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New SanDisk Cruzer Micro and Titanium Feature Sleek New Designs & Advanced Software Bundle
LAS VEGAS, NV, Jan. 5, 2006 - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced a significant enhancement to its line of award-winning Cruzer® Micro and Cruzer Titanium USB flash drives. The two models feature a sleek new design and include software that turns them into 'U3 smart drives' so users can access their "personal workspace"-software programs, personal preferences, personal files and data as well as the means for managing them within a highly secure environment-on any personal computer running Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000. The new Cruzer models were unveiled at a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show where SanDisk is demonstrating products in Booth #30329, South Hall, Level 3, Las Vegas Convention Center.
The Cruzer Micro will be available in capacities that range from 512-megabytes (MB) to 4-gigabytes (GB), while capacities for the Cruzer Titanium will be 1GB and 2GB.*
* 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes; 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. Some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions and thus is not available for data storage ** Based on internal testing
"The Cruzer Micro and Titanium raise the bar for USB flash drives," said Carlos Gonzalez, senior director of SanDisk's USB flash drive business unit. "These new drives offer a higher level of freedom and flexibility because they allow you to carry U3-compliant programs and content together on a single U3 smart drive and access them on most Windows-based PCs. The ability to bring your personal workspace with you is very convenient and a great way to boost your productivity when you're on the go."
The new Cruzers are small, 1.875 x 0.75 inches (4.76 cm x 1.91 cm) and easily fit on a keychain. Each features a retractable USB port for protection from dust and damage.
Cruzer Micro -The Affordable USB Flash Drive For Anyone Who Owns a Computer
The Cruzer Micro easily slips into a pocket or purse or can be worn around the neck with the included lanyard. With capacities of up to 4GB, it can hold the equivalent up to five data CDs - the equivalent of approximately 2,800 floppy disks, or hours of digital music, video or other personal data.
Cruzer Titanium - Lightning Speed, Rugged Durability
The Cruzer Titanium combines high performance with extreme ruggedness and durability. It has read and write speeds of 15MB/second**-among the fastest available-for speedy data transfers of large files. To physically protect the valuable data of business and power users, its high-strength case is mechanically crush-proof to more than 2000 pounds. It is manufactured with an advanced titanium alloy from Liquidmetal® Technologies that is pound-for-pound stronger than steel. The light weight, superior strength, hardness, high corrosion and wear resistance of this unique alloy make it ideal for the Cruzer Titanium.
Bundled Software Lets You Take Your Personal Workspace With You
U3™ Technology. U3 is a powerful new platform that offers a private, securely protected experience on any PC with Microsoft Windows XP or 2000. These smart drives will be able to launch a variety of U3-compatible (called "U3 Smart") software programs, including anti-virus, security, synchronization, communications, audio, video, gaming and photo-editing, to name a few. The catalog of U3-compatible software is growing quickly.
The new Cruzer products are preloaded with four free U3-smart programs:
Rather than installing Skype on each computer to make phone calls, a consumer merely plugs the Cruzer Micro U3 drive into the USB port of a Web-connected PC and clicks on Skype from a program menu in the U3 Launchpad. It takes just moments for first-time users to set up a Skype caller name and password. Then, using a headset that connects to another USB port or to the computer's microphone and earphone sockets, a consumer can make free calls to any other Skype user's PC on the planet. With SkypeOut, calls to landlines and mobile phones also can be made for a fraction of the normal costs.
Pricing and Availability
Suggested Retail Price US$
|Cruzer Micro
|Cruzer Titanium
The Cruzer Micro and Titanium are "plug-and-play" with PCs and the Macintosh due to USB Mass Storage Class (MSC) compliance when used with Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Mac OS 10.1.2+ and Mac OS 9.2.1+.
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including expectations for new product introductions, applications, markets, and customers that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: market demand for our products may grow more slowly than our expectations or there may be a slower adoption rate for these products in new markets that we are targeting and the other risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We do not intend to update the information contained in this press release.
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SanDisk, the SanDisk logo and Cruzer are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the and other countries. CruzerLock and CruzerSync are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation. PocketCache is a trademark of Kadena Systems. U3 and the U3 smart logo are trademarks of U3, LLC. Liquidmetal is a registered trademark of Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc. SignupShield is a trademark of Protecteer, LLC. Skype and the Skype logo are trademarks of Skype Technologies S.A. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s).
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My experience with all-you-can-eat (AYCE for short) sushi bars has not been a happy one. Putting aside sushi buffets like Onami — where no clock is ticking — the AYCE concept seems, at times, to be a curious practical joke.
I've been to places where you have to sit at the sushi bar, not a table; where the dishes you can order are radically limited; where the chefs work in slow motion; and where (I've been told) you should wait patiently for the chef to notice your existence and make you something. Oddly, the chefs do keep careful track of the time, which is usually one hour. This is not the way to eat.
By contrast, the AYCE option at Aji Sushi, which sits in a space that's been home to a crazy number of restaurants over the years (including Blue Agave Grill, Tapa Mezze, Chicago for Ribs, Kah Asian and Manhattan Bar & Grill) is the way AYCE should work. It doesn't particularly look like a sushi bar; indeed, there is no sushi bar, though there is a bar where you can bend an elbow while watching the game of the moment. It doesn't even look especially Japanese. I may be wrong, but I think the tables are left over from a former incarnation.
But none of that really matters. The staff is sweet and helpful — they're like a bunch of Jewish mamas, encouraging you to eat more, though they're Japanese instead. They have to spend a little time explaining the AYCE option because it seems so insanely good. Too good, in fact, to be true. But, it is! For $24.99 for adults for dinner, $18.99 for adults for lunch (and less for kids and for seniors), you're handed a paper menu with more than 100 dishes — "Endless Sushi" as it says, "Made to Order."
There are rules, of course. For instance, you can't take leftovers home. You've got 90 minutes to do your ordering and eating (though no one seems to be keeping track). You've got to finish what you order. (The menu says, somewhat erroneously, "Recycle, Reuse, Conserve Our Plant" [sic].)
Having to finish what you order does restrain the temptation to simply ask for one of everything, except for the things you want two of. (The servers are so accommodating, I can't imagine they'd be doctrinaire if you don't finish a grain of rice.) But once you get past that — this is like being a kid with your face pressed to a toy store window — you're told to go wild.
The food all comes out of a kitchen in the back, so there are no sushi chefs yelling things at you when you enter and leave. I don't know how big a staff is working back there, but they work with crazy speed. The 90-minute rule is easy to adhere to because the food comes out almost instantly. There are 12 appetizers, including the usual edamame and gyoza, cold tofu and grilled eggplant (overcooked, but still reasonably tasty). The appetizers also include beef skewers, chicken skewers, chicken teriyaki and salmon teriyaki. And that's just the tip of the AYCE iceberg.
There are eight options for chunky udon noodle soup, 24 sushi rolls, three sushi pizzas, three salads and a soup (miso of course), four stir-fries, 16 tempura and deep-fried dishes, four rice donburis, 13 sushi options — and for dinner, seven sashimis and six special sushi rolls — with names like Black Dragon, Red Dragon and Green Dragon. Obviously, for the $6 more that dinner costs than lunch, you get way more than $6 more stuff to choose from.
How is the food? Certainly good for the price. Being able to order unlimited sashimi was a real treat — though the yellowtail and tuna are limited to a single order. Still, that leaves lots of salmon, butterfish, snapper and crabmeat to be devoured.
If you like deep-fried salmon parts, there are several, from salmon belly and salmon neck to salmon head — all that's missing is the tail. The kitchen does have a fondness for sweet sauce (often known as eel sauce) on a number of the sushi rolls, which makes the food taste like it's on the way to being dessert; and I do wish they had hand wipes to clean up the gooeyness. But speaking of dessert, the mango ice cream is just right. It's unlimited too. Whoop-de-doo!
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All in the Family: The Most Rewarding Thing
What can a pro learn from preparing his whole family for an IRONMAN? A lot, as it turns out.
by Chris McDonald
It has been roughly seven months of consistent training for my dad and brothers as they head into IRONMAN Texas. I was recently asked what I've learned from helping my family prepare for the race. I'll get to that, but what I think my family has learned is that my "job" is not as easy as they thought.
So what have I learned? Never to work with family. No really, I'm kidding. To be honest, there isn't one thing I can really pinpoint. After coaching athletes for quite awhile now, I have dealt with just about every situation that someone can throw my way. Nothing has surprised me from an athletic point of view. What I have come to appreciate though is learning where I got my competitive spirit from!
Honestly, the most rewarding part of the journey for me was helping my 67-year-old dad, Neil, prepare. I am not kidding you when I say he hadn't swam in 50 years. He hadn't ridden a bike since elementary school, and the last time he ran was probably over 40 years ago. Despite all of this, in seven months' time, with the right motivation and some direction, we have gotten him in good enough shape to complete an IRONMAN race.This journey was truly about getting him to a level that he could enjoy the day. I believe anyone can complete an IRONMAN event if they put their mind to it, but it was also important to me that my father be able to get out there and revel in the experience.
