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Guests: Hampton Pearson, Joan Walsh, David Corn, Michael Smerconish, Joe Williams, P.J. Crowley, Paul Eaton, John Lewis, Sam Stein
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Lumped with Trump.
Let`s play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I`m Chris Matthews back in Philadelphia. Let me start
with that honeymoon going on out in Las Vegas. What has Donald Trump got
on Mitt Romney? Is it fear? Is the Republican nominee for president
afraid of what an unleashed Trump might say about him? Is he afraid to
tell Trump to drop the crap he`s been throwing, afraid he might start
slinging it at him?
Well, this is about political character. George F. Will and now Mark
McKinnon represent a growing group of Republicans grown-ups out there
demanding that Romney show some independence from Trump and leave Trump to
sit in his playpen blowing his little noisemakers all alone.
David Corn and Joan Walsh are here to tell us what the Romney motive
could possibly be. Is the Donald on the short list for VP? Does he think
Romney`s got something there with this birther stuff? Will he be in his
kitchen cabinet if he`s elected? What?
Let`s go -- let`s bring in right now Joan Walsh. And I want to --
first of all, fellows, I want you to watch this thing. Republican
strategist Mark McKinnon told "The New York Times today, quote -- and he
said it so well -- "I think who Romney stands with says a lot about what
he`ll stand for. Associating with Trump seems to only reinforce the
narrative on Romney that team Romney wants to -- team Obama wants to push,
which is that Romney is an out-of-touch rich guy without any real core,
which means he`ll associate with anyone if he thinks it will further his
ambition." That`s Mark McKinnon.
Joan Walsh, your thinking? Is it along those lines?
JOAN WALSH, SALON.COM, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes, it is, very much
so, Chris. I mean, you know, he`s been called a perfectly lubricated
weathervane by our friend Jon Huntsman, his friend.
But I think it goes even farther than that. I think it`s very
cowardly not to distance himself from Donald Trump. I think that, you
know, it`s a sign he wants to leave no wingnut behind. He doesn`t feel
that the base loves him enough, that he can just count on turning them out
in November. They`ve been a little bit tepid. And so he wants to rely on
the Trump magic and the Trump name.
And I think, you know, after yesterday -- I will never forget the
sight of Mitt Romney deplaning next to the big Trump sign behind him, like
a wholly owned subsidiary. So it`s cowardly, but it also really brings in
this birther nonsense. No matter what they try to say, he validates
Trump`s birther nonsense and keeps it part of the conversation. Trump is
loving every minute of it. And Romney needs to...
MATTHEWS: Of course he is.
WALSH: ... stand up to him, but won`t.
MATTHEWS: He`s calling the -- he`s the piper. He`s the piper.
WALSH: Right. He absolutely is.
MATTHEWS: David Corn, it seems to me that Joan`s got a point here...
DAVID CORN, "MOTHER JONES," MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes.
MATTHEWS: ... which is a real point, which is the guy wants to be the
hard right on every issue. He wants to be with the neocon hawks on foreign
policy. He wants to be With Grover Norquist on tax policy. He wants to be
with the Liberty University crowd down with Pat Robertson crowd down in
Virginia on Christian religious issues. And on birtherism, he wants to be
seen with Trump so that nobody gets to his right on any issue.
CORN: Well, I feel like I`m Bill Murray here. Again we`re talking
about Trump and birtherism. We thought we went through this with Romney.
But you know, the point that I`ve made on this show and elsewhere,
Chris, is that Romney again and again sort of flirts with a pale version of
birtherism in which he says Barack Obama doesn`t really understand America,
doesn`t think America is unique, doesn`t think it`s special, which is his
way of saying Obama`s not really a true American. He`s not one of us.
MATTHEWS: Right.
CORN: So it`s -- so you know, he plays footsie with that notion that
birtherism is supposed to advance, that Obama is not truly American.
And I can`t think of a better contrast. Yesterday, the president of
the United States -- who was he hanging out with? John Glenn, Toni
Morrison, John Doer (ph), a great Civil Rights, you know, hero...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
CORN: ... Pat Summit (ph), the basketball coach. And what was Mitt
Romney doing? Hanging out Trump. And I think Joan was right, that visual
of the big Trump airplane, you almost expect Mitt Romney to put Trump on
the White House, should he win. I mean, it`s kind of ridiculous!
MATTHEWS: You know, you`re so right. And another -- another pearl of
wisdom there -- I mean, really, I mean it -- the fact that Trump is sort of
the godfather of birtherism now. But he has now Romney as one of his
acolytes out there saying that -- basically, what he`s saying, guys, is
he`s saying that President Obama is basically an anchor baby, somebody
who`d be technically born here under the 14th Amendment and therefore
deserves citizenship, but really isn`t one of us.
Here`s Chuck Todd, by the way, asking Mitt Romney`s campaign
spokesperson, Andrea Saul (ph), today about Donald Trump overshadowing what
otherwise was supposed to be a big day for Romney, when yesterday...
WALSH: Right.
MATTHEWS: ... he wrapped up the nomination by winning in Texas.
Let`s watch.
CHUCK TODD, NBC WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT/POLITICAL DIR.: Any regrets
by the campaign of spending the day that you clinched the nomination with
Donald Trump?
ANDREA SAUL, ROMNEY CAMPAIGN PRESS SECRETARY: Well, Donald Trump is a
supporter. You know, Governor Romney`s made it clear that they disagree on
some issues.
Governor Romney has said that he believes the president was born in
the United States. He said it repeatedly. He said that he thinks the
issue is closed.
MATTHEWS: Well, you know, then let`s take a look at Romney on Monday,
what he said, because I think what he said himself is far more informative
than what his spokesperson said there. Let`s look at what he said on
Monday of this week about the 50.1 percent, which is really the name of the
game for him.
MITT ROMNEY (R-MA), FMR. GOV., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I don`t agree
with all the people who support me. My guess is they don`t all agree with
everything I believe in. But I need to get 50.1 percent or more, and I`m
appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people.
MATTHEWS: And here is his other spokesperson, Donald Trump, tweeting
today. What a perfect method of communication for him. "I want to see
Barack Obama`s college records now"...
WALSH: Oh!
MATTHEWS: ... "to see how he listed his place of birth in the
application." In fact, yesterday Trump was interviewed by just about every
cable network out there with a working telephone. Let`s listen to him go
at it again.
DONALD TRUMP, TRUMP ORGANIZATION (via telephone): A lot of people are
questioning his birth certificate. They`re questioning the authenticity of
his birth certificate. There are many people that don`t agree with that
birth certificate. They don`t think it`s authentic, Wolf.
WOLF BLITZER, HOST, CNN`S "THE SITUATION ROOM": I don`t know, when
you say "many people" who don`t agree...
TRUMP: Many people.
BLITZER: Like who?
TRUMP: There are many people.
BLITZER: Give me a -- give me a name of somebody...
TRUMP: There are many people...
BLITZER: ... in a position of authority in Hawaii...
TRUMP: ... that do not believe...
BLITZER: ... who says -- well, give me name.
TRUMP: There are many people -- I don`t give names. There`s a lot of
questions as to the authenticity of the birth certificate. So you can
believe it or you don`t have to believe it. But certainly, there are many,
many questions. I actually think it`s a great issue for Mitt Romney.
MATTHEWS: Well you know, I don`t know what to say there. I mean, Joan,
this is literal McCarthyism -- I don`t give names, I just say there are a
lot of names out there.
WALSH: Right.
MATTHEWS: You know, the idea that some guy in the street is yelling
across the street at him on 5th Avenue, Stay at it, Donald, because some
nutcase is yelling at him. That`s enough of an authority. So in other
words, here`s Donald Trump citing as his authority these characters yelling
across the street at him...
WALSH: Some lunatic.
MATTHEWS: ... who don`t know anything about anything, except they`re
sort of a derivative of "The New York Post," or worse...
WALSH: Well, this is...
MATTHEWS: ... if that`s possible.
WALSH: This is actually what -- this is what Mitt Romney is bringing
into the political mainstream, Chris. I mean, there`s no -- there`s no way
that he gets off without having to defend it. He can say he`s distancing
himself, but he has installed this carnival barker as one of his
surrogates. And he -- you know, he`s got a microphone.
Now, look, Trump always had a microphone, but this is giving him a
bigger one. And honestly, I thought that Trumpism was dying away after the
president humiliated him at the White House correspondents dinner and also
released his birth certificate.
But Mitt Romney went up to New York to kiss the ring a few months ago,
thinking, I need that guy. I need the birthers. I need the crazies
because the base doesn`t love me. So he already brought him back in, and
now by standing with him...
MATTHEWS: Yes, I think you got a point.
CORN: And the thing -- the thing is...
MATTHEWS: ... you have a point here, guys.
CORN: The thing -- the thing...
MATTHEWS: David, I think what`s going on here is this is nuts. Just
a few months ago, as you pointed out, Joan, he went sneaking up to see him
in New York. He snuck in the back, made sure no pictures were taken...
CORN: Right.
WALSH: Right.
MATTHEWS: ... of the two of them together. This time around, they`re
acting like a honeymoon couple. I mean, this time around, they`re
embracing each other. They`re having photo ops.
WALSH: Las Vegas...
MATTHEWS: I think you`ve got something...
