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LAWRENCE O'DONNELL, "THE LAST WORD" HOST: THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW is
up next with more on this historic day from Egypt.
Good evening, Rachel.
RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: Good evening. Thank you.
If only all Washington, D.C. sex scandals were so normal that they actually had sex in them.
O'DONNELL: No sex. No sex.
MADDOW: No sex. But that's sort of typical of .D.C.
O'DONNELL: Can we still call it a sex scandal?
MADDOW: It's so strange. There's no actually shtooping. It's sort of a sexy scandal.
O'DONNELL: We can't call it a sex scandal anymore. It's just a shirt scandal.
MADDOW: It is a shirtlessness scandal. That's exactly right. Thank you, Lawrence. Have a great weekend.
O'DONNELL: Thanks.
MADDOW: Thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour on this Friday night.
You know, this is one of those days that you index alongside other days in history that were this big. In our newsroom here at 30 Rock, the shelf that this day goes on is labeled the Brokaw shelf.
TOM BROKAW, NBC NEWS: A historic moment tonight. The Berlin Wall can no longer contain the East German people. Thousands pouring across at the Bornholmer bridge.
ANNOUNCER: NBC NIGHTLY NEWS with Tom Brokaw.
Tonight, from West Berlin.
BROKAW: Good evening. Live from the Berlin Wall on the most historic night in this world's history.
What you see behind me is a celebration of this new policy announced today by the East German government, that now, for the first time since the wall was erected in 1961, people will be able to move through freely.
MADDOW: That was November 9th, 1989, fall of the Berlin Wall in East Germany. Our Brokaw shelf in our newsroom is reserved for tape of big historic moments just like that, moments of world change—frankly, moments of revolution.
BROKAW: In the Philippines, jubilation. Marcos is gone and the people reclaim their palace.
ANNOUNCER: NBC NIGHTLY NEWS with Tom Brokaw.
BROKAW: Good evening, tonight from Washington. A city that had a major role in the astonishing developments in the Philippines. President Ferdinand Marcos who vowed to fight to last drop of blood has fled his country tonight. He has flown to Guam.
The end of an era. Indonesia's president finally steps down, a new leader. But will anything change.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Victory. Three decades of absolute power surrendered in three minutes. Asia's longest-serving leader, President Suharto, bows to pressure and steps down, asking for forgiveness. A nation responsible for his down fall cheers, a spontaneous outburst to the parliament now home of the occupation army of students.
BROKAW: It is a world turned upside down. While the China's communist rulers were brutally cracking down on democracy, Poland's communist leaders today were accepting a form of democracy. The results of parliamentary elections, and admitting that solidarity was a big winner.
A revolution is under way in Romania. Ceausescu is on the run, but the battle is not yet won.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: They chanted Ceausescu is no more. They had waited 24 years for this. In the final hours of the Ceausescu regime, the soldiers sided with the people and turned their guns on the presidential palace. After the helicopter flew the dictator and his wife away, the mob stormed his office and passed belongings to the crowd below.
BROKAW: A historic day in South Africa, voting by all races begins under heavy security.
In South Africa, this was the day that many thought would never come, the beginning of a true democracy. All races voting in an election that ends 300 years of white oppression.
MADDOW: The Philippines, Indonesia, Poland, Romania, South Africa, those are just the ones we keep on our Brokaw shelf. There's also the Rose Revolution in the Republic of Georgia in 2003; the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, one year later, in 2004; the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan, one year after that, in 2005.
Last month—last month—there was Tunisia. The successful toppling of Tunisia's dictator happened on January 14th. And within a week and a half, the word Tunisia was the rallying cry for what just happened in Egypt, in the largest Arab country in the world.
ANNOUNCER: This is an NBC News special report: "Revolution in Egypt."
Here's Brian Williams.
BRIAN WILLIAMS, NBC NEWS ANCHOR: Good day from New York.
If you've been following the news throughout this day, then you know the news that the people of Egypt have toppled their government. Their leader Hosni Mubarak has left power and left Cairo.
RICHARD ENGEL, NBC NEWS CHIEF FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: This is the statement they have been waiting for, not that he's in Egypt, not that he is in Sharm el-Sheikh, but that he is stepping down.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Listen to the crowd. That's what they've been waiting for. Hosni Mubarak has gone.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The crowd says it all, up to 18 days, President Hosni Mubarak has resigned.
ENGEL: Now, they are standing on the tanks, people are here cheering the army saying, hand in hand, the people and the army are together, and that scene I think could be one of the more iconic images of Egyptian—on a weapon of war they are using as a symbol of their new freedom.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is ours today. This is our country. This is my Egypt. (INAUDIBLE) Egypt will be rebuilt with us.
ENGEL: Egypt will be rebuilt with you.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
ENGEL: That is a theme we are hearing over and over.
This has been one of the cheers that has been iconic throughout all of this. The army and the people hand in hand. And today, the army is stepping in to join the people and now taking charge the (INAUDIBLE).
MADDOW: Before Tunisia overthrew its dictator last month, no country in the modern Arab world had ever before seen a peaceful uprising overthrow a government. It has never happened before. It had never happened before it happened last month. And now, it happened twice.
Will it happen somewhere else next? Nobody knows.
But the reaction and celebration around the world today was stunning. In Amman, Jordan, thousands gathered near the Egyptian embassy to celebrate, dancing and cheering, and shouting congratulations in Arabic to Egypt.
In Beirut, Lebanon, fireworks broke out to celebrate the news out of Egypt, along with more scenes of dancing and cheering in the streets.
In Gaza, the sound of car horns honking, ringing through the city.
Palestinians took to the streets firing guns in the air to celebrate.
As Egyptians gather to celebrate in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, thousands took to the streets in Yemen's capital city of Sana'a. Demonstrators chanted yesterday, Tunisia, today Egypt, and tomorrow, the Yemenis will break their chains.
Thousands reportedly turned out to celebrate in Doha, Qatar, as well.
When we compare what happened today in the Middle East to the Berlin Wall falling, there's something really specifically true about that comparison that is worth remembering. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was 1989. We sometimes shorthand that as the fall of the Soviet Union, but that didn't happen for a couple more years.
While the Berlin Wall was coming down, anyone that says they knew what would follow, knew what it meant, knew what would happen next is lying.
BROKAW: What this will all mean for the political future of Germany is very difficult to determine here tonight. But, clearly, there is a new spirit in Europe, and there is a new spirit in East Germany. Whether or not the communist party will survive this bold and daring and indeed desperate move, we cannot say.
MADDOW: Twenty-two years later, 2,000 miles away in Cairo, same thing, we cannot say.
We know this is a big deal. We call this a Berlin Wall moment because we can see that new spirit that Tom Brokaw was talking about in Berlin, we can see that in Cairo today, too. But what happens next. What does this cause? We don't know.
But we do know in some sense, today is day one of a different world. And change is hard. And the reason countries bend over backwards and violate all their principles and lie to themselves to maintain stability above all else is because stability is the devil you know, and change is the devil you don't. Unstable is the synonym for dangerous.
We think of the Berlin Wall falling as all good change. Yet a generation down the road, post-Soviet Russia is one of the most corrupt nations in the world, ranked worse than Haiti, ranked worse than Zimbabwe, ranked worse than Pakistan.
Sudden events with far-reaching consequences are as worrying as they are inspiring on some days. But on days like today, the inspired part of us beats back the worried part, just for this moment, because things like this, days like this remind us that not everything is foretold, that not every fate is sealed, that no trajectory is permanent, that surprises happen. Black swans, golden tickets—whatever you want to call it, days like this—days like this go on the Brokaw shelf.
Days like this remind us we're alive and we are lucky to be alive to see these days. This is a big one. A big day.
MADDOW: A Twitter user named JF Spanak (ph) wins today's PhotoShopped award from most succinct visual to, see (ph), Hosni Mubarak. Get it? Busted. Resigned.
