AP/Yahoo belittle RP

[TannerW]

I was trying to post this this morning, but couldn't get my account to register due to problems with this website's email servers. Anyway, in case anyone missed the frontpage of Yahoo! this morning, they had a big fat link to this page:

Click on Ron Paul's name and watch the 'About a candidate - audio slideshow' at the bottom of the page (the picture of RP that makes him look like a mentally deranged nursing home patient).

Some dumb AP reporter named Suzanne Gamboa proceeds to "narrate" about Ron Paul. All I gotta say is take your blood pressure medicine beforehand, and make sure you watch the OTHER candidate's videos - like McCain or Hillary or Obama to see just how different those candidates are portrayed.

Even though it's somewhat of a moot issue now that it's off the front page, it's still just as disgusting to me...

 

[dandg]

I can't seem to get any audio on the slideshow.

Click on "Issues"

It seems that they purposely tried to make him look bad.

 

[TannerW]

On the slideshow, there's an audio slider to the right. You might make sure it's not muted or turned down...

 

[seeker1]

AP has been consistent to say the least. I can't remember a AP article favorable of Ron Paul and most times have omitted him.

The AP has always been a propaganda machine. Always.

 

[TannerW]

I've transcribed it for anyone else who can't get the audio to work. You miss out on the tone of her voice, but you get the idea:

"Ron Paul is known as 'Dr. No' in Congress...um...and he's known that way because he basically votes against just about every bill that comes up.

He's a Libertarian and has...uh...very principled views about what government should be doing and shouldn't be doing and what the Constitution allows the government to do...so......his......he was....he's been tagged with 'Dr. No' because he basically votes against everything. DEFINITELY every spending bill and...and he's voted even against...um...providing...um...congressional gold medals to...um...the Pope, and...um...Mother Teresa...and Rosa Parks.

He's called to abolish the IRS, he's called to abolish the, um, Department of Education. He just really believes in a very limited form of government and doesn't think the Constitution gives the government the authority to carry out a lot of what it does, and so he's been in congress...um...actually served 2 different terms. He's in his 9th term, I believe.

But he was in Congress from...uh...'77 to '85. And he left to, uh, run for President BEFORE in the....on the 1988 ticket. He ran then as a Libertarian. And then he came back in '97 and he's been in Congress since then and now he's trying again to run for President, uh, as a Republican at this time.

He's apparently gained some popularity on the web. Bloggers like him, and his campaign said that he was, like, after the debate in which he had this face off with Guiliani he was...Paul was like the most searched...uh...item on Yahoo and Google. And that's according to his campaign, but that's what he says, so...there is some sort of interest in him on the web.

And he's able to raise money. It's certainly not as much as the other candidates. But he doesn't...he takes very little money from, uh, any kinds of committees or pacts, so he gets a lot of money from individual contributers."

And this woman is a reporter for a living. Can you believe it?!

 

[dvictr]

wow...

what a bitch

 

[JK/SEA]

Thanks for posting. Now i don't have to watch it.
Sounds like Paris Hilton.

I like the...'Apparently, he's gained some popularity on the web'...good one...yep..were here alright....lol!...

 

[TannerW]

I wouldn't say Paris Hilton. Think more of the left-wing woman who thinks she's so much smarter than she actually is, and constantly has that derogatory tone to her voice. Compared to the other candidates slideshows, which are OBVIOUSLY narrated by one of their supporters, I was fuming when I woke up to that this morning.

 

[devil21]

I guess we know where she will be working after college.