MATTHEWS: And he wants to be as far right as you can get in the
Republican Party on this issue of birtherism.
CORN: And he -- and he...
CORN: And of course, he let Trump throw a birthday party fund-raiser
for his wife a few weeks ago.
WALSH: Right.
CORN: You know, the big issue here is -- take a step back. Can any
of us think of any moment in time when Mitt Romney showed any guts, did
anything, you know, that showed a spine? What happened with Ted Nugent?
Nothing. What happened when that woman said that Barack Obama should be
put on trial for treason? Nothing again.
I mean, he just -- you know, in his whole career, was there a point
when he stood up and did something difficult, distanced himself from an
ally, took a stand that might not be popular...
MATTHEWS: Well, let`s go to his motive here...
MATTHEWS: Maybe his motive is not to be courageous. Maybe he doesn`t
want to be like John McCain was back last time around, when the issue of
ethnicity came up and playing the Reverend Wright number. But maybe he
wants to be a seen as a guy who does go down with the right as far as he
can go. Maybe he want us to be doing what we`re doing now, saying he`s so
far right, he`s hanging out with the birthers. Maybe that makes him
beloved by the birthers. Isn`t that his...
MATTHEWS: ... significant slice?
CORN: He knows -- he knows that the name of the game for the next
five months is convincing the independents, who he alienated by making love
to conservatives, or trying to, during primaries and try to bring them
aboard and once again act like that moderate, reasonable Massachusetts
governor that he once was. And so...
MATTHEWS: But the independents aren`t necessarily moderates.
CORN: No, I`m not saying they`re moderates...
MATTHEWS: ... moderates. There are a lot of Perot-ites out there in
the middle.
CORN: Well, no, I`m not saying...
WALSH: Right.
CORN: Well, I`m not -- but I mean, they like a moderate temperament.
They don`t want somebody out there who is "severely conservative" or more
or less hanging out with a kookball (ph), which is what this is -- the only
thing this is demonstrating.
So one theory I have is that he made a promise to Donald Trump to do
something with him when he got that endorsement in February, when he
thought he needed it, and the campaign thought best to do it sooner...
MATTHEWS: I think he`s hanging out...
WALSH: Get it out of the way.
MATTHEWS: ... with this right-wing crowd because a lot of the people
in the middle, the so-called undecided -- but just think about who would be
undecided at this point in this election, somebody who`s not really paying
that much attention, somebody who`s...
WALSH: Well...
MATTHEWS: ... Joan, who`s turned off to everything that`s going on,
who`s so alienated, they probably buy this birther crap.
WALSH: He thinks he`s having his profile in...
MATTHEWS: Don`t you think?
WALSH: ... in courage by standing up -- he thinks he`s having a
profile in courage by standing up to his critics from the left. I mean,
John Harwood said this to Rachel last night, I`m not going to bow to MSNBC,
and distance himself from Trump. So that`s his idea of courage, rather
than a real moral moment.
CORN: You know, I don`t think...
MATTHEWS: I think he likes it over there.
CORN: Well, he -- well, he must.
MATTHEWS: Just remember his father was being -- his father -- we went
all through this earlier this week or last week. His father got beaten
because he was too moderate...
CORN: His father is gutsy. You remember his father -- his father...
WALSH: Right.
MATTHEWS: ... walked out of the GOP convention in `64 to protest
Barry Goldwater`s opposition to Civil Rights. I mean, his father was a
profile in political courage for several times.
WALSH: Yes.
CORN: And yet we see nothing like that coming from Mitt Romney. So
he may have inherited the hair, but not the spine.
MATTHEWS: I`ll tell you, it`s just like W. The old man showed
moderation, the old man tried to balance the budget. He didn`t listen to
the right wing. The son became the biggest hawk in the world. The son
became the Grover Norquist type in the world. The son learns one lesson,
how not do win. They don`t learn the values of the father. They learn the
father lost. So their position seems to be...
WALSH: Right.
MATTHEWS: ... guys, that, I don`t want to learn my old man`s values.
His values cost him an election. I want to win.
WALSH: Right.
MATTHEWS: I want to beat Daddy.
CORN: I don`t want to...
MATTHEWS: ... on our hands here. I think we got another one on our
CORN: That may be -- that may be...
MATTHEWS: ... another character. It`s very Oedipal. Anyway, thank
you, David Corn. Thank you, Joan Walsh.
Coming up: Now that he`s clinched the nomination -- he did it
yesterday in Texas -- what are the three biggest things Romney ought to be
afraid of in this presidential campaign? We`re trying to narrow it down.
We got some smart people. Does he -- by the way, does this guy have any
interest in foreign policy besides pretending he`s some kind of hawk? He`s
hitting President Obama on Syria, but he doesn`t actually have a position
of his own. He`s just another neocon mouthpiece.
Plus, what do Democrats have to deal with these Republican-sponsored
voter ID cards? What are they going to do, the Democratic street
politicians, to make sure the people in the row houses get to vote this
time? John Louis (ph) is coming here, a great man to talk about it.
"Let Me Finish" tonight, by the way, with my special plea that no
legitimate voter in this country is denied a ballot this November. I fear
what it be like -- what it will be like in this country if this election`s
decided by people being kept from the voting booth.
This is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Want to see where presidential race is really being fought
right now? Well, check out this week`s top advertising markets in the
presidential campaign. At number 5, it`s Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.
At number 4, Columbus, Ohio. Number 3, Greensboro, North Carolina. And
number two, Roanoke-Lynchburg, very good. And the market with the most ads
in the presidential campaign this week, political ads, Norfolk -- Norfolk,
There you have it, the cities where the most ad money`s being spent
right now, and all those five markets are in states that Mitt Romney must
win. They`re traditionally red states. And that`s very good news right
now, at least, for team Obama.
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. Yesterday, we brought you the
top three things the Obama campaign should worry about between now and
November. Well, today it`s Romney`s turn. Here to break down what the
Romney team should be worried about are radio talk show host and MSNBC
political analyst Michael Smerconish and the HuffingtonPost`s senior
politics editor, Sam Stein.
Gentlemen, let`s take a look at this. An economic boomlet is top of
the list of things the Romney campaign should be concerned about. I think
we all agree on that, Michael.
The Romney campaign is totally predicated on the economy. I can`t see him
thus far or from now through November getting traction on any other issue.
There`s kind of a turnabout going on thus far in the cycle, where foreign
policy, which is normally the strong suit of the Rs, I think is a distinct
advantage for the Ds. So Mitt Romney needs to fear an economy that`s
getting better.
MATTHEWS: OK, same question to you, Sam. A boomlet of any kind in
the third quarter is probably the worst possible news for him.
SAM STEIN, HUFFINGTON POST: Yes, I completely agree. And you`re
starting to see them prepare for such a thing to happen. On the trail
yesterday, Mitt Romney said what he said before, which is the economy is
recovering slowly despite what the president did. It`s almost like an
insurance policy for the Romney campaign to make the argument that even
Obama -- even the stimulus package didn`t have an effect on the economy.
But Michael`s right. If the jobs numbers improve from where they are
right now, if the economy gets better, I think Mitt Romney is out of a
premise for candidacy, and that`s really, you know, the worst thing that
could happen for him.
MATTHEWS: Well, let`s talk about something else that developed here.
It`s -- I think it`s your thinking here, Sam. Let me ask you about this
one. A bad Romney story out there, dug up by good enterprise reporting --
you argue that, basically, Romney`s background hasn`t been vetted like
Obama`s has. There`s an opportunity out there for good investigative
If something`s going to pop, it`s probably going to pop for Romney,
but we don`t know if there`s anything there yet, right?
STEIN: Correct. Yes, and you know, this is just part of the process
of general election campaigning. Obama`s been through it and Romney
hasn`t. I know there`s a theory out there that Obama hasn`t really been
vetted, but if you think back to 2008, there were so many stories written
about his background, his childhood, his time at Harvard, his time in the
Senate, that you know, anything that`s new will come out from his
administration records.
Whereas with Mitt Romney, you know, the narrative is basically
confined to his run for governor and his failed presidential bid in 2008.
The stories that we see so far involve his time at prep school, about his
Mormon faith. There`s going to be more of that simply by the fact that
journalists in D.C. haven`t had the chance to pour over these records and
are all going to be running and competing with one another for the next big
Romney story.
So you know, his campaign has to be cognizant of the fact that they`re
going to be under more scrutiny, I think, from now until November than the
president will be.
MATTHEWS: Let`s take a look at this possibility of another big
foreign policy success story. Michael Smerconish, my friend, you`ve been
very much concerned from day one after 9/11 that we`ve got to catch the bad
guys who did what they did to us on 9/11 and stay off these other
Now, here, your thought here -- a big al Qaeda kill (ph) is another
scenario that could really concern Romney because it would show the
president to be one tough customer in protecting this country. Give us
your scenario, what that might be.
SMERCONISH: Well, I think the scenario is Ayman al Zawahiri because
so many of the others have been eliminated.
And I know, Chris, you saw that "New York Times" front-page story and
discussed it yesterday.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
SMERCONISH: That was an amazing story about the kill list that the
president keeps.
So many of these names I think begin to run together for the American
people. It`s almost like who is the number two in the PLO? And it was an
interchanging directorate. But the one guy who is still out there that I
think would really resonate with the American people, bin Laden`s number
two, the now presumed number one of al Qaeda. And if we should get him
between now and November, I think that would be significant.
