CNN And Politico Admit Ron Paul Media Conspiracy !

[wehateporn]

[Agent 488]

the super-annoying cult-like behavior of his followers creeps people out. no conspiracy there.

[wehateporn]

the super-annoying cult-like behavior of his followers creeps people out. no conspiracy there.

There are people in the UK who previously had little interest in American politics, but have already got their flights booked to campaign for Ron Paul in 2012. I know 3 in my local area

[Agent 488]

roger simon is a long time far right zionist kook. what does this prove. nothing.

[Agent 488]

There are people in the UK who previously had little interest in American politics, but have already got their flights booked to campaign for Ron Paul in 2012. I know 3 in my local area

point proven.

[Agent 488]

did you even watch the video you posted? all it shows is a ron paul supporter claiming that ron paul was ignored by the media.

has nothing to do with cnn and politico admitting anything.

[dyna mo]

i love it!

[Coup]

There are people in the UK who previously had little interest in American politics, but have already got their flights booked to campaign for Ron Paul in 2012. I know 3 in my local area

[sperbonzo]

It's been clear for a long time that Ron Paul gets locked out of any media coverage when the race starts heating up, no matter where he is in the polls. If you read the Politico, you wouldn't even know that he was involved, let alone pretty much tying for the win in Iowa.


The "news media" has absolutely no credibility at this point.


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[sperbonzo]

[Agent 488]

the media is wary to report on ron paul because of the extreme harassment from ron paul supporters.

remember the media is composed of people like you and me. would you like a thousand emails in ALL CAPS flooding your inbox every time you ran something, no matter how innocuous, that dared not to report the party line of their dear leader?

the paultards are ron paul's worst enemy.

[split_joel]

I do not know why people take Ron Paul as a joke.

It is not just about winning, it is showing the politicians we are fed up. You look at the amount of attention Ron Paul has gotten in support since 2008 till now is unbelievable and that is almost 0 media attention.

[dyna mo]

the media ignores ron paul because ron paul financially ignores the media.

[PornoStar69]

Ron Paul = illuminati puppet

dont bother voting for that c-u-n-t

[kane]

While I can somewhat understand the media's hesitation to talk about Paul because he has some views that are considered extreme by some, I have to admit they seem to be conspiring against him right now. He is less extreme than Bachmann and after her win at the straw poll she is getting a ton of coverage, yet Paul who finished 1% behind is getting none.

Had it been Pawlenty or Romney that came in second we would be hearing about their strong showing and the momentum this gives them etc. but we hear nothing about Paul. It is curious.

[baddog]

Maybe it is because the straw poll means zip.

[AtlantisCash]

did you even watch the video you posted? all it shows is a ron paul supporter claiming that ron paul was ignored by the media.

has nothing to do with cnn and politico admitting anything.

Ya know, them nuh watch just talk and talk, but they can't realize people aren't behind Rp himself personally, but their own freedoms.

i m from Turkiye, he will benefit me nothing, but any successful Libertarian means a lot to all of us, but i don't expect peeps from gfy rocket science team to get it , so we may go back to drama threads

[AtlantisCash]

NEvermind...

[dyna mo]

He doesn't say anything near extreme such as installing one man's state or installing the kingdom of heaven, he only thinks outside of the box unlike other puppets but unfortunately some people who's kissing gov's ass just ashame to their adventurist grand fathers and mothers who named the country land of free and a specially to people Like Jefferson again who were their time of activist Libertarians

abolishing the fed and going onto a gold standard is quite extreme. especially when it is not backed up with fact, evidence, economic models, nothing.

[Ethersync]

[baddog]

abolishing the fed and going onto a gold standard is quite extreme. especially when it is not backed up with fact, evidence, economic models, nothing.

And would be another false campaign promise even if he did win.

[Ethersync]

Ron Paul remains media poison

I admit I do not fully understand Ron Paul and his beliefs. But I do understand when a guy gets shafted, and Ron Paul just got shafted.

On Saturday, the Ames Straw Poll was conducted in Iowa amid huge media interest and scrutiny. The results were enough to force one Republican candidate, Tim Pawlenty, out of the race, and catapult another, Michele Bachmann, into the ?top tier.?

