Michael Moore: Here Comes Trouble

good afternoon everyone it's great seeing so many people here senseless and I assumed ownership of politics and prose several months ago we've been heartened by all the expressions of support there's nothing more encouraging to us than to see audiences like this turned out for author talks such interest of firms for us the importance of maintaining independent bookstores like politics and prose as well as cultural of the news like six nine it also affirms the value that events like this continue to have in your lives and in the lives of others in the Washington area so about half of all those of politics and prose thank you for coming and for your continued interest will do our best to keep the store going and to keep offering of ants worth attending and speaking of events worth attending it's quite a thrill to be entered to see Michael Moore we all know of course about his celebrated documentaries among them Roger and me bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit nine eleven Sicko and capitalism a love story for all so familiar with his two previous best selling books stupid white men and dude where's my country what Michael is done with his new book here comes trouble has turned his focus is humor in his commentary on his own life this isn't really an autobiography so much as a series of scenes from his life the scenes are revealing amusing and characteristically irreverent as the New York Times color fully describe the book it's the story of a bagel long who learns to deal with his big smile to a sense of purpose indeed we are treated in the book to early glimpses of Michael as opinionated non conformist involving troublemaker including the time in high school twenty one and Elks Club speech writing contest the honor to Abraham Lincoln and then delivered to an audience that included the chief help himself a blunt denunciation of the organizations segregation its policies for the time he was kicked out of sync Paulson seminary for quote asking too many questions for his experience establishing a muck raking newspaper the Flint voice but the book also contains contains some very tender passages like a moving tribute from Michael's mother for his efforts as a teenager to rescue a female friend when a back street abortion nearly killed her for his befriending of a priest in his hometown of Flint Michigan a priest who confides he was the chaplain who blessed the airplane crews who went and dropped the atomic bombs on her Russia mile and Nagasaki and and and and and remains haunted by the memory Michael ends the book with the filming in the late nineteen nineties in late nineteen eighties of Roger and me its first documentary his own thoughts on the rest of his impressive film career will have to wait for a second falling he does call this book just the first volume of stories that he intends to write he says he wanted to commit at least this collection to paper now while paper and book stores still exist so Michael we in them in the bookstore business that really thank you for that and let me just assure you that if you keep writing books like this a key drawing audiences like this will certainly be around to keep posting you now please join me in welcoming Michael Moore the the the the the the the the the the uh uh uh uh uh uh it it it it good it do the coal production politics and prose remember the first my first book they can nineteen eighty six he has called on size this in the my first DC appearance was to be in their store shot of the store and on the nose of them were to be lot of other people one day come in the part of that they were so many hundreds that showed up she's ahead and close two thousand people that home the owners the time across the street across Connecticut Lutheran Church to pass them taken over at the church and moved the top from politics and prose over to the church and they get they open the doubt and let me in there and done on the infield seminary in Rome it I have not spoken to alter yes so he had to really watch my language is and star is afraid of lightning bolts but so for slave this religion doesn't believe in hell the the uh uh uh uh and all the way to Melbourne from around the room here all day is so unstable it's all good start notice of it's exciting have spoken on the altar of the synagogue before so long I guess I'll get special points for this somewhere somehow in the afterlife or are we leaving the Noble I will tell you this though that the going ons that we had another Catholic school we're very good about this particular issue they mean the one to make it extremely clear to us that the Jews did not kill Jesus it was the Italians it we would all Irish Catholics it up so admittedly it does so with some early age it was he was the Romans the Italians in in fact home are nuns in Missouri was in seventh or eighth grade on the wanted us to understand what home Passover was all work on the first they really came from because Jesus was having his Passover dinner with his apostles and soul they are called the beer get home three synagogues and Flint on and on the incident as to when a large a the Jewish community home in the implant of the men in large part because the auto industry the bomb discover this certain told that it avoids were somebody a great Christmas tree this part of the history of my town um in the role that the Jews play in lifting ah people out of poverty and into the working class and into having a union movement Ong as you may or may not know the tricks of the strike of nineteen thirty six thirty seven hurting for Michigan in the auto workers took over the GM factors for forty four days the middle of winter mom but much of that much of the organizing much the groundwork been laid over the years all because a essentially group of Jewish communists would come from New York City and move to plant in the early thirties to help organize the workers and organize the Union and in the two jobs in factories on the assembly lines Andy and theirs you know in the way we were raised one of the reasoning to the nuns work I have this attitude was very anti Semitism and as for the thing was was this part was a very early age that this was one of the evils of all of society and the home in that we own a lot to our Jewish brothers and sisters come in especially in plants because because so many of them they come from New York probably have better jobs um many of them had you know college educations in yet all worked out the assembly line really for years help you do this organization until the strike actually happened and then were relieved of the backbone of bomb of Opal of a lot when I'm in for and so and then they continue to work in factories and the our dads or grandparents everybody were together but he knew each other the course the thing with Pete is he can bigotry very hard to make those two things function when you actually know the person you actually live in the neighborhood where you work side by side and insult he was not unusual for the month to take us over to the same God to have a Passover dinner and to teach us on on this and they had us all I'll learn how to make the love before time we went over to sit tight of those big black things you know there will ruin all the little roller going hey Megan hoho in Edmonton the opinion that as the gloves are never gonna bust a move what this looks like the like in all twelve or thirty years of debate it with us the men over yet ended we got excellent Idaho like performance me get over there the Darien and we went over the end of the four questions in the MTC and holy and so on Seoul was all a good thing I went for a girl unlike that life like that then some I read in the book about how one are on our street you had this mosaic of of all kinds of people who because their income differential is not really that great back then on our street you had the manager of the five and dime store and then in a new download single mom in and then you have the dentists and then you'd have the manager of the Sears store and then you'd have a couple of senior citizens and and God the mighty and worked in the sun the assembly line in DC spark plug on next to us was the steel worker and on the other side was the postmaster and that was the middle class essentially everybody belonged to the middle class and was really on in all it was that it was that it is a great was a great neighborhood the drop in a great time to drop in dumb and no stories that we were taught if they are the stories of love the people who were the union founders on for those who came from New York to help us on um I think it was all all went to in to the greater good Barbie and can I remain grateful for it um I head off that the people here back to back stage the new owners of politics and prose thank you first of all for morning to go into an independent bookstore and keep that replaced going thank you so the the the the the the the the he and the people the wrong this up this beautiful facility and to have these events and home I don't call him if he will answer all your mind if I tell you here all but to all of her son is and Jonathan Safran for the author although everything is illuminated and eating animals and up and of the song was really great to meet you in to see where he came from and up so of song I'm really honored to be when I was on C span for three hours a short while ago in their Sunday a live show I did the many happened to catch that are I have repeated the thing is that there is a is it ok to fly if I tell the rest of the bullets and Omega of legal look like I just thought of it ok so long it'll be hopefully you won't even know all of what stress or snoring what isn't home but Tom II we got near the end of the show is from the creek three hours to be evil to have a conversation not to talk in soundbites you know that is both TV and is just an incredible service I love watching him it home and in the home it's one of those things we wonder how come this has been killed too this so many good things in and kill why hasn't this been killed and I a on but near the end I got a couple caught up questions from callers above President Obama in the I feel disappointed that I feel despair when it happened and what's happened in these first three years and arm in all I have to say that's home I walked into that snowboarding growth to vote for him that was such a moment every remember those who did vote for him wasn't that just oh my God the I walked in there and what the home Army on the ballot and there was his name and I started to tear up in my lifetime I can't believe this