Media making Edwards mad

John Edwards is taking on the mainstream media machine. Howard Dean made this an issue in his campaign and the next thing we knew there was the artificially created, mainstream media "Dean Scream" which ensured that Dean could no longer compete as an "electable" candidate.

Ironically Joe Trippi, Dean's campaign wizard, is now working for Edwards and dealing with the "hair" issue. I asked Joe Trippi at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston whether Dean ended up proving that rather than the people having the power ("you have the power"), the oligopolistic media interests have the real power. He disagreed with my contention. It will be interesting to see whether Joe Trippi has learned from the downfall of Dean and will successfully mount an offensive against the big media take down that is inevitable now that Edwards is fighting with people who "buy their ink by the barrel".

In any event, I am sure it will be hairy.

Edwards fields a tax reform question about our regressive tax system. Another reason the mainstream media and wealthy interests are going after him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgEvuf2Ll_o

Oh and by the way John Edwards, the middle class always ends up carrying the tax burden. That is just the way it is and you know that is true. It is a matter of paying your fair share. You are never going to shift the burden substantially away from the middle class but you can make sure high income taxpayers do not pay less, percentage wise, than the rest of us.

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I like this quote from Edwards:

Do you believe that compromise, triangulation will bring about big change? I don’t. I think the people who are powerful in Washington — big insurance companies, big drug companies, big oil companies — they are not going to negotiate. They are not going to give away their power. The only way that they are going to give away their power is if we take it away from themâ€¦We can’t trade our insiders for their insiders. That doesn’t work. What we need is somebody who will take these people on, these big banks, these mortgage companies, big insurance companies, big drug companies. That’s the only way we’re going to bring about change.’

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1. Above comment written by Aneurin on August 2nd, 2007 at 9:02 am (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).

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