Reason Writers on TV: Peter Suderman Talks Egypt, Oil, and Foreign Aid on Freedom Watch

On Tuesday, January 31, Associate Editor Peter Suderman appeared on Fox Business Network's Freedom Watch With Judge Napolitano to talk about about Egypt, oil, and the problems with foreign aid. Approximately 8 minutes: 

Comments

[Warty]

Who's the shrieking blond lady? She is not pleasant to listen to.

[ClubMedSux]

Is the above video auto-loading for everybody else, or is there something I need to toggle off in my browser? Because if it's the former, it's going to be really fucking annoying every time I refresh today.

[Warty]

Me too. Severely annoying.

[squarooticus]

Can you please not link to videos that autoplay? Fuck that's annoying as shit.

[Peter Suderman]

Looking into this now.

[ClubMedSux]

Thanks! Didn't figure it was on purpose (I mean, I expect that kind of stuff from ESPN, but not here).

[Other Derp]

Noscript, nerds. I click my videos to allow them to play, feels good.

[Amakudari]

Even on ESPN it annoys the piss out of me. Thank God there's a Chrome extension to stop ESPN from autoplaying videos (except the first half second before the script kicks in).

[Amakudari]

Probably one of the flashvars needs to be set to autoplay=false. Dunno because it's not a player I've ever used before, but that's usually how it works.

If that's not it you probably need more of a web dork because it will be in the configuration files or the PHP/whatever class.

[DJF]

Egypt does not produce much oil and the only oil that passes through the Suez is going to Europe not the US. Oil to the US goes around Africa in super-tankers which can't fit through the Suez. So the US has no reason to get involved in Egypt or the Suez due to oil.

[Cyto]

Off topic, but related to international competitiveness:

India's high court has ruled that astrology is a science.