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November 14, 2012
Guests: James Clyburn, Cynthia Tucker, Susan Milligan, Jonathan Allen
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Sticking it.
Let`s play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I`m Chris Matthews back in Washington.
"Let Me Start" tonight with this. Think a second. Think if this
election had gone the other way. John Bolton, not Susan Rice, would be the
hot talk for secretary of state. War clouds would be overhead and the
bugles blaring would be marching to Tehran.
Just think, self-deportation would be the name of the game with
immigration. Voter suppression would be the toast of the town, or at least
certain parts of town. The extinction of health care would be HR-1, right
up there on the front burner for congressional action.
Just think, if the election had gone the other way, the rich would be
basking in the best tax protection known to man, a real-life, genuine
mandate to leave them and their money alone.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the White House. People
voted for tax fairness. They voted to make the rich pay their share,
specifically voted that way, for one thing, because the Republicans kept
warning them not to.
And so it came to pass today that President Obama said just that at
his press conference, Give the middle class their tax cuts, Speaker
Boehner. Cut it loose so they can go Christmas shopping, Senator
McConnell. It`s what the people voted for. It`s why they voted for me.
That`s the president talking.
We`re joined right now by NBC`s White House correspondent, Chuck Todd.
Chuck, thanks for joining us tonight.
This was a hot pressure cooker press conference, and you were right in
the middle of it. Let`s talk about the president`s tactic. It looks like
he`s got one here. Here he is, sticking out his message of defending the
middle class today, sticking to it.
CHUCK TODD, NBC WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT/POLITICAL DIR.: Yes.
MATTHEWS: He practically dared the Republicans -- let`s watch this
tape -- to hold tax cuts for the middle class hostage. He went back to
that word "hostage." Let`s take a look.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The other option is to
pass a law right now that would prevent any tax hike whatsoever on the
first $250,000 of everybody`s income.
And I hope Republicans in the House come on board, too. We should not
hold the middle class hostage while we debate tax cuts for the wealthy.
The most important step we can take right now, and I think the
foundation for a deal that helps the economy, creates jobs, gives consumers
certainty, which means gives businesses confidence that they`re going to
have consumers during the holiday season, is if we right away say 98
percent of Americans are not going to see their taxes go up.
MATTHEWS: You know, I thought that was pretty well crafted as a
tactic -- I don`t know if it`s a strategy -- basically saying, Republicans,
we`re going to put a lot of pressure on you because a lot of middle class
people, 97 percent of this country, want those tax cuts kept. They to want
keep them. They want to go Christmas shopping, holiday shopping. Don`t
use the rich people and their purposes as an excuse to screw the middle
TODD: That`s right. I mean, look, the one thing the president did do
is he did leave himself a tiny bit of wiggle room for Republicans and say,
Hey, I`m willing to listen to a compromise, if you don`t want to just move
all of the Bush tax rates up to the Clinton tax rates, essentially, from 35
percent to 39 percent.
Obviously, the president was making his case, Hey, that bill, it
passed the Senate. It`s sitting there. If the House passes it, then we`ve
passed the tax rates for the 98 percent.
TODD: Then have you this other debate. Now, he left himself -- what
was interesting there, when I pressed him about, Is this a red line, are
you not going to support any deal that doesn`t raise tax rates on the
wealthy, and he stopped short of that. And I think the reason is...
MATTHEWS: OK, let`s watch that, Chuck.
TODD: ... he`s trying to -- OK.
MATTHEWS: Let`s watch it because it was your question. Here, Chuck,
you asked him, as you just said, if there was room for a deal that didn`t
include -- did not include a return of the Clinton-era tax cuts of 39.6
percent for the wealthy people.
Here`s what the president said in response to you. Let`s watch.
OBAMA: With respect to the tax rates, I just want to emphasize I am
open to new ideas. If the Republican counterparts or some Democrats have a
great idea for us to raise revenue, maintain progressivity, make sure the
middle class isn`t getting hit, reduces our deficit, encourages growth, I`m
not going to just slam the door in their face.
MATTHEWS: Chuck, you`re sharp as hell on this, but let me suggest
another interpretation. He went in there with one goal, like Ronald Reagan
used to do. I want one headline, Don`t hold the middle class hostage. Let
them have their tax cuts.
TODD: Right.
MATTHEWS: He repeated it over and over again. He didn`t want the
headline to be...
TODD: He said "middle class" 19 times!
MATTHEWS: OK. And he didn`t want the headline to be switched by
perhaps adversarial press or even neutral press that didn`t want to go with
his line to say him adamant, president adamant on rich paying 39.6. Maybe
that`s why he softened up in his response to you. Just an alternative
TODD: Well, no, I mean, I can tell you I know what -- congressional
Republicans were happy with his response. I mean, they`d like to know that
there is some give.
And here`s where the give could be, Chris. Nobody`s talked about
this. I mean, there`s been some behind-the-scenes chatter on this, which
is you could see tax rates temporarily go up, just not all the way to 39
percent. It could be somewhere in the middle ends up being the compromise
for the one year.
Don`t forget, this is all about setting the tax rates simply for 2013
while they negotiate larger tax reform. So that could be what the wiggle
room is. Obviously, Republicans have said they don`t want to raise tax
rates at all. They`re fine with revenue. And the president`s sitting
there saying, I`m open to that. I`m open to listening to your ideas. I
don`t believe the math works without raising rates.
Well, what`s the middle ground? Raising tax rates halfway in between
35 and 39. I`m just saying that`s where you can find the middle ground,
the wiggle room, the potential as a way of giving -- the Republicans are
looking for an out on this. They need some sort of out.
They know they`re not going to win the fight simply on no raising of
tax rates at all. But I think they want to feel as if that there is some
give there. And the president, at least for now, rhetorically gave them
some room to work with.
MATTHEWS: Well, let`s talk about the Republicans right now. John
Boehner probably wants a deal. Can`t (INAUDIBLE) never figure him out.
He`s listening to the future...
TODD: They want a deal.
MATTHEWS: ... he`s listening to his (INAUDIBLE) party -- they want a
deal. So do you think the Republicans are listening to the brains out
there, like Kristol and the other thinkers on the right side? Do you think
they`re willing to say, you know, We`ve defended the rich too long, just
like we`ve screwed the Hispanic vote too often, and we`ve not been open to
minorities generally and to women? This is one of the areas where they`re
going to say, You know what? You won the battle. We`re not going to keep
fighting for the rich. Is that conceivable in the next couple weeks?
TODD: I think the leadership -- here`s what I can tell you. When you
talk to leadership and you do some reporting on that, they want a deal.
They`re ready for a deal. And they`re not that far off.
The problem is, can you find a minimum -- let`s just say a minimum of
35 House Republicans who can commit themselves to voting for a raise of tax
rates. It would be and could be primary suicide for those 35 Republicans
because we know these gerrymandered districts -- this is no about swing
districts anymore. And that`s the -- that`s the problem Boehner has.
If Boehner had 35 to 50 safe Republicans, safe from a primary
challenge from somebody from the right on taxes, I think this deal would
have happened even a lot sooner. They might have gone ahead and passed
parts of -- most of that bill that came through the Senate. That`s the
issue here.
MATTHEWS: They have to schedule -- the thing about leadership is they
got to schedule a bill. That`s the tricky part.
Anyway, let`s take a look at this. There was a very interesting
moment in the press conference today, extremely interesting, when President
Obama was asked about comments from his former opponent, John McCain, who
made some nasty comments about Susan Rice, the United States ambassador to
the U.N. And she may well be the head of the State Department soon.
Here`s the president responding in a very personal way. I thought
this was really a moment here.
OBAMA: But let me say specifically about Susan Rice. She has done
exemplary work. She has represented the United States and our interests in
United Nations with skill and professionalism and toughness and grace.
If Senator McCain and Senator Graham and others want to go after
somebody, they should go after me. But when they go after the U.N.
ambassador, apparently because they think she`s an easy target, then
they`ve got a problem with me.
And should I choose -- if I think that she would be the best person to
serve America in the capacity -- the State Department, then I will nominate
her. That`s not a determination that I`ve made yet.
MATTHEWS: Why don`t you be our U.N. interpreter right now and explain
all the elements of that amazing response.
TODD: Well...
MATTHEWS: It was personal. It was poignant.