A runner-up in terms of best visual communication about what just happened in the world, I think this representation of Hosni Mubarak as Gulliver pinned down by Lilliputians. This was posted on freakingnews.com. That's the name, I'm not editorializing.
We do have our own contribution/suggestion here at this show for what might really best visually represent how this whole Egypt thing fits into our American politics here at home now. Hosni Mubarak, like Andre the Giant has a posse, with props to Shepard Fairey. Hosni has a posse.
Who in United States looked at the video from Egypt, looked at shot like this, and said, boy, that stinks, this is bad news? Who in America looked at this, looked at the jubilance in Tahrir Square and thought, man, I wish Hosni Mubarak had stayed in office and put down those demonstrators in the streets?
Who thinks that? Who thinks that whose names you are very familiar with in American politics? That's coming up next. Hosni still has a posse.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed, confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice, government that is transparent and doesn't steal from the people, the freedom to live as you choose. These are not just American ideas, they are human rights, and that is why we will support them everywhere.
MADDOW: Because the Republican Party is separate from and in some ways sort of subject to the conservative movement, one of the most important things to understand about American politics is that the conservative movement, particularly in the Republican Party is weak—the conservative movement tends to pull the Republican Party to the right, constantly—over time, they're always pulling them for the right. And that has the effect of constantly pulling not just the right, but even the center in American politics to the right over time.
This is one of those times, however, when the right is sprinting rightward so fast that Barack Obama and George W. Bush stand together in one place in the political continuum, and the American right, what counts as the American right right now is way off the charts on the other side.
I know it sounds impossible, but look at this. Look at the distance between Bush and Obama together and where today's right is. First, here is Bush-bama or Oba-bush, whatever you would horribly call them.
OBAMA: There are basic principles that are universal. There are certain truths which are self-evident. And the United States of America will never waiver in our efforts to stand up for the right of people everywhere to determine their own destiny.
GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: I fully recognize that some say it's impossible, that maybe only certain kind of people can be—can accept democracy. I just—I reject that. I don't agree with that. I believe democracy—the desire to be free is universal. That's what I believe.
MADDOW: It is not possible for two men who are both speaking English to speak as differently as the two men speak. But they are saying effectively the same thing.
This idea that—this idea that democracy is something that is not geographically specific, that there are no people anywhere in the world who are immune to democracy's charms or to the right to it, that is the point that they are both making, right? That's Obama and that's Bush. Today's American right wing disagrees with that.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is only in the minds of ill-educated Americans, and especially their leaders, to expect 32 million Muslims to reach for in a time of violence and uncertainty and tumult to reach for an alien ideology, like secular democracy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I appreciate people's sympathy an interest in American democracy, that's an American instinct. Unfortunately, in this case, this is the Middle East, and the traditions there do not support their embracing. If they were allowed to vote in an open election, they would put themselves vulnerable and make us vulnerable to dangerous terrorism.
K.T. MCFARLAND, FOX NEWS: If Egypt is going to be ever a democracy, it needs to have—it's got a lot of work to do.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We ought to be promoting liberty and really not democracy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Congressman Ackerman might be positive that their Jeffersonian Democrats about to create the first burgeoning democracy in the Middle East under Arab rule, I myself am not 100 percent confident.
WAYNE SIMMONS, FORMER CIA OPERATIVE MALE: I keep hearing, and many, many people talk about this democracy, this new phase that Egypt is going to—nonsense. There will be no democracy in Egypt.
GLENN BECK, FOX NEWS: How is that democracy working out in Iran? How is democracy working anywhere in the Middle East, outside of Israel?
SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS: We know that the chances of emerging democracy, it's—you know, toss a coin.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The next days and weeks, he says, will prove whether true democracy is viable or if the Arab world will be swept by the dark forces of extremism.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's the double-edged sword with democracy. When you have freedom and democracy, you have groups like Hamas that can be elected. And that's a double-edged sword with democracy. When you have freedom and democracy, you have groups like Hamas that can be elected.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As President Obama, he's talking about that we want democracy. But when you talk about democracy, let's look at democracy. Germany had democracy and voted in Hitler.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's not going to be religious tolerance and political freedom in these countries. You know, there's no hope.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But there's a fine line when you try to impose democracy that doesn't quite make sense.
MADDOW: Doesn't quite make sense where?
Had what happened in Egypt today, had it happened even a couple of years ago, American conservatives might have been trying to claim credit, saying Egypt happened because Bush bombed Iraq or something, or Mubarak, we always felt about him like we felt about Saddam. Would have been a hard sell, but I could see them doing it.
But who could have imagined instead of that, you would have big portions of the American right just flat-out siding with Mubarak and taking Egypt as a sign to hoard food because now clearly this means China is going to take over in New Zealand?
BECK: There are three powers that you will see really emerge. One: a Muslim caliphate that controls the Mideast and parts of Europe. Two: China that will control Asia, the southern half of Africa, part of the Middle East, Australia, maybe New Zealand and God only knows else.
What's the best way to keep us from being enslaved? Please, store food.
The former Soviet Union, everybody, radical Islam, every—this is the story of everyone who has ever plotted to or wanted to fundamentally change or destroy the Western way of life. This isn't about Egypt. Everything is up on the table.
Socialism—Islamic socialism and socialist communists working together, along with radical Islam. Now, I showed you how there are different groups uniting with Egypt on the principle of destroying capitalism. This is going to blow your mind.
That 12th imam, when he returns, he will set up a global caliphate in Ancient Babylon. This one should gravely concern you because he has all of the earmarks in their own writings of an anti-Christ or the anti-Christ.
This is their official memorandum from the Muslim Brotherhood about the—about their plans for North America.
Their goals include the transformation of America into an Islamic state, the destruction of the Western world. Well, I want to show you their branches or spin offs that they created, operating in the United States.
FRANK GAFFNEY, CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY: The Obama administration policies are being viewed through and actually articulated and now implemented through influence operations that the Muslim Brotherhood itself is running in our own country.
John Brennan, who is the homeland security adviser to the president of the United States.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's complicit in this creep of Sharia law?
GAFFNEY: He's absolutely daft on what the nature of the threat is and is insistent upon using Brotherhood-front organizations as sources of information, as vehicles for reaching out to the Muslim-American community.
James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, has said that these sorts of groups are "sources of wisdom," as he puts it, to the United States government.
Janet Napolitano, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, is incessantly meeting with Muslim Brotherhood front organizations and I think has in the past, if not today, employed people associated with them.
BECK: You know, the media for the last two days says that I'm just telling all these things about Egypt to frighten people.
This is the coming insurrection that we warned you about. But we're in the very early stages. It is here. I don't know how long it could take. It could happen overnight. It could take months or years. But you need to understand why the radicals on the left are collaborating with the Islamic socialists.
MADDOW: In part, it is entertaining to see it. But in part, it's important for the country. This is how what just happened in Egypt is being explained to today's conservatives. This is how it's being explained to them. Post-Bush, post-McCain, the Republican Party is thinking on foreign issues is now being shaped by that.
BECK: You want to call me crazy, go to hell. Call me crazy all you want.
MADDOW: Joining us now is Eugene Robinson, MSNBC political analyst and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for "The Washington Post."
Gene, thank you very much for being here.
EUGENE ROBINSON, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Great to be here, Rachel.
What an amazing day.
MADDOW: Do you think Mubarak has a shot at the 2012 Republican nomination?
MADDOW: We could be looking at Omar Suleiman and Colmes primetime on
ROBINSON: He missed CPAC, you know? I mean, you know, if he gets on that jet right now, he might be able to give a speech.
MADDOW: Tell me about, I mean, the real 2012 contenders on the Republican side are not saying beep about Egypt. They are leaving the right wing narrative to the conspiracy theorists that they're airing on FOX, particularly on Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity shows.
I mean, in the long run, what lesson does the right think is to be learned from what just happened? How do they explain it to each other and to the country?
