Yes, the media marginalized Nader the minute he walked off the set of Meet the Press. Their only interest in putting him on was to get "the scoop". Nader knew that, which is why he kept mentioning his web site.

This will likely be the last campaign that can rely on the internet to get the word out by going around MSM. By 2012, the Democrats and Republicans will have closed that gate and padlocked it, so we can't organize online anymore.

The biggest threat to the status quo right now is us doing online organizing for a major name recognition indie/3rd party candidate--like Nader, and independent news reporting, like Democracy Now does.

If every True Blue Believer would read Jeffrey Scahill's book "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army" they would definitely be re-examining their beliefs about voting Clinton or Obama in the fall. Seriously.