Hardball: Chris Matthews wants 1 hour with Dr Paul

[jamesmadison]

Well Hardball is a much better outlet than Beck. Ron Paul is now in the position where he can be a bit more picky about which shows he goes on. I think "The View" is awesome. I think Hardball is also great. Ron Paul does well with tough questions when he is given time to answer them.

Campaign, work it into your schedule sometime IMO.

He should go on any show that has national coverage. The message permiates ideology and if people hear the message they would understand that freedom is something that is inherent in them.

 

[PatriotOne]

I don't understand. Why are people afraid of Paul being interviewed by people that hold different views? It makes absolutely no sense for Paul to deny these requests.

For the hundreth time:

“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” ~ William Colby, Former Director, CIA

 

[DrNoZone]

I don't understand. Why are people afraid of Paul being interviewed by people that hold different views? It makes absolutely no sense for Paul to deny these requests.

Amen to that! Someone with their brain-on!

 

[randolphus maximus]

I don't understand. Why are people afraid of Paul being interviewed by people that hold different views? It makes absolutely no sense for Paul to deny these requests.

Exactly, RP's message may not convert Beck or Matthews, but it may convert some of his viewers.

 

[V4Vendetta]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSU2Pk9VhGU

 

[jamesmadison]

For the hundreth time:

“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” ~ William Colby, Former Director, CIA

Are you saying that somehow the ideas of liberty are falliable and they will construct an argument against them? I'm not worried about a debate with anyone about the ideas of liberty, whether CIA owned or not.

 

[PatriotOne]

Educate yourself:

Operation Mockingbird

Starting in the early days of the Cold War (late 40's), the CIA began a secret project called Operation Mockingbird, with the intent of buying influence behind the scenes at major media outlets and putting reporters on the CIA payroll, which has proven to be a stunning ongoing success. The CIA effort to recruit American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda, was headed up by Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, and Philip Graham (publisher of The Washington Post). Wisner had taken Graham under his wing to direct the program code-named Operation Mockingbird and both have presumably committed suicide.

Media assets will eventually include ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Associated Press, United Press International (UPI), Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service, etc. and 400 journalists, who have secretly carried out assignments according to documents on file at CIA headquarters, from intelligence-gathering to serving as go-betweens. The CIA had infiltrated the nation's businesses, media, and universities with tens of thousands of on-call operatives by the 1950's. CIA Director Dulles had staffed the CIA almost exclusively with Ivy League graduates, especially from Yale with figures like George Herbert Walker Bush from the "Skull and Crossbones" Society.

Many Americans still insist or persist in believing that we have a free press, while getting most of their news from state-controlled television, under the misconception that reporters are meant to serve the public. Reporters are paid employees and serve the media owners, who usually cower when challenged by advertisers or major government figures. Robert Parry reported the first breaking stories about Iran-Contra for Associated Press that were largely ignored by the press and congress, then moving to Newsweek he witnessed a retraction of a true story for political reasons. In 'Fooling America: A Talk by Robert Parry' he said, "The people who succeeded and did well were those who didn't stand up, who didn't write the big stories, who looked the other way when history was happening in front of them, and went along either consciously or just by cowardice with the deception of the American people."

Major networks are primarily controlled by giant corporations that are obligated by law, to put the profits of their investors ahead of all other considerations which are often in conflict with the practice of responsible journalism. There were around 50 corporations a couple of decades ago, which was considered monopolistic by many and yet today, these companies have become larger and fewer in number as the biggest ones absorb their rivals. This concentration of ownership and power reduces the diversity of media voices, as news falls into the hands of large conglomerates with holdings in many industries that interferes in newsgathering, because of conflicts of interest. Mockingbird was an immense financial undertaking with funds flowing from the CIA largely through the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) founded by Tom Braden with Pat Buchanon of CNN's Crossfire.

