Posted on 04/08/2007 2:06:47 PM PDT by wouldntbprudent
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Though the tone of Mantel and Skrovan's film is admiring (Mantel is a longtime friend and former office manager for Nader), the filmmakers capture the strong current of anger against Nader, particularly Democrats who feel that his presidential run in 2000 put George W. Bush in the White House. In fact, the film begins with a chorus of angry voices, from a writer bitterly thanking Nader for the Iraq war to Jimmy Carter's familiar drawl, suggesting that Nader return to "examining the rear ends of automobiles."
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
'An Unreasonable Man' details Nader's arc from hero to pariah, by WILLIAM ARNOLD. Excerpt:
In the '90s, he came to loathe the Clinton Democrats, he made his first moves toward entering the political arena and his obsessive personality and unwillingness to compromise in any way began to alienate many of his former admirers and followers.
The two-hour film spends most of its third act on the 2000 campaign, and gives Nader and several of his chief lieutenants a forum to explain why, after their hard-fought third-party campaign of principle, a last-minute sell-out to Gore would have been unconscionable.
But their argument is weak and unconvincing, Nader's liberal detractors are much more eloquent and the not-so-subtle message of the movie is that the unreasonableness that gave us seat belts and clean air also gave us Bush, Iraq and the neo-conservative nightmare.
He didn’t play nearly the spoiler role that Ross Perot played.
Since when did it come to be “principled” just because one is unwavering in pursuit of their delusions?
Ralph Nader is a wank.
I wouldn’t like him walk my dog.
Nader Scams College Kids
Thursday, March 13, 2003
By Radley Balko
Each semester, Meremac Community College in St. Louis, Mo., charged Crystal Lewis for a service called “MOPIRG.” “I hadn’t the slightest idea what it was,” she says. The fine print on her bill read: “If you opt not to support MOPIRG, please deduct this amount from your payment.” So she did. But she still wasn’t sure what she was no longer paying for.
She was paying for a myriad of causes and advocacy efforts sponsored, endorsed and overseen by Ralph Nader. And if you’re in college or have kids in college, the odds are pretty good that you’re supporting Ralph Nader too. You probably didn’t know that, did you? And that’s just the way Nader and his nationwide network of Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGS) would like to keep it.
The PIRG idea was born in the late 1960s, but really caught on through the 1970s and 1980s. It has again picked up momentum in the last few years, due mainly to the publicity that accompanied Nader’s presidential campaign. The scam varies from campus to campus, but it basically works like this:
Each time a college student registers for classes, he or she is automatically billed somewhere between three and eight dollars, all of which goes directly to the local PIRG chapter. There, it’s funneled directly to the state chapter, where it’s used to lobby state legislatures on issues like tougher emissions standards, campaign finance reform and a bevy of other environmental and anti-corporate causes. Very little if any of the money actually stays at the campus where it’s generated. (snip)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,80925,00.html
You got that right!
Oh, some people around here have been flacking that forever.
of the movie is that the unreasonableness that gave us seat belts and clean airI hate to see cr*p like this: Nader was not part of the EPA movement, and he did NOT invent the seatbelt.
What he did do was to transfer liability for seatbelt (and general automotive) use from the user to the maker.
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