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Public opinion and politics. you have written about this in poliwood. i want too hear about how you think that informs this current debate were having over gay marriage. >> in terms of pop culture what you see on television? >> media, culture, how it influences politics and policy making? >> i think its probably in subtle ways, i dont know how you measure it. you see shows where there are characters who are gay, and we begin to watch it and there becomes a gradual acceptance and theyre just peop...

In the deficits, which brings me to the point that john made. the democrats in a lot of ways, even the president ceded the notion that youve got to bring down the deficit. there was a notion put forward in the house that i think mirrors what president obama believes in. it had in it $2.1 trillion in stimulus spending to create 7 million jobs, 4.2 trillion in tax hikes, including 49% income tax. all of those things we believe the president is for, but it seems that the white house and a lot of de...

>> i am, i am. >> its just a tv show, a situation comedy, not even a drama. >> tonight at dinner ill tell my mother im gay. >> vice president biden has credited "will & grace" with changing americans attitudes about same-sex marriage. >> i think will & grace probably did more to educate the american public than anything anybodys done so far. >> on this, supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage agree, hollywood has been influential of encouraging acceptance of gays and lesbians. it was throu...

>> i had the camera here and aimed toward the truck in the right hand lane. but i was still watching the road in front of me. all i intended to do was get the logo on the video. i got more than i bargained for. >> then cobb sees a two by four that had been jutting into the road from the medium come flying at her. >> i saw the first truck, i saw the front wheels and back wheels hit it and the trailer wheels hit it. i thought its not going to hit me. >> but in a split second it does. >> the impact...

From outside the beltway. >> the white house is our house. please let us in. >> by 2:00 p.m. today, the facebook plea by the saint paul lutheran school garnered 1700 likes. the houston independent school district used a different medium. a letter to the president. we dont understand why out of a $1.6 million secret service budget the administration believe 1/20 of 1% required to fund the white house tours is one of the first things to go. the first lady got trolled over the tours. can someone vo...

Is bush painting something that is revealing. thats daring. >> and art critic jerry salz, i though youre a big fan of the painted medium, talks about those paintings and talks about a sense of loneliness thats pervasi pervasive. thats a point of view. if only george bush, had stuck to the painting and the baseball and the path of the country could have been so radically different. >> im going to disagree slightly with rick. i want him clothed and i like the choo choo train conductor smock that i...

Regulations spills over into its coffee business. its part of the ban on super-sized sugary drinks that goes into effect tuesday as part of the city effort to fight obesity. to comply, dunkin donuts will no longer put sugar in coffee over 16 ounces. youll have to do it yourself. >> so starting tuesday in new york city, duncan donuts will put the sugar in your coffee if its a medium. but if your order large coffee, you have to put it in yourself. okay, jerry, do you find this ridiculous? >> i fin...

A deal where if you pay the company a little money, it will make sure that you get better distribution and your likes and people who like what you do, they tell their friends goes way up. is this also about generating revenue for zuckerberg? >> well, of course it is. of course its generating revenue for facebook but thats not entirely true. what youre talking about is if you buy an@anywhere. if you tauted your website anywhere, yahoo, anywhere else, youll get placement. its not a pay for placing...

Who is dropping spouses. school systems, universities, various manufacturers big and small and medium. and also private insurance agencies? >> the truth is its pretty broad-based. its among large employers. we know that small businesses have trouble covering spouses and adding on to big health care packages, but now its the larger and even quote, unquote, huge companies that are getting rid of this. >> gregg: if they dont kick you off entirely as spouse, what they do is they make it prohibitivel...

It is with republicans. republicans are out of steph on almost every issue with the majority of opinion. and this is not just on these crazy social issues. its on a lot of these core economic issues. there was a poll yesterday that pew and "usa today" put out on the central issue that were talking about right now in terms of the sequester. 76% of the people in this poll said that they think the tax increases should be -- should not be off the table. only 19% said you should not have any discussi...