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Watch book tv all weekend, every weekend weekend on cspan2, television for serious readers. Next on book tv afterwards program, Washington Post columnist talks to williams of fox news about republican politics. Host the author of why the right went wrong, from goldwater to the tea party and beyond, ej, thank you for doing this. You are a much a steam columnist for the Washington Post but people think of you as a liberal columnist. Is this book intended for liberals, conservatives, or both . Guest i like to think of both, thanks for doing this i really appreciate it. At the beginning of the boo...

In your book about al gore and the gridiron dinner. What was it . In the last year of the clinton presidency, bill clinton, the president , decided he would bag the gridiron dinner, where the president usually goes to speak. And he didnt like it much. It was the second time he didnt. And taking his place was al gore. I got a phone call just a few days before the dinner, wondering if id help in Vice President gores speech. I got a call from my friend, bob shrum, who was a media guy for gore. And what they wanted me to do was have a phony interview with him, where i would ask all kinds of questi...

Convince these kids that i was an actual my has an being with real feel skpeugz cared just as much as they did and further more the solutions i had in mind did actual real good and theirs didnt. Who is the real compassionate person here. If you feel good about something that does harm and i does something that does good that may not be attractive politically who is the real person . Who has got the real virtue . Once you Start Talking to people they think maybe there is something to this after all. And they start thinking about the arguments and its game over. I couldnt flip the whole country....

Where did all that money go . It disappeared in the air. All the warehouses are down, people are not getting paid. They are 120 days behind getting their money back for doing services. Everything in this whole administration has been a smokescreen of lies. You have a Bloomberg News thing every day about the fake unemployment number. Why dont they tell us how many people have been dropping out of work . Guest longterm unemployment is a major problem that is not captured in the unemployment number. That does not include a lot of number of people who have to opt out of the labor market after mont...

This week on press pass, how the 1988 president ial election rewrote the ground rules of modern politics revealing the stories behind the strategic missteps in do youukakis campaign. Its in above the fray. Robbie joins me now. Welcome to press pass. Thank you for having me. Ive known you for a long time. Youve been obsessed with this moment that there are different moments that sort of change the trajectory of how we fight political campaigns. The moment you were trying to capture here is what . I think the idea is that in 1988 george bush and Michael Dukakis, neither of them were especially c...