KEITH OLBERMAN SAID IT RIGHT, & We see “Worst Media Coverage on the newest Supreme Court DECISION in USA ever”

KEITH OLBERMAN SAID IT RIGHT, & We see “Worst Media Coverage on the newest Supreme Court DECISION in USA ever”

By Kevin Stoda, Germany


I have certainly seen a lot of progressives on the horn today about the HORRIBLE SUPREME COURT DECISION yesterday to allow unlimited spending by special interest groups, businesses, lobbyists, in all American elections forever.

http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=4741359

Common caused responded correctly, “Moments ago, in a stunning decision, the Roberts Court opened the floodgates to out-of-control corporate and union spending in elections. This wrong-headed ruling doesn't just disrupt the way elections work. It poses a direct and immediate threat to the vibrancy of our democracy. An already corrupt system that makes it hard for citizens to have a voice could become a chaotic free-for-all in which ordinary people's voices will be permanently drowned out of the electoral process. Only a popular uprising in response to this decision can save the day. “

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122805666

However, with Haiti all over the news, the momentous story of Supreme court’s activism in changing American democracy has been ignored by too many USA media giants and small-town wannabee media conglomerates.

However, Keith Olberman of MSNBC’s Countdown gave an outstanding talk on TV today stating that if the Supreme Court had thrown out all spending caps in professional football, all the Sports media would be up in arms and wondering what would become of the smaller NFL franchises once players and teams had the right to gather and spend as much as they want from any source. Yet, as Olberman noted, “The [USA] political press greeted it [Supreme Court Decision] with a Yawn.”

Earlier, in the same program, Olberman had warned the USA rightwing pundits to note that the Roberts’ US Supreme Court—America’s most activist supposedly conservative court ever—had opened the door to Venezuelan-owned owned CITGO throwing its money around in USA elections.

WORST SUPREME COURT DECISION EVER

Similarly, like in the USA football parable noted above--Olberman added that whereby the Green Bay Packers would be forever-bankrupted by such Supreme Court activists if the Court chose to meddle in NFL football agreements the way it has in American election regulations, almost all USA political parties may be wiped from the map:

Good-bye Republicans, Good-bye Democrats, Good-by any hoped-for progressive third party.

Bob Edgar of Common Cause added, “We have to immediately press Congress to pass the Fair Elections Now Act -- public financing of campaigns. It's the only way ordinary people can have a fighting chance that we won't be completely overwhelmed by special interests. We also must make it clear that corporations, unions, or anyone else exploiting the Roberts Court's indefensible ruling will be exposed to public scrutiny. We'll have to act fast if we want to prevent the 2010 elections from becoming a special interest-driven tragedy. With spending limits thrown out, corporations and unions could spend as much as $6 billion to directly influence the election of candidates in 2010. And that's just if they match what they spend lobbying Congress in an election cycle. As massive corporate spending goes flying into campaigns, the opportunity to make progress on critical issues like health care and energy will go flying out the window.
We can't let that happen.”

http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=4741359

With a stroke of a pen, American history has been transformed with no justification for reversals.