McKinney wins Green nomination; media ignores convention

I've been asked a skillion times about what I think about Ralph Nader's Green presidential bid, and I have to tell people that Nader ain't running as a Green. He's running as an independent.

Instead, the Greens chose Cynthia McKinney, 53, a former Democratic congresswoman from Georgia as the party's presidential nominee at the Green convention in Chicago today. Her running mate is longtime activist Rosa Clemente, 36.

One thing is for sure: McKinney was a much better congresswoman than the right-wing media gave her credit for. She was one of the few House members who were brave enough to object to awarding Ohio's electoral votes to Bush in 2004. (Ohio's GOP machine had committed fraud to enable Bush to win the state.) But the DLC more or less ran McKinney off from the Democratic fold.

News of McKinney's nomination brings up another issue: Why the hell aren't the networks showing the Green convention? They show the Republican and Democratic conventions, so what's their excuse for not showing that of the Greens?

(Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080712/pl_nm/usa_politics_green_dc_1)