Reply #161: I disagree, for one thing Al Gore won, but also on your premise.

[Uncle Joe]

It was the corporate media intent on trashing and slandering his integrity for the better part of two years prior to the selection of 2000, that made the race close enough for Bush to steal. The corporate media simply didn't care about reporting the truth. They made Al Gore out to be the liar because they knew Bush didn't stand a chance on vision, the issues, the record, qualifications for the job or experience. This is why Bush ran on "restoring honor and integrity to the White House", the corporate media knew after eight years of the Clinton Witch Hunt coupled with the Lewinsky Scandal, they could transfer the sins of the President on to the Vice-President quite easily. I believe they were motivated in large part because Al Gore championed the Internet while in Congress and as the Internet grew in power and influence they feared for their monopoly on information. Information = money, power and influence and as we have entered the Information Age, the corporate media decided they wanted to shape the Information Age to their liking, not the American People's desires.

I believe, had the corporate media not waged this one sided war, Al Gore would have won in a land slide, regardless of Nader. The no difference lie wasn't effective because of Nader, it was the corporate media that refused to spell out the differences and only magnified the negative caricature of the Al Gore they had created, the same corporate media that would go on to cheer lead us to a war based on lies regardless of the evidence to the contrary and brain wash up to 70+% of the American People in to believing Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. As evil as he was, Saddam wasn't behind 9/11 but this is the kind of power, the corporate media can wield in shaping American Public opinion.