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Mack's Plans: Reality TV
On Saturday we learned that Richard Mack, the Libertarian candidate for Governor, had dropped out of the race “for personal reasons.” Today we learn what those personal reasons are. Mack’s going to be on Showtime’s American Candidate. American Candidate is billed as a “political talent show.”
The much-hyped “American Candidate,” which landed at Showtime this year after having previously alighted briefly on two other networks, is the brash, uppity notion of documentary filmmaker and television producer R.J. Cutler, who produced the influential 1993 campaign movie “The War Room” and directed “A Perfect Candidate,” a chronicle of Oliver North’s unsuccessful senatorial bid. (“A Perfect Candidate” was recently released on DVD.)
Should the show turn out the way Cutler hopes, it could accomplish much of what Nader would like to do in his third-act role as doomed presidential candidate, only more amusingly: expose a compromised electoral system, encourage non-pros to run, increase voter turnout and help break down financial and media-related barriers to seeking office.From Metromix.com: Campaign to raise awareness
Referenced Mon Jun 07 2004 14:40:07 GMT-0600
So, how do the Libertarians in the crowd feel about this? Worthy or worthless?
Posted by windley on June 7, 2004 02:42 PM
