for michele bachmann, freezing with your eyes wide open and then running away. none of those options i think it s fair to say went all that great for the politico at the center of those human mike interruption protests. today in new hampshire the president of the united states was mike checked. when president obama chose to handle it rather differently than how the republicans have been dealing with it. before i came to school today, i mike check i had coffee. mike check! mr. president mr. president. over 4,000 peaceful protesters over 4,000 peaceful protesters. have been arrested. have been arrested. [ inaudible ] oh, that s okay. that s okay. okay. it s okay. that s all right. listen. the i m going to be talking about a whole range of things
it all starts with somebody yelling, mike check. then the crowd repeats that. and then the message gets delivered by human communication. the human mike and the mike check phenomenon turns out can also be used to interrupt other people s events. and that is something that political figures this year have to be prepared for. we have seen a wide range of responses to the mike check being used as a political interruption. some of these responses are effective, some not so much. we ll take one more question. you know, it looks like time s running out. yeah.ç mike check. mike check. mike check. we are the 99%. we are the 99%. we will be heard. we will be heard. there are criminals on wall street. there are criminals on wall street. who walk free. who walk free. there are protesters in jail. there are protesters in jail. there s something wrong. there s something wrong. with this system. with this system.
if you re a candidate who s being glittered or being in the case of oh, yeah in the case of tim pawlenty, a candidate who was being confettied. how do you oh, how do you handle that as a candidate? i mean, really, there s not much for the candidate to do in this circumstance. there s no real way to come out of that looking great. essentially, you should wait until it s over is probably the best advice for how to deal with that. more recently we ve seen another new protest tactic gain traction across the country. that is the human mike. the human mike is an occupy wall street innovation. in the absence of a microphone, it s the means of communicating to a large group of people. mike check. mike check. we amplify each other s voices we amplify each other s voices. we amplify each other s voices. no matter what s said no matter what s said. no matter what s said. so we can hear one another so we can hear one another.
times for people who aren t rich players or owners. take san antonio. the spurs are the only major pro sports team. some 4,000 people depend on them for a living. and then cities like sacramento, orlando, portland, salt lake city, the nba is the only major pro sport in that town. we ll see the economic impact there for sure in those cities. so, let s talk more about this with mike pesca from mpr. mike, it s a complicated money dispute, no doubt. what is the main sticking point at 9:01 eastern time on this tuesday? money. lots and lots of money. the players get 57% of all basketball relate under come and the owners get 43% and the owners are saying just not a high enough percent for us to have this be a viable business. inowners are saying 22 of the 30 teams don t make a profit. they re willing or at least publicly saying they re willing to blow up this system. nba players are very well paid. the best in professional sports in the world. their average salary is between $5 mi
charged with trying to blow up an american airlines plane with explosives hidden in his underwear. he s acting as his own attorney. violence between egypt s christians and muslims may lead to new legal protection for religious minorities. a group described as thugs attacked christian protestors. that happened on sunday. at least 25 people were killed after the army and police got into the mix. well, egypt s prime minister says he s going to push a law that is making religious discrimination a crime. but experts say there is only so much that he can do during military rule. the problem, john, is we ve got 24 men, that s the supreme council of the armed forces. they re like the wizard of oz. they re behind a curtain. they re ruling egypt without any responsibility. so they have the power and no responsibility, and then you have this prime minister, a decent man, who has the responsibility but he s got no power. egypt has set parliamentary elections for november 28, and a