http://jedreport.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/21/101233/955/548/438798It's not just corporate media blackout of John Edwards.
It's also a big money blackout, and it's just as bad.
Maybe even worse.
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Here are your anti-populists. Here is why there is little coverage of Edwards. Here is why they make a laughing stock of Edwards and Kucinich. There is a major, major effort to marginalize him and most importantly his message. And who are the players? Who is driving this? MSNBC,CNN? no they are just the foot soldiers.
Remember Tom Donohue, who a few weeks ago used his position as CEO of the US Chamber of Commerce to threaten any candidate who had a populist message? "If we bite you, you will bleed".
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-chamber8jan08,1,5346679.story?track=rss&ctrack=1&cset=trueRemember last week the founder of the DLC dissing Edwards and his message?
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/dlc-leaders-cut-edwards-out(snip)
And then Al From, the D.L.C. founder, said he was “very happy about the two candidates” Americans are considering.
Only two candidates?
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Well, O.K. But what about John Edwards? He beat Mrs. Clinton in Iowa, as one reporter pointed out, but Mr. From still doesn’t think Mr. Edwards is viable.
I’m not going to speculate where the Edwards people go because I don’t know, to be honest with you. I think Edwards has run a hard, tough campaign. It’s not a, you know, he doesn’t take the tack that necessarily I agree with. What we’ve seen so far in this campaign is optimism. …
I think what you’re saying is that this is moving into a two-person race and that people in the race have been optimistic and hopeful, and I think that bodes well for the party because in the end, as long as I’ve been in politics — and I’m a lot older than 37 — the optimism always beats pessimism.
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And, guess what? There is a connection between these two!
From 2006:
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/12/13/14220/862Donahue is really smart, and the Chamber isn't going away. If you read the full article, you'll see that he hired Al From, head of the DLC, to make sure that right-wing policies succeed in both parties.
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Voting rights, the race baiting of the media, the lies, the missing e-mails, the flagrant disregard for the rule of law, the blackouts, the so called leadership, the forgotten Iraq war, the protection of the Chimperor, it's all related, and it is all made to keep the masses uninformed, lied to, and unable to speak.
IT IS NOT POPULISM THEY ARE AFRAID OF, IT IS THE TRUTH THEY FEAR.
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