If you want to know why Al Gore would be crazy to run for president, look at the New York Post's reaction to his Nobel Prize. The Post dredges up the thoroughly discredited notion that a British High Court judge found nine errors of fact in Gore's "eco film," An Inconvenient Truth. These smear tactics follow Gore wherever he goes. May I suggest that his intelligence scares us and that we prefer dumb frat boy draft dodgers for our presidents? We are not up to a president as clever as Al Gore. He challenges our self-destructiveness. We would rather wallow in gutter with George W. Bush whose stubborn stupidity comforts us.
Let's face the truth: Americans like dopey presidents and fear brainy ones. Like high school jocks, we would rather torment the brainy than let them enlighten us. Gore is much too intelligent to be our president. Perhaps he understands that he has more power behind the scenes in the communications industry than he could ever have as a candidate with a target on his back. While we drown with the polar bears, Gore and family will be blasting off into out space.
Radio: According to Media Matters research, there is a 10 to 1 ratio of conservative shows to progressive shows.
Go ahead, turn on your radio and see how easy it is, for example, to get Limbaugh or Hannity (and how clear the signal is). Now try the same for Bill Press, Thom Hartmann or The Young Turks and see what happens.
(The good news is that progressive radio was less than 1% of the market share 3 years ago and is up to 10%)
Print: Again, according to MM, (paraphrase) conservative editorials pass by around 152 million eyes a day vs 125 for progressive writing.
The number one most widely circulated/syndicated political writer in America is conservative George Will.
I'd also point out that even the New York Times, the paper most pointed to for liberal bias, has David Brooks and Tom Friedman.
Television: I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I know you can find them at MM. Take the Sunday shows on the major networks (Meet the Press, etc), and the number of conservative guests is much higher than progressive guests.
Also, just think about it for a second.
Other than Keith Olbermann, name me ONE progressive show host. Seriously, just one. And no, Comedy Central shows do NOT count.
You could possibly make an "ok" case for Lou Dobbs, but is he really "progressive"? If anything his immigration rants (which make up 90% of his show) are populist-centrist.
The major network anchors might be pegged as "liberal", but they are soft moderates at best. Sure, I concede they might *personally* lean liberal, but you'd be hard pressed to show me solid examples of when that manifested itself in an actual show.
PS---Also note that on Olbermann's supposedly "liberal" MSNBC there is Tucker Carlson, Joe Scarborough and war correspondent Pat Buchanan.
Finally, let's not forget the blatantly conservative (idiot) Glenn Beck (who's also on ABC's Good Morning America!).
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America is just looking for the "Zipless Vote".
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2190770,00.html
Cleverness doesn't come from knowledge, or having an aim toward knowledge in any respects. In truth, cleverness is the result of having developed an aim for power rather than knowledge. It is only when one seeks wisdom that one gains knowledge, and knowledge is a fundamental requirement for getting from point A to point B. Power can't do that, although it might get one the opportunity to fail over and over.
It's time that the people choose the President, instead of the media. The second tier candidates have better qualifications and therefore they will get my uncompromised vote. When hiring anyone, I would always choose the most qualified candidate - not the media darling with the momentum. We have a responsibility here.
I won't quit deserting the Democrats until we close the resume gap. All of the second tier candidates come with better qualifications and we need to base our votes on qualifications - not media sprinkles.
This is exactly what got us into our present troubles. We buy into candidates that look like their Daddy in a red tie. We believe they can end terror. We are sold a bumb ticket to a higher tax bill and our children go off to some foreign land to stand in the middle.
Not that Hillary is that bad. But it is high time to end this running with the media darlings. I'm voting against Hillary no matter what.
Gore doesn't need the presidency now. He is an icon and can serve America and the world in other ways. And from their previous voting record, the American people don't deserve Gore.
Don't assume any one person in the corporate business media ever ever speaks for the majority of Americans, or even assume the majority of Americans don't think and still don't get it. The Majority of Americans do get it, but don't have a represented Government or a Free Press. Get it????
The guy is hoping all you starry-eyed libs will beg him to run for president. He cares about our world so much how could we lose? The truth is he wants power so bad he can’t stand it. He wants to control our lives so much he and his pals came up with this “carbon offset†scheme. Basically it affects you and me but not weird Al and his elite pals. They still fly around in their Lear jets, live in their gazillion square foot mansions with 16 heat pumps, and throw the big concert shindigs. We all must conform except the master. After all, were not intelligent or sophisticated enough to understand all the issues or worry about the details. Leave that to the genius leader we can all trust.
I frankly think "fear of brains" affects more than choice of president among voters (even if Gore really "won"). Fear of brains surely describes how men view smart women and why women must act stupid in order to have a relationship. Sign me a PhD who didn't fake it (well enough) and hence single.
A quick addition to that prescient quote, once the moron is elected he will try to convince everyone that he's some kind of social and political visionary, in order to save his legacy. Consider how many books we're now told W reads, and how we're supposed to wait and see for ourselves just how wonderful history will prove his policies to have been.