is it me in my lifetime in Michigan you have a little help and get the color in the circle some point in in in in one of Mike's years ago are exactly on the mark and smeared it and I'm like in there trying to wipe it off I'm calling it my wife has been the opposite occurred years ago it was gone when my wife that she is in the mayhem ensues although all the really nothing wrong with me the I was all red items pour yourself together man the unbelievers is happening I cannot believe isn't it nice and you see them go the Jews did you see his name yes I saw was that no honey did you see in NE people who say on the bell he put his middle name it's the most name a baby lol the seven hundred political consultants in this column that alumni of the dough it's a way to something new both ball all day it's the items in the Matrix along with the blog AO we they are there the the read the it windows do that the lead when done there his name twenty he said that's my name Husseini Jews Arabs for kindness knots his knee his only Hussein rock Hussein Obama this was how many votes did another didn't matter because it was a raking the deal was the great thing to do as the courageous thing to do in post nine eleven America what happened then what happened that way when the client what happened in the occurrence of those conventions I want them in half I didn't know the the my boobs because the Republicans and when you have to stick together don't see anything it we don't really wanna lose you know this is how we sound as the Liberals now is how we sound most Americans will never call themselves liberal because we also like Harry Reid good the room which is the because we live in the country this liberal nation what would be when you're free to sing the world is a liberal country most Americans are liberals they won't call themselves liberals because we allowed the other is to make that a dirty word and then we went along with it instead of owning the word why African Americans have owned certain words or again lesbians have on certain words we ran away from the word it's not using it and made other words so people would be yes but the majority of the country is liberal many of them a moment in the center of the deeper it's everywhere look what happened was watching mom you I am here to Lake reveal the big secret to you your fellow Americans are very liberal there very little you look at any of the polls any loopholes any of the issues they are very liberal on the issues the majority of this country are opposed to these wars and they want them to and have the the the wind the majority of the country one strong environmental laws in the middle on the week the majority of the country to be willing to be a good standard the well for any of this country last week's poll seventy two percent said that if the ads the deed do it in just one small for the first time ever fifty four percent majority of Americans say the marriage of the Millwall the lie I want an no discrimination with it forward the appointment of the election or four and a formal night when so many states have banned it now stage or tripping over themselves to make it legal including places like Iowa that's real live now you live in the country in the last three presidential elections in two of the three of those elections the majority of your fellow Americans voted Liberal to love the three elections two thirds of the elections in this last decade the popular vote was won by the liberal not a conservative now we don't seem to know that we see we go on long leases were too were strewn that you know the other side they know all there too they know their way is on the way out they know that people have had they know that Americans are going to take this anymore and in as the party because they know what here's the best mean here's the best home indication how well the Republicans know that they are in the crapper the I think I knew him why are they trying to get so many voter suppression was pants across the country why are they doing this why are they trying to make it extremely difficult for people to register to vote in the ball because they know and everybody showed up a bowl they're done right you can't really think that this is these are not the actions a a group of people take when the children the majority they know they're in the minority so they got to try and figure out a way to stop the ball they were in the majority they would know that I could do the opposite right they try to make it is easy as possible for him to the bead set up voting booths in Walmart if they thought if they thought that if they thought the country was on their side of the country's not on their side ok so why are we the people were in if the country's liberal given Jordy Americans taking the majority position on these issues with all the issues pretty much with the exception of the death anyone that has changed it's very close to the fifty fifty majority of Americans are liberal on these issues why are we where in the shape when and why does President Barack Obama see a need to move to the center into the right when the country as well why would he do that the park well as two inches for a while I don't know which one it is one is he could just be afraid he could just be afraid to many people told him that I can win reelection if you take exposition so you have to take this position and that's going to go or be he really believes in what he's doing with Goldman Sachs this is number one private contributor all the money he took all the money that maybe the Democrats are taken there at the same troughs the Republicans so the reason we don't see things getting done the reason why we don't have true universal healthcare the reason why that X is out but on the ridge the reason why these two were seven ended maybe it's not because we're all like Harry Reid maybe it's because that's what Harry Reid and Barack Obama and everybody believes that's a little depressing if that's the true right so let's think it lets hope its number one for tonight's purposes I a mom I think what's missing is there's a lack of leadership from the grassroots and more people need to start thinking about running for office locally do with the rewrite the Republicans that for many years run for school board run for City Council run for precinct delegate what you're going to get involved in white but if we don't get involved if we just leave it up to other people were running then we end up with what we end up with we have to get the money out of politics you know there's this off it if this amendment this up that don't read again has been putting together an it's pretty good it's pretty good job of getting money out of politics mom because until this happens this can be very difficult first to get the things done we want to get done this is the bottom line is in I think most Americans would want this I think most Americans want this in yet in yet it doesn't happen because the people around there at the trough were in this term on unlike the last people wanna make this happen so that's the dilemma Tanya the humanity off I'm in the Wall Street this week at the protests and God the the the the the the this amazing thing to witness because it's totally unorganized there's no group there's no any one person or whatever doing this it's it's just it's been an amazing thing the up to be part of the sea and I think this is gonna spread across the country yesterday they had a huge crowd there I just read that time magazine story that they think upwards to a thousand were rested by the police last night and thousands showed up in it is all kinds of people one now that the bus drivers and subway conductors Union has joined them um I heard that the UAW is considering sorry so warm in the way all in there so let me get strangers when um all kinds of evils are participating in it home because it's not just be the people that enjoy new MTV the hippies beating their drums which they got for them because of him always you need the people are a little off the rail always at the beginning of any movement somebody has to burn the broth first and that person is going to take a lot of lights for that so um um but um I die I didn't mean it that way and so again time the so warm and Saunders like there's no league I can be a guy I guess I don't know it's good to just you know when you know when the weenie women to keep things going but to me how much use for us anymore in the previous day but few of us around because of science now in vitro fertilization everything in all ages it a few of us we'll be doing this to serve a function you know you get something off the top shelf indeed the lid off the pickle jar but with the invention of the portable aluminum step ladder and a new thing you get the rubber thing you put on top the way the what in the US war you know has a much wider things will be if and when and we're was going to do it just one photo for a long time anyway so the home the consumer strainer thought were wasn't all that that yes that that that the people at the beginning they look a little crazy me when people pull whatever in the media loves to have fun with that and in and the so called liberal media I mean what the things that we think a liberal like than York or even York Times usually the initial stories are kind of snarky in in all of putting it down endorsements better than that talent with the school I would never be the vehicle home mom and on but remarkably on Friday the New Yorker had a very nice little low level piece on the demonstrations on there I'd not snarky peace tonight I was impressed with Epson and the John Stuart Mill is the loser snark as this thing gross but the beginning the initial feeling is to just kind of put it down bosses to get these assaults low sixties people etc etc I'm home but my prediction is intimacy this is over seventy cities now in the country that a form of Philly and groups of occupy Wall Street and on the reason this is gonna grow it doesn't need anybody to make it grow its gonna happen on its own because it's already been percolating beneath the surface Sorenson ready to boil over for some time because the rich overplayed their hand they didn't have enough they didn't have the room we are going up the rich people read those were my age or older right to rich people and writing member them they they are here they probably had dots that one of the movement own making summer homes on the eastern shore are ripening right and the more I grow up they would in with the Bloomfield Hills or gross point or whatever in Utah they really gave much thought to have the stats