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Edited on Thu Dec-20-07 07:51 PM by Don1
Everything has been stacked up against Kucinich since Day#1. It started way before the Presidential campaigns...in Hillary Clinton's Senatorial campaign and in other candidates' hedge funds and sources of money. Hillary used some tens of millions of $$ from her big state to boost her Presidential bid once it started, giving her a huge edge. In a way, it was smart of her, but ultimately somehow this move has been unfair to other, better candidates.
In any case, what happened next was that huge media conglomerates excluded Mike Gravel from some debates and to a lesser extent Dennis. Don't forget Anderson Cooper hosting one debate where he trivialized Dennis's campaign. Don't forget, too, that even when allowed in debates, both Gravel and Kucinich were given less time to answer and less questions.
It didn't stop there, though. The news media chose to ask Dennis about his UFO experience. Who cares? It was the 70's, man. Everyone was seeing UFO's with Shirley McLaine. No, seriously, why ask such a question of Dennis when there are just as many questions to be asked of Hillary, Edwards, Obama and others that could make them look bad (even though maybe they aren't). They could have asked Hillary about that right-wing conspiracy theory where she allegedly had some guy offed. They could have asked Obama about his alleged attendance of a Muslim school or other FOX lies. They could have asked Edwards why he chose to get an expensive haircut. No, instead they chose to go on the offensive against Dennis Kucinich, the leftmost candidate.
What happened recently, though, is the clincher. It exposes the media giants for what they are--corporate interests looking out for themselves. As you may have read, Dennis Kucinich was excluded from the Iowa debate sponsored by the Des Moines Register. Allegedly, he didn't have a campaign office in Iowa, but he actually did, just not a storefront. The rules did not, however, say that he had to have a storefront campaign office. On the other hand, the newspaper allowed Alan Keyes in the Republican debate--Alan Keyes not only had no storefront campaign office, but no campaign office at all.
Why would such a home-loving sounding newspaper as the Des Moines Register be so logically inconsistent? Well, the answer is that they really are not a small-time newspaper. They were bought up in the early 80's, the age of Reaganomics, by the Gannet Co, Inc, which is an international media-print conglomerate and who gobbled newspapers in 44 states and several countries at other times. They simply did not want someone as left and anti-corporatism to be in the debate that they sponsored.
Just a couple of days ago, they endorsed McCain out of the Republicans and Hillary out of the Democrats and in their statement of endorsement, they stated how much the Democrats all agreed with each other and how similar they were. Well, yes, that is because Dennis was not there. Just like they wanted.
And that is unfortunately why Dennis cannot win. However, I will still donate to his campaign. The movement is more important than 2008. Who is with me?
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