TODD: Yes.
MATTHEWS: It was emotional. It was also careful because he said, I
may not make her the United States secretary of state, but I don`t want her
to get the idea or anybody in the world to get the idea if I don`t give her
the job, it`s because of Benghazi and that statement she made.
TODD: That`s absolutely right. Here`s the thing. This has bothered
the White House for weeks, the idea that Susan Rice is taking the fall,
taking these attacks, particularly from John McCain and Lindsey Graham,
because all she was doing -- she had gotten the same intelligence briefing
that members of Congress did, both Republicans and Democrats, that David
Petraeus signed off on, that Mike Morell, the current acting director of
the CIA wrote, the assessment what was shared with -- you know, that`s what
she was doing.
And so there are people in the White House, particularly the
president, but a lot of the support staff, who feel as if Susan Rice has
gotten a raw deal on this, that she has been a political punching bag, if
you will, over the last month-and-a-half because of the presidential
campaign, because of other things.
And so -- and this point, when McCain and Graham did their thing, this
was -- that`s why the president felt he needed to stand up for his U.N.
ambassador. There`s -- obviously, he was giving off an indication he`s
willing to have a confirmation fight, if they want to have one.
But there`s more to this, Chris. There`s more to this. And this goes
back to -- you know, McCain and Obama have not -- they never had a warm
relationship after the 2008 election.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TODD: McCain, I think, has been tougher on the president than in the
reverse. The president has sort of not taken the bait when McCain has hit
him, and hit him pretty -- pretty hard. And I think this was an indication
the president is ready to sort of fight back when indication the president
is ready to sort of fight back when it comes to McCain.
This is not a good relationship, and let`s not pretend that it ever...
MATTHEWS: OK, thank you.
TODD: ... has a chance of being a good one.
MATTHEWS: You know what it reminds me of? The way Nixon could never
deal with the fact that Kennedy was beloved. And he`d always go back and
try to find a way to smear his reputation over the Bay of Pigs, where he
called off the air cover. He was always digging for those jewels over at
the CIA.
TODD: It`s always been personal- I tell you, it feels like it`s
personal with McCain. I don`t know if it was ever personal before with the
president. Now it actually feels like it might be personal with the
president now, too.
TODD: It`s just -- it`s just one of those -- just like Kennedy and
MATTHEWS: Yes, I understand.
TODD: It`s one of those rivalries.
MATTHEWS: We can figure these things out. Thanks, Chuck.
TODD: You got it, buddy.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, Chuck Todd at the White House.
Now joining us now is U.S. Congressman James Clyburn. He`s a
Democratic congressman from South Carolina and a member of the House
Let`s talk about the real politics of equity, fairness, real
Democratic values, Congressman. You`re in the leadership. You`re going to
make the call. Does the president have to win -- I think he has to -- does
he have to win on making sure that the wealthy of this country get back to
paying what they paid under Clinton?
REP. JAMES CLYBURN (D), SOUTH CAROLINA: Absolutely. He`s just
absolutely got to win that, and I think he will win that. But let me say,
Chris -- thank you so much for having me. And may I say something about
Susan Rice?
MATTHEWS: Sure.
CLYBURN: I have a real, real problem with my senior senator trying to
make her a scapegoat in this. Susan Rice`s roots are in Florence, South
Carolina, that I got the opportunity to serve for almost 20 years in the
Congress. Her father, who -- Emmett (ph), who was born there in Florence,
didn`t leave there until he was 16 years old -- I have been a close friend
of his over the years. I`m a close friend with Susan Rice.
I think it`s absolutely a shame for this young lady, whose roots are
deep in South Carolina soil, to get sullied like this by my senior senator,
who I consider to be a good friend. Susan...
MATTHEWS: Well, let`s talk about motive here because, you know, it
does seem when a person makes -- even if you think a person made a mistake,
they were given the wrong brief and they offered up the brief -- they don`t
think she -- they haven`t said she made it up.
I mean, why is there this hostility to this young public servant, who
isn`t really much of a -- isn`t a politician even? She serves in the
foreign affairs capacity. She`s not in the arena with you guys. Why are
they treating her like she`s somebody to punch?
CLYBURN: That`s exactly right. This is a young African-American
woman, I`m going to say.
CLYBURN: And this is the kind of stuff that happened to Colin Powell.
Colin Powell was given information. He went to the United Nations with
information that we found out later was flawed. It was not his fault
MATTHEWS: Well, I think he`s still mad...
CLYBURN: ... and it`s not Susan Rice`s fault...
MATTHEWS: ... about that. I think Colin Powell is still angry about
the crap they gave him to speak. That`s my feeling.
CLYBURN: And so am I.
MATTHEWS: Because I like him.
CLYBURN: I do, too. And I think that Susan Rice is getting a raw
deal here. Now, back to the politics...
MATTHEWS: Let`s talk taxes and the middle class and how the president
won. It seems to me that this president was crystal clear on looking out
for the middle class. If you`re rich, you`re going to have to pay a little
more. And those are the stakes on election night, and he`s claiming them
now. You know...
CLYBURN: That`s exactly right. That`s exactly right.
CLYBURN: He campaigned on the issues that he`s laid before the
American people. He`s talked about $1.6 trillion in revenues. I think Mr.
Boehner`s now talking about $800 billion, somewhere in between that, we
ought to get to.
And I do believe that the president is in a very good place on this
issue. I think the American people have demonstrated with their votes and
they continue to demonstrate with all the comments that I`ve heard that the
president is where the American people like for him to be on this issue.
Middle-income Americans have given a lot, and they have been giving
and giving and giving. Just look at this war -- or these wars that we have
fought. Basically, the people fighting in these wars, they`ve come from
middle-income America. We are talking about people who seem not to have a
vested interest in all of the sacrifices that are being made to get our
economy back on track.
So the president is right where the American people like for him to
be, and I hope and I feel that he will hold the line on these issues.
MATTHEWS: It`s great to have you on, sir. Such a great man. And I
mean that. And every time I hear you talk, I say, Yes, yes, yes.
Congressman James Clyburn, one of the leaders in the House of
Representatives. Thank you so much for coming on.
CLYBURN: Thank you so much for having me.
MATTHEWS: Coming up: Notes on a scandal -- we`re getting a little
tawdry now -- those e-mails, the letters, if you really have to hold your
ears, you know -- I don`t think you will, by the way. This is getting
fascinating -- the phone call now, the photo, new developments all around
this crazy David Petraeus story, involving our top general in Afghanistan,
the most recent head of the CIA, all involved in this strange, I don`t
know, quartet of relationships.
Also, liberals being liberals. How about this? No more, Don`t ask,
tell -- don`t ask -- don`t have (ph) tell about being a progressive or a
liberal? People run now as liberals. Five true blue liberals have just
been elected or re-elected to the United States Senate, and they ain`t
hiding it anymore. They don`t hide their colors. That`s changed.
And the other, the dogwhistle. It`s still whistling out there!
Listen to the co-chairs of Mitt Romney`s Wisconsin campaign saying Romney
would have won that state if only voter ID laws had been in place. Wow.
Think of what that`s saying.
By the way, since President Obama won Wisconsin by 205,000 votes, are
they saying 205,000 votes were stolen? What are they talking about out
there? They`re still pushing this issue. Are they admitting what we all
know, that Republican voter ID laws were merely an effort to suppress the
Democratic vote, the minority vote especially, and they failed? Tough
And think the Republicans are on the way to solving their problem with
Latino votes? Here`s the spokesman for the American Family Association on
why Latinos vote for Democrats.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It has to do with the fact that they are
socialists by nature! They come from Mexico, which is a socialist country.
MATTHEWS: Yes, people are basically intrinsically ideological. Did
you ever know that one before? I`ve never heard that one before. Anyway,
there, that kind of talk, will win a lot of Hispanic votes, telling people
there`s something wrong with their political DNA.
Anyway, this is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Here it comes, the spoils of victory. Democrats in the
United States Senate will now have an effective 55 to 45 seat majority.
That`s because a senator like Angus King of Maine announced today, big
surprise, what many in Washington were expecting, that he`ll caucus for
leadership issues with the Democrats. That means he`s going to get
committee assignments with the Democrats.
