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OCT 1 - 15, 2004 |
VOL. 2 ISSUE 19 |
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OCTOBER 13, 2004 – Now they’re upset. Now they’re going to try and do something. Now, they will take a stand and draw a line.
A couple of weeks before the election. Against one group of stations. Trying to only stop one right-wing smear.
November 30. No, not the coming November 30, but November 30, 2003. Almost a year ago.
That is when we ran the story, “Soros Donates A Lot Of Money? How About Murdoch Donating An Entire Network To The Bushies?" in which we reported:
And way back then we asked the question:
Then on March 10, 2004, when the primaries were over and Kerry was the Democrats’ man, we even made things clearer and set a clear path of action that should be taken in, “The RNC Is Going After Advertisers Who Speak Against Bush, We Turn The Tables And Go After Their Seemingly 527 Violating Supporters (i.e. Talk Radio)”:
We went into great detail about exactly how these entities violate FEC regulations and had our readers write the DNC and Kerry campaign, urging them to take action against Disney, which funds right-wing propaganda stations from coast to coast, such as WABC in New York and KABC in Los Angeles, against Rush Limbaugh, whose show is truly a PAC that is not acting in accordance with FEC regulations, against FOX News, against Sean Hannity, etc.
So what did the DNC do?
Sit and wait until just two weeks before the election to launch a desperate, distracting last-minute effort to stop one particularly flagrant case of this massive right-wing group law violation. Write letters, call advertisers, they are begging their followers. And finally they have taken the issue up with the FEC – but still only with regard to the one incident with this one station. Now. Against just one entity. Right when it will distract most from the campaign and accomplish the least.
Still, at least they got the message and had some snapping point at which they decided to take action. Some Kerry volunteers are downright fired up and circulating an e-mail saying:
Quite impressive, huh? Just look at all the work that went into this. Lots of time, eh? And think about all the time that will go into calling Pepsi, Hardee's, etc.
There are two weeks or so until the election. Instead of calling potential voters, people in battleground states, etc., the Democrats are forced now to devote hundreds and thousands of man hours just to stop one right-wing smear attack – even while thousands of others blare on unimpeded 24-hours a day.
Brilliant.
Our readers have been writing us quite a bit about this, asking why we aren’t reporting on it, joining some sort of activist call to action.
They must be our newer readers (welcome.) Loyal M/I readers are simply laughing along with us, and perhaps breathing a sigh of relief that, finally, the Democrats aren’t taking something lying down.
As you see, John Kerry is already having a de-castrating effect on the Democratic Party. Under Kerry’s command, the DNC has begun to grow some balls and take the fight to the Bush/Limbaughian anti-democracy, Soviet Pravda-like propaganda machine.
The other thing our readers are writing us about are the debates. Why didn’t we cover the second Presidential debate. What about the third, how vital is it, what do we think?
Undecided voters are people who don’t follow politics much – if they did, they’d surely have formed opinions on the candidates by now. These people aren’t going to watch three debates. Some watched the first to see who this Kerry guy is. Very few watched the second at all, and those who did surely turned it off after they saw it was the same darned questions about Iraq again.
This third debate will get some of them again since it is about the economy – but the truth is most don’t pay enough attention to even know that this round will focus on the economy, and even if they did, many will watch the baseball games instead.
So, Mr. Bico, you ask, if the Sinclair thing isn’t the thing at the moment, and the debate isn’t the thing, then what is the thing at the moment? What is the real story we should be focusing on, that M/I will report on now and the rest of the press will only report on – if at all – weeks or months down the road?
Ladies and gentlemen, liberal and conservative and moderate readers of The Moderate Independent, good Americans of all labels and backgrounds, it is time for what we have been talking about all along. My fellow Americans, let the real ground war begin.
The game of running ads and having debates to sway people’s minds will go on and be the focus of the rest of the media, but the real story, the thing that matters at this point, are things like a man named Burdish who is trying to purge 17,000 Democratic names off of the voter rolls in Nevada (see article: "Nev. Move to Block Some Dem Voters Fails") The real stories are what is happening in Colorado, where a ballot measure to split the electoral votes could be the beginning of the end of any chance Democrats have of ever winning an election again. (see article: "Proportional split of electoral votes on Colorado ballot") The stories are Jeb Bush using the hurricanes in Florida to stick Ralph Nader on the Florida ballot, even though Nader was to be left off for not meeting requirements. (see article: "Florida 'To List Nader On Ballot'") Or this story out of Oregon about paid campaign canvassers destroying voter registration forms. (see article: "Bradbury plans to investigate election complaint") Or how about the Michigan absentee ballots being screwed up so that a vote for Kerry records as a vote for Bush? (see: LiveJournal article also confirmed by Detroit Free Press article)
And just as importantly are the side of the ground war that the media is missing entirely. The left-wing has found it’s propaganda machine in, of all places, magazines like Cosmo, which are laced with pro-Kerry messages. And, most important of all, the ground machine put together by the Kerry campaign – and, indeed, the media response effort – is dwarfing that of the Bush campaign.
These last two weeks are not about silly TV slurs about service 30 years ago. It is the battle of the large scale, government-backed Republican efforts to manipulate the vote vs. the Kerry campaign’s far superior ground game. And, as we get to election day itself, it will be about the game plan for that day, the media strategy planned by the Bushies to suppress and manipulate the vote, and whether or not the Kerry campaign will be as ready for that as they have been for the post-debate spin cycle.
So stay tuned to M/I, where we will never waste your time with filler stories about useless nonsense when no important news exists.
And for those out there who keep asking, “How will this or that event affect the vote, how will the debates, the Sinclair thing, this ad, that nonsense,” let us at M/I throw down the mantle we have been slamming in the non-M/I media’s face for months and months now: it is going to be a Kerry landslide. It won’t even be close. We've said this from the beginning, and we haven't changed. And as you see, things are playing out exactly as we said they would.
So if you want constant back-and-forth yammering without foresight, go read any other news source. Ask them to put their predictions where their supposed expertise is... and stick with it.
By the way, we'll take any wagers the big-mouthed right-wing lying losers wish to offer. Rush, Murdoch, care to put your money where your propaganda machine is?
Didn't think so. Welcome to The Moderate Independent, the only news source in America capable of reporting actual news and speaking from America's True Voice.
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