your source for intelligence, you are far more intelligent. When the Muslim Brotherhood took over in the arab spring that the leftist media could not tell us because that would be bigotry dont they want freedom and democracy just like we do . Then you are a bigot. [laughter] they could not report objectively. Of course the Muslim Brotherhood is going to take over. Excuse me. Try talking every day for an hour. And then going out and doing karaoke. [laughter] so now, the single most important trait in good and not justreporting is undesirable, it is an act of evil to be avoided at all cost and to be refiled when seen practiced by others. Couric wants to be a good newswoman. Anderson cooper wants to be a good journalist. Be a gooder wants to journalist. But the most important tool has been taken away from them. Is what they substituted that while you are never, ever, ever, ever an objective reporter , what you strive for is a concept that sounds good. It sounds like objectivity, but in fact it is its opposite. The good journalist today went the goodm school journalist is never objective, he is always neutral. Difference between objectivity and neutrality . Let me give you a silly example. Olbermannthat keith your history is in the sports world. Your assignment was to cover the new york jets, San Francisco 49ers game. Win 873. It is my story. [laughter] it and whatever i want. Forget it. Make at the 49ers. I will make it the bangles. 873. Jets win your article is about how the jets are a better team when you are a reporter. The most salient facts of the touchdowns, the interceptions, the facts, the rest. The jets areow really a better team . That you dont just think the jets are a better team but you grew up near an airport . [laughter] and you always love their plans . Aredo you know the bengals a lesser team . Maybe your favorite uncle was eaten by a tiger. [laughter] so to make sure there is zero ,ias in your reporting, zero that is why they are so arrogant about it there is no bias in you have to report that the jets and the bangles are equally good teams. Now you have a problem. Every store you write is going to be wrong. The jets are a better team in my story. Are a lesser team. But now the purpose of your article has to become, how did these two equally good teams come to such disparate outcomes . Obviously, the jets mustve cheated. [laughter] but we are not even talking a little bit of cheating. It wasnt like 1714. That has got to be an evil conspiracy. With that much cheating going on, why didnt the referees, penalties . Call more penalties . Forget the referees. Why didnt the announcers in the booth say, hey, i just saw a holding. Who could afford who could afford a conspiracy of this size . The evil 1 ors one percent erters. And now it becomes the job to invent the narrative. Of coarse they dont want that bengals in the super bowl. The world is flat. What the hell does that mean . The world is flat . This is going off subject. Give me ang to rousing ovation, then i will take questions. Let me just expand this let me just expand this to, this silly example, but there that industry of that was overwhelmingly conservative. The get just as rich as rockstar, theyre just as beautiful in their own way of the get rich at the same young age. And get their conservatives, do you know who they are . Professional athletes. Why . Because after leads to things athletes do things. The ball, they dropped the ball. You cannot say this vicry