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Bill Moyers Interviews Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich

By Manila Ryce
Published Saturday, January 5th, 2008, 6:10 am
Filed under: Videos: Political, Videos, US Politics

Bill Moyers interviewed both Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich last night. First up was Congressman Paul, who isn’t too concerned with private ownership of public airwaves. He has a kind of “get in where you fit in” attitude, and that makes sense given his free market ideology. However, when dealing in reality, it doesn’t make sense at all.

Interview with Paul

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As a private company, Paul figures Fox has every right to exclude him from the debate. Consider that Paul’s popularity has only been possible through alternatives to the corporate-controlled mainstream media, and you’ll find it incredibly ironic that the candidate who’s benefited most from the internet is also opposed to net neutrality.

Interview with Kucinich

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Kucinich seems to understand the threats we face from the media better than any candidate in the race. In contrast, his approach is that no private power ought to have control over a public debate. Self-interest is a basic tenet of capitalism. Thus, rather than serve the public interest as it’s supposed to, the corporate media must serve its own self-interest by promoting candidates and ideologies which generate more wealth for itself. This seems to be what Paul doesn’t understand, or refuses to see a problem with, given his dogmatic adherence to free-market fantasies.

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3 Responses to “Bill Moyers Interviews Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich”

  1. Hey folks,

    Ron Paul makes more sense than most of the Democrats put together, except for Kucinich and Gravel, I know I disagree with him, on some ideas, but his ideas for change would over all seem to move our country in a positive direction instead of status quo. Need to see the Kucinich interview next.
    Great that you have this on

    Thanks,

    Leefeller

    Leefeller
    01/5/08 at 10:44 am

  2. The article writeup is dead wrong. Ron Paul is the only candidate that makes sense, and is running on a campaign of sound economics, rather than religion (top repubs) or socialism (top dems). It is NOT the federal government’s job to swaddle the people like helpless babies.

    The states and localities should make these choices. This allows competition between different areas, and everyone wins. Want a more conservative area? Move to a state that leans that way. Want more liberal? There will always be those. But the federal bureaucracies are too inefficient and the responsibilities must be taken out of the hands of the “few” and given back to the “many”, through states and local districts.

    Eon Pul
    01/5/08 at 11:01 am

  3. I agree with both of these guys. Too bad the media won’t let them in on the debates.

    WillySF
    01/5/08 at 4:19 pm

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