The evil of the two lessers, part 46
What I wouldn't give to put anybody other than Donald Trump in the privileged position of debating with Hillary Clinton on a televised stage. The cartel only permits one opponent, and he's a complete and utter charlatan whose status as a "successful businessman" tells you much more than you want to know about where he comes from-- New York's Manhattan Island. Why is it that Iowans feel the need to constantly apologize for Congressman Steve King, but New York City doesn't shoulder any blame for these two cretins on our television?Nearly anybody other than Trump, Billy Bush excluded, could be making the case better that Clinton is a fraud. Her first week of October should have been the week from hell. New emails revealed by Guccifer 2.0 show that the news media delivers news stories that have been drafted for them by the Clinton campaign while the campaign staff even determines what elements of the story will be referred to as "on the record." WikiLeaks released the excerpts of Clinton's paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, and others, and it revealed much of what we all expected. She complained about ethics laws that require politicians to divest many of their assets before entering politics-- "There is such a bias against people who have led successful and/or complicated lives." She also stated flat-out that, on many issues, particularly in the area of business and trade, she has "a public and a private position."
Instead, the national dialogue is about this numbskull and some profane and misogynist statements he made into a hot microphone at a tabloid entertainment show twelve years ago.
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Speaking of debate access, I received some unexpected historical perspective this weekend watching a Johnny Carson episode from 1980 on Antenna TV. This repackaged video series on cable is my new late-night fix as the constant shucking for Clinton has made the current incarnations of late night comedy, post-Letterman, unwatchable. In this particular edition, a young TV politico with no charisma, Jeff Greenfield, who would grow up to become an old TV politico with no charisma, followed Erma Bombeck (and her vaguely-racist story about her trip to Kenya) onto the Burbank stage and then, for several minutes, discussed with Johnny then-President Jimmy Carter's ongoing refusal to debate on television against Ronald Reagan provided that independent candidate John Anderson were also allowed to appear. The debate's sponsor in 1980, the League of Women Voters-- true story-- threatened to place an empty chair on the stage between Reagan and Anderson to represent where the incumbent leader of the free world should be standing if he refused to participate.
So this shit is nothing new from the Democrats. Good gravy, though, can you imagine today's so-called Commission on Presidential Debates making that same threat that the League made back then? The CPD was purposefully created to exclude third party candidates, and is currently co-led by a former chairman of the Republican National Committee and a former press secretary for Bill Clinton.
The candidates have to be viable, you scream! Well, their suppression has been actively aided by the same news media that airs these debates. The poll numbers aren't even trustworthy. In the latest CNN polling methodology, a vote for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson is not even being tabulated. Those votes are being funneled into the "undecided" category that fits into the mold of the advertised race between Clinton and Trump.
posted by CM @ 1:28 PM
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