There are so many ?top tier? stories in the media today that I can barely count them, let alone read them all, and Bachmann is in all of them by virtue of her victory at Ames. The rest of the tier is made up of two candidates who skipped Ames, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.

As The Daily Beast put it: ?The new top tier of Bachmann, Perry, and Romney ? created by Bachmann?s Iowa straw poll win, Perry?s entry into the race and Romney?s lead so far in many national and state polls ? has unleashed torrents of talk about the reshaped race.?

Paul?s name was not mentioned in this piece nor in many others. A Wall Street Journal editorial Monday magnanimously granted Paul?s showing in the straw poll a parenthetical dismissal: ?(Libertarian Ron Paul, who has no chance to win the nomination, finished a close second.)?

But ?close? does not fully describe Paul?s second-place finish. Paul lost to Bachmann by nine-tenths of one percentage point, or 152 votes out of 16,892 cast.

If it had been an election, such a result would almost certainly have triggered a recount. It was not an election, however, and that is my point. Straw polls are supposed to tell us, like a straw tossed into the air, which way the wind is blowing.

And any fair assessment of Ames, therefore, would have said the winds of the Republican Party are blowing toward both Bachmann and Paul.

Nonsense, some would say. Straw polls are just organized bribery, with the campaigns buying the tickets and distributing them to supporters. (And, in fact, this is what I wrote before Ames.)

What they really show, many argue, is not where the philosophical heart of the party is, but the organizational abilities of the candidates.

Fine, I?ll buy that. But why didn?t Paul get the same credit for his organizational abilities as Bachmann did for hers?

I am far from a Libertarian. I believe big government is swell as long as it does big things to help the common good. But after Ames, it was as if Paul had been sentenced to the Phantom Zone.

Bachmann appeared on five Sunday shows following Ames. Paul appeared on none. POLITICO?s Kasie Hunt was one of the few reporters to do a separate story on Paul?s showing at the straw poll, but to most of the media he remained an exotic, unworthy of attention.

And I don?t disagree that some of his beliefs ? legalizing heroin, the right of states to secede ? are strikingly peculiar (though he has been elected to a congressional district in Texas 12 times). But if Bachmann?s victory at Ames was good enough to gain her enormous publicity and top-tier status, why was Paul?s virtual tie good enough only to relegate him to being ignored?

So I asked Paul Monday if the media blackout disturbed him,

?It did disturb me, but it was not a total surprise,? he replied. ?The result at Ames was significant; it might well have propelled us to the top tier. The media cannot change that.?

Though the media can, of course, change that since we get to determine who the top tier is.

?It is hard for them to accept,? Paul said of his showing at Ames. ?I had one interview scheduled for this morning, a national program, but they canceled. It is shocking to be told nobody wants you.?

Was this because technically Paul came in second and not first? I don?t think so. Four years ago, Mike Huckabee came in a bad second to Romney, losing by 13.4 percentage points. Huckabee managed to spin that into a victory at Ames and became a media darling.

But Paul almost wins the thing and he remains poison.

?They [the media] believe this guy is dangerous to the status quo,? Paul said, ?but that is a reason to be more energized. I am a bit more challenging, but I am not on the wrong track. I don?t think that my ideas are more exotic. They are threatening.?

In his interview with me, Paul stressed his ?peace? message ? he wants our troops brought home from foreign soil ? and believes that and his fiscal conservatism will gain him supporters.

?We are trying to reverse 100 years of history, the change from a republic to an empire, the change to tax and spending, who wants to admit that?? Paul said. ?Who wants to admit we don?t have to be policeman of the world??

Let me say right here that unlike many of Paul?s supporters, I don?t believe there is a left-wing media conspiracy working against him. Ralph Nader, who is about as far as you can get from Paul politically, has the same problem whenever he runs for president.

And, no, media attention is not based solely on polls. The most recent polls, taken before Ames, showed Bachmann with 10.2 percent of the vote and Paul with 9.0 percent. That?s not a huge difference. Though those polls will no doubt change with all the publicity Bachmann is now getting because of her ?stunning? victory at Ames.

There was a deliciously intriguing line in The Washington Post?s fine recap of Ames on Sunday. It said had Paul edged out Bachmann, ?it would have hurt the credibility and future of the straw poll, a number of Republicans said.?

