Posts Tagged ‘Lawrence’

“Here’s how president Obama can fix this, and everybody watching this should write to their member of congress or Senator and to President Obama and say, ‘look, you do have the authority to write the regulations, to actually write how this health care bill is enforced,’ and he can do — and believe me, if you remember, George W. Bush did this quite often — he can write and do executive orders to issue some of the regulations that need to put some real teeth into the health care bill so that the WellPointes and these other insurance companies aren’t able to punish you because you come down with breast cancer.” — Michael Moore on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 “Who’s gonna want to go to the doctor’s office when it’s full of chickens? I mean, I don’t know if you’ve ever cleaned out a chicken coop but, man, that’s the last thing you want is a lot of chickens around. This, actually, Larry, proves something very fundamental about our two parties. Say what you want about the Democrats — they’re a bunch of wimps, they don’t have the courage of their convictions, yes they can be bought by big corporations and lobbyists, too, just like the Republicans — but the one thing that they’re not — the Democrats — the one thing that they’re not is completely crazy. Ideas like this just make you want to go, ‘what has happened?’ I used to know really nice, smart, good Republicans. What has happened? This is so ultimately bizarre and I just hope they keep …

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Get ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ on DVD: tinyurl.com “If I were a member of congress, I think what I do is I would say ‘I might vote for it if, President Obama, you’ll stand in front of the cameras and tell the American people that this doesn’t really cover preexisting conditions for the next four years. And the insurance companies are still going to get to make outrageous profits and they are going to be able to deny people care once they have insurance. Tell the people the truth of these things …’ ” — Michael Moore on Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Monday, March 15th, 2010 Telling the people the truth of these things on a daily basis at www.michaelmoore.com

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17 March, 2010 MSNBC

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TYT Network (new WTF?! channel): www.youtube.com This video was shot and edited by Andrew Napier. Read Ana’s blog here: www.examiner.com Follow TYT on Twitter: twitter.com Join the TYT Facebook Fan Page: tinyurl.com Follow TYT on Google Buzz: www.google.com Check Out TYT Interviews www.youtube.com Watch more at www.theyoungturks.com

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www.fixcongressfirst.org One year ago was a moment when many things felt possible — whether or not you supported President Obama’s agenda. One year later, we’ve now seen that even a transformative figure in the Oval Office can’t transform the way Washington works. Only we can. Watch Lawrence Lessig’s video presentation on why the Fair Elections Now Act is the most important reform right now to restore public trust in our democracy. Creative Commons-licensed images available through flickr.com Obama by Scorpions and Centaurs, Capitol by Cowtools, Woman in bubble by dovima_is_devine, Boy with Obama sign by Joe Crimmings Photography, Broken link by welshwitch36.

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Professor Lawrence Lessig has know Barack Obama for 20 years, and supported all his campaigns. In this video produced for The Nation and fixcongressfirst.org, Lessig describes his concern over President Obama’s limited approach to truly “changing Washington,” and his view that Congress is a deeply broken institution that needs reform. Find out Professor Lessig’s solutions and ideas in this video companion to his cover story for the February 4, 2010 issue of The Nation magazine, “How To Get Our Democracy Back.” Read the story at www.thenation.com

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In a ruling sometimes characterized as protecting “corporate free speech,” the US Supreme Court held this month that “the Government may not suppress political speech on the basis of the speaker’s corporate identity” in the case of Citizens United vs the Federal Elections Commission and my support for the free speech rights involved found me in some strange company while this landmark legal decision caused some other people to change their minds or to consider changing their policies, as I show in this video. You can find the full text of all the opinions in Citizens United vs the Federal Elections Commission online at www.supremecourtus.gov The clips I use in this video from abc’s “This Week” come from the program broadcast on January 24, 2010, and the full segment from which I took the clip of South Carolina’s Republican Senator Jim Demint is available online at abcnews.go.com The clips I use in this video of Sam Donaldson and George Will are also from that broadcast of abc’s “This Week” and come from the full segment available online at abcnews.go.com The clip I use of “The Daily Show” comes from the January 25, 2010, segment available online at tinyurl.com The clips I use of Lawrence Lessig come from his youtube video titled “Lessig on Supreme Court Campaign Finance Decision: Change Congress Video” available on his changeyourcongress youtube channel at www.youtube.com The clip I use of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address comes from the public domain video available on youtube at www.youtube.com The image I use of the email from Lawrence Lessig is also available on his website at change-congress.org And, finally, the image I use of the New York Sun’s article titled “ACLU May Reverse Course On Campaign Finance Limits After Supreme Court Ruling,” comes from the page at http

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Episode 13 of Rattansi & Ridley 4of4 …featuring Mumia Abu Jamal on the Christmas bomb plot, recent US veterans imploring President Obama not to escalate in Afghanistan, Imran Khan on the impact of Obama on Pakistan and an analysis of whether the events in Haiti constitute a “natural disaster” from Professor Peter Hallward. Also Lawrence Haas, former White House strategist and press secretary to Vice President Al Gore and others.

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Episode 13 of Rattansi & Ridley 2of4 …featuring Mumia Abu Jamal on the Christmas bomb plot, recent US veterans imploring President Obama not to escalate in Afghanistan, Imran Khan on the impact of Obama on Pakistan and an analysis of whether the events in Haiti constitute a “natural disaster” from Professor Peter Hallward. Also Lawrence Haas, former White House strategist and press secretary to Vice President Al Gore and others.

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