MATTHEWS: Let me get Sam in on that whole question.
STEIN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: I don`t know how much firepower literally foreign policy
success does have for Obama. I know it`s his best defense now. You can`t
hit him on this because he is so strong.
STEIN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: It`s good armor. Is it good firepower if he catches
another bad guy through this really kind of aggressive campaign of finding
the people and killing them?
STEIN: Sure.
Well, I would hate to disagree with the -- disagree with the great
Michael Smerconish, but I do. And the reason is because he got the big
one. He got bin Laden. It happened obviously a little more than a year
ago, but the actual political bump from doing that was fairly marginal, all
things considered.
And you look at these polling numbers about what motivates voters
going into this election, foreign policy and national security are so far
down below the list, below jobs, below deficit, that it just seems like the
American public is sort of tuned out to this whole thing.
Now, conversely, I think if there were a terrorist attack, a
successful one, that would be really problematic for this White House, even
with all the successes he`s heard to date. So I do agree with you. It is
good armor. When Mitt Romney has said that the president has been weak
abroad, all he has to do is point to bin Laden. But in terms of sort of a
proactive case to be reelected, I`m not sure what kind of legs it has.
MATTHEWS: Well, Michael, let me ask you to finish up this question,
because I have looked at -- we have looked at the fact that an economic
boom obviously in the late summer could really blow Romney out of the
Anything that blows up about his personal life or his political life
is going to be bad because he is such an open book right now -- actually a
closed book. We don`t know what is there yet in terms of his background,
like we do about Obama.
But why doesn`t the president get more credit, if you will, at the
ballot box and the polling for having got the guy that W. never seemed to
be really that interested in getting? And he got him and nailed him.
SMERCONISH: Well, I think there has been a fairly effective job done
by the president`s opponents, who want to say that the predicate was put in
place by the Bush administration.
STEIN: Yes.
SMERCONISH: And to a certain extent, that`s true. But what they
overlook is the fact that as far as back 2007, then Senator Barack Obama
was saying, look, I will go even into Pakistan if that`s what it is going
to take.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
SMERCONISH: And he was ridiculed for it by both Senator Clinton,
Senator McCain, even his now Vice President Joe Biden, who all wanted to
portray him as being naive.
So, I think he is deserving of a great deal of credit. And, look, at
a minimum, he has neutralized what is normally a trump car, no pun
intended, for the GOP...
STEIN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
SMERCONISH: ... to say, the Democratic candidate is weak.
They can`t say that about this president.
STEIN: Fair enough.
MATTHEWS: Well, you said it right up front today, Michael. And
that`s the great irony in this campaign is the Democrats, what we used to
call in the old days the mommy party, has been pretty good at the
fisticuffs, the tough foreign policy stuff Republicans were known for
through out the Cold War.
Anyway, thank you Michael Smerconish in Philadelphia, at another
location in Philly. I`m in one, you`re in the other.
And, Sam Stein, of course your great thinking coming in here.
STEIN: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Up next: Mitt Romney`s new phone app goes viral, but for
all the wrong reasons, more craziness about that crowd over there. That is
coming up in the "Sideshow," where it belongs.
This is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
JON STEWART, HOST, "THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART": You as first
lady, you have an approval rating of like 85, 90 percent. Like, it`s...
MICHELLE OBAMA, FIRST LADY: It`s not that high.
STEWART: ... through the roof. Your approval rating is like, you`re
ice cream. Your husband`s approval rating, it`s like astronaut ice cream.
M. OBAMA: He`s vegetables.
STEWART: It`s vegetables.
MATTHEWS: Well, that`s it. We`re in the "Sideshow." And that was
the first lady last night on "The Daily Show."
Well, Mitt Romney`s campaign put out a new iPhone app that lets users
upload their own personal photo with a "I`m With Mitt" banner. It went
viral, but not for the reason the Romney people were hoping for. Here is
an example from a Tumblr account.
Probably not the campaign`s favorite photo, by the way, Mitt Romney
surrounded by money. But does the word America strike you here as a bit
off? They spelled the name of our country wrong here.
And there are other more fun ones out there that have come from like
the Etch A Sketch version. That is out there now too. You can see it.
Speaking of campaign strategies gone bad, remember Christine
O`Donnell`s shining moment?
CHRISTINE O`DONNELL (R), FORMER DELAWARE SENATORIAL CANDIDATE: I`m
not a witch. I`m nothing you have heard. I`m you.
MATTHEWS: Well, "TIME" magazine`s Michael Scherer points out another
candidate out there who is going with the "I`m not a" fill in the blank.
His campaign does the same thing, Republican Joe Coors, who is running for
Congress out in Colorado.
Let`s watch.
JOE COORS (R), COLORADO CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE: Hi. Joe Coors here
running for Congress.
I know what you`re thinking. But I`m not that. I`m a manufacturer.
Here in Golden, Colorado, I helped build the largest technical ceramics
company in the world. It`s time to stop Washington`s reckless borrowing
and spending. We need to send commonsense businesspeople to Congress.
My name is Joe Coors. I am not a beer. And I approve this message.
MATTHEWS: Well, he may not be a beer, but he is a Coors. Don`t
forget it.
Finally, you think Tea Party, you think smaller government, right? So
why does Pete Hoekstra, the co-founder to the House Tea Party Caucus in the
Congress, a candidate for Senate, by the way, and a birther to boot, want
to add a new office of government in Washington? What issue? What issue
could be so crucial?
Well, Hoekstra whipped out his idea during a town hall meeting early
this month when an attendee started with the birther talk, and now that
video of that conversation has hit the Internet.
PETE HOEKSTRA (R), FORMER U.S. CONGRESSMAN: I hate to say it, but I
think the debate is over. We lost that debate and we lost that debate in
2008 when our presidential nominee said, I ain`t talking about it.
OK? I`m sorry. We would like to a three-person office in Washington,
D.C., OK, knowing it will grow to five.
But there is no reason why we should have this kind of a question.
Someone would have to walk into that office and prove that they meet the
minimum qualifications to be president of the United States.
MATTHEWS: And what would be the job requirements for these three new
public officials on that board? Wouldn`t they need to have another bureau
out there to certify them? This thing is never going to end, this
Up next: What`s the Democrats` plan to deal with those Republican
efforts to require voters to show government-issued photo I.D.s? We`re
going to get some answers from the great U.S. Congressman John Lewis. He
is coming up next.
And you`re watching HARDBALL, the place for politics.
HAMPTON PEARSON, CNBC CORRESPONDENT: I`m Hampton Pearson with your
CNBC "Market Wrap."
Worries about bond yields in Spain and Italy sink stocks. The Dow
drops 161 points. The S&P falls 19. The Nasdaq loses 33.
The selling continues in Facebook shares. The stock shed another 2
percent today to finish about $28 a share. Oil prices slumping about $3 to
close to below $88 a barrel, and pending home sales fell 5.5 percent in
April to a four-month low. Economists expected a slight gain.
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
Earlier today, Attorney General Eric Holder, while addressing
controversial state voter I.D. laws emerging across the country, took time
to honor the generations of Americans who fought for voting rights in the
first place.
Let`s watch the attorney general.
ERIC HOLDER, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: I would argue that of all the
freedoms that we enjoy today, none is more important or more sacred than
the right to vote.
Now, our efforts honor the generations who have taken extraordinary
risks and willingly confronted hatred, bias, and ignorance, as well as
billy clubs and fire hoses, bullets and bombs, to ensure that their
children and all citizens would have the chance to participate in the work
of their government.
Without those people, there would be no Eric Holder, there would be no
Barack Obama -- and we must never forget that.
MATTHEWS: Well, one of the heroes that attorney general mentioned is
my next guest, an icon of the civil rights movement, U.S. Congressman John
Lewis, Democrat of Georgia.
He has authored a great new book, "Across That Bridge: Life Lessons
and a Vision For Change."
Welcome, Congressman.
Let`s -- I want to quote something from your book. It`s about the
Voting Rights Act. It`s under attack even now in 2012, you argue -- quote
-- "That is why it is very important to remain engaged, especially when it
is aggravating the vote. The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we
have to make change in a democratic society, but one vote will not make all
the change that is necessary. Change requires patient, persistent action."
So, what -- tell me -- speak now to the young people out there, as
well as the older people. Why is this issue of voting rights and what you
achieved back in `65 important today?
REP. JOHN LEWIS (D), GEORGIA: Well, Chris, thank you so much for
having me.
I truly believe, I really do, in my heart, in my gut, that the vote is
the most powerful nonviolent tool we have in a democratic society. And we
must use it. We must use it, or we will lose it. It doesn`t matter
whether you are low-income, whether you`re middle-income or whether you`re
a billionaire. We all have one vote.
And every single vote must be counted. So it is important that people
go out, register, and vote like you never voted before. I think, Chris,
there`s a deliberate, systematic attempt to win or steal this election
before it takes place with the voter I.D., ending early voting, making it
almost impossible for young people, for students, for our seniors, for
minorities to participate, for the disabled to participate.
It`s a sin. It is obscene to tell people that it is going to be hard,
it`s going to be tough for you to cast a vote. That`s not right. It`s not
fair and it`s not just.
