"Fair and balanced coverage by the media." What is Rosa Clemente smoking?

by John Shriver (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 72 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:24:23 AM

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We'd all like to see journalism elevated a little wouldn't we?

by Babette Hogan (12 articles, 2 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 14 comments) on Tuesday, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:36:17 AM

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Well, I understand that some may be put off by Rosa's "dissarming" style and frank language.

On the other hand, I think we ALL should be more than a little tired of vagueness, ad hominem attacks, occasional politeness, and superficiality of other candidates who are all over Prime Time, while covering up the realities of a vicious 24/7 Killing Machine running on Petroleum and your fast-fading-away dollars.

You may not like or enjoy it, but what the Green Party and its historic all-woman ticket have to say to America this year as too many of its long-ignored citizens bask in a phoney tokenism, is all that has been missing in the news and in any of the corporate party candidates' speeches and tv ads: The Occupation, Katrina, attacks on civil liberties, torture, and the destruction of our Constitution.

Other candidates mask their willingness to abandon working towards truly Sustainable Solutions (a now popular phrase which ignores the massive spending on wars, weapons systems and other humanity-depleteing abominations of perverse behavior). What about schools falling apart lik our bridges and precarious health-care system? Greens push for a single-payer healthcare system while the others go for modified plans that are Care Systems for Insurance Companies, not people. It is both shameful and pathetic. You think what pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies do with their campaign donations might affect the amount of media time offered to candidates actually speaking the truth?? Maybe, hmm....

The words of Cynthia, Rosa, the Green Party Platform and of other Green candidates should be grist for the mill , and WOULD be, if we had a functional democracy. We need it now more than ever. Support these courageous women and the courageous visionary Party that has put them into the race for the presidency. Call for fair media coverage of an historic ticket whose platform and plans very much resemble what most Americans want and not what corporate party funders demand. Support air time for them. Support their campaigns. Support the Green Party with your registratiion and your dollars.

Think about it. The Green Party for the most part is saying what YOU are thinking and feeling. It is voicing a direction to go while others are busy betraying our most basic values, and taking your support for granted. Your own ideas deserve your support, don't they? Well, then, the Green Party deserves your support so that YOUR own words and values will be heard by more and more people who know that it is time for a profound change.

Cynthia, 6-term congresswoman, first to call for impeachment, early opposition to the Occupation, the ONLY congressional defender of citizens against the looting of trillions of dollars from our Treasury, missing, disappeared by the "conservatives" in the Defense Department without either explanation nor accounting. McKinney and the Party along with the majority of New York City residents support a new investigation into the many unexplained occurrences of 911.

Now, THAT kind of courage we should be able to hear and know more about! Give your attention and support.

by alan k (12 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 36 comments [6 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:09:45 PM

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Little to add, other than to say, as we said in Chicago at the nominating convention,

"Power to the People"

Run Cynthia Run

Current Republican motto--"Vote early and vote often-one of those votes may actually be counted."

Democratic motto "My vote will go to the Democratic candidate, and so will yours because we will make sure you have nowhere else to go." 

Vote Green --our motto--Power to the people.

Remember that the next time the major parties cook up another wallet-ectomy for us all to enjoy, and vote Green to get their attention and get your message across.

by Jack Harrington (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 675 comments [70 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:52:24 PM

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awesomly to the point

by monte letourneau (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments) on Thursday, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:49:06 AM

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