for the rich people live you give much thought to it because it's your job was making a spark plug your pay such a good way the first hole in one way was needed to find the household you are able to buy homes you are in a row I get it for weeks we vacation I ever see every summer as an auto worker no college education was able to have money to send his kids to college we had for medical care for dental school my everything on and that and so the other rich diet is not yet as nice home or homes or whatever and it ok fine then if I remember correctly when they came late fifty sixty seventy eighty per cent of their income in taxes the rich yet they still haven't got on the Potomac it I guess that was not pleasant it wasn't enough the one to pay less tax than and less tax than last chance then they wanted more money Mr Huckabee can make more money well spent because it's my biggest expense I'd be in employees but it was coming to me to read up on the tube we can get every funky home online to do the jobs to people Sue Wong two people one guy jobs to re create it they start laying people off not thinking that every person they laid off one less car buyer what it may understand about their own stupid capitalistic system when they just lay people off by the millions who are thinking of either car because what happens when they were paid a good wage what to do without knowing what is the every Georgie do without money this they bought a clock radios I was seeing machines and that makes the clock radio factor in Ultimo stay alive and the people are paid a wage of a clock radio factory what are they ignore the money they buy the washing machines and Benton Harbor the one bit harder do they buy the shoes her maiden name that's all right and that was the basic items and spoken and written deal between the working class and away and this was the deal if you know the working class work hard and we the business prosper you are right the rich were soon back in the new they'd better shares some of what they have or all hell breaks loose is just the bar rated knew that was the nineteen thirties they knew that they better give in to this union or Alps not anymore though right you work hard the company prospered you lose your job in what were they thinking then the car in the car salesman them in the then they're losing money then they don't want this happen how did this happen are you kidding me the overplayed their hand the guts of filthy greedy the wording now is the dirtiest word in their vocabulary there's no such thing as enough he wanted more more more more more it wouldn't stop and that that they already had the ferry went from being the mobile OS is being paid forty times more than the average worker to four hundred times more than the average worker that's all for now then the door it said you know what we can make even more money and this is how we're going to do in order to set up these mortgage deals were to convince people to take these mortgage deals and we hope that they are can you afford a mortgage cuz we tricked up bowl system to begin with we're there already being paid a shady wage not even be able to make this that's ok just a mortgage and one and then the other division of our pink will take our guests both helpdesk betting that they're gonna fail knowing they're gonna fail they took those mortgages in the bottom of a hundred or a thousand ways bumble then sold them to speculators and investors around the world and then the whole thing comes crashing down instead they hauled off like the criminals that they are they were reward with millions of dollars of our tax money I have never seen anything more disgusting in my life absolutely disgusting it is amazing isn't it down people read the Wall Street and by the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday and no one was a banker you really Hall were going on with our historians can understand that whenever we would know behind or something they won't understand this not a single major not a single had budget heads up one manager nope the people who were standing up peacefully four against it today is Gandhi's birthday now and I can think of a better day than for all of us to commit to joining in whatever way we can with occupy Wall Street in whatever little way never been away in your town your place where for your place of business at school it's time for all of us to rise up there's more of less than they earn them in the know it yourself rate of that in the US in the state we have we can't win because they've got more money yeah they do and don't always have more money as market the King said yes and the police on the sheriff was that more guns we'll never have is as much firepower is still down we have something they don't have two things we have the people and we have the moral spiritual backing of who we are just human beings we're part of this human family and we human beings throughout history not tolerate injustice and not tolerated oppression and sooner or later the oppressor always goes down that his scorecard of history it may take awhile but he'd actually the bastards go down and the people when every single time eventually the people win Seoul I don't want you to despair you want to get in all I do want you to support these actions are taking place did you know this week in DC there's another of thing happening here in the freedom Plaza there and home in the know on the side of the way here's the site is toward the Capitol building there that will Park for teaching the pants on that's forty nine Port in the mens Rea unfair beginning on Thursday and um if I can nominate rank and that the next week and participate in that it's all the Ingall it made in a move from their over to Macpherson Park on K Street because really that's really what it is is that Wall Street in Quay Street right and where that means meets mom it's up up I believe the time is here so many millions of people were not politically active before people were facing foreclosure people's mortgages are underwater people lost their homes people who no longer have health insurance people lost their jobs I mean did they really think they're going to keep a nation that have fifty million people without health care somehow keyboard is to accept that do they think that sooner or later one too many people are going to lose loved ones as a result of our lousy health care system for somebody to stand up and say damn it that's the last one that's going to die I'm not taking this anymore do they think that was just a little walk I don't want anything that was the one two weeks ago Congress into this report they want to find out what many Americans actually die each year because for the simple reason they don't have health insurance the doors they didn't go to the doctor where they can go in time as they don't have health insurance or they have health insurance but it's crappy crappy crap o la phony baloney abalone health insurance I'm sorry that's the way we talk in Midwest mom you humming with the number is forty four thousand Americans die each year as a result of not having adequate own future it's that's fifteen nine eleven this every single year but a memorial to them the target build one women because the terrorists his us the terrorists the people that we called for terrorists corporate the years the wheel while continue to steal from us steal people's pensions the Guardian had a great line last week describing the street protests the author said these young people who were down here many of whom were talking bout how they will not be able to pay off their loans until they're in their forties what a wonderful thing to Oxford to do the twenty two year olds send them out in the world with a crushing debt have the boat around their neck railway I was out and in Berkeley last week signing books the guy sitting in what is my age so I went here back in the late sixties and seventies seventy five dollars a semester I heard the same thing from people went to the SUNY system it's practically free these kids are in debt to their forties I've told most incisive listen to this man because there's a reason why it's not just that we want your money any interest film pay us on such a stance that this is the pink one it's because I'm having a bone in your neck and twenty two we control you we own you see we're twenty two week had to do whatever we want to continue with the get a job or jobs like we knew we'd be ok but they don't know that because there are there's no guarantee of a job or could paint job and they all think you get the job the better shut up top union it better not ask questions the battle of the other way when this woman is being treated this way by the boss don't get involved don't say anything she need that job to get that loan to pay off very smart of their parents' generation soccer them into this this place where they have to be signed the better I go to many demonstrations a better QB than school because God knows they can be in the gutter and twenty three I think they've overplayed their hand I think these but the Guardian said was his them they're out there protesting because Wall Street wall Street has stolen their future and all they're asking for is their future and where their parents or their grandparents I know all those of us who grew up in the sixties and seventies this is not the world we want to meet them as the world we cannot leave that cannot be allowed we have to fix this we have to change this on to give me the cutest time for me to read a couple bedtime stories to you so I'm going to make my way all over to the way over to the chair there and Dom I knew little music or something the play me all her era they would have an instrumental of a song that I may seem hoops but is that all it is cold water bring home alone it doesn't I'm done today that the bad guy I the the it well here's the YouTube moment for tonight I love going viral by nine o'clock Michael Moore doing is this deal more still it's another cool thing my mom did in addition to teaching me how to read right by the time I went to Kenny guards should always take us to turn every one summer it is like every other summer when summer we go to New York her sister live there and on so we have these great in your experiences I got the season almost all the regional arm of the group the weapon to twelve years and dumb and become the worst in DC on the opposite summer and summer of sixty five we hit both cities Shauna tickets to the nineteen sixty four sixty five world's fair we kinda washed in the seat first and on home we are home weekend of the IX are told this story