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The awesome travel search service Hipmunk recreated famous animal meme videos substituting humans as the animals in their new ad Everything’s Better with Cute Animals. We thought we thought we’d see what some of the Internet’s most famous memes would look like with humans instead of adorable animals. The results aren’t quite the same, which Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Laughing Squid Discovery Date : 27/07/2011 16:58 Number of articles : 2
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By a wide margin — 66 percent to 29 percent, according to the most recent ABC News/ Washington Post poll — the public is opposed to building that proposed $100 million Islamic cultural center near the site of the destroyed World Trade Towers. This is not a lightly-held opinion: more than half (53%) told ABC news they are “strongly opposed” to building it near Ground Zero, vs. only 14 percent who report being “strongly” in favor. (Scroll to Question 30 .) So in the face of such obvious public sentiment, are the big broadcast networks reflecting such public sentiment in their coverage? Or are journalists implicitly repudiating their viewers by touting accusations that opposition to the mosque is motivated by America’s supposed “Islamophobia”? To find out, MRC analysts reviewed all 52 stories about the Ground Zero mosque on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts from August 14 through September 13 — the first month after President Obama propelled the issue into the headlines with his remarks at a White House dinner. The results show that the networks have tilted in favor of mosque supporters and against public opinion, with more than half (55%) of all soundbites or reporter comments coming down on the pro-mosque side of the debate, vs. 45 percent for opponents. Even those overall numbers fail to show how the debate has grown increasingly tilted over time. During the first week (August 14-20), the networks actually provided more visibility to mosque opponents — 55 percent of soundbites, vs. 45 percent for mosque supporters. But in the following weeks (August 21 to September 13), the networks’ coverage lurched in the other direction, with mosque supporters receiving a 63 percent to 37 percent advantage. (See chart.) Our analysts tallied as “pro-mosque” all statements and soundbites that either: supported the idea of building the Islamic center on its currently proposed site; defended or praised the project’s organizers (mainly the Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf); or criticized the other side as bigoted or “Islamophobic.” Anti-mosque statements/soundbites presented the other side: criticized the plans to build the center and/or the project’s organizers, or defended mosque opponents from charges of bigotry. The shift in coverage occurred after mosque proponents began tarring their opponents as bigots. A pair of protests on Sunday, August 22 — one in favor of the mosque, one against — drew coverage on all three network newscasts, and all three highlighted the accusation from pro- mosque demonstrators that a contrary stance was evidence of what Time magazine’s cover story that week dubbed “Islamophobia.” What had been a relatively even-handed debate about balancing the sensitivities of 9/11 families with America’s tradition of religious freedom morphed into a one-sided story about beleaguered Muslims facing hardship at the hands of bigoted Americans. On the August 23 Nightly News , for example, NBC’s Ron Allen picked up how “many Muslim-Americans insist this debate is more evidence of religious intolerance.” On the August 25 CBS Evening News , fill-in anchor Jeff Glor linked the stabbing of a cab driver to the mosque debate: “That alleged hate crime took place in the shadow of a heated and divisive debate over whether a mosque should be build near Ground Zero….Other controversies over new mosques in Wisconsin and Kentucky have led some to question: Is America becoming Islamophobic, a prejudice against Muslims?” Four days later, on ABC’s World News, correspondent Steve Osunsami cited “a string of recent incidents suggesting that many Americans don’t care for Muslims — the back and forth over the Islamic center near Ground Zero, the cab driver who was stabbed simply for being Muslim.” “Critics say all the rhetoric is fueling anti-Muslim violence,” ABC’s Dan Harris chimed in on the September 5 World News . ABC and CBS both touted exclusive interviews with organizers of the Ground Zero mosque project, but never gave the same privilege to mosque opponents. These interviews were hardly probing. CBS’s