King won a resounding victory, despite not actually saying out loud
which party he`d caucus with. But he endorsed President Obama for
reelection and was the subject of a negative ad campaign by Republican-
leaning outside groups.
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
The president answered questions today at his press conference for the
first time, in fact, on the scandal that has forced the resignation of his
CIA director, and took some time to offer strong praise, by the way, he
did, for Petraeus.
Listen to how well he praises this guy who has just been forced to
resign. I want to know why he did this, but, first, let`s see it.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: General Petraeus had an
extraordinary career.
He served this country with great distinction in Iraq, in Afghanistan
and as head of the CIA. I want to emphasize that from my perspective, at
least, he has provided this country an extraordinary service. We are safer
because of the work that Dave Petraeus has done. And my main hope right
now is that he and his family are able to move on and that this ends up
being a single side note on what has otherwise been an extraordinary
MATTHEWS: Well, we know so far is that David Petraeus, the general,
had an affair with his biography here, Paula Broadwell -- you`re looking at
her -- that came to light after the FBI began investigating harassing e-
mails sent anonymously to another woman, Jill Kelley, a Tampa socialite and
a friend of Petraeus.
The FBI eventually found out it was Broadwell, that woman right there,
who was sending those e-mails.
"The Washington Post," by the way -- that`s according to "The
Washington Post." The e-mail described Kelley as a -- I don`t know how
they do this -- as a seductress. That`s according to what Broadwell said
about the other woman, accused her of having an intimate affair --
relationship with Petraeus.
For more on where things stand, we`re joined by serious reporters, NBC
News chief White House correspondent -- chief -- well, it isn`t. it`s Mike
Isikoff, who is the chief investigative reporter. And, of course, we have
got David Corn now, who`s on the show now from "Mother Jones."
Let me -- let me talk about this, first of all. I thought it was
interesting the president of the United States to give almost a complete
Snow White description of this guy. He referred to the affair, which is
the reason he`s being removed from office, as a single side note.
I mean, Bill Clinton went through -- he was keel-hauled for five years
over this.
DAVID CORN, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes, yes, yes.
MATTHEWS: And this guy get a single side note.
CORN: It`s just a pesky asterisk.
But, you know, politicians and presidents for years in Washington have
been using David Petraeus as cover. If you can get underneath -- wrap
MATTHEWS: Republicans said that name over and over.
CORN: Wrap yourself in the Petraeus flag and you got immunity from
almost anything.
MATTHEWS: But what is President Obama worried about with Petraeus?
CORN: I think it`s sort of force of habit. I think he`s being kind
of gracious now.
And I think there may be a little buyer`s remorse here that some
people once you get into the details of this wacky situation, they`re
thinking maybe he shouldn`t have resigned.
MATTHEWS: He should have stuck with him.
CORN: Maybe he should have stuck with him. Maybe everything moved
too fast. Maybe he`s -- he did what he did, but maybe he`s the victim of
some other...
MATTHEWS: OK. Before you jump to that -- and I am the -- the more --
the older I get, the more lenient I get towards these peccadillos, if you
CORN: Lenient?
MATTHEWS: The problem is, if it got out, if it got out that he had
had this affair with this reporter and it also got out that the president
knowing about it had kept him in office, what would that have been like?
CORN: Yes. Well, that would be bad.
MATTHEWS: Right.
CORN: The only way he could stay -- the only way you can do this is
if you actually make a clean breast of it, say you`re sorry, you won`t do
it again.
MATTHEWS: Tell the country that?
CORN: Tell the country that. It`s what Bill Clinton did.
MATTHEWS: But he was impeached.
MICHAEL ISIKOFF, MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: Under a little pressure.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let`s go to the latest developments in this.
This Mrs. Kelley, Jill Kelley, she`s married. She is the one that was
involved in being apparently -- she was scaring this other woman who was
having the affair with Petraeus, thinking she might be involved, whatever
that was about. She complained to an FBI agent. This is where it became
official, complained, this Jill Kelley, complained to an FBI agent...
CORN: Who was a friend of hers.
MATTHEWS: ... was being harassed. Let`s stay here, was being
And then she does this call. She called 911 one weekend complaining,
that was Jill Kelley. She tried to invoke diplomatic privilege to get the
press off her lawn.
MATTHEWS: Let`s listen to this. This is a little strange.
JILL KELLEY, TAMPA, FLORIDA: I`m an honorary consul general, so I
have inviolability, so they shouldn`t be able to cross my property. I
don`t know if you want to get diplomatic protection involved as well, but
now -- because that`s against the law to cross my cross my property,
because this is now like -- you know, it`s inviolable.
MATTHEWS: This is getting more Kato Kaelin every day.
MATTHEWS: Why is it important for us to know?
ISIKOFF: Just to be fair, first of all, that phone call just took
place last weekend, after the whole scandal erupted, after the press is on
her lawn.
MATTHEWS: Was she right in claiming diplomatic immunity from the
ISIKOFF: No. It`s preposterous.
MATTHEWS: All right.
ISIKOFF: And, by the way, she had a badge at MacDill Air Force Base
that has since been revoked. So whatever status, honorary status she
MATTHEWS: And she was the consul -- consular officer for the South
ISIKOFF: Honorary consul.
ISIKOFF: All right, look, we got a briefing from a source close to
Jill Kelley this evening that sheds a little light on the origins of this
and how this came about.
And the initial e-mail that triggers the concern comes from -- an
anonymous e-mail from a Kelley Patrol to General Allen in Afghanistan,
warning him about his relation -- about his relationship with Jill Kelley
and about an upcoming meeting they are going to have in Washington, which,
in fact, they were going to have, she -- Jill Kelley and her husband were
going to have with General Allen.
That -- she -- General Allen then turns that over to both Jill Kelley,
saying, what`s this all about? Did you send me this? What are you talking
MATTHEWS: Yes. Why is she an object of suspicion, because she has a
Lebanese background or what? Why are people all buzzing around her and
bothering her in these personal relationships?
ISIKOFF: Well, look, we don`t know what set Paula Broadwell off, whom
we now to have been -- to have sent that e-mail.
But we understand a little bit more about what it was that triggered
the concern of Jill Kelley, of General Allen and the FBI, because they`re
talking about something that is not publicly known, the general in
Afghanistan is going to have a meeting with a woman in Tampa. And then
there`s subsequent e-mails, about three or four...
MATTHEWS: Quickly.
ISIKOFF: ... more, along the same lines, including one about a
meeting she is going to have with David Petraeus.
MATTHEWS: OK. I want to ask you both, guys, I want to ask you my
favorite question in journalism. And I want a quick answer.
ISIKOFF: Yes.
MATTHEWS: So what? The whole thing, so what now? Is there anything
about national security in this?
ISIKOFF: Well, there was -- at the end of the day, probably not.
But at the time, when here is somebody, an anonymous person on the
Internet who knows the comings and goings of the CIA director that`s not
public, that is a legitimate cause for investigation.
MATTHEWS: Is John Allen going to remain our commander in Afghanistan?
CORN: I think it depends on how inappropriate these e-mails were.
MATTHEWS: Well, 30,000 pages.
CORN: No, no, it`s not actually 30,000.
CORN: It`s a lot less than that because of the way they count. But
they say hundreds of -- hundreds of e-mails.
MATTHEWS: ... pages.
CORN: Because of threads. It`s kind of technically complicated.
Hundreds of e-mails. We don`t know exactly what he said. If he was
just flirtatious with this woman and he still is commanding a war and doing
a good job, why would you bounce him for that?
ISIKOFF: A source close to Kelley characterized those e-mails this
evening, saying, first of all, there`s a handful that are problematic that
some might consider flirtatious, some might consider inappropriate, that
maybe General Allen had a glass of wine more than he should have, but not
overtly sexual, not sexting.
So, make of that what you will, but I`m just telling you what they`re
saying about the e-mails.
CORN: Your "So what?" question is important, because what happened
here is the FBI got this tip, started looking, and things just sort of
cascade from there. Once you bring in the FBI and...
CORN: ... they start through computers, they can find a lot of
different things.
MATTHEWS: Can I ask you about -- OK, last question I`m getting -- I
hear from progressives. They call me, they e-mail me, they talk to me.
CORN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: There`s some suspicion out there on the part of a friend of
mine that this is the FBI, a guy who has political point of view, he
brought this all up to the members of Congress, he brought it to Reichert.
