Stilly River Sage, I just posted that article. As I said, it is totally ignoring what was essentially a half hour diatribe by Ventura about how the media is trying to destroy the third party movement. They are NOT reporting accurately, as I pointed out in my post above. They are making it appear as though Ventura focused his remarks on the two parties in general and on Mondale and the Democrats specifically. That is grossly misrepresenting what he said, and the reasons he gave for appointing an Independence Party senate candidate from 1994 and 1996.