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Hoo Hah!
It has become surreal to watch U.S. politics with one eye, and the talking heads of CNN with another eye. (No, in fact, CNN does not equal politics.) The sell outs (at CNN) want to keep us focused on Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin. But, thanks to the internet, we can keep one eye on the challengers of the status quo.
While Democrats were rallying in Denver, Ralph Nader was rallying nearby, and Cynthia McKinney also projected her presence into the scene. Also while Democrats were rallying in Denver, I was combatting CNN: My article, 'CNN Caught In Genocidal Correctness' spread like wildfire. My readership expanded more than 70 fold. That's a bump for me, and a dent for CNN.
Then Sarah Palin and Hurricane Gustav got thrown into the mix. People became acquainted with Troopergate and Babygate. People are questioning John McCain's vetting process, and that won't let up -- that whine has the legs to go all the way to election day!
As Republicans talked about scaling back their convention (around hurricane time) I twittered to CNN: "The best thing for America will happen if Republicans avoid prime time and networks pick up Ron Paul's alternative convention."
That was said because while the Republicans were convening in St. Paul, Ron Paul was rallying nearby. What I'll say is "thank God for C-Span2," because they in fact ran a live telecast of Ron Paul's "Rally for the Republic."
Just ask yourself this question: Would you rather watch Jesse Ventura and Ron Paul, or would you rather watch two over-exposed news anchors from CNN talking to each other? C-Span2 was the place to be on Sept. 2, and CNN had the usual clueless droning from talking heads beholden to the two party system.
In my latest opinion column, I talk about Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, and Cindy Sheehan. In fact, I have substantive "debate questions" to ask of them on how they would really handle U.S. national security and foreign policy. If you go to that column, you get my words for them; if you turned on C-Span2 tonight, you got Ron Paul and his revolutionaries.
And, I was using YouTube to "watch back" the Jesse Ventura speech at the Ron Paul rally, from a MySpace bulletin. 22 minutes into the speech, just when Ventura was questioning the government's handling of 9/11, I had to interrupt my watching of Jesse Ventura -- to watch Jesse Ventura, this time live on Larry King.
I had just watched 22 minutes of Ventura blasting the two party system, proud to be "not a Democrat, and not a Republican." Larry King really wasn't with the program; he was trying to analyze the Republican National Convention, and started asking questions about the Republicans of Ventura, as if he gives a shit.
And of course, Ventura did not disguise his disdain for the question. He doesn't care, and said as much, because the Republicans "will promise everything and deliver nothing."
Hoo hah!
In this case, I knew where Ventura was coming from -- a 15,000 person rally that had recently cheered his anti-two-party message. It seems evident that Larry King had no idea what page Ventura was really on, but for the benefit of you who read this diary, I will give you the YouTube links. Get a load of this--
youtube.com/watch?v=79eCo6ocBEc
youtube.com/watch?v=Eytv1j0ZwII
youtube.com/watch?v=_WvIJCM-LXo
Jesse Ventura has the ability to shout down the two-party system, and I have the ability to shout down CNN. I wonder if we could get the cooperation of the CNN people to quit carrying water for the corrupt duopoly? For example, to not run any two-man debates? (If a debate only has two candidates, that's a tip off to its corrupt nature.)
Has CNN ever had me on before? Not to my knowledge. Twenty-four years ago, it was my turn to be an independent presidential candidate. Recently, I found an old news clipping from that year's alternative convention, and I will paste in two paragraphs, below. It says that CNN was there, but frankly I don't remember their presence. At the least, this suggests that they knew; that they had my story, even if they didn't run it. Judge for yourself:
John Kusumi, 18, of Waterbury, Connecticut said "very few people could do a worse job as President than Reagan. Mondale is one of them." He is making a serious effort to win the presidential race and says he has found a loophole in the U.S. Constitution that would permit a candidate under 35 years of age to win. Among the items on his platform is to "balance the Federal Budget in his first year." On the issue of nuclear weapons, Kusumi said he would "check the nuclear arms race and reduce it."
The convention was viewed as a success by WUSB personnel. The media coverage was seen as "phenomenal" by John Vernile, public affairs director for WUSB. Representatives from WNBC, WABC, CNN, INN, SPIX, New York Times, Newsday, Voice of America and several other local papers attended the convention.
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