ROBINSON: I think they're working on it, Rachel. I don't think they know now. And, you know, right now, they can hide behind foreign policy—you know, our disagreements stop at the border, which never really has been the case, and certainly hasn't been the case in recent years. They haven't hesitated to criticize the Obama administration and anyone else. But they can hide behind that and that is probably just as well to tell you the truth until they figure out why it is they don't like it.
I assume they're not going to like it because the Obama administration likes what happens and therefore, they have to not like it. But I don't think they had the story together.
MADDOW: Well, because they don't have the story together and because
there is sort of a vacuum on the right among presidential aspirants and
other sort of adults in the party or would-be adults in the party, there is
the theme that is filling up that space is that stuff we just showed from Fox.
And it has a sort of carnival satisfaction in watching it because you can't believe it is that crazy. But I do believe that's sort of what is filling up heads on the right.
And do you think conspiracy-theorizing like that, in the long run, hurts our ability to have real politics in this country about foreign policy?
ROBINSON: Yes. It hurts our ability to have politics, and it hurts the ability to sleep. I mean, there are a lot of people who are anxious in this country for good reason. They've lost their jobs. They're worried about this or worried about that.
The country is changing demographically in all kinds of different ways and people are anxious about that. This just piles anxiety on top of anxiety, on top of Looney Tunes. And it is not a good thing for democracy, or the mental health of the nation, frankly.
MADDOW: Gene, on the other side of things, meaning sort of back in reality, I think we're about to go back now to having a foreign policy presidency for awhile now, because, obviously, today was, I guess, day 18 of the Egyptian revolution, but day one of the whole new world post-Egyptian revolution.
Do you feel like you know this presidency well enough now to know how they will expect this really fragile, really volatile time in foreign policy?
ROBINSON: I don't know what they're going to do because I don't think anybody knows what they're going to do right now. What I believe the White House should do is sit down and try to take a long view, try to say OK, this has changed everything in the Middle East, and just go down the checklist, you know.
Relationship with Israel. Relationship with Saudi Arabia. Relationship with the gulf Emirates. And try to figure out what the situation is. What have we been saying and doing, what should we be saying and doing, and try to come out with a plan with a lot of contingencies, and then let it happen.
It's going to happen. We're not able to shape events in Egypt. We're not going to shape events across that region. We just have to watch out for our interests and the interests of democracy.
MADDOW: Do you think that the long-time strategy of America's sort of addiction to dictators, supporting despots in the name of stability - do you think that addiction may be weaker now than before this happened?
ROBINSON: Well, just in numerical terms, I think there are likely to be fewer of them, fewer American-supported dictators because this region was particularly thick with them, and they seem to be falling by the wayside.
I don't think we will ever get to the point where an administration will say we will never have a relationship, friendly or cooperative relationship, with a despotic regime.
We have a relationship with China and China has a despotic regime. And it was good that we talked to the Soviet Union, et cetera, et cetera.
But the sort of client relationship that we've had with some of these countries, I think, that era may be closing, and we're going to have to figure out what replaces it, what sort of relationship replaces it and how it can be adapted to the different situations in different countries.
MADDOW: Eugene Robinson, MSNBC political analyst and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for "The Washington Post," thank you for helping us understand this, Gene. Thanks.
ROBINSON: Great to be here, Rachel.
MADDOW: With the caveat that nobody knows exactly what the Egyptian revolution will mean for Egypt or for the rest of the world, there is no denying the power of joy. It is hard not to be moved from the video and the audio from Cairo today, which makes tonight for a perfect night for something we have saving for just such an occasion.
Joy - really weird, totally off-topic joy, with a sliver of a thread of a teeny, tiny, micro-nano connection to the last 18 days in Egypt. That's coming up.
BARACK OBAMA, UNITED STATES PRESIDENT: As Martin Luther King said in celebrating the birth of a new nation in Ghana while trying to protect his own, there's something in the soul that cries out for freedom.
Those were the cries that came from Tahrir Square, and the entire world has taken note. Today belongs to the people of Egypt, and the American people are moved by these scenes in Cairo and across Egypt because of who we are as a people and the kind of world that we want our children to grow up in.
MADDOW: Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was booed, and Former Vice President Dick Cheney was heckled when they spoke at CPAC conference this week in Washington.
DICK CHENEY, FORMER UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT: All right. Sit down and shut up.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: War criminal!
MADDOW: You know, once upon a time, it was just the liberals who used to scream "war criminal" at Dick Cheney in public. Now, it is something the whole family can enjoy.
I've long maintained that my dream interview, my dream guest booking for the show is Dick Cheney. And now, Mr. Cheney does pretty regularly submit to interview requests, the Cheney resistance to my charms is such that I not only that can't get an interview with him, I can't get an interview with a single member of the Cheney family.
(on camera) This is as close as I'll ever get to interviewing Liz and Dick Cheney. Hi, Rachel Maddow from MSNBC.
LIZ CHENEY, DAUGHTER OF FMR. VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY: Oh, I am.
MADDOW: Take care. I think that was it. I don't know what she said.
She smiled at me.
That's the closest I've ever gotten to an interview with a Cheney. That was at last year's CPAC when I forced my way to the front of the rope line to try to make my big in-person ask to Mr. Cheney's daughter, Liz. Never panned out.
I want to say, though, that after years of Cheney alone at the top of my most-want-to-interview list, this year, last month, in Las Vegas, something happened that toppled Mr. Cheney off the top of my most-want-to-interview list.
Somebody else got the title of "person I most want to interview."
Like Cheney, I thought it would never happen. I thought had zero chance.
But then it happened. We got her. I can't believe it, but we got her. That's next. And I will warn you, it is pure joy.
MADDOW: These last couple of news weeks started off heavy and they got heavier and heavier and heavier still every day. It started with the State of the Union which seems like it happened three months ago, not nearly three weeks ago.
Then with that barely in the rearview mirror, we were eyeballed deep in the revolution in the Arab world. When we were able to tear ourselves away from the world's spinning off its axis, it was often to cover the aftermath of a horrific gun massacre here in the States, an attempted political assassination and whether we would change our nation's laws on gun and ammunitions in response to that.
This has been a few heavy, heavy news weeks. And then, today, the news got no less heavy, but it was cracked through with human joy, with exuberance.
We have both MSNBC and Al-Jazeera English on in our newsroom for a little bit of time today. And at one point, an Al Jazeera correspondent in the middle of this outbreak of human joy in Cairo just started weeping to the camera while reporting.
It is not denial of the peril and fragility of the situation going forward in Egypt to also just bask in the ecstatic celebration there. People bringing kids, their families, their pets even out into the middle of a chanting, screaming, packed mob of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people because they knew they could do so without danger, because they knew that for the size of the crowd, the crowd was united in happiness, joy.
And it is their joy. It is their country. It is their revolution. But in human recognition of just the pure happiness that we have been watching and reporting on all day, we decided to air something that we have been waiting to air that has absolutely no connection to the Egyptian story or to any of the other heavy news that we have been reporting on lately.
We recorded this in the middle of the night, on the first night of our wall-to-wall coverage of Egypt and we labeled it moment of joy, because it made everybody on the staff so happy when we did it.
We did not know when we would be able to air it, given the international news situation. But when today essentially turned into the day of joy in terms of what the international news was today, we decided we had to do it.
Are you ready? It is pure happiness. It is an interview that prompted an unsolicited, not sarcastic E-mail from one of our senior producers whose initials are - Cory Gnazzo - that called this our best interview ever.
It's Miss Arkansas, Alyse Eady. Oh, yes, we did it. Oh, yes, we did. Happy Friday. This year at the Miss America contest, her performance in the talent competition was so un-cynically awesome, so laughing with it, not at it beautifully good, that it sort of got the whole country out of their chairs cheering for her.
She won first runner-up in the contest overall. She came to New York and showed us how it is done. And it made us all at this show very happy. Tonight's moment of joy, Alyse Eady.
MADDOW: Wow. Wow. I don't believe you're real and I don't know which one of you to talk to. Alyse Eady, current Miss Arkansas, first runner-up in the 2011 Miss America pageant and a real person. I am so astonishingly happy to meet you.
