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Capitol Hill Quiet On Tech

Posted by Zonk on from the busy-with-all-that-pork dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This year's Democratic-controlled Congress largely ignored technological issues in favor of social problems, CNet notes in another 2007 retrospective. Issues important to the tech industry (such as net neutrality) received short shrift, while the political body spent a considerable amount of time decrying the evils of the Internet. 'Hot topics this time around included foreign cybersecurity threats to U.S. government systems, terrorist cells flourishing on the Web, inadvertent file sharing through peer-to-peer networks, and sexual predators ensnaring unsuspecting youth through online social sites. And for a third time, the House passed not just one, but two, different bills aimed at deterring spyware.'"

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  1. What Would Jon Stewart Say? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This year's democrat-controlled Congress


    Tony Snow on the Daily Show, with the dickish Jon Stewart.

    Part 1: http://tinyurl.com/3xbpf7

    Part 2: http://tinyurl.com/324479

    From the start of Part 2:

    Jon Stewart: Remember 2006? The Democrats take it. The president is going to make a speech, sort of an olive branch speech. In it, he uses the phrase "the Democrat controlled congress." It's a real poke in the side. That seems unnecessary, and would only be used if you were exhibiting... What was the word I used earlier?

    Tony Snow: blah blah blah

    Jon Stewart: This is fascinating, what you're doing right now.What I said is, "Why did he use that phrase?" That word is an emotionally loaded word, that he is aware of. These guys are -- everything is a focus group within an inch of their lives. The phrasing that they use is repetitive and rigid.

    Tony Snow: blah blah blah


    If Tony Snow was more savvy, he would have said something like, "WTF? You make a career out of making fun of the president's inability to speak clearly, portraying him as a retarded ape. And the best example you can think of him being a partisan bully is using the word 'democrat' instead of 'democratic.' Jon Stewart, you're pathetic."

    (copied from a comment at http://www.reason.com/blog/show/124069.html )