Gary North article on Fox News Forum

[tttar]

http://www.garynorth.com/public/2892.cfm

FOX News Excludes Ron Paul from New Hampshire's Republican Party Debates
Gary North

Jan. 2, 2008

Google News ran 29 stories on this:


http://news.google.com/nwshp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1125527820&hl=en&topic=n
Fox News thinks it can safely exclude a candidate who has set a political record for money raised on-line, mainly by independent fund-raisers.

Why is Fox doing this? It's obvious. Paul opposed the Iraq War. Fox News has been a cheerleader for the war since 2003. Fox News does not want Paul's views expressed on-screen.

Maybe the higher-ups think they can make things hard for Paul. This will only galvanize his troops. He will get more publicity by this exclusion than he would have gotten from yet another debate. The public is no longer watching. But Paul's supporters can spot foul play.

The liberal mainstream media would not be this stupid, but Fox News is.

If there is anyone out there who still thinks that there is anything worth salvaging in the tattered remnants of national political conservatism, this should disabuse him of his naiveté. The leadership of national conservatism in the United States is in the hands of men with poor judgment. They are neither informed regarding the American political tradition nor are they alert to the American sense of fair play.

When an ideological political movement's leaders are neither ideologically pure nor politically savvy, the movement is moribund. I say this as a member of the hard core that launched the American conservative political movement's second phase, a card-carrying member of the Goldwater for Vice President movement of 1960.

My friend Richard Viguerie built a direct-mail empire with 12,500 names of donors who gave more than $50 to Goldwater's 1964 campaign. Ron Paul is going to be able to duplicate this with the e-mail addresses he has collected.

The legacy that Ron Paul will leave for local politics will not register on Fox News' radar. These are not politically sophisticated people. They are merely shouting heads.

We may be witnessing the early phase of a shift in leadership in American conservatism. Ron Paul is now in a position to recover leadership in a movement that officially claims allegiance to limited government. Here is what he can do if he wants to.


http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north538.html
Don't expect coverage of this shift on Fox News.


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Here's another one, about sudden, unexpected changes in history - "On Changing People's Minds".

http://www.garynorth.com/members/2890.cfm

 

[Kingfisher]

Bravo Gary North

 

[Peace&Freedom]

Indeed, Paul's donor list is over ten times larger than the 12,500 Goldwater donor mailing list Viguerie used to build the conservative wave that led to Reagan. Whatever happens in 2008, Paul has built the foundations for a lasting movement to depose the current regime.

 

[jillian]

I think this could end up being very good for us. If enough people get wind of what has happened this will spread like fire and more people will wake up to the importance of the message.

I'm not scared of Fox's censorship. We don't need them anyways. They are just showing people how incredibly corrupt they really are. Fox is shaking in their boots.

 

[TheRothbardian]

Omfg, I would have never expected such kind words from him.

 

[QuesoPantera]

litter that baby all over the finance boards, we'll have Rupert on his knees by the end of the week

 

[JohnM]

Let me get this straight. Am I supporting the same candidate as Gary North?

 

[tttar]

Let me get this straight. Am I supporting the same candidate as Gary North?

Religion aside, he's always thought this way politically.

Big Government is a threat to all other competing worldviews, including his.

Maybe we should be going out of our way to list representatives of as many diverse and contradictory
points of view as we can, that would all benefit from Ron Paul winning.

Just as with any other person or group - if you don't like it, you don't have to listen.

But with state schools, for example, you don't have that choice. You have to pay for other people's opinions to be promoted. In Ron Paul's world, you pay for whatever you like.

 

[MN Patriot]

Indeed, Paul's donor list is over ten times larger than the 12,500 Goldwater donor mailing list Viguerie used to build the conservative wave that led to Reagan. Whatever happens in 2008, Paul has built the foundations for a lasting movement to depose the current regime.

Boy, I sure hope so. I'm worried that too many Paul supporters see this single election as our only chance. We need to coalesce into a pro-liberty, small government political organization that can start kicking ass and taking names from this election forward.

 

[Devil_rules_in_extremes]

Look at FoxNews stock!

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NWS

Will this trend continue?

 

[Andrew-Austin]

This should be on digg.

 

[tttar]

Boy, I sure hope so. I'm worried that too many Paul supporters see this single election as our only chance. We need to coalesce into a pro-liberty, small government political organization that can start kicking ass and taking names from this election forward.

Yes, that "our only chance" thinking is bullshit. Why haven't they supported similar candidates all along?

They would have been a force to be reckoned with by now, instead of whiners who are never able to understand why the turds they compromised on have no principles.