TED STEVENS, NET NEUTRALITY AND THE END OF AMERICAN TECHNOLOGICAL DOMINANCE
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Last night the brilliant Sam Seder did this hysterical bit on the lunatic senior senator from Alaska, Ted Stevens. Basically, he played Steven's confused-- actually completely, utterly lost-- dissertation about the Internets. This is the guy who chairs the committee that sets U.S. policy for the Internet. We are truly doomed. By the time Seder explained that he now understands that when Stevens insisted that we spend tens of millions of dollars on the notorious "bridge to nowhere," he simply wanted a bridge to where he lives, I was thinking of pulling my car over to the side of the road so I wouldn't get in a crash. And then this morning Alternet sent out a dj mix of the speech that is a SMASH.
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 8:19 AM
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For me Ted Stevens has "matured" into "the total package": a personal odiousness--and I'm talking Jesse Helms-grade odiousness--to go with his political odiousness. It's hard to forget the image of him chairing those committee hearings at which he had his pals from the oil companies "testifying" except that you can't really call it testifying because he refused every suggestion that they be put under oath for no reason except that he said so and he was the chairman.
Of course I know the Churchill bit about democracy being the worst form of government except for all the others. Still, what is one supposed to think about a system that on a depressingly regular basis rewards and promotes people like this?
K
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