An open letter to Ron Paul supporters..from CNBC! 11/2007

[1stAmendguy]

Guys check this out: http://gregorlove.com/2007/10/805/ It appears Allen did the same thing to Ron back in 2007.

OMG that is the same letter!

 

[bluesc]

Guys check this out: http://gregorlove.com/2007/10/805/ It appears Allen did the same thing to Ron back in 2007.

This IS from '07.

From '07. Still relevant. You would have never known, things never change.

^^^ from a few posts up.

 

[NorfolkPCSolutions]

Dear Allen Wastler,

Since I'm pretty certain that a petty little prick like you would lurk in these forums, posting or not, I'm going to repeat something I said in another thread.

Not shocked, but saddened. Not saddened by you, saddened for you.

Allen, if it had been Romney supporters that decided to be ACTIVE and support their candidate online, you would have trumpeted the results from the mountaintops. I'd have joined you in viewing that as big news - it would be. Seeing as though most of the other's supporters are computer illiterates who could not discern a computer from a garden hose - and therefore, have little to no online presence - you are alienating an entire generation.

An entire generation of folks who know how to communicate. Who understand critical thinking. Who do not require your services to be informed citizens.

I like to think my skin has gotten pretty thick as of late, but this is hard to take. This is even worse than what O'Reilly did the other day - and even more shortsighted. Enjoy your growing irrelevance, CNBC, and of your parent company, GE. Rest assured that we are growing in number, and we will own YOU before this is all over. We know who you are, we know who signs your checks.

We, not the men and women of this forums, not Ron Paul supporters, not some nebulous group you and ilk attempt to place into neat demographics for your advertisers - no, Allen, we, the great unwashed "We," as in We the People, are fed up. We are furious. And we are active.

Thankfully, neither a petty little man working for CNBC like you, Allen, nor a television network such as yours, nor your parent company GE - not even your old CEO, Mr. Immelt, now working for Obama - have the power to manipulate the minds of men and women who are capable of critical thinking.

You have been measured and found wanting. Enjoy this time, these, your last futile grasps at power. Before you know it, the generations will shift, and it will be this glorious "We" that will be the target of your advertising.

And we will not forget. Goodnight, Allen Wastler.

 

[Miss Annie]

Fabulous!!!!!!! Face time! His name is in the media! Do you guys really realize how stupid this guy makes himself look? LOL.
He is in essence saying that Ron Paul got too many votes and so he can't win! Now, where I come from that is what we call a sore loser! LOL!

 

[NorfolkPCSolutions]

Oh, and also this:

Despite the anti-profanity thread I took part in the other day, forums, forgive me.

Suck it, Allen.

 

[LibertyEagle]

NorfolkPCSolutions, nice but drop the ageism, please. Ron Paul is a candidate for everyone; young and old.

 

[Eric21ND]

We should craft a letter back and nail him.

 

[Athan]

I didn't even get a chance to vote for Ron. Bastards!

 

[Feelgood]

Translation: Romney, Perry, and Cain have no real internet presence, nor popularity among the most tech-savvy generation in American history.

Awesome. I copied that into their comments.

 

[MJU1983]

I didn't even get a chance to vote for Ron. Bastards!

Me either!

 

[ghengis86]

Lolololololol; the irony here is remarkable.

"When a well-organized and committed "few" can throw the results of a system meant to reflect the sentiments of "the many," I get a little worried."

Uh, like a few corporate-owned, profit driven media conglomerates? Rupert Murdoch (FOX), Jeffrey Immelt (NBC), Jeffrey Bewkes (CNN), Roger Iger (ABC). Or what about Jamie Dimon (JPM), Brian Moynihan (BOA), Lloyd Blankfein (GS) and the revolving doors between their firms and the federal reserve/treasury?

Get a clue Allen!

 

[RIPLEYMOM]

FU fascist cnbc, sore loser, loser! You suck! Blowhard, fascist, media going down as the enemy! You will lose!