I have always preached that it should be a goal of every athlete to take their family to the finish line, and make everyone feel like they are a part of the day. When things get tough for me I always think "I am not the only person who has sacrificed for this." I have always dreamed of racing with my brothers and my dad, and I am excited to take on the challenge.
As I mentioned in an earlier installment, my family never shies away from banter; with the race being just days away, it's only ramped up. Let me give you a little insight as to how things have gone for everyone:
Daniel: My brother Daniel lived up to his promises, and looks to be in good enough shape to win back his under-12 Coca Cola yoyo title. He started off his IRONMAN Texas training with a hiss and a roar over the Christmas break, but then, you know how it goes—beer, cleaning the toilet, work—it all got in the way. (Those are listed in order of importance.) All that being said, Daniel has competed in 20-plus IRONMAN races and I know he has what it takes to suffer with the best of them. My time prediction for Daniel: 11:21.
David: If you have followed along, you know that the biggest obstacle getting David to the start line injury free. I know we are not completely out of the woods yet, but we're close. I am really happy with where he is, fitness-wise. David is a dream athlete to coach. You could tell him to run to the moon or stand still for 12 hours and he'll say with a cheerful grin, "OK." My time prediction: 9:36.
Dad: For me, coaching my dad was the most difficult. I think because he hasn't competed in an IRONMAN before, he has a a respectful fear for the distance. From day one his only goal was to finish. He sat down and wrote a list of the cut-off times for each event, and worked backwards figuring out how fast he had to swim, bike, and run. Seven months down the road I believe we're well past looking at the cut offs. (My prediction: Finish.)
Look out for us all out their on the course at IRONMAN Texas and be sure to give a special cheer to the old bearded one!
I: Introduction | II: Meet the McDonalds | III: Son, Brother, Built-In Coach | IV: The Most Rewarding Thing


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We used to say it could never happen.
As few as 15 years ago, if anyone in our area said, "I think I saw a wolf," the naturalist community would shake its collective head. "Couldn't happen," we'd say. "Not today. Habitat's gone. Had to be a coyote. Or maybe a wild dog."
We were sure of ourselves back then. After all, Canis lupus, the gray wolf, also known as the timber wolf, was a federally endangered species. In Illinois, it was considered extirpated – that is, no longer surviving in regions that once were part of its range.
For proof, we had Donald Hoffmeister's Mammals of Illinois, the definitive reference for fur-bearing critters in our fair state. Right there on page 47, he stated that "probably all wolves were gone from Illinois before the 1860s." What more confirmation did we need?
But since the 1990s or so, things have started to change. Upper Midwestern gray wolves, afforded the protection of the Endangered Species Act – and the benefit of a burgeoning whitetail deer population – began to thrive in remote regions. First, Minnesota, then Wisconsin and Michigan. By 2004, Wisconsin had removed the wolf from its list of state-endangered species, and in 2012, the animal was delisted federally.
According to data from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's annual wolf counts, over the winter of 2012-13 Minnesota's wolves numbered 2,211; Wisconsin's came in at 809; and Michigan's, 658.
Simply put, that's a lot of wolves.
Consequently, these days, when someone in our area says, "I think I saw a wolf," I, for one, want to know more. Where was it seen? What did it look like? What was it doing? How big was it? Although the chances of seeing a wolf in Kane County are extremely remote, we've reached the point where we can "never say never."
One report that intrigued me a few years ago was from a young woman who was attending college in Minnesota. At home in rural Kane County on winter break, she saw an animal "way too big to be a coyote."
Having seen wolves in the wild in Minnesota, she said the animal she saw looked, and acted, very much like a wolf. Wary yet determined, it sniffed at a fencepost before disappearing into the farm landscape.
Another interesting account, this one from Elburn, is much more recent. On Jan. 15, Bryan Salvage was heading to the post office, driving on Route 47 just north of Keslinger Road when he saw a large, wolf-like animal. "It was running fast, heading west, 50 yards north of the intersection of Keslinger and Route 47," he recounted via email. "It ran from the cemetery into the field across 47. I'm wondering if this animal has a den in the clump of torn down trees to the west of the field as that was the direction it was headed."
Bryan said he couldn't stop to see where the animal was going, and he hasn't seen it since. But the impression he was left with – an animal that was larger than a coyote, with a more rounded, less pointy nose and a grayish, wolf-like coat – was one he's unlikely to forget any time soon.
Of course any possible wolf sightings will remain just that – unverified possibilities – unless solid DNA evidence is collected.
And the chances of wolves actually reclaiming their niche in northeastern Illinois are still extremely remote. We just don't have the open space and habitat that wolves, plural, would need to survive. But an isolated individual, passing through on its way to claim new territory?
I think it's impossible ... to never say never again.
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If you'd like to increase your likelihood of spotting a wolf – as well as a coyote, woodchuck, skunk, porcupine and maybe even a Siberian tiger cub – to 100 percent, mark your calendar for Feb. 8. That's when Hickory Knolls will be hosting the second of its four 2014 Discovery Days. Attractions that day will include presenters and animals from the Big Run Wolf Ranch in Lockport, as well as sled-dog demonstrations from our friends at Free Spirit Siberian Rescue. Animal presentations will be at 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m., and will be accompanied by activities and crafts fitting to this year's theme: The 'Ex' Files: Extirpated, Extinct, Extreme! More info and directions to Hickory Knolls can be found at www.stcnature.org.
• Pam Otto is the manager of nature programs and interpretive services at the Hickory Knolls Discovery Center, a facility of the St. Charles Park District. She can be reached at 630-513-4346 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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STOCKTON - The process is better, Delta advocates said Thursday.
STOCKTON - The process is better, Delta advocates said Thursday.
But the final product? That's yet to be seen.
State legislators met here to discuss how to revamp an $11 billion water bond that's scheduled to go before voters in November.
No fewer than seven proposals have been introduced in Sacramento. All of them would scale back the size of the bond, which many consider to be bloated and unlikely to win voter approval.
Concerns remain in the Delta, however, that a water bond might facilitate Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed twin tunnels project. The tunnels are to be paid for by those who would benefit, but the governor's plan also relies on billions of dollars in public money to convert 100,000-plus acres of Delta farmland into habitat for fish and wildlife. A water bond could provide some of those funds.
"We maintain habitat restoration without sufficient water flows will not succeed in restoring the Delta," Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, director of Stockton-based Restore the Delta, told legislators Thursday.
The meeting is one of a series that have been held up and down the state to gather perspectives on what should be included in a new water bond. The process stands in contrast with that of the original 2009 bond, which was passed in the dead of night and was viewed as a "Christmas tree" full of earmarks.
Negotiations continue over what the new bond should look like, but discussion Thursday focused on an $8 billion proposal advanced by a group of legislators led by Assemblyman Anthony Rendon, a Democrat representing southeast Los Angeles County.
Rendon's bond includes $1 billion to sustain the Delta, as well as a provision negotiated by Assemblywoman Susan Eggman, D-Stockton, that any Delta properties needed for bond-funded projects be acquired only from willing sellers - no eminent domain.
Another Eggman provision, requiring bond-funded projects to have a local partner from one of the five Delta counties, has been removed from the current draft. Eggman said Thursday she's hoping to reinsert that language.
The bond does not provide any money for construction of the tunnels themselves.
"I think we all know we must do something about water," Eggman said. "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. But let's do it in a way that's fair to everybody."
Contact reporter Alex Breitler at (209) 546-8295 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him at recordnet.com/breitlerblog and on Twitter @alexbreitler.


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A 55-country product recall from US chocolate maker Mars due to plastic found in one of its products has extended to include the UK.
It was reported yesterday morning that Roel Govers, spokesman for Mars in the Netherlands, announced that the recall affects 55 countries, although he didn't immediately provide further details.
The UK Food Standards Agency has now confirmed the following products are being recalled:
Product: Mars Funsize, Product code: AV39F, Pack size: Fun size bag 250g, 'Best before' end: from 11 September 2016 to 2 October 2016
Product: Milky Way Funsize, Product code: AV39J, Pack size: Fun size bag 227g, 'Best before' end: 2 October 2016
Product: Variety Funsize, Family Favourites, Product code: AV33W, 'Best before' end: from 29 May 2016 to 14 August 16
Product: Variety Funsize, Party Mix, Product code: AV33T, 'Best before' end: from 15 May 2016 to 7 August 2016
Product: Celebrations, Product code: AJ46N, Pack size: 388g box, 'Best before' end: from 8 May 2016 to 28 August 2016
Product: Celebrations, Product code: AJ46R, Pack size: 245g box, 'Best before' end: from 8 May 2016 to 28 August 2016
Product: Celebrations, 2.5kg catering case, Product code: YF413, Pack size: 388g, 'Best before' end: 7 August 2016 and 14 August 2016.
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The two sides slugging it out over the marriage amendment took their battle to the pews Tuesday, with both sides making bold, public pleas to people of faith.
Minnesotans United for All Families took direct aim at the Catholic Church's support of the amendment, with a kickoff television ad featuring a Catholic couple urging Minnesotans to reject the measure. At the same time, Twin Cities Catholic Archbishop John Nienstedt joined about 40 other faith leaders at the Capitol to encourage support for the marriage amendment.
