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Kerry Wins Iowa, Edwards Second, Dean Places A Distant Third
Arundhati Roy Addresses Tens of Thousands At World of Social
Forum Opening in Bombay
Scalia, Cheney Buddy-Hunting Trip Raises Doubts About Impartiality
in Supreme Court Case
Bush Installs Judge Pickering in Recess Appointment
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:40 Kerry Wins Iowa, Edwards Second, Dean Places
A Distant Third
INTRO: In what's being called "one of the biggest turnabouts
in modern electoral history" Senator John Kerry wins
Iowa Caucus. Edwards catapults to second. Dean falls from
front-runner to third. Richard Gephardt drops out after finishing
fourth. We go to Iowa and New Hampshire.
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry won the Iowa caucus Senator
John Edwards came in a strong second in a night that shook
up the race for the Democratic presidential nominee.
Kerry received 38 percent of the Iowa delegates, Edwards
received 31 percent. Coming in third was former Vermont Governor
Howard Dean with 18 percent. Up until this week Dean was widely
viewed as the race's frontrunner. Congressman Richard Gephardt
received 11 percent and Congressman Dennis Kucinich received
one percent.
Less than a month and a half ago, Zogby released a poll that
Howard Dean winning Iowa with more than 26 percent of the
vote. Gephardt polled a close second. Neither Kerry nor Edwards
broke 10 percent.
But over the past two weeks the campaigns of Kerry and Edwards
soared while Dean and Gephardt's faltered. The Christian Science
Monitor described it as "one of the biggest turnabouts
in modern electoral history."
Writing in the Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz
, writes that "just about everything you heard and read
about the Iowa caucuses in November and December was wrong.
The press would have done better if all the reporters had
taken a long vacation."
In a victory speech, Kerry stood side by side with Senator
Ted Kennedy and dubbed himself "Comeback Kerry."
He said: "I have a special message for the special interests
that have a home in the Bush White House: We're coming, you're
going and don't let the door hit you on the way out."
Like Kerry Senator Edwards popularity in Iowa soared in recent
weeks. A jubilant candidate spoke with backers last night.
Dean, who was hoping to capitalize on his anti-war views
and his grassroots organizing effort, vowed to fight on. He
told his supporters that his campaign is ready to fight a
50-state race to win the presidency. Dean lost even though
he had spent over $8 million in Iowa and had won the much
coveted endorsements of former Vice President Al Gore, Iowa
Senator Tom Harkin and former Senator Bill Bradley. On Saturday
Dean left Iowa for a short trip to Georgia where he met with
former president Jimmy Carter.
Gephardt, who won the Iowa caucus in 1988 and had the biggest
union backing, is expected to officially announce today in
his home state of Missouri the end of his 33-year career in
politics. He spoke last night to supporters. The focus now
turns to New Hampshire.
Senator Joseph Lieberman and General Wesley Clark opted to
skip the Iowa caucus to focus on New Hampshire. Lieberman's
campaign received the endorsement Monday of the state's only
statewide newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader.
Tape:
- Hugh Winebrenner, professor emeritus at Drake University
and author of "The Iowa Precinct Caucuses: The Making
of a Media Event."
- Patrick Healy, Boston Globe reporter covering the John
Kerry campaign. He is speaking to us in New Hampshire where
he arrived early this morning from Iowa.
- John Nichols, the Washington correspondent for The Nation
magazine and the editor of the editorial page of Madison,
Wisconsin's Capital Times. He has been reporting from Iowa
recently on the state’s caucus which will be held
on Monday. He the author of two books: It's the Media, Stupid
and Jews for Buchanan.
- Rep. Wayne Ford, Iowa State representative (D-Des Moines)
and co-chair of the Iowa Brown and Black Presidential Forum,
a non-partisan minority issues organization.
Link: www.bbpresforum.org
- Bill Shaheen, New Hampshire campaign manager for John
Kerry.