Scott Pelley interviewed Sharif el-Gamal, the real estate developer who bought the property two blocks from Ground Zero, excerpts of which were shown on the August 27 and August 30 Evening News . “This facility that is being debated all around the world is universally known as the Ground Zero mosque,” Pelley told el-Gamal. “What do you call it?” “It should be universally known as a hub of culture, a hub of co-existence, a hub of bringing people together,” el-Gamal enthused. ABC’s Christiane Amanpour interviewed Abdul Rauf for the September 12 This Week , with excerpts shown on the September 9 World News . She quoted Abdul Rauf as arguing that failing to proceed with his mosque concept would “strengthen the radicals in the Muslim world, help their recruitment. This will put our people, our soldiers, our troops, our embassies, our citizens, under attack in the Muslim world. And we have expanded and given and fueled terrorism.” Seemingly deaf to what she just heard, Amanpour characterized Abdul Rauf’s statement this way: “So, he said he wasn’t making any threats or predicting any terrible worst case scenario.” Alone among the three evening newscasts, ABC’s World News also offered soundbites to Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) to propose that Americans were prejudiced against Muslims. (NBC’s Today on September 9 also featured a CAIR representative to speak out against Americans as bigoted.) CAIR is currently listed by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in their investigation of funding for Middle Eastern terrorist groups such as Hamas. “I’ve really never seen the level of Islamophobia that we’re experiencing today,” Hooper blasted on the August 16 World News , a soundbite that was repeated on the August 29 broadcast. A week later, on the September 5 World News, Hooper was back to condemn the “hysterical atmosphere we’re in right now.” Parsing the numbers a different way provides some insight into how the networks seem to conceptualize the issue of balance: Debate about the Islamic center itself and/or its organizers was almost perfectly balanced (57 soundbites arguing against the project, vs. 54 soundbites in favor, or a 51-49% split). But the “debate” about whether opposition reflected Islamophobia was almost perfectly one-sided: 27 soundbites (93%) leveling that accusation, with just two soundbites (7%) offering a defense. In other words, the networks permitted a balanced debate about a proposed real estate project, but allowed mosque supporters to attack the majority of Americans as “haters” and “bigots” without adequate debate. That’s yet another sign that the liberal, elite media are hopelessly out of touch with the public they ostensibly serve.
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Good Morning America’s Juju Chang switched into prognostication mode on Wednesday and proclaimed that, along with other Tea Party wins, Christine O’Donnell’s upset victory in Delaware ” pretty much eliminat[es] the Republicans’ chances of taking back the Senate .” [MP3 audio here .] She trumpeted, “We begin with an upset victory for the Tea Party and maybe for Democrats.” The news anchor announced, “Christine O’Donnell has defeated a mainstream Republican candidate for the Delaware Senate seat, thanks to help from Sarah Palin.” Mainstream? Mike Castle’s lifetime American Conservative Union score is 52 . He has an F grade from the NRA, supported cap and trade and is aggressively pro-abortion. These are generally not known as “mainstream” GOP positions. Chang closed by predicting, “Most [tea party candidates] are not expected to prevail in the general election, pretty much eliminating the Republicans’ chances of taking back the Senate.” It’s not clear what the journalist is basing this on. Senatorial candidates such as Joe Miller and Rand Paul are ahead of their Democratic opponents. Sharron Angle in Nevada is tied with Majority Leader Harry Reid. Additionally, isn’t it the job of a supposedly straight news anchor to simply tell what has happened, not predict events 48 days in the future? A transcript of the segment, which aired at 8:02am EDT on September 15, follows: JUJU CHANG: We begin with an upset victory for the Tea Party and maybe for Democrats . Christine O’Donnell has defeated a mainstream Republican candidate for the Delaware Senate seat, thanks to help from Sarah Palin. Tea Party candidates have now defeated establishment ones in at least seven Republican Senate primaries, with New Hampshire undecided. But, most are not expected to prevail in the general election, pretty much eliminating the Republicans’ chances of taking back the Senate.