The two events signal a new phase of a campaign that already is among the most expensive and contentious of the state's election season.
Both campaigns have been working for months to build coalitions in places of worship, among business leaders and through public rallies. The duel of the TV ad and high-profile media event on the Capitol steps takes the discussion into homes statewide, giving advocates a chance to speak to voters who might have ignored early season efforts.
Minnesotans United for All Families' first ad features a Catholic couple from Savage who say their position on same-sex marriage has evolved and that they now oppose the measure.
"We know that for Minnesotans to vote no on Election Day we need to encourage them to have conversations and take a journey that many other people in the state and country have taken about gay and lesbian freedom to marry," said Richard Carlbom, campaign manager for Minnesotans United. "We need to show Minnesotans how to go from conflicted or concerned to a 'no' vote."
Nienstedt, in a rare public declaration on the issue, offered a brief statement: "I ask all Minnesotans to join us to vote yes on November 6th. ... This is a wonderful sight, to see clergy from ... so many different churches come together and show their support for our basic understanding of marriage as a union between one man and one woman." Nienstedt took no questions and left after reading the statement.
Minnesota for Marriage, the lead group pushing the measure, is scheduled to air its first TV ad Oct. 1. The ads will lay out why the group believes the institution of marriage is worth preserving, what it sees as the threat to marriage and what is at stake should it be redefined.
'Ours to win'
Frank Schubert, the California-based political strategist running Minnesota for Marriage, said the other side has been having conversations for nearly two years yet still acknowledges in public that they would lose if the election were held today.
"What are they going to say in the final seven weeks that they haven't said the last 18 months?" Schubert asked. "The answer is nothing. This election is ours to win."
Marriage amendment supporters in others states have funneled much of their money into a last-minute barrage of emotional and successful television advertisements -- many created by Schubert. The ads have warned that without the measure, students could be taught about same-sex marriage in elementary schools.
Minnesotans United has spent months dissecting Schubert's strategy and ads in other states. Carlbom said they are bracing for "the most divisive and hurtful ads ever in the state" and are preparing to push back strongly on the airwaves should those ads surface.
Minnesota law already outlaws same-sex marriage, but supporters argue the measure is necessary to prevent judges or future legislatures from changing the law. Like in other states that have dealt with the issue, marriage amendment supporters are trailing in fundraising, but many polls show the measure barely passing or close to it.
Carlbom vowed that with this first ad, the group will remain on the air across Minnesota through Election Day. Fretting over an expected late blitz from the other side, Minnesotans United has already locked in $1.3 million of airtime for the last week of the campaign. That's in addition to nearly $500,000 they are spending on their first ad.
That 30-second spot features John and Kim Canny, lifelong Republicans and Catholics, who talk about how their position on marriage evolved as the couple spent 13 years raising their children in Savage.
When a gay couple moved into their neighborhood with an adopted son, the Cannys say in the ad, they realized same-sex couples want to marry to make a lifetime commitment based on love and responsibility -- the same reasons that drove the Cannys to take their wedding vows. The Canny family "had some good discussions," John Canny said. "In our daughter's world, her normal is so much different than ours. It didn't faze her at all."
The ad ends with Kim Canny encouraging Minnesotans to continue wrestling with the issue. "And when you do," John Canny chimes in, "vote no."
The ad is not the first of the marriage amendment fight. A month ago, Freedom to Marry, a national group pushing for states to approve same-sex marriage, launched TV ads featuring Yvonne and Fred Peterson of Duluth. The couple discussed their 59-year marriage and how they came to support same-sex marriage after learning their grandson is gay.
'Essential public purpose'
Religious leaders at the Capitol on Tuesday urged residents thinking about the amendment to consult the Bible, not pop culture or shifting societal norms.
"This gift of marriage is given to us by God to create a loving and secure bond between husband and wife, where they can share the deepest emotions and the most joyful pleasures of physical intimacy," said Carl Nelson, president of Transform Minnesota, a network of nearly 160 evangelical churches in Minnesota. "Marriage bonds a mother and father to any children that may be born to their union and creates a stable and loving family. This is the essential public purpose of marriage and the reason why we support the marriage amendment."
Schubert was in a Twin Cities hotel room Tuesday putting the finishing touches on his plan for the final weeks of the campaign when the other side released its ad. Amendment opponents' ads miss the point, said Schubert -- that marriage is a unique relationship between a man and a woman.
"It is not something you leave to children based on their norm, and it is not something you change because you have nice gay neighbors," Schubert said. "Almost all of them are wonderful people who deserve to be loved and respected. But we don't need to redefine marriage to respect our gay and lesbian neighbors."
Staff writer Rose French contributed to this report. Baird Helgeson • 651-925-5044


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| For an overview of Enclave power armor models in the Fallout series of games, see Enclave power armor.
For the Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics armor, see Tesla armor.
For the Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel armor, see Vault-Tec Tesla armor.
The Tesla armor is a type of power armor deployed by the Enclave in the Capital Wasteland in 2277.
Unlike the pre-War Tesla armor, constructed from plans drawn up by the famed scientist Nikola Tesla and stolen by the American government upon his death in 1943, this Tesla armor is a variant of the Enclave's advanced power armor Mk II, jury-rigged with a Tesla device that is capable of dispersing a large percentage of the damage done by directed-energy attacks.
The armor makes the operation of energy weapons by the wearer easier, boosting the Energy Weapons skill of the operator. Enclave soldiers using this armor tend to use rarer, more powerful energy weapons, such as plasma rifles.
Tesla armor has Tesla coils on the shoulder pads and some lights running down the legs. It looks a bit bulkier than other power armors. If viewed closely, it appears to have remnants of yellow paint on some areas.
Although this is powerful armor, and a great addition to the Lone Wanderer's wardrobe, the only way to get it (and spare suits for repairs) is by fighting Enclave soldiers or finding at least one in the Mothership Zeta add-on. The Enclave soldiers' armor is usually acquired in rather poor condition. Despite this drawback, the armor is still one of the best you can find by the end of the game, bested only by the T-51b and the Enclave Hellfire armor, both of which have superior damage resistance and rad resistance statistics, although they don't have Energy weapon skill bonus that Tesla armor offers.
Tesla armor can be given to Protector Casdin at Fort Independence for 5.56mm rounds, frag grenades, RadAway, or stimpaks as part of the unmarked quest The Outcast Collection Agent.
- Worn by Enclave soldiers.
- This version of Tesla armor appears as legacy content in Fallout: New Vegas, along with the Enclave tesla soldiers, although they can only be accessed with console commands. It has a DT of 20 for the armor and 6 for the helmet, giving it 1 DT less than a full suit of T-45d power armor. This is in contrast to the standard Fallout 3 Enclave power armor, which also appears as legacy content in New Vegas and provides even greater DT protection than Remnants power armor.
- The Tesla helmet has the same appearance and Pip-Boy icon as the Enclave power armor helmet.
- The Tesla helmet cannot be given to Protector Casdin for the unmarked quest, The Outcast Collection Agent, unlike the Power Armor helmet and its Enclave counterpart.
- Tesla Armor is somewhat less common if the player has the Broken Steel add-on, as Enclave Hellfire Troopers are added into the game and they are more common to find once the player levels up high enough.
- Tesla armor is somewhat difficult to repair because Tesla armor is a rare find among Enclave soldiers.
PC Playstation 3 Xbox 360 If a fully repaired suit of Tesla armor is equipped and another suit (not necessarily at 100% condition) is in the player's inventory, the equipped suit will not degrade no matter how many times the player is hit. The unequipped armor will take the damage instead.[verified]
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New farm bill readied for final debate
After a two-year struggle and more perils than "Downton Abbey," Congress should finally see a new farm bill this week as House-Senate negotiators worked through the weekend in hopes of filing the legislation by Monday night.
Going into Sunday night, disputes continued over livestock regulations. But afternoon staff briefings were already being held on the proposed agreement, and the hope was to call the conferees together for their signatures on Monday.
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Indeed, the mood was such that no one believed any longer that more time would help; instead, it was judged better to grab the opportunity for House action this week. And if the farm bill is filed Monday night, the leadership is proposing to call it up as early as Wednesday, a fast turnaround for a measure given up as dead by many just months ago.
Bipartisan support remains crucial, but Democrats have won significant compromises on food stamp funding and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is promising a real push to deliver the needed Republican votes.
( POLITICO's full agriculture policy coverage)
If successful, this would be a trifecta of sorts: the December budget agreement, followed by the omnibus appropriations package in early January and now the long-tortured farm bill. The farm bill remains the most contentious of the three, perhaps, but Boehner has a stake in clearing the decks and delivering on past promises to rural Republicans that the job would get done.
Factoring in cuts already made during the two-year debate, the bill should generate about $24 billion in 10-year savings, a third of which is attributed to the nutrition title.
The most serious of these reductions is an effort to crack down on what many see as an abusive scheme by states that distribute token amounts of low-income fuel assistance to food stamp households to help them gain higher benefits. Under this practice, known as "heat-and-eat," as little as $1 per year in fuel aid can be used to claim a higher utility deduction and leverage far more in monthly food stamp benefits, especially in high-cost cities like New York.
