Subject: Correct The Record Wednesday November 12, 2014 Afternoon Roundup
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*​**Correct The Record Wednesday November 12, 2014 Afternoon Roundup:*

*Tweets:*

*Sec. Hillary Rodham Clinton* @HillaryClinton: Thinking of my dad today,
and all of the others who served before and after him. #VeteransDay
[11/11/14, 5:38 p.m. EST
<https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/532301376907644929>]

*Pres. Bill Clinton* @billclinton: On #VeteransDay, honoring all the brave
men and women who have given – and continue to give - so much to our great
country. [11/11/14,1:22 p.m. EST
<https://twitter.com/billclinton/status/532236947121774592>]

*Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: .@HillaryClinton
<https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton> introduced the 21st Century G.I. Bill
of Rights to help veterans adjust post deployment #VeteransDay
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/VeteransDay?src=hash>
http://correctrecord.org/hillary-clinton-a-record-of-service-to-veterans/ …
<http://t.co/bSpDUHRML6> [11/11/14, 4:01 p.m. EST
<https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/532276884260651008>]

*Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: .@HillaryClinton
<https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton> cosponsored Veterans Suicide
Prevention Act hoping to reduce suicide among vets #HRC365
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/HRC365?src=hash> #VeteransDay
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/VeteransDay?src=hash>http://1.usa.gov/1lq28MC
<http://t.co/fPp8MpJHF7> [11/11/14, 2:06 p.m. EST
<https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/532247895504732160>]

*Headlines:*

*Media Matters for America: “Fox News Senior Vice President Slams Rand
Paul's Attacks On Hillary Clinton's Age”
<http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/11/12/fox-news-senior-vice-president-slams-rand-pauls/201531>*

“Fox News host Neil Cavuto took aim at one of his own network's favorite
smears against Hillary Clinton -- that she's too old to run for president.”

*Newsmax: “Neil Cavuto Slams Rand Paul Over Attack on Hillary's Age”
<http://www.newsmax.com/US/Neil-Cavuto-Rand-Paul-Hillary-Clinton-age/2014/11/12/id/606928/>*

“Fox News host Neil Cavuto has slammed Sen. Rand Paul’s for his
‘condescending swipe’ at Hillary Clinton over whether she’s too old for the
‘rigorous physical ordeal’ of a presidential campaign.”

*The Hill: “2016 crowd rushes to define positions on net neutrality”
<http://thehill.com/policy/technology/223840-2016-crowd-rushes-to-define-positions-on-net-neutrality>*

“Clinton supported net neutrality legislation while in the Senate, and said
last month that ‘it is absolutely clear to me we have to keep the Internet
open.’”

*Forbes: “Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand On Why Ambition Is Not A Dirty Word”
<http://www.forbes.com/sites/moiraforbes/2014/11/12/sen-kirsten-gillibrand-on-why-ambition-is-not-a-dirty-word/>*

“Like many of the women who’ve recently raised their hands to run for
office, Gillibrand didn’t launch her career with political ambitions. She
first established her reputation in corporate law, quickly rising the
ranks, when an invitation in 1999 to attend a women’s leadership event,
featuring then-first lady Hillary Clinton, forever changed her path.
‘Decisions are being made every day in Washington. And if you’re not part
of those decisions and you don’t like them, you have no one to blame but
yourself,’ remarked Clinton in her address. Gillibrand thought to herself,
‘Oh my god, she [Clinton] is talking to me. I need to get involved in
politics.’ It was a game-changer for Gillibrand; she decided in that moment
to get involved.”

*Articles:*

*Media Matters for America: “Fox News Senior Vice President Slams Rand
Paul's Attacks On Hillary Clinton's Age”
<http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/11/12/fox-news-senior-vice-president-slams-rand-pauls/201531>*

By Olivia Kittel

November 12, 2014

[Subtitle:] Neil Cavuto's Statement Comes After Many Previous Attempts By
Fox To Scandalize Clinton's Age

Fox News host Neil Cavuto took aim at one of his own network's favorite
smears against Hillary Clinton -- that she's too old to run for president.

Fox News has gone to great lengths to scandalize Clinton's age in the run
up to 2016 -- Hosts have questioned whether being a grandmother would hurt
Clinton politically, and when Fox contributor Karl Rove claimed Hillary
Clinton suffered from brain damage after a fall, network figures ran
defense for him and amplified the smear. One contributor even accused
Clinton of needing plastic surgery before running for president. (Notably,
both John McCain and Ronald Reagan, Fox favorites, were older when they ran
for president than Clinton will be if she decides to enter the 2016 race.)

But this week Fox host Neil Cavuto broke from his colleagues, blasting a
likely 2016 Republican presidential candidate for making the same smears
against Clinton.

In a November 9 Politico interview detailing his 2016 presidential
aspirations, Sen. Paul (R-KY) suggested that former Secretary of State
Clinton, who is 67, may be too old to successfully campaign for president.
Paul claimed that it's not "certain" Clinton would win the Democratic
nomination because "it's a very taxing undertaking to go through. It's a
rigorous physical ordeal, I think, to be able to campaign for the
presidency."

