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What is the truth?
What is the truth ?
Does it matter?
Today it seems that the truth takes a backseat to the opinion. Truth, to many (at least the MSM) is not important, the opinion is. And how popular and how well marketed the opinion, how successful the story. And if the truth does not make the story as interesting, then just slant the opinion for the desired result.
Just look at the stories in the news. Is it truth or opinion that makes it to headlines?
Lawyers: DNA clears Duke teamRequest that lacrosse rape case be dropped; DA won’t back down
And what about Cynthia McKinney, Tom [...]
Obama Transition (So Far) Not Friendly to Progressives
by Natalie Davis – True progressive voters had a couple of actual progressive options in the November 4 election. They could have gone with Green hopeful Cynthia McKinney or Independent candidate Ralph Nader. We knew Barack Obama was no progressive messiah — his No on Prop 8 and anti-marriage-equality tap dance and flip-flops on FISA and [...]
Third Party Candidates Treated Like Not-Serious Candidates Simply Because They Were Not Serious Candidates
The Baltimore sun did a little research into the amount of press given to Barack Obama and John McCain compaired to that given to third party candidates Ralph Nader, Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney and that other guy whatever his name is. And their findings are quite interesting. But, first, here's a cat on a Roomba... Hahahahaha. That's so awesome. Go, cat, go! Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh yeah... Cats are funny. [IMG [Bloglines]] [IMG [del.icio.us]] [IMG [Digg]] [IMG [Facebook]] [
Baltimore Sun: ‘Third-party blind spot’
Baltimore Sun Op-Ed: Democracy suffers when the news media ignore long-shot candidates and the ideas they espouse By John F. Kirch November 20, 2008 While the news media did an effective job this year of covering the presidential campaign between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, the press still has a major blind spot when it comes to writing about third-party contenders. According to a basic LexisNexis database search of election coverage from Aug. 5 to Nov. 5, The Washin
Cynthia McKinney Responds to Obama's Acceptance Speech
Cynthia McKinney Responds to Obama's Acceptance Speech submitted by blacknewsjunkie 59 minutes ago (via assatashakur.org) YouTube - Cynthia McKinney Responds to Obama's Acceptance Speech
Obama Transition Not Friendly to Progressives
Is Obama taking progressives for granted? True-progressive voters had a couple of actual progressive options in the Nov. 4 election. They could have gone with Green hopeful Cynthia McKinney or Independent candidate Ralph Nader. We knew Barack Obama was no progressive messiah — his No on Prop 8 and anti-marriage-equality tap dance and flip-flops on FISA and other early campaign promises showed that. Still, based on Obama’s stated intent to focus on people over corporations, most progressives o
Obama Wins SL County!
Salt Lake County just certified the vote, after counting provisional ballots. Turns out, we grassroots volunteers helped turn Salt Lake County blue! PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Total Number of Precincts 989 Precincts Reporting 989 100.0 % Times Counted 369858/521039 71.0 % Total Votes 367443 BARACK OBAMA DEM 176988 48.17% JOHN MCCAIN REP 176692 48.09% CHARLES O.”CHUCK” BALDWIN CON 3229 0.88% BOB BARR LIB 2556 0.70% RALPH NADER PAF 3768 1.03%
Joel S. Hirschhorn: A new political party is needed
Submitted to IPR by Joel S. Hirschhorn via contact.ipr@gmail.com: Set aside any Obama euphoria you feel. The other important news is that third-party presidential candidates had a miserable showing this year, totaling just over one percent of the grand total with 1.5 million votes nationwide, compared to some 123 million votes for Barack Obama and John McCain. It couldn’t be clearer that Americans are not willing to voice their political discontent by voting for third-party presidential candi
The Barr Campaign: What Went Wrong ?
Reason’s Brian Doherty does a post-mortem on yet another disappointment Libertarian Party Presidential campaign: From the outset, Bob Barr’s Libertarian run for the presidency was fraught with great expectations. For many Libertarian Party members, the former Georgia congressman was a living hope, an actual experienced politician with a national reputation and real fundraising experience who could finally beat both fundraising and vote totals for the perennially beleaguered party in its 10th
Write-ins set records
Write-in totals are not completely counted, nor do we know who they went to yet. But David Leip’s US Election Atlas has at least 78,346 write-ins being counted thus far. This is the largest official write-in total ever. It can be reasonably expected that Hillary Clinton, Ron Paul, Cynthia McKinney, and Chuck Baldwin will recieve the lion’s share. This total means that write-ins placed 7th in Presidential votes, ahead of Alan Keyes, and that there were half as many write-ins for President as the
McKinney: Organize, Mobilize, Agitate
The Milwaukee Examiner reports on Cynthia McKinney’s election night address, focusing on her calls to continue to demand the change that her supporters fought and voted for: The Green Party’s 2008 presidential candidate, Cynthia McKinney, called on her supporters to maintain pressure on President-elect Barack Obama and “organize, mobilize [and] agitate” to ensure that true [...]
