Al Franken struggles to explain net neutrality to Ted Cruz: You are ‘completely wrong’
Explaining a moderately complicated policy to an extremist... a struggle.
But Franken told CNN’s Candy Crowley that Cruz had the concept of net neutrality “completely wrong.”
“CNN’s website, [and] a blogger in Duluth, Minnesota travels at the same speed… The New York Times, their website travels the same speed,” Franken pointed out. “That’s the way that it’s been from the beginning. And we want to keep it that way.”
“He has it completely wrong, he just doesn’t understand what this issue is,” the Minnesota Democrat said of Cruz. “We’ve had net neutrality the entire history of the Internet.”
Franken observed that “Obamacare was government program that fixed something, that changed things. This is about reclassifying something so it stays the same. This would keep things exactly the same as they’ve been.”
Watch the video below from CNN’s State of the Union, broadcast Nov. 16, 2014.
I can understand why Al Franken and you think Ted Cruz is a dummy. After all, here are Al Franken's credentials:
"Franken graduated from
The Blake Schoolin 1969, where he was a member of the wrestling team. He then attended
Harvard University where he majored in
government, graduating
cum laude with a
Bachelor of Arts in 1973."
He and you probably compared that degree with the one of Ted Cruz. I have to admit I was unable to find where Cruz was on a wresting team.
"Cruz attended high school at
Faith West Academy in
Katy, Texas,and later graduated from
Second Baptist High School in
Houston as
valedictorian in 1988.
During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the
Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as
Milton Friedman,
Friedrich Hayek,
Frédéric Bastiat and
Ludwig von Mises.The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13.
[
Cruz graduated
cum laude from
Princeton University with a
Bachelor of Arts degree from the
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.While at Princeton, he competed for the
American Whig-Cliosophic Society's
Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992
North American Debating Championship.In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995
World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship.Princeton's debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.
After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended
Harvard Law School, graduating
magna cum laude in 1995 with a
Juris Doctor degree.While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the
Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the
Harvard Latino Law Review.
[7] Referring to Cruz's time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor
Alan Dershowitzsaid, "Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant."At Harvard Law, Cruz was a
John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics."