Political Theater Unmasked

Posted by Nadir on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 5:18pm in

2008 Elections

It pays to have a backstage pass. That’s one thing I learned at the Republican National Convention. All of the speeches and videos and pageantry on television amount to what independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader called “political theater”. The real action at the RNC was happening backstage.

“You can’t even count the number of oil companies, drug companies, banks, financial institutions… they’re all over the place,” Nader observed. Everyone was milling around wheeling, dealing and networking.

On RNC Day 4 I spent the better part of the day talking to reporters and bloggers on Radio Row and outside the Convention’s back door at the River Centre, which connects to St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center.

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