and see some of my story we came down here in the end mom Amen to read it reading any more music if they are it golden saw him he yen any might call my cell my place and new it it today lol local although wall in the presidents of the year for that by the way he is here ladies and gentlemen President Barack Obama use them which I had five minutes with him I know we we would need to be worrying about next year and his legs flying than I even offered to have one Rama manual was leaving him the guy that called those of us who were once the types of UN staff and retards remember them that's that's all they did they just assume we're going about his in laws are in a bowl for rights though our votes are taken for granted like and treated that way but I offered it to come and be is new chief of staff I am I said I would go for a dollar a year I did mean either just put the basement I would get him up at five am we work well together was to be good for me and odd weed eating mostly vegetarian diet and all can only get them pumped up before his first meeting of the day you know just like just like shyt shown in the election results you won by ten million votes to ten million ten million that's three times what was to be carried by ten million you have a bad day yet it him we do it um so odd is that it's free AI if you have more to get a chance to read in the shed or if you just got it done I really I put my heart and soul into this this is this is my favorite book and I'd keep me going on so to say that but it is I'd I just I poured everything I I have into this um and home I really aspire to what the nuns were to try to teach us about literature um I love short stories love reading them and wonder in a book of short stories I thought what am I ever write a book of nonfiction shirts are too many of those undone so they're all come from this point my life was little tyke it's me of thirty months I am and I know that her mother and then that's me of thirty five other on the day I turned in Roger me to the lamp to make the person friend of mine though my waist and the picture of me in your city it's all the stories take place between these these two events on our reader I have read before because I feel the heat of the menorah they mean I mean really guys two days for new years to the rest of us get one you get to a Christmas as a Christmas says all the twelve days of Christmas is just a song we get to present some one day it you on only did the story it's on this this rhetorical big bird he and Tom you to know what that means we don't need to build your belt fine now Gary boring din really have an issue with the Germans at least not with a live once the nineteen seventies well in a school even an exchange student in Bremen waste your money the need for year with a German family so Gary was familiar with the younger postwar generation of Germans he knew that they were not all like their parents was made a nineteen eighty five my conversation with Gary when something like this Gary speak first it work me it's perks this murder twenty one but it gets for I don't ever wanna go to whisper I wanna go to get burned all Gary growth and plants not known when I was younger but now as an adult he was among other things see my pro Bono attorney for my alternative newspaper and also for me whenever I needed to get out of a traffic ticket or landlord to spew Mikey you believe this business but Reagan going to hit her I wanna go there let him know I feel you wanna come in the spring of nineteen eighty five to seven leading economies of the world it was then known as the G seven and became the G eight in the G twenty and so the sudden the whole economic summit by West Germany president Ronald Reagan would attend representing the United States somewhere along the way someone in his administration it would be a good idea well Reagan was in the Fatherland to go and lay an official review on the graves of some Nazi soldiers when various Jewish and human rights groups objected he dug his heels in and re use to cancel the ceremony and in fact just to prove his stubbornness kinda make his point he upped the ante and said he would now lay the wreath on the graves of not just any run of the mill Nazis but on the burial plots of the psychopaths known as the Nazi S S nights the ceremony would take place in a small town of in the small town of Pittsburgh Muir the Luxembourg border Gary wanted to go to the park Gary was not a political activists he is not prone to act on impulse the kind of guy whose daily pattern was something like eating exercising sleeping eating exercising sleeping eating exercising sleepy had a guy could set your clock he was unique in another respect his father and his mother were both survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen else over one million died in Auschwitz and fifty thousand are in Tulsa his parents survived both there from a small city in Poland called I think it's pronounced in the least to me I E L C weeks in nineteen forty Cleese had a population of two hundred thousand of up to twenty thousand Jewish citizens the Germans and poles establish the Jewish ghetto in nineteen forty one the biographer forty two the ghetto was liquidated and most of its inhabitants were sent to the crippling to a concentration camp only a couple thousand were kept behind to work as forced laborers that included Gary's parents the law in Benny each of them were married the other spouses at the time your spouse though survive the war in nineteen forty four they were sent to Auschwitz where they are right where they survive the selection process in forty five when the Russians were days away the Germans took them on so that they can continue their slave work someplace else in March them and that in the dead of winter to a rail station in police Poland twenty mile distance many died those who live including Gary's parents were loaded into cattle cars that are going awesome the British liberated them in April fifteen nineteen forty Whelan a refugee camp in Munich the following year they met and got married one of them had an uncle in emigrated to play Michigan twenty years earlier to work in the gym factories because of the connection we are able to come to the United States and the plant they will welcome him with a rod the ordeal of Bella and Benny boring it all not just on them but in the years to come on their children Gary industry brothers the trip to the perky told me would be as personal statement against those who did this to us parents perhaps more important is one man act of defiance against his own president was either in sensitive we're stupid or cool each was inexcusable and what exactly was my purpose in going he lost a cousin to the cemetery when's Reagan going there I said this Sunday this Sunday yet come on up to cure the plane tickets I really need any convincing I was up for this adventure anything that would stick it to the Kipper if Bonds I was going to be a bird so was I forty eight hours later we landed in Hamburg West Germany and made our way to buy and there are many people in bond due to the economic summit when you press credentials more than just the ones that they made up back at home we went to the summit's press office where we were told by Whitehall level by the White House a press officer that we should speak to hear heaters at the US press enter I'm sorry but I believe you're a little way here Peters told us when we finally found him there are no more press credentials to him now we insisted that we are assured of these credentials committee was supposed to take care of us I'm afraid all you can do at this point he said is to take the top with brown sugar of gray the old Robert Schmidt and all we've fallen raw shrimp she is picking up two stepping up to go home when we came to her desk I'm sorry but I'm not the best we must be on the list I replied I spoke to the White House last week and we're guaranteed press credentials just checked with large met when you get to but that's what I was full so we fought all the way here at great expense to our newspaper and some follow up here for us the possibility that abandoning fall off a mistake made to carelessness perhaps laziness was a revolting thought to an older German in a highly insulting she walked away and within ten minutes she returned handing us our official President Reagan state visit the second half with a whimper complimentary lanyard we have much use for the tales of the mine except they got us our first real meal and thirty hours the German government opened up their parliament building to feed the press with all the free food and drinks they can consume the spread of food was easily two blocks long you know what they say Gary remarked with a smile as he walked down as if it had the air a well fed brass always tells the truth we took off for diverting the morning located about a hundred miles south of mine that bird was the town of twenty four thousand inhabitants twelve thousand Germans and twelve thousand American servicemen and women because of the nearby airports days level by the United States in an air attack on Christmas Eve nineteen forty four that were given a staging area in supply people for the Nazis in the bell the ball which was now a quaint little city city nestled in the hills of the Rhineland we were not the boss five minutes when we're pro for the local welcome wagon it and set up for the visiting press no one from the office um the man who met us his name is Bernard Bernard a bird urine financial officer with the city and head of a local German army reserves he offered to give us a first ball toward the bird in the seminary inside the cemetery I went to the seminary it's plain to us that these graves were really a big deal that these Nazis were just kids that had been forced into the army in the cemetery on he had no idea of course that he was participating in a reconnaissance mission aiding and abetting a Jew when a journalist who plan on raising a ruckus the next day we kind of felt bad that for him because after our rest he'd probably be hauled in for questioning as to why he was the driver for these anarchists this was the day before so the local Germans were busy laying flowers of all the grays hiding up for the president's visit the press was there to photographing these graves from every angle an elderly German woman was going around taking flowers often I'm not seek to raise him placing them in abundance on the SS crepes his mumbling something nasty in German she went about her one woman a purist per se as the cameras roll I am we walked the next morning Tom for the big day