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The news that it could be a good year for women electorally did not cheer up the likes of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Bloomberg’s Margaret Carlson and the Politico’s Jeanne Cummings, because it turns out it’s only going to be a good year for women on the Republican side like Nikki Haley, Meg Whitman, and Carly Fiorina or as Carlson put it: “It’s not a compassionate women year.” [ audio available here ] Matthews, on Monday’s Hardball, invited on Carlson and Cummings to take a look at “gender politics” and found that it could be a good year for women, just not the kind of women they like, in other words the more conservative momma grizzly types that Sarah Palin supports. Cummings even bemoaned that a loss of the House could result in “one giant blow to women” in that it “could take down the Speaker, Speaker Nancy Pelosi” who was “a real shining star for the achievements and the rise of women in government.” The following is the full segment as it was aired on the August 30 edition of Hardball: CHRIS MATTHEWS: Wow, we’re talking gender politics. We’re back. High profile victories this summer by Nikki Haley in South Carolina and Sharron Angle winning that nomination in Nevada for the Senate. Meg Whitman spending zillions out there running for the governorship of California. This could be the Year of the Woman, maybe. But will women gain ground in Congress this November? On Sunday the Los Angeles Times had a sobering outlook piece. Quote: “After the November election, Congress could end up with as many as 10 fewer female members, prognosticators now say. The first backslide in the uninterrupted march of women coming to Washington since 1978.” Joining us now is Bloomberg’s Margaret Carlson and Politco’s Jeanne Cummings. Now I know we have to decipher between right and left, the big executive positions and the somewhat lowlier U.S. Congress positions. But look at this now. In the Congress there are a total of 90 women now, Senator and House members: 69 Democrats, 21 Republicans. Margaret, it looks like liberals are in trouble this year, progressives, if you will. That includes a lot of women. MARGARET CARLSON, BLOOMBERG: Well, there are more Democratic women than, than Republicans, liberals. So you’re gonna have, this is like a final piece of equality for women where they can lose with men- MATTHEWS: Right. CARLSON: -when incumbents are in trouble. So women have finally achieved some kind of parity, and boom, it’s time to boot them out. But there’s a certain kind of woman that’s gonna do okay. I mean you have the momma grizzlies but it’s the grizzly part of it, not the momma part that’s working. You have to be a bear- MATTHEWS: Give me names, give names. CARLSON: You have to be a bear who’s gonna knock down the tent. MATTHEWS: Who are the heavyweight women? CARLSON: Linda McMahon? Can you imagine more of a bear. I mean it’s softcore wrestling- MATTHEWS: Of world heavyweight wrestling. CARLSON: -porn. MATTHEWS: And, and Meg Whitman in California. CARLSON: Yeah and it’s the corporate titan bear. Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman as you say. So that is the kind of woman. It is n ot the kind of – it’s not a compassionate women year. MATTHEWS: Right, it’s tough for women. Let me got to that, Jeanne Cummings is this, is this the upgrade to the tougher executive positions? I’ve always said, and it’s a tough line but you gotta get on, the on deck circle to really have lots of shots at the presidency. If women start winning these big governorships across the country like California knocking off Jerry Brown, it’d be a giant killer, things like that really – people tell me Meg wants to be, Meg Whitman wants to be president. Is this what’s going on here on the Republican side. JEANNE CUMMINGS, POLITICO: Well absolutely. I mean women like any, all the different types of people before them are earning their way up the ladder, one rung at a time. And winning some of those big governor races is important. We certainly saw how Hillary Clinton was able to use her Senate position, and her prior role as First Lady, but largely her Senate position gave her- MATTHEWS: I agree. CUMMINGS: -the credentials to go out there and run on the campaign trail. And so I think this is clearly, that women have now gotten to the point where they are accepted by voters as competent executives, tough enough to run, smart enough to run governments, and those are great achievements for women. I would point out that if- MATTHEWS: These- CUMMINGS: Just one quick thought. MATTHEWS: Sure. CUMMINGS: That, that if the losses are as bad as they, as some believe they could be in the House, there could be one giant blow to women. And that is, it could take down the Speaker. Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Certainly she’s not gonna lose her House seat, but she could lose the Speakership itself. And that has been, for many women, particularly Democratic women, a real shining star for the achievements and the rise of women in government. MATTHEWS: We haven’t had a woman governor of New York, Pennsylvania, California, or probably Illinois. These are big, the big jobs. These are women coming out of industry with a proven executive record. CARLSON: And mixed, and mixed. MATTHEWS: You, you mentioned, Jeanne, you said they’re working their way one step at a time. Meg Whitman is not going one step at a time, she’s going right for governor. CARLSON: Yeah. MATTHEWS: Carly Fiorina is going right from HP for, for Senate. CARLSON: And by the way her reputation was mixed as a, as a corporate executive. MATTHEWS: So are things changing? Is the glass ceiling getting smashed at the top? CARLSON: Well no. I think there’s a certain kind of corporate woman that, that does look like she can run a big state because she’s run a big country, I mean, a big company. MATTHEWS: Could it be that men are blowing it? Just to be blunt, could it be that the quality of male candidates has declined. Women candidates have gone up and they’re passed them on the old vector there. CUMMINGS: Well I think that the women candidates can run in this year, the Year of the Outsider. They can run as genuine outsiders. And that is an asset when you have an anti-incumbent election. MATTHEWS: Wow! CUMMINGS: And the other thing, in terms of Fiorina and Meg Whitman, they, they both are shooting, going to, trying to go from the corporate boardroom right into the Governor’s office or the Senate office, it is true. However, their candidacies were made possible by the victories of women before them. MATTHEWS: Yeah that’s certainly true. Well what do you make of Momma Grizzly’s comment the other day? Sarah Palin’s, that her biggest accomplishment was that she produced a combat vet. It sounds like women are running what we used to call the Daddy Party, the right, you know the Macho Party? CARLSON: Yeah. MATTHEWS: Women are now openly saying, “I’m tougher than the men, I can produce as a mother a got vet, get out of my way.” Jeanne, this is strong, strong tea here, if you will? CUMMINGS: Absolutely. And I have to say, Sarah Palin, I think, has done something unprecedented when you look at gender politics. And that is, she is so influential. She is a king maker. MATTHEWS: That’s true. CUMMINGS: And we have not seen a female king maker in political history. She has really broken new ground. I mean, what does a Huckabee nomination get you? Page three on the local paper? But Palin’s nomination can be a complete game changer, as we have seen in these races. MATTHEWS: We’re looking at that picture as you’re speaking, Jeanne, of her endorsing Nikki Haley. Haley was at the back of the pack, she’s now probably gonna be the next governor of South Carolina. CARLSON: But wait Chris, she’s a king maker but she’s also a queen killer. She killed Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in Texas in favor of the incumbent, Governor Perry. MATTHEWS: Yeah. CARLSON: And look what she did to Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. So let us, she is an equal opportunity maker and destroyer, and not always for the women. MATTHEWS: Yeah I also, I also think and I gotta be careful, she’s picking women candidates that men are ready to vote for too. CARLSON: Yes. MATTHEWS: This isn’t just women voting for women here. There’s a lot of, obviously a lot of those right-wing men love Sarah Palin. Let’s be honest here. Jeanne, thanks so much, Jeanne Cummings for joining us. Margaret Carlson, thank you.
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NBC’s chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd, substitute hosting for Chris Matthews, on Wednesday’s Hardball, managed to question the political viability of two Republican candidates in one sentence as he asked his guest panelist, Jonathan Martin of the Politico, “Is Ken Buck, you know, Sharron Angle in drag?” Going over the results of yesterday’s primary races with Martin and Newsweek’s Howard Fineman, Todd claimed the “Democrats are doing a touchdown dance” because of Buck’s victory in the Republican primary contest for the Senate seat in Colorado and also relayed some rather colorful descriptions of Buck, as seen in the following exchange, aired on the August 11 edition of Hardball: CHUCK TODD: Hey Jonathan Martin it seems as if Democrats are doing a touchdown dance about Ken Buck and they’re trying to turn him into Sharron Angle and Rand Paul’s, somehow hidden brother in the basement. JONATHAN MARTIN, POLITICO: Right. TODD: Is Ken Buck, you know, Sharron Angle in drag? MARTIN: Chuck it’s funny you mention that. I’m actually doing a story right now about, what I call the race to define Ken Buck. And it just started last night, right after the results came in. Both the GOP and Democrats are in this furious battle now to see who can set the narrative of who is Ken Buck? Is he sort of this Princeton graduate, mainstream conservative, county prosecutor, respected pillar of the community? Or is he, like you said, is he the Rocky Mountain version of Sharron Angle? Which is what Democrats are saying, focusing on some of the controversial things that he said during the course of the primary that were not about spending, that were not about those sort of issues that Howard mentioned, that are winners for, for the Republicans this time around. I think it’s still an open question. I don’t think he has vulnerabilities, day in and day out, that a [Rand] Paul or, or an Angle has- TODD: Right. MARTIN: -who are pure libertarians. Who really have a strong philosophical view of, of the role of government. I think he’s more of a pragmatist, Buck is. But there’s no question about it, he went pretty far in some of his comments- TODD: Right. MARTIN: -during the course of the primary.
