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Massive police raids on suspected protesters in Minneapolis

Several "hippie homes" are raided this morning by semi-automatic-weapon-wielding police squads.

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  • Saturday, August 30, 2008 03:32 PM

    Whoa their Glenn - the question was, why no coverage of the Democratic convention?

    Easy Glenn...

    She never covered the story. I personally called her office and sent her emails on it about a dozen times. Why aren't you covering this? Why not?

    That's not really the point, though - the issue is, why didn't she spend a whole lot more time covering the Republican Convention in the leadup?

    There is an explanation that has nothing to do with conspiracy, which is that Amy Goodman believes that the Democratic Party is itself a massive conspiracy aimed at defrauding the public with bogus populism, and that the only hope for real change is to boost people like Ralph Nader, who will save us with their policy statements... or something like that?

    None of that explains the obvious failure to cover the Republican Party, however. And any rational person knows that someone who casts their vote for Nader instead of Obama is, under our system, a vote for McCain.

    Hey, how do I change my sign in, anyway? If I want to use my name (Ike Solem) instead of Cargo Cult, how do I do that?

    (Cargo Cult Economics - "if you build it they will come")

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