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Mainstream Progressive Columnists Disdaining Progressive Candidates?
This essay by Ralph Nader is excerpted and linked to Dissident Voice.
Mainstream Progressive Columnists Disdaining Progressive Candidates?
by Ralph Nader
December 11th, 2007
Gail Collins, the columnist for the New York Times, has a problem. While regularly writing in a satirical or sometimes trivial way about the foibles of the two major Parties’ front-running presidential candidates, she can scarcely hide her disdain for the small starters, the underdogs.
In a recent column about what she saw as the repetitiveness and small-mindedness of Hillary Clinton (and her spokesman), Barack Obama and John Edwards, she took this unexplained swipe at former Senator Mike Gravel’s presence in a debate sponsored by National Public Radio:
“What the heck is Mike Gravel doing back on stage? Didn’t we get rid of him 10 or 20 debates ago?”
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by Ralph Nader
December 11th, 2007
Gail Collins, the columnist for the New York Times, has a problem. While regularly writing in a satirical or sometimes trivial way about the foibles of the two major Parties’ front-running presidential candidates, she can scarcely hide her disdain for the small starters, the underdogs.
In a recent column about what she saw as the repetitiveness and small-mindedness of Hillary Clinton (and her spokesman), Barack Obama and John Edwards, she took this unexplained swipe at former Senator Mike Gravel’s presence in a debate sponsored by National Public Radio:
“What the heck is Mike Gravel doing back on stage? Didn’t we get rid of him 10 or 20 debates ago?”
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For more information:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/12/main...
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