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On Tuesday’s edition of “Morning Joe,” Joe Scarborough and his panel discussed the 2010 midterm elections and trashed Republican candidate Sharron Angle as a “mental patient” and a “jackass.” The conversation, which included Chris Matthews and Mike Barnicle, began innocently enough when MSNBC contributor Mike Halperin said Angle is “vulnerable” in the race because “she has extreme positions that are out of step with the mainstream.” One doesn’t have to be fan of Angle’s to question the rude, demeaning outbreaks hurled in her direction. Barnicle boldly stated that Angle was “embarrassing” to the residents of Nevada and ” sounds like a mental patient .” After this incident, Chris Matthews began to misquote Angle’s radio interview with Lars Larson asserting, “She understands why people think of and resort to second amendment solutions to the Democrats in Congress they don’t like.” Here’s the actual quote in full: You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. And in fact, you know, Thomas Jefferson said it’s good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years.
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During the “Last Word” segment on Bloomberg Television’s Political Capital on Friday, Bloomberg News columnist Margaret Carlson – formerly of CNN and Time magazine – tore into Nevada Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle – who will be taking on Harry Reid in November – as Carlson charged that Angle is “on the fringe, almost wacky,” and asserted that Nevada voters would have to be “completely masochistic” to vote for her. Carlson: You can’t beat somebody with somebody who’s as on the fringe, almost wacky, as Sharron Angle, unless the voters turn completely masochistic. She’s not just against (MEANT TO SAY “in favor of”) abolishing EPA, Energy, Education, phasing out Social Security, and getting rid of the income tax, she wants our nuclear waste to go to Nevada. Fellow panel member Kate O’Beirne of the National Review responded: “I’d hoped over the years I had built up Margaret’s tolerance for conservative women, but, sadly, that’s apparently not the case.” Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Friday, June 11, Political Capital on Bloomberg Television: MARGARET CARLSON: Harry Reid went to bed as happy as a man can be who’s in the crosshairs of the Republican party on Tuesday night because the least electable candidate won that race, Sharron Angle. You know, the old saying, “You can’t beat somebody with nobody,” you can’t be somebody with somebody who’s as on the fringe, almost wacky, as Sharron Angle, unless the voters turn completely masochistic. She’s not just against abolishing EPA, Energy, Education, phasing out Social Security, and getting rid of the income tax, she wants our nuclear waste to go to Nevada. You know, I’m happy to send it there, as most people who aren’t in Nevada are. AL HUNT: That’s very generous of you, Margaret. Let me ask Kate, do you agree Harry Reid now is looking a lot better? KATE O’BEIRNE: Al, I’d hoped over the years I had built up Margaret’s tolerance for conservative women, but, sadly, that’s apparently not the case.