MATTHEWS: Mr. Lewis, I hear every word you say. And I`m worried,
worried, worried about this.
I`m going to talk about it at the end of the show. I`m up here in
Pennsylvania, which has just passed a law, it`s been signed by the
Republican governor, passed by a Republican legislature, that says you need
a government-issued photo I.D. card. If you don`t have one on Election Day
this year, and you cast a vote, all you get is a provisional vote that
doesn`t become a real vote unless you, within six days, show up with a
government-issued I.D. card, photo I.D. card.
What are people who want to have everybody vote going to be able to do
about these laws that have already been put in the books?
LEWIS: Well, I`m very worried also, Chris.
That`s why a group of my colleagues, more than 130 members of the
Democratic House, have introduced a piece of legislation. It probably will
not get passed in this Congress. But we want people to use it to organize,
to mobilize, and when we take back the majority, we will pass a voter act
that would improve the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
People cannot use an excuse of not having a voter I.D. In some
communities all across America, churches are providing people about with a
voter I.D. But a voter I.D. is almost like a poll tax. It is the form of
a literacy test, saying to people, like in the state of Texas, even a
student I.D. cannot qualify. But a gun permit I.D. will qualify.
MATTHEWS: I know.
LEWIS: That is obscene.
MATTHEWS: Well, what happens if this November we get up Wednesday
morning, Congressman, and we realize that a state like Pennsylvania has
gone for Romney, not because most people wanted Romney over Obama in
Pennsylvania, but that most people or a lot of people weren`t allowed to
vote because they live in row houses, they don`t own an automobile?
Like, my grandparents were like that. And neighborhoods that are now
African-Americans, the same row houses, these people are older. They`re
city people. They use the subway. They use mass transportation. They
don`t own cars. They don`t have driver`s licenses.
And, by the way, once you`re 75 or 85 years old, you don`t want to be
driving a car.
MATTHEWS: So the question is, how do they get voter I.D. cards with a
picture on it?
LEWIS: Well, I think, right now, not waiting until October or
November, but the Lawyers` Committee for Civil Rights, the ACLU, the NAACP
Legal Defense Fund and different voters groups must go into court and get
an injunction against these states, county government for using this form
to try to discourage people from participating.
To be able to cast a vote should be very simple, like getting a glass
of fresh water.
MATTHEWS: Yes, I agree with you. Same-day registration would be fine
with me.
Hey, thank you.
And, once again, here is your book, "Across the River" -- "Across That
Bridge." How can I say "Across the River"? "Across That Bridge," your
great history of civil rights and your involvement in it.
It`s an honor to have you on, Congressman John Lewis of Georgia.
LEWIS: Well, thank you very much.
MATTHEWS: Joe Williams, by the way, is a White House reporter for
Fill in some of the details here if you can what the congressman has
done here. What is going to be done now in reality, not in theory or moral
victories, but how are the people going to get to vote? Given all these
laws like in Georgia passed in 2007. Pennsylvania law just passed this
year that require these very onerous requirements to get to just simply
JOE WILLIAMS, POLITICO: It`s interesting because it almost seems
like when Barack Obama put his hand on the Bible in 2008 or 2009 rather,
like the `60s, all of a sudden, it evaporated. Yet, they`re going to get
some tactics from the `60s and start educating people through mass drives,
going into churches, getting pastors and parishioners to talk about this in
church and with each other, with their neighbors. As you mentioned, go
door to door, knocking on row houses to make sure everyone knows what the
law is and that everyone is prepared to meet the law when the polls open in
MATTHEWS: I actually think it could be, you know, a surprisingly
positive thing. Of course, it`s done for all the wrong reasons of course.
But if this energizes the local political organizations and the committee
people in big cities, to actually get out there and go door to door, and
really work with the voters and make sure they get to the motor vehicles
office and make sure they get that ID card, this could energize people as a
-- maybe it`s a bigger hurdle than they shouldn`t have to face under the
law. It shouldn`t be this complicated. But if they can go out there and
pass this hurdle and do this work politically at the local level, you might
be able to reenergize local politics in this country, maybe.
WILLIAMS: Well, that`s certainly might be a side effect. Whenever I
hear John Lewis talk about these sorts of thing, all I have are the images
of the Pettus Bridge back then ands the fact that that hurdle overcome then
was so much higher.
MATTHEWS: Sure.
WILLIAMS: The hurdle here is still in place. I mean, we shouldn`t
have to have a hurdle in the first place. But since it`s here, they`re
going to make sure everyone clears it and that can be energizing, sort of
catalytic effect to get people to the polls and to recognize how precious
this right is to cast a ballot in a free and fair nation, and have other
people in this nation who died for that right -- have that right be
sustained through overcoming what certainly is an adversity-filled
MATTHEWS: Do you get a sense there might be a real effort to drive
down the minority vote? Look at this effort first of all. It`s aimed at
urban areas, where people don`t own cars. Older people that live in row
houses, rely on public transportation like Cleveland, not -- Philadelphia
certainly, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, cities like that.
WILLIAMS: Right.
MATTHEWS: We have close state elections, but you have minority
communities that are bunched together in cities. And then they go after
the ministers. They go after same sex to turn to church people against the
Democrats. It does -- you do wonder about this, how this is working to try
to get down the natural or expected I should say vote -- strong vote for
the president in the black community, to be blunt about it.
WILLIAMS: Well, and it`s -- it`s hard not to see some dots and
seeing dots is hard now to connect them, because have you not only the
matter where a lot of these voting rights laws are enacted. Thirty-four
states nationwide, a lot of the more tightened ones, a lot of the stricter
ones are happening in battleground states, Pennsylvania where you are,
Ohio, Wisconsin has got a voter ID law that a lot of people are
challenging. And it looks like there`s an effort to sort of place the
thumb on the scale.
You couple that with a lot of what has been talked about with
defunding unions, those kinds laws where people aren`t getting the right to
collective bargaining. Unions do what? They register people to vote.
There`s also been a crackdown on third party organizations, League of Women
Voters, NAACP, anybody who does active voter registration drives, now has
to overcome a second hurdle and make sure that their organization is set up
strictly for social program.
So, it`s a lot of interesting things that are happening. It`s hard
not to see it when you take the big picture view here.
MATTHEWS: So well said. Thank you, Joe.
By the way, advice to people who were stuck with this kind of attack,
it may be too late to change the law. If you don`t use it, you lose it.
Up next, Mitt Romney is leading the Republican (INAUDIBLE) voice out
there attacking President Obama over Syria now. Mr. Macho Man, Mitt
Romney, the warrior he is now, I guess, listening to the neocons becoming
their tool. It`s horrible. Just like W.
This is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: The Wisconsin governor`s recall election is just six days
away now. We have new poll numbers to give you. Let`s check the HARDBALL
score barred. According to a new Marquette Law School poll out today, it`s
Republican Governor Scott Walker opening up a seven-point lead now. Walker
is up 52-45 over Democratic challenger Tom Barrett, mayor of Milwaukee.
The poll also asked Wisconsin voters about the presidential race and
it`s President Obama here with eight-point lead in the Badger State over
Mitt Romney. He is up, the president, 51-43.
I guess people are voting incumbent out there.
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: We`re back.
Amid escalating violence over there in Syria, where last week, dozens
of children were brutally killed. The United States and several other
countries have expelled Syrian diplomats in a move to pressure the Assad
regime. But back home, Mitt Romney condemned the Obama administration for
leaning on diplomacy.
In a statement issued yesterday, Romney said, quote, "President
Obama`s lack of leadership has resulted in a policy of paralysis that has
watched Assad slaughter 10,000 individuals. We should increase pressure on
Russia to cease selling arms to the Syrian government and to end its
obstruction at the United Nation. And we should work with the partners to
arm the opposition so they can defend themselves."
P.J. Crowley is a former State Department spokesman, and Major
General Paul Eaton, rather, served more than three decades in the U.S.
I want it start with Major Eaton on this matter. Is this president
simply -- rather not this president, this president wannabe, Mitt Romney.
Is he simply surround by the same people who surround W., who used their
intellectual superiority over the president in Iraq to talk him on the war
in Iraq -- are they doing the same thing to always push this candidate on
the Republican Party to be hawkish at every moment on every front?
MAJ. GEN. PAUL EATON, U.S. ARMY (RET): Chris, good to be with you.
And it certainly seems to be that way. A lot of neo cons putting out
a lot of papers that this former governor may or may not be reading. We
can`t tell.
But I`ll tell you the military is bemused consistently by people with
no military experience who wish to resort to military action as a primary
activity. I mean, Governor Romney road the war out as a missionary in
Paris. This is not a guy with serious credentials for foreign policy.
MATTHEWS: So, where does he come out with these burps of foreign
policy wisdom? Where does this need to always go to war, to arm the
rebels, to challenge Iran, to say they will not have a nuclear weapon
because I say so? Where does this -- is this all a metaphor since he has
no real tangible experience ever carrying a gun or being in a fist fight in
high school in high school?
No sense in his family history of military role, father or son,
nobody in that family has ever been involved with even ROTC, where does he
get the wherewithal to talk like he is a foreign policy hawk? Who`s
writing the script?