He got to Cantor because he wanted to hurt the administration.
CORN: I`m not sure it was political. He certainly was trying to make
time with Jill Kelley. And he had an obsession and he was taken off that
ISIKOFF: That does not conform with the facts as we know them.
MATTHEWS: Well, you have got to follow these leads. You know?
That`s who we learn things around here.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, thank you Michael Isikoff. Thank you, David Corn.
Not every road leads to heaven.
MATTHEWS: Up next: Jon Stewart has got something to say about those
petitions, by the way, asking that certain states be allowed to secede.
What a waste of paper. That`s ahead.
This is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Now to the "Sideshow."
Yesterday, I told you about those angry petitions to the White House
asking that certain states be allowed to secede from the union now that
President Obama has been reelected. Well, Texas was the leader of the pack
with one petition counting 70,000 signatures by yesterday afternoon.
Jon Stewart weighed in.
JON STEWART, HOST, "THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART": I think I can
best express how I feel about these states and people in the words of the
great William Wonka.
GENE WILDER, ACTOR: Stop. Don`t. Come back.
STEWART: At least now...
STEWART: ... I`m beginning to understand why Southern states were
always so hesitant to get rid of the Confederate flag. It`s like keeping
your fat pants after you lose some weight.
STEWART: You`re happy for now with the new you, but pretty soon
you`re going to need those fat pants again.
MATTHEWS: And then there`s the issue of the Latino vote which many
Republicans say they need if they have any hope of winning back the White
Listen to Bryan Fischer. He`s spokesman for conservative American
Family Association, they call themselves, and you realize why the GOP`s
problems with Latinos run very deep. Wait until you hear this guy.
BRYAN FISCHER, AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION: Hispanics are not
Democrats, don`t vote Democrat because of immigration. That`s not the main
reason why they vote for Democrats.
It has to do with the fact that they are socialists by nature. They
come from Mexico, which is a socialist country. They want big government
goodies. It`s primarily about that. Now, they want open borders, make no
mistake, because they have got family and friends that they want to come up
and be able to benefit from the plunder of the wealth of the United States,
just as they have been able to do.
There is no way on earth you`re going to get them to leave the
Democratic Party. It`s one of the reasons why we have got to clamp down on
MATTHEWS: It`s that kind of talk that will keep the GOP losing
elections for a generation.
Up next: What did Paul Ryan mean when he blamed President Obama`s
victory last week on the urban vote? Do you like that word? Is he blowing
that dog whistle again?
This is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
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QUESTION: Do you think photo I.D. would have made any difference in
the outcome of this election?
ALBERTA DARLING (R), WISCONSIN STATE SENATOR: Absolutely. Yes, I
think so.
We`re looking at all sorts of different precincts and all sorts of
same-day registrations. And I know people will go, oh, we don`t have fraud
and abuse in our election. But why -- why can`t we have voter I.D. when
majority of our people in Wisconsin want it, we passed it, the governor
signed it? Why should one judge in Dane County be able to hold it up?
MATTHEWS: There you have the problem with the Republican Party. Pay
a lot of attention to that what that woman just said, that state senator.
That`s the state -- Wisconsin State Senator Alberta Darling.
I don`t know her. She served as Mitt Romney`s co-chair in the state
and now she`s saying suppressing the vote by requiring voter -- photo voter
I.D. cards would have made the difference in Wisconsin.
Well, let`s look at the facts here. Apparently, she`s not interested
in the fact. Obama won Wisconsin by 205,000 votes, 200,000 votes-plus.
She`s saying there that that was stolen, that they stole, the Democrats,
through same-day registration, poor people, whoever came in the state, they
live there, they stole over 200,000 votes.
That`s her claim, because there weren`t photo voter I.D. card
Anyway, Paul Ryan expressed -- there`s more of this dog whistle crap
going on. Here`s Paul Ryan expressing his surprise at the pro-Obama
turnout in an interview Monday. That`s just two days ago. Well after the
election, they`re still talking like this. Let`s listen to Ryan here.
REP. PAUL RYAN (R), WISCONSIN: We were surprised with the outcome.
We knew this was going to be a close race. We thought we had a very good
chance of winning it.
I think the surprise was some of the turnout, some of the turnout in -
- especially in urban areas, which definitely gave President Obama the big
margin to win this race.
MATTHEWS: Well, Cynthia Tucker is a visiting professor of journalism
down at the University of Georgia. And Joan Walsh is editor-at-large for
Salon and author of Hampton Pearson "What`s the Matter with White People."
By the way, that question seems apt again tonight.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, "The L.A. Times" has just posted a report on Mitt
Romney`s press conference call -- a conference call, rather, today with top
It says Romney -- quote -- "attributed his rival`s victory to -- quote
-- `the gifts` the Obama administration had given to blacks, Hispanics and
young voters during Obama`s first term. Obama, Romney argued, had been --
quote -- `very generous`" -- close quote -- or quotes around it -- "to
blacks, Hispanics and young voters."
Cynthia, I once heard a Canadian election guy with a French Canadian
nationalist was saying they lost the election to the people that wanted to
stay as part of Canada because of ethnic voters. That means non-French,
This guy, Paul Ryan, who I don`t think is right for prime time yet by any
means talking about the urban vote. Now, they won the other side because
they got the most votes. Because they won fair and square, which is the
first thing Ryan said.
Why do you have to step on his own headline, they won fair and square
by saying, oh, it was the black vote? Basically, that`s what he`s saying.
CYNTHIA TUCKER, UNIV. OF GEORGIA: Chris, let me just say, as for
Romney`s comments, I`m still waiting for my gift.
MATTHEWS: Ha!
TUCKER: I`m waiting for my gift from Obama. I haven`t received my
gift yet.
JOAN WALSH, SALON.COM: Where is it?
TUCKER: Maybe it was lost in the mail.
MATTHEWS: You mean you may have voted for him without getting that
thing in the mail that he was supposed to send everybody?
WALSH: Maybe Chris has it.
TUCKER: I did not get my gift.
But let me just say the comments that you have focused on encapsulate
the Republicans` problems. And while we have -- pundits have been
speculating that Republicans have finally learned their lessons, they have
to stop being so disrespectful to large blocs of voters, they have not
learned. They cannot stop being disrespectful and dismissive.
This business of urban vote -- Chris, you`re an urban voter. You
live in a city, don`t you?
MATTHEWS: Actually, I live two blocks outside a city, but I spent
most my life living either in Philadelphia or in Worcester, Massachusetts,
in college, which is a city, or in Washington, D.C. for many, many years,
TUCKER: I mean, this is just nonsense. They cannot speak of us as
Americans, as voters. And we understand that. And that`s the reason so
many black and brown people, and so many white voters, by the way, don`t
vote for the Republican Party.
MATTHEWS: Yes, I think that was well said. I think a lot of white
people are turned off by this old style stuff.
Joanie, my question to you, my dear friend, how do you explain
Romney, who left the stage with such grace on election night, I will pay
tribute to that forever the way he did it, now going back over this again,
saying they bought the minority vote.
This is the kind of thing he was saying during the campaign,
remember? He was saying, remember, he said they get rid of work
requirement for welfare because he had to pay off his base. He was -- the
feeding of the base, the feeding of the base. It`s a theme he`s still
WALSH: Why does he say it, Chris? Because he really believes it.
They really believe that this is what it`s all about and we`ve all been
paid off. And as Cynthia says, I`m still waiting for my gifts, too.
But the thing that really irks me about this, to listen to those two
people from Wisconsin speak so dismissively of their own population and
their own state -- I mean, Paul Ryan lost his own district, lost his city,
his hometown. Let`s just say that -- which is not a particularly urban
place. But I cast --
MATTHEWS: Two hundred thousand vote thieves -- 200,000 in his own
WALSH: And I cast my first vote for Jimmy Carter in suburban
Milwaukee. I went to high school and college in Wisconsin. We are proud
of our tradition, of broad public participation in the vote, Chris. Those
are -- Wisconsin --
MATTHEWS: And clean elections, too.
WALSH: And clean elections. Wisconsin and Minnesota have the two
highest rates of participation. And that used to be something to proud of
as a Wisconsin resident. They are mad because they got their butts kicked
by a resurgent Democratic Party in the state, which out-organized them.
