Let me start this blog off by stating that I am not a conspiracy theory advocator, although I am sure some of that many conspiracy theories do have a degree of truth to them. I will not address conspiracy theories, or conspiracy theorists, but the everyday propaganda that is dished out by the media, which for the most part goes unnoticed.
I was recently showing a friend of mine Dennis Kucinich’s policies and political views. He listened for the most part, but when I finished, he asked me,
“Dennis Kucinich claimed to have seen a UFO before, now my question is do you really want someone like that to be a president?”
Another one influenced by the media. At the end of the October 30th Democratic Debate, the mediator (Tim Russert) asked Dennis Kucinich “did you see a UFO.” He responded by saying “I did.”
Why was this question asked in the first place? What significance has this subject on his ability to direct a country? This, among other things, is an example of the media dictating who takes the oval office. People think they can judge one’s character off of single insignificant events such as a UFO sighting. What we should be amazed by is the fact that he did not perform a bob-and-weave with the question, and answered truthfully. Fourteen percent of Americans have seen a UFO, and I’m sure the amount of honest politicians out there is noticeably less.
Another example of this occurrence has to do with the Republican under-dog, Ron Paul. On a news site, I came up on a poll that had Rudy Guliani at 25.5%, Mike Huckabee at 13.8%, John McCain at 13.7%, Fred Thompson at 13.2%, and Mitt Romney at 10.4%. The other 17.1 percent was labeled as other/undecided. Now we know Brownback, Hunter, and Tancredo all pull in 1-2%; so lets make it 5% just to be safe. Plus the other candidates, which may end up at 2% tops. Then factor in the undecideds, which is not a lot for republicans, so lets say 3%. That leaves Paul with roughly 7%. Why is he not mentioned? The answer: the media wants to cancel out Paul’s climbing numbers as much as the can. If the media did not have an input on our elections, we would see upwards of 10-man races instead of 2 to 4-man (or woman) races.
Let me get across that I am by no way advocating these nominees; they are set here for examples. I think it is time for us to stop letting other people choose who we decide to vote for to lead our country. What about you?
Some people don’t believe in UFO’s, and might see Kucinich as a wacko for claiming to have seen one. It doesn’t really affect his politics one iota. It is simply there to try to besmirch his character (which would be easy to do for ANY politician.)
And, you are right about pointing out the flaws in the polls. I have seen examples of phone polls that exclude all but a few candidates, and selecting other hangs up on the person.