Nader blabbering on MSNBC. Still not apologizing for Bush.

[Uncle Joe]

161. I believe the vast majority of these posters don't hate Nader, they hate what he did.

That's not the same as saying he had no right to run against Gore or anyone else, it's believing his actions only served to enable Bush to power.

Nader; could just as easily have run in the Democratic Primary, had he run in the primaries, he would have been guaranteed a seat at the debates with Gore and Bradley, but he took the easy way out.

The corporate media never wanted Nader to win, they just wanted him strong enough to damage Gore's chances at defeating Bush.

Nader's short sighted and possibly self-serving actions only helped Bush which in turn damaged the causes or issues for which Nader claimed and with strong justification to support, the fight against corporate supremacy, the environment, civil rights etc. etc. were all set back decades if not more by Bush's ascension to power.

I'm convinced the primary cause for Bush coming to power was the corporate media's one sided, institution wide enablement of him to power while they simultaneously demonized and trashed Gore.

I'm also convinced the primary reason for their urgency in doing so is precisely because Gore was the preeminent poltical champion for opening up the Internet to the people. That's the bedrock foundation for their hatred of Gore, because the corporate owners and upper managment came to see the Internet as a growing threat to their top down, one way business model of telling the people what reality is.

Of course there were other reasons as well, election fraud in Florida and possibly elsewhere, the Supreme Court, Clinton's transferrable scandal and impeachment but there is no denying that Nader's third party run damaged Gore while helping Bush.

Having said all that if the coprorate media had not waged one sided, continuous propaganda war against Gore's credibility and integrity for the better part of two years while giving Bush a free pass before the selection, Gore would've won by a margin too large for Bush and his cronies to steal.

My conclusion is our First Amendment powers of free speech are stronger now than they have ever been because of the Internet and Gore paid the price for it, just as Prometheus did for stealing fire from Olympus. I don't believe it to be a cosmic coincidence that Gore went in to the news business with Current as a result.