The Secret Deal Between the Democrats and Republicans To Control the Presidential Debates

[Lucille]

The Secret Deal Between the Democrats and Republicans To Control the Presidential Debates
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-secret-deal-between-democrats-and.html


"The only way to forestall the work of criticism (critical thought) is through censorship, which has the same relation to criticism that lynching has to justice."
--Northrop Frye

Would you be surprised to learn that secret deals between the two major US political parties and the major news media control access to the Presidential debates, thereby controlling the discussion, turning them into show pieces and beauty contests obsessed with the trivial and the technicalities of performance art, rather than substantive discussions of the issues?

Did you wonder why third party messages and non-corporately sponsored ideas are completely ignored in the discussions, debates, and for the most part in the 'free press?'
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This is not a serious and original discussion of the issues. This is bread and circuses. Bread for the media and the politicians, and circuses for the people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-viijPgiL0A

[Working Poor]

AMY Goodman is the best thanks for this.

[jbauer]

Preaching to the choir but the 2 party system is whats wrong with the USA today. Heck even many of the socialists in Europe get to have more then 2 parties.

[Keith and stuff]

This isn't secret. It is known as the reason the bi-partisan commission was created. The commission was created to exclude non-Republicans and Democrats from the debates.

[Lucille]

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/conscience-realist/2012/sep/26/george-farah-bipartisan-campaign-against-open-deba/

http://www.opendebates.org/

[Noblegeorge]

Cheers for the link, il be watching the debate there.