By insisting that the fuel aid be no less than $20, the farm bill hopes to rein in such schemes. A portion of the resulting savings would then be plowed back into 10 pilot programs to test new ideas to help jobless beneficiaries receive training and find employment.
Both Democrats and Republicans share in the pilots but the most robust funding is dedicated to one that would allow up to 10 states to experiment with proposals advanced by Rep. Steve Southerland (R-Fla.) regarding work requirements for food stamp beneficiaries. Southerland was a central figure in the fractious debate over the nutrition title last June, when he proposed a much more aggressive nationwide approach. But he was described Sunday night by aides as supportive of the compromise now as well as the larger farm bill, which also includes provisions important to Florida's citrus industry.
On the agriculture side of the ledger, any cost estimate is suspect after the drop in corn prices over the summer. Cash sales were just $4.10 per bushel this past Friday— well below the baseline used by the Congressional Budget Office.
Nonetheless the farm bill represents a landmark rewrite of commodity programs and should yield savings for taxpayers by ending the nearly 18-year-old system of direct cash subsidies to farmers.
These payments, which cost more than $4 billion annually and are distributed at a fixed rate — whatever a farmer's profits — will be replaced by two options linked to real market losses, not just the land.
Some adjustments may still be made after the final CBO scoring but the current draft bill follows this outline.
The first program, known as Agriculture Risk Coverage, promises early — but temporary — assistance to growers facing a downward cycle of prices. Payments would be triggered once prices fall 14 percentage points below the prior five-year average. But the subsidy covers only a narrow 10-point band — from 86 percent to 76 percent of revenues — and will fade after several years if prices don't improve.
Farmers whose ARC payments are based on countywide results will be paid on 85 percent of base acres. Those who choose a more individual version tailored to their own single farm — an approach popular in Western states like Montana — will be aided at a lower rate of 65 percent on base acres.
The second program, Price Loss Coverage, fits the more classic countercyclical model of fixed, government-set target prices — not a rolling five-year average. PLC payments would typically be triggered later in a market downturn but then promise the farmer a more permanent floor to cover production costs.
Payments here are on 85 percent of base acres and farmers who sign up for PLC will also have available to them a new lower-cost version of revenue insurance based on countywide losses. This so-called Supplemental Coverage Option is designed to parallel ARC in that it also will have a 14 percent deductible and is intended to cover only that band of losses down to where the farmer has more conventional buy-up crop insurance coverage.
A portion of the savings from the commodity title would be plowed back into new crop insurance programs, and more than ever this portion of the bill will become the backbone of the revised farm safety net.
Cotton will make a wholesale shift, getting out of most commodity programs and into a new stacked-income insurance plan tailored to its needs. SCO itself is counted in this title. And recognizing its importance, the bill also seeks to use crop insurance as a lever to promote sounder land use practices by farmers.
New conservation compliance provisions will be attached as a condition for getting the subsidized coverage. And a "sod saver" program in six Midwest states would greatly reduce the level of subsidies afforded farmers who choose to plow up native prairie lands.


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Following the failure of a preliminary injunction against the state legislative map, no pencils can erase and redraw district lines.
The injunction, which was requested by Democrats, was recently rejected by a judge – finalizing the lines for the upcoming State Senate and Assembly elections due to the lack of time remaining for a trial to intervene before the commencement of primary season.
Despite the court's verdict, Democratic Senate Campaign Committee (DSCC) Chair Michael Gianaris says Democrats will continue their fight in court to remove the lines in time for the next election, which occurs in 2014.
"Unfortunately, the delay tactics of the Senate Republicans were effective and the courts said they simply don't have enough time to make a decision before the political process takes place this year, and they were unwilling to postpone the election season," Gianaris said. "They will continue hearing the case on the normal court schedule, which will extend beyond this election. The goal is to retake the majority for the Democrats under these badly gerrymandered lines and continue to pursue the case in court so we end up with a fair map at the end of the day."
The Senate Democrats were hoping to eliminate the maps, drawn by the New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR) – made up largely of Republican Senators due to their current control of the chamber.
Many believe LATFOR's maps were drawn to prevent Democrats from retaking control of the chamber.
According to a source with knowledge of the situation, Democrats did not expect to have their preliminary injunction granted. The primary gripe among Democrats was the creation of the 63rd District seat, which was viewed as a political tactic to keep Republicans in power, according to the source.
"I'm disappointed that it's happened this way and the courts decided that the 63rd [District] will stay for this election," said Senator Jose Peralta. "But the fight is not over. With myself, Senator Gianaris and the Democratic conference, we are going to be pushing to make sure we eliminate that seat come next election season."
Peralta went on to say that polls are indicating the public wants a Democratic majority in the Senate. The senator believes Democrats, who retook the chamber in 2008 after over 40 years of Republican control, are "much more prepared this time around to take back the majority."
Democrats have now run out of options after the lawsuit arguing the constitutionality of the extra State Senate seat was also rebuffed and the federal government provided preclearance to the map under the Voting Rights Act.
"Yesterday, the federal three-judge panel denied the motion for a preliminary injunction, and ordered the 2012 Senate elections to proceed under the lines enacted by the Legislature," said Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos. "The decision comes just two weeks after the New York Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that our redistricting plan complied with the State Constitution and less than a month since we received preclearance from the Obama administration's Department of Justice. I am extremely pleased with this decision, and it ensures the state can administer an orderly and fair election this fall."


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For the neutrals, Chelsea's performances this season have been in stark contrast to their counter-attacking tactics last year. The flair that their owner has so eagerly anticipated seems to have finally come to fruition. In their encounter with Shakhtar, it was Chelsea's new generation who showed once again the attacking flair of this vibrant Chelsea side. They played against a Shakhtar team brimming with confidence, even as they went behind twice. The Ukrainian side managed to reply after two strikes from their Brazilian winger Willian, who was supposedly a potential signing for the Blues last summer.
The West London side would have been pleased to see Fernando Torres show his improving form by opening the scoring, but it was Oscar who won the plaudits for his wonder strike. After the Shakhtar goalkeeper Pyatov ran outside his box and failed to head the ball into safety, Oscar composed himself and with perfect precision scored a 40 yard stunner. For those who thought that his previous strike in this competition, against Juventus, was fortunate, the quality of this goal may stand against them.
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Guests: Elizabeth Warren, Maggie Haberman, Andy Cohen, Buzz Bissinger
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: So what`s this fight all about?
Let`s play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I`m Chris Matthews in Washington.
"Let Me Start" tonight with this. What`s the difference between a
Democrat and a Republican? When it comes to economics, what do Democrats
want done and what do Republicans want done?
Who wants to help our -- keep a handle on Wall Street? And who wants
to keep the big boys up there, let them do whatever they want? Who wants a
fair tax system in this country and who wants the top to get all the tax
breaks so they`ll invest more? And who wants a health care system for this
country and who does not?
Let`s start with the best fight in America right now. It`s up in
Massachusetts between Democrat Elizabeth Warren and Republican Scott Brown
for the United States Senate.
Ms. Warren, thank you so much for joining us from Boston...
ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), SENATE CANDIDATE: Good to be here.
MATTHEWS: Bahstahn -- I know how to say it! Boston, Massachusetts.
WARREN: You do.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you this. The most fundamental question --
people are voting right now, this fall in Massachusetts. They`re listening
to you now. What is the fundamental difference between a Democrat and a
Republican in 2012?
WARREN: I think it`s about whose side you stand on. You know, I`ve
been out there fighting for working families on credit cards, on mortgages,
on payday loans, standing up to Wall Street, saying there have got to be
some rules.
And working families get that. They understand that right now, the
Republicans are not working for them. They`re working the other side of
the street. They`re working for Wall Street, for the big multi-national
companies. They`re trying to figure out how those who`ve already made it
can hang onto even more of it. In other words...
MATTHEWS: OK, well, here`s...
WARREN: ... I think they understand the game is rigged.
MATTHEWS: OK, here`s the problem I have with that.
MATTHEWS: And agree with you sentimentally, but here`s the numbers
problem I have. Every poll we see between you and Scott Brown is about
even. You know that.
WARREN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: And it`s -- and it`s only 1 percent against you, if it`s
only the rich, the top 1 percent are the people with the real money in this
country against you.
How come they got, basically, about 40-some percent, just like you do?
So where`s the other 40-some percent coming from. People who don`t have
lots of money are voting for the other guy, or saying they will. Why?
WARREN: Well, right now, we`ve still got five months to go in this
race. And so what I think this is about is about getting out there and
talking to people all across the commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Every time I do that, I talk to people who get it right here in their
hearts. I talk to people who are looking out and saying, I don`t see how
I`m ever going to retire. I talk to people who have kids who went off to
college, did all the right things and now have a mountain of debt and can`t
get a job.
I talk to seniors who say, you know, I saved, we saved all our lives,
and then that financial crisis just turned our pension upside-down.
They get that the game is rigged. They`re ready for somebody to get
out there and talk with them about it.
MATTHEWS: Why are the polls close? Why are the polls even between
and you Scott Brown, a guy who drives around in a truck, good PR, wears a
barn coat like John Kerry, very clever, acts like he`s not one of the wine
and cheese Ivy Leaguers, fine, but he votes with the Republicans, with the
Wall Street guys.
