Comments on: Kucinich Banned By ABC, Talks To TechCrunch (sort of)

By: Techcrunch on the Presidential Candidates « UPEI - BUS442.0

Techcrunch on the Presidential Candidates « UPEI - BUS442.0 — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:49:54 +0000

[...] and answers here are Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Mike Gravel, and Dennis Kucinich’s [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:23:24 +0000

For ABC/NBC/CNN,Disney,G.E.,AARP,DNC & all fans of MSM I will NEVER support you in any way! You are Un-American to ban someone because ‘you’ say we wouldn’t vote for him. Liberal Media ? ? Ha !Independent voter now. Its funny the one UK person never heard of him:) Don’t feel bad Mike, only 35% of voting democrats know either lol
The whole Dennis Kucinich & Ron Paul story is very indicative of our media,society, and country today. The ABC{Disney} debate Dennis was banned from was the begining of a string of debates he was left from this month. As the other comments say, it was obvious during the debates he participated in, he was clearly NOT Clinton/Obama/Edwards. No,he stood out and spoke clearly real ideas that the others couldn’t match.
This ’shedding light’ on Kucinich disagreeing, gave him a voice that challenged the very people who were broadcasting him! Kucinich is correct though, the airwaves are public. This creates a dangerous corruption when ‘rules are shuffled’ last minute.
As for your interview, I feel its a bit slanted to give perception to others using ‘rant’ & biasing others. Just report the news, dont influence it. It also sounds as though no electricity and performing the interview from a car may have contributed to your feeling interview didn’t get to ‘your’ key issues. I think Kucinich clearly answered your question of his thoughts on TECHnology and his plans for the 21st century.~

By: Our Tech President Endorsements: Barack Obama and John McCain

Our Tech President Endorsements: Barack Obama and John McCain — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:11:13 +0000

[...] We’ve been interviewing 2008 presidential candidates for the last few months to get them to state, on record, their positions on ten key technology related issues (Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich). [...]

By: Our Tech President Endorsements: Barack Obama and John McCain

Our Tech President Endorsements: Barack Obama and John McCain — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:45:28 +0000

By: CanCar

CanCar — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:16:04 +0000

The position which they take the candidates with respect to these subjects that are of great importance, will be the key to decide his political future. Since most of the people are pending of the opinions and actions of these candidates to make the decision at the time of exerting the vote.

By: JR

JR — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:32:10 +0000

In Addition i focus on the ABC Thing. Dennis is right ! The airwaves does not belong to ABC , they belong to the people. We are remoted by the media and who has the remote control? The current political class ! A guy like Kucinich cannot be part of the plan. So they try to throw stones in his way where they can, ignoring the democratic rights of the american people. Thats what it is. So we can challenge this by telling each other, using the internet, get informed and find reliable sources far away from mainstream media.

By: JR

JR — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:22:55 +0000

Dennis is a great guy who really make a stand on issues. Its boring to hear the other candidates answering questions cause i have impression they just answer the mainstream way,like what the crowd wanna hear. Who is in the debate opposing the war from the beginning? Its nice to hear that the other candidates are against the war,-now- nice that they change positions,but just imagine you have a president who is right from the frist time…there is only one candidate with credibility ..and thats Dennis Kucinich !

By: 42mb.com

42mb.com — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:06:45 +0000

I like his agenda for uplifting the human condition.

By: Everyone Speaks

Everyone Speaks — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:48:38 +0000

I think that what ABC has done to Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel and Duncan Hunter is pretty much an outrage, keeping them out of their televised debates. Corporate controlled media has no right to decide who the valid contenders are with ten months to go before the final elections. It is a network that is robbing Americans of our right to make an informed decision about who our leader should be. Any way you want to spin it, it’s just wrong.

If anyone reading this would like to let the FCC and FEC know how you feel about this, myself and some concerned voters have created a form on our website that will make it easy to do so. Please visit http://www.everyonespeaks.com and let us know what you think of the place, or better yet, let the FCC know that what ABC has done is wrong.

–End of pitch. Sorry for the spam-like nature, but we got this website up over the weekend, and if we can do any good whatsoever, I had to move quickly. Thanks and take care.

everyonespeaks.com

By: Al

Al — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:01:07 +0000

“Larry Larrikin” - I don’t know what you are really getting at. Socialism is a system that seems to nver get better. People just suffer and die. On the other hand, in Democratic Capitalism, the system often does get better.

As for unborn babies and people of color, what are you talking about?

By: Charlie Anzman

Charlie Anzman — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:07:19 +0000

Hey Mike, the Kucinich team has hit us numerous times with Facebook requests and twitter follows in the past three days. I have NO IDEA why
Charlie Anzman

By: Larry Larrikin

Larry Larrikin — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:45:29 +0000

“And what about the millions that died under Socialism?”

