>>Powell has made amends. I support his getting upset on his COS. "Spilling beans" is not the way things are done. Instead, he did it the honorable way which is to quit. And he went a step further by supporting Obama over McCain.<<
I think he knew he was being used from the get go. He did keep asking questions like he suspected something; and did it anyway.
And Powell did not quit until the second term. Is that the exact moment when he figured it out? That would be a pretty big coincidence. Wouldn't it have made a bigger impact if he had quit as soon as he knew? He should have quit the minute he suspected he had been used, not wait for his first term to end.
And his crime like Macnamera's was too large for any amends.
Spilling the beans? Bush and Cheney took us right down the road to fascism I would hope someone would spill the beans.
And he supported Obama at the very end, when it was safe to do so. And you do not see Obama recognizing him anymore than Steele.
But what was he even doing in a party that caused his people so much grief?
>.He is one who toiled his way up and like all right thinking folks, I accept his philosophy which, in his own words is "socially liberal, fiscally conservative." Unlike the one who said "compassionate conservative" during the campaign but turned out to be a neocon supporter once he got to the WH.
Powell said it very powerfully when he talked about the fallen soldier in Arlington where "on his tombstone was not a cross or the Star of David but a star and a crescent moon." That, my friend.>>
I have read a lot of his biography. They said Powell loved ROTC. He loved the army. In my opinion, one does not romantasize armies or war. Nothing glorious about war.
Last, Michael Powell, was involved in some very shady stuff as chairman of the FCC. His derregulation allowed large players to control the airays e.g. Murdock and IMO reduced our freedom in a serious way. Why kind of moral eduction did Powel provide him with? My kids do not act like that.
""As the chairman of the FCC, Powell led from his long-stated libertarian philosophy of deregulation of communications. Powell saw excessive regulation as stifling to technological innovation, and led the charge to open up markets in VoIP, Wi-Fi, and Broadband over Powerline (BPL). His Chicago School approach (read Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman's unregulated capitalism) believed that these new communications technologies would allow small companies to take on established corporations, and that regulations often stood in the way of progress.
Powell began his tenure at the FCC with a controversial comment comparing the digital divide to a Mercedes divide (""I think there's a Mercedes divide," Powell told the press. "I'd like to have one, but I can't afford one"). His libertarian deregulatory policy coincided with a period of significant consolidation in the communications market. He advocated an updating of media ownership rules to reflect new communications technologies such as the Internet, a move that critics derided as increasing rampant media consolidation. He opposed applying telephone-era regulations to new Internet technologies, a move critics charged would deny open access to communications facilities. He articulated a policy of network neutrality, and in March 2005 fined Madison River Communications for blocking voice over IP applications, the first-ever government action of its kind.[1]
A defining moment of his tenure as FCC Chairman was the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy, in which Janet Jackson's breast was exposed on live-broadcast television. This high-profile incident increased public attention toward the FCC's enforcement of indecency rules, which had already stepped up following Bono's use of an expletive on live TV. Howard Stern and other controversial on-air personalities felt the sting of record fines, and both the U.S. House and Senate separately approved legislation significantly increasing the amount of money a station could be fined for indecency. Although the legislation was not ultimately enacted, the climate in Washington became so grey that several TV stations across the country declined to air Saving Private Ryan on Veterans Day for fear of FCC fines.
Some of Powell's initiatives have been challenged in federal court. Notably, the FCC's BrandX cable modem service proceeding, which declared cable modem should be free from telephone service regulations, was overturned in the Ninth Circuit case but is currently before the Supreme Court. The FCC's Broadcast Flag proceeding was overturned by the D.C. Circuit Court as an inappropriate exercise of FCC jurisdiction. The FCC's Media Ownership rules were likewise blocked by federal court and the television ownership cap set directly by the U.S. Congress.
During his Chairmanship he was invited to speak at the University of California, San Diego on January 26, 2004. The video is available on-line through the University of California, and is titled: FCC's Michael Powell: Charting the Future of the Telecom Industry.[2] In the talk Powell spoke about the process of effecting change in Washington. He also spoke about Ultra-wideband and speculated on the effect it would have on telecommunications.
In a notable confrontation over the FCC's local telephone competition rules, Powell was outflanked by Republican Kevin Martin, who formed a majority with the FCC's two Democratic commissioners. Powell was later vindicated by a D.C. Circuit Court decision on March 2, 2004 that struck down Martin's order. Three months later, the U.S. Supreme Court let the D.C. Circuit decision stand. When Powell resigned, Kevin Martin, who served George W. Bush's presidential campaign in Florida, was named the FCC's new Chairman. Martin has subsequently purged the FCC of many of Powell's staff.
[edit] On-air Confrontation with Howard Stern on KGO Radio
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