EATON: It is a neocon reflex to militarize foreign policy. It is a
neocon approach -- it`s a hammer and a nail. All you have is a hammer, the
whole world looks to be a nail. They refuse to pursue a diplomatic
approach which is certainly what we need to do here in Syria.
MATTHEWS: Let me go right now to P.J. Crowley, because he spoke for
the State Department so effectively I believe all these years and all those
And I`m just wondering what do we make of this guy -- he does remind
me of somebody who suddenly being scripted to talk like some kind of a
tough guy internationally. And I just wonder where it comes from. What`s
the genesis of this Mitt Romney tough guy?
P.J. CROWLEY, FORMER STATE DEPT. SPOKESMAN: Well, of course, Chris,
as you know, there`s a difference between campaigning and governing. He is
trying to create differences that may or may not exist. Most of what he
outlined the Obama administration has considered is doing or has considered
and rejected.
You know, on the subject for example of arming the opposition, well,
the Gulf states are already doing that because Syria is a proxy war, you
know, with Iran. But also, be careful what you wish for.
You know, in the context of Libya, for example, Libya is awash with
arms, and once the war has ended, now the new central government is having
a tough time reining in, you know, these armed militias that are now
challenging the authority of the new government. So, that`s a difference
between ultimately, something that sounds good in the campaign, but may not
be the best policy approach.
MATTHEWS: Well, here`s U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice who is being
talked about in some circles to be the next secretary of state, responding
to calls to arm the Syrian opposition today on "ANDREA MITCHELL REPORTS".
Let`s listen to the ambassador to the U.N.
SUSAN RICE, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N.: For those who are
advocating arming the position, they really ought to consider the
consequences of that approach. And also to ask frankly, who are they
arming inside of the Syrian opposition?
You know and we know it is not unified. It`s fragmented. They don`t
have common command and control. There are some extremist elements mixed
in there.
And we know much less about the leadership and the intentions of the
Syrian opposition than we did even of the Libyan opposition at the time.
And I want to remind you that we did not arm the Libyan opposition.
MATTHEWS: Well, there`s a sophisticated response to the Romney
argument that`s coming from the neocons.
But here is John McCain on Sunday, on FOX. Here is what he says,
knocking the president as he has been doing lately. Here is McCain.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: Horrible things are happening in
Syria. This administration has a feckless foreign policy which abandons
American leadership. The only conclusion you can draw is that this
president want dos kick the can down the road on all of these issues until
after the election. It`s really an abdication of everything that America
stands for and believes in.
MATTHEWS: General Eaton, what do you make of this back-and-forth
between ambassador to the U.N. and John McCain, who sometimes seems like
he`s bitter about everything? What`s going on here?
EATON: Chris, Senator McCain has not recovered from 2008. That
colors everything he says and does. And he is not pursuing complex nuanced
approaches to solving foreign policy problems. His answer is air strikes,
air strikes, air strikes. And he has marshaled other surrogates for
Governor Romney to have that same party line.
It`s unfortunate, and I am delighted to hear Ambassador Rice and the
subtlety with which he speaks.
MATTHEWS: Thank you so much. I agree with you, General Eaton, there
is nothing that the neocon intellectuals like more than an empty shell.
They found it in Dan Quayle. That they use very effectively. They found
in W., vacant attitude of foreign policy experience at all and they use
these guys to be super hawks, this new candidate for super hawk. They`re
going to feed him. They`re going to script him. And you won`t even know
where he came from because he`s going to be created in the months ahead by
the neocons.
Anyway, thank you, P.J. Crowley. And thank you, Major General Paul
When we return, "Let Me Finish" with my special plea that no
legitimate voter this fall is denied the right to vote.
You`re watching HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with my special plea that no
legitimate voter will be denied a ballot this November.
If this election turns out to be close and it may well be close, do
we want to wake up Wednesday morning with a president selected not because
he got the most votes, but because enough voters were kept from casting a
We had the screw up in Florida many years ago and the intervention by
the Supreme Court that put W. into office. So, with all over 500,000 votes
short of Al Gore`s total.
We`ve had Citizens United allowing billionaires to have unlimited
sway in what we see and hear about candidates at election time. Does
either side want an election decided by the inability of lifelong voters to
have their say, to have their vote that mattered, to have their ballots
I don`t doubt some people would sit and chortle with their friends at
how much fun it would be the grab the presidency by grabbing away some old
person`s ability to vote to send them back to their row houses, hurt and
humiliated, having been told they are not legitimate voters, they`re not to
play a rule in what is for them a historic election. It would be an
assault on our democracy -- worse than Watergate, worse that the electoral
dumb show that led to W. taking office. It will show you a real Citizens
United. There will be a rebellion in the streets if this election is
decided by an outrageous, in-your-face denial of the most basic freedom,
the right to choose our country`s leader.
And that`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
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This week has been a bit of a whirlwind, but despite what you might have read, DiS/I didn't sue anyone. Not yet anyway. Not that I could afford to (it really would be nice to have enough money to finish off our forever forthcoming new website...send unmarked notes to the usual address, yeah?).
Let me start this again... This week I have been listening to a lot of music. In fact, just yesterday I heard 34 new bands, and boy oh boy are things bad out there. I mean, this was just a few hours worth of emails from PR people that I usually ignore, and I thought what the hell, open up some tabs, bash play, see what comes of it. Surely these people haven't just taken some poor fuckers money and wasted their own time and hope to secure a percentage of my life with this music (time is precious, probably our most valuable commodity nowadays, right?), surely, I thought to myself, this stuff must have some merit? I mean, I didn't even listen to the music that was indiscriminately mass mailed (of which I get about 5000 emails a month. "Bible" as the 'dashians would say...), these were emails sent personally to me... well, the email was at least copy pasted with my name at the start of it, providing - you'd think if you applied some logic - some semblance that I had been selected - nay cherry-picked - to hear these bright young things. This email, this link, this embed code, this boring press release, all of this: this was sent especially for me. Sealed with a loving kiss... Therefore, I would probably like this fresh piece of music enough to share it with you, yes YOU dear reader, and in doing so, you would invest your time, and maybe your money in listening to it too...
Oh dear oh dear, why did I do this to myself? I hit play with that dumb-grin of optimism on my face, and time and time again it was almost the same thing. Poor production, like really-really terrible at times. Seriously fellas (as it was mostly boys in their bedroom I was subjected to) get onto YouTube and watch some how-to videos. Like, LEARN how to use a computer and a microphone before getting as far as uploading something to SoundCloud, and you know, people hearing it. What worries me is there's no-one going "you sure you want us to send this around, it sounds like you recorded this on a dictaphone with the window open and aeroplanes going past." And don't get me started on the 'fuzzy' nostalgic vibes, the bad surf guitars, the shoddy I-rather-like-Stereolab-don't-you? textures, the bad Animal Collective fanboy drones which seem to go on and on until the screensaver called time on this idiocy. And songs? What songs? Whatever happened structuring something so that you introduce an idea and build on it? Or you know, writing a catchy melody - a little something you can whistle - that stays with you for hours, days, weeks, perhaps even a lifetime? I guess I was hoping for far too much. I guess I'm just getting old(er), and should just go back to my Prince records and the new Liars album and my Chromatics obsession, and keep myself away from my inbox... I guess I probably should apologise for all the 'reaction' emails I sent to PRs, but fuck it, they will them pass my incensed babblings onto the labels via their reports.... but really, bands, if all you wanna do is pose, to show how cool you are, just start a Tumblr of Mork & Mindy quotes or design ironic rave t-shirts, and save yourself the bother, and maybe I won't have so much slurry to wade through...
This week, I have mostly been reading Richard Meltzer's A Whore Like the Rest and I urge you all to go out and grab a copy (Amazon have it here). He was one of the greatest rock-writers there ever was. I say was, he's still alive (or at least no one has bothered to update his Wiki saying he's dead)... I feel like someone switched a light back on in my head as I sniggered my way through his anti-tribute to Springsteen which blitzed through his thoughts on authenticity. Then there were Meltzer's guides to classical music and jazz and his flippant put-downs of 70s rocksters... So, yeah,
screw you apologies if his cantankerous voice beams through me, myself and I this week. I do worry I have perhaps pigeon'd him already in this piece (I'm no magpie...my precious...shiny....), I'll try not to write w/ or do my ands as 'n or dilly-dally too much in the 'bout and uh-huh and FFFFAAAARKKKK draws of yore... I promise I will try to retain a little grain of myself in these worlds pouring forth about these five things that I have actually enjoyed (imagine) listening to this week...
They have made one of the albums of the year or at least that's what fifteen members of our community have said over in our albums of the half-year thread and I'm not really one to argue with such praise, especially when you plop the record on and BLAMAMAMAMAMA oh mama, does it it do what rock'n'roll records are meant to do. I didn't really dance or flail around the room but I did smile and feel like playing air guitar, and feeling something, anything, well, that is all you can hope for after all these years of having the life sucked out of the one thing you love by living and breathing it all day every day. When these epiphanies come and your lose yourself, you know it's better than the average...
DiS' Al Horner who can't get enough of Japandroids' Celebration Rock album caught up with two of the chaps from the band before their recent London show at CAMP, and our friends from BeatCast went along with a camera and captured the conversation, and some of the action from the show (just look at those scenes of euphoria...that's what rock'n'roll does to people and it's a joy to sneak a glimpse of it).
