{"id":11822,"date":"2007-09-21T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/w-on-music-royalties\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T02:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T02:40:00","slug":"w-on-music-royalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/w-on-music-royalties\/","title":{"rendered":"W on Music Royalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that presidents aren&rsquo;t necessarily informed on every little thing, but W&rsquo;s response to a question about music royalties is more moronically clueless than usual.  This is straight from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2007\/07\/20070719-3.html\" target=\"_blank\">official transcript<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q Mr. President, music is one of our largest exports the country has. Currently, every country in the world &ndash; except China, Iran, North Korea, Rwanda and the United States &ndash; pay a statutory royalty to the performing artists for radio and television air play. Would your administration consider changing our laws to align it with the rest of the world?<\/p>\n<p>    THE PRESIDENT: Help. (Laughter.) Maybe you&rsquo;ve never had a President say this &ndash; I have, like, no earthly idea what you&rsquo;re talking about. (Laughter and applause.) Sounds like we&rsquo;re keeping interesting company, you know? (Laughter.) Look, I&rsquo;ll give you the old classic: contact my office, will you? (Laughter.) I really don&rsquo;t &ndash; I&rsquo;m totally out of my lane. I like listening to country music, if that helps. (Laughter.) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/posts\/bush_on_music_royalties\/\" target=\"_blank\">J-Walk Blog<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/w\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">w<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/music\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/tech\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">tech<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/business\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">business<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/dick\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">dick<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-71441450663005276?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that presidents aren&rsquo;t necessarily informed on every little thing, but W&rsquo;s response to a question about music royalties is more moronically clueless than usual. This is straight from the official transcript: Q Mr. President, music is one of our largest exports the country has. Currently, every country in the world &ndash; except China, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/21\/w-on-music-royalties\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;W on Music Royalties&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-11822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}