Former Air Force Flight Surgeon, Ron Paul
First of all, the way the media — led by Fox News — treats Ron Paul as a viable candidate is appalling. I watch all this stuff and they actually refer to him as a lunatic or a loser or nuts or not serious as a candidate. The mainstream media wants Romney to be the candidate and they frame all the coverage around him. Fox News and the conservative talk show folks all want Michelle Bachmann or Rick Perry (who was a Democrat until recently) to be the candidate. They’ll even accept ex-Federal Reserve banker Herman Cain! This is largely because the Christian Evangelical base of the Conservatives hate Mormons. They also hate Ron Paul because he is not constantly promoting religion. I just wish they’d just say it and get it over with. Meanwhile, the public likes Ron Paul the more they listen to him. Apparently nobody in the big media game wants to deal with this reality. They do not want to hear it. But it keeps coming up. Now they are thinking it was mistake to include him in the debates. Thus he gets no attention by the dipshit moderators of these debates. Charlie Rose was the dipshit for this one.
On October 12th, the Republican presidential hopefuls met at Dartmouth University for a debate on economic issues which was sponsored by Bloomberg. Several questions that included the taxation, job creation, housing, and welfare benefits were asked of the candidates, and in a readers poll conducted after the debates were finished, Congressman Ron Paul was voted the candidate who understands the economy best by a landslide.
Below are the results of the poll:
Ron Paul – 2843 votes
Herman Cain – 342 votes
Mitt Romney – 151 votes
All other candidates received negligible votes.
During the debate, two very telling issues stood out amongst the candidates, and the moderators. First, Ron Paul was once again relegated as a back of the bus candidate as the Bloomberg moderator saw fit to only ask the Congressman two questions, while everyone else received substantially more opportunities to provide their plans and opinions. Secondly, candidate Herman Cain scored very well with his 9-9-9 taxation plan, as it was mentioned and addressed over and over by other candidates, and the moderators throughout the evening.
Only Rupert Murdoch decides what to feed the FOX sheep.
On tape: Why Rupert Murdoch is Carpet-Bombing Ron Paul
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AwXgoaPX9RA
It’s not that nobody in the “big media” game wants to deal with it. They purposefully repress that which scares the zhit out of them.
I DO find it interesting that the “Christian right” dismisses Paul. He is a Christian, and is as far as I can recall, an OBGYN who is opposed to abortion because he thinks it’s murder. What the “Christian right” can’t abide is his anti-war and anti-control the bedroom/anti-warondrugs stances.
I of course am still wondering when Roman Catholics got excluded from the “Christian” nomenclature. The term “Christian” has come to mean “born again evangelical Protestant” over the last 25 years or so. (Of course, if the Flintstones premiered today, they wouldn’t be inviting us to have a “gay old time”. Note that Fred and Barney don’t hock Winstons anymore!)
I think it’s a shame that the media has ignored Ron Paul they way they have. He is one of the few, if not only politician that has stood his ground on every single issue he stands for…never backing down or doing a 180 for a popularity contest. Apparently, the media only likes those politicians that lie, cheat, steal, backtrack and are surrounded in scandal.
America needs something better!
Ron Paul 2012!!!!
hahahaha gold standard hahahahaha
I like Ron Paul’s no-bs attitude but that one idea of his really tarnishes his image in my mind.
Right, Ronny ol’ boy, we’re just gonna magic new gold into existence as the population grows. We’ll need a Chief Government Alchemist office, I suppose. I suppose we’ll also enter into total global economic isolation to prevent our third-world wage slaves calling our gold-backed dollars, too.
Or I guess we’ll go to a gold standard and manipulate the value of gold… just like we currently manipulate the value of the dollar. And even if we go all SINGLE SUPERPOWER WORLD TYRANT on earth’s ass and fix the rate of gold to dollars for perpetuity, what happens when some Nicaraguan or South African finds an obscene cache of gold in the hills? WOOP now we can’t trade with them NOR CAN ANYONE ELSE! SEND IN THE TROOPS!
Yeah Ron, that’d be better.
Schmuck.
He has plenty of other good ideas, though. Better than his claptrap-peddling competitors, anyway.
You need to read up on what the “gold standard” really it is. Go to mises.org
How about giving a link which you think describes the system well instead of pointing to an entire website?
I’m familiar with the history of discrete monetary systems — why do you think a gold-backed currency would be viable in a growth-dependent, capital-negative, net-importing country such as ours which is necessarily part of a global economy?
Perhaps you would like to critique what I said?
As an American citizen, you should take it upon yourself to do your own research instead of listening to the talking heads.
I’m not going to do it for you.
You like getting fucked, keep listening to the media. Keep thinking inflation is the answer to our problems.
You want to stop getting fucked, get off your lazy ass and do some research.
So you have no retort to me other than “you are wrong”.
You are the problem with modern America.
Jambe — Actually, I’m not. What is wrong with Modern America is people don’t think for themselves anymore. They listen to the talking heads.
Think for yourself, man!
First of all, all the so called Presidential “debates” I can recall seeing since the 90′s, primary or general election, were really just alternating monologues of pre-scripted verbiage. They may as well just use prerecorded video performances that are run on a contextual basis. I remember one Dem primary “debate” in the last 2 decades where every candidate gave essentially the exact same poll driven answer to every NERF BALL question the liberal moderators asked (the non-FOX MSM never ask the Dems any other types of questions). I think that was the cycle where the Dem candidates were being called “the seven dwarfs”.
