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Mosaic

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Sat Jan 21, 2012, 01:29 PM Jan 2012

Corporate Tool Chuck Todd Goes After Stephen Colbert For Exposing Corporate Tool Electoral System [View all]

Of course Colbert and Stewart are marginalizing the Republican candidates…by typically using the candidates’ very own words. It is the Republicans that are campaigning only toward the racist margins of society. It is the media in general that reduces a candidate to a single sound bite.

Where would our nation be today if Al Gore had not been marginalized for being too “boring” in 2000? Where would our nation be today if Howard Dean had not been marginalized in 2004 for showing excitement? Where would our nation be today if John Kerry, a war hero, had not been marginalized?

The Supreme Court, with a hand up from Congress, has created a money monster that is eating our political system from within. The media (and Chuck Todd, who wouldn’t know when to ask a follow-up question if he was whacked across the head) has created the headline culture which marginalizes all who choose to participate in our democracy.

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