Apparently the media doesn’t care about any of Paul’s issues such as funding endless wars, the onerous Patriot Act, abuse by DHS, the ludicrous war on drugs and more. This is weird to me since these are all issues the media cares about. It’s more obvious than ever that the media has marching orders and that’s that.
In the days after his runner-up finish to Michele Bachmann in Iowa’s August 13 GOP straw poll, Texas Congressman Ron Paul complained about a lack of media coverage, accusing the press of being “frightened by me challenging the status quo and the establishment.”
As pundits debate whether Paul is getting the attention he deserves, a PEJ analysis of campaign coverage this year indicates he is the 10th leading election newsmaker— trailing far behind non-candidates Donald Trump and Sarah Palin and as well as floundering Republican hopeful Newt Gingrich.
I expect Rick Perry numbers to improve once his closet is examined for skeletons. Ron Pauk is just too nice. He needs to date an 16 yr old boy or something to kick it up a notch.
Also, since Alphie favorites Newt and Trump have flamed out and Pawlenty gone, there is more opportunity for Ron Paul.
I expect Palin to restart her campaign in the spring of 2012. She needs to show her tits or something though… just showing up and twanking is getting boring.
It’s because the media isn’t smart enough to contemplate or keep up with what he’s saying.
State media owns our population
Everyone keeps murmuring the mantra “Democracy”
That’s half the reason it’s working
Stupidity is our fate
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iexoUIwrtgU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
With candidates like her, there is hope?
Yes there is: break the hold of the Parties.
Switch Political Party affiliation to the nonincumbant Party every election. Choose the incumbant’s best opponent, force the incumbants to keep up their game by pushing in a great alternative.
Even if you are a diehard X or Y, you’ll force your person to face the possibility of losing his job!!!!!!
We should be able to split Party Affiliation between Federal and State elections.
Maybe someone who said there should be one party is correct. One party, the incumbant, and the competition.
The media has already written a script for this election. To them, it’s not about news or policy. They want easy ratings and predictable drama. Hollywood likes sequels because they’re easy. Expect Bachmann and probably Perry to flail. Palin comes in as the media darling. Bingo!
“Obama vs Palin II” for FOX/CNN/Nickleodeon/WB news. Easy ratings. No need to hire new script writers, just recycle the old material. Wolf Blitzer could be permanently drunk through the whole thing.
Ron Paul’s campaign is like a Coen Brothers movie. It’s going to need the internet and whole lot of box office sales in places like Cedar Rapids before Hollywood will grudgingly acknowledge that it’s Oscar winning material.
Face it. Ron Paul communicates about as well as pea gravel.
If you made this assertion just a couple years ago, you were laughed at as Conspiracy Theorist. But if this is true, is it not a true Conspiracy. Who’s laughing now?
I cannot stomach watching Political news coverage from media outlets. Just turn off you TV and get your news from alternative sources.
#7 Easy fix. Penn Jillette as his running mate. He’s used to working with a mute.
The media is broken and its so obvious that you can’t hide it.
The party system is broken and its so obvious that you can’t hide it.
#7. Maybe so, and Obama is a good communicator, he just sucks at being President. Besides, W Bush set the example that you don’t have to be literate to be Prez.
Idiots will vote again for someone with no history or experience, anyone but Paul. As long as their News outlet tells them to.
Steely Dan. Aren’t you on tour? I’ve got tickets to see you. Can’t wait.
I totally changed my mind about the two party system, thanks to Dvorak on No Agenda.
There shound be no Parties. There should be only the guy who has the job, and the guys that say they can do the job better. Let all the people decide.
Political Parties serve as a tool for the Party Leaders to control the Party Members. Break the iron collar that they put around your neck slave.
Could you even imagine Ron Paul ever being filmed like this?
“Apparently the media doesn’t care about any of Paul’s issues such as funding endless wars, the onerous Patriot Act, abuse by DHS, the ludicrous war on drugs and more. This is weird to me since these are all issues the media cares about. It’s more obvious than ever that the media has marching orders and that’s that.”
That’s because when a candidate such as Ron Paul or any other candidate for that matter speaks directly to the point on the topics that you mention the “media” doesn’t want to inconvenience people with specifics that might make people think or become angry.
“funding endless wars” – hundreds of billions of dollars if not trillions of dollars borrowed.
“Patriot Act” – The Act has the word “Patriot” in its name?
“abuse by DHS” – The Department has the word “Homeland” in its name?
“war on drugs” – Hasn’t that been going on for years? Wait. That’s like the “funding endless wars” mentioned above.
Another Poll totally excludes Ron Paul. http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/02/24/who-is-your-pick-for-the-2012-gop-presidential-nomination. Other got 60% of the vote, too funny.
And he’s thought to be against Aid to Israel, The Fed, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Foreign Intervention, Farm Subsidies, The IRS, and on and on.
How come he hasn’t received two-to-the-head?
