Liberty MavenBob Barr Gets Into The Debates… Sort Of
September 22nd, 2008 5:03 pm | by Marc Gallagher | Published in Activism, Bob Barr, Debate, Election | 1
Reason Magazine will be sponsoring a live debate event with Bob Barr on Friday during the first Presidential debate between Obama and McCain. Barr will hold a remote to mute the volume of the “real” debate while he takes time to respond to the same questions and criticize the other candidates.
As usual, the two major political parties are shutting out all third-party candidates from this season’s presidential debates, while trying to out-compete one another for how many government goodies they can promise to voters. Only this time, we have the technology to do something about it.
Please join reason, either in person or online, for a live counter-debate on Friday, Sept. 26, with Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr, who will respond to John McCain, Barack Obama and moderator Jim Lehrer in real time. We will be live-blogging Barr’s responses at Hit & Run, and videotaping the whole proceedings, which will include a brief post-debate Q&A with reason staffers, bloggers, and other interested parties.
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September 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm (#)
And who is going to watch or listen to Barr’s cooments and responses to the McCain-Obama debate?
You can argue all you want that the Internet is the new media, that lots of young people, hip people, savvy people will be looking and listening in–but that’s just assertion, the same kind of assertion that didn’t get the Paul campaign very far.
No, the Barr comments and responses will be ignored, if even noticed. The real media is still the ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox/PBS operation.
Just another joke put on by Barr and the LP and the third parties.