What might have been if the press (Tweety, et al) were called on their crap

during sElection 2000?

I remember all the lies, the part-lies, the smugness, the disrespect, all the bullshit hurled towards Al Gore.

It's never too late for those fuckers to apologize.

Sisters Unite!


Always remember -

ITS THE PILE ON STUPID!

all the machismo/a behaviors that go with it. He values nothing that cannot be anologous to war and/or sports anologies. He's a macho meatball and his B.S. dismissiveness is NOT exclusive to women.

Dispense with this "sisters unite" meme please? Many of us WOMEN do not wish to be FORCED to be a part of HRC's demented Women buddy-movie pitch. :thumbsdown:

2000 was the first national election in which the corporatism was so blatant, so unapologetic.

I remember Brian Williams - he was a host in the afternoon on MSNBC then - actually leaning forward on his anchor desk whenever he snarled something about Gore. It was shocking, really. They all were like that. And CNN kept insisting during the recount, over and over, that 'the people' had enough of this and it was time for him to concede. I knew I was watching a coup in the making, from the beginning of the primaries to that horrible day in December when Gore conceded.

I can't wait.

been more outspoken for Al

Time and time again!
Unfortunately, they refused to report the fact that they were being called on it, so most of the country was unaware.

And no, it IS too late for them to apologize. I will not accept their apology. They've wandered into the area of criminality, for profit, and an apology will not serve justice...

was the primary political champion for opening up the Internet for the people and as the Internet grew in power, the corporate media came to resent Al Gore for it. They didn't want a staunch advocate for the Internet in the White House, that was too much people power for them to handle.

Today, Tweety trashed the most openly corporate loving candidate on the board, whom NBC has already endorsed, the same candidate that competed for money with Al Gore during that run in 2000 in California while Hillary Clinton was only running for the Senate in New York.

The whole episode of Bill Clinton giving the corporate media and the neo-cons the Integrity issue on a silver platter, knowing they had him under a microscope from the very beginning of his administration leaves me feeling most cynical about the Clintons, and the corporate media. The corporate media only then proceeded to transfer the sins of the President on to the Vice President slandering and libeling him relentlessly and I haven't seen any apologies for that to this day.

Having said that I don't believe the corporate media should be in the business of trashing or slandering anyone man or woman, just report the facts, but I can't help but feel there was a bargain with the devil made to stab Al Gore in the back and enable Bush to power and the Clintons joined in it at some point. Cheney announced up front he would never run for President, he didn't need to, I believe he chose Bush not the other way around. The same corporate media that waged a witch hunt against the Clintons for most of the entire nineties to get them out of the White House can't do enough to put them back in and I believe they're using gender to do it. I see this as more corrupted corporate media manipulation of the American People's emotions.