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Episode 7 — December 7, 2007: The Eisenhower Letter, the 409-to-2 Vote, and the Led Zeppelin Reunion.

Episode 7 — December 7, 2007: The Eisenhower Letter, the 409-to-2 Vote, and the Led Zeppelin Reunion.

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This episode revisits No Agenda Episode 7, originally aired Friday, December 7, 2007. Every claim is checked twice: against what was known in 2007, and against what we know now.


• John — The man in the eHarmony commercials is "not the CEO… just some phony guy." Mixed: the man is founder Dr. Neil Clark Warren — no phony — but he had stepped down as CEO in 2007 (Greg Waldorf was CEO), so the title point was right that week. Warren returned as CEO in 2012–2016 and remained the company's face.

• Adam — A Led Zeppelin one-off reunion concert that Monday in London, an Ahmet Ertegun tribute — and he has an invitation. Correct on the event: December 10, 2007 at the O2 Arena, Zeppelin's first full concert in ~27 years, Jason Bonham on drums; 20 million ticket requests for ~18,000 seats (a Guinness record); released as Celebration Day in 2012. The invitation itself is personal and unverifiable.

• John — Reading aloud an Eisenhower quotation dated 1954: any party that tried to abolish Social Security — "Their number is negligible and they are stupid." Correct: genuine and essentially verbatim, from Eisenhower's private letter to his brother Edgar, November 8, 1954; John dates and places it correctly.

• Adam (John assists) — The Story of Stuff: a new online film; post-WWII economist Victor Lebow designed the consumption economy; planned vs perceived obsolescence; "only 1% actually is recycled." Mixed: a faithful description of Annie Leonard's film, released online days earlier — except the film's figure is 99% of material throughput trashed within six months (1% still in use), not "recycled"; and that 99% figure was itself an advocacy number, never established as a measured statistic.

• Adam and John — H.R. 1955 follow-up: Adam reads the "violent radicalization" definition; the hosts warn dissent could be swept in. Correct on the facts: the words read are the bill's actual words, and the 404 House votes were real (Episode 1). The feared application never arose — the bill died in the Senate and never became law.

• John — The president's approval is "under 30%"; Congress is "around 10%." Mixed: direction right — both were at or near historic lows, Congress far worse — but the figures were the darkest available: Gallup that season had the president in the low 30s (29% in one July 2007 reading) and Congress in the high teens.

• John and Adam — The SAFE Act passed the House 409–2, and one of the two no votes is Ron Paul (John's bet, confirmed by Adam on air). Correct in every particular: H.R. 3791 passed December 5, 2007, 409–2 (roll call 1131); the only no votes were Ron Paul and Paul Broun.

• John — The SAFE Act's scope, as read from the post: open Wi-Fi providers must report illegal images, including obscene cartoons, or face fines up to $300,000; social networks, registrars, ISPs and e-mail providers swept in. Mixed: substantially accurate as CNET's reading — reports to NCMEC; fines of $150,000 per image per day (first offense), $300,000 repeat — though the duty attached on actual knowledge and the bill imposed no duty to monitor. It died in the Senate; a narrower reporting law came with the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008.


Episode score: 8 claims checked — 4 correct · 4 mixed · 0 incorrect · 0 unverified. Series running total: 71 claims — 28 correct · 24 mixed · 14 incorrect · 7 unverified.


Sources: https://venturebeat.com/technology/relationship-site-eharmony-on-quiet-roll-retains-waldorf ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Ertegun_Tribute_Concert ; https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/05/making-greater-possibilities-inconceivable-another-thought-or-two-on-the-logic-of-lesser-evilism/ ; https://ytscribe.com/v/9GorqroigqM ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securing_Adolescents_from_Exploitation-Online_Act_of_2007 ; https://www.eweek.com/news/house-passes-safe-act/


Independent fact-check review for reporting and commentary purposes only; not affiliated with, or endorsed by, No Agenda, Adam Curry, or John C. Dvorak.

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