Corporate Media Attempts to Marginalize Ron Paul by Ignoring Him

[Lumi]

Corporate Media Attempts to Marginalize Ron Paul by Ignoring Him
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-->Kurt Nimmo

Infowars.com
August 15, 2011

Following the Iowa Straw Poll that was a tie between the establishment?s Tea Party diva, Michele Bachmann, and Ron Paul, Roger Simon of Politico went on CNN and said the reason the corporate media is ignoring Paul is because they don?t think he can win.


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Simon ? who claims to be a Paul supporter ? should know better.

Ron Paul scares the dickens out of the establishment and its lapdog propaganda machine. He has an excellent chance of winning ? and that?s why the corporate media is ignoring him.

Simon?s own publication deliberately failed to mention Paul when it reported on the results of the Iowa poll. ?Michele Bachmann wins Ames Straw Poll, Tim Pawlenty gets third,? the headline read.

Pawlenty dropped out of the race the same day.
The ruling elite that stage manages national elections and enters its hand-picked horses in what amounts to a fixed race is determined to make sure Ron Paul remains more or less invisible to a blindsided public. They will trot out talking heads like Roger Simon who will claim Ron Paul is being ignored because he doesn?t stand a bat?s chance in hell of taking the nomination.

It?s just the opposite. He stands a damn good chance. That?s why they are ignoring him.

 

[The Sponge]

Illy i am officially off the Ron Paul band Wagon. I like a lot of what he says but any economist worth a piss knows u can't keep cutting everything and expect growth. I do like some of his cuts tho but i hate when he says he is against regulations. A greedy fukers dream. Help me here Lumi. Help me back on the Wagon.

 

[Lumi]

Sponge,

I wish I could grab you by the collar and pull you back up.

As far as his economic policies, SHIT, I am not 100% up to snuff on understanding all of this. You might as well enter Rusty in a Spelling Bee, just goofing Rusty. :toast: If you want me to explain all of this.

Another thing, it's one thing to talk about what you would do and another what you can actually do once you are POTUS. I don't think he would be able to accomplish all of those cuts and regs.

RON PAUL IS THE HOPE AND CHANGE EVERYONE DESERVES !

 

[bleedingpurple]

Sponge,

I wish I could grab you by the collar and pull you back up.

As far as his economic policies, SHIT, I am not 100% up to snuff on understanding all of this. You might as well enter Rusty in a Spelling Bee, just goofing Rusty. :toast: If you want me to explain all of this.

Another thing, it's one thing to talk about what you would do and another what you can actually do once you are POTUS. I don't think he would be able to accomplish all of thoseU cuts and regs.


RON PAUL IS THE HOPE AND CHANGE EVERYONE DESERVES !

That was funny I just about spit my gatorade all over

 

[Lumi]

That was funny I just about spit my gatorade all over

which part ? :0008

 

[Trampled Underfoot]

I don't agree half of what Paul stands for but he is one guy that would drastically cut the military overseas and that is a huge step to getting our country back on the right track.

 

[The Sponge]

I don't agree half of what Paul stands for but he is one guy that would drastically cut the military overseas and that is a huge step to getting our country back on the right track.

Yeah that is huge with me and could pull me bacck on the wagon but the guy say's let the markets take care of themselves. That is like saying get rid of the guards and let the prisoners guard themselves. I don't know when the last time i voted for someone i actually wanted instead of the lessor of two evils. Well i did vote for Obama but if i had to do it all over again i would have voted for Hillary ( i think Chad was right on that one). Not sure if she would have gotten anything done either tho. You can't get shit done when the other side is all about trying to fuk u and nothing else. Oh and on ur side u have just enuf shitbags posing as if they are on ur side, but fuk things up also.

 

[Lumi]

Yeah that is huge with me and could pull me bacck on the wagon but the guy say's let the markets take care of themselves. That is like saying get rid of the guards and let the prisoners guard themselves. I don't know when the last time i voted for someone i actually wanted instead of the lessor of two evils. Well i did vote for Obama but if i had to do it all over again i would have voted for Hillary ( i think Chad was right on that one). Not sure if she would have gotten anything done either tho. You can't get shit done when the other side is all about trying to fuk u and nothing else. Oh and on ur side u have just enuf shitbags posing as if they are on ur side, but fuk things up also.

RON PAUL 2012 ! THE HOPE AND CHANGE EVERYONE DESERVES !