and we began to implement a plan underneath this sweater Gary wrapped around his torso a forty square foot banner our friends Jack and Maria painted for a speck in Ann Arbor read we came from Michigan to remind you the murdered my family with both real and now they would both take in real press passes around our necks in camera bags in hand we set off for the two mile walk to the cemetery what we discovered that was overnight we discovered was that overnight get her to turn into a police state seventeen thousand German army soldiers surrounded the town had set up numerous checkpoints we did pretty well getting to the initial checkpoints for the test yet until we came about a half a lap them up half a mile away from the cemetery in the top snapped this the spies who loved all the officer barked at us in German Gary was fluent in German and of course I was full and bullshit he convinced the officer that these were real any offers a directive is back to the mayor's office to get a special insignia put on that ass we went back and did as we were told in them and after all the other checkpoints one by one we got through or big German perfect ball said one by one it seemed to work the cemetery was now in sight we were means we need it this far he cited that a bold move would now be required to make it past the final day it would bring us into the promised land out of nowhere a truck carrying TV equipment the CBS evening News poll up the guys Friday and started on low their metal boxes and crates I sauntered up to them and ask them if they needed any help Sharpe said one of the crew grab a couple of LO's in this dear readers became one of the few times in my life it looking like a roadie was turned into applause I picked up the box as the Gary and we walked in with a minor shoulder so we couldn't see your faces in meeting end of the cemetery the bong bureau chief for Newsweek in the head of the Associated Press there was only met the combined he confided to them what we're doing spotted us how the hell did you guys get in I mean they've got all the security of the Sullivan talking about for months new guy just walked right in we smiled the smile those woods while the Canary they promise not to blow our cover about an hour before Reagan was to ride the secret service appeared to do a sweep of the cemetery and to re check everyone's press credentials we decided to cut out around the gate and high so that they wouldn't touch with the catch ours we stuck close to the press and somehow we made it through he was now just minutes away Reagan arriving and answers the door this Tom and Gary and I mostly I were getting increasingly nervous suddenly I began to freeze what the hell were we doing I knew that the instant we reached inside our coats the whip something out we were going to be pummeled or worse the school's knots the face of every German copping ground in that cemetery and they look like they meant business and we were about to become their business their bloody business he might be handy I spotted ABC News correspondent Pierre Salinger and instantly came up with the idea that might protect us from being hurt I walked over to Salinger the Salinger said nervously my friend and I are here in one part of the press we're here to perform an action when we can arise on nonviolent action his parents Holocaust survivors it to get in here he s been used we had some credentials and were were compliant ok well I will blow your secret could you do something else for us I ask were really scared going to hurt us when we pull our sign we you make sure that your cameras wait they're honest so that they will see this image going out live on TV because I have a feeling the last thing the Germans walk today is when each of them beating a Jew in the dippers cemetery he led the hearty laugh no they don't want to do that I like this I like this okay you have my word we'll have the camera ready right there to protect you thank you I said thank you down the street we can hear the role of the car the motorcade was in the cars the work he was in sight this was that Kerry has him quietly under its co he was trying to time and just rain sleet have the time to get it all handed to me and we did when we would spread out the Reagan could see but not too soon or they would pounce on us do it to a Reagan would miss it now with a rake in just ten feet away we trust the banner for the limo inches away from the windows where he can plainly see the banner and we can plainly see the expression on Ronald Reagan space the smiling president read the banner in a space turned Ansley to what could best be described as confusion we can also see Nancy Nancy was not computers in spirited parade at us with this guy is the police surrounded this immediately and did the camera man from ABC News the police all the camera and me the snap decision not to beat the living crap out of us that the cabin is Billy public this is like there's the camera right there I we had humiliated them with a security breach in God knows they wanted him to meet all our furniture right then and there but this is the new Germany in cooler heads prevailed as the Ravens were now through the gaming getting out of the car we remain in our spot the authorities asses to put away the bedsheet and not wanting to press our luck we complied the wreath laying ceremony at the graves last of the entirety of the minutes before we knew it with the gun so disobeying orders not to we pulled up the dead Sea one last chance to remind the president the merger my family the ring and sped out of the cemetery immediately the neighbors started pouring in they started shouting Jews go home week and one the one who was shouting the loudest was quickly silenced by the other Germans but he kept looking at Gary we decided that it was time to leave that we do not want to take on the entire town a bit more we headed up to the edge of town and son hitchhiking a woman picked this up we told her what we've just done she didn't seem that please we need to forget about the war in the Holocaust back to the cemetery the American VFW was now laying there reads along with the ex German soldiers we headed out of town she said she wanted nothing really to do with this in a survey asking us about our treatment of the American Indians only MP everybody got there on us as we got near Hanover Gary suggested we stop at the Bergen Dawson concentration camp where his parents were liberated from nineteen forty the lady said she didn't know where that was or even what that once we think Aaron got out in town and took a taxi up to the site we arrived at work and also miss the sun was setting over the many we covered moments that were the man screens hill after hill concealed the fifty thousand were piled into me no gravestones no stars of David no names of anyone just their child high grass growing on time no one else was there besides us Gary said he wanted to be a long walk I went and sat on the bench the road this story it you all glued to the gloomy read home Ingall the disbelieving I see them all questions so home if you have a question you may look like or if you're like me in your blog necessary lethargy home you may sit there and I will call you in all repeat her question so that you can hear the word starter the people in the same balcony not make it but the phones that there's anybody out there that might there yes just because here for fun the the the the you it it it all he it all it it it well ok I think you very much for being here this to me and give up his own direct war veteran and home in day out the the the the the the the he is implementing and yogurt and his dad worked in the auto factory and done and the up I had a newspaper like all the fun voice and on the story or two I tell him in this book a while when newspapers one story about home was raided by the police and the obvious this raid actually lead to a for help to lead to a it was being passed by Congress to protect newspapers from improper searches by police departments and Dom and so on in order from the newspapers up all the folk singer very cheap he succumbed went to every year and two concerts forests and that's how we fund of paper on off your member Harry K thunder the the he was love of it a great great person he did to her concerts a year one hundred of them were benefits home that was this philosophy one for me one for the other guy the story with his life on he received the outlaws the novel the BBC the civilian Congressional Gold Medal of honor to bedtime yet they're only of three with three musicians have ever been granted this novel n he was really an incredible person will hunger was his claws and gone is a real inspiration for me and im really home increased need to do a lot of things I didn't I think of them often if he'd only is it a go on line he wrote cats and a cradle him what's really cool song stories songs we call them he like short stories to meet with them and into song many many stories to tell but Harry and I think I'll do that someday thank you for bringing it up thinking yes ma'am hi I'm endlessly the this woman thank you in my nineteen years in the House of Representatives leaving the progressive caucus not the Liberal caucus at the progress of the the and many many liberal issues it up you have been an inspiration to me and all of us and they need the the the the anti Cuba were used on the home all I would like to just assume that all members of the Democratic caucus are the Liberals and then there are the progress those who are there to push the Liberals did to the right things mom thank you for them for survived for so many years and style yes yes my name in soccer cannot come up but missed them so when I had with the diaspora four inches here in this end I got it it's a wee at once though there instead so we call ourselves Flintstones I like I wasn't before and my question you are a true Patriot and a true Christian you say the and eleven whales a year including George Walker with us the survey showed that useful but my question is on currency with the form and just move to a few months ago which you consider bring him back TV nation to tell the truth the C span this afternoon they showed a clip from the nation which hadn't seen in years all of the political comedy show that I did back in the mini in mid nineteen eighties and done I would like to do it again someday it was amazing we got on the air as much as we got on Millwall lot of lot of fun with it we own our pilot show a little piece although salty the nation but damn we get a number of things so I could fired everybody on the show the first week