I'm watching the Democratic "debate" and Al Sharpton just called the media out something fierce. For ten minutes the debate goes back and forth between Kerry and Edwards, completely ignoring Kucinich and Sharpton. Finally Al speaks up. "Is this a four or a two man debate?" He demands. Dan Rather tries to defend himself by saying that the people have spoken and they want to hear from viable candidates. Al blows up. He points at Edwards. "The people have not spoken. This man won one single primary. That's it. One. You're trying to decide who the nominee is. You're trying to pick and choose candidates. If this is only a 2 person debate, if you want to choose the nominee, please just admit it." (paraphrase) It gets better after that but still 4 out of 5 questions are to Kerry/Edwards and Sharpton and Kucinich are given 10 seconds to answer instead of the 30 Kerry/Edwards get. Kucinich is getting more opportunities than Sharpton. They're mostly ignoring Dennis and completely ignoring Al. It's really frustrating. Al's a great speaker, they should let the man talk.

Elisabeth Bumiller (NY Times- one of the moderates) is an idiot. She keeps cutting people off, not to force them to answer the question, but to change the subject to something else. She actually just asked Kerry if he's learned how to be likable from Edwards? That's simply not a question. Even Dan Rather was like, whatever you loon, and totally recast the question. He asks, "Does Sen. Kerry have enough Elvis to beat GW." Yeah, he really raised the bar. Morons. Bumiller asked Edwards a good question on gay marriage though.

Kucinich and Sharpton are actually answering questions. Kerry and Edwards (Kerry is much worse.) are just mush talking. Dennis keeps trying to call out Kerry on Iraq. "Answer the question John." Of course he doesn't.

Elisabeth Bumiller actually said that John Kerry was the most liberal senator. That's like calling a cat a whale. Dennis then defines what liberal is. John Kerry isn't. He's offering "mainstream American values." Kucinich is like, "I'm a liberal. I'm progressive. Kerry/Edwards are not."

Fucking Bumiller just asked, "Is God on America's side?" What the hell kind of question is that? Did she really just ask that? We Americans really freak me out. It was the last question. Fitting.