Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 00:56:12 +0600 From: "Wendell W. Solomons" <•••@••.•••> Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nader=92s_Misguided_Crusade?= Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 10:40:42 -0700 To: TiM Readers From: Bob Djurdjevic Subject: A letter to the editor of the New York Times re. “Mr. Nader’s Misguided Crusade ” (June 30 editorial) FROM PHOENIX, ARIZONA Thought you may be interested in the enclosed letter to the editor of the New York Times. To read it at our Web site, just click (or double-click, depending on your computer) on its title or on the following Web address: http://www.truthinmedia.org/Activism/NYT6-30-2k.html Other Truth in Media reports and letters, such as the one referenced below, can be accessed at our Web site: www.truthinmedia.org , in the "TiM Activism" section. --------- June 30, 2000 A Distracting Time for The Times Letters Editor The New York Times New York, NY Subject: A letter to the editor re. “Mr. Nader’s Misguided Crusade ” - your June 30, 2000 editorial Dear Sir, I wish to thank you for finally dropping your “liberal” mask. Now all of your readers see that when the New York Times editors preach “democracy,” they actually mean “plutocracy.” That the Times’ “liberal” idea is not all that different from that of any communist dictator who also offered his people a choice - a red or a crimson star. Or a bayonette in the rib cage. In your June 30 editorial “Mr. Nader’s Misguided Crusade,” you say that, “Ralph Nader's… running for president… will distract voters from the clear-cut choice represented by the major party candidates, Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush.” Really? A “clear-cut choice” - between a red and a crimson globalist stooge? Besides, what’s wrong with Nader pulling votes from Bush, if “W” is really all that different from the Times’ favorite candidate - Gore? After all that’s how Clinton got elected - twice (!) - even though he never came close to getting 50% of the vote. I don’t recall the Times decrying Ross Perot’s “spoiler” role in 1992 and 1996 when your favorite “liberal” candidate benefited from Perot’s pulling votes away from George Bush, Sr. On the other hand, giving American people REAL choices beyond those dished out by the plutocratic “demo farce” is troubling you? Because they might “distract voters?” Distract from what? From being dumbed-down by the Times’ editorials? But what seems to be really troubling the Times is that not one, but two “spoiler candidates” may keep “distracting voters” in this election. “We are equally reluctant to see the main election choices clouded by the spoiler candidacy of Patrick Buchanan on the Reform Party ticket, an effort that seems likely to pull votes from both Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush. …There is no driving logic for a third-party candidacy this year, and the public deserves to see the major party candidates compete on an uncluttered playing field,” the Times keeps railing. “Uncluttered playing field?” So that “Rocky’s Rockettes” may rock no matter what the American people think? After all, there is no discernible difference between Algore and Dubya. And then, finally, the terrifying moment of truth; the moment the Times editors’ “liberal” masks fell to the ground… “The only realistic role he (Nader) can play this year is to tilt swing states like California in a conservative direction.” So that’s what’s troubling you about Nader? That he may be helping the “conservatives?” Tisk, tisk… Lest you’ve forgotten, “demo” stands for “people.” And “democracy” stands for the rule of the people. Which contrasts the New York Times editors’ wishful “demo farce” played out “on an uncluttered playing field.” This may come as a surprise to the Times, but this nation was not born at a Hollywood cocktail party. It was born at a Boston Tea Party to which no film-makers or bankers were invited. After all, the latter owned the rotten tea… The folks who gave birth to this “land of the free and of the brave” were “distracted voters.” Very distracted… I can see why totalitarian “liberals” may be also very distracted by that history lesson. Best regards, -- Bob Djurdjevic TRUTH IN MEDIA Phoenix, Arizona e-mail: •••@••.••• Visit the Truth in Media Web site http://www.truthinmedia.org/ for more articles on geopolitical affairs.
