Wait a minute katlaughing, and stop to think about this situation for a minute. It has indeed been a long, strange trip from Friday October 25th. The national news media has been crawling all over the story of the Minnesota US senate race, more than any other race in the midterm election. It has headlined the news reports on the national media every single night for the past week.

Ventura's remarks about the Wellstone memorial were ALL OVER the national media last Wednesday, and his quote about feeling duped was heard on every major network and all the commericial radio stations, ad nauseum, the entire day. Rush Limbaugh devoted a three hour programming block to the Republican outrage campaign, free of charge to the Republican National Committee and the Coleman for Senate campaign, as did MSNBC, CNN, and Fox. Ventura was being touted as the voice of reasoned, righteous indignation in Minnesota.

By contrast, today when Ventura makes a very public controversial announcement which is a much bigger news story in terms of newsworthiness than the debate between Mondale and Coleman because of it's IMMEDIATE effect on the balance of power in the US senate less than 24 hours before the election, the national and local media IGNORE THE STORY????

The national media is now also lying about Ventura's actual remarks. The quote being used in all the news reports (being taken off the AP wire) says:

"Today, three very powerful institutions -- the Republican Party, the Democratic Farmer-Labor party and the Minnesota media -- are conspiring to limit the hard-earned rights of ordinary citizens to rise up and compete for elected office without having to be a Democrat or a Republican," Ventura said.

One problem. Ventura never singled out the Minnesota media. He simply said "the media" and "you people". He is being consistently misquoted. I wonder why, hmmmm?

No institution benefits more from the current corrupt two party political system than the print, radio, and television media outlets which receive ALL the campaign advertising money. Ventura has acted just as vindictively (some would say "colorfully") in this instance as he did last Wednesday, but for some curious reason (I'm being politely tongue in cheek here) despite the remarks being equally scathing as those he made about the Wellstones and the Democratic party last Wednesday, the media decides to not cover the biggest election story of the day before the election. This has not one thing to do with grieving and acceptance katlaughing. This has to do with the false prophets of the fourth estate abrogating their reporting in the public interest duties, in order to deflect criticism of their obviously biased reporting.