Howard Fineman

March 11, 2009 Nailing
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 * newsweek correspondent
 * new book about great debates
 * after this interview he better write a sequel
 * "The Thirteen American Arguments"


 * Stephen has 13 arguments before breakfast


 * 13 is lucky
 * 13 colonies
 * 13 stripes in the flag


 * history in the headlines
 * dive in and learn some history
 * make scratch


 * he is an inside beltway media elite
 * he decides what the rest of America


 * examples:
 * relationship between the government and the market


 * communal and communism have the same root


 * Dr. Colbert doesn't go to ice cream social


 * cannot sail across a country


 * do other countries have arguments?
 * France
 * eat cheese or smoke during our three-ways?


 * arguments are good
 * The civil war was the best thing to ever happen
 * guns


 * passionate about their arguments
 * accept the humanity of the people on the other side
 * may accept their idea is valid


 * essential to every argument that Dr. Colbert has:
 * the other guy's wrongness


 * One of the arguments: who is an American?
 * never seen Obama's birth certificate


 * we were a nation of immigrants, we are now a nation of Americans!


 * to save on time:
 * yes
 * no
 * yes
 * yes
 * kick ass & take names
 * only once in college