When Fox was hosting the last debate, their reporters openly said that their marching orders from Above was to find “gotcha” questions rather than prodding the candidates to get specific about their proclaimed stances.
If FOX isn’t going to be friendly to the Repub candidate, they have NO friends in the MSM outside the right wing pundits with a soap box.
Personally, I find either Cain or Paul to be acceptable. Both are far from ideal, but both seem to have a stronger grasp on Reality than any other candidate in either party. In this economy, Cain has the advantage of actually knowing how private industry works. For most other politicians, the extent of their private enterprise experience, IF ANY, is as a lawyer in a low overhead business office or maybe a burger flipper type job in their teens.
If you’re voting for him, tell your friends! Ron Paul’s only chance at winning is going to be determined by viral social media, not with support from the lamestream media.
“lamestream media”?
Sarah? Is that you? Show us your boobs!
Here’s a couple for you.
http://mediaite.com/tv/bill-oreilly-and-bernie-goldberg-are-very-proud-of-lamestream-media/#comment-24937
http://blackthisout.com
Oct 19th moneybomb
john,
i am for this guy.
btw,
can you do a share button?
i frequently post your blogs material,
a share button would be cool!
i like to atribute where due is may.
thanks.
a
OK..we’ll get it added
oh,
and how are you doing with spam?
we got hit by a bunch of chinese spammers recently.
we instituted a captcha system.
but, you seem a little naked?
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Spam is very rare here, maybe you should clean up your act instead of criticizing another’s/
We have a good system and you WILL get a captcha on this site under some circumstances.
Clarification up front: Ron Paul is the only political candidate of any kind to whom I have donated money to. Quite obvious that I support his cause and stands on essentially everything econo-politically relevant.
However (yes, there is however), as a rational person I understand that he can’t win Presidential nomination or Presidency in his lifetime, that he can’t attract majority of Americans to vote for him and that he can’t but irritate and provide left/right spin for the mass media.
So, why give money to his campaign? – Understanding how politics actually works. As long as he and similar candidates have serious amount of monetary support, political and media machines can’t completely ignore him or his ideas. Hence, his ideas are heard (no matter how weakly) on national scale and opponents are nudged by the amount of his support to absorb some of those views in their own campaigns. Love affair with media and trumpeting from high hills is not needed. Slow erosion does what is possible and needed to steer general opinion in his philosophical direction over time. At certain point (maybe in his son’s lifetime) hill will give way and opinion will landslide to his side.
Ron Paul has stood for the same ideals for 25 years. He has not wavered. If there ever was a time when we need solid leadership. now is the time. He is the only candidate I would even think about voting for!!
Sometimes, changing your mind in 25 years is a sign of maturity and intelligence.
Then again, dogma is pretty attractive.
woah!
is that really him???
What we should take from this specific example, is not how abysmally Ron Paul is being treated (whcih he is), but rather that the media of this country is choosing our candidates for us. They, the media, have all of the power to legitimize or de-legitimize the stories of their choice. This sort of behavior was expected from networks like FOX, but this slanted (via omission) news reporting has spread to virtually every venue. Even NPR seems to resist even mentioning Ron Paul’s name. Sadly the internet is not a whole lot better, because even though most of the information is out there, search engines and aggregators tend to return the results we wish to see most; ie. likeminded opinions. While this may be comforting it tends to skew ones perspective of the world and fails to challenge ones views.
The state-access-loving media will back RP as soon as RP gets on board with Washington’s love of global militarism a.k.a. “the world’s police who save the kittens from trees everywhere.”
In other words, the media will never back RP.
Go Ron GO!
Here’s just one more reason why Paul is toast.
Headline: Iran Bomb Plot Sinks Ron Paul’s Credibility
http://goo.gl/ChFhg
Why is Iran attacking us? Could it be because we give trillions in military aid to Iran’s rivals?
Are you trying to use logic? That’s unpatriotic!
Ron Paul is consistent, I’ll give him that. He is also a Liebertarian.
Anybody who says the media does not manipulate politics needs to see the best example happening with Ron Paul. But the best will come when a Republican is chosen to run against Obama. The media I guarantee you will favor Obama. Someone needs to investigate the US media. BBC? are you reading this?
I believe your absolutely correct about the media. The media is rife with money from special interest groups, or should I say large corporations who have a stake in controlling government policy. War.
Cain’s 999 and Romney’s religion will be regurgitated by the talking heads over and over. People will have no choice but to vote for B.O. for POTUS. We have no say in the matter and it’s disgusting how Ron Paul is marginalized.
Do you really want to make a difference with these media outlets…? First thing tomorrow, call and disconnect your cable or satellite service. Cut off your revenue to them. They don’t care what you think, they only care that you pay them. It’s also the only weapon you have to use against them.
I was tempted to donate to your website, but after this, no way. Ron Paul is a total nut-job. His views on the Fed, the wars, etc etc are so totally off-kilter, he off the reservation. Just listen to the way he even speaks when interviewed or in the debates! It is totally embarrassing! He is living in a dream world. A complete wacko living in some fantasy world. So long, John C D, but you’ve lost me as a follower for any of your content–which is usually a day late and a dollar short. You practically just copy and paste from Drudge anyways.
Adios .
You are corrupted by the neocons media manipulation.
Your vote doesn’t count anyway and B.O. will be POTUS
because of the media. Always remember it’s not the message it’s the medium.
So your off to some new medium. Good luck and God bless.