★Third-Party Debate★ with Barr Baldwin & Nader at 4:45 AM EST

I pay for premium service that gives me a list of current and future programming for each channel, usually up to date. All it shows for right now is "Today in Washington, 2:00-6:00" a.m. eastern. Yet there it is, the debate I mean, starting at 4:45 a.m. eastern ...but it wasn't on earlier when I first read this a little after 2 a.m.

How pathetic. I mean, I'm glad it's on, although the online CSPAN listing doesn't show Chuck Baldwin -- who is there along with Nader and Barr. But it's five-freakin'-o'clock in the morning, the day after a Friday night Haloween. Who, besides us, is watching? A few hundred people nationwide?

If the debate was scheduled to repeat later today, fine, but I don't see it in the CSPAN listing online. If we had a week or two before the election to spread it around ... but we don't.

This event took too long to arrange because unlike the two major party candidates and their Commission on Presidential Debates, there was no single organization clearly in charge from the start. Plus there were four candidate schedules to juggle, not two -- and on short notice rather than eleven months (as with CPD). Kudos to those who pulled this off, and from what I've heard so far it's a lively debate. I just hope that after the dust settles next week, someone reports on this. Print media, for example, have no interest in protecting the Commission on Presidential Debates, which sounds like a duly authorized government body but is in fact a privately funded monopoly headed by RepubliCrats from the start. The CPD has kept print journalists from serving as debate panelists since the 1990s.

tune in 4:45 EST which is in 1hr!

:o( The socialist party?? is coming on now, I thought they were called the Dem's and Repub's :o)