And here is a totally unofficial fan-video of public domain footage for my favourite track on the record...
Say yea'! Yeah? No, Yay! Those peddlers of psych-pop are b-b-b-BACK! They're playing at Latitude and their new album is on the way. To please and tease us, they've gone-done some drug-addled thing to gawp at when the purple haze descends and the walls begin to bend. If for some reason at that point just before you pass out you want your sense of self to implode, then Yeasayer have got your back. This video will make your world warp into pits of bonkers imagery and take you on that trip to some far-out place, far-far-far-away, in a land that Star Wars forgot, where Spaceballs is really very very funny and the kids don't moan about not having hovverboards, but dream of your life in the time of the Jetsons. You will realise how lucky you are, and the colours will flush the pain away. Oh yes, this video is exactly want you need when you've run out of cookies and the cornershop is shut but your eyes are wired open with a mesh of chemicals and the devil on your shoulder has turned into a Habbo hotel avatar. Yeasayer know you so well, I mean, it literally
tells you to DO DRUGS says beneath the YouTube that this is a "vignette to take drugs to created by Yoshi Sodeoka."
Pull out your iPad, open your dickhead dictionary app (biz idea: this is basically a transatlantic translation tool for Brits who - post Ali G - have fallen out of love with being a faux wigga, who wanna get down and dirrrrty with hipster tawk, so they can sqawk out their tweets like a genuine blog-fiend, from the land of dope and blow-me. The dickhead dictionary is twinned with the Urban Dictionary but there was a split, like some sort of meat-headed religious difference, over the use of the word "jam" and "jelly" - especially when some band wanted to call their album Slow Jelly, the cider-crusty Grimes world literally flipped on its Skrillex-hair, maaaan...but I bracketly digress...) and this is what you'll find filed under "mad chill". It's the kind of music that you secretly hope Erland Oye would come back with. 'Slow Down' is the sound of cocktail bars that are too cool for Groove Armada that have gotten bored of Phoenix's back cat. This is the kind of music that's opposite of life-changing, and very happy to be so. 'Slow Down' is the exact sort of thing that luxuriates within itself, safe in the knowledge that's more of a vibe than a song. A pleasant texture (but not vanilla wallpaper) that enhances your day, assisting in you twisting the aperture on your mind and - drink in hand - letting everything drift out of focus... Of course, of course, of course, someone has made video that gets so literal with the band's name that you could say they've gone overboard. You really could say that. Say it. Watch people look at you funny. See their brow furrow. Close your eyes as they lurch for something to throw at you (just hope it isn't something heavy or sharp-edged and you should just about get away with this hideous pun).
This song is taken from their LP Pacific Standard Time which is out on July 9th. Oh, Poolside, fact fans, are a couple of dudes from LA, one of them just produced the new Bonde De Role album, and James Murphy is a fan of theirs, and yeah, tis niiiice!
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A new Dilla album? Yuh-huh. Unreleased material compiled and set for release. Stream it in full and find more deets over at jdillarebirthofdetroit.com.
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A playlist for your weekend of Tom Waits songs! Well, not sung by Tom himself, but other people singing his songs. You could call them covers or re-interpretations or duvet-covers or whatever you want to call them. In fact, you could call these great songs that hold up to whoever is singing them, because that is what I call them ("great songs" that is, do keep up!). Call a coat a jacket. A shovel a spoon. A dog a...
This YouTube playlist was created with the help of the DiS community in this thread, inspired by this thread where people admitted some revered artists they're not not that into, in response to Lucy Jones from The Telegraph's brave piece admitting she doesn't really like Tom Waits or Sonic Youth (which is fair enough, even if she is wrong, obviously...oh wait, hang on, there is no right or wrong... oh wait, I'm not sure I can accept that... oh, wait... wait... just press play...these sprawling brackets will end...now...)


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Part III of an Interview with Gus Alfieri, Author of LapchickGus Alfieri was the point guard on the 1959 St. John's NIT Championship team. That squad was coached by Hall of Famer Joe Lapchick, who had a profound influence on Alfieri and many others. Alfieri's biography of his coach, titled Lapchick: The Life of a Legendary Player and Coach in the Glory Days of Basketball, will be in bookstores soon. I recently did a wide-ranging interview with Alfieri about Lapchick's life, basketball history and the current state of the game. Part III of this interview discusses Lapchick's coaching career at St. John's University, including his 1959 NIT Championship team and the college basketball point shaving scandal of 1961, during which two players from his 1957 squad were implicated. You can find Lapchick's Hall of Fame bio here. To learn more about Alfieri and Lapchick-and for information about how to order the book-check out this website.
Friedman: "Who was the best player that you faced while you played for Coach Lapchick? Also, what was the best team that you faced? Obviously, if you want to name more than one in either category, feel free to do so."
Alfieri: "That's a good question. I'd have to say that I didn't play against him; he played with us-Tony Jackson. Tony Jackson just passed away last October. My senior year (1958-59) we won the Christmas Festival and the NIT and he was the MVP as a sophomore in both events. He was an outstanding player and the only reason that you don't know that much about him is because in the era that we played there were a lot of scandals going on. A lot of players were contacted by gamblers to dump games. He evidently was contacted, it was still a touchy time, and (Maurice) Podoloff, who was the NBA Commissioner at the time, probably quietly-I can't say this officially-but he was probably blacklisted. He didn't get a chance to play in the NBA. He played in the ABA. I'm telling you, this guy was a fabulous player."
Jackson averaged 15.9 ppg in two ABA seasons. You can see a picture of him and read more about his career here. Other blacklisted players included Doug Moe, Roger Brown and Hall of Famer Connie Hawkins. Moe played in the ABA for five seasons before beginning a long coaching career; he is currently an assistant coach with the Denver Nuggets. Brown played his entire pro career in the ABA, receiving an out of court settlement from the NBA but declining to jump leagues because of the tremendous loyalty that he felt toward the Indiana Pacers and the ABA for giving him an opportunity. You can read more about Roger Brown here. Hawkins played with the Harlem Globetrotters and then played in the ABL and the ABA before settling a lawsuit with the NBA and joining that league in 1969.
Alfieri: "Jackson had to be one of the best players who ever played the game. He could really jump, he could really shoot-he had a soft jump shot and he could jump like four feet off of the ground. We had two guys who boxed out while Tony cleared the boards. He got huge numbers of rebounds for a 6-4 player. You can look at that period and say how many 6-4 guys can do well in the NBA today but he was an outstanding player.
I played against Jerry West when he was a sophomore at West Virginia (1957-58). He was an outstanding player but that particular night he scored 21 points and he had a good game but Tony had better games as a sophomore (in 1958-59) than West had as a sophomore. Of course, in the NBA West turned out to be one of the best players ever."
Friedman: "Did you guard West?"
Alfieri: "I think that I probably guarded him for a while. They were the number one team in the country when they came into the Garden. We were tied at halftime and I think we lost by about eight. It was a good game. There were factors that I don't want to start mentioning because it will sound like I am making excuses.
When we were juniors we didn't have great personnel. We had Alan Seiden, who was a very good player. I was a very decent player. I averaged about 14 ppg as a junior, so I wasn't chopped liver. We had guys who were hurt but we still got to the semis of the NIT that year. We played very well. The next year we had Jackson and then we were really very good. We were outstanding. I think that Jackson was a third round draft pick for the Knicks but he never played in the NBA. I think that he is one of the greatest players that I dealt with in my lifetime. Jerry West would have been another.
As far as the best team, I guess the best team probably was coached by Harry Litwack-he coached at Temple. They had a guy named Guy Rodgers (who later became a four-time NBA All-Star and twice led the league in assists). They had a really powerful team, but what made them really powerful was that they were coached by one of the first real Xs and Os guys, Harry Litwack. He was playing combination zones in the late 1950s, which was unusual.
The best way to explain it is like a match up zone today. Whoever comes into your area, he becomes your man but you stay in a position; you don't move. You just match up to the guy in your area. He was doing that in the 1950s and it was confusing because you can attack a zone two ways: one is standing still and the other is moving players. When you stand still, you move the ball. When you move players-you can also move the ball, too-it kind of tells the coach if they are playing zone or man to man. But (against Litwack's teams) when you moved players the defenders stood still, so the coach would say that they are playing a zone. But then they would match up to you and it was a great idea. Litwack was a bright, scientific basketball coach.
Dr. Jack (Ramsay) was another brilliant mind from this era who we played against-but we had a lot of success against him. When Lapchick first took over we had a problem with Litwack's teams but then we eventually took care of them; they lost some of the quality players that they had. We always seemed to do well against Ramsay and St. Joe's."
Friedman: "Did you ever play against Oscar Robertson?"
Alfieri: "No, but before the first game of my senior year Oscar played the preliminary game against NYU and he got 45. Tony played his first game as a sophomore and scored 23 and the newspapers compared the two. The comparison was that Tony had a better outside shot but that Oscar was a better all around player. The comparison between Jackson and Oscar was made by a lot of people but we never played against Oscar and Cincinnati. We played against Bradley, which was in the same league, in the finals of the NIT. They had beaten Cincinnati with Oscar and then lost to them in the Missouri Valley Conference playoffs, so they wound up coming to the NIT while Cincinnati went to the NCAA Tournament. But the NIT in 1959 was still a very powerful tournament and that didn't fade until the mid-1960s."
