Civics: elections and the legacy media
During his 10-month presidential campaign in 1992, Ross Perot gave 34 interviews on mainstream networks. In contrast, during this 16 months since I declared, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN combined give only two live interviews for me. Those networks instead ran a continuous daily use of hit pieces with inaccurate, often vile pejoratives, and defamatory smears. Some of those same networks had colluded with the DNC to keep me off the debate stage. Representatives of those networks are in this room right now, and I’ll just take a moment to ask you to consider the many ways that your institutions have abdicated this really sacred responsibility, the duty of free press to safeguard democracy and to challenge always the party in power. Instead of maintaining that posture of fear and skepticism to authority, your institutions that made themselves government mouthpieces. You didn’t alone cause the devolution of American democracy but you could have prevented it. The Democratic Party’s censorship of social media was more of an naked exercise of executive power.”
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Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballet, the DNC dragged us into court, state after state, attempting to erase their work and to subvert the will of the voters who signed those petitions. It deployed DNC aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballet, and to throw President Trump in jail. It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden.
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This is the part that worries me the most: she uses messaging in a way to get populations of young, unknowing, innocent people on these false virtue signal ambitions and take on policies that will really hurt them in the future.”
Here’s his full speech, which I thought was excellent:
The Democratic and Republican Parties both have a long history of working feverishly to block Third Party candidates from ballots. RFK insisted he was uniquely positioned to surmount these deeply ingrained legal and political obstacles. Then he decided to pick a running mate who’s a billionaire Google heiress from California, which posed problems for him Constitutionally, as he’s also a resident of California.