and moved to Reno some Mexico and I hired a comedy writers for fifty cents an hour in me we outsource the entire show and dumb we started Beattie up when GM in the first episode there in in and we didn't actually came the awful truth to me and moved in order brow bone and we have things like of this automobile where we come to the big Winnebago to all the states was illegal to be then had to have gay sex is the cold and dark home console was that basically it of trouble doesn't die gay guys and I was the designated heterosexual and I drove I drove via the boss and we literally went to each of the states so they can break the law the and unfortunately I think on the very first person to put up the Westboro Baptist Church on the man out because we wouldn't get in their parking lot the end of this is this this was back in the nineteen nineties and before anybody knew what the Westboro Baptist Church was an able bodied and start filming get there it though we went to Aunt we went to Queens where the Taliban dental office we knew it the Taliban was big in Mecca nineties in an office on beneath the dead intelligence office on Queens Boulevard in God we on this one in there and had some fun with them so things remembering that increases as the gap to score ah ma so union officer as Latino unions are not the enemy at the forefront of this right now boy know that we all know that what the Brotherhood of locomotive managers and train and medical appointment there myself an ongoing been pushing the light rail passenger yes he is still in class with light and wave as Renault the bill that would be a starting point of bringing well as I said that when you buy a moment Mimi who suddenly the new chairman of General Motors on that it was a golden opportunity you to set the tone for the twenty first century get it off the internal combustion engine and put these factories for these people back to work on making a fast trains light rail the transportation we're going to need in this entry for the plan as to survive the fall we all push them down besides they go from a year from one I'm not complaining of Michigan and sparkle in a particular city on the Ohio State has a hotter than a DVD BD it was really good defensive well but to exit from Northern Michigan and I just wanted to take something thank you and if he could speak to the folks in the audience of October City film Festival home EC this silly like that on but my question is a little more mobile and may have to provide some context to keep you talk about what needs to happen this election cycle for we folks in addition to the invitation for the foot of the source of this election cycle what we do to take back the first is to compete in an issue for ever we are living up to another first congressional district Michigan on when you run a good candidate me to run something when I when you start reading Democrats can win why don't we want to win I know main point seems content of what seems macho which seems Republican would seem warmonger ish but that's politics and were no again to get these things we wanted we win win win we went with the B pillars I won only two of them I've never understood why don't we put up candidates can win we should be recruiting the right people that are going to win and they're going to fall through an undocumented bought off by this home once they get here and I know most people exist one and this fall here when we can have more of her right cheek and the only one saw the forces for a long time I know it sounds like a joke but that the Republicans in as much as they say the Hollywood they run Hollywood they run rate in the wrong Schwarzenegger they run Fred Thompson they run Sonny Bono they run goal from the love boat right Hollywood meanwhile while he was one of the love Hollywood is the new Americans love Hollywood why is Hollywood good for politics where actors good as or communicators because they're really good to getting across a message saying the red wines it was the one to follow through mother going to do but don't we have people like that on our side why don't we run Oprah why don't you tell me what it might be in the eye and tell me over with blues the only time he salutes tell me its contents with blooms now no way what does our beloved figures and their liberals why don't we run people that are going to win I think that is what we what we gotta do in Michigan is we gotta find the right person for my congressional district room the uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh the world it one retires I want to do with Al Franken in the Senate the you gotta admit that wouldn't these be somewhat entertained with Ella me on the floor well worn will just scribbles Republicans will give them laughing we will all be fine on the um yes ma'am yes and not from Michigan coming easily actually been living overseas for three decades am a Christian is in that sense you we took out my contacts United States if you like people are looking back with this tells about the Dees when it's extra but during those days you know countries were recovering from the damage of World War two China was still in its isolationist moment what we've seen over the last fifty years is huge growth and healing group and people from India and China and Korea have a wonderful new opportunities and thus change the competitive environment for the American workers and when I come back yard feel as though these and I somehow and a circle around the analysis that says we don't wanna look at that we just want things to go back to when you were when the global market may not permit such a stunning cure have you talked about how you talk to the fact that you may not be able to have those kinds of situations we did go forward into a new reality rather than looking backwards yes can I say in the book too that this idyllic childhood to talk about the good old days why there's a real dark under there is a real dark underside to those good old days on if if love if a black family and moved into our neighborhood on believe you mean them for sale signs would have sprung up like weeds Seoul on the site don't I don't have a glassy eyed view of the the gold the cement in that way um I think I think what you do mean this is way too long to answer we have no time but in general we do with the knowledge we live in a global economy but that means we have to look at the workforce is in all countries as part of a global workforce that deserves to be treated which human rights deserves a decent wage her representation the band you know many of these families that went to Mexico the move to the China now that China's getting to be two that are going to Vietnam then there to move from Vietnam to Burma when I get straightened out when they can exploit were yawning to build keep going but SOOO later the country's soon or later all people wanna be free sooner or later all people want to be able to have a decent things for the kids sooner or later the billion on the planet that don't have access to clean drinking water want to drink from a clean glass of water so don't let it happen Seoul Seoul the eighteenth of this is not the way that corporations are doing now they should be thinking about them not just us thinking about it they should be thinking about it but I think we have the unions have perform solidarity movements with workers in other countries so that as the global economy comes together the evil look at China against the United States and we all need to see the were part of the same group not separate or not let them pit us against them are in that way that's a very short and he's a much longer answer but we are but we don't the time thanks for bring up at some point the US Ikea and skill Peters new believe that beats the buyback effects you that holds the University of Dar al point about nine years ago fallen tree pretty well although I doubt I'm a strong believer in what used to me all the love which means that the world and I think you're a galvanizing force that may wanna thank for that on now my question is before you may know that I had a love for you maybe you know movie that got you asked the chief who did not view this controversial status you make things that were still controversial but for galvanizing in the sense of it was a soft cell like things with Canadian bacon which he held through humor and through satire the film a very poignant political points are you we're planning to go back to the Tories sorted now you're out there or on the job extremely galvanizing either we love we pay them that thing's for sure what the law the way and therefore I was making any major or the other one later asparagus if you want to go with something in his letter parents who sets fire and was needed to bring a political film Shalom shopping mall audience but Dawn in all I have only had a larger audience as I as I become more and use a galvanizing work for rising one to write and understand those terms sometimes because he actually what I've done is as it reaches of my war is peace of mind films of books of the time they reach people of millions and millions of people and that is why um if there's any polarization if there's any sort of anger animosity toward me by the monks and people not the leadership and talking all the just the average American who all Michael Moore and watched that that's only because they've been told not to watch the film it and told Mike he revealed in and told the Fox News and I told him when I run into them honest reader on the airplane or whatever what just watch one of the movies I don't get anything off and on making more money and just watched one of the movies and you will know that I love this country and that I have a heart in that in a new lie there for me home in you may never agree with me politically but but but just just try it there's a story in the book that I was pointing out that Tom someone from the Bush administration was higher by them talk to me told me what happened in the White House in Fahrenheit nine eleven came out in and they pulled me to some secret calling to see how Republicans would respond to the film and what they fall in with you scary statistics after showing my film two groups of Republicans humble one one third of the Republicans in the audience said they would recommend turning out laughing after seeing it to other people see and ten percent of Republican women in the audience said that they would not vote for George Dubya Bush now after seeing the smell of a son a large number ninety percent still hated the feeling all that but this can be such a close election when the saw them especially