The Advocate has run a puff piece on Mike Gravel.
Just who is Mike Gravel? You'd be hard-pressed to know the answer without reading the article. Yours truly had never heard of him until stumbling across the linked article.
He's apparently a little-known candidate for the Democratic nomination for president of the USA. His claim to fame is a minute-long YouTube film of him skipping rocks across a pond and a cameo on the Daily Show.
His campaign, so far, has raised only about $100,000 -- or less than 10% of the typical budget for the Libertarian presidential campaign in a bad fundraising year.
So of course, the queer Democratic-leaning media gives him plenty of attention -- including pats on the back for positions that aren't any more pro-gay than those espoused by the frontrunners for the Libertarian nomination (as polled by Outright Libertarians).
Then, a year after Mr. Gravel is forgotten -- when the Libertarian candidate is chosen, has $2 million to spend on a campaign, and espouses unapologetically pro-gay positions on the issues -- much of the queer press will inevitably decline to provide any proportional coverage of the Libertarian campaign. . . let alone meaningful coverage.
The war drums will beat for Hillary, Obama, or whoever bears the Democrats' brass ring, regardless of their substantive position on LGBTQ issues.
And the most ironic part of the whole thing is that huge swaths of the queer press will inevitably cite "a lack of campaign funds" as a reason not to cover the national candidates who aren't Demopublicans or Republicrats. Just 12 months after publishing a glowing report of a Democrat with less than 10% of the funding power, who supposedly merits coverage because "with little chance of winning, he can say almost anything, which should make for a deadly combination."
Meanwhile, our candidate won't be saying "almost anything" -- (s)he'll be saying something.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Grinding the news into Gravel
2 comments:
He had more than a few minutes of fame when he fillibustered the draft for 5 months, which is the reason we don't have it today.
And then when he published the Pentagon Papers and had Nixon trying to send him to prison for it. He won, Nixon lost big time and the war ended. He stood up to everyone, for the American People and won. However; you can only do that once in our system before your political career is over. No one man, no matter how good can change the system. However; all the people can and that's exactly what Gravel has been working on since he has been out of office. A way to empower the people to become a 4th branch of the government. www.ni4d.us
You might want to ask yourself why you've never heard of him and then take a few minutes to go hear what he has to say first hand. Not just judge him on the art video's that some supporters who were teachers asked him to do for them. He values his supporters (unlike some other campaigns)and works for us instead of the other way around. Don't rely on 2nd hand information from me or anyone else. Go see for yourself.
www.youtube.com/gravel2008 www.gravel2008.us
You might want to ask yourself why you've never heard of him and then take a few minutes to go hear what he has to say first hand.
I certainly am not questioning this in the slightest. I am simply pointing out that if Mr. Gravel was a Libertarian candidate, he'd likely not have received any coverage from the left-leaning queer press.
They would argue it's because he has no chance of winning -- however, that argument is rather silly when one considers that the Libertarian candidate for president (whoever that ends up being) has a greater chance of winning the presidency than Mr. Gravel has of winning the Democratic Party's nomination.
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