I felt betrayed when Kerry conceeded and am still amazed that the Democratic party has not responded forcefully to the growing case for Ohio vote fraud. The media shares plenty of blame for not recognzing and covering an issue of vital importance to the democratic process. At the same time, it's hard to explain why the media should be more outraged than the Democratic party.

As long as the Democratic party sits on the sidelines, we can expect the media to do the same. Sumner Redstone made it very clear that media power brokers prefer Bush and Michael Powell to a Democratic alternative. Why should the media upset an applecart that continues to hold out the promise of a media oligopoly?

The media, and apparently the Democratic party as well, is going to have to be dragged into the Ohio voting fraud mess against their will. The media has demonstrated they can ignore the liberal base of the Democratic party because we have no public voice, no media megaphone. O'Reilly and Scarborough are the voice of the media establishment. Only irrefutable facts that prove conclusively, beyond a shadow of any doubt, that fraud was committed will suffice ... maybe.

The DLC spokesholes have complained that "We must leave no doubt that Michael Moore neither represents nor defines our party". Michael Moore was simply filling a vacuum left vacant by the DLC. Michael Moore's movie resonanted with a very large audience because it spoke a basic truth the Democratic leadership had turned its back on.

There is plenty of outrage. The question is how can we harness the outrage on the left and who will speak for us? The silence of Kerry, the DLC and the Democratic party is deafening.