OFFICIAL PRAISE FOR A GREAT BLOGGER; OFFICIAL BOOS FOR A DUD; OFFICIAL "WELCOME BACK" TO ONE OF THE COLLECTIVE
I've made a point of visiting the blogs of all the other writers who received their SCRIBBLER awards from Torrance Stephens at Raw Dawg Buffalo. In passing by Buelahman's spot, I once again realize just how late I've been in promoting this guy. His shit is so tight, aggressive and open-minded that I've fulfilled my promise and have registered at the Aryan Nations site because if a guy as sharp as Buelahman can come out of that snakepit, there has to be a few others there, too. [UPDATE AND COR
Greens say ‘thank you’ to their candidates
Greens say ‘thank you’ to their candidates Posted by TPW News Items --- November 16th, 2008 The following is a statement by Green Party officials and functionaries: Greens to Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente: Thank you Dear Cynthia McKinney, Rosa Clemente, Lucy Grider-Bradley, John Judge and the 2008 Power to the People Campaign… We are delegates and alternates of the Green National Committee of the Green Party of the United States as well as other Greens from around the country who wan
Invite third-party candidates to inauguration?
Invite third-party candidates to inauguration? Posted by TPW News Items --- November 16th, 2008 The Washington Post’s Reliable Source blog has some fun with Ralph Nader for suggesting that third-party candidates should be invited to President Obama’s inauguration: The sometimes cantankerous outsider has sent an open letter to Barack Obama asking that third-party candidates—the Libertarian Party’s Bob Barr, the Constitution Party’s Chuck Baldwin and the Green Party’s Cynthia McKinney—be incl
Malik Rahim 2008 Thomas Merton award recipient
Posted at VoteMalik.com Contact: Pat LaMarche Malik for U.S. Congress 504.905.5676 Miles Dinnen Thomas Merton Center 412.361.3022 Louisiana Congressional Candidate Honored for Commitment to Humanity Malik Rahim: 2008 Thomas Merton Award Recipient [Pittsburg, Pennsylvania] Thomas Merton, philosopher and noteworthy catholic author and theologian once said, ““We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.” Even though he died 40 years before l
'Two Party' or Not 'Two Party' : A Rag Blog Discussion on Change
'Two Party' or Not 'Two Party' : A Rag Blog Discussion on Change The following is part of a discussion among members of Austin MDS about the election of Obama, the possibility of real change through the Democratic Party, and the efficacy of the third party option. Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog / November 16, 2008 'I have come to believe that because of the lack of proportional representation in the American political system, a two party system here is almost a law of physics.' By David P. H
The shifts in Elizabeth May's story
Green Party leader Elizabeth May has been in he news. Not because of any remarkable insight into global warming or what not. But because of an election report in which she seemed to blame anything that didn't go well on the people surrounding her in the Green Party, and seemed to credit any successes to herself personally. There are two versions of that report, and the differences are interesting. After the report was leaked, and small snippets were quoted in the press, Elizabeth May rele
National vote total update for alternative presidential candidates
Ralph Nader 697,251 Bob Barr 510,570 Chuck Baldwin 181,796 Cynthia McKinney 152,292 Alan Keyes 41,241 Ron Paul 19,852 Gloria La Riva 7,478 Roger Calero 7,209 Brian Moore 6,566 Richard Duncan 3,703 James Harris 2,618 Charles Jay 2,346 John Joseph Polachek 1,236 Frank McEnulty 781 Jeffrey Wamboldt 770 Thomas Stevens 720 Gene Amondson 639 Jeffrey Boss 604 George Phillies 518 Ted Weill 470 Jonathan Allen 310 Bradford Lyttle 106
It’s Too Easy To Condemn Modern Orthodox Racism
Gary Rosenblatt, the Modern Orthodox Editor of The Jewish Week in New York writes: Last Wednesday, the day after the elections, Elliot Prager, the principal of Moriah, a Modern Orthodox day school in Englewood, N.J., was approached by a 9-year-old student in the hallway, who asked him if he was afraid. “Afraid of what?’ I asked,” Prager recalled the other day. “Afraid of Obama,” the child replied. “My Mommy and Daddy told me that he doesn’t like Jews and is dangerous.” Prager later said he
CT Green Party to file complaint that write in votes were not counted
Posted at Perry County Greens Green Party of Connecticut officials will file a complaint with local and state election boards that “REGISTERED” WRITE IN votes were not counted in all towns across the state as required by state law, it was announced today. This decision was reached after state Greens checked their own town votes totals showing no registered write in votes for the Green Party candidate for President, Cynthia McKinney and after receiving numerous complaints that town polling plac
HISTORIC TRAGIC - Thoughts on the 2008 election
You end up like a dog that’s been beat too much Till you spend half your life just covering up Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. — Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A., 1984I have a feeling that the word “historic” is going to become as overused in the coming weeks and years as “tragic” was in referring to “the events of…” you know the rest. Both words appropriately describe the outcome of the 2008 U.S. elections, but I will try to find others. I started watching election retur
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