Marching Orders. Yep.
20 years ago we hardly heard of him. Without the internet we still wouldn’t know about him.
With 20% of the population supporting him without the media coverage says a lot.
I wonder what the numbers were just two years ago. He was everywhere telling people what to expect. Now . . . nothing.
Elections have been scripted for the last century, with the past 30 years “hyper scripted” thanks to the PC revolution as well as insane amounts of campaign money being stuck in various orifices and Ad campaigns by the shadow gov.
If Paul actually makes it to the main debates, they’ll do like they did to Perot: threaten his family’s lives to force him to withdraw.
really.. the only way to effect a real change in the USA would be mass protests against our fully corrupted government.
If you think your votes have had any effect, your delusional.
TURN OFF your TV and make some noise.
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I don’t like Ron Paul as a POTUS–he is a dogmatic ideologue===NEVER GOOD. Applying an ideology requires the ignoring of harsh consequences that don’t “fit” the ideology. Thats why ideology should only be a “touchstone” and not a dogma rigidly followed. Whats wrong with Ron Paul is that he follows the dogma rigidly: EG===he would not support non discrimination laws because business owners should be allowed to serve who they wish.
I’m sorry but that kind of rigidity is just plain stupid===Stupid===STUPID====STOOOOPID!!!
And we should not have stoopid people as Presnedent of the USA. Yes it hurts the ideologically motivated===hah, ha==you just chose the wrong ideology. Choose being pragmatic as well. WHAT WORKS??????
All that being said, Ron Paul is getting a raw deal. He deserves more coverage.
How bad a government can a society have IF THE MEDIAL IS DOING ITS JOB????? — interesting question.
Kinda like viewing the Blue Marble Earth from Space. What our politicians do makes a difference.
Sad, because they have it all wrong===the Pukes are getting elected by the extreme wing of their minority party and because the Dumbo’s have no backbone or real dogma themselves==they/Obaman get pushed all around the stage.
Public polls really ought to be followed. I don’t think I’ve seen a poll in the past 6 months that wouldn’t be the policy that I support and would be best for America===but Ideologs push their own agency.
DEMOCRACY—-THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY…..
What a concept.
Come on people tell us how you really feel.
If voting mattered, it would be illegal.
Its a sad reflection on mainstream politics that Ron Paul, who I regard as pretty nutty, is the only politician standing up for the important issues highlighted by JCD. Just goes to show the magnitude of the stranglehold that the corporatocracy has over the political process.
Zero and his masters (and fellow travelers) control the media….
He likes to wrap himself in the “constitution”, effectively insinuating everything that’s been done in the past 150 years needs to be undone.
He wants to completely remove all programs helping the poor and elderly, dismantle almost all federal programs and he seems to have some sort of belief that corporations, charities and states will somehow work better.
The fact that he mentions things like “raw milk” tells me he would be horrible in power. There are reasons we have regulations on things like that (and the fda) — because thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people in the 1800’s and early 1900’s would get sick and die from distributers and producers who didn’t CARE whether food they sold was safe.
If you idiots who support him want to live in China, where a crooked milk distributer can kill hundreds or thousands of babies because the government didn’t CHECK what the company did, feel free to leave. Though they do have their families take care of their elderly, but many of them still effectively keep working until they die.
Sadly, people latch onto his big things, that in some cases make sense (DHS needs to be broken back up and shrunk, for instance) and won’t do the research into EVERYTHING he wants to do.
Ron’s “plans”
They’re holding for Arnie.
Ron Paul should pretend to come out of the closet in a staged series of rumors, reports, aborted press conferences and claims/counterclaims.
Then a massive Press Conference, long about mid-October, will be held that trots out a number of surgeons, psychologists and scientists leading up to the Big Reveal:
Ron Paul is a heterosexual. The whole thing was done to make the media twitch in the winds of controversy as an object lesson.
You can fool all of the people all of the time, but only if you have a big enough marketing campaign.
I got sucked into the Ron Paul thing last time around and I feel really stupid now. Its easy to criticize conservatives, he doesn’t offer any real solutions and he panders to conspiracy nuts when he isn’t running.
@Jim, in #26
Thanks for the link.
Spooky shit!
“Therefore, on the first day in office, a constitutionalist can begin the orderly withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and Afghanistan. He can also begin withdrawing troops from other areas of the world. The United States has over 300, 0000 troops stationed in more than 146 countries. Most if not all of these deployments bear little or no relationship to preserving the safety of the American people.”
So, any cost savings from recalling all these forces would come from discharging them from the military?
Or does he have a plan for distributing them around the country?
Ron Paul is yet another elderly plutocrat.
He will do nothing at all for the lower and middle class. So if you are in those socio-economic brackets why on earth would you vote for him when you know he will continue to support the wealthy at your expense?
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#26, Nice scare tactics.
Did you even read your link? I think it is pretty sane compared to the runaway spending we are experiencing now.