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>> and then the second catalyst for this phenomenon was something we dont talk about much, mccain-feingold. those law passed back in 2002 by limited contributions to political parties helped divert the flow of money to outside spending groups and super pacs were talking about here but also into think tanks, and policy institutes, things like media matters monitoring the truthfulness of various cable outlets. and so youve seen th...

was devastating. >> randomly shot at civilians. >> we can all point to an average commercial or two or three or four. on average, negative commercials are more likely to be factually correct and negative commercials are more likely to talk about issues. >> will 2012 go down as the most negative campaign cycle in history? a new american foundation looks the past political campaigns and their impact on american culture. watch this and past panels on campaign advertising on line at the cs...

think about negative ads. do you think theyre effective? do they work? do they ultimately hurt the party? republicans, democrats, you can call and weigh in. here are the numbers. republicans, 202-737-0002. democrats, 202-737-0001. independent callsers, 202-628-0205. and outside the united states, 202-628-0184. you can also email in your comments, journal @c-span.org. share your thoughts by twitter, and well get that and share it on the air. or join the conversation on facebook. look fo...

>> jonathan who has covered afghanistan since 1981 talks about the soviet experience in that country from the lesson is the obama administration learned from it. its hosted by the center for international policy. >> skycam at the center for international policies and we welcome jonathan steele and all of you and in particular his wife and i was in afghanistan in august with edward over here and i was stunned by the security in kabul. anybody have one point the british consoles have a s...

hes the author of several award-winning works, including a memoir, color people, as was the future of our race, co-authored with cornell west. 13 ways of looking at a black man. please join me in giving a warm atlanta welcome to henry louis gates junior. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much for that kind introduction and blessedly brief. i appreciate that. its nice to be back. i always have a nice time. it feels like my home away from home. its a good, everyone. hey come on, i ...

it took this long. [applause] in fact if you remember the original agenda of the so-called tea party movement was its complaint against the bailout of wall street, but biden by maneuvers that i dont entirely comprehend, it was largely taken over by the republican party. i think the republican party is starting to have second thoughts about it, but the protests of the occupy wall street movement remind me very much in the protests of the 1890s where it first when the populist got togeth...

>> the u.s. is destined for financial collapse and decline if current political and cultural trends continue. also this weekend sunday live at noon our calls and e-mails in depth with former new york times foreign correspondent and pulitzer prize winner, chris hedges. he writes about religion and war and its impact on civilizations. his latest is "the world as it is." booktv every weekend on c-span2. >> and now on booktv, a panel discussion of william f. buckleys book "god and man at y...

the government? >> you have heard me. youre being silly. >> i would say that while we are doing is almost like citizen journalism, which is basically when an individual who does not have that much training in journalism has the tools of modern technology to capture a live event without a background in journalism. michele fields shares her experiences in reporting for the daily caller, tonight on a "q&a." >> next weekend, book tv and american history tv look behind the scenes of battle ...

>> democrat for (202) 737-0002. line for independent, (202) 628-0205. fragile economic lingers front page in the atlanta journal constitution and political parties trade blame for u.s. downgrade. hardly a banner day. china the major holder of u.s. debt be rating in an editorial state run newspaper for addition to debt in germany and a news magazine calling the downgrade a public humiliation saying friday night it downgraded from trima to double a plus because of political brink man shi...

>> now, are there areas in the defense budget you can probably have some fun. certainly, we should do that. the left wants it target defense first. everything else should be exactly the opposite. if theres some savings we can achieve, we should do that. that shouldnt be the first place we are looking. afghanistan is still involved in iraq, not to mention everything else we do around the world. we have to be careful. >> i appreciate you coming to speak with us. >> im from the university...