Cavuto called out Paul on the November 11 edition of Fox News' Your World,
calling his criticism of Clinton "so base and so cheap." Such
"over-the-top-cheap shots" could undermine GOP efforts to expand their
base, Cavuto said, noting the sexist nature of the attack and emphasizing
that Paul has not criticized the age of other politicians like Reagan,
Winston Churchill, and Paul's own father Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). Cavuto went
on to highlight Clinton's achievements as Secretary of State, saying "I
think it's fair to say that Hillary Clinton was up to the physical rigors
of the job and then some."

*Newsmax: “Neil Cavuto Slams Rand Paul Over Attack on Hillary's Age”
<http://www.newsmax.com/US/Neil-Cavuto-Rand-Paul-Hillary-Clinton-age/2014/11/12/id/606928/>*

By Drew MacKenzie

November 12, 2014, 12:38 p.m. EST

Fox News host Neil Cavuto has slammed Sen. Rand Paul’s for his
"condescending swipe" at Hillary Clinton over whether she’s too old for the
"rigorous physical ordeal" of a presidential campaign.

Cavuto said that the Republican Kentucky senator had done more damage with
his "cheap shots" than New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie did when he shouted
at a heckler to "shut up,"

according to Mediaite.

During an interview with Politico this month, Paul had claimed that
Clinton's age, 67, could be a factor in her campaign if she runs.

"I think all the polls show if she does run, she'll win the Democrat
nomination," said Paul, 51. "But I don't think it's for certain. It's a
very taxing undertaking to go through. It's a rigorous physical ordeal, I
think, to be able to campaign for the presidency."

Calling it "nonsense," Cavuto fired back Tuesday at Paul, who has yet to
announce whether he plans a presidential bid.

"So what are you saying then senator, that Hillary would be too old because
she would be 69 on Inauguration Day," Cavuto said during a broadcast.
"Maybe I missed it, but did you say the same about Ronald Reagan when he
was running. He was also 69 on Inauguration Day. He seemed to turn out OK.

"So did Winston Churchill. He was 66 when he became prime minister of
England, through its darkest hours, despite his age. So what in the world
are you getting at senator?

And why does it seem you are only getting at it with Hillary Clinton?"

"So are you going after Hillary Clinton because she’s a Democrat or a
woman, or both.

Either way you have done more damage with that condescending swipe than
Chris Christie could shaking a 1,000 ice cream cones in critics' faces."

Cavuto added that Paul should feel free to attack Clinton on her record as
secretary of state when she was in her 60s.

"But I think it's fair to say that Clinton was up to the rigors of the job,
and then some," he said, while noting she had logged record miles for any
secretary of state in U.S. history.

*The Hill: “2016 crowd rushes to define positions on net neutrality”
<http://thehill.com/policy/technology/223840-2016-crowd-rushes-to-define-positions-on-net-neutrality>*

By Mario Trujillo

November 12, 2014, 10:59 a.m. EST

A handful of potential 2016 candidates are rushing to define their position
on net neutrality following President Obama’s call for the Federal
Communications Commission to impose tougher regulations.

Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) was one of the first out of the gate, quickly tying
Obama’s proposal to treat the Internet like other public utilities to
ObamaCare.

“The biggest regulatory threat to the Internet is net neutrality,” he said.
“In short, net neutrality is Obamacare for the Internet.”

Obama said the FCC should impose regulations that would prevent some
companies from purchasing faster Internet lanes to deliver their services.
His comments were seen as a strong defense for net neutrality.

Net neutrality is not expected to play a significant role in the 2016
presidential election. But activists on both sides said the issue is
important to base voters in both parties.

“It is something I think both sides can go to their base on this and point
to this as a policy that is relevant in 2016,” said Wayne Brough, the chief
economist at the conservative FreedomWorks, which opposes Obama’s plan.

“If one is trying to present oneself as a politician of the modern era who
is trying to rally the youth vote in particular, I think that it is a very
important position,” said David Segal, executive director of Demand
Progress, which supports Obama’s plan.

Other 2016 contenders weighed in this week as well. Sen. Marco Rubio
(R-Fla.) expressed opposition, while Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and
Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) supported
the president.

Others, including Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic
nomination, have not. Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) office did not respond for a
request for comment.

Administration officials said Obama's proposal tracked closely with
promises he made during his first presidential campaign in 2008 when he
said he would “take a backseat to no one in my commitment to network
neutrality.”

Obama called on the independent FCC to use the strongest authority possible
to enforce open Internet rules online. Reports have indicated FCC chairman
Tom Wheeler is pushing for a more nuanced approach.

Supporters of net neutrality want the FCC to finalize rules as soon as
possible, but litigation and action by the GOP-led Congress could keep the
issue alive throughout the 2016 presidential campaign.

Rubio said a main focus of Congress in the next two years should be to
“provide clarity” on the FCC's regulatory authority of broadband.

Both Rubio and Cruz sit on the Senate Commerce Committee, which has
jurisdiction on the issue.

Brough, the FreedomWorks economist, said Cruz’s background on the issue
could make him particularly vocal.

“He might be more sensitive to it and talk about it more than some of the
other candidates might,” Brough said.