You vote and you`ve got a record as being a person who cares about
policing Wall Street. You should be miles ahead of him.
What`s going on out there? Are people voting for him who like his
style over his politics? What`s going on?
WARREN: Well, let`s be clear. The election is not for another five
months, and this is what we are going to talk about over the five months.
Just last week, "The Boston Globe" came out with a story about how Scott
Brown is running these advertisements saying he was tough on Wall Street,
and then it turns out he was doing secret negotiations to try to weaken all
the rules over Wall Street.
That`s what we`re going to talk about, person by person by person
across this commonwealth.
MATTHEWS: Let me help you on this...
WARREN: ... getting it out there. OK.
MATTHEWS: I, as a journalist, can help you. We have a new figure
that just came out, and this shows the American people -- and people in
Massachusetts, as well as everywhere else -- how they got screwed under the
W. administration.
WARREN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Look at this number. Politico reported today just how much
Wall Street has turned against Obama. Well, I want to put that number up
for a minute. Here`s a number I`m interested in, real-life people like
you, we`re talking -- $126,000 was the amount of money that the average
family in America was able to accrue over a lifetime.
WARREN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: That`s how much money they had in their house, in their
WARREN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: ... maybe whatever else, some money in the bank, maybe
something like that. That`s down -- by 2010 -- by 2010 -- basically, a
year or so after Obama got into office, it was down to $77,000.
WARREN: That`s right.
MATTHEWS: A dramatic decline in the prospects, the kitty people
WARREN: That`s right.
MATTHEWS: ... the kitty they used to buy a condo once so they can
retire. Look how...
WARREN: What they use to send kids to college.
MATTHEWS: ... it`s diminished. Why`d that happened? Why did people
get screwed that way, the average family?
WARREN: This you lay right at the feet of what the financial industry
did on Wall Street. They blew up a big bubble. They took on the risks.
They sucked out the profits. And then when the whole thing came crashing
down, it was American families right there who took it right on the chin.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
WARREN: Then that same group on Wall Street fought against any kind
of financial reform. When they lost that barely by a hair, they started a
guerrilla war to make sure that no serious rules would be put in place.
This is the fight right now for the heart and soul of our country.
MATTHEWS: JPMorgan -- I don`t think much about them. I don`t want to
think much about them, but I got to think about big financial houses like
that when they screw up. They lost $2 billion of their investors` money in
one little deal recently. How`s that happen?
WARREN: You know, it happened because it`s still business as usual.
JPMorgan thinks that they ought to be able to run their own show.
You know, from the Great Depression to the 1980s, we had serious
regulations in place. Then along came the folks who sold deregulation.
And the JPMorgans of the world said, Hey, this is great. We will load up
on risk and suck out those profits. That`s what they did.
And when it nearly brought this entire economy down, when the American
people, American taxpayers ended up bailing them out, did it fundamentally
change anything?
Well, Jamie Dimon testified today and basically kept saying, No, no,
no, we`ll take care of this ourselves. We don`t need any additional
WARREN: He`s wrong.
MATTHEWS: Let`s go to the money. Let`s follow the money, like they
said in Watergate. Let`s take a look at this. Politico -- look at this.
They reported today just how much Wall Street has turned against President
Obama and the Democrats. Look at these numbers. Anybody can understand
So far, people from the financial sector -- that`s a nice way to put
Wall Street -- have given the Romney campaign and the super-PAC supporting
him $37 million. That`s $37 million so far this campaign. And look what
they`ve done for Obama, $5 million.
WARREN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Under $5 million.
WARREN: Yes. Well...
MATTHEWS: Why are they -- why are they bank-robbing -- "bank-
robbing"! There`s a good phrase. Why are they bank-rolling Romney? Why
are they bank-rolling your opponent? What are they getting from these
guys? What`s the deal on the other side?
WARREN: The video clips tell it all with Romney. He has said, on his
first day, if he gets elected, he will repeal all of the financial reforms.
He`s saying, Guys, you can do whatever you want.
And my opponent, Scott Brown, who has been named one of Wall Street`s
favorite senators, has been out there negotiating in secret to try to
weaken the rules, to try to delay the rules, to try to create loopholes in
the rules.
In other words, those guys have made it clear to Wall Street, if
you`ll elect them, they promise they will stand with Wall Street all the
way. And Wall Street`s willing to make an investment in them. They
understand there`ll be a great return on Wall Street`s money if they can
get Scott Brown and Mitt Romney elected.
MATTHEWS: Let`s talk turkey now. In economic terms, I can`t argue
with a single thing you`ve said, I understand it completely. You`re the
populist. You`re the Democrat. He`s the Republican. He`s there with the
elite. He`s getting money from them, you`re not. The president`s not.
Romney`s not -- Romney is, I should say.
Now, here`s what I think is something you`ve got to cut through
between now and November. There are a lot of regular people out there, Red
Sox fans, regular people who have been Democrats in the past -- Irish,
Italian, Armenian, Jewish, whatever, a lot of people. They have voted
Democrat. They voted for the Kennedys all those years.
But lately, they got a sense that some of the Democrats a little too
wine-and-cheesy, a little too Ivy League, a little too thinking they`re
better than us. Now, some of that came through with Dukakis. Some of that
came through with the last candidate for the Senate against this guy Brown.
And they don`t like the looks of it.
Talk to those people. Why should they vote for you, even if that
stuff bothers them, that cultural wine-and-cheese elitism that Howie Carr
likes to bash into all the time up there? Go ahead.
WARREN: You know, I think...
MATTHEWS: How do you get through that?
WARREN: I think that this election is going to be from the heart.
I`m out there talking to people every day, and they fundamentally do get
it. They understand that they`re getting the short end of the stick and
that what`s going on in Washington is a game that`s rigged against them.
It`s a game that pays off for the folks that can hire all of the lobbyists
and have all the money.
People are living this one right on the ground day by day by day. And
they understand that they don`t have anybody who`s arguing for them when
they`ve got Scott Brown as their senator. And that`s what I`m doing. I`m
just getting out there and talking with folks.
They know I`m a fighter. They`ve watched me fight.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
WARREN: They`ve watched me stand up. And I think that`s what this
election is going to be about. It`s not going to be about numbers, it`s
really going to be about the heart.
MATTHEWS: Well, I agree with you if you win, but there is that --
that hesitation that I`d like you to address. What is this elitism problem
the Democrats have picked up lately?
WARREN: I don`t know about Democrats generally. All I know...
MATTHEWS: Well, why not? Why don`t you know?
WARREN: Because all I know -- because what I know about is myself.
My dad sold painting, sold fencing. He was a maintenance man. My mom
worked the telephones at Sears. My three brothers all served in the
You know, I worked all my life. I started baby-sitting at 9 and
waiting tables at 13. I`ve been in public schools, public universities. I
managed to go to law school with one baby and another one on the way. I
understand what it`s like to get out there and work hard and play by the
The difference is, I grew up in an America that was still expanding
opportunity. And that`s what I really care about. I worry that what`s
happened in Washington means that we`re shrinking opportunities now. We`re
not making those investments in ourselves, in our kids and in our kids`
This election is really going to be about what kind of a people we are
and what kind of a country we`re going to build. The Republicans want to
make it, I got mine, the rest of you are on your own.
I think our job is to say we can do better than that. We can make
investments together, and we can build a future for ourselves and for our
kids. That`s why I`m in this race.
I`m not a politician. I`m in this race because I believe our country
is on the line here.
MATTHEWS: OK, great. Thank you so much for coming on. I agree with
everything you said. I think you got to take a couple of whacks at the
cultural elite once in a while, but that`s just me. Maybe I`ll do it
instead of you.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, you`re a nice lady, and I think you know what
you`re talking about in this particular race. Good luck against that very
well-turned-out Republican opponent of yours. Thank you so much.
WARREN: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Coming up -- Elizabeth Warren, Democrat candidate --
Democratic candidate for senator from Massachusetts.
Coming up: The brilliant Buzz Bissinger joins us on the latest
developments in that Sandusky-Penn State -- I was going to say race. It`s
a horrible courtroom scene. We`re going to get all the details. Why do
revered institutions like Penn State care more about protecting their
reputations than the children they`ve promised us they`ll protect? That`s
the question in this case.
Plus, is it time for the Obama team to sharpen their arguments, teach
us the stakes, and yes, raise their game?
And Bravo`s Andy Cohen`s coming here to play HARDBALL on politics, pop
culture and President Obama. That`s Andy Cohen from Bravo.
"Let Me Finish" tonight with the Sandusky trial. It`s about time we
know what these guys are doing to our kids.
This is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Wow. John Edwards is free and clear. The government today
asked to dismiss the remaining five counts against the former senator and
presidential candidate. Those are the charges on which the jury could not
reach a verdict last month. And that means Edwards won`t be retried, and
his legal troubles are over. That`s where he (ph) should have been when it
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. Three more alleged victims came
forward and testified today in the trial of former Penn State coach Jerry
Sandusky, who says he`s innocent of more than 50 criminal counts of sexual
abuse that he currently faces.