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Meet the “so extreme,” “far-right conservative” Sharron Angle, who won the Nevada Senate primary on Tuesday and will face Democrat Harry Reid in the fall. Those quotes aren’t from Daily Kos or even a New York Times columnist, but from two of the Times’s political reporters, Jennifer Steinhauer and Jackie Calmes. (This post is based on two items previously posted on Times Watch .) Reporter Jennifer Steinhauer first took aim at Sharron Angle in Thursday’s ” Results of Nevada Primary Set Up Senate Race of Sharp Contrasts .” Notice a pattern in Steinhauer’s labeling? Further, Ms. Angle — the Tea Party-blessed candidate who bested her two better-financed competitors in Tuesday’s primary — is an untested statewide candidate whose positions as a lawmaker put her firmly to the right of most mainstream Nevada voters . The hot lights of national exposure can be a liability for new — and overly loquacious — candidates, as Rand Paul, the Republican Senate nominee from Kentucky, quickly found. …. Among her detractors and her supporters she is known as a far-right conservative and a thorn in the side of both parties, routinely voting no on almost everything that came before the Legislature. She is also a tireless campaigner. When a 2002 redistricting forced her to face off with a wildly popular Republican incumbent, Greg Brower, she went door to door nightly, won and ended his political career. The Times rarely if ever identifies Democratic candidates as far-left. Also on Thursday, Washington-based reporter Jackie Calmes twice called Angle “extreme” in a Times ” Political Points ” podcast, available at nytimes.com. Here’s Calmes telling host Sam Roberts about the primary elections, about 16 minutes from the end: The interesting thing about the number of women we had in here is that so many of them were Republican. But I guess that’s not so surprising when you think that of all the candidates out there in some very crowded fields, most of it’s on the Republican side because they see a chance here where they didn’t in the last two election cycles to really get elected. It’s a Republican year, it stands to be. But on the other hand some of these women are, like in Nevada, against Harry Reid, Sharron Angle has, she’s a Tea Party candidate who’s given Democrats renewed hope of saving Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, from what was looking to be near certain defeat, because she is so extreme . So much so that some of the Republicans in the immediate aftermath have started distancing themselves from her. Calmes again, 12 minutes 40 seconds from the end: The Democrats generally at first blush on Wednesday morning when the results were in were happy that both Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, looks newly secure because the Nevada Republicans had nominated such an extreme, Tea Party-type member ; and that Blanche Lincoln had survived against an insurgent rival backed by the party’s left.
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Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos on Friday parroted Democratic talking points while interviewing Governor Tim Pawlenty about the tea party movement. The potential presidential candidate mentioned the victory of several GOP women on Tuesday and Stephanopoulos pounced: ” You didn’t mention Sharron Angle, who’s going to be the Senate candidate up against Harry Reid. ” After playing a clip of the Nevada Republican candidate saying there’s “no such thing” as too conservative, Stephanopoulos listed off several of Angle’s positions and derided, “Are you concerned that some of your new candidates, especially those who have been backed by the Tea Party, may make it harder to win those seats in November?” According to Stephanopoulos’ spin, Democrats are “licking their chops” at the opportunity to run against Angle. Stephanopoulos must have ignored a new Rasmussen poll showing the Republican up 11 over Reid. The journalist’s critique followed closely to talking points released by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee on Tuesday: “[Angle] cares more about promoting a strict social doctrine than helping grow the state’s economy. Sharron Angle’s rigid social agenda may generate national headlines, but Nevadans cannot afford it.” Considering the host’s past as a Democratic operative, this shouldn’t be too surprising. Twice this week, Stephanopoulos highlighted rumors against another Republican, Nikki Haley of South Carolina. Pressing the gubernatorial candidate on allegations of infidelity, the ex-Clinton aide brazenly demanded, “Can you assure South Carolina voters that they’re not going to be embarrassed if they elect you?” A transcript of the June 11 segment, which aired at 7:35am EDT, follows: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: It was a big political week with the continuing fallout from the oil spill for President Obama. And a fresh batch of potential Republican stars, mostly women, coming out of Tuesday night’s primary elections across the country, which makes it a perfect week to kick off our series of conversations with the men and women who have their eyes on the biggest political prize of all, the White House. GOP Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, of course, has not announced yet. But, he’s a rising star in the party. And he’s starting to put in his time in places like Iowa. We’re so glad to see you hear this morning. MINNESOTA GOVERNOR TIM PAWLENTY: Good morning, George. Thanks for having me. STEPHANOPOULOS: So, let’s start out talking about the oil spill. You’ve been pretty tough on President Obama, saying the rig explosion happened on his watch. But, do you really think he could have done anything to prevent it? PAWLENTY: Well, we know a number of things. First of