Up next on booktv after words with guest host Michael Meyers executive director of the new york civil rights coalition. This week jason sokol in his latest book all eyes are upon us. In that the historian argues that while the northeast enjoyed a reputation as a bastion for racial equality in reality blacks were relegated to living in ghettos and working menial jobs until Northern Leaders challenged citizens to practice what they were preaching. This program contains language that some may find offensive. Host jason its very difficult to decide where to begin with your book. We are going to make a teaser to the audience. We are going to get to the conflict in a clash between at brooks and joe biden. Thats a teaser. Lets begin where you you began and that is with some history. This is a history book but the precipice to brown v. Board of education and the springfield locale. Guest right. Well the sense of history, i do have an argument they are about the way that northern history operat
plus, olympic legend carl lewis said mitt romney should stay home if he doesn t know what to say. mr. lewis joins me live from london tonight. it s another conservative lie that just won t die. you won t believe the new numbers about president obama and islam. and you won t believe how the romney campaign reedited his naacp speech to make it look like he was a big hit. all that, plus director peter bogdanovic on gun violence in movies. ellen burstyn on obama versus romney, and jay roach on art imitating life in his new movie. after cam brady s punching incident, he s jumped 11 points in the polls. mitt romney s splash across the pond may be engolfed by the games in the pond, but by the scathing estimation of the brits and the head shaking wonder of romney s usual allies here in america, the candidate himself continued his mile-long walk back and in fact, mitt romney hasn t talked this much about the olympics since 1988 when he took a break from outsourcing american jobs
something that is not encouraging. it was a stumble that even fox new s karl rove couldn t defend. you have to shake your head, president governor romney went to the london olympics at the invitation of the international olympic committee. a great opportunity for him, and there s lots of stories he could talk about, what a wonderful experience it was and how uplifting and he got making somehow or another a comment the brits took as an insult, but nonetheless, the damage was done. man, with friends like that, there was no need for white house press secretary jay carney to pile on. how would you critique thus far the last couple of days for mitt romney overseas? i would not. the assessment from the brits wasn t nearly so reserved. and romney s misstep as well as his wife s horse captured the attention of late night. mitt romney annoyed the british by saying that london seemed unprepared for the olympics. you know, putting his foot in his mouth like that is not v
his wife who has hundreds of millions of dollars never released her tax returns. just how off target is the romney campaign? richard wolffe and rick tyler on romney s ongoing disaster. and we ll look at the real life impact of mitt romney s outsourcing. oh beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain the big panel weighs in on one of the toughest ads a democrat has ever produced. and the young guns are calling him the backup. young guns, a new generation of conservative leaders. we ll tell you why billionaire sheldon adelson is dumping piles of cash into eric cantor s super pac. good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. it was another weekend of confusion and contradiction for the romney camp after five interviews on friday and a flurry of surrogate appearances, mitt romney still cannot clear up the issues with his bain capital record. romney s people are asking president obama to apologize for raising the issue? president obama gave the ro
his wife who has hundreds of millions of dollars never released her tax returns. just how off target is the romney campaign? richard wolffe and rick tyler on romney s ongoing disaster. and we ll look at the real life impact of mitt romney s outsourcing. oh beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain the big panel weighs in on one of the toughest ads a democrat has ever produced. and the young guns are calling him the backup. young guns, a new generation of conservative leaders. we ll tell you why billionaire sheldon adelson is dumping piles of cash into eric cantor s super pac. good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. it was another weekend of confusion and contradiction for the romney camp after five interviews on friday and a flurry of surrogate appearances, mitt romney still cannot clear up the issues with his bain capital record. romney s people are asking president obama to apologize for raising the issue? president obama gave th