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'Tis The Season To Fight MSM
John Kusumi
Op
Ed News
Saturday December 29, 2007
In 1984, I was the 18-year-old candidate for U.S. President
- independent, maverick, mercurial, and "practical idealist."
I was a cute back-page news story in a year when Ronald Reagan
was coasting to his re-election landslide over the Democrats'
Walter Mondale. I became a footnote or an asterisk in that
year's election.
Of course, it meant more to some than to others. For those
who paid attention, I decried the two-party system and made
"People Are Important" into the bumper sticker slogan
for a platform of Practical Idealism, which I described as
"better ideas for a better future."
To fight with the mainstream media (MSM) was really not the
point of my campaign, back in the day. In fact, one can argue
that I was a "media creation" in the first place,
because --what are the expectations for an 18-year-old in
campaigning for President? None! Based on that, I was able
to exceed expectations--popping up on talk radio everywhere,
helped by attention from AP, UPI, USA Today, the New York
Times, and People magazine.
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So am I a sell out staple of the mainstream news media? No!
My success was with print, radio, and affiliate TV. In the
1984 campaign, at no time did national networks--ABC, CBS,
NBC--ever go near, nor touch the story of my candidacy. As
a result, I was invisible on the networks, and confined to
back pages as often happens to independent or third party
candidates. (My big victory was to appear on page two of USA
Today.)
Very clearly, the U.S. had "first class news" coming
from Jennings and Brokaw and Rather; and then it had "second
class news" coming from everywhere else. Jennings and
Brokaw and Rather could do their own thing, seemingly in a
bubble very much apart and removed from the news of everywhere
else.
Let's face it -- mine was the first effort of a teenager.
What I did was not even "the college try." It was
post-high school and pre-collegiate. Not knowing what to expect,
I could be pleasantly surprised to move the needle at all.
So really, I cannot feel very mistreated, and I have not much
basis to complain, coming away from my experience of 1984.
However, the media has only gotten worse since 1984. I can
report back to the American people about their shenanigans
getting more brazen and atrocious, while becoming indefensible,
shameless, and disconnected from reality. They know that I
am loaded for bear -- for some time, I have promised or threatened
to finish my manuscript for the book, 'Genocidal Correctness.'
In it, I have promised to ream a new orifice for the MSM.
The complaints that I have are mostly from a citizen perspective,
and not from a candidate standpoint. But, when the complaint
is about "disappearing" a presidential candidate,
then I relate to both perspectives. It's because I belong
to a lineup of the disappeared: John Anderson '80; John Kusumi
'84; Ron Paul '88; Jerry Brown '92; Ross Perot '96; Ralph
Nader '00; and in 2004, there were interesting candidacies
by Nader, Dennis Kucinich, and David Cobb -- all "disappeared"
by the MSM.
Since there is such a lineup, and we actually know about
these prior vanished candidacies, there is no reason why we
should give the media the presumption of innocence now. If
they are creatures of habit, they will continue past patterns
once again this year. The pattern is to find independent thinkers
and the intellectually honest, and eliminate them. The independent
thought and intellectual honesty goes "off the reservation,"
and departs from the page of the neo-corporate, neo-fascist
control agenda of the "politically correct." The
sell outs want to reward those who are "team players"
for "team evil."
Hence, they want to arrange a disappearing act for anyone
from "team good." This year, Dennis Kucinich and
Mike Gravel have already been caught under the wheels of their
machinery in the service of evil. Their next target? --Ron
Paul.
Tonight, we are being provided with a warning about the next
upcoming fight of the Ron Paul forces. The bad guy du jour
is Fox News. They are planning a forum of Republican candidates
in New Hampshire on the eve of that state's primary. The forum
is slated for January 6, 2008, and the word on the internet
tonight is that Fox News will EXCLUDE Ron Paul from participating
in that forum (debate). In addition to expressing outrage,
campaign manager Kent Snyder said, “Paul supporters
should know that we are continuing to make inquiries with
Fox News as to why they have apparently excluded Dr. Paul
from this event.”
That is a not-very-subtle cue to activate--or to call up
the troops of--the "Ron Paul revolution borg," who
will undoubtedly raise a hue and cry, bombarding Fox News
with a piece of their minds.
For my part, I might think "gee -- where were all of
these borg when I needed them in 1984?" Well, in 1984
there was no world wide web. For that matter, there was no
Microsoft Windows. In 1984, the Apple Macintosh had just been
introduced, and was the first instance of point-and-click
computing for popular consumption. In 1984, modems tended
to be 150 or 300 bps. That means 150 bits, not Kbits. (Divide
by eight for the number of ASCII characters per second.) There
was not much chance for political America, or activist America,
to connect electronically.
Five years later in 1989, other people my age--Chinese college
students--were giving it "the college try" in Tiananmen
Square. Computing, while still primitive, had advanced somewhat
more. Modems tended to be 2400-9600 bps, and the Compuserve
Information Service had a political issues forum. Even without
Windows, and without a world wide web, like-minded correspondents
could find one another, and the China Support Network was
able to be "born" on the Compuserve Issues Forum.
It turns out that it was myself--yours truly--who was setting
it up, naming the organization, and uploading the founding
documents to Compuserve.
That indicates my other standing in the American scene. I
am the founder of CSN, America's grass-roots organization
in support of the Tiananmen Square Chinese dissidents. Pretty
soon, I was called into Washington when a visit was happening
by escaped Chinese dissidents. Like a political handler or
campaign volunteer, I arranged their first press conference
at the National Press Club. On the dissidents' behalf, I got
on the phone and talked to the Bush White House. And, I have
been watching America's news media play games with the issue
ever since. They have "disappeared" the Chinese
democracy movement, as easily as they disappeared Ralph Nader.
I have a prime standpoint from which to point out the games
of the U.S. news media. And, as indicated by my book title,
"political correctness" has added up to "genocidal
correctness." The media has largely stood silent while
three U.S. Presidents rewarded Communist China and the legacy
of Mao; ignored genocide; and built up a new nuclear-armed,
communist superpower. If America's enemies include nuclear-armed,
communist superpowers, then their activities have met the
literal definition of treason. And clearly, excess deaths
are attributable to the atrocities and holocaust-like persecution
to which they have turned a blind eye. Apparently, for the
U.S. news media, crimes against humanity are business as usual.
As I alluded to above, they of the MSM are working in the
service of evil.
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article here.
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