That`s what it`s all about.
MATTHEWS: You know, Teddy White when he wrote "Making the President"
back in `66, when you have votes in states like Wisconsin and Minnesota,
you can count on the vote being exactly right.
Let me go back to Cynthia.
Cynthia, there are people out there will say Matthews, and you and
Cynthia, you hear that dog whistle when it`s not even there. And I`ll tell
you -- maybe, maybe, maybe, you can argue that, but if you put it all
together and listen to it over and over again from Sununu`s talk of lazy,
to this talk about Obama belongs in Kenya, the illegal immigrant, to this
latest character we just had a few minutes ago. Did you hear about the guy
-- the Christian right wing guy that came on and said that the reason
Mexican Americans are socialist is because it`s somehow in their blood
because they come from a socialist country.
Wait a minute -- Arnold Schwarzenegger is from socialist Austria.
It`s the reason he left. It could be they want to live in a country with
more freedom and less government. I don`t know.
But a lot of people in the United States I grew up with, from Polish
backgrounds and other backgrounds, they come from that -- Ukrainian
backgrounds, they want the Catholic school, all these guys, they all came
from left wing -- hard left wing communist countries and they`re the
So, this idea you can trace people`s ideological DNA through their
migratory roots is insane.
Your thoughts?
TUCKER: It also shows how very little they understand their fellow
Americans and how very little they`re trying to understand. You know,
Chris, what it says to me, a lot of the nonsense that we heard over the
election -- the welfare ads and all of that -- I thought they put that
nonsense out there to satisfy their base.
Now, I`m understanding how many of the Republican strategists really
believe --
WALSH: Yes.
TUCKER: -- those ugly stereotypes about voters of color.
And let me further say, Chris, that it isn`t just the nonsense we
heard in this election. Black Americans have understood, have heard
Republicans speak disrespectfully of us for the last 50 years.
WALSH: Right.
TUCKER: That`s the reason black Americans don`t vote for the
Republican Party.
Now for the last five to seven years, Latinos have been hearing the
same thing.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TUCKER: If you continue to talk about us in this stereotypical,
dismissive manner, we get the message. You don`t want us in our party --
in your party. And, of course, we are not going to give you our votes.
It`s as simple as that.
WALSH: Right.
MATTHEWS: I love the way they just say, and I use that sarcastically
-- were your votes stolen or were they bought? That`s a nice debate in the
Republican Party. We can`t decide whether they bought their votes or they
stole them. That`s how -- anyway, I make it funny because it`s horrible.
Cynthia, I love your passion. I love your truth. Thank you so much.
Joan, too. The name of your book?
WALSH: "What`s the Matter with White People?"
MATTHEWS: It seems to be absent tonight`s discussion.
WALSH: Thanks, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Up next, five guys (ph) that are liberals were sent to the
United State Senate last week. No more "don`t ask, don`t tell" -- meaning
your ideology is out there on your mettle. You just say, I`m a liberal.
No more I`m a sort of a moderate, whatever. No, you can say you`re liberal
now and you can win.
You`re watching HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Democrats running as liberals.
Back with HARDBALL after this.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL.
You know, this year and some of the marquee U.S. Senate race is the
Democrats didn`t run as reluctant Democrats, you know, employing the DNC-
approved type of Clintonian triangulation to appeal to voters. They just
ran full bore as liberals.
Here are some of the newly elected senators who ran unapologetically
on the left side and won. Elizabeth warren in Massachusetts -- of course,
you have a battler against Wall Street there. Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin,
Chris Murphy up in Connecticut and Mazie Hirono in Hawaii.
How`s this going to change things once they get there, the fact they
have run so clearly progressives?
Jonathan Allen covers Congress for "Politico", and Susan Milligan
writes for "U.S. News and World Report."
Susan, you first. You know, you know politics like I do. And I
think it`s fascinating in all these years of not being openly liberal
saying things, well, I`m a moderate, maybe progressive came in as a bit of
euphemism for a while there. What`s going on here?
The fact that these people -- I`m looking at -- there is no doubt
Elizabeth Warren is going to have a high ADA rating. She`s going to be a
liberal. There`s no doubt, I don`t think, about Tammy Baldwin, Murphy or
Mazie Hirono -- generally, these people aren`t saying, you know, I`m sort
of a moderate, I`m somewhere in the middle. They are saying, you know,
we`re progressives, we`re liberals, big deal.
SUSAN MILLIGAN, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT: Right.
Well, I think what`s happening is while the Republican Party was
having its own kind of implosion figuring out who they were the Democrats,
in fact, were kind of coming home and getting back to the core of who they
were. So now you have the Republicans trying to figure out how to expand
their base, whatever their come to Jesus moment, or actually come to Jesus
moment when they kind of try to draw on Latinos more, the Democrats
actually got back to the core principles that define them as the Democratic
I think we saw this with the Democratic National Convention, with
speeches by Deval Patrick, by President Clinton, by Mayor Castro, really
talking about who and what they are as Democrats. And that`s what they are
going to be.
So, they`re actually becoming I think a little bit more clear-minded
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MILLIGAN: -- in their mission on the Hill now.
MATTHEWS: Yes, I think it`s true.
Jonathan, what do you think? I mean, I think there is such a thing
as a Democrat now. They`re not socialists. They`re not free marketers
They`re somewhere with mixed capitalism. They`re somewhere maybe
where Hubert Humphrey was 30, 40 years ago. They are not that far to the
left of him.
They are definitely nationalists. They`re definitely not pacifists,
like Jimmy Carter was in many ways. Nobody is going to call this president
a pacifist at all.
Your thoughts?
JONATHAN ALLEN, POLITICO: Howard Dean would call it the Democratic
wing of the Democratic Party. You`ve got all these candidates who now
believe that there is a justice message, a fairness message. That`s a very
populous message that Barack Obama tapped into in 2008.
Remember all these candidates were running with him this year, a lot
of them synthesized their messages with him, sometimes a little bit to the
left, sometimes a little bit to the right. But they are coming in as Obama
Democrats into the Senate.
And he`s going to have some more forceful people in places like
Wisconsin where you got a Tammy Baldwin replacing the much older Herb Kohl,
who`s pretty liberal but not a champion for liberal causes. Mazie Hirono
replacing Daniel Akaka in Hawaii, the same thing. Elizabeth Warren in
Massachusetts replacing Scott Brown -- what a change from a moderate
Republican to a very liberal, consumer-focused Democrat.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
ALLEN: And Chris Murphy in Connecticut doing the same thing,
replacing Joe Lieberman. You know, very moderate guy, often voted with
Republicans. Chris Murphy, not so much.
MATTHEWS: Yes, I was with Michael Dukakis today in Massachusetts.
He`s teaching up at Northeastern. Susan, you know that. And he`s working
with a cause I was up there with today, helping people get medical -- legal
protection for medical situations.
And he -- he was killed for being a liberal. I don`t think you can
run those campaigns against Democrats to say, oh, he`s a liberal, that`s
the end of the argument, you know?
MILLIGAN: Well, isn`t that part of it, Chris? That they were
apologizing for it all the time and that doesn`t really get you anywhere.
The important thing though when we talk about what`s happening on the
Hill is that you don`t have to be a moderate to be a good negotiator. With
some exceptions like Olympia Snowe, obviously, a moderate who`s a great
negotiator. Some of the best negotiators on the Hill have been liberals or
conservatives. Ted Kennedy, Orrin Hatch --
MATTHEWS: That`s my speech today.
MILLIGAN: Paul Wellstone, you know, Pete Domenici, so --
MATTHEWS: That`s my speech today, which is your best constituency is
your conscience. And if you really believe, unlike Romney, you really
believe in something, you know how to negotiate. You don`t have to pretend
to Grover Norquist, you`re one of his robots.
Anyway, thank you, Jonathan. I wish we have more time. We will next
Susan Milligan, as always.
When we return, let me finish with what President Obama can expect to
see tomorrow when he visits the devastated areas up near New York City, in
New York City from hurricane Sandy.
You`re watching HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with this:
Tomorrow, President Obama goes to the storm-devastated parts of New
York. My protection is that he will be devastated himself by the tragedy
that seems to grow worse especially as the temperature drops toward
December. Again tonight, I`m going to ask you to take out a pen or a
pencil and be ready, you might be able to help yourself with what the
president sees tomorrow.
