Outsider: " Corporate America decided Dean must be savaged"

[Capn Sunshine]

"Howard Dean has joined the list of victims of U.S. corporate media consolidation. Dean shares this distinction with Dennis Kucinich and the people of the formerly sovereign state of Iraq, among many others. Dean was stripped of half his popular support in the space of two weeks in January while John Kerry – tied in the polls with Carol Moseley-Braun at seven percent just two months earlier – rose like a genie from a bottle to become the overnight presidential frontrunner. Both candidates were shocked and disoriented by the dizzying turns of fortune, and for good reason. Neither Dean nor Kerry had done anything on their own that could have so dramatically altered the race. Corporate America decided that Dean must be savaged, and its media sector made it happen."

http://www.blackcommentator.com/75/75_cover_dean_media.html

The evidence continues to pile in, and we're running out of blinders.
But we're putting a good scare into them.

[blm]

1. Wrong. Dean's record proves he is the biggest CORPORATIST in the race.

Corporate media declared Kerry's candidacy dead for months, ensuring his fundraising would dry up.

Kerry couldn't get fair coverage in the media UNTIL he WON first.

[jansu]

2. How did the poll count change by 50 points, in such a short period?

Do we need a recount again?

I believe that the "powers that be" did not want someone in, that they could not control and they decided to "get Dean". There is no other reason for this rally cry, taken out of context, without the background sounds, to be broadcast over and over again! Not only in the news, but on late night, on the radio, songs being cut featuring it. You would have thought that Dean had been found with a "dead girl or a live boy"!


These same powers, really do not want the people of this country to rise up and take back the power! They have fought it everywhere else in the world. (Read Noam Chomsky's "HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL"). And Dean was showing us a way to change this, to give the power back to the people. He was raising the consciousness of the American people, the young, were especially joining his cause. "They" have not forgotten, that it was the young which made them have to get out of Vietnam, by their protest marches. And, there are enough of us, who were young and protesting against that war, now in our 50's and 60's, who have children and grandchildren of fighting age, who were listening and joining.

Too powerful and uncontrollable! So, we must stop him!

Demand that all stations show this ABC admission as many times as they showed the "yell"! This is only fair.....and balanced! The owners of the media should not be deciding who wins for the Democrats! This is wrong, even if they weren't Republicans!

Makes you realize, whom they really don't want to run against, doesn't it?!!

[ecstatic]

3. A powerful article. Our society is in grave danger

This is not about Dean anymore. We have a much bigger problem on our hands. Our media is not really working for us. We're working for them! Its ridiculous that something like this could happen and the scary part is that most of us are completely oblivious of it.

[lostnfound]

8. Yes, and the thought has depressed me all week. n/t

[DrFunkenstein]

4. Not Evidence, But Something Continues To Pile In

Sorry to burst your conspiratorial bubble, but Dean ran through a series of gaffes prior to the caucus, Saddam was captured, and his Perfect Storm was poorly organized.

Meanwhile, Kerry impressed Iowa big time by taking every and all questions - and, you know, answering them well. Not to mention a very tightly run organization that had been quietly building for some time.

I think Kerry was genuinely surprised by the sheer enormity of the Iowa win, and it convinced alot of New Hampshire that had been sitting on the fence until the last minute.

[seaglass]

12. But then that would be Dean's fault and that's not possible.

By the way this is the second time today this article has been posted. I suppose if it's posted enough it will magically become true.

[jsw_81]

5. Voters in Iowa and New Hampshire=corporate America?

I don't think those two states have even a single Fortune 500 company.

[farmbo]

6. Please read the article in its entirity...Kerry will be next!

The corporate Public Opinion Complex turned Dean, an articulate, outspoken progressive, into a goofy, one-dimensional cartoon figure with a well orchestrated drubbing of negativity.

They did the same thing to Gore.

And they will do the same thing to Kerry.

[Capn Sunshine]

7. Kerry Supporters=river in Egypt

I don't know how much plainer things have to be.

[jsw_81]

10. We're in denial?

And I suppose that the "it doesn't matter if Dean loses twenty primaries in a row because we want our country back" Dean people are the ones in touch with reality? :eyes:

[mzmolly]

9. Yep, crystal clear. JK was considered the *gaffer* this time last year

Dean stated he wanted to break up corporate media and *poof*

The Gaffes of John Kerry
His most embarrassing quotes, in context.
By Timothy Noah, William Saletan, and Chris Suellentrop
Posted Thursday, Oct. 2, 2003, at 6:17 AM PT

Slate continues its short features on the 2004 presidential candidates. Previous series covered the candidates' biographies, buzzwords, agendas, worldviews, best moments, worst moments, and flip-flops. This series assesses each candidate's most embarrassing quotes, puts them in context, and explains how the candidate or his supporters defend the comments. Today's subject is John Kerry.

Quote: "What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States" (Boston Globe, April 3, 2003).

Charge: Then-GOP Chairman Marc Racicot said Kerry "crossed a grave line when he dared to suggest the replacement of America's commander in chief at a time when America is at war." Racicot said Kerry's remark was "designed to further Sen. Kerry's political ambitions at a time when the lives of America's sons and daughters are at stake." John Podhoretz of the New York Post accused Kerry of drawing an "implicit parallel … between Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush."

http://slate.msn.com/id/2089125/

Interesting Kerry's gone from *angry gaffer* to Presidential in less than a couple of months??

[maggrwaggr]

11. I don't buy it. I blame the Iowa caucus system

and it's very weird way of picking candidates.

Dean was the victim of everyone thinking he would win. He lost in Iowa because everybody consolidated and assumed they were losing against Dean anyway.

then Kerry had the momentum and everybody thought "gee, must be something wrong with Dean" and there ya go.

And I'm a diehard Dean supporter.

I also think that people vote out of fear, and that at the last minute Kerry's overall experience level is getting him more votes. People are worried that a governor of a tiny white state can't win.

[mzmolly]

13. Dean was the victim of the media/push polling/ and dirty tricks

in Iowa.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

14. Yes. All the corporations put on their suits and got around a big table

And then they voted to be really mean to Dean. And then they ate a catered lunch.