ALYSE EADY, MISS ARKANSAS: Very nice to meet you, too.
MADDOW: OK. Let's just get right to it.
MADDOW: How did you learn to do this and why did you learn to do this?
EADY: That's a really good question and I get that a lot. I actually started doing ventriloquism when I was nine years old. And I must have been a strange kid. Something wasn't quite right for me to be that interested in it. But I loved it. It was different and it caught my attention.
MADDOW: How did you even know that ventriloquism was an option for you? At nine, I'm not sure I knew.
EADY: I saw a girl do it and it just captured me. So I went to the library and checked out books and watched old tapes, old Jerry Lewis tapes. And I taught it to myself to be a ventriloquist.
MADDOW: That is amazing. And is it a straight line from learning to be a ventriloquist to learning to be a ventriloquist yodeler? I mean, did that just emerge organically?
EADY: Actually, the very first song I ever did as a ventriloquist was "I Wanna Be a Cowboy Sweetheart." And so I learned to do ventriloquism and yodel together.
EADY: I think kind of made it a little bit easier.
MADDOW: Is it harder to yodel without people telling that it's you
producing the sound than it is to sing or speak? Is it harder to disguise
I mean, I'm sorry. I'm sure I'm using the wrong terms.
Is it harder to not move your lips while yodeling than it is to - while you talk or otherwise sing?
EADY: I'm so used to it now that it's pretty much the same for both.
EADY: It's pretty easy for me to do both now.
MADDOW: Wow. So if it's - if you started doing this when you were nine, and if it's sort of easy, what's the next challenge for you? Like what do you - is there something else that you're going to add to this to make it harder?
MADDOW: I need another hand, another arm so I can have three puppets, I guess.
MADDOW: That would be perfect. OK. Actually, when you were Miss Teen Arkansas, before you were Miss Arkansas, you had two puppets and the singing and yodeling and the clogging.
EADY: And the clogging.
MADDOW: Do we have a clip of the clogging?
EADY: Uh-oh.
MADDOW: Here it comes. Here it comes.
EADY: Come on everybody. Put your hands together. Have a good old time!
MADDOW: What happened to the clogs? Most people would look at that and say, "Oh, my god. Look how amazing that was." But you're horrified to see yourself like that.
EADY: Let me tell you why. That's because I really don't know how to clog. Big secret. Someone taught me how to do that clogging routine for that song. So if you were to ask me to put my clogging shoes on and do a little shuffle, I wouldn't know what to do.
MADDOW: You can do that one song again.
EADY: I can do that in my song, that's it.
MADDOW: All right. Meeting you and even just seeing what you did at the pageant, which not only went viral online but people are still talking about it this long after the pageant.
It made me feel bad about being snarky and cynical about beauty pageants. Is there a cure? Are you the cure for cynicism and snarkiness about beauty pageants?
EADY: Absolutely. You know what? That makes me really happy to hear you say that. I think what's really important to remember in all this is that it is about the scholarships, and the Miss America Organization is the world's leading provider of scholarships for women.
And personally, I received $22,000 for Miss Arkansas and $25,000 for getting first runner-up at Miss America. So that's a lot of money to work with.
And people can say what they want about pageants but because of pageants, I'm going to be able to get my masters degree.
MADDOW: Wow. Which makes me very happy. I mean, I am still unnerved by the fact that the leading - that the leading organization for giving college scholarships is something in which you have to qualify in part based on your looks.
I mean, it's hard to think of ourselves as a democratic when you don't have much control over your looks other than, you know, being in good shape and all of those things.
EADY: I understand that. There are just so many other aspects of it like having a platform - mine, the Boys and Girls Club of America - that it encourages you to work with.
And so while, you know, it's easy to look at it and say it is just a beauty pageant, it is so much more than that.
MADDOW: Well, clearly.
EADY: I have dummies. Come on. What else do you want?
MADDOW: Can I just ask you - can I ask you another thing about - can we - can I see her?
EADY: You may.
MADDOW: And then I want to touch her. I mean, can she come to the interview?
EADY: Yes.
MADDOW: Does she have a name?
EADY: This is Rosie.
MADDOW: Rosie. And how long have you had Rosie?
EADY: I've had Rosie since I was in high school. I had her made specially, just for me.
MADDOW: Really?
EADY: Yes. I'm the designer.
MADDOW: She's blinking at me. Do you get people having a scary reaction to it, like some people like, with clowns and ventriloquists and these sort - some of the things that people have decided are scary instead of just neat?
EADY: It's happened. And the movies that have come out, you know, with the scary Chucky dolls, that doesn't help. But I think most people are pretty accepting of it.
MADDOW: I was trying so hard not to say Chucky. I'm glad that you did.
EADY: I just threw that out there.
MADDOW: Alyse Eady, one last question for you. You were the first runner-up in the pageant, which is a big accomplishment in its own right.
And I know that you've done a lot of media. We were able to get you to come to New York to talk to me, which I'm really grateful for. How has the reception that your performance in the pageant - the reception that that has had, how has that changed your prospects in terms of what you think happens next for you?
EADY: I never imagined that I'd be doing ventriloquism after my year as Miss Arkansas was over and after the Miss America Pageant.
But so many doors have opened. And on a side note, people have told me not to do ventriloquism because people would think it was weird and they wouldn't get it.
And I'm so glad I didn't listen to them because I never would have had these opportunities if I had been afraid to shine.
But just excited about opportunities coming up and I've been contacted by a lot of places and so this has all just been really a dream come true for me.
MADDOW: You know, I will be totally blunt with you. I think it is kind of weird and I think that most of the great things in life are kind of weird.
And if we didn't do weird stuff and if we didn't do stuff in particular that people are going to think is weird, we'd all do the same thing. Life would be really boring.
EADY: I agree.
MADDOW: And I feel so un-cynically cool about you being a big deal because you have this amazing talent and it's great to meet you.
EADY: Thank you for giving me this opportunity.
MADDOW: Yes. Good luck, Alyse. Thanks.
EADY: Thank you.
MADDOW: Miss Arkansas, Alyse Eady. This is such a good job. We'll be right back.
MADDOW: So after today's revolution, what happens next? Mark your calendars. Protesters in Egypt say they were inspired by the people rising up to overthrow the dictator in Tunisia.
Well, as Tunisia inspired Egypt, so Egypt is now inspiring opposition groups across the Middle East. Protests planned for next Thursday in Libya. They're planned for tomorrow in Algeria. They're planned for tomorrow also in Syria.
They're planned for Monday in Bahrain. Monday also in Iran. Iran, like Egypt, now also counts February 11th, today's date, as their date of revolution.
Thirty-two years ago today, Ayatollah Khomeini took power in Iran after the shah was deposed. Where did the shah go after he was deposed? He fled to Egypt.
Every year, they commemorate this date in Tehran. And at today's big march, the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad praised the protesters in Egypt saying, quote, "It is your right to freely choose your path. The Iranian nation backs this right of yours."
By "this right of yours," he means this right of Egypt's, not the Iranian people. The Iranian regime is making a big show of backing the Egyptian people's rights, but not extending the same courtesy to their own citizens.
Eight Iranian activists, including planners of Monday's protest inspired by Egypt, are now under house arrest.
A senior commander of the Iranian revolutionary guard tells the state-run news service there, quote, "The seditionists are nothing more than a corpse and we will strongly suppress any movement or action by them."
According to the White House, the Iranian regime has also cut off the Internet and they are blocking international media from covering the planned protests.
JOE BIDEN, UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT: I say to our Iranian friends, let your people march. Let your people speak. Release your people from jail. Let them have a voice.
MADDOW: Or else. The implied "or else" did not have to be said out loud there by anybody from the U.S. Government today. Egypt said it instead.
Have a great weekend. Good night.
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December 15, 2009
Video Recap of SEMA and AAPEX
December 7, 2009
Centric Parts stars in Kohlweiss Commercial
Not nearly enough motorists ask for replacement brakes by name, so it's great to see Centric Parts get a tip of the hat.
