Once again Faux News is silently sabotaging the Ron Paul campaign through omission.
I guess if you can pick your standard, as opposed to how the candidates have actually performed to date, you can justify Rudy being there as a "leading candidate" but Paul not being one...
That they felt they needed to qualify their presentation shows they know exactly what they're doing. They should have and could have posted all the candidates without qualifiers. It's obvious they just don't want their viewers to see the name "Ron Paul," so they are intentionally suppressing it. And by letting everyone who might notice know he's not "leading," why, there's a bit of discouragement tainting as well.
That's some "news" organization, manipulating the electorate under the guise of reporting facts.
"Fair and balanced" my left knee..."You Decide"-- based on what we choose to tell you.
Even if you're not for Ron Paul, I'd think having the information gatekeepers pull this crap should be enough to make you wonder what the establishment is so afraid of. It should certainly tell you why I have devoted a category on this blog warning about the dangers of "Authorized Journalists."
At least we can be grateful Our Free Press only lies to us about some election stuff, and only now and then. Hey, it's not like they like they lie to usall the time.
ReplyDeleteWell, OK, they’re always lying about guns. Like how some low- & intermediate -power semiautomatic rifles are “assault weapons,” always making “machineguns” a tacit assumption. Like the purchasing process at a gun show doesn’t take the same paperwork as at a gun shop.
When they're not lying, they're leaving stuff out, stuff like how few people are killed in accidents with guns, especially in relation to previous years (before the gun nuts got so big on gun safety education ). And they never mention how often citizens lawfully use guns to thwart crime, usually without actually firing the weapon. The thing is that no matter how many times gun people show them the facts, they still get it all wrong. So I guess it’s no accident , Our Free Press is intentionally trying to deceive us.
But, OK, we need to put this in perspective. We caught them lying about two things. Just two things! Look at all the other things they don’t lie to us about….do they?
I wish RP could sue them since he is a candidate and they are supressing his information and results. I would like to see something where Fox is forced to show results for all candidates or lose their FCC license.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I thought Kucinich was an irrelevant garden gnome, it also pissed me off that he wasn't included in debates. And considering that Paul is kicking Giuliani's ass in most contests, it's absolutely absurd that he's being excluded. If you're going to have a fair election, then have a fair election dammit. It's not like the networks don't receive government dollars, ferpetessake! The symbiotic relationship between the press and the government is well known. And if it receives government dollars in any way, shape or form, Fox and every other station should be providing equal coverage.
ReplyDeleteWhether or not one supports Ron Paul--and (Fred having dropped out) I am going to vote for him in the Ohio primary--the Republic is being done a disservice, as usual. The argument for excluding him (and I know no one here is making it) is that "he doesn't have a chance." This is a specious argument on two counts:
ReplyDelete1. Paul's chances of winning the Republican nomination are no worse, and probably somewhat better, than John Edwards's chances of winning the Democrat nomination, and no one's kicking him out of the debates.
2. In America, we are accustomed to settling these sorts of things on Saturday on the field, not before the game over coffee or beer...except in the NFL, where they are settled on Wednesday in the hotel. ;-)
The ideas Paul advances ought to get a wider airing, both on the merits and because a sufficient portion of the electorate has demonstrated interest.
This has been going on for close to a year now, as I've been discussing on other political blogs.
ReplyDeleteIt started when Paul suddenly vanished from a whole host of surveys from "Conservative Think-tank" organizations. Then it was an amber alert in the GOP online straw polls...
Look folks, the GOP chose Romney before the 2006 national elections. They were auto-dialing Republicans and playing his get-out-the-vote message, complete with personal introduction. Then they floated the manufactured Mormon controversy. They might tolerate McCain, but it's Romney's turn, see? Fox News is on the Red Team, and the only real difference between the two teams is the color of their shirts.