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Nader is so pathetic, this interview veers between humor and pathos. At times, it looks like Nader is about to cry. But he tries so hard to be in on the joke. He can’t seem to decide whether to attack the dog puppet or to try to get his vote – and he tries to do both. Towards the end of the interview, Nader attempts to defend himself in a sing-song voice:
Triumph: Come on – you screwed Al Gore. You campaigned in the swing states.
Nader: Politics has gone to the dogs! With two parties, Republicans and Democrats!
Triumph: [interrupting in a sing-song voice] You campaigned in the swing states. You campaigned in the swing states. Harder. Harder.
Nader: [interrupting, in a sing-song] You’re telling a canine lie. You’re telling a canine lie.
I would feel bad for the guy if this weren’t all of his own volition. He did seem to betray a feeling of guilt in how he defended his 2000 campaign – but he refused to acknowledge any responsibility – and deflected the blame onto the Republicans.
But if the past eight years has proven anything it is that Nader’s core message was wrong – that it wouldn’t make a difference if a Democrat or Republican was elected, if Gore or Bush won – both were equally bad. Nader rightfully has much criticism of our two-party system and how it exerts a stranglehold on power – but the Bush administration proved definitively that it matters who is elected. And Nader, after promising not to campaign in swing states to raise money, decided to campaign anyway and without his support in Florida, we would have had a different president.
Something to remember as we approached another Tuesday in November.
16 replies on “Triumph the Insult Comic Dog interviews Ralph Nader”
Triumph is a tough interviewer and Nader stood up to him pretty well. I’d like to see Obama getting ripped by Triumph – although he would probably give him a pass.
I think that this interview has convinced me to vote for Nader again – at least he was and still is really against the war, not like Obama. If Obama wins the election, the troops will stay in Iraq. He is just gelatin completely free of principles.
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