Rocky Anderson, Jill Stein (and who else?) on RT.com right now |
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| By: Vote Socialist Tuesday November 6, 2012 4:40 pm | |
Never really watched RT live before (I’ve always been phobic about my slow computers’ poor live-streaming capabilities), but I gave it a shot and it’s fine for now. (Granted, talking heads aren’t a basketball game, so…) RT is interviewing “3rd party” candidates now.
Rocky called for a Constitutional Amendment to not only overturn Citizens United, but also Buckley v. Valleo (campaign contributions = “free speech”). Jill is on now. Take a peek if you want.
(And, unlike CNN, it’s free!)
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I didn’t find it yet. Still looking.
http://rt.com/usa/news/us-stein-johnson-foreign-036/
Slightly OT from the above, but this is the first time I’m watching RT not because of the guest or the story, but just as an ongoing viewing. And, wow…is Thom Hartmann a Dem shill, or what? Never explicitly cheerleads for Obama, but every issue he raises proceeds from the thesis that the Republicans are up to no good, that Republican success is bad, etc…without ever turning that same critical eye on the “Democrats”.
He just played a piece with Katrina vanden Heuvel talking about the Supreme Court, and in the taped into he asked (after scaring us about Romney appointees, blah blah blah) “And what about Obama? Who would he appoint? Will he seek to appoint one of the most progressive courts ever?”
Barking laughter, coming out of my mouth. Yeah, riiiiiight. Sotamayor and Kagan are the first steps in re-creating the Warren court. Sheesh.
Obama currently leading by 36,000 votes in Florida, and Gary Johnson has 41,000 votes. Hartmann practically jizzing his pants about the shoe being on the other foot from 2000. Yeah, because bashing on third parties is always good for democracy. Sigh.
Finally, Thom is quite right to point out that voter suppression at the polls is a Republican-engineered phenomenon. Now, if he’d only get around to mentioning that the “Democrats” refusal to run anyone to the left of Pappy Bush is a suppression of a different sort. Yeah, Thom, let’s elect more “Democrats”, that’ll change everything! Joe Donnelly is in the Senate! Woo-hoo! *eye-roll*.
I wonder why Hartmann and vanden Heuvel act like Obama protects the court:
Sotomayor is a Republican, and Kagan (Monsanto’s lawyer) isn’t allowed to vote because she worked as a lawyer in the White House: Appointing her was Malpractice, like when Bush tried to appoint his cleaning lady.
Good points from both the above comments.
Don’t ya wish sometimes that you could slip back into ignorance like all those rah rahing Obama or believing that Romney would be better.
It’s hell paying attention in the midst of a flock of sheeple.
Sounding a bit elitest here, smarter than others, but that is far from how I feel.
Taking the movie “The Matrix” as a metaphor, remember how the awake ones were constantly cold and dirty and ate some slop that looked like oatmeal mixed with snot. Sure, it looked romantic from the viewers side of the screen. Well, I don’t feel like the viewer in this “reality play”…
Keep posting you guys, it’s like messages in a bottle to this castaway.
No kidding, I agree one hundred percent. When my cousin was frothing at the mouth (it sounded like) when we were talking on the phone, since I was disparaging that Mofo we have as prez and I’m the most liberal in my fam, I mentioned Tuesday’s kill list. He was clueless “where do you get your information?” and I didn’t even answer since he’s not online at all now that he’s unemployed.
One good thing about 8 pm last night, Kabuki Theater is finished for a while. I don’t have cable (tv only used for dvd/vhs watching) but all the cardstock glossies stuffing my mailbox truly offended me in this time of depression.