Other Republicans have not weighed in. But back in 2012 when his father was
still running for president, Paul endorsed an Internet manifesto that
disparagingly described the broader concept of net neutrality as another
phrase for the government acting as an “arbiter and enforcer.”

Similarly, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal  (R) voted against a net neutrality
proposal as a member of Congress back in 2006, along with nearly every
other Republican at the time.

The issue might be most prominent in a Democratic primary. Activists helped
push supporters to submit nearly 4 million comments to the FCC earlier this
year, surpassing previous records.

Warren and Sanders both gave ringing endorsements of Obama's proposal.

Sanders, who is publicly considering a White House run, framed the issue as
a fight against an “army of Comcast and Verizon lobbyists” who oppose the
strict rules. Warren, who has maintained she will not run for the White
House, urged the FCC to put Obama's plan in place “as soon as possible.”

O'Malley, who is also seen as mulling a White House run, said the Internet
should not have “gatekeepers” picking winners and losers online.

Clinton supported net neutrality legislation while in the Senate, and said
last month that “it is absolutely clear to me we have to keep the Internet
open.”

Public Knowledge, a supporter of Obama's proposal, cited Clinton when
describing the Obama administration's dedication to the Internet.

“Starting with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's push to open the
Internet globally, the administration's strong antitrust enforcement to
support competition in the digital marketplace, and now strong open
Internet rules for the U.S., the Obama Administration has demonstrated
world leadership to promote freedom of expression,” the group said earlier
this week.

*Forbes: “Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand On Why Ambition Is Not A Dirty Word”
<http://www.forbes.com/sites/moiraforbes/2014/11/12/sen-kirsten-gillibrand-on-why-ambition-is-not-a-dirty-word/>*

By Moira Forbes

November 12, 2014, 11:12 a.m. EST

Kirsten Gillibrand, the junior U.S. Senator from New York (D), is issuing a
challenge to women everywhere. Her book, Off The Sidelines: Raise Your
Voice, Change the World, is a call to action for women to get involved in
public life and affect change in their communities. She argues that while
women may have made great strides in the business arena, their presence in
the political and policy space remains anemic. Her mission? “To elevate
women’s voices in the public sphere and bring women more fully into making
the decisions that shape our country.”

Gillbrand’s challenge to women, whatever their political persuasion, has a
special resonance following the recent midterm elections. While Republicans
triumphed at the voting booths, one notable result was how many women won
high office. Three female governors retained their posts by landslides,
while others achieved remarkable victories such as Joni Ernst in Iowa for
U.S. Senate, and Mia Love in Utah who became the first female, African
American Republican elected to Congress.

Like many of the women who’ve recently raised their hands to run for
office, Gillibrand didn’t launch her career with political ambitions. She
first established her reputation in corporate law, quickly rising the
ranks, when an invitation in 1999 to attend a women’s leadership event,
featuring then-first lady Hillary Clinton, forever changed her path.
“Decisions are being made every day in Washington. And if you’re not part
of those decisions and you don’t like them, you have no one to blame but
yourself,” remarked Clinton in her address. Gillibrand thought to herself,
“Oh my god, she [Clinton] is talking to me. I need to get involved in
politics.” It was a game-changer for Gillibrand; she decided in that moment
to get involved.

“I really had no chance of success when I ran for Congress in 2006,
according to anybody who had any knowledge of my district,” recalls
Gillibrand, who took a big risk moving from law to public service, and then
by running for office. “It was a two-to-one Republican district, and I ran
as a Democrat. And the only people who believed I had a chance of winning
were my mother and me. And that was it.”

Like many of us, she also questioned whether she was qualified enough to
take on this political post. “I felt almost embarrassed to say ‘I want to
run for Congress…I just felt, ‘Am I smart enough? Am I tough enough? Can I
do this job?’” recalls Gillibrand. “A lot of us doubt ourselves. And it’s
something we have to overcome.” But even so, she decided it was far more
important to enter the fight than to win. At the very least, she could
elevate the dialogue around important issues and hold others accountable
for their voting record. In other words, she could actually make a big
difference even without winning the election.

“I think that’s true in any arena where a woman is trying to be heard.
Whether you win the referendum that you’re fighting for, whether you get
the sign put in your crosswalk in your neighborhood, when people know you
care, it makes them care,” says Gillibrand. “If they know this is something
you really want to fight for, it makes other people fight for it.” The
mother of two hammers home the message that you don’t have to be “in
charge” to make a difference. “I’ve had young women write letters to their
local newspapers holding Senators accountable for votes they did not agree
with, and those Senators had to respond to these young women,” she says.
Everyone can make a difference by channeling passion and purpose around an
important issue.

With maturity and perspective, Gillibrand also now realizes that “ambition
is not a dirty word, that it’s okay to aspire to big things…It doesn’t
matter what you aspire to. You can do anything you set your mind to,” she
advises. “You just have to work hard and believe in yourself. And that’s
what ultimately I had to do for myself to be able to run and win.”

I recently sat down with Senator Gillibrand for a candid conversation about
the zig-zag path that led her to public service, and the critical life
lessons she’s learned in the challenging environment of the United States
Senate.