THE HOPE AND CHANGE SOME THOUGHT BARRY SOETORO WAS GOING TO GIVE THEM

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[The Sponge]

look Lumi the fuker better learn how to spend on a campaign if he wants my vote. He had one sign in a 10 mile radius in my area. He won't even spend on his very own campaign :mj07:

 

[Lumi]

I know Sponge :facepalm:

 

[kcwolf]

look Lumi the fuker better learn how to spend on a campaign if he wants my vote. He had one sign in a 10 mile radius in my area. He won't even spend on his very own campaign :mj07:

Not sure what the other candidates spent on the Iowa straw poll, but I do know over 150 bus loads of Ron Paul supporters came to Ames. Their tickets and bus ride were paid for by Paul and most all of them were from out of state. I kind of knew the straw poll was a joke and found that interesting. I assume some of the other candidates did the same?

 

[Lumi]

Ron Paul Won in Iowa

Ron Paul Won in Iowa

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The winners in Iowa were (1) Ron Paul, (2) Rick Perry, and (3) Michele Bachmann, in that order.

Michele Bachmann is the winner of record, and will always be listed that way in the history books. But in terms of the dynamism and impact of the race, she has been hurt by the Iowa Straw Poll results. Behind closed doors, she and her campaign managers cannot be happy tonight.

She had the home turf advantage and she had the media for and against her in just the right ways. She supposedly had momentum on her side. Given all that, the fact that she beat Ron Paul by a mere 152 votes (1% of the total votes cast) is an embarrassment and a sign of long-term weakness.

Let me explain two kinds of media bias, and their pivotal role in the voting at the Iowa Straw Poll.

The mainstream/liberal media detests Michele Bachmann, no doubt about it. She?s not the kind of person they invite to their cocktail parties. But the important point is, they treat her as a serious candidate. When they acknowledge that she can win in Iowa, and perhaps win the Republican nomination, they legitimize her. And when they are nasty to her, as with the Newsweek cover, that helps her too. Nothing earns you votes in a Republican primary or other grassroots event like a nasty attack by the liberal media.


The media attacks on Ron Paul are of an entirely different nature. They seek to de-legitimize him as a serious candidate. And the intention is to depress the vote for Ron Paul. Outside of his hard core supporters ? who are ostracized as crazed political groupies, mostly college students high on ideology ? who wants to "throw away" their vote for someone who "cannot win"?

The Iowa straw poll raised a couple of problems for the media. They couldn?t complain that he brought in supporters from all over the nation, because only registered Iowa voters can vote in the straw poll. And they couldn?t complain that he was buying votes because all the candidates do that. That?s the idea, in fact ? the Iowa Straw Poll is a fundraiser for the Iowa Republican Party.

Given the two types of media bias I?ve noted, Bachmann should have benefited from her treatment by the media, while Ron Paul?s vote should have been depressed by the media?s treatment of him. That?s why Bachmann?s grand 152-vote victory wasn?t a victory at all. Yes, she is the most popular conservative candidate at this point, but such a squeaker suggests that we?re in a Peak Bachmann era and she has nowhere to go but down, with Perry entering the race.

The anti-Paul media?s solution (both the leftist media and the rightist media) is to ignore Ron Paul?s near-victory. I watched the results come in on CNN. They had to show the actual votes on the scorecard, of course. But the rhetoric was something else. A CNN commentator said breathlessly and loudly, "The two big winners in Iowa tonight were Michele Bachmann and?[I?m not making this up] Rick Perry, with his 718 write-in votes." Yes, 718 votes trump 4,671 votes. The commentator didn?t mention Ron Paul.

Then the megaphone shifted to the right, in the person of Erick Erickson of the RedState blog site. I don?t know what Erickson?s Ron Paul problem is, but his solution ? like the left ? is to just ignore Paul. Paul?s not serious enough to waste analysis on him. When Erickson does one of his periodic blogs on how the Republican candidates are doing in relation to each other (?The Horserace?), he gives no analysis for Ron Paul. Jon Huntsman (69 votes in Iowa) gets analysis, but Ron Paul? Erickson just says month after month, like an inside joke, that ?Ron Paul will not get the nomination.? Ha-ha. As if Pawlenty, Gingrich, Santorum, or Cain will get the nomination True to form, tonight Erickson blabbered about how Rick Perry was the victor, rather than acknowledging Ron Paul?s strong showing.

Given that the establishment media, Left and Right, treat Ron Paul in this way, it really is remarkable that his following just keeps growing and growing. CNN and Erick Erickson can huff and puff all they want, trying to blow Ron Paul out of the picture, but the Ron Paul Revolution is much bigger today than it was four years ago, and it?s going to be even bigger next year than it is now.

August 16, 2011