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'Time' Reporter: Biden Blooper No Prob, GOP Senator's Internet Description Is
Scarborough Country/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 07/07/2006 6:38:51 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

by Mark Finkelstein

July 7, 2006

If you're a Republican senator who makes a remark with insensitive racial connotations, you're toast. Ask Trent Lott. But if you're a Democrat? Hey, no problem! Then again, woe betide the Republican senator who offers an awkward description of the workings of the internet.

That's the world according to Time reporter Ana Marie Cox, who appeared on last evening's Scarborough Country. For those who might have missed the Biden flap, on a recent campaign swing to New Hampshire, Biden told an Indian political activist: “You cannot go into a Dunkin Donuts or a 7-Eleven unless you have a slight Indian accent.”

Sounds like a career-stopper for a Republican. But Cox saw no real problem. She opined that while other things might derail Biden's march to the White House, this wouldn't be it. But when it came to Republican Senator Ted Stevens, Cox wasn't so forgiving. In explaining his vote on a so-called 'net neutrality' amendment, Stevens recently said:

"The internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."

Not prose for the ages, granted. But I don't think anyone believes Stevens was suggesting the internet is actually composed of tubes. Seems that he had the concept of a pipeline in mind, a first-in-first-out protocol. In any case, certainly nothing offensive, other perhaps than to some San Francisco techno geeks.

Nevertheless, Cox was of the opinion that Stevens' remark was more likely to prove damaging than Biden's to their respective careers..

You don't suppose the two senators' party affiliations might have figured into Ana Marie's calculus, do you?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: Delaware
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Joe Biden is going nowhere!!! Why even talk about this low life Democrat vermin and scum of a human being!!!


81 posted on 07/07/2006 8:26:24 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
You don't suppose the two senators' party affiliations might have figured into Ana Marie's calculus, do you?

Ummmmm, like "yeah, that's the only thing" that figured into Ana's calculus...

82 posted on 07/07/2006 8:28:20 AM PDT by GOPJ (In the future when the war goes badly - Keller (NYT) will be arrested for treason, and executed.)
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To: HawaiianGecko
Aww come on. Do you seriously think what Senator Biden said was racist? Or are you just being overtly PC?

Big problem: racism against whites is called 'PC'. It might be funny, but it is racism nonetheless. Do you know how many anti-minority jokes come to my mind when I am in their company? I've lost count. However, I hold my tongue, even if a joke is very, very funny. So that's bad. But a preferential treatment of non-whites is perfectly okay, according to the feds and universities. And blacks make jokes about whites all the time, but that doesn't seem to be a problem.

Everyone on the planet is a racist to a certain extent.

Well yeah, but some are more racist than others.
83 posted on 07/07/2006 8:40:35 AM PDT by AntiGovernment (A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.)
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To: Big Digger

I had a pizza.......


84 posted on 07/07/2006 8:45:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Follow an IROC long enough and sooner or later you will wind up in a trailer park..........)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"The internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."

Is this the definition of a tube to nowhere?

-PJ

85 posted on 07/07/2006 8:47:01 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: Common Tator
IT IS NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES A FIRST IN FIRST OUT PROTOCOL.

One particular protocol, TCP, has numbered packets which can be re-ordered, but real-time streaming data, such as carried by the UDP protocol depends on a FIFO underlying pipeline. In streaming media, packets that arrive out of order are discarded and a hole appears in the data -- a glitch in the sound or video image.

Therefore in reality, FIFO *IS* the underlying internet as much as possible. Out of order arrival of packets is a rarity. Multiple routes from source to destination is a rarity. While these sorts of things are conceivable and tolerable with protocols like TCP, they nevertheless seldom occur anywhere on the internet.

86 posted on 07/07/2006 9:05:22 AM PDT by Dracian
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Of course, this is the angle the MSM approaches all news with. Take as a great example Kellog, Brown, and Root; they're owned by Halliburton. I saw them in the Balkans in the Clinton years. The MSM hardly had a peep about them then. Truth be known they do a pretty unusual logistics mission that few in the private sector can do and they won a long binding contract during Clinton's presidency. How many times have we heard the media link them to Bush since the war in Afghanistan and in Iraq without any mention that Bush couldn't get rid of them if he wanted to?
87 posted on 07/07/2006 9:15:09 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (The MSM is "the propaganda arm of our enemies." - Jack Kelly)
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To: exit82

Just saw Harold in an episode of "House."


88 posted on 07/07/2006 9:48:43 AM PDT by LS
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
VIDEO:BIDEN: 'You cannot enter a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have an India Accent
89 posted on 07/07/2006 9:50:46 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Sounds like Hillary, lol

"Hillary Clinton 'truly regrets' Gandhi joke
Remarks called stereotypical, racially insensitive
Wednesday, January 7, 2004 Posted: 1642 GMT (12:42 AM HKT)

ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AP) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized for joking that Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis, saying it was "a lame attempt at humor."

The New York Democrat made the remark at a fund-raiser Saturday. During an event here for Senate candidate Nancy Farmer, Clinton introduced a quote from Gandhi by saying, "He ran a gas station down in St. Louis."

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/06/elec04.s.mo.farmer.clinton.ap/
90 posted on 07/07/2006 10:43:39 AM PDT by angelsonmyside
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To: All

Here's the verbatim quote from Wonkette Cox letting Biden off the hook but predicting bad things for Stevens:

"I have to say that this particular gaffe [by Biden], I‘m not sure if it will actually haunt him in the same way, let‘s say, that Ted Stevens‘ explanation of the Internet as being a series of tubes earlier this week will haunt him."


91 posted on 07/07/2006 10:45:22 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: AntiGovernment

Well .. it's not just "white males". Anybody who is conservative or a republican is dumber than dirt .. to them.


92 posted on 07/07/2006 4:40:37 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: MountainMenace

That's a new one, what's the DBM?


93 posted on 07/07/2006 5:03:34 PM PDT by benjamin032
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Thanks for the post/ping. I heard it on Michael Savage on the ride from the 1st job to the part-time job this evening.

Outrageous. Biden should go back to plagiarized mouth-speak. It serves him better than his own irrational thoughts.

94 posted on 07/07/2006 9:28:23 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: benjamin032

A wandering thought run amok. After reading my response it didn't seem to make sense. DBM "Drive By Media".


95 posted on 07/08/2006 5:37:25 AM PDT by MountainMenace (E Pluribus Unum! An oxymoron for liberals.)
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To: MountainMenace

Now that makes much more sense. If you only glance at it you might not get the whole point.


96 posted on 07/08/2006 7:50:55 AM PDT by benjamin032
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To: Lekker 1

I think Senator Ted Stevens had be briefed on the planned attack on the New York "Tubes" that was discovered by monitoring the Internet. That is probably what associated "tubes" and the Internet in his mind.


97 posted on 07/09/2006 12:55:07 PM PDT by SubMareener (Become a monthly donor! Free FreeRepublic.com from Quarterly FReepathons!)
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