Friday News Roundup - Domestic
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Republican presidential candidates debated in South Carolina as polls showed former Governor Mitt Romney with a seven-point lead over former Speaker Newt Gingrich; the U.S. government charged seven hedge fund managers in a $62 million insider trading case; and several prominent websites "blacked-out" in protest of controversial anti-piracy legislation in Congress. Jerry Seib of The Wall Street Journal, Sheryl Gay Stolberg of The New York Times and Ryan Grim of The Huffington Post join Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
Guests
Jerry Seib
Washington bureau chief, The Wall Street Journal.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Washington correspondent, The New York Times.
Ryan Grim
Washington bureau chief, Huffington Post.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Washington correspondent for the New York Times, Ryan Grim,
Washington bureau chief for the Huffington Post, and Jerry Seib, Washington bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal discuss Obama's decision to reject the Keystone Pipeline permit.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Washington correspondent for the New York Times, Ryan Grim,
Washington bureau chief for the Huffington Post, and Jerry Seib, Washington bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal talk about the SOPA and PIPA legistlation.
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Newt will be "Blunderbuss in Chief' if he is elected. He is appealing to South Carolinians who expect this feature in their candidates. Newt should change his name to "Cameleon' instead of 'Newt' I saw some news coverage of him tonight, and he looks like a Catholic bishop or archbishop, his red tie would match a red cap, and it seems like his wife takes the place of the bishops crozier. They look so sincere, don't they?
I was scanning through peoples comments and listening to the show and it appears that there is a very low level of understanding of what was going on with the SOPA/PIPA proposed laws.
1) It was very briefly mentioned by one of the commentators but today 1/21/2011 the DoJ launched a huge bust using excising laws and shut down and arrested the site known as Megaupload.com. The site accounted for about 4% of all internet traffic and most of that was of pirated media. This flat out proves that there is no need for any additional laws to fight digital piracy.
2) So if we don't need the law then what is going on? Simple as of right now the media corporations have to go through the legal system and PROVE that someone is stealing their property. Under SOPA/PIPA all they would have to do is accuse a site of participating in any kind of piracy and it would have been blocked instantly with NO DUE PROCESS and little to no way for a sight to prove that it was doing nothing wrong and be reinstated to the internet. I could post a link to a pirated movie on this site right now and that would qualify thedianerehmshow.org as participating in piracy and it would have been pulled. That is how ridiculous the law was.
3) Okay so it's a really blunt interment but it would stop the pirates right? Wrong. The way this law went about it is so lacking in any understand of technology that it is not even funny. It literally took people 1 day to write the code that would completely bypass what the law was trying to do. Meaning that any pirate could and would continue on as usual but for the mass of regular users sites would just start disappearing without warning.
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4) Okay so how do I throw some gas on this fire? Simple SOPA/PIPA could easily be converted into the internet censorship bill. It gave the government the power and tools to block websites from being viewed by anyone inside the US. Do you really think once they have those tools that some sly politician won't suggest "hey that website says mean things about me, about the government, about America lets block it." It was the start of a slippery road and it was not gentle slope it just dropped straight down.
5) I'm just going to be blunt. If you think SOPA/PIPA sounds good then you must love how the internet works in China. Enough said.
Only one candidate without hesitation is against these proposed laws, SOPA/PIPA , Ron Paul. Mr. "no spin zone" mocks R.P. for not having any legislation to his name or credit, as far as I'm concerned that's a major plus. Ron has proposed some government power restricting legislation but there is little surprise that it did not go anywhere. Reversing anything in goverment is next to impossible.
jasonwilliford wrote:
"I am not a member of any organized religion, but if I were to try to see through the eyes of a Christian (all denominations), Mormonism is a cult. I personally do not care, but you have to realize that for a Christian the LSD church is a blasphemous cult. We are talking about a religion with: magic underwear, polygamy, and Native Americans being created because God turned them "Red"."
You are "not a member of any organized religion", yet you speak for Christianity?!
Oh, that's RICH!
Hey, aren't you the separation of Church and State guys? Of what relevance is his religion? Obama was born a Muslim. So what?
Sounds like a liberal SCARED TO DEATH that Romney might become the nominee to me. I wondered how long it would take before the leftist bigots came out.
Newt the Cammelion, were his previous marriages annulled by the Catholic Church, and will be using this reasoning to excuse himself using Jesuitical reasoning, meant for other crown princes, monarchs, and inconvenient previous alliances? In the child abuse cases all over Catholic diocese's this same type of reasoning is used, the way ecclesiastical procedures are written, and their standard of proof, etc., etc., were reasons that the Bishops could not respond to abused children. Newt seems to have taken the cardinal mantel on. He will have that 'holier than thou' pace of speaking,' and 'obsequeous tone of voice,' that lawyers do when threatening people to not waste time pursing justice for the harmed. He will have two members of the Supreme Court who have the same type of 'I hear you' smile. Callista stands next to him like a sub-altern, but functions as a white Condoleezza Rice. She has her plans, obsequious pandering to Sarah Palins tea partiers. Let's hope she doesn't tip off her heels. No round heels here, but rather an overdesigned concrete structure that fails catastrophically. Let the perfumed censor's start swinging over the ordure we are about to experience. And calls for smaller government will be like leaving children in church hen houses, with out anyone looking out for their psychological well being, let alone physical well being. So it will be beat down politics, about the 'deserving v. undeserving poor. mortal vs. venial sin. The people will be mortally effected, but the Republicans will say they were 'undeserving, and need to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, 'just like we did.' So there will be no tax returns over a year old. Yet with their past accrued funds will hire great lawyers.
'Mitt Romney put out a statement Friday on the death of Cuban dissident Wilman Villar, who lost his life in a hunger strike on Thursday.' From Huffington Post News Blog.
This is obvious pandering to the vote of those who left Cuba and got US citizenship. I am not complaining about the free citizenship, but rather the political blackmail these citizens have used to manipulate the vote in Florida and the US. Those remaining behind in Cuba would be better off in every way if the US would open up trade and travel like the rest of the world. And, it would be nice if US would take care of its people in the way of hurricanes the way the Cubans do. People all over the world gave funds for the restoration of Hemingway's home in Cuba, but Americans did not because they couldn't get a tax write off for it. If only Cuba could be so easily 'forgiven' as 'Newt' for his bullying ways with women and religious manipulation of the American citizens. The Catholic Church has better relations with Cuba than Newt will ever allow to exist, or Mitt. The Cuban-American lobby has taken the rest of the country hostage over this issue.
A comment was phoned in during the Friday New Roundup Domestic hour February 20, regarding Mr. Romney's tithing to the Mormon church stating that supporting a religious institution is for society's good and should be admired not despaired. Look to Prop 8 in California, to see the powerful use of the Mormon leadership's activation of their power and money to impact state constitutions. This is a strong justification for the issue of why Mr. Romney's tithing is worthy of questioning.