I cannot believe we are still arguing about Nader

[Uncle Joe]

93. You forgot the corporate media, Al Gore wasn't popular at all with them precisely because

he did champion opening the Internet to the people.

The corporate media's owners and upper managment came to view the growing power and influence of the Internet as threatening their one way, top down, monopolistic business model of distributing, disseminating information and telling the American People what reality was/is.

The corporate media had great enmity for Gore because of this and Al's policies challenged some of their prime commercial buying clients ie; oil corpse, the corporate media saw a serious loss of power, money and infuence as a result of the Internet and loss of commerical revenues.

The corporate media's relentless slander and libel campaign against Gore for the better part of two years prior to the selection more than anything handed the Oval Office to Bush.

The corporate media played Zeus to Gore's Prometheus but instead of sending a buzzard to consume an eternally healing liver, their legion of pundit buzzards and "journalists" took continuous bites from Gore's credibility with the people by means of slander, slight and libel.

The corporate media's campaign; of both denying Gore rightful credit for his legislative work in being the prime political champion for opening the Internet to the people and working to damage his credibility denied the people critical information in making any wise judgment in evaluating Gore's character and the issues he promoted ie: global warming.

Had the corporate media as an institution not betrayed the American People's best interest and had some sense of journalistic integrity, Gore's popularity would have soared and his landslide win would've been too large for Bush to steal.