And what about the millions that died under capitalism? Oh wait, unborn babies and people of color don’t count.

By: Barry Welch

Barry Welch — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:26:02 +0000

Hmm… “polling a strong second”? You did mean “polling a strong second on the Democrat ticket ” didn’t you? Just checking

By: Marzipan From Toledo

Marzipan From Toledo — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:01:17 +0000

I’m not a Kucinich fan but I encourage you all to drop a quick not to the FCC (fccinfo@fcc.gov) and let them know ABC’s ban of Kucinich was unacceptable and that they need to do something about it.

How can ABC ban Kucinich and Gravel because of their performance in the polls, and then turn around for the Republican debate and include Giuliani (who only got 5% or so of the vote in Iowa and was in last place)

This kind of stuff makes me sick to my stomach. Kucinich urged his voters to vote for Obama first, and himself second so that is why his numbers were so low.

By: gyula csocsan

gyula csocsan — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:46:16 +0000

“Modern Liberals are a strange form of Socialist.”

and sometimes not only strange, but even dangerous

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:31:19 +0000

I thought the interview was very insightful and thoughtful, and to be fair, tonight was a very busy night for Dennis, vying for as much media coverage as possible in light of his ABC Facebook ban, so I’m sure he gave TechCrunch absolutely as much time as he could. I look forward to hearing your follow up interview where he’s able to address the questions you had planned to ask him if time had allowed. Thanks for giving him the chance!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:24:47 +0000

No offense but had never heard of him , then again im from the uk.

Good to see TC being open minded.
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http://www.xenbet.com

By: Ray Grieselhuber

Ray Grieselhuber — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:20:01 +0000

Noticed one spelling bug: it’s Marshall McLuhan, not McLewin.

I was surprised / pleased to learn that Kucinich is #2 in your own surveys - I don’t know how he will end up doing in the mainstream, but it’s nice to see him doing so well in crowd of influential people.

Kucinich is an inspiring candidate. I didn’t feel that the interview went that badly - it sounds like you caught him or he caught you at a bad moment. It sounds like he has a lot to say and there just wasn’t much time to say it in. Anyway, if you get a chance to speak with him again, I’m sure many of us would like to hear more.

By: Al

Al — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:10:46 +0000

Modern Liberals are a strange form of Socialist. We spent 100’s of billions of dollars and lost many lives fighting Socialism. And what about the millions that died under Socialism?

Kucinich should be marginalized. His thinking is just plain wrong. (And, yes, I’m familiar with his stances.)

By: Josh Saunders

Josh Saunders — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:30:40 +0000

It’s a shame you weren’t able to get to the real tech issues with him. Hopefully there will be an opportunity to in the future.

It’s hard to tell if he specifically avoided the question, maybe because he doesn’t have the knowledge to answer it (… didn’t want to sounds stupid) or if he legitimately didn’t have time.

By: Ivan Drago

Ivan Drago — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:03:51 +0000

Why must he defend his position against H1B Visas?

By: anon

anon — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:31:32 +0000

Mike, where you write: “I was able to ask him if he was going to consider running as an independent candidate. He said he would not.” — I don’t think this is accurate.

He certainly left the door open, by saying “I haven’t really considered that.”

You characterization of the interview is also unfair. His comments on how much control over-the-air networks should have of their content, and the more open potential of the internet, the ethics of technological development, and the merits of driving energy innovations out of NASA and into the private sector, were all on-topic and in direct response to your questions.

By: EH

EH — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:30:37 +0000

If you think Kucinich is “the extreme left,” you don’t know much about politics.

By: a sober note

a sober note — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:24:14 +0000

Kucinich speaks from the extreme left of the political spectrum, about where Jerry “Governor Moonbeam” Brown is. To his audience and his fans, it makes sense when he says: “So we must always be the soul of whatever we create. We cannot have our creations apart from who we are. So our creations must have integrity. They must have beauty. They must be sustaining of life, and they must be capable of being owned by the masses.” To the rest of us, we just go “wow”.

All politicians who are extreme, whether left or right, sound didactic and moralistic, although they like to fancy that they are being “idealistic”.

His popularity on the Internet is very similar to Ron Paul’s, in the sense that the money and the dedication generated from the fans are not being translated into actual votes, and I mean votes that really count, as in, really get you into the front-running status.

There is a reason why when Mike asked Kucinich if he wanted to run as an independent he said he would not, because being independent implies anti-establishment, and big-time politics like presidential campaign is all about how to get the party establishment behind you.

Candidates like Ron Paul and Kucinich are “digital fables” — great stories, but nothing more.

By: Charley

Charley — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:11:26 +0000

It’s great that I can hear Kucinich’s message on the internet, but the fact remains that for the majority of Americans, if it wasn’t on TV “it didn’t happen.” What ABC is doing and what the Des Moines Iowa Register did is undemocratic at its core.