Let me warn our audience now that the content of this case is graphic,
as you know, and sexual in nature, also as you know, and perhaps not
suitable for young viewers.
Well, one of the alleged victims, known as Victim 10, told the jury
that no one -- on one instance, rather, after the coach performed oral sex
on him, Sandusky then threatened the boy, telling him he wouldn`t see his
family ever again if the boy spoke of what had happened. Well, the alleged
victim said Sandusky later apologized and told him he loved him.
Well, Buzz Bissinger is the best-selling brilliant author of "Friday
Night Lights." His most recent book, also wonderful, is "Father`s Day."
There`s a book to get for this Father`s Day. And Kendall Coffey`s former
U.S. attorney, as well as an MSNBC legal analyst.
Kendall, tell me about this case legally. I just wonder why anybody
would take the defense case here. What possible defense, without judging -
- well, I guess I am judging this case. There`s so much evidence, so much
sound, it seems, testimony, in its -- detail, you wonder how you knock down
all these details.
KENDALL COFFEY, FMR. FEDERAL PROSECUTOR, MSNBC LEGAL ANALYST: It`s an
overwhelming case. And you`re exactly right. The 10 different victims in
a sense being presented through the testimony -- that means the defense has
to come up with reasonable doubt 10 different times. And so far, it
doesn`t seem that they`ve barely even dented some of the prosecution`s
Why is this case even going to trial? I suspect that there was simply
no plea deal offered that would have allowed Jerry Sandusky to walk out of
jail alive.
The prosecution thinks this is horrible. The victims are finally
dealing with it and want to see justice. And so this is a case that the
defense simply has no choice. But let`s...
MATTHEWS: Could they have gone and said, Look, we know this guy`s
going away forever. He`s probably factually guilty. But we`re going to
try to keep him from Leavenworth or some maximum security place where he`ll
be killed. We want him to go to a place where they play tennis and lift
weights, like maybe Allenwood or Lewisburg. Could they have cut a deal
like that?
COFFEY: Probably not. It`s very difficult to get prosecutors to
figure out where an inmate might be located.
And remember, we have a presumption of innocence, hard as it is to
talk about that so far. The defense is going to present a very different
portrait of Jerry Sandusky. He`s going to be coming across as a guy with
lots and lots of good deeds, a lot of people and testimonials that may seem
more positive.
And so the jury may, at the end of the day, look at two different
portraits of a man that couldn`t be more dramatically different. Hard to
see an acquittal here. But once in a while, you do get a single hold-out
juror and a mistrial. That`s the best the defense can hope for.
MATTHEWS: I see what you mean. Let me go to my friend, Buzz. Thank
you so much. Good luck with that book. I`ll say it again, it is an
incredible -- your book and -- about your son in and that incredible road
trip, where you really worked like hell as a father to connect to a son who
has problems. And boy, did you do a masterful job of presenting that
Let me ask you about this far different story of an adult and
children. What does this tell you, as an American watching this case? I
mean, I`m a Catholic. You know that. And I`ve been through that, watching
our church go through this. In Philadelphia now, we got that case with the
We are only now learning these details. We had to issue a warning a
few minutes ago about our viewers because we`re only now, after all these
years, saying something beyond "fondle" or "molest" or something that
sounds bad but not horrendous, the way we`re now learning what really
happened here, what was alleged to have happened.
BUZZ BISSINGER, "VANITY FAIR," AUTHOR, "FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS": Well, I
mean, you know, Sandusky`s conduct -- obviously, we`re hearing the
testimony now. It`s despicable. He was a sexual predator, sexual animal.
He will go away for life. Amendola, the defense attorney, isn`t even
bothering, really, to cross-examine.
But this goes to the heart of the culture of football and sports and
Penn State. I refuse to believe that Mike McQueary was the only person who
saw Jerry Sandusky use those Penn State locker rooms to shower with these
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BISSINGER: These are -- you know, these are only 10 victims. We
don`t know how many more are out there.
I refuse to believe that coaches didn`t put it together. He is taking
a kid to the Outback Bowl? He`s taking a kid to a bowl game? They knew.
They knew something was going on. But it is the culture of winning at all
costs. And it is killing us as a society -- society.
We have gone sports-mad. And Penn State is the worst example of it.
MATTHEWS: Well, it looks like it.
Let me go back to Kendall.
And you would say that the defense will point out that he has done
good things. Well, what does that mean? I mean, crimes are crimes. They
stand by themselves. You can be exemplary in everything you do. If you
kill somebody or commit one of these horrendous crimes against a kid who is
11 or 12 years old -- and I have looked up the law -- what relevance is it
that you don`t miss mass or that you -- you cut your lawn every five days?
What relevance is that?
COFFEY: Well, it has no relevance, if in fact, he committed the
crimes that he is accused of.
But, Chris, the defense has got to come up with something. It is
almost impossible to convince a jury that every single one of these
accusers that`s coming forward convincingly in heartbreaking, dramatic
detail is a liar who is doing it for some speculative theory of trying to
get money somehow.
So, they have got to do something. And the best that they can do is
try to humanize someone...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
COFFEY: ... who is being demonized every single minute in that
MATTHEWS: What`s the story? They are going to put his wife on. Now,
it seems to me, if they put the wife on as some sort of fallback position,
as a smart move, she was upstairs while he was down in the basement doing
this stuff allegedly with these 12-year-olds and 11-year-olds.
How is she going to be a character witness when she looks like she was
part of the scenery here?
COFFEY: Well, there`s no easy moves for the defense. But if they can
put her on, she can be a surrogate that can tell the Jerry Sandusky story
without having to put him on. And in a sense, she could be the ultimate
character witness, an eyewitness to 46 years of his life.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
COFFEY: If somebody on the jury connects with her, finds her more
sympathetic than pathetic, maybe thinks that she is a good woman, incapable
of living with a man who is capable of such despicable things, then maybe
there is a reasonable doubt at least with one of the jurors, and maybe
there is a mistrial, which is the best, I think, Jerry Sandusky`s lawyers
can hope for.
MATTHEWS: You know, the thing is, Buzz and Kendall, I`m in the
business of watching wife after wife come on television, whether it is a
Vitter down in Louisiana or it`s Ensign out in California or it`s the
governor of New Jersey, McGreevey, or it`s the governor of New York`s wife,
coming on and standing next to their man.
Buzz, this is the new story of our life, the wife that stands by the
man as if they were Pat Nixon standing up there putting up with the
ignominy that their husband is 100 percent responsible for, and yet being
BISSINGER: You know, I -- if she takes the stand, she takes the
stand. Apparently, there`s testimony that she walked into a hotel room
where he was committing a sexual act with one of victims. So she is going
to be asked about that.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BISSINGER: You know...
MATTHEWS: Well, she will after you said just that. That`s for sure.
BISSINGER: It is going to be a -- you know, she can try to be a
surrogate for him. And she will have no shot.
And the one thing I want, I want this to stay and be a stain on Penn
State and a lesson to all colleges and universities.
MATTHEWS: OK. Why is it -- what will it do -- what will it do over
the next five years at Penn State if this goes down and ends up being a
series of convictions on this guy that really are proven?
BISSINGER: Well, I think what it does is, I mean, it is a more than a
cautionary tale. It is a horrible tale. And I think Penn State will not
be able to forget it.
And then you`re going to have the report that`s going to come out,
and, you know, the rumors that it goes hall the way up to Spanier and that
Jerry Sandusky should have been treated humanely. What about the victims?
BISSINGER: That`s the problem. That`s the problem. They all turned
their backs. They cared more about Sandusky than the victims.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let me go back to -- let me go back to Kendall.
Here`s my suspicion here, that -- like "Rashomon," every time somebody
said, did you see what happened in the shower, did you hear what McQueary
said he saw happen in the shower, did you hear what McQueary told somebody
up -- and then it finally gets to Joe Paterno.
Now, I have to admit I love Joe Paterno, so I`m going to be defending
here. But I don`t know. What finally got to Paterno? Did he hear fondle,
molest, something vague, something he shouldn`t have been doing, something
inappropriate? Did he get the full, graphic treatment that we have been
getting as to what was going on in that shower, those locker rooms and all
this spate of misbehaviors alleged here? Did he know the words? Was he
given the picture, Kendall?
COFFEY: Well, we are never going to know.
And I want to think, like you, that he didn`t have the specificity
that could have -- would have caused most anyone else to act much more
MATTHEWS: Yes.
COFFEY: The one thing I do know is that when the jurors walk out of
this courtroom, whatever they have to say about Jerry Sandusky, I think we
have a good idea what that is going to be, they are all going to have
questions about why didn`t others at Penn State, with everything they are
going to see, just as Buzz mentioned...
MATTHEWS: Yes, good point.
COFFEY: ... Outback Bowl, a lot of obvious activity, it would seem.
The jurors themselves are going to walk out of there, and raise questions
when they are interviewed, how could others have not known? How come Penn
State didn`t do something long ago?
MATTHEWS: And, clinically, why did the non-sick people -- non-sick
people cover up for the sick guy?