Now get our agent on the phone.
December 4, 2009
Los Angeles Auto Show 2010
Fans of Team StopTech recognize this Tri-Point Mazda wearing StopTech Trophy brakes driven by Eric Foss in SCCA SPEED World Challenge series.
Some might also recall that the Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR set the Nurburgring record with StopTech rotors. It also just recaptured the record up at Laguna. The 2010 makes it's debut in Los Angeles at this auto show.
Steve Saleen showed up with slew of cars from his new SMS Supercars company, which included a pair of StopTech-equipped Dodge Challengers including a 570 in yellow.
The show runs through next weekend. You can get info at http://www.laautoshow.com/.
December 2, 2009
Team StopTech in Porsche Print Ad
In case you were wondering, yes, that is the GMG Porsche driven by James Sofronas all season as part of Team StopTech. The full page ad was too big to shrink down for this post, but you'll know it when you see it by the big StopTech logo across the vehicle's nose.
How do you get your Porsche into a national advertisement? Try throwing a set of StopTech Trophy brakes on your ride and winning the Long Beach Grand Prix with it.
It worked for James.
November 23, 2009
StopTech turns virtual heads in Forza Motorsport 3
Perhaps the most common car at SEMA this year was a virtual one.
Several booths turned into arcades with playable displays of racing videogame Forza Motorsport 3 for the Microsoft Xbox 360. Whipping by too fast to notice unless you are looking for it is the StopTech logo adorning the race barriers.
One helpful reader sent this photo in...
Don't try this if you happen to spot a StopTech logo during your real track day.
Some displays went overboard with their affection for Microsoft, including this Toyota's Tacoma All-Terrain Gamer (ATG) concept which features four on board Xbox 360s...
FYI - were still editing out footage from SEMA but look for something new in the Centric Parts YouTube channel in December.
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 6, 2009
See ya Las Vegas
Thanks to all of you who stopped by. For those of you who missed it, we'll post a video recap to the Centric Parts YouTube channel later in the month.
November 4, 2009
Dino Enters AIA Hall of Fame - Alive!
The quote of the day has to be the one uttered by a visitor to the StopTech booth at SEMA when she heard that Dino was at AAPEX getting this honor.
"I thought he was dead."
The story behind this is that last year another race car driver named Dino Crescentini perished in a track accident during a race in a different series than the one the Centric Parts CEO races in. Obituaries showed up all over race media - with a picture of the wrong Dino - our Dino.
The journalists had used Google Images to find a photo of the deceased. They typed in "Dino Crescentini race car driver" and, not knowing there were two people with the same name in this community, ran the first photo they found.
The situation was compounded by the fact he was scuba diving in a remote part of the world when the news broke. Therefore he was uncharacteristically not returning phone calls.
Over a year later, it turns out there are still a few people out there who did not see the corrections and retractions that ran a days later.
November 3, 2009
Kudos for Centric Parts website at AAPEX
Not bad for the first day of the show. The Centric Parts family has now earned each of the major awards given away over the years. Technically, Centric Parts had a perfect record this year, as Dan Lelchuk revealed to The Brake Room after the ceremony that this was the only award Centric Parts put an entry in for. With all the effort that went into making the site a reality this year, it was a safe bet the site would come out on top at AAPEX.
SEMA and AAPEX 2009 Begins
October 21, 2009
Team StopTech Drives to Twenty-Five in 2009
The stated goal of the season for Team StopTech, as put forth by StopTech CEO Dino Crescentini who also drives for GMG Racing, had been to accumulate at least 20 combined visits to the podium or pole-position earning qualifiers. Crescentini brought in number 20 by himself when he earned his way to the podium at the Road America Grand Prix. By the end of that mid-august weekend, Team StopTech was up to 22.
A pair of podium visits from Turner Motorsport at the Salt Lake City 200 stop of the KONI Grand Am challenge joined up with GMG Racing's James Sofronas taking the SCCA SPEED GT season finale at Laguna Seca to ratchet the final 2009 tally to 25 for Team StopTech.
"It has been a fun and remarkable season," noted Crescentini upon returning to Southern California after the final race. "I think most of us are already thinking about 2010."
Can Team StopTech match this year's incredible successes next time around? Stay tuned in 2010.
October 8, 2009
What a Real HOT Lap Looks Like!
September 27, 2009
AMS / NOS Mitsubishi EVO Takes Spring Moutain with StopTech Brakes
The team overcame what would normally be considered a comedy of errors if so much wasn't on the line. The car severely overheated on Saturday when the alternator bracket broke causing the belt and water pump to stop running. After patching things together for Sunday it was determined that the engine was running on 3 cylinders due to the overheating on Saturday.
Having traveled almost 2000 miles, the AMS/NOS Energy Drink Team wasn't about to give up. Tuner Martin Musial tweaked the tune trying to extract more power out of the hurt engine and a fresh set of BFG tires were put on for the first timed session.
Driver Paul Gerard knew he had to set a fast time right away as the engine problems were probably going to get worse. With only a few hot laps under his belt the whole weekend, Paul laid down a quick 2:18.005 lap. Good thing because after the first hot lap the alternator fix let go right after the start/finish line putting the car out of action. Luckily his time was enough to secure a first place finish in unlimited all wheel drive, 3.5 seconds ahead of the nearest competitor.
The AMS/NOS Energy Drink Mitsubishi EVO X was outfitted with BBKs that includes StopTech performance rotors and the cutting edge StopTech Trophy calipers. AMS has accumulated over 40 victories in road racing and hill climbs in 2008, and looks to best that in 2009. Way to go guys!
September 10, 2009
Team StopTech: Euro Edition
The first success came on Friday when the A3 set the VLN lap record for a front-wheel drive car. During the training session, Christoph Breuer piloted the A3 through the 24.43 km track with a StopTech STR kit installed in only 8:56.487.
At the next day's VLN race, the StopTech-equipped A3 took the turns to victory in its class. For those of you looking for a quick German or racing history lesson, VLN stands for Veranstaltergemeinschaft Langstreckenpokal Nurburgring and this Wikipedia link should help.
September 1, 2009
StopTech and Power Slot Make a Move at SEMA 2009
Those of you heading to SEMA in Las Vegas this year are, as always, encouraged to stop by the StopTech and Power Slot booth at the show. This year you'll need to look in a different spot.
The hard-to-get-a-bead-on location of last year has been abandoned for booth #22387 closer to the front of the Hot Rod / Racing / Restoration Hall. Instead of concession stands and communal dining tables, StopTech will be setting up shop in the shadow of Ford Motor Company. That's a literal statement considering that the 400' X 55' Ford Booth is right above where the hall level splits, with StopTech will be right below it.
The meetings, and racing season, are not over yet but it looks like Dino Crescentini's SCCA SPEED World Challenge car will be parked in the booth. This beautiful GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 was rebuilt from the ground up after a crash at Long Beach yet took first place during its next race at Watkins Glen piloted by the StopTech CEO .
If you miss SEMA this year, there will be another video recap posted on the Centric Parts website by the following week. If you are feeling nostalgic for SEMA 2008 and have 5 minutes to kill, check out last year's video recap…
The news that will be announced at SEMA by StopTech and Power Slot, plus some big news from Centric Parts to be revealed at AAPEX booth #9232 across town, has been ironed out and internally the level of excitement has never been higher for the annual trip to the desert.
August 18, 2009
...and Dino makes 5: Team StopTech Tally Soars
Four of those came from the SCCA SPEED World Challenge, where the Road America Grand Prix (coincidentally presented by StopTech) served as Round 8 of the 2009 season. Stoptech CEO Dino Crescentini made it to the podium along with Charles Espenlaub of Tri-Point Motorsports, who also served up a top qualifying time along with James Sofronas of GMG Racing. (read release)
A whole country (sort of) away, Turner Motorsport was taking the checkered flag with tag-team drivers Matt Bell and Don Salama. Sure it's two drivers but it only counts as one victory for Team StopTech.