8:20-8:21 One Minute Music Break
8:21-8:40 Iowa Cont’d
8:40-8:41 One Minute Music Break
8:41-8:45 Arundhati Roy Addresses Tens of Thousands
At World of Social Forum Opening in Bombay
INTRO: Tens of thousands of people gathered at the opening
of the six-day annual World Social Forum in Bombay, India
this weekend. Award-winning author Arundhati Roy was among
the speakers in the first three days of the forum, we play
an excerpt of her address.
Tens of thousands of people gathered at the opening of the
six-day annual World Social Forum in Bombay, India this weekend.
This marks the first time the World Social Forum is held outside
of Brazil.
People addressed a range of issues including trade and the
inequities of global capitalism as well as opposing war, India’s
racist caste system and sexual and religious discrimination.
As in the last three years, this year's World Social Forum
is timed to run concurrently with the World Economic Forum
in Davos, Switzerland, which is a gathering of the world’s
corporate executives and political leaders.
The speakers in the first three days of the forum included
José Bové, the French farmer who led the demolition
of a half-built McDonald's outlet to protest globalization;
the Iranian human rights activist and Nobel laureate Shirin
Ebadi as well as Indian novelist Arundhati Roy. This is what
she had to say
- Arundhati Roy, Indian author and campaigner addressing
tens of thousands of people gathered at the opening of the
World Social Forum 2004 in Bombay, India.
8:45-8:50 Scalia, Cheney Buddy-Hunting Trip Raises
Doubts About Impartiality in Supreme Court Case
INTRO: Justice Antonin Scalia has not indicated whether
he will pull out of an upcoming Supreme Court case involving
Vice President Dick Cheney and his handling of the administration's
energy task force following reports the two recently went
on a hunting trip and had dinner together.
Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia spent part of last week duck hunting together at a
private camp in southern Louisiana just three weeks after
the Supreme Court agreed to take up Cheney’s appeal
in lawsuits over his handling of the administration's energy
task force. Scalia has not yet indicated whether he will pull
out.
Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia spent part of last week duck hunting together at a
private camp in southern Louisiana.
This may not seem strange given that Cheney and Scalia are
avid hunters and longtime friends. But the buddy-hunting trip
comes just three weeks after the Supreme Court agreed to take
up Cheney’s appeal in lawsuits over his handling of
the administration's energy task force.
For nearly three years, Cheney has been fighting demands
that he reveal whether he met with energy industry officials,
including then-Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay, while he was formulating
the president's energy policy. A lower court ruled that Cheney
must turn over documents detailing who met with his task force,
but on Dec. 15, the high court announced it would hear his
appeal.
Three weeks later, Cheney and Scalia arrive in Louisiana
on Gulfstream jets to shoot ducks together. Federal laws dictate
a judge or justice should remove himself from a case if there
are questions about his or her fairness or impartiality.
Scalia has not yet indicated whether he will pull out of
the case. He defended the hunting excursion in a written statement
saying, “Social contacts with high-level executive officials
have never been thought improper for judges who may have before
them cases in which those people are involved in their official
capacity, as opposed to their personal capacity.”
The Los Angeles Times – which broke the story –
reported that while the local police were told about Cheney's
trip shortly before his arrival, they were told to keep it
a secret.
8:50-8:58 Bush Installs Judge Pickering in Recess
Appointment
INTRO: President Bush used his recess appointing power to
install Mississippi judge Charles Pickering to a federal appeals
court after Democratic Senators blocked his nomination in
October. Pickering’s critics say he backed laws barring
interracial marriage and had ties to segregationist groups.
President Bush used his recess appointing power Friday to
install Mississippi judge Charles Pickering to the Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals.
In October Democratic Senators blocked the nomination of
Pickering to the federal appeals court. His nomination has
been widely criticized by civil rights groups. From the bench,
Pickering once advocated for the reduction of a sentence for
a man who was convicted of burning a cross near the home of
an interracial couple.
The recess appointment means that Pickering will serve until
January 2005, when the next Congress is sworn in. Until then,
Pickering's appointment will not have to be confirmed.
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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