Buzz, your thoughts? Do you think it went all the way -- have you
been able to find out whether it went all the way in graphic detail to
BISSINGER: The only thing I have read is the grand jury testimony of
McQueary. And he went into fairly graphic detail. And Joe`s response was,
I don`t understand these things. I don`t know what you are talking about,
which, frankly, I don`t believe.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BISSINGER: He is a good Catholic. The Catholic Church scandal was
going on.
I just -- I feel, God rest his soul, but when he should have done the
most, he did the least.
MATTHEWS: And, boy, that`s what`s true apparently of so many
monsignors and bishops. They looked out for their own. They felt sympathy
for the predator, instead of the preyed. It took us all a long time to
figure the hell of this thing out.
Anyway, thank you, Buzz. It is always great having you. Again, your
book, "Father`s Day," what a great book to get for Father`s Day.
BISSINGER: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: I want to push it again because it is worthy of a story for
any father out there, especially you, buddy.
Anyway, Kendall Coffey, thank you, sir, for your expertise.
Up next: Mitt Romney`s regular guy act may be getting a little more
difficult to pull off, as it should be. Stick around for the "Sideshow,"
where he`s found his way in.
This is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL and time for the "Sideshow."
Mitt Romney likes to rave about how he took charge of the 2002 Winter
Olympics out in Utah. But there is a more current Olympic story that he
might not be too eager to flaunt. As it turns out, Ann Romney`s horse is
in the running to head to the London Olympics, after making the top three
in a recent qualifying event.
Stephen Colbert weighed in last night.
STEPHEN COLBERT, HOST, "THE COLBERT REPORT": The Romneys` horse might
go to the Olympics.
COLBERT: Though, one would imagine it is going to be a long drive to
London on top of their station wagon.
COLBERT: This is exactly what Mitt needs. He`s had a little trouble
relating to Joe Six-Pack.
MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I met a guy yesterday, seven
feet tall. I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn`t in sport.
COLBERT: The tall man was not in sport...
COLBERT: ... neither bounce ball, nor oblong leather zeppelin toss.
COLBERT: Now Mitt is just your average blue-collar fan of dressage.
Of course, that word may sound highfalutin, but don`t worry. It also goes
by the street name horse ballet.
COLBERT: Jim, show us Rafalca at sport.
Rafalca, number one! Rafalca, number one!
MATTHEWS: Well, having a horse headed to the Olympics might not be
campaign gold for Romney.
Next, who is the real Joe Walsh? Is it this guy, the Illinois
Republican congressman who blamed this outburst to constituents back in
November on a caffeine overload?
REP. JOE WALSH (R), ILLINOIS: All the marketplace does is respond to
what the government does. The government sets the rules. Don`t blame
banks and don`t blame the marketplace for the mess we are in right now. I
am tired of hearing that crap. You know what? This pisses me off. Too
many people don`t listen.
You wanted more -- more regulation? That`s what you got. John, do
you want more regulation? Is that what you want? Do you want Dodd-Frank?
Is that what you want? I need more coffee.
MATTHEWS: Well, if you ask Tammy Duckworth, Walsh`s challenger, it is
the other Joe Walsh, the rock star guitarist for the Eagles, we should
listen to. The six-time Grammy winner is set to perform at a fund-raiser
for Duckworth this summer and released this statement -- quote -- "I`m the
real Joe Walsh and I`m proud to back a real American success story, Tammy
As for the other Joe Walsh, my question, are you sure you are Irish?
Finally, some people still can`t get enough of this "Call Me Maybe"
mash-up that went viral last week featuring President Obama.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Hey, I just met you and
this is crazy, but here`s my number, so call me, maybe.
MATTHEWS: Well, did you think that was the closest we would get to a
political figure belting out that song?
It was, until CBS posted this video of what happened this morning
during a commercial break.
COLIN POWELL, FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE (singing): Hey, I just
met you, and this is crazy, but here`s my number, so call me maybe.
POWELL: It was a lock. It was a lock.
CHARLIE ROSE, HOST, "THE CHARLIE ROSE SHOW": I didn`t stop it.
MATTHEWS: I think Charlie had the best line there, "I didn`t stop
Anyway, maybe he didn`t know any more lyrics.
Anyway, up next: Does the Obama campaign need to sharpen their
arguments, teach us the stakes and raise their game? As Sarah Palin would
say, you betcha.
And that`s ahead. You`re watching HARDBALL, the place for politics.
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OBAMA: I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and
OBAMA: I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. It is like somebody
goes to a restaurant, orders a big steak dinner, martini, all that stuff,
and then, just as you are sitting down, they leave....
OBAMA: ... and accuse you of running up the tab.
MATTHEWS: Well, at a fund-raiser up in Baltimore, President Obama
used yet another analogy to describe the economic mess Republicans left him
and their refusal to accept blame.
But is this the way to win? Some Democrats are dubious and are going
public with their doubts.
Howard Fineman is an NBC political analyst and editorial director at
Huffington Post. His new article on Karl Rove appears in the premier issue
of the iPad-only news magazine called "Huffington."
MATTHEWS: Man, I had to say it right. It is a great magazine. And
it is online.
Maggie Haberman is of course senior writer for Politico.
You don`t have an iPad -- an i-magazine yet.
HOWARD FINEMAN, NBC CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: They don`t need
one. They don`t need one.
MATTHEWS: I`m just kidding. They don`t have one.
MAGGIE HABERMAN, POLITICO: Not yet.
MATTHEWS: I`m sure, Howard, you are a key to the premier issue.
MATTHEWS: OK, state to play. The producers and I spent about an hour
today, a lot of time, just trying to figure out, if we were Obama, where
would they be going right now?
FINEMAN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: What are they doing? What are they confronting? It`s what
everybody says. We are in a period of drop in terms of, we know the
polling is going to go down for this guy the next couple of months. We can
see it heading there. With nothing good in sight, what`s he doing about
that, that you can tell, Howard?
FINEMAN: Well, let me say that, first of all, he has got a situation
where Karl Rove, who I did write about in that premier issue of the iPad
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: Karl Rove`s attacking. There are new ads now out from
American Crossroads going after Democratic Senate candidates, talking about
the dismal state of the economy, talking about jobs, talking about taxes
are too high, talking about government is too big, the whole panoply.
And Barack Obama and the president and his allies are in the situation
here where they have to say, look, we are trying to help the middle class,
number one. And, number two, we have to save the things that are good
about the role of government from being taken over by and dismantled by the
regime that Mitt Romney would bring back in.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: So the problem is they have an essentially defensive
message, Chris.
Even as they look forward to the future and what he wants to do in a
second term, it`s mostly to protect the existing structure of government,
to save Social Security, to save Medicare, to save education loans for
students, the kinds of programs that the Democrats have lived on for two
Barack Obama, even though he was a change agent when he first got
elected, is essentially in a defensive posture that is very hard for him to
do. But that`s what they are saying. That`s what -- that`s his pitch.
MATTHEWS: Yes, he`s become Walter Mondale in this situation.
FINEMAN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Let`s take a look at Democratic strategist James Carville,
who is a smart guy. He says the Obama campaign`s message is off-track.
Let`s listen to James.
JAMES CARVILLE, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: I`m worried that when the White
House or the campaign talks about the being made, people take that as a
signal things are fine. And people feel that or believe that.
MATTHEWS: New strategy member from Carville`s group, Democracy
Corps, emphasizes people aren`t buying it, the Obama message right now. It
reads in part, "They know we are in a new normal -- a new normal -- where
life is a struggle. And convincing them things are good enough for those
who have found jobs is a fool`s errand."
Maggie, your turn now. It seems to me -- none of us have the job of
campaign manager or theme director for Obama. But it is a quizzical
question. What do you do when you are basically confounded by bad economic
news and people are screaming, they`re ready to just pounce on you and say,
are you better off than you were four years ago, just hoping they will hurt
the president?
MAGGIE HABERMAN, POLITICO: I think that Howard is right. I think
that this is why we are actually not going to see a dramatic shift in the
way that the Obama campaign is doing things. First of all, they don`t
think that they are doing anything wrong. They`re actually very happy with
the message. They don`t appreciate some of this free advice.
There are a lot of Democrats and not just people who are associated
with the Clinton world or Clinton himself who basically articulated the
same message that James Carville did, who think this does need to be about
policy. That the president does need to be talking about preserving middle
class, vision for the future.
But I think that they feel that they are articulating that well
enough and they think that Mitt Romney is doing worse. He is about to go
into summer month which is have never really been very kind for President
Obama. There is not much indication this summer is going to be much
better. But they think that there are going to be enough of -- you know,
outside events and things going to intervene they don`t need to sell their
message differently than they are.
MATTHEWS: OK. That`s an argument can be made, Howard, that summer
is not the time to bring out a product, because a lot of people are on
vacation. I understand it.
HOWARD FINEMAN, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Here is my question which we got to an hour of discussion
with the producers today. If you are Obama, and you have to sell the
people things are going to get better next four years, it`s going to be
better than this four, you still have your track record. And you have to
say, look how much I have done, I`m going to -- more next four years.