Here's a two minute recap. The yellow (some say "gold") beemer in front for most scenes is our boys charging to victory...
That puts the season total to 22, with a long break before we see the last few races of the season.
Is 25 in range?
StopTech Television Commercial
Here it is...
The footage for the commercial was shot at Watkins Glen while, coincedentally, Dino Crescentini was winning the race. Does having a camera on you make you a better driver?
August 13, 2009
Team StopTech Driver Focus: Jason Saini
The victory in his StopTech-equipped Mazda6 added to his lead in the Drivers' Championship and put Mazda in the lead for the Manufacturers' Championship. It also pushed Team StopTech to 18 in its "Podium or Pole Position" season, fueled by Saini's three wins and a third place podium visit for Round 4.
Before going pro in 2004, Saini made his mark as an autocross driver with a nearly 70% winning percentage. He scored back-to-back National Championships in B-Stock in 2003, and A-Stock in 2004. He was the Pro Solo Champion in 2003 where he went undefeated, and has numerous wins in Tour, Pro Solo and Divisional Solo events. He hit the pro scene in 2004 as part of the Mazda Miata Cup pro-series, finishing in the top five in his fourth ever race. He went on finished seventh in the 2004 championship, and fifth in the 2005 championship.
With Saini squarely in the lead just over halfway through his second SCCA season, it appears the sky could be the limit. Keep an eye on this dynamic, gutsy, successful driver.
July 30, 2009
Team StopTech Eyes 20 in "Podium or Pole Position" Season
The season is just beyond the halfway mark and Team StopTech has already amassed 16 podium finishes or pole-position earning qualifying runs. The latest was Jason Saini scoring the checkered flag at the Autobahn Grand Prix this weekend for Tri-Point, but the season highlights keep rolling in.
While a "podium finish" means third place or better, Team StopTech has enjoyed a fair share of first place finishes. The season started with Turner Motorsports KONI Challenge victory at Daytona. GMG Racing answered with James Sofronas winning the SCCA SPEED GT stop at the Long Beach Grand Prix. Tri-Point chimed in with Jason Saini's SCCA SPEED TC win in New Jersey. Turner answered back with a historic KONI victory at Laguna Seca before StopTech CEO Dino Crescentini took matters into his own hands with a first place SCCA SPEED GT win of his own for GMG Racing at Watkins Glen.
However, the biggest single contributor to the "Podium or Pole Position" success of 2009 has been Matt Bell of Turner Motorsports. Bell has earned pole-position starts for 5 out of 7 KONI races this season in his StopTech equipped BMW M3.
With 16 of these successes already in the books, can Team StopTech make it to 20? This could be the company's best race season ever!
July 20, 2009
Tune In Alert: StopTech CEO Victory on SPEED Channel
July 10, 2009
Closeup: StopTech CEO's Watkins Glen Victory
A crash during the practice rounds back at the Long Beach Grand Prix took his car out of the running for a few rounds. This was the same car that that opened the SCCA season with a top qualifying time back in Sebring. Up until 4 weeks before the race it was a bare chassis. The crew at GMG Racing gets huge props for knocking the ride back into such great shape that it lands in the winner's circle, pretty much picking up where it left off.
Here is a one minute clip of Dino's interview with SPEED Channel moments after winning…
Starting second in his Porsche 911 GT3, Crescentini got the jump on first starting Jason Daskalos' Dodge Viper, but not as good as teammate Sofronas, who moved his Global Motorsports Group Porsche 911 GT3 to the lead from third on the grid.
Sofronas led Crescentini for the opening four laps before Crescentini put his No. 4 car out front on lap five, out-braking his teammate going into the Inner Loop. That move that earned him the AutoWeek Move of the Race and the victory as he gradually pulled away as Curran and Sofronas traded second place, turning the Fastest Lap of the race with a 1:55.347 (106.114 mph).
It was Crescentini's second-career win, and came a day after his 49th birthday. He last won a World Challenge GT race at Portland International Raceway for his debut season in 2005.
"I have to credit GMG and especially Steve Ruiz," said Crescentini, referring the StopTech's and GMG Racing Team head engineer. "The car has been perfect every time he works on it! He was everything to me. He gave me the car and all I had to do was drive it.""
"Now that was a fun race, running with Dino and Curran, two great drivers, this is what World Challenge racing is all about," beamed co-teammate and GMG owner James Sofronas. "I had a great start and jumped into the lead for the first 4 laps but I could see Dino had a little stronger car."
The race will be broadcast Tuesday, July 22 at 2 p.m. (EDT). The SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge GT Championship next travels to Autobahn Country Club for Round Seven, July 24-26, 2009.
June 24, 2009
Taking Lap Times Seriously
For most, competitive driving conjures up images of whipping around a track wheel-to-wheel or bumper-to-bumper with other cars. The truth is that for most, at some point it's just going to be you and the car. On most track days, your only bragging rights come from your lap times. For full on races like the SCCA SPEED World Challenge, you first have to get through the qualifier where you are ranked by lap time.
For some, landing a good lap time is part of the overall competition. The recently completed One Lap of America comes to mind, where competitors literally raced across the country with stops along the way for driving challenges such as Hot Laps.
For a select hardcore group of competitors, the lap time is the only true pure measure of a racer. You'll find many of them in the Redline Time Attack series where head-to-head driving simply isn't on the menu. It's a one track, one driver, one car system where drivers get to make timed runs and keep the best lap time at each stop along the series.
The "brake late, finish first" mentality is in full effect at these races with no other cars to bang into, or be banged into by. There's literally nobody to blame for a blown turn. If you find yourself up against the clock you might want to consider the 75/25 braking strategy that earned the StopTech CEO pole position for the SCCA season opener this year in Sebring.
StopTech-equipped racers are faring well this season with a pair of victories. One at Willow Springs and the other at Thunderbolt. The next stop will be in Nashville on July 25 & 26 if you want to get in on the fun and start tracking the series, or even register to participate.
June 3, 2009
Harman Motive sets The Record Straight at Willow Springs
Harman Motive raised the bar over the weekend with the record-setting performance of their StopTech-equipped 2006 Subaru STi at the Redline Time Attack at Willow Springs International Raceway. Sporting StopTech's new Trophy BBKs they managed a 1:26.417 in the Modified Class, AWD Division and set a record for both.
You can read the press release here but we found a video recap of the team's weekend on vimeo...
Check it out!
May Madness for Team StopTech
Jason Saini rolls into June with the Drivers Championship point lead thanks to a pair of May podium visits on the SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge Touring Car series. The month started with a first place finish at round three in New Jersey in his Tri-Point Motorsports' StopTech MAZDA6. He was back on the podium by the end of the month with a third place finish during round four at Mosport International Raceway. Saini's was joined on the podium at Mosport by Charles Espenlaub, who finished second in his Tri-Point MAZDA6 on StopTechs.
Turner Motorsport stepped up during May and made history as the first E90 chassis BMW to win in Grand Am racing. In only its fourth racing appearance ever, the Turner Motorsport ST class BMW E90 328i with StopTechs piloted by driving team Don Salama and Will Turner claimed the checkered flag at Round 4 of the Grand-Am KONI Challenge at Laguna Seca Raceway. The team got a leg up after Salama earned a pole position start during the qualifier.
May 28, 2009
Rumor: Modified Mag to Break Big StopTech News
Rather than try to cover it up, the word is StopTech copped to the timing snafu and is instead supporting an exclusive first look in Modified Magazine. We also spoke with an editor over at the magazine who was willing to confirm this story. We know they were just closing the issue with an August cover date, which hits newsstands in July. So that's the most likely time we'll find out what's up.
A good guess would be that it has something to do with StopTech's Trophy Brake Systems (press release / video). Those track-only BBKs premiered with a top qualifying time earlier this year at the first SCCA SPEED World Challenge stop at Sebring.