the female will be flipped out and they got busy and they did a masterful job of all putting together their talking points putting together their campaign against me personally to attack me sleepy when you can think of going into the theater they can to prevent people from seeing that film so they had to go after me and in Wendell Potter who was the vice president's Aiken insurance he tells them of a very scary story in his book that came out last year about how the health insurance and pharmaceutical companies literally spent millions of dollars to go after me in Sicko it to try and discredit me into in his words if necessary to push me off a cliff and I had never had the money really come for him I can't afford to release her to tell what corporate America and what Republicans in Fox News does and a continual basis with me as they deal with me so I searched along the answer that I just wanna put that out there because I talk about when back in the book and in his call for my assassination and an arm it's just it's just as you reading this is boggles the mind of this to be allowed on the radio and nothing happened to him home and I'm home by they talk like that because they know him in the minority in their scared they know that the not going to win so they have to do other things to try and hold on to what power they some think of all thank you Aunt Arctic think my thank you very much ok thinking this all the biggest been folded or any other time and so what will we can do is just a given them with the people in the mornings we did the lightning round if you want this okay so what that means as your question can do more than twenty words yesterday a question and I will not answer with with more than twenty words deal deal our lightning round against Surrey the first real quick and he still ball so I was gonna say I've never heard the speech like you have spoken tonight have you ever it was really what you get from about five six have you considered going on a speaking to work seriously because people don't understand how bout people don't understand what you're about what he was talking about that one day I'm glad you liked the show between five and six I don't know what happened after sex I thought that was my story above diverted but don't you know but thank you for saying that yes we speak often been and I'm really giving this kind of opportunity on TV for instance I have a new website sort and filter didn't even go there but yes like I travel the country to do this is as much as I can and that's why people love me I know they will re enter the I notice there's this there's this assumption though the views were no more people in the day but it is I don't really it really isn't as bad as you think it is I talk too much and so did you do next I have read quickly the pride of public school education in it he said that they need to do a documentary entitled going gets it honestly waiting for Superman he stopped we can meet all their documentary I have the right occasion still on the grounds taking over I thought yes yes I know quite yet the deaf hear the Korea as the follow on aficionados chores to resize images as for your recommendations offer short stories all on our great now I'm reading a two to load vines interest was warmly T C Boyle and no one layout Roddy Doyle global fighting they don't guess I'm just a moron my quest for years you start the actors are active and very young age as a family personally know where you got the courage to do that when your son I was just upset and I was unemployed the nose there was that home in and I get some help from somebody that you if you read the book and see what happened but I guess basically it was was held by the Bush family yes this is ok to added interest lies in Fahrenheit nine eleven available on DVD and down the chance for it is fair to know the news on DVD is yes our time money and yes a lot of retailers on long haul that no man is a probably do have some sort of thing carry it on the other side makes a lot of noise about my films being stores in the squeaky wheel gets the grease and therefore my films are not in some stores that you get the public library and you get it online you get in on Netflix I'm so slack then you can download for free it's all over the internet the you know how to do that so less damaging to dump was an ex was her last time I checked him was on Netflix the terminal and some Netflix no no no and the story of capitalism Los journalism and say all make sure gets on there it was a teeny recovery would just give me or just a freak on Sunday when I think the the the the hum of a Democratic activist and I deftly agree we have a grass roots from right now and hopefully last recap for my liking in separate directions ah looked like nonetheless Democrats even know if they fail and the message and an outreach strategy of two thousand a knock you over twenty words of dead calm we sought to vote for Democrats oh man we could vote for independence in two thousand twelve what we need to win the presidency ever going to be in big trouble and saws wondering what organizations you are you are you happy with a banjo after reclaim the journey or not to know yes yes and no other images me just tell you what I love my wife and I get where we live in the first to stream issue in the small town on our County Democratic Party had a total of three dues paying members so after the oh four election we are very depressed above all things that you want we just went a goal were there along with a rave party is nobody's there anyways and we got ten friends to come in and now the fall of us was twelveth revolting we became the Democratic Party and then and now we have three hundred dues paying members and how we run our candidates who got likeable people like them locally on the death of Palm we in the midterms analyst in oh six we had some victories so on I think get a sermon grassroots lovely I do locally India takeover local Democratic Party trust me if you go to your County Democratic monthly meeting there are ten people there you'd be surprised if you walk in with twenty people you could become coming yes the right so young still do that but they may want to see progress a champion Tom Perry off my organizational for progress is doing it the stairs and their Eagle Vale man I mean isn't there on a worker center dedicated to improving working conditions and wages for restaurant workers which is the largest private sector employer private sector employer in the nation three words one why would you what you have to say about I for one are you when I get tired of hearing is that structural racism doesn't exist anymore because you're black president would have to say to that it was terrible among black president one I keep always say that racism doesn't exist in the country because we now have a black president I think that it doesn't wondering what you have to say that will force it doesn't even want to believe and believe you know it's mainly with and that's really short answer but the US to take breaks and still be proud obviously why are they asking for zebra certificate I mean we know what's behind act right now so it's it's evident to us all the time yes day of my name is Max and Emme from increases in Maine on Skype the short thank you for outgoing dog by Wall Street talking on the sand the sea and will you please join us in freedom Plaza this weekend yes I told them it can do that yes this they don't like when he was the euro no more announces the local pool I'm all for independent filmmakers no will or trying to be local question is of a once in the new phone you think that the internet could be used against us what is the year the standpoint of the law and the group and on numerous haka group anonymous and if you truly think that there is the new world order well think God for anonymous thank God for which the leaks and I think we'll once were using the internet against them yes I spoke briefly of these gems warming call these green six people killed on the UK band to actively get involved with kids makes it known to the idea that won me give an eff was to us got a nice autumn on the phone right now then to get up and they give this a very important to by the way that he's working with guests Marine in Vietnam anti war movement Vietnam veterans against the war award winning but please consider making toward meeting the movie alright okay calm home while you twenty bucks the new nations are all given how did it again today yes on to give this means is that thank you very much thanks yes we can consider she said the Cowboys beat the Lions the day the audacity to come up here yes you can still be doing a film about the war on through this well me and though I have various sources failed to warn drugs this is the hits of two we block of so many people is wrong for people with drug problems need help on and on in its use against the porridge used against people of color in Nome him and he needs to be stopped and we thought by him or seemingly this is one of the season to switch Obama with me just say if he gets a second term he could be a historic president yes to the albino when you were a kid what film or filmmaker really helped define you want to be a director's well as a teenager in the film I saw that to move me in the most was the clockwork Orange mom and then I washed all of whom Rican paths of glory it to Dr strange clothes and everything else and love to break mom and my favorite films of all time the big change from time to time that I would say would be a clockwork Orange favor documentary the hearts and minds of the amount on of taxi driver um on a spinal tap on and of Kiwis big adventure yes the well no races and Troy Davis on combining seven and exciting in its lack of privacy times and I was on democracy now or ninety film and brought back memories saying a while back then a big investigations to break open about surveillance campaign against you or getting your records and add in I hear that right this is that still ongoing as am I here on it is I don't talk about it tonight but we'll see what happens yelled yes I miss them all I'd like to thank the folks on a long time giving us all of the future wall I have a lot of lovin it this I ask you what you think May in the next elections you where I think will happen I think that as long as Republicans keep putting a freeze the people in thinking that the majority of Americans as crazy as they are they're going to loose this is not gonna happen and I decide to leave them if they were smart they would they would've they would come up with fourth Jon Huntsman because