Politics as usual - Iowa Democratic debate excludes Dennis Kucinich
Re: How to Make a Candidate Disappear
Mainstream media boots Mike Gravel off the next Presidential Debate
Do candidates pay CASH to debate on National TV?
Looks like Mike Gravel is not the only one who got excluded over the absurd reason -- missing deadline or not having enough money to be considered a "serious" contender in the eyes of the MSM.
Not surprising. Bullshit excuse as usual.
Update: Kucinich, Top-Rated Democrat, Excluded From Des Moines Register Debate
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, who routinely refuses to debate challengers in his Cleveland-area congressional races, is fuming over his exclusion from this afternoon's debate for Democratic presidential candidates in Iowa.
The Des Moines Register newspaper, which is hosting the debate, says Kucinich and former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel didn't meet its criteria for participation.
"Neither Dennis Kucinich nor Mike Gravel had a campaign office in Iowa by the Oct. 1 deadline, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission," the newspaper said in a statement on its Web site. "Gravel also did not have any paid staff in the state by the deadline."
Kucinich's campaign complained the Cleveland congressman is being discriminated against because his Iowa field director, Marcos Rubinstein, works from a home office in Dubuque rather than a rented storefront. The campaign added that Rubinstein's efforts have been "bolstered by a dozen-or-so senior campaign staff who have traveled the state over the past several months." [...]
What to expect from the dimwitted media morons who ask the most trivial questions rather than discuss the real, relevant issues?
I'm done with Democratic Presidential debates on tv. I hope the ratings bomb so bad for December 13th debate that's becoming more leaden as the candidates continue to fling mud at each other and making empty promises.
the mainstream media needs an enema - to get rid of all the shitty monopolies that have been allowed to fester and grow all these decades in its bowels.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
Tells like it is to the big media.