This election has become completely dominated not by candidates or issues, but by media whims controlled by a few nameless editors and producers working for even fewer people who happen to have more money than God.
Up until now only Keith Olbermann at MSNBC stood out. But now, even MSNBC has totally forsaken, not just us, but all of America. They have turned their backs on democracy, fair play and everything that is decent in this country. MSNBC has decided that they, and they alone, shall decide who will be allowed to run for president. In fact, if they had their way, John Edwards would also have been eliminated as well and Clinton and Obama would have appeared in shorts and tank tops in the "cage match of the century" complete with chicken wire and canvas floors.
Many of us in the Democratic Party have been appalled at the behavior of the press lately. They have taken a poorly framed statement by one candidate and turned it into the race baiting, hate-fest they have been drooling over ever since they saw a white woman and a black man, both with media invented rock stardom, vying for the presidency.
This is the moment they have been fostering and hoping for from the very beginning. They ask unimportant questions and tout unimportant numbers. They resort to trying anything to get their rating numbers a tick higher in the next round. And the American public nods their collective head and says "Yes, that’s just the way it is".
Well, that isn’t the way it should be, and I’m not standing for it.
As of this very moment, I am refusing to have anything to do with MSNBC. ABC, CBS and CNN lost me long ago. The New York Times has sold us out and so have Newsweek and almost all the others. Only McClatchy seems to have any citizenship left in their management, but it is difficult to locate them except online.
I urge all of my fellow Kossacks to stand on principle and hit these un-American bastards where it hurts them most; right in their international pocket books. Join me in boycotting MSNBC.
Can you imagine the balls it takes to decide, totally on your own, that an entire country should no longer hear from a legitimate candidate for President of the United States? And this is happening while the two front-runners are prodded to argue over petty bullshit while anything remotely like a real substantive issue is totally ignored.
I know that at least some people who read this will say "Come on, he doesn’t have a chance?" and they are correct. With a self-serving, anti-American media such as we have in this country, what candidate that doesn’t meet "their" standard does have a chance.
When I was a kid, I listened to the likes of Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, and David Brinkley. These were not just "anchors". They were newsmen. But more importantly, they were Americans and they defended democracy.
If we let this move by MSNBC go unpunished, then we are as bad as them and American Democracy is done forever.
Personally, I’m not willing to let it go without a fight.