I hope the president sees too the amazing network of people
attempting to help the victims out there on Staten Island and Brooklyn, and
the nastily hit parts of Queens like Rockaway and Breezy Point.
Let`s take Rockaway, an area where nearly every family has a fire
fighter in the family, a police officer, sanitation worker, some of the
other public servant. And yet, they continue to suffer through the
aftermath of this disaster and the bitter cold without even the basics of
human life like heat, clean water or beds to sleep in. You won`t believe
how bad it is up there.
I said I want to tell you about the people who are working to help
the victims of Sandy and the nor`easter that came in on its heels. There
is a church in the Belle Harbor section of Rockaway, Saint Francis de
Sales. That`s a familiar name to Catholics, of course.
Saint Francis de Sales, has set up a relief center that`s doing a
huge service to the people there. It`s helping people get access to
generators and other ways to get back into their homes, to get people back
on their feet.
If you want to help this local relief effort, Saint Francis, you can
send a contribution to Saint Francis de Sales Parish. Saint Francis de
Sales Parish, 129-16 Rockaway Beach Boulevard. That`s Rockaway Beach
Boulevard. Belle Harbor, New York, 11694. Take a look it. Write on the
check "relief effort."
These local groups are doing the kind of inspiring volunteer work
that seems in our country to come about when bad things happen to good
people. And I hope the president gets a look at the efforts when he`s in
the New York area tomorrow.
That`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
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Computational Behavioral Analysis
George Cybenko, Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
Friday, January 7, 2011, 3:30pm
Spanos Auditorium
This seminar is part of the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society series
There has been much recent interest and progress in "behavioral analysis" across domains as diverse as finance, computer security, insider threat detection, wide area sensor fusion, homeland security and consumer marketing. This presentation will provide an integrated overview and framework for computational behavioral analysis using concepts from automata theory, statistics and game theory. Examples drawn from our own work and the work of others will illustrate key points.
About the Speaker
George Cybenko is the Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth. Prior to joining Dartmouth, he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received B.Sc. (University of Toronto) and Ph.D. (Princeton) degrees.
Cybenko has worked in distributed computing, signal processing, information security and most recently computational behavioral analysis. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Security & Privacy and IEEE/AIP Computing in Science and Engineering. Cybenko has served on the Defense Science Board, DARPA's ISAT and other DOD advisory panels. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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Single of the Week!
Deerhoof feat. David Bazan - 'No One Asked Bazan To Dance' from 'DeerBazan' 7" (Polyvinyl)
Mr. David Bazan is a new one on me but it is definitely love, he has so much heartbreak in his gob it is like so many marbles splashing onto the floor. Sounding not unlike (and just as fainty as) Matt Caughthran or Hamilton Leithauser, marvellous, big ol' Dave has re-voiced Deerhoof 's 'No One Asked To Dance', with its perfect production and its delicious guitar part. A guitar part that people are allowed to say divvy things about, like 'That is good guitar'. And you will say it back, 'Yes, that guitar, is good guitar,' - presumably because a starved, thickie lexicon provides the only possible reaction when you live in a world where classical guitar has been forgotten; it is scuffing stones in niche magazines, but it has long since expected anyone to love it. I like it when this happens – when a song comes along that forces you to remember that songcraft and musicianship are not just for the Rockists, and it needn't be dread to appreciate either. The latest in an almost faultless series of sevens, 'No One Asked Bazan To Dance' is the prettiest song about scraping by I've heard in aeons. Original here.
Dan Sartain feat. Jane Wiedlin - 'Now Now Now' (One Little Indian)
People who make 19 minute-long albums and singles that barely trouble the one-minute mark are alright with me. And even though 'Now Now Now' is new-old-new-wave it's okay, because a) Jane Wiedlin is on it and b) some people are so good at doing bops that you don't mind that they're not doing nothing with those bops. Also: look at that ruddy artwork! Ooooh, it's lovely.
The Big Pink - 'Hit The Ground (Superman)' (4AD)
I think the problem with The Big Pink (or at the very least, mine) is that they sound so very like bigness for people who need bigness explaining; dream soundtracks for replicants, epic anthems for sociopaths, drama for toddlers. You get where I'm going with this and it's just so odd, for so much to be happening and for the end result to sound so utterly hollow; the musical equivalent of Truman Burbank's pretend sky.
Fair Ohs - 'Salt Flats' (X-Ray)
You guys, finishing songs is super hard, you guys. Which is why Fair Ohs are doing that thing where you speed up the last third of your song to create the sense that something is happening; it's definitely happening everybody, everybody look like it's happening or someone might think that it's not. So it is definitely not that Fair Ohs started a thing and then, halfway through, realised that the act of creation is often akin to digging a hole - sooner or later you have to step into the hole to make it any deeper. And that's when - sky obscured and worms for company - the real trouble starts, and the real rewards present themselves. 'Let yourself be overwhelmed,' they sing, and I sort of wish they had.
Male Bonding - 'Aneurysm' (Nirvana 7" with EMA cover of 'Endless Nameless', on For Us)
Male Bonding are from Now and they are interpreting a band from Then by using musical tropes that are even thenner. And it all depends on what you want from a cover version - but if you still feel they should be radical, genre-switching interpretations or that reggae re-rubs of 80s TV theme tunes are intrinsically interesting then be off, there's nothing for you here. For me, what Male Bonding have done, especially with their wimpy stylings, and their vocals as sung by Leo Colston; is to highlight just what a weedy band Nirvana were. And how very submissive they seem now, how all this calling for someone to 'beat it out of me' sounds not like primal rage but sheer, furtive, hand-wrung masochism. A drug-ruined, whirlwind blonde; feeling impossible shoes imprint your spine, it's all the same, you know.
NotSensibles - 'I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher' (Reissue 7" on Not Sensibles)
I include this to remind you of the olden days of yore, when it was possible to be in a band precisely for the purpose of making inane songs. And because a far more interesting question than 'Why is no one making political records anymore?' [SHUT UP OLD PEOPLE] is 'Why is no one making silly ones?'. It's almost as if embarrassment were the final pariah-making taboo; no hotter shame than a failed punchline hanging in the air like stale beef fart. And I don't mean to pointlessly bash hipsterdom when I say that they appear to be a group of people for whom nothing is worse than Getting It Wrong - it is a lifestyle formulated by twelve year-olds in which every life occurence can turn on a sixpence and see you doing P.E. in your pants. So it's nice to hear a political record from a time when being a bit of a daft apeth wasn't seen as ohmygod, so mortifying.
Virals - 'Magic Happens' (SexBeat)
Virals are dopey and half-asleep, they just want you to hear their happy jangle and for no squares to make them do anything that might make them cry, like go to the gym. They are wearing their favourite The Box Tops t-shirt and oh man, they are dying for you to ask them where they got it but you must not, even if secretly you really like it and are well impressed. I'd be lying if I said I'd never worn or adopted a thing for precisely the same reason and besides, 'Magic Happens' is entirely successful and not a little fun. But it is lacking in ambition to the point that it will check to see if it loses any benefits before it agrees to anything.
Youngman - 'Who Knows?' (Digital Soundboy)
What I like about modern pop music is that it can turn everything into a cause for beatific, transportive, arms-aloft experience. I mean, Bruno Mars can write a paean to clinical depression and everybody just claps; I wonder if one day we will find him on a buried cable channel, eyes bloodshot, angrily complaining how nobody saw the signs when they were RIGHT THERE. In any event, here is Youngman, and he and his chipmunk chorusline don't know where the love goes, so I think what he's saying is that he doesn't love you anymore SHIT WAIT WAS THAT A SPACESHIP DOESN'T MATTER PUT YOUR ARMS UP. I can see myself stood on the dancefloor saying, 'No, I don't know either, Youngman, but are you alright?,' and then I will get distracted by all his shiny and feel almost sorry for him. Until I turn around and he's flipping well fucked off.
Also out this Week!
