Dennis Kucinich: Desapparacido! (by Dave Lindorff)

[marmar]

Monday, August 13, 2007

Dennis Kucinich: Desapparacido!
Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has been “disappeared.”


Not in the sense of victims of America’s so-called War on Terror. He hasn’t been carted off in an orange jumpsuit to some black site in Kazakhstan. But he has been “disappeared” by the reporters and editors of the New York Times.

In an article by Jeff Zeleny and Mark Santora on Sunday headlined “Democrats Say Leaving Iraq May Take Years,” the Times reports that Democratic candidates, with only candidate Bill Richardson “standing apart,” are saying that troops will have to stay in Iraq and the area around Iraq for a long time.

But wait. Kucinich, who in many polls does as well as, or better than Biden and Richardson (in a new straw poll of Democratic activists in California, he ranked right behind Edwards and Obama, and ahead of Clinton and the rest of the crowd), not only wants the U.S. out of Iraq; he has submitted an actual bill in Congress (HR 1234) calling for a removal of all US troops within three months’ time, and barring the expenditure of any funds on future military activity in the region except for the purpose of orderly withdrawal.

So why was Kucinich left out of the Times article on Democratic candidates’ positions on the Iraq War?

The answer seems clear.

The Times has decided that Kucinich isn’t a candidate. He doesn’t exist.

He has been disappeared. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/

[southerncrone]

1. DK MUST be ignored because he does not tow the corporate line.

NYT's advertisers won't allow a non-corp friendly candidate press. Edwards is lucky he gets any press, too. Had he not been the VP candidate in '04 & one of the front-runners, we wouldn't hear about him either.

[followthemoney]

10. Kucinich appeals to the Democratic electorate on policy and their understanding

of what the party stands for. The Democratic Party is primarily concerned with presenting a candidate most acceptable the the Republican Party.

[wildbilln864]

2. K&R for the Honorable Dennis Kucinich! eom!

[Hardrada]

3. Hurray for Dennis K.!!

[enid602]

4. mas bien

desaparecido

[az chela]

5. I am backing Dennis 100 percent,he is a winner

[Truth2Tell]

6. The Times just gets worse every day

Couldn't help but notice their lead editorial today is a complete back-track on Iraq withdrawl. They are adopting the Orwellian Biden/Clinton program of "withdraw but stay."

[puebloknot]

7. Honesty, intelligence, integrity are not "in" this year. It's as outrageously...

...superficial as that.

[Peggy Day]

8. think that's bad-just wait till Murdock buys it up nt

[loudsue]

9. They're already acting like they have to compete with Rupert Murdock and

the Wall Street Urinal. Do they really think anybody's going to take the WSJ seriously anymore now that Murdock bought the damned thing?

:kick:

[Vidar]

11. K&R.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

12. With their credibility still on life support ...

...from the unabashed shilling they did during the lead up to our illegal invasion of Iraq, you'd think the NYT would take an honest look in the mirror and try to raise their journalistic standards a bit -- maybe even restore some lost credibility. Nope. They've learned absolutely nothing.

Why don't they just sell out to R. Murdoch and be done with it?

[lonestarnot]

13. That is why I'm telling every fucking person I know about Dennis and

his agenda.

[eridani]

14. Dennis Kucinich--

--presente!