There has been murmur about a sister program to Trophy but we know that a recent strategy meeting about November's SEMA show did not include a discussion of Trophy or a sister program. That could mean nothing, or be taken as an indication that it would have already been announced by then. So a mid-summer announcement would make sense, especially with the race season in, um, full gear.
Best bet is to just pick up the magazine. It's a good rag worth reading if you're into cars that are cooler after they leave the showroom, which you must be if you are reading this blog.
May 15, 2009
One Lap of America 2009 - A Closer Look
It's hard enough on the drivers and vehicles covering the distance between the stops, but the need to perform strong at each one is of paramount performance in order to finish amongst the top teams. This year Active Autowerke claimed third place overall and first place with a BMW E46 M3 on StopTech brakes while Team Iron Butt placed 8th overall on StopTech brakes with an Audi S4. Both teams pointed to the brakes as a factor in their success.
"Active Autowerke just started working with StopTech after being in a long relationship with another company for many years. Active was a bit concerned about the brakes when entering the One Lap of America Race, but felt Active made a good decision," admitted Mike Hugh, president of Active Autowerke. "Active's intention or goal was not on placing well but on winning or a high podium placement. We were going into this venue to make a statement that the Active Autowerke system is proven, reliable and the only true choice for BMW M3 performance enthusiasts."
When asked about how the brakes performed, Hugh beamed "The driver, Catesby Jones, said that the StopTech brakes worked really well enabling him to dive deep into the corners before applying the brakes. This enabled the Active BMW to make up time and help gain valuable points. Catesby said the brakes were not a concern and performed flawlessly."
This was the first year that Team Iron Butt, which placed 8th overall out of over 60 teams, rolled with StopTech. "The brakes worked beautifully… especially at Daytona and Sebring, where the needle on the speedometer tends to drift into a range that's seldom seen," was the final feedback from team driver Michael Babcock.
Babcock knew his team had a new edge going into the event after some pre-race testing of the new StopTech brakes. "We spent the day at High Plains Raceway shaking down the car… today I'll be having my eyeballs reinstalled back into my skull. Over the years, I've been conditioned to drop anchor at the 5 marker, and hope for the best. Now I'm into the 2's… simply amazing!"
Babcock comments speak to what this blog and most drivers have been extolling for years. Being able to brake late in turns shaves valuable seconds in a race or time trial situation. For a tip on how to work that more to your advantage, take a look at this post from race car driver and StopTech CEO, Crescentini.
Congratulations to all the teams who embarked and completed the stellar challenge that was the 2009 One Lap of America. You can learn more about the race at http://www.onelapofamerica.com/.
April 28, 2009
Video Recap - Long Beach Grand Prix
Centric Parts has posted a video recap of what StopTech was up to at the 2009 Long Beach Grand Prix. You can watch it here or head on over to the Centric Video Vault to see it along with their other videos.
The Centric Video Vault launched late last year and includes a recap of SEMA/AAPEX 2008 and a sneak preview of the Trophy Big Brake Kit, the racing brake system from StopTech that's been making news and turning heads on the SCCA circuit.
April 24, 2009
Long Beach Grand Prix wrap up
The SCCA race wasn't the only one with a winner's circle represented by StopTech. The Pro/Celebrity Race held a day earlier on Saturday saw Hollywood superstar Keanu Reeves and racing legend Al Unser Jr. each win their category in race-ready Scion tCs with StopTech brakes. Of course, all racers were in identically equipped vehicles including Adrien Brody, Carlos Mencia, Alex Trebek and more., so the odds of a StopTech victory were guaranteed.
April 15, 2009
StopTech brings Stars to a Stop at the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race
All of the identical race-ready Scion tCs in the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race as part of the 35th Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach this weekend will feature brakes from StopTech. The race on April 18, 2009, entails a wide range of celebrity drivers raising funds for charity including Keanu Reeves, Adrien Brody, Alex Trebek, Carlos Mencia and more.
It's the world's longest-running and most prestigious celebrity racing event. The Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race pits popular personalities against professional racers for a 10-lap sprint around the 1.97-mile downtown Long Beach street circuit.
The Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race is just one of six races that are part of the 35th Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, which runs from April 16-19. Centric Parts CEO Dino Crescentini, which includes the StopTech brand, also drives for GMG Racing and will participate in the SCCA SPEED World Challenge Series race. That race is the final event of the weekend on the 19th. The weekend also includes two free concerts, lifestyle events and is open to the public. Visit http://www.lbgp.com/ for race weekend information.
Each Scion tC in the 2009 Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race will benefit from StopTech's patented caliper bridge design along with two-piece rotors that make use of StopTech's patented AeroHat and AeroRotor technologies. The rock solid calipers and dramatically increased cooling airflow provide shorter stopping distances, better brake modulation, and virtually eliminate brake fade.
This year's field is comprised of 18 drivers including Hollywood superstar Keanu Reeves, Academy Award winner Adrien Brody, Raven-Symoné from "That's So Raven" five-time Emmy award winning "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek, Mary Lynn Rajskub from the FOX television series "24," Tim Daly from ABC's "Private Practice," Eric Close from "Without a Trace" on CBS, comedian Carlos Mencia, two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser, Jr., and more.
This year's event will benefit Miller Children's Hospital at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, California's largest full-service children's hospital, and Children's Hospital of Orange County, which was the county's first children's hospital.
March 23, 2009
Race Report: StopTech CEO earns SCCA Pole Position
Trophy BBKs, first announced late last year at the Performance Racing Industry show (watch video / see news item), feature ultra-lightweight racing calipers in four- or six-piston configurations providing a 20-percent weight reduction without sacrificing stiffness or performance. Full floating versions of StopTech's patented AeroRotor/AeroHat two-piece rotors eliminate pad knock-back and increase cooling airflow by 15% for consistent performance and pedal feedback under the unique combination of hard cornering and braking found on the track. These BBKs sport a "natural" finish for an attractive in-wheel presentation and also include billet aluminum mounting brackets with stainless steel caliper studs and DOT-compliant stainless steel braided brake lines. Trophy BBKs make no compromises found on hybrid systems designed for both street and track.
March 19, 2009
TrACkTICS: Dino's 75/25 rule for braking on the track
Any of you who read the recent "Science of Stopping" post from Steve Ruiz about the reality of balanced brakes probably got a bit of an eye-opener on the complex physics behind slowing down a vehicle. His insights focused on the effort that goes into the brakes long before the car ever hits the pavement.
Now imagine yourself behind the steering wheel at over 100mph barreling down on a sharp turn that is only a few dozen yards away. Throw another car right behind you and maybe another off to your side and you get an idea of what I face over a thousand times during the racing season as a driver for the Global Motorsports Group racing team in the SCCA SPEED World Challenge series. The concept of "balance" becomes very dynamic on the track.
Perhaps no skill is harder to execute perfectly on the track than slowing a race car at the limits of its braking performance. Braking changes the race car's weight distribution, posture, and handling characteristics. Do it right and you gain valuable time on the competition. Do it wrong and that podium finish gets farther and farther away. Do it really wrong and… well, you have probably seen the footage of what happens.
Probably the first lesson we learn, and one I would like to impart to you, is that the most efficient way to slow a car is in a straight line. This is when the car's weight is evenly distributed to both sides. The mission here is to complete as much of your braking as possible before commencing the turn.
When braking and turning at the same time, neither braking nor cornering occurs optimally, creating a true lose-lose situation. So getting as much of the braking underway as possible before the turn will pay dividends that can translate into victory.
This may create a bit of a disconnect for some of you. Cutting your velocity before the turn seems like a slow strategy in a speedy sport, but this is where having great brakes comes in. The shorter potential stopping distance of racing brakes and tires allows us to start braking much closer to the turn and still get our speed down to a manageable level before we need to move the steering wheel. Racers look to racing brakes for the ability to brake late so they can keep their hard earned momentum as long as possible.
The technique required is to very quickly get your brakes to the limit to start the deceleration, then ease back a little off the brake pedal as you start the turn until you are a quarter of the way into it.
