Freedom of expression. And that legacy continues after she left. So she certainly made her mark on the world. And certainly showed that shes unflappable in the face of criticism and unflappable in the face of an attempt to undo all of the work that that fine organization is doing. For me, shes a great role model of how we conduct ourselves as women, in the face of what can be a little bit of a backslide from time to time. Its nice to have people we can see who embody strength and thick skin and certainly youve talked to you wrote in your book about how much you have how far youve come in this regard in in not letting the turkeys get you down. Your personal story makes the case for Public Policy that supports women, how do we get men to be allies in the fight to fight to further these policies when they dont experience these things personally . How do we make men care about feminism . Is we share our stories. Again not to be a broken record, but humanizing these issues just as i for exa
People who are potentially mega donors to their campaigns, or to their future campaigns. This is why voter apathy is so upsetting to me. Because we do show people like governor perry that acting in ways like that will go unaccounted theyre not held to account for it. And i think that we all ought to own our responsibility to make sure were using our voices in a way that show that we are as powerful as some of these folks that can write the big checks. Right. Because ultimately politics is powerful, but we also need to change culture, and we need to change the way that we see these issues through a moral justice lens. Maybe thats the direction we need to go. So how do you determine your political platform and agenda . Who educates you on the issues that you champion . It really comes from in here. And as an elected official, i try very hard to keep an open door for people to come in and talk about things that matter to them. My work on testing the backlog on rape kits in texas came from
[indistinct chatter] [gunshot] [latin music] whoa. Wow. Wawawewa. Ha. Borat. Totes. [tires screech] from Comedy Centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. cheers and applause captioning sponsored by Comedy Central jon welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. My guest is bob costas. Bob costas. Hes going to be joining us on the program. Were going to begin with big news out of washington. In these recent years of perpetual war our military had to address some standard issues in order to keep enlistments up theyve loosened their educational requirements, their have you committed a felony requirements. But now theyre dropping the biggest barrier to combat roles yet. The [bleep] and balls requirement. Leon panetta announced the military will let women serve in front line combat units including infantry, armor, artillery even potentially special forces jon wow. First gays, now women. Whats next . Noncitizens . Oh, really . For hundreds o
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