It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting way too long.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with the

man of the hour. Ralph Nader. Hello, Ralph. Hello Steve. We have a great

show. The first presidential debate is happening this coming

Tuesday, September 29th. So we've invited George Farah who wrote the book on how we do presidential

debates.

It's called no debate and in it he outlines not only

how influential the presidential debates are,

but who's really behind them?

Long time listeners to the show

have heard us talk about this kind of thing before,

but George rejoins us to remind us just how out of whack the whole system is.

Who owns it, who runs it, and what we can do to change it.

In fact, he'll tell us how through his

organization's efforts in coalition with a slew of other nonprofits they have

been able to force the Commission on presidential debates to tweak their format,

to make it a little bit more spontaneous,

although much more needs to be done

to make these presidential debates more than the dueling press conferences

they seem to be now.

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