Does he have enough wind at his back in terms of what he accomplished
in terms of the economy? I have street cred. I`m going to be better next
FINEMAN: Well, I think he had more than he has had -- few months ago
than he has right now, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: Part of the problem is the numbers have turned bad in the
last month or two. And fatefully perhaps for him a lot of analysts think
that the second quarter of the presidential year is the one most affects
the standing of an incumbent president. Real income growth.
And in April, May, and June, the quarter we are in, numbers are not
good. It hurts his ability to make that sale and I think James Carville is
right about that.
I went over their questions and -- that produced that survey they
discussed. And they are -- the most popular messages, according to their
own survey, are the ones that Obama is out there trying to get across.
Namely, that they want to protect -- that he, Obama, want to protect the
middle class values and programs and the Republicans kind of want to text -
- complete detoxification of America and dismantle Social Security and
Medicare, student loans, you name it. That`s the theme of -- comparative
theme that the Obama campaign is going to pursue and there -- as Maggie
says, they are sticking with it.
And also, what new gigantic program is he going to propose? We have
to be very careful to tread on your credibility there if you are going to
propose some new thing. And Ryan Lizza of the "New Yorker," did a whole
piece about what Obama might want to do in his second term. Obama was
talking about -- or his aides were talking about climate change and nuclear
I mean, forget it. The big argument at the end of this year and the
new Congress is going to be about taxes to pay for government programs.
That`s where we`re at.
MATTHEWS: OK. Thank you, Howard Fineman. What a good show it is.
The name of the magazine is -- Huffington.
FINEMAN: Very clever name. Very clever.
MATTHEWS: Well, stay with the basics. Anyway, stay with what works.
Maggie Haberman, thank you. More time for you next time when Howard
doesn`t have a new product to explain.
FINEMAN: I`m sorry.
MATTHEWS: I know. He`s earned it to do it.
Up next, Bravo`s Andy Cohen joins -- people love this guy. He`s
going to talk politics, pop culture and, of course, President Obama. Andy
Cohen for those fans of his, he`s coming right here in a minute.
The place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Democrats picked up a win last night in a special election
to fill the House seat vacated by the great Gabby Giffords. Democrat Ron
Barber, former Giffords aide, beat Republican Jesse Kelly who narrowly lost
to Giffords herself in 2010. Giffords campaigned with Barber and was with
him last might at his victory celebration.
Barber will serve out the rest of her term and both he and Kelly,
Republican, promised to run again this November.
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: As I said, we are back and in the 24-hour news cycle
politics and pop culture often cross paths. And no one knows pop culture
better than Bravo Network`s Andy Cohen. He is host of the late night talk
show "Watch What Happens Live." He is the author, however, of a new book
"Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture."
Some of his biggest fans, I have to point out, since it`s in the
teleprompter right now are producers of HARDBALL.
ANDY COHEN, BRAVO NETWORK: Nice.
MATTHEWS: Yes, sir. By the way, both in New York where you are and
down here in Washington, everybody seems to absolutely love you.
COHEN: Wow.
MATTHEWS: Let me start with some -- you spent ten years producer for
CBS interviewing some of the smartest people in the world. Two weeks ago,
you asked the Miss USA contestants to name the name of something really
obscure -- the vice president of the United States.
Let`s watch the answers.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh gosh.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That`s awesome.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh my gosh!
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What`s his name? This is so bad. I just read
an article of "The New York Times."
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Joe Biden.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Biden.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Biden.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don`t know anything about politics. I don`t
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Joe Biden.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Joe Biden.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is bad.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don`t know. I`m blanking.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Joe Biden.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: World peace.
MATTHEWS: You know what I was thinking --
COHEN: At least they`re not running for vice president.
MATTHEWS: Don`t ask me about hockey, for example. But a lot of
things I didn`t know about. I didn`t know who Versace was when he died, a
lot of things happened, you know. But the vice president of the United
States --
COHEN: That was pretty shocking.
MATTHEWS: I heard the name Nixon growing up. I knew the name. It`s
in the environment.
COHEN: That was shocking to me. And the other crazy thing was that
on the Miss USA pageant which I hosted, one of the questions to one of the
five finalists was that many of you don`t know the name of the vice
president. And it was asked of I think Miss Nevada. He said how do you
explain this?
And she said, oh, well it was late at night when we were asked the
question. We were tired. I mean, it was a punt.
So, yes, no. It was not their finest moment of those contestants.
By the way, Miss Rhode Island who won actually, I think, has a good head on
her shoulders.
MATTHEWS: Yes, I judged the miss America contest a couple years ago.
I found a variety of abilities. Some people are really smart, I must say,
in the crowd.
Let me ask you about the glitch in this election. Let`s talk --
here`s something here. You`ve got a fund raiser coming up here now. And
it`s tomorrow night. All right?
Let`s look at the SOT that talks about that.
ANNA WINTOUR: Hi, I`m Anna Wintour. I`m so lucky in my work I`m
able to meet some of the most incredible woman in the world. Women like
Sarah Jessica Parker and Michelle Obama. These two wonderful women and I
are hosting a dinner, along with the president, in New York City, to
benefit the Obama campaign on June 14th. It will be a fantastic evening
and you can join us. We`re saving the two best seats in the house for you,
but you have to enter to win.
MATTHEWS: Well, President Obama`s critics pounced on this web ad
from "Vogue" magazine editor Anna Wintour.
You know, "Devil Wears Prada" was a heck of a movie. I wonder if
this is going to be a heck of a campaign ad.
I was talking to Elizabeth Warren, who`s very impressive. She`s got
a great warrior the abuses of Wall Street. She`s got a really tough
campaign up there.
I said, doesn`t the Republican Party have a problem with this wine
and cheese, elite cultural image that doesn`t square with their regular
person`s economics.
COHEN: Right.
MATTHEWS: Now I`m asking you that question.
COHEN: I hadn`t seen that ad. I saw one that Sarah Jessica did that
I thought was great. She`s a very approachable person and very likable.
When I saw that ad, I thought, oh, that`s great.
I understand how this ad that you just showed might seem a little,
you know, a little non-accessible. But I think that the idea that they`re
allowing two people to go to this dinner tomorrow night that just by, you
know, joining a raffle or whatever or giving any amount of money is cool.
I think that was the message they were trying to convey.
COHEN: I had only seen the one Sarah Jessica taped. I`m going to
that, by the way. I`ll let you know how it is.
MATTHEWS: Well, good. You can be my reporter.
But let me ask you about something that I -- here`s a tough question.
This will be my who`s the vice president question. Why would a gay man
join the Log Cabin? I`ve spoken to them. I like the guys in it. But I
have to tell you I don`t know why a gay person today would be a Republican,
would raise money for that party. They`ve been so clear they think there`s
money to be made, votes to be made in basically gay-bashing.
COHEN: Right. It`s something I`ve never understood. It`s a topic
that I`m fascinated. I was an executive producer of a documentary years
ago called "Gay Republicans," because I`m interested in why someone would
support a party that doesn`t necessarily support equality for that person.
And I can only assume it`s about the wallet. It`s about I`m a fiscal
Republican. But for me -- and it`s funny. I`m not political on my show at
all, but gay issues are something that not only are of a great concern to
me but just as a human being, I feel so obviously passionate about being
treated equally to everyone else that it is the one thing that I really
speak up about on my show.
MATTHEWS: Fair enough.
COHEN: So I can`t -- I can`t understand, Chris, the idea of saying
oh well they`re going to put more money in my bank account. Who cares if
they don`t believe I can get married. I don`t get it.
MATTHEWS: Yes. I think it`s worse than that but you`re kind to put
it that way. I know why everybody likes you now. Andy Cohen from Bravo`s
"Watch What Happens Live." And by the way, the name of your book again,
"Most Talkative."
COHEN: Thanks, Chris.
MATTHEWS: When we return, let me finish to Sandusky on that matter.
It`s about time we know what these guys have been doing or alleged to have
been doing, some cases really have been doing to our kids. We`re talking
about 11-year-olds, 12-year-olds.
You`re watching HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with the Sandusky case, this whole
Penn State mess. It`s interesting, don`t you think, that this is the first
such case that we`ve finally covered on television. It`s the first time
we`ve heard the graphic details of what goes on in these cases. We`re
learning what the charges are, what the conduct that`s being alleged really
was. We`re getting the skin-crawling truth. And it`s about time.
Journalism has to be respectful, I understand that, but for years
these cases of adult sexual abuse of children has been soft peddled in the
media. We got used to words like molested without any idea of what`s being
described. There`s been too much avoidance of what should have been
described clearly. The result has been an unintentional downplaying of the
Perhaps, just perhaps, this has helped the perpetrators and those
covering up for them escape the full public outrage and with it rebuke that
finally occurred but didn`t so long in such cases.
I`m referring to my church here. Like so many millions of others, I
never got the picture in the early going. I never understood what was
going on in these cases of priests abusing altar boys. I never couldn`t
get my head around it because the hesitant manner they were reported. This
case in Pennsylvania, up in Centre County, is teaching us all what crime
looks like. Serious crime. There will be no more averting our glance
after this. No more of that, thank God. From here on in, the people are
going to know, the criminals are going to pay.
And that`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
"POLITICS NATION" with Al Sharpton starts right now.
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