There is a reason why I did not defend Hilary Rosen during yesterday's one day controversy

[bluestateguy]

As president of the RIAA she engineered the mass lawsuits against file sharers and downloaders. 13 year old girls getting sued for downloading a Ricky Martin song. Heaven help it if anyone should try to find a way to avoid buying their overpriced CDs.

I regard that as unforgivable.

Well, somebody else can defend her. It's just not going to be me.

[cali]

1. that's kind of pathetic. No, wait a minute. That is pathetic.

[chollybocker]

2. Are you capable of carrying

more than one thought in your head at the same time? If not, then your point is very well-founded.

[bluestate10]

3. I defend Rosen.

First, let me settle the lawsuit issue. Creative artists put work into their crafts, they expect to get paid for doing so. If you think their product is over priced and the companies that sell those products ripping you off, do buy. Would you expect to walk into a bakery and pass around bread to other people as each of you sample? Would you expect not to pay the baker's asking price? Would you not find another baker if the price was unreasonable? Would you not use the free will to seek alternatives to the products that Rosen protected? Nothing is free.

Now to Rosen's statement on Ann Romney. Rosen worded the statement poorly, but Rosen was exactly right in her sentiment. A woman that has known nothing but privilege her entire life and seemingly never making an effort to work among and serve the less fortunate has no idea of what those people's lives are like. Ann Romney can speak for the very rich, but she is not a spokewoman for middle class and poor women for whom care care is a daily struggle, for some paying for daycare is out of question, so they get help from relatives that can provide daycare. Ann Romney knows nothing about having bills and being short of paying them weekly or monthly. Ann Romney knows nothing about having to chose between rent and food for her children. Ann Romney knows nothing about the lives of the majority of american women.

Mitt Romney put Ann Romney out as his spokeswomen and she agressively assumed that role. Ann Romney's shortcomings as a "representative" of people that she knows nothing about must be examined.

[Fumesucker]

4. Eh, here's the way the music industry treats those "creative artists" whose welfare you worry about.

The musician is Lester Chambers and the album is The Time Has Come..

[bahrbearian]

10. Wow I didn't know ,thanks I love that song.

[Common Sense Party]

5. No big deal. She can do damage control.

She did wonders for BP. She'll be back on top in no time.

[DeltaLitProf]

6. EXACTLY.

She is tin-eared, too. Has no idea how she comes off to viewers when she speaks. During her term as RIAA president, she was spiteful, very personal, and seemed to be doing all she could to make RIAA look like out of touch cowards picking on teenage downloaders because RIAA couldn't be bothered to do something different about music distribution.

She is bad news and needs to be fired immediately. She will only do us damage.

[joshcryer]

7. I didn't think she had to apologize for shit but I didn't really express my opinion...

...for that reason.

[seabeyond]

8. " find a way to avoid buying". or steal? as i would say to kids if they dared to try

that line.

[bigtree]

9. rec for the point about the lawsuits

we 'shared' all of our music I was young. Never thought once that I'd be sued. I think it would have been as absurd then as now.

I'm with the president on the other thing. These wives and family members shouldn't be targets of our political bullshit, I believe. Save it for the candidates, I say.

She apologized and moved on. That should be the end of it.