Dino Crescentini races for GMG Racing and is the CEO of Centric Parts, which includes the ultra-performance StopTech brand
March 15, 2009
Centric Celebrates Dual Award Wins
Centric Parts also earned a 2008 Vendor Excellence Award from Monro Muffler Brake, Inc., a leading provider of automotive undercar repair and tire services with over 700 locations across the eastern United States. The awards are given out annually to high-performing companies that are reactive to Monro's needs with a two-way approach to working together to build business.
February 25, 2009
The Science of Stopping: Balanced Brakes
February 24, 2009
The Centric Story
As the presenters of The Brake Room blog, it seems fitting to take a closer look at Centric Parts.
Centric Parts, which includes the StopTech and Power Slot divisions, is a leading manufacturer and supplier of aftermarket brake components and systems for everyday cars, performance duty vehicles and ultra performance vehicles. Centric continually innovates significant improvements to brake technology for the street and track, having earned four patents along the way. Centric's brake pads, such as the PosiQuiet line of premium Metallic, Ceramic and Extended Wear formulas, provide superior performance, quality and value.
The company was founded in 2000 in Southern California and has enjoyed solid growth every year since. Today the company operates multiple warehouse and manufacturing facilities totaling 438,000 square feet and exceeding 500 employees.
Centric's executives bring with them extensive experience and insight. Dino Crescentini, CEO of Centric Parts has several successful aftermarket companies under his belt as founder and senior executive, including Autospecialty and StopTech and has been a race car driver for the last three decades. He currently races as part of the SCCA SPEED World Challenge Championships on the Global Motorsports Group team. He will be a regular contributor to The Brake Room during the racing season.
Dan Lelchuk, president of Centric Parts, started in high school with a job at a small auto parts store and has been part of the auto aftermarket business ever since, holding positions with several import parts suppliers including Beck Arnley and Brembo as well as also having worked with Crescentini at Autospecialty. Dan will also post to this blog from time to time to offer a Centric view of the industry plus share some news about the company activities.
Stephen Ruiz, Centric Parts' Director of Engineering and a recognized industry expert, comes with over 20 years of brake and friction materials experience as well as race car design, engineering, and manufacturing. Steve will begin a regular "Science of Stopping" collumn on this blog starting later today.
The company is rounded out with skilled and seasoned experts from across the industry. This encompassing knowledge of the industry brought by the executive team is further expanded on through Centric's dedication to research and development. The company has one of the industry's best programs for tracking and cataloging original equipment, and devising quality aftermarket and OE parts for consumers, mechanics and car makers.
Centric's catalogs, a practical standard in the industry, now boast over 40,000 braking system parts supporting nearly every make and model from passenger cars to medium duty trucks manufactured since 1937. In the process, the company has earned a string of braking technology patents, has been repeatedly awarded by the Friction Materials Standards Institute for catalog and program excellence, and has earned the highly coveted TÜV approval on several big brake kits.
Originally focusing on replacement parts for everyday use, Centric parts has aggressively expanded into the performance market by acquiring StopTech as the ultra-performance division in 2006 and Power Slot in 2007 as the performance division.
February 23, 2009
Centric CEO suits up for SCCA Racing Season with Global Motorsports Group
Dino Crescentini, CEO of Centric Parts, will once again ride with Global Motorsports Group (GMG) for the SCCA Pro Racing SPEED GT World Challenge Series when the 2009 season kicks off at the Sebring International Raceway in Florida on March 18-20. This will be his first race since Crescentini was one of three drivers on the team that won the Baja Challenge at the grueling Baja 1000 late in 2008.
With that victory under his belt, Crescentini is optimistic about the 2009 SPEED GT season. "This will be GMG racing's first full season with Stephen Ruiz, StopTech's Director of Engineering, as the team's Head Engineer," stated Crescentini. Ruiz assumed the role late last season, followed by some of the GMG's best races. "Steve Ruiz is a magic ingredient that can transform the car from something you fight into something that works with you as a driver, which is key when driving an agile Porsche against the more horsepower driven competition found on the SPEED GT tracks," he added.
- Sebring International Raceway in Florida (March 18 – 20)
- The Grand Prix of Long Beach in California (April 17 – 19)
- Thunderbolt Raceway in New Jersey (May 1 – 3)
- Mosport International Raceway in Canada (May 15 – 17)
- Watkins Glen International in New York (July 3 – 5)
- Autobahn Country Club in Illinois(July 24 – 26)
- Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Ohio (August 7 -9)
- Road America in Wisconsin (August 14-16)
- Road Atlanta in Georgia (September 23 – 25)
- Laguna Seca Raceway in California (October 9-11).
The races will be broadcast on SPEED Channel.
Crescentini will start contributing his racing insights to The Brake Room blog here next week, and we will feature race reports and in-car footage throughout the season.
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February 13, 2009
Centric Muscles Past 40,000 Parts
Posted by The Brake Room staff
As first reported in Aftermarket News, Centric Parts has cruised to the 40,000 parts milestone with the release of big brake kits for the SRT-8 and R/T versions of the 2009 Dodge Challenger. This is a fitting product to cross the line with, considering the company's recent focus on muscle cars including kits for the Charger and projects with Roush and SMS.
Many notable product releases from Centric Parts throughout 2008 fueled the company's march to the 40,000 parts achievement. These included StopTech's track-only Trophy BBKs for serious racing performance (click here for video preview of Trophy BBK) as well as Power Slot's award-winning Power Alloy rotors which feature superior performance and durability in an entry-level, single-piece design.
Centric Parts' expansive catalog now boasts over 40,000 braking system parts supporting nearly every make and model from passenger cars to medium duty trucks manufactured since 1937.
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February 10, 2009
Turner Motorsport Scores Victory at Daytona
Team StopTech, which is itself not an actual race team, consists of the select production based race cars from the Tri-Point Engineering, GMG Racing and Turner Motorsport teams competing on StopTech performance brakes in the Grand-Am Koni Sports Car Challenge Series and the SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge Series. Both series are broadcast on SPEED channel throughout the year.
The famous Daytona International Speedway challenges racers with a 3.56-mile, 12-turn course that requires precise braking and control to capitalize on its selection of hairpin turns. The winning No. #96 StopTech Brakes BMW M3 from Turner Motorsport pulled 2:01.046 on its fastest lap during the 74 lap race that kicked off the 2009 Koni Challenge Series on January 23, 2009.
The win was Auberlen's 12th in Koni Challenge racing and second in the last three races going back to last year. It was co-driver Matt Bell's first win among the ranks of professional racers. Bell drove the first part of the race then handed the reins to Auberlen during one of the race's cautions.
Heads up: The Brake Room is planning some special coverage of the Long Beach Grand Prix this April. Stay tuned for more info.
February 9, 2009
The Brake Room is Open
Posted by Dan Lelchuk, president of Centric Parts
Welcome to The Brake Room. We are pleased to present this online destination as an opportunity to not only look inside our company and its divisions, but also provide a brake-focused perspective on the automotive aftermarket in general.
As this site grows you will find mechanical tips on brakes, racing tips on braking, a deeper look into the science of stopping, profiles of vehicles that stop traffic and can stop on a dime, industry commentary, updates on highlighted races and racing teams, and much more.
On the company side, you'll get the heads up on the latest news, programs, and product innovations from Centric Parts as well as Power Slot and StopTech, our performance and ultra-performance divisions.
This wide cross-section aims to have something to offer anyone with an interest in production performance cars. That broad demographic includes performance car owners, collectors, mechanics, and garage owners as well as parts manufacturers, distributors and retailers. These are the people who make up the "Brake Nation"and this is their Brake Room.


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KRANJSKA GORA, SLOVENIA - (USST News Bureau Release) - Olympian Libby Ludlow (Bellevue, WA) ignored a late start number Saturday and skied to the best giant slalom result of her career, finishing 14th in an icy, demanding World Cup giant slalom that claimed the Olympic champion, the World Cup GS leader and the World Cup overall leader.
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