 

[NorfolkPCSolutions]

NorfolkPCSolutions, nice but drop the ageism, please. Ron Paul is a candidate for everyone; young and old.

Fixed.

"Seeing as though most of the other's supporters are computer illiterates who could not discern a computer from a garden hose - and therefore, have little to no online presence - you are alienating an entire generation."

Eagle, under any other circumstance, I wouldn't give two shakes about "ageism." Thank you for reminding me of the nature of Dr. Paul. He wouldn't have approved of the above sentence, as written. Perhaps now, he might.

 

[NorfolkPCSolutions]

We should craft a letter back and nail him.

LETS DO IT.

Might I humbly present my post above for consideration, dissection, addition, and subtraction? I would gladly help out.

 

[dannyh982]

Translation: Romney, Perry, and Cain have no real internet presence, nor popularity among the most tech-savvy generation in American history.

Hope you don't mind but I borrowed this!

 

[1stAmendguy]

LETS DO IT.

Might I humbly present my post above for consideration, dissection, addition, and subtraction? I would gladly help out.

The Daily Paul has already responded. Notice the date. http://www.dailypaul.com/3362/open-letter-to-allen-wastler-managing-editor-cnbccom

 

[mstrmac1]

The Daily Paul has already responded. Notice the date. http://www.dailypaul.com/3362/open-letter-to-allen-wastler-managing-editor-cnbccom

Great letter and reply! Thanks.

 

[NorfolkPCSolutions]

Lolololololol; the irony here is remarkable.

"When a well-organized and committed "few" can throw the results of a system meant to reflect the sentiments of "the many," I get a little worried."

Uh, like a few corporate-owned, profit driven media conglomerates? Rupert Murdoch (FOX), Jeffrey Immelt (NBC), Jeffrey Bewkes (CNN), Roger Iger (ABC). Or what about Jamie Dimon (JPM), Brian Moynihan (BOA), Lloyd Blankfein (GS) and the revolving doors between their firms and the federal reserve/treasury?

Get a clue Allen!

bumpity bump bump bump. +rep.

 

[Original_Intent]

I sent the following to [email protected]:

"Some of you Ron Paul fans take issue with my decision to take the poll down. Fine. When a well-organized and committed "few" can throw the results of a system meant to reflect the sentiments of "the many," I get a little worried. I'd take it down again. "



You mean like when a "few" (the media) designate a candidate as unelectable? When the media "few" ignore Ron Paul's straw poll victories, his incredibly close second place in Iowa, his strong fundraising.

When the media "few" so glaringly and obviously ignore one candidate that Jon Stewart of Comedy Central does an entire segment lampooning the news media for treating Ron Paul as the "13th floor of politics".

Do you have the balls to address THIS ISSUE, which is that the media few knowingly and consistently work to convince the electorate that Ron Paul is nothing but a gadfly, a joke, a "quixotic" figure - indeed the "few" can throw the results of a system meant to reflect the sentiments of "the many".

You can't deny it, you know it is the case, we know it is the case, so let's just cut the bullshit and see if you have the jounralistic integrity to publicly address this issue. You know and I know that it ain't going to happen, because the man who signs your check says it ain't going to happen.

I wonder though, which is more important - some dedicated supporters LEGITIMATELY skewing a poll (We don't cheat, we organize) or a few global media entities making a complete mockery of our democratic process by repeatedly drumming into the public who is or is not electable...hmmm. And you guys treat seriously people with 1/10th of the support and campaigns either broke or in debt with more credibility.

One has to wonder where Ron Paul would be with a news media that was something more than an establishment propaganda lap dog.

Oh, and you should really catch the Jon Stewart piece if you haven't. It would really be pretty funny if it weren't so devastatingly true.

 

[NorfolkPCSolutions]

The Daily Paul has already responded. Notice the date. http://www.dailypaul.com/3362/open-letter-to-allen-wastler-managing-editor-cnbccom

A real breath of fresh air.

"This tired explanation might still play well to those who are used to getting information spoon-fed from major media outlets, but as the Internet grows, the size of that audience segment is shrinking fast."