Hall of Famer Kenny Loeffler of La Salle was another great coach from that era.
Alfieri: "Loeffler was a scientist, too, in a sense because he was the guy who said that when you shoot free throws the less movement, the better the shot. The old timers shot underhanded and when Rick Barry shot he just used a slight flick of the wrist. So Loeffler was right. When I correct kids at my camp who come to me for individual instruction, the kids who are moving too much you try to get them to move less: 'Don't move your hands and your body so much. Get set and get a rhythm but don't move too much.' I think that is a good rule in shooting. Loeffler knew about it and La Salle players followed it and Rick Barry did it when he shot free throws."
Sadly, the story of that era in college basketball cannot be told without discussing the 1961 point shaving scandal. Ten years earlier, a previous point shaving scandal almost destroyed college basketball and led to several players being banned for life from the NBA, including Dale Barnstable, Ralph Beard and Alex Groza, one of the league's top players and the brother of Cleveland Browns' Hall of Famer Lou Groza. Jack Molinas, who reputedly had a 175 IQ, was one of the top rookies in the NBA in 1953-54 before the league banned him for life for fixing NBA games. He then turned his attention to bribing college basketball players to shave points. The scheme unraveled in 1961, when 37 players were implicated for point shaving in at least 43 games between 1957 and 1961. Two of the players, Mike Parenti and William Chrystal, were Alfieri's teammates on the 1956-57 St. John's team. They were seniors and he was a sophomore.
Alfieri: "Molinas was a vicious guy. I talk about him in my book and he's a very unsavory character who met a very unsavory death. He was just bad news and there are stories about him in my book because he was around (college basketball in that era)."
Friedman: "What did Coach Lapchick do when he suspected that some of his star players were fixing games?"
Alfieri: "That's a good question. It's a very, very touchy issue. I wanted to talk to Jack Ramsay. I met him down in Florida and he said to look him up, that his number is in the telephone book, but I tried to look him up recently and he had changed his number so I didn't get a chance to speak with him. When he coached at St. Joe's he coached (Jack) Egan and (Vince) Kempton and a couple other guys who were dumping (games).
What Lapchick said-he did a thing with Jimmy Breslin for the Saturday Evening Post and he did one with a sportswriter out in South Bend, Indiana-boils down to this: if you don't have proof how the hell do you (discipline the players)? In other words, if I say that you are dumping games and I bench you but I'm wrong-that's not right. If a guy is not playing well and I take him out—these are seniors who are very good players, a 6-5 guy and a 6-7 guy, huge rebounders and scorers, so how do I justify benching them other than that they are playing poorly? He would take them out and substitute for them but he never had any proof.
The first ones to find out about a dump are the media people. They get it from the bookies. The bookies tell them that this game is off the board. If a game is off the board, that means that somebody is fooling around. Lapchick was very close to the media people, so they were coming to him. Ike Gellis was the sports editor of the New York Post and he would come to Lapchick and tell him that St. John's game was off the board. Lapchick wasn't stupid but the point is what do you do about it? I've got this hot potato, what do I do? Do I go to the president of the university and say 'I think they're dumping'? Nobody wants a scandal. It's a very difficult thing to handle…I have to say that when they wanted to fix a game they didn't necessarily have to lose it but most of the time the team did lose because they were not emotionally involved in the game; it was against the game. So they did actually lose games, not just fix them."
Friedman: "I'm gathering from what you are saying that Coach Lapchick wasn't sure (at the time) if they were dumping games, so maybe the other players weren't sure at the time. When this came out in 1961, as a teammate of theirs how did you feel? Did you believe that they had been dumping games? What was your reaction to that?"
Alfieri: "Yeah, we believed that they dumped games. My whole sophomore year was very unusual, as I document in the book. Don't forget that we (the sophomore players) were guys who were very intense players. We had come from an undefeated freshman team and we were all All-City players: I was an All-City player at St. Francis Prep, Alan Seiden was an All-City player at Jamaica High School, so we were all used to winning. Now we get on this team and it was like, 'Hey, what's going on here?' There was a senior-sophomore dichotomy but it was more than that. We had a meeting in the hotel room before the game with Bradley in Peoria and I remember going up to one of the guys who we suspected and I said, 'I don't feel you out there.' That was a great line. If I'm playing basketball with you and I feel you that means that you and I should be able to know when we're playing that if I look at you and take a step forward then you can instinctively feel that I am going to be making a back door move. There was none of that feel when you played with these seniors. They were in a different stratosphere."
Friedman: "Did your group of sophomore players-and I realize that at that time you were 19 years old, you were very young-go to the coach and say that something is not right here?"
Alfieri: "No. We had the meeting--"
Friedman: "Was the coach in the meeting?"
Alfieri: "No-just the players and, as I wrote in the book, nothing came out of it…Here's the thing, here's the lesson. I think that it was Jack Ramsay that said this someplace when he was talking about the scandal: if I were to ask you, how would you go about dumping a game? If you and I were going to go on the court tonight and dump a game, how would we do it? The most obvious answer is that we would miss shots or throw the ball away, which is something I'm sure that they all did do-but the best way to dump a game is on defense. You let the guy score; that happens all the time. This is what Ramsay said. That is what Lapchick said to Breslin in one of the interviews: how do you separate when a guy is having a bad game from dumping? It's really a good question. I grind on that in the book because I felt concerned about what did Lapchick actually know and was he holding back. I think that he knew that there was something wrong but he just couldn't prove it. Therefore, the thing went on through the end of the year and kind of got lost because it was over and the next year we did everything he wanted.
We won our first nine games and we were off and running (in 1957-58).We get to the NIT despite all of our (injury) problems and in the semis we're tied with Dayton at halftime. We had a great year and then the next year we win (the NIT) and it's the first time any team in New York won since the (1951) scandal. Not only did we put New York and New York basketball back on the map but we kind of put Lapchick back on the map because he worked nine years with the Knicks…Lapchick was eased out of the Knicks job and he comes to St. John's and now he had his moments of doubt, too. The book is written from that point of view. Lapchick was not superman; he was a human being. When we win the NIT and we win the (ECAC Holiday) Festival and we had that spirit, he was back on the map. He was on top again. It's like Sinatra in From Here to Eternity-he was a big celebrity and then his voice goes and then all of a sudden he gets back on the horse and becomes better than he was before. So Lapchick had a wonderful, wonderful run but he was human."
The first three parts of my interview with Gus Alfieri looked at Joe Lapchick's playing career, his influence on other coaches-most prominently Bobby Knight-and his tenure at St. John's. The remainder of the interview deals with Lapchick's role in helping to integrate the NBA and Alfieri's take on what Lapchick would think of basketball today, particularly Team USA's play in the FIBA World Championships. Check back here early next week for those insights when I post Parts IV and V.
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In my initial post about the Chicago Summer of Learning (CSOL) badge system, I quickly sketched out the rough outline of it. In this post we'll talk through the components of CSOL badge design and the rationale that led to our decisions about them. First, a quick two sentence recap of what CSOL is and what it seeks to accomplish. The Chicago Summer of Learning is the first citywide implementation of an open badge system. It includes in-school badge-issuing programs as well as out-of-school and governmental badge-issuing programs—all of them focused on combatting the summer learning drop off.
As I've discussed in previous posts and as I noted during this week's Open Badges Community call, there are a number of considerations associated with design and badge design in particular. While it can be argued that content defines a good deal of the social value of a badge, visual appearance also plays a significant role.* Visual processing accounts for half of the human brain's operational capacity so it follows that how something looks can alter how it's perceived. With that in mind, as I imagined the visual badge system that would arise from a panoply of organizations issuing disparate badges, my years of experience in design consulting told me that a strong shape with a required set of elements would bring conceptual cohesion, reduce visual confusion, and provide a much needed sense of family, a unifying principle if you will, to the group.
A template to the rescue
With these desires in mind, we created a badge design template that was hexagonal in shape with a banner draped across it that included 2 blue stripes and 4 red stars.
The banner design referenced the iconic elements found on the City of Chicago's flag. This template served a variety of purposes:
- it identified each of these badges as Chicago Summer of Learning badges;
- it created a cohesive and easily understood family of badges despite being assembled from very different organizations;
- it provided the city with an easy way to find, reference, and display badges as a full set not only during the experience but afterwards as well;
- it branded the badges as Chicago specific; and
- it provided a way for issuing organizations to indicate to the public and to future funders that they had participated in the groundbreaking experience of CSOL.
Our goal with the template was to provide a Chicago flavor to the badges and indicate a family feel while allowing enough room for organizations to customize badges to suit their needs. So, how did this fly? This template arrived in a way that may have seemed like an edict to some and yet it was perceived as a gift by others. Nevertheless, with the imposition of such a strong requirement to participate in the system—and it was an absolute requirement for all entry level badges—there were additional issues for the team to work through together. Some organizations already had pre-existing badges that didn't fit the new template; some organizations had no access to designers; and some organizations had no strong design style or branding to implement.
