Janeane Gaofalo speech that 'voting isn't art?"

[Eric J in MN]

A week or two ago, Janeane Gaofalo and Sam Sedar said on "The Majority Report" that voting isn't art. Voting is practical. There are ways to express who you truly are, but voting isn't one of them.


Do you know who the guests were that day or the date of the broadcast?

If not, is there a website with detailed summaries of "The Majority Report?"

[ashling]

1. As I have posted before, It's not your EGO, damnit, it's your vote

[Jane Austin]

2. That was a wonderful rant!

And one I've wanted to call upon in answer to some posters and others who are uncertain about Kerry.

I think it's Sam whose ranting on that, and I'm pretty sure it was in the last seven days.

[Eric J in MN]

5. it was both Sam and Janeane who said it together (nt)

nt

[doni_georgia]

3. Here's a link to their blog

http://www.majorityreportradio.com/weblog/index.php

Send Rush packing
http://www.geocities.com/sendhimpacking/

[corporatewhore]

4. And here is the counterpoint to her speech

http://yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1916&mode=thread&order=0

[FreedomReload]

6. This paragraph stood out

"As a member of the American consumer class, it is clear to me that John Kerry would be a better President, for me and for most everyone I know personally, than George Bush. Not that this is a challenge -- my doorknob would be a better President than George Bush."

[corporatewhore]

7. and right here are two paras right after that one

But a John Kerry presidency will not reduce the hardship of life in Nablus. Israeli tanks will continue to roll there, underwritten by U.S. financial support and protected by U.S. diplomatic immunity. Nablus will continue to die a slow, suffocating death, according to the U.S. approved master plan of the Israeli ethnic cleansers. With Kerry in the White House, Iraqis will go on dying for the right to be free from foreign occupation. The war on South American peasants will continue, perhaps even intensify, whether fought with "Free Trade" legislation, "war on drug" funds, or direct military intervention, etc., etc.

I cannot stop the tanks. But on my next visit to Nablus, I don't want to have to lie about my vote. I don't want to have to explain that I didn't really support Kerry's de-facto endorsement of ethnic cleansing even though I voted for him. It sounds like a lame excuse and it is. I don't want to have to admit to my hosts that I voted for Kerry because I thought about retirement savings and health insurance and personal security and I forgot all about Nablus and about what they were going through. Therefore, on election day, I won't forget Nablus and I won't vote for Kerry.

[Eric J in MN]

10. And what about all the places the US will bomb if Bush

And what about all the places the US will bomb if Bush stays in office?

What about explaining not voting for Kerry then?

[tomorrowsashes]

11. I have seen no evidence to prove that Kerry is less of a warmonger

I haven't really seen any evidence to prove to me conclusively that Kerry is any less of an imperialistic warmonger than Bush. They both supported the Iraq war, they both want to send more troops, they both support Israel's genocide, and the list goes on and on. Kerry will often state that his discontent with Bush's policies, but when he lays out his own, it is very hard, if not impossible, to find any differences beyond the purely cosmetic ones. At best, a vote for Kerry is a gamble, a slot machine, where it is possible that something good might come up. At worst, it is consent to be governed by a person who is nearly, if not just as bad as Bush, and giving the government one more statistic to prove that the American people are happy with their choices.

[Eric J in MN]

12. Kerry was against the Vietnam War and against the 1991 Gulf War (nt)

nt

[Jane Austin]

8. It was the April 26th show.

I looked in my iTunes library and fortunately that show was one I had downloaded.

The "Your vote is not an act of art" rant is in the last half hour of the show, although the whole show is good. Greg Palast. is in the first hour.

The rant starts like this:

Your vote is not an act of art. It is not an expression of your inner soul . . . .

And goes on from there.

You can find Air America archives at

www.airamericaplace.com

[Eric J in MN]

9. Thank you (nt)

nt