he's the only one that raises him in the ass in the debate which of you believe in science only one raise their hand it was stunning and and he would give Republican vote to begin the tenancy probably get some Democrats that are not that smart there so consumed with their heat of Obama or hate it has clouded their judgment in April phone away and and I don't think that's I don't think they don't pull themselves out and I think they're just so full of it and they aren't like I said last week on the view mom and Rachel are going well with her a chance that against him the hell mom I sat there they're done they're not on the Titanic Iran that eat any because they had him tied themselves to the tea party in it it will be there too because that is now were most Americans are and why did the Republicans do so well and in twenty ten mummy just break it down very quickly for you you may resume Obama won was because of eighteen twenty nine year olds that's why he won I hope you understand that he watched the entire white vote you do know that right fifty seven percent of whites voted for McCain win and fifty three percent white women voted for McCain he was the white Volvo became president of the United States how did that happen because he got an overwhelmingly I'm on number of an overwhelming number of votes from the one white demographic only one that he won eighteen to twenty nine year olds they came out in record numbers and put him over the top won with in Richards told me the story a long time ago and it's on the story is a perfect where she said did you realize that since Harry Truman no Democrat Lyndon Johnson and sixty four and has won the White House when ah by winning the White no balled the wall was awake when he lost both times Carter was that Obama was that in him this moment the Democrats are trying to appeal to the crazy white guy could own body and he's the party I forget about anything and you know I'm not gonna stop eating like him to sing it but I'm just saying it does mean that that that we need to think about this and some younger than promoting twenty ten the same hall you know I go to the UN monkeys things around the country people helping young people and well why didn't they come it was so excited away the people don't suffer fools the bullshit you promise them something you are doing for the call u wanna be like hypocrites or they don't want somebody doesn't fall through the light to the you should use the pool the news once the first day one of the ring it winter we've gone we are that way we've learned a lesson they're not like that mean we need young people in their rebellion and their ability to not go along with the yes in the work of along with President Obama is the yes he let them down they stayed home he wants to keep letting him down for the next year we'll stay home lots of people stay home all by his problem you know is that according to a slip from an annual calling us all happen retards bright red member that unity that's his problem isn't the Michael Moore on the novel for Obama that's the problem the problem is is that we're not going to bring in people with the snowballs for your look in the eye and say they have the am was premier of the hour the you know no more not only will tell too many people know it was really gorgeous fall was what this woman is pushing him to look through it all true but we elected him to start me up the mast in yes he was dying every step along the way by these people think the net and many of the Niger each we went to dinner this the New Hampshire pray if you've read all this he went to dinner and he said let's now they are free let's bring it to a whole let's make sure nothing gets and they decided on that night that they would treat Obama as if he didn't exist as if he was not the invisible man women to use Ralph Ellison's term but the invisible president we'll just walk past them as Ralph Ellison said like I'm in the room in the air among the other side of town I'm not there out of sight out of my will to squeal Bonhoeffer forty years to get rid of in charge again that's the plan and that the fact that he would enable them to play time after time trying to appease them trying to hold off the olive branch trying to include their language even even real old bills they use to be their bills me to smack about is him well you know last couple weeks we say no bomb trade and tax the rich to get social security the Justice Department is going to stop the merger of ACC team only was I when you saw the death of her murder an annoyance of the main from a mortgage fraud anyhoo the podium what the US okay I guess I've seen football teams like the University of Maryland in on solid play the first three quarters and run the ball in the wrong direction turbans what's this when the game well on teh he is a great athlete so I may be a little iffy spends the next year being the person that we like to be in that person right if he stands up for the things he said not to give speeches really do like young people see that condemned in the persons lost their policies that in the present government health insurance sees that then I'm telling you he's got a chance he's got a great chance problem with the fact that burger I'm crazy it all but we've got a bigger problem here as we got a present rate now who has has proposed a worst air pollution standards the motions for eight we met a guy who's increase the war in Afghanistan not diminished when a guy who will whom some of the media watch presenter civil liberties that we've had in a very very long time Saul that's why it's important for us to speak of and not be afraid to speak out he's got to hear that he's got to hear from the fMRI charts whether they like it or not I mean I just think that's that's really really important is the last question three behind your back yes hi hi and to know what you think of my precinct and a band that day knowing him this time coming is in the United Nations one more thing about the victory you son we feel really ill one finger was wrong I think that he stood there a year ago he said there so they're year ago he promised them come that the new year and there will be a nation called Palestine and then that process most fourth quarter by the people who we give a lot of money to more allies I just think that that's warned and warned that it happened and and that I think the one the wrong side of history when it comes to this and I think you I think hundreds of thousands of Israelis agree with that of position Seoul home mom Warnock and fix the problems in the Middle East until we fix this problem Lee was or province are our home Billy I know I said those words cushion so sorry they're going to sign him it home the tree was pour on the wrong side of history and this we know we are the it's all a wonderful documentary this year called Le Gros get a chance to see a PC it small town the West Bank hands on it follows this elderly Palestinian and Israelis are building the wall for the time through their town for their cemetery and he decided to organize the town and because in the gallery says let's try something different here when I can throw single stone the fire a single bullet we're not in use one negative word against our Israeli brothers and sisters we're just going to sit down an outlet can build this wall any organizing the principles of Martin Luther King and Gandhi this demonstration in the south there and their numbers grew to get bigger and bigger in the Israelis living in the town in the other side of the Walsall was going on and a whole bunch of them came were enjoying them in sat there with them and it's a remarkable film that gives you a real sense of hope on this issue just think wow this is this is true new way to do this because the Palestinians may have the people there on the right side on this and the Israelis the two have a conscience they do know what this is about and they will do the right thing they have to do the right and home we need to not be enablers of the wrong thing we need to help them do the right thing so the the the the the the the port was I just want to recognize a couple of people in the audience to a bend in my last two films on in capitalism a love story there's a yummy and down in Miami who organizes people in this up a group called take their homeland and what they do as they go into homes and M4 closed and locked in by the banks and take them back for the people been kicked out of their homes he is ever an incredible hero down there his movement has spread nationwide and I'd like you to please acknowledge them on Mr man from old neck stand up please stand at the beginning of my movies that all there is a a couple of other than a man and woman mom who bomb because of up to help the health insurance company health insurance they get when the cover of the necessary medical bills of that Larry I had to incur they were forced to go and live in their children and one under their daughters basement remember that they're here with us tonight please give a warm welcome she's now an organizer with the nurses Union all Larry and honest now Larry Knight all of us have to do our part all was said to get out there get involved into that little thing it would all be just a little bit it with me on the backs of just a few to try and bring about the changes the death of her everybody in here think about what that is what that little bit is you do not despair did not think that because you don't have the numbers are the money that we don't have the money that we can win the four hundred richest Americans have more wealth then a hundred and fifty million Americans combined the hungry Cameron hundred and fifty million combined and you might think that they think that their living by a mohawk and of course there wouldn't want to be like but they are scared shitless and they're scared because they just damn Constitution we have says one person one vote so they can have all the billions or trillions they want when the curtain closes only get one vote one in this four hundred of them and there's a hundred and fifty million or more of us you don't need to be smart and asked if anybody here in favor of mathematics science mathematics the home that was shot in one shot we can do this think you could want for coming out he could be when the ATO it bill the the field go he has placed on YouTube you here and sign books last train to New York although one or the semi fast one so due to moving is make this happen to the one assigned everybody's book sold off please come up here and do that and I'll see you next time you're in DC thank you very much