A badge design tool for all
Since one of our goals for the template was to ease folks' fear of design in general—particularly those who were organizationally or financially challenged—we also developed a badge design tool. The beauty of this tool, Badge Studio, developed by Atul Varma & Jess Klein, was its adaptability. If an organization had little to no design expertise, using it one could pull together a respectable looking badge that had all of the required elements. On the other hand if an organization had experienced design staff or access to professional designers, the template could be manipulated quite easily to accommodate unusual visual elements or objects that extended beyond the hexagonal shape.
For the organizations who already had existing badges, we suggested resizing them and dropping them into the hexagonal portion of the template—or we provided them with an Illustrator template. Since all of the organizations with pre-existing badges had design staff or access to professional designers, this option worked out quite well.
Issues of branding
Since Mozilla was tasked with addressing the first two badge levels of the CSOL experience, entry level badges and city level STEAM badges, we focused solely on a family appearance. To that end, we did not develop standards for color use or typography—two important mainstays of a branding system. However, we did provide some recommendations regarding type use. That suggestion was to avoid using type unless it remained readable & legible at highly reduced sizes. We also suggested avoiding type as the sole indicator of different badge levels, e.g., beginner, intermediate, advanced.
Indeed, we shared with the badge issuing organizations that badge design is akin to logotype or mark design in that it has similar constraints. Badges need to read at both small sizes (50 x 50 pixels) and larger sizes (600 x 600 pixels). Happily, most organizations succeeded in making their own branding work comfortably with the new badge template wrapper.
As for the city level STEAM badges, they hewed to the hexagonal structure and incorporated the word Chicago in them. Using her previously designed entry level badge template as a starting point, Mozilla's Jess Klein designed three sets of beautiful S-T-E-A-M badges. After a comprehensive review and discussion, the larger team selected the style that hearkened back to the Chicago Summer of Learning identity program.
See the lovely results above for yourself. Each badge visually references the subject area that it represents; take a moment or two to admire the layered meaning embedded in each one of these badges. They're wonderful examples of badge designs that function as well as a group as they do independently.
As to the top level badges of the CSOL experience—the city-wide challenge learning experiences badged by Hive Chicago and the Digital Youth Network—they function in a somewhat separate aesthetic because the use of the badge design template was not a requirement for their development. Subsequently, the shapes and colors of the challenge badges issued by these organizations may appear significantly different than the entry level or city-level badges. They do not all retain the Chicago flag banner and they may be shapes other than hexagonal.
Retraining the focus
After all of this discussion of the visual design of the badges, it's important to consider why this badge system came into being. The learning is what's important here: the badges act as various representations of that learning. We are really pleased to see the beautiful, mixed bouquet of badges that resulted from working with a simple standard template combined with the challenge badge accents. This summer provides a test bed for not only open badges but also summer programs and the nascent tie between in school and out of school learning. We could not be more excited.
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As always, I welcome your thoughts. In the next few blog posts we'll cover the badge system hierarchy including the type of badge system CSOL represents, thoughts on assessment, team requirements, plus an examination of additional tools built for this endeavor.
So yes, much more soon.
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*It's worth noting that while I strongly suggest that design play a role from the beginning of the process, obsessive concerns about the appropriateness or inappropriateness of the visual appearance of a badge can stunt or entirely inhibit development. Still, content + design = a whole that is unmatched by its individual parts.
During the July 10, 2013 Open Badges community call, I paraphrased a quote by Massimo Vignelli (1998), designer of the iconic NYC subway map and wayfinding, that I found in an intriguing book of interviews, Design Dialogues. You can find that quote below.
There are two kinds of graphic designers: One is rooted in history and semiotics and problem-solving. The other is more rooted in the liberal arts—painting, figurative arts, advertising, trends and fashion. These are really two different avenues. The first kind is more interested in looking to the nature of the problem and organizing information. That's our kind of graphic design. To me, graphic design is the organization of information. The other kind is interested in the look and wants to change things all the time. It wants to be up-to-date, beautiful, trendy.
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.99 no.11 Pretoria nov. 2009
Linezolid dosing for staphylococcal pneumonia in children
To the Editor: We have noticed that the dose recommendation for linezolid use in our Guideline for VAP in children, recently published in the SAMJ,1 is incorrect.
Results from studies in paediatric patients have demonstrated that there are age-related differences in the pharmacokinetic parameters of linezolid.2 Children <12 years old have a smaller area under the Cmax curve (AUC), a faster clearance and a shorter elimination half-life than adults. Newborn infants have clearance values similar to those of adults. However, clearance increases rather markedly during the first week of life, to values 2 - 3 times in excess of those observed in older children and adults. The clearance of linezolid declines gradually in young children, becoming similar to that of adults by adolescence. After the age of 12 years, the pharmacokinetic parameters for linezolid are not significantly different from those of adults. The age-related changes in linezolid pharmacokinetics have implications for the appropriate dosing of the drug. These findings support the need for a shorter dosing interval in infants and young children to provide adequate drug exposure. In particular, more frequent administration will increase the AUC and plasma trough concentrations. This is important because the AUC:MIC ratio and the time above the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) are important determinants of linezolid efficacy against Gram-positive pathogens.
The recommended dosing guidelines for linezolid according to age are that, for most indications, children <12 years old should receive linezolid 10 mg/kg every 8 hours. The only exception to this is the treatment of uncomplicated skin and skin structure infections, for which the 8-hourly schedule is recommended only for children <5 years old. Because of the lower systemic clearance values and higher AUC values in preterm infants <7 days old, a dosing regimen of 10 mg/kg every 12 h should be initiated for these neonates. However, a 10 mg/kg every 8 h regimen should be considered for those with inadequate clinical response. In addition, the dosage should be changed to 10 mg/kg every 8 h for all neonates by the 7th day of life.
We trust this clarifies the issue.
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2. Jungbluth GL, Welshman IR, Hopkins NK. Linezolid pharmacokinetics in pediatric patients: an overview. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2003; 22: S153-157. [ Links ]


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Designed to give you a salon perfect finish, this ghd Natural Bristle Radial Brush works to create voluptuous lift from the root when blow drying. Crafted from natural bristles that give a smoother finish, this brush is a must have styling accessory. Available in four sizes for different lengths of hair, this size 1 brush is suitable for shorter styles and blow drying fringes or shorter layers, giving your hair lift, volume and movement with minimum effort from you. Features: Natural bristle brushes 28mm diameter barrel Soft touch, non slip finish handle Professional design and hand finished Directions of use: Blast hair until its 80% dry Working with medium sections, place the brush into the root area and direct the heat from your dryer at the barrel Keep the tension as you move the brush through your hair, directing heat at the barrel as you go.


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The following days have been designated as official University holidays: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and the Friday following, Christmas Day, and other days as may be designated by the President. Holidays are considered to extend over a 24-hour period. When a holiday falls on Saturday, the preceding Friday is observed. When a holiday falls on Sunday, the following Monday is observed. Official holidays occurring during a vacation period are not counted against vacation time.
24/7 Operations
Notwithstanding the foregoing observations for holidays falling on the weekend, units / departments that operate 24 hours a day and/or 7 days a week may choose to observe the holiday on the actual day of the holiday. The holiday schedule for these 24/7 operations will be determined by the unit / department. Employees required to work on the day the holiday is observed in their unit / department and entitled to receive premium pay, as described below, will receive holiday pay and premium pay only on the day the holiday is observed in their unit / department.
Regular employees entitled to receive pay up to a maximum of eight (8) hours for official University holidays include all full-time Administrative, Service & Support employees, whether or not they are scheduled to work on the holiday, with (99 percent to 75 percent FTE employees to receive holiday pay on a prorata basis). Employees with primary titles that are Administrative, Service & Support who are exempt from classification because their positions are primarily directing instructional or research activities are not subject to this policy.
Holiday Pay
Hours paid for the holiday but not actually worked do not apply toward the calculation of overtime. When a holiday falls on a normal day off for employees who work non-standard schedules, equivalent time off may be granted on another day. If another day off cannot be arranged, the employee will be paid for the holiday.
Required Work on a Holiday
All nonexempt regular employees required to work on a holiday will receive 1-1/2 times their straight-time wage rate (premium pay) for the hours worked in addition to their holiday pay. Employees working on a holiday will receive both premium pay for the hours worked on a holiday and, in addition, those hours will count toward the calculation of weekly overtime pay.
Employees failing to work on a holiday when scheduled are not eligible for holiday pay unless excused by their supervisor.
Exempt regular employees will receive compensatory straight time off if required by their administrative superior to work on a holiday.
Special Religious Holidays
Time off to observe special religious holidays may be permitted by an employee's supervisor, but must be charged to accumulated vacation, taken as personal days, or treated as an excused absence without pay.
See Also
HR 117 Layoff, HR 211 Overtime Questions and Answers, HR 402 Vacations and HR 403 Personal Days
Date Created: 9/26/97
Last Updated: 08/22/2010
Reviewed 2019-08-12


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NEW YORK, N.Y. – The stock market is closing higher as investors anticipate that the Federal Reserve will keep programs to support the U.S. economy in place.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 138 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 15,318 Tuesday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 rose 12 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 1,651. All 10 industry groups rose.
The Nasdaq rose 30 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 3,482.
The pace of home construction rose in May and builders applied for permits to build single-family homes at the fastest pace in five years.
Inflation was tame last month, giving the Fed leeway to keep up its stimulus. The Fed meets Tuesday and Wednesday.
Two stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was light at 3 billion shares.