Test. 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 hey ladies and gentlemen, my guest tonight, matt bai. He is going to be joining us, set author of all the truth is out its an incredible book about when our media decided to get terrible. But first, midterm fever, baby. Sweeping the nation. Its just like ebola. Except way more expensive. laughter with three weeks to go, it is estimated 5. 5 to of. 6. 5 billion dollars will be spent on the campaign. Or to put that in laymans terms, enough money to hazmat, suit up, every man, woman and child in america and silkwood shower those [bleep] till election day. Lets do it. Lets do it. applause one group in particular, very up set about the influence that money has on our politics. We must reduce the role of money in politics. Stem the core rosive influence of money in politics. The corrupting influence of money. The unending chas
But first, midterm fever, baby. Sweeping the nation. Its just like ebola. Except way more expensive. laughter with three weeks to go, it is estimated 5. 5 to of. 6. 5 billion dollars will be spent on the campaign. Or to put that in laymans terms, enough money to hazmat, suit up, every man, woman and child in america and silkwood shower those [bleep] till election day. Lets do it. Lets do it. applause one group in particular, very up set about the influence that money has on our politics. We must reduce the role of money in politics. Stem the core rosive influence of money in politics. The corrupting influence of money. The unending chase for money threatens to steal our democracy itself. Jon my advice to democracy, is that we could end this chase for money, by having democracy marry a condiments heirress. It, wod for me, but move along, ketchup is taken. laughter perhaps i could set democracy up with bette poupon. laughter whos the heir to the i just like doing his voice. The democrats
Know and as we follow the media in these days, the rising concern about young men going to the middle east in search of the hawthorne venture, finding themselves caught up in extremism and violence and in many cases converting either to extremist causes were becoming disillusioned and returning. And this perhaps results in their becoming a problem when they return to the west. There was a book during the cold war which was in 1949 book called the god that failed that was about people who had embraced communism and felt that they were true believers and they realized that that was not the holy grail. Tonights story is very much a story of conversion and an epiphany and eventual loss of faith. And i think he will find it absolutely fascinating. The story is one that was developed initially by doctor mark stout and i will introduce them shortly and he will introduce or speakers. Mark developed the story having encountered the individual of interest on facebook and anything can come out of
Democracy. That is a shame. It is a disgrace. It is really an open scandal. And we need to do something about that. I would totally embrace the comment that we need you as much as we can, first of all to change our policies we dont incarcerate so many people. And secondly for those people have been incarcerated i think we do over stigmatize them. We do hurt their ability to come out of prison and get on with the gainful, productive life. I wholeheartedly embrace the sentiment of that collect. Host gelled in florida. Caller good morning. I have a question for professor kennedy. Some of us look towards affirmative action us to blacks entering university circuit. I happened to be one who graduated from a Major University, white Major University in the state of ohio. This was before affirmative action. Far too many times there is nothing said about those of us who were participants in the collegiate atmosphere, collegiate i guess academia, that existed before affirmative action. What is hi
For our live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. And welcome to day to as live coverage of the 2014 Miami Book Fair civil. This weekend our 17th year in a row of live coverage by the way, 25 authors in 20 hours of live coverage. Today, panelists include New York Times book review editor pamela paul, Walter Mosley, matt bai, charles grow, among others, and to offer College Opportunities for you today. Randall kennedy of harvard is most recent book is called for discrimination and David Rothkopf irans Foreign Policy magazine will be talking about u. S. Foreign policy. Full schedule of todays live coverage from miami is available at our website, booktv. Org. All they wanted and get updates of behind the scenes photos at booktv. Org twitter handle. You can also join us at facebook. Com booktv. If youre in the area, come on down. Cspan bus is here, we are passing a great book bags and some other things. Would love to have you come and say hi at the chamber of commerce day here in miami. The su