Sic Alps - 'Vedley' (Drag City)
Holy State - 'Dial 'M' For Monolith' (Brew Records)
Therapy? - 'Living In The Shadow Of The Terrible Thing'
Clock Opera - 'Once And For All' (Island)
M.I.A. - 'Bad Girls' (XL)
TV Casualty - 'TV Casualty' (Matador)
Late Night Fiction - 'Exits Pursued By A Bear' (Late Night Fiction)
Talk To Angels - 'Hickory Dickory' (Warp Speed Carousel Recordings)
Last Harbour - 'Never' (Little Red Rabbit Records)
Twin Sister - 'Kimmi In A Rice Field' / 'Bad Street' (Remix 12" on Domino)
Piney Gir - 'Outta Sight' (Damaged Goods)
Hoodlums - 'Dark Horses' (Blow The Whistle Recordings)
Capital Sun - 'Forgotten Songs'
Cut Yourself In Half - 'Say Goodbye To The World' (New Heavy Sounds)
Feeder - 'Borders' (Big Teeth Music)
Wendy is on Twitter, here.


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More information is available about our degrees
The B.A. in Music is designed for students who want to major in music while receiving a broad, liberal arts education. B.A. students will select a cognate (12 credits) or minor area (18 credits) outside the School of Music to prepare for a variety of careers that may be interdisciplinary in nature.
Students must satisfy all general education requirements as specified in the chosen degree. These requirements are designed to give students broad experience in liberal arts and sciences and opportunities to develop intellectual skills in analysis and evaluation, as well as competence in written and oral communication. These requirements vary somewhat between the bachelor of arts and the bachelor of music degrees.
If you'd like to get started, please contact the admissions team by completing the online interest form.
Bachelor of Arts - 121 hours total
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He voiced his frustration to fellow EU leaders at the latest such summit in Brussels on Wednesday night, arguing for a once-and-for-all sweeping change of policy priorities to deliver growth across Europe - but without giving up on tough austerity measures.
The talks ended after more than a six hours with declarations of renewed pledges on austerity coupled with growth and a repeat pledge to do everything to keep Greece in the eurozone - as long as the country keeps its agreement to impose strict austerity measures in return for continued bailouts.
One EU official commented: "You could not expect any decisions that can resolve this crisis overnight. We have been holding talks on the key issues - jobs and growth but we are not today saying much different from what we were saying at the G8 summit in America."
Earlier, Mr Cameron emphasised that Greece had to stick to its debt and deficit reduction commitments in return for bailouts - but other countries facing difficulties should be given more central support and longer deadlines to meet austerity goals.
The Prime Minister said every EU summit since he took office - 18 in all - had been about the crisis...bailouts, new financial mechanisms, new eurozone economic rules and recently a new "fiscal pact". But now EU leaders had to address the "real issues" behind the euro crisis, he said.
He called for a range of growth-producing policies, with support for energy and transport and digital market strategies - all of which would deliver jobs and revitalise economies. The EU single market needed reinforcing and completing, to boost trade across Europe. "There needs to be decisive action soon that delivers a lasting resolution to this crisis" Mr Cameron insisted.
The Prime Minister - criticised for dictating to the eurozone, justified his remarks by pointing out that the UK was directly affected by eurozone problems - six times more exposed, he said, than the US. "It is right that we set out our views," he said. He warned that the rest of Europe needed to be ready for whatever verdict the Greek people delivered at the re-run election on June 17.
As he left the summit in the early hours, Mr Cameron commented: "It was a good meeting in that there was complete agreement that dealing with deficits and getting growth are not alternatives, they go together, you need to do one in order to get the other. There was also good agreement that we need to make Europe more competitive, we need to complete the single market, we need to do those structural reforms."
He added: "Then there were good innovative ideas that can help growth in Europe, but frankly there were some bad ideas too: a financial transactions tax is a bad idea, it will put up the cost of people's insurance, put up the cost of people's pensions, it would cost many many jobs, and it would make Europe less competitive and I'll fight it all the way."


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To me, ice cream and the sea go together like peanut butter and jelly. So it was no surprise to me that I found the best ice cream in France's sparkling seaside city of Nice.
The vibrant, generous girl behind the counter at Fenocchio in Le Vieux Nice (the Old Town) began telling me about the ice cream she sold. "Most people don't have fun with ice cream; don't try new things," she said. What enthralled me most about Fenocchio was not some of the outlandish flavors freezing under the glass counter, like beer ice cream, but rather the extremely indigenous flavors to the South of France: rosemary, thyme, lavender, tomato-basil, vanilla and pink peppercorn, black olive, lemon verbena. They even had Calisson and Tourte de Blette; the first is a traditional almond-based cookie, the second a sweet cabbage tart topped with golden raisins and pine nuts.
The black olive ice cream was delicious. It reminded me of the olive oil gelato I've seen so often in the States lately, and had the taste contrast that makes salted caramel such a treat. I was shocked—and I was sold. Next I tried lavender—the ice cream lent a silkiness to the peppery, floral smokiness found in dried lavender blossoms. The verbena flavor reminded me of green tea ice cream, not only because verveine is such a common ingredient in French tisane, but because it also had that earthiness that cuts through the sweetness of the ice cream. And poppy was pink, pretty, and punchy—it would have been my favorite when I was a child. As it was, I walked away with a cone of my favorite flavor, one that I write about often and that I have happily found absolutely everywhere in the South of France: Fleur d'Oranger, or orange blossom.
The sorbets are no less impressive, mostly because—as the girl behind the counter told me—there is no compromise. All the fruits are sourced locally, and if they are not available and up to standard then a flavor goes unmade. "We are still waiting on watermelon," she told me. Sure enough, pasteque (watermelon) was not in the case, but we did try fig, and I have seen fig trees clinging to cliffs all over the region. Thyme was one of our favorites—fresh, clean, almost sparkling.
Of course, Fenocchio sells regular flavors as well, but when you're confronted with tomato-basil, vanilla-pink peppercorn, and rosemary, it's time to step out of your comfort zone, and, according to the salesgirl, have a little fun with ice cream.
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CHICAGO -- Jim Leyland had his own problems Monday night, so he didn't have time to see the highlights of the back-and-forth between Yankees manager Joe Girardi and Orioles skipper Buck Showalter. He looked it up online Tuesday morning.
"I guess that got pretty ugly," Leyland said. "It's that time of year for umpires, managers, coaches, players."
It came a couple weeks after Leyland quietly suggested on his pregame radio segment that the A's might have been getting signs when they came to Detroit, sometimes without a runner on second base. He didn't go into that situation again specifically on Tuesday, but he referenced some suspicions he's had in some situations over the course of the season.
"I have strong views on that," Leyland said. "I think if a man at second base gets the signs and relays it to the hitter, I think shame on us. I think if the third-base coach can steal signs from the catcher, shame on us. If they're doing it by some way of electronic camera equipment or something, shame on them. If we can't come up with a set of signs that's good enough for them not to get it at second base, shame on us.
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With the economy being what it is, it is no wonder that many people are starting to question whether it will ever return to its former glory. In the history of mankind, an economic downturn has never lasted as long as it has in recent years. It all started in 2008, when the sub prime housing catastrophe started hitting the mainstream media. And the economy wasn't even doing very well in the years prior to 2008. Why is the recent economic downturn taking so long to recover?
There are many things to factor in. But the most important one has to be, beyond the shadow of any doubt, technology. As long as there has been an economy, it was always technology that has led to bubbles, which sadly always tend to implode. The most recent technology bubble the world has experienced is the IT boom in the nineties. Back in those days, every guy that had read a "How To Build Websites For Dummies" book was able to get a job building websites.
Everything was possible. The sky was the limit. The economic upturn knew no boundaries. Surely, this would just go on and on forever. Or would it? As it turns out, people often have an inflated expectation of the limits of any given contemporary technology. In the case of the IT boom, it was assumed by many budding IT companies that it was possible to create endless supplies of cheaply created software and sell it at extremely high prices. As it turns out, the demand for cheap software had its limit after all.
Many shattered illusions later, the world economy has seen other revolutionary technological advancements. The epitome of this advancement is definitely the rise of the smartphone and the tablet. Who in the year 2000 would ever have thought that by the year 2010 we'd have mobile gadgets that seemed to come straight from an episode of Star Trek? The mobile device revolution has opened up a whole new world for both gadget manufacturers as well as software developers worldwide.
