Reply #2: Well we don't know with any certainty that the minor candidates

[Iceburg]

were the topic of conversation ...as they say in the courts: "objection--hearsay".

I thought this paragraph said it all:

Interviewer: You mentioned that The New York Times wouldn’t interview you. Can you elaborate a little on your sense of the role the media plays in this election process?

Braun: Well, again, as part of the political class, they do their own weeding. I had all of the credentials in the world. And again, I don’t take this personally. I mean I took it as a reflection of how The New York Times viewed black people. And women, for that matter. I was the only woman in the race, and the editorial board of The New York Times, our newspaper of record, did not have time to talk to me. I mean, of the two black candidates, myself and Al Sharpton, here is somebody who is a high-school dropout and everybody knows to be charlatan, versus someone who had been in the United States Senate and a U.S. attorney. And they chose the charlatan who was a high-school dropout. I mean it’s just shocking.