There was an article about Jon Stewart on Common Dreams, You Can’t Be Serious: How a Comedian Became the most Influential Voice in American Politics by Leonard Doyle
Jon Stewart, a TV celebrity with a faux news show, is known to be more forthcoming about reporting 'news' than the mainstream media, especially regarding the Iraq war and the presidential election..
As a reader of Common Dreams, I find that they have gone the path of Move-on, that other supposedly progressive organization that can't seem to support progressive candidates, claiming that they aren't 'viable,' so they support the democratic party leadership corporate candidate. First Gore, then Kerry, now Obama. Is there a corporate 'democratic' candidate that these supposed progressive organizations won't support? Especially when they are democratic in name only, not in policies they support.
The joke is that mainstream news is even more of a joke than Jon Stewart.
NPR? A joke.
Common Dreams? A joke. Did they publish articles supporting Kucinich or progressive issues in a serious manner? No. Another move-on type of organization ultimately supporting the democratic party leadership over progressive issues when push came to shove.
I’m not even going to mention the New York Times.
Many liberal democrats don’t even know about Mike Gravel, another progressive democrat who was shut out of the presidential debates. Did Common Dreams run a series of articles supporting the argument that Kucinich or Gravel be included in the debates? No.
I’m not talking about one or two throw away fluff pieces they published, I’m talking about in depth rational articles as to why the democratic process continues to be squashed by the democratic party.
The reason why third parties aren’t mainstream is because mainstream media and political parties work very hard at marginalizing third parties like the Green Party or Ralph Nader. Including Common Dreams. Including Jon Stewart.
Don’t get me wrong, Jon Stewart is very funny and probably the source of more information that never makes it into the mainstream media. But the news he does provide is just below anything that would actually make a change. Conservatives always get to plug their books on the show that makes them even more money atop of the atrocities that they support (like the Iraq War / Occupation).
Not that third parties are perfect, but closer to my goal when I use the same measuring stick that I use with Obama (or Hillary, Kerry, or Gore, or Bill Clinton). All of them sold out to corporate interests at the expense of public, all while they were in public office.
Wake up, how many more times will the people be taken in. I can’t think of a time more important than now to stop supporting the corporate elite and their parties, the democrats and republicans.
I’m voting green, I’m not holding my nose when I vote, and even if McCain wins, I hold the democratic party responsible for not impeaching the president; for excluding candidates from the debate; for excluding Ralph Nader’s issues; for not supporting universal health care; for not challenging corporate corruption; for not reeling in an out of control military policy; for not limiting a publicly armed, but privately controlled mercenary force (Blackwater etc); and the list goes on.
The biggest joke is going to be Obama’s vice presidential choice. It will be fun to see the Obama apologists explain that one away. I can’t wait.
A UTube video of a Ralph Nader supporter explaining why she supports Nader. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPbJY2rs0QI
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