And while mobile gadgets have certainly contributed to the growth of the Internet and also the quality of life, there is one thing that they haven't contributed to… the number of jobs available! And if there is anything that counts when it comes to getting the economy going again, it is jobs. Many media outlets are speaking of a jobless recovery. And every single time that the jobless recovery is mentioned, another thing is mentioned as well… robotics.
It was at the beginning of 2011 that Google came up with the world's first self driving car which, at the time of writing, already has a registered 300,000 miles driven without accident. Then there is IBM's Watson computer, also introduced at the beginning of 2011. Watson was able to beat Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings in a competition of answering knowledge questions. These accomplishments in artificial intelligence and robotics have quite the transformative impact on the world's economy.
Take Google's autonomous car, for instance. It has the potential to replace many, many jobs. Taxi drivers, truck drivers, limousine drivers and more. It is estimated that a total of 10% of all jobs in the USA are related to transport. Can Google's autonomous car wipe out 10% of all jobs in the coming few years?
What about Watson? Watson has recently been fed many decades worth of cancer diagnostics and is now able to come up with cancer treatment plans based on a patient's diagnosis. Doctors are saying that Watson's proposed treatment plans are better than the ones they themselves can come up with. Watson is essentially a knowledge dispensing machine. How many percent of all jobs have something to do with the dispensing of knowledge? Next to medical workers, I imagine lawyers would also be at risk of losing their jobs because of this technology.
Currently, Amazon and many other companies, have replaced their warehouse staff with robots. Robots are cheaper than human staff and work all day long without complaint. They are more efficient at their jobs. Because of these warehouse robots, big companies are making more money than ever… with fewer personnel.
Is there no hope, then, for the common people? Is technology destined to increase the ever widening gap between the rich and the poor even more?
No, not by a long shot.
Technology has always increased the quality of life for everybody. The economic crisis of the 1930s robbed many people of their homes. But that was because people in those days didn't own a lot more than just their house and some basic furniture. These days, everybody owns a car, a computer, multiple mobile devices, a television and whatnot. A financial crisis in the 21st century means having to give up a lot of luxuries. But not necessarily the house.
Sure, people have lost their houses in the recent financial crisis. But not nearly as many lost their house in recent years as in the 1930s.
Technology is poised to keep increasing the quality of life. And just as the financial crisis of current times isn't nearly as bad as the crisis in the 1930, so too will a financial crisis of 2030 not be nearly as bad as the current one.
And while it is true that technology keeps on replacing human jobs as automation continues, it is also true that technology makes life cheaper. When new technology is first released, it is expensive. As new technology ages and is replaced by yet newer technology, the price comes down. This is the reason why you can buy a more powerful smartphone every year for the exact same $500.
A good example of a technology that can lower the price of living, is solar power. Solar power is said to reach 'grid parity' (read: just as cheap as conventional energy sources) in the USA this year, 2013. Solar power has already reached grid parity in Spain in December 2012. Other countries in both Europe as well as the USA will surely follow.
There are many more advances possible when it comes to solar technology. Solar power has the potential to become extremely cheap. Battery technology is improving as well. Better battery technology makes it easier to store solar power. Solar power that is cheap and easy to store, will eventually attract the attention of power supply companies worldwide. They will switch from convential energy sources to solar power. Competition will drive prices down.
Energy prices worldwide have the potential to come plummeting down in the next decade or two. Lower energy prices translates to a lower cost of living. A lower cost of living will restore purchasing power to the people. Greater purchasing power will cause consumers to spend more money. Consumers spending more money, in turn, leads to a better economy.
While things may seem bad at the moment, rest assured that the economy is still moving from upturn to downturn to upturn, ad infinitum. There will be better times. And they might arrive here sooner than you think!


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Kevin Costner selling land in South Dakota
Hollywood actor Kevin Costner is asking $14 million for 1,000 acres of land he owns near the Old West gambling town of Deadwood in western South Dakota's Black Hills.
The property includes the site of the ill-fated Dunbar casino resort, a $100 million project that would have included a golf course and a steam-powered passenger train. It never materialized.
The listing does not include Costner's Midnight Star casino and restaurant, the tallest building on Deadwood's Main Street, or the $6 million visitor attraction he owns on the town's north edge called Tatanka: Story of the Bison.
Costner filmed much of his Academy Award-wining movie "Dances with Wolves" in South Dakota.
"He has a strong sense of loyalty to the area and it was a hard decision for him," real estate agent Mike Percevich said, adding that it took months for Costner to make up his mind.
There are separate listings for three pieces of property, with asking prices of $7.4 million, $1.2 million and $5.4 million.
The $7.4 million listing includes the property that at one time was being prepared for the resort. Completed work includes land leveling, parking lots, and water, sewer, and storm drains.
"The ground has been prepared for a resort, which was to be called the Dunbar," Percevich said. "Everything's done up there. They were just getting ready to start setting the foundation and it stopped.
"The kind of money and time that has gone into this is unprecedented," Percevich said. "It's a shame for them, but a definite benefit for the next guy."
Costner and his brother Dan proposed the construction of the 320-room resort in 1993, shortly after the release of "Dances With Wolves." It was named for Costner's movie character, Lt. John J. Dunbar. The brothers sunk several million dollars into the project before stopping construction when they could not find enough investors.
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Typically, emergency room doctors do everything they can to save lives. But 56-year-old Kristen Howard nearly did the opposite. Although she was named doctor of the year at a Massachusetts hospital in 2009, she nearly killed a 78-year old man Friday when she T-boned his car.
Police said that Howard was drunk and had drugs in her system when they arrested her. Still wearing her hospital scrubs when the crash occurred, she had just run into a fence — twice — and a van in a Whole Foods parking lot before barreling across a busy roadway and slamming into Paul McDonald's car.
You can see the video here.
McDonald suffered broken ribs and bruising, but is, thankfully, alive and well. Howard was uninjured, but was taken off Newton-Wellesley Hospital's roster of ER docs while an investigation is underway.
If the charges stick, I can't imagine Howard will get her job back. That acrobatic car stunt she managed to pull off was a pretty good indication that she might have been absolutely hammered. The last thing anyone needs is an ER doctor who creates ER patients in her off time. It kind of defeats the purpose of trying to help people.
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"Nintendo should make a Pokémon MMO" is usually the suggestion people like to default to when coming up with ideas for what Nintendo should do with the Pokémon franchise. But, to me at least, that's not nearly as awesome of an an idea as a potential Pokémon x Animal Crossing game is.
Think about it! Heck, let me save you the trouble of having to imagine what this might look like, because DeviantART artist Turtle-Arts has already drawn up some Pokevillagers:
I'd play the heck out of that. And think about it: there are hundreds of Pokémon; there are no shortage of villagers one could make from Pokémon designs.
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In addition to 22 new Superior Court judges, the state Senate voted to grant tenure during the recent lame-duck session to five sitting judges nominated for lifetime terms by then-Gov. Jon Corzine although their renominations weren't due until months into Gov. Chris Christie's term.
The five were William Daniel of Linden, Garry Furnari of Nutley, Stephen Holden of Merchantville, Thomas Manahan of Scotch Plains, Lourdes Santiago of Jersey City. All but Manahan are Democrats.
Their judicial terms were due to expire between March 31st and May 9th of 2010. The lame-duck tenured judge whose reappointment had the longest time to wait was Furnari, a former Democratic state senator.
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Hot and humid air poised just to our west invades over the next 24 hours. We'll stay sunny today on light southeast winds. Temperatures will climb to 77 along the lake and reach the low to mid 80s for Waukesha. Lows tonight hold in the low 60s on light south winds.
We'll watch the warm front timing for tomorrow. It's likely coming through sometime between noon and 4pm. The warm front will provide the focus for thunderstorms developing tomorrow. Some storms may have locally heavy rain and gusty winds. Highs make the mid 80s tomorrow. We'll keep storm chances in place Friday night into Saturday morning.
The weekend calls for hazy, hot and humid weather with highs in the upper 80s to 90. Chances for rain and storms stay in place. The difficulty will be in the timing and placement of the scattered storms. It's nearly impossible this far in advance, so stay with WeatherWatch 12 and we'll do our best to time the weekend storms.
Our June heat wave is a long one. Highs between 85 and 90 persist through Wednesday.
Send us your summertime fun photos. Ulocal on wisn.com, my twitter page @seversonsally or our Wisconsin Weather Updates Facebook page.


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