So don?t blame the media. Here are Republicans, presumably Republican operatives, who said if one candidate wins, the contest is significant, but if another wins the contest is not credible

Amazing. And disturbing.

?Well, yes I can get discouraged and dispirited,? Paul told me. ?We came so very close. To come that close to winning, it shows my views are very mainstream. And if we are worth our salt and our message is sound and we tell it honestly, we will do well.?

Though possibly no one will notice.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61412.html

[Ethersync]

abolishing the fed and going onto a gold standard is quite extreme. especially when it is not backed up with fact, evidence, economic models, nothing.

He can't do either himself even if he were elected President. What he can do though is bring the troops home.

[dyna mo]

i totally agree with that, ron paul got shafted on this. it is bizarro.

but maybe it's because he is interpreted as being common sense when bachmann is more of a freak show, freaak show sells more tickets???

eh?

[dyna mo]

He can't do either himself even if he were elected President. What he can do though is bring the troops home.

i am on the record stating i would be inclined to be a ron paul supporter if he ran on that platform- with a rock-solid bunker-bomb proof plan to do that. no bullshit whacked out crazy plan that will never happen.

[Sly]

i totally agree with that, ron paul got shafted on this. it is bizarro.

but maybe it's because he is interpreted as being common sense when bachmann is more of a freak show, freaak show sells more tickets???

eh?

That's my bet. Let's look at which politicians are posted about most on GFY:

Bachmann
Palin (is she even a politician?)
Paul
Obama

Two of them, maybe even three, aren't even worth talking about yet people can't shut up about them.

[Ethersync]

The large multinationals that own the US media and who our politicians are all in bed with are perfectly happy with the status quo. Ron Paul is a threat to the status quo. No one else running is. Thus the blackout.

For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100...al_Contractors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...Electric#Media

[dyna mo]

The large multinationals that own the US media and who our politicians are all in bed with are perfectly happy with the status quo. Ron Paul is a threat to the status quo. No one else running is. Thus the blackout.

For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100...al_Contractors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...Electric#Media

how is he a threat in this regard?

[porno jew]

freaak show sells more tickets???

that's part of it, yes.

also outside of computer geeks ron paul has little appeal. do you think your average person on main street gives a fuck about the federal reserve or the gold standard?

[dyna mo]

that's part of it, yes.

also outside of computer geeks ron paul has little appeal. do you think your average person on main street gives a fuck about the federal reserve or the gold standard?

well that's exactly right and why i think so many peeps fall for the abolish the fed/go to gold show. they couldn't give a shit but it sure sounds neat and of course it makes sense, everybody knows that

posted earlier and exactly on point

[IllTestYourGirls]

She is a lying bitch. Ron Paul also beats Obama by a higher % in TEXAS than former Al Gore chair Rick Perry!

DNN at work again.

[Ethersync]

how is he a threat in this regard?

One example: GE is does about 4 billion+ a year in business with the government. Most of which is spent "nation building" overseas. If he were elected and did bring the troops home that would make a big dent in their bottom line. They own NBC.

More importantly Ron Paul being elected would signal an end to "corporatism" and government largess, bailouts, etc. This is the "status quo" that "they" want to protect.

[cykoe6]

the super-annoying cult-like behavior of his followers creeps people out. no conspiracy there.

Well said.

There are people in the UK who previously had little interest in American politics, but have already got their flights booked to campaign for Ron Paul in 2012. I know 3 in my local area

Point proven.

[dyna mo]

One example: GE is does about 4 billion+ a year in business with the government. Most of which is spent "nation building" overseas. If he were elected and did bring the troops home that would make a big dent in their bottom line. They own NBC.

More importantly Ron Paul being elected would signal an end to "corporatism" and government largess, bailouts, etc. This is the "status quo" that "they" want to protect.

well, the fact that ge dominates the media big 6 http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main in revenue suggests you are right about that.

here's the thing about corporatism, if the debt matters, the corporatism will go the way of the dodo bird as we can simply reallocate with austerity measures. that's prolly what will happen, looking at human nature. nothing will be done until it is really really REALLY bad, then we bite the bullet and make real fixes.

Well said.




Point proven.

[Joshua G]

the media is very shallow. they cover candidates primarily based on their Q factor. As a result rick perry gets more coverage then ron paul during the straw poll.