all, we have to get all the facts. But, one fact that’s important, in April of 2009, under this administration’s watch, the relevant federal agencies approved categorical waivers for environmental review for this operation. You know, that’s a significant decision. STEPHANOPOULOS: That was following the practice of past administrations. PAWLENTY: Yeah, we should be fair and say the notion that all administrations had these kind of operations going and they had no plan for really responding to this kind of disaster is horribly disappointing. A significant failure of government, broadly. But, we also know during this administration’s watch, they had the final say up or down on this operation. STEPHANOPOULOS: And does it make you rethink your support for oil drilling? Do you support, for example, the pause until we’re sure all of the rigs are safe? PAWLENTY: I do support the pause. We also need to make sure- this is an industry that’s operated 40 or 50 years, mostly without incident. But, you can’t have these things pumping oil on the bottom of the ocean floor without a plan and capacity to respond to a crisis like that. It’s pretty clear, they had no plan for what happens if a blowout preventer fails. STEPHANOPOULOS: Who should pay for all of this now? The Chamber of Commerce has said that it shouldn’t be all BP’s responsibility, that the federal government should pick up part of the tab. Do you agree with that? PAWLENTY: No. I mean, on what theory would the for be responsible for BP’s failure? The facts are still coming in. But, there were news reports coming in that there was a test for the blowout preventer. And it was delayed at BPs request. Now, what was behind that? Were they concerned because there was a malady or failure in the system? Why didn’t that come to the surface of the discussion earlier? There’s going to be questions and hopefully answers along those lines. STEPHANOPOULOS: Let’s talk about election night, Tuesday. Who was the big winner? PAWLENTY: Women. This is going to be, I think, in part, the year of woman. That’s a great thing. Particularly for my party, our party. My party needs to have more faces and voices that aren’t just middle-aged men. And so, I really applaud and celebrate the success of our women candidates. Susana Martinez down in New Mexico is going to be a fantastic candidate. Of course, you have got Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina and others in California. I think it’s going to be terrific and I think, of course, the pendulum, we believe, is swinging back the other wary. STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn’t mention Sharron Angle, who’s going to be the Senate candidate up against Harry Reid. And I want to show you something she said on election night. SHARRON ANGLE: They said that Reagan was too conservative to win. There’s no such thing. STEPHANOPOULOS: Now, you know Democrats are licking their chops. They look at Sharron Angle’s record. They say she wants to do away with Social Security, the Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency, the IRS, make alcohol illegal. And they say that sure is too conservative. Are you concerned that some of your new candidates, especially those who have been backed by the Tea Party, may make it harder to win those seats in November? PAWLENTY: Well, each state is different. Each race is different. I don’t think you want to make a broad generalization that somebody is too conservative. What works in Nevada may be different than what works in Vermont. As a general rule, the Republican Party is a conservative party. The values and traditions that we have- STEPHANOPOULOS: Doing away with Social Security? PAWLENTY: Well, I’m not familiar with all of her record. But, you know, doing away with Social Security is not something I think most Republicans would support. We want to reform it and fix it and try to move it in a market direction. But I think most Republicans would say Social Security needs to be reformed, not abolished. STEPHANOPOULOS: So, I know, if you want to, you can tell us you’re going to run for President, if you want to take the opportunity. PAWLENTY: I’m going to, George. President of my hockey association. STEPHANOPOULOS: I knew- very good pause. Okay. Give us a window in how you’re thinking about it. How you’re thinking about looking at the race. And what would tip your decision one way or another? PAWLENTY: Well, a number of things. I’m very concerned about the direction of the country. I think I have ideas and experience, based on my time in Minnesota, a blue state. Conservative governor, reducing spending, holding line on taxes, reforming schools and public pensions and many other things. So, first of all, there’s a concern. I want to contribute to it and improve the outlook for the country in 2010. As to 2012, the way I look at it, if I can add value to the debate and be the one that delivers the message, I’d at least be open to continuing to public life in some fashion. But, maybe not. So, part of it is, is the message needed? Am I the one who should help deliver it? Or can I help in other ways? STEPHANOPOULOS: When you were thinking of running for governor of Minnesota, your wife Mary grabbed you by the lapels and said, “We need you. Minnesota needs you. You’ve got to do it.” What is she saying now?” PAWLENTY: [Laughs] My wife Mary, who I hope is watching this morning is wonderful. I hope you have a chance to meet her sometime. She has got great advice. But, she is very supportive to me continuing to play a role in public service, but is open to what that may be. You know, mostly to run for president these days, you have to be famous, have a lot of money or have novelty. I don’t have anything of that. But I have some good ideas and some good experience.
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