Pelosi - Last week, we

Pelosi - Last week, we discussed Glenn Reynolds' notion that the GOP should investigate corruption in Hollywood, especially the very dubious accounting used in artists' contracts, accounting practices crooked enough to make an Enron exec blanche with horror..

Today, Army Archerd (who reminds me of nobody so much as Jackie Harvey) writes about new House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's close, cordial ties to Hollywood.

Roz Wyman's association with Pelosi dates back to the Demo Convention in SanFran in 1984. "She (Pelosi) has many friends in the industry," Wyman told me. They include the Kirk Douglases, Warren Beatty (news) and Annette Bening (news) and Sherry Lansing, who co-hosted one of the Hollywood welcoming parties for Pelosi earlier this year.

And, of course, Jack Valenti has known Pelosi throughout her career and reminds, "She makes sure that our highest priority is protection of copyrights."

Read: The RIAA's and MPAA's attempts to coerce Congress to allow the industry to hack your computer to chase down copyrighted material just got themselves a big, powerful friend.

At the risk, indeed the certainty of speaking too soon - it'd seem 2004 is falling into place...

UPDATE: More on this from Jay Caruso.

In other words, she's in their back pocket, and that could provide the GOP with an opportunity to tap into a constituency they usually ignore - younger voters, specifically between the ages of 18-30...

The GOP should take note of this. They could easily make a case for the 'little guy' in the fight for fair use. Let them make Democrats on national television defend practices that have sent others to jail. Ask them if they want consumers to have to purchase two copies of the same CD so they can listen to it on a stereo and a computer. Ask them if they want a CD crashing their PC.

It's an issue the GOP could easily win.

True. We just have to convince the likes of Trent Lott that this is a priority.

I'll start with Norm Coleman!

Posted by Mitch at November 12, 2002 11:42 AM