Media corporations share members of the board of directors with a variety of other large corporations including banks, investment companies, oil companies, health care, pharmaceutical, and technology companies. Until the 1980's, media systems were generally domestically owned, regulated, and national in scope. However, pressure from the IMF, World Bank, and US government to deregulate and privatize, the media, communication, and new technology resulted in a global commercial media system dominated by a small number of super-powerful transnational media corporations (mostly US based), working to advance the cause of global markets and the CIA agenda.

The first tier of the nine giant firms that dominate the world are Time Warner/AOL, Disney/ABC, Bertelsmann, Viacom/CBS, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation/Fox, General Electric/NBC, Sony, Universal/Seagram, Tele-Communications, Inc. or TCI and AT&T. This is just the head of the octopus which has its second and third tier tentacles working together in unison or feigned division. This would include The Washington Post/Newsweek, The New York Times/Weekly Standard, Tribune Co., US News, Gannett/USA Today, Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Knight-Ridder, etcetera. A good site to visit for more information is Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a public interest media watchdog group, at www.fair.org/index.html, www.fair.org/mediafiles/index.html and www.fair.org/extra/9711/gmg.html. Media propaganda tactics include blackouts, misdirections, expert opinions to echo the Establishment line, smears, defining popular opinions, mass entertainment distractions, and Hobson's Choice (the media presents the so-called conservative and liberal positions).

"Who Controls the Media? The Subversion of the Free Press by the CIA, The Depraved Spies and Moguls of the CIA's Operation Mockingbird", "The CIA: America's Premier International Terrorist Organization", and "Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America" by Alex Constantine are an excellent source of information on this topic: www.alexconstantine.50megs.com/the_cia_and.html and www.alexconstantine.50megs.com. David Guyatt has written books and many articles including one entitled "Subverting the Media" at www.deepblacklies.co.uk/subverting_the_media.htm. Then there are two articles called "A Timeline of CIA Atrocities" and "The Origins of the Overclass" by Steve Kangas that are very informative although from a more liberal perspective. Steve will not be writing anymore articles as he is no longer with us, having unfortunately met his untimely death that was 'apparently' from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. If you read about him on his web page that is still available, you will see that he did not seem like a person who was suffering from deep depression. In his memory, please take the time to read what he wrote at www.korpios.org/resurgent/CIAtimeline.html, www.korpios.org/resurgent/CIAtimeline.html, and www.korpios.org/resurgent/index.html.

 

[Chomsky]

Has anyone talked to HQ about this invite Chris threw out there. What are their thoughts at this point, would it be an either or situation between Hardball and Beck, in that case its a no-brainer to go with Hardball, Chris has a huge following of many people who love Ron Paul and just don't realize it yet.

 

[steph3n]

Educate yourself:

Operation Mockingbird

Starting in the early days of the Cold War (late 40's), the CIA began a secret project called Operation Mockingbird, with the intent of buying influence behind the scenes at major media outlets and putting reporters on the CIA payroll, which has proven to be a stunning ongoing success. The CIA effort to recruit American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda, was headed up by Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, and Philip Graham (publisher of The Washington Post). Wisner had taken Graham under his wing to direct the program code-named Operation Mockingbird and both have presumably committed suicide.

Media assets will eventually include ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Associated Press, United Press International (UPI), Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service, etc. and 400 journalists, who have secretly carried out assignments according to documents on file at CIA headquarters, from intelligence-gathering to serving as go-betweens. The CIA had infiltrated the nation's businesses, media, and universities with tens of thousands of on-call operatives by the 1950's. CIA Director Dulles had staffed the CIA almost exclusively with Ivy League graduates, especially from Yale with figures like George Herbert Walker Bush from the "Skull and Crossbones" Society.

Many Americans still insist or persist in believing that we have a free press, while getting most of their news from state-controlled television, under the misconception that reporters are meant to serve the public. Reporters are paid employees and serve the media owners, who usually cower when challenged by advertisers or major government figures. Robert Parry reported the first breaking stories about Iran-Contra for Associated Press that were largely ignored by the press and congress, then moving to Newsweek he witnessed a retraction of a true story for political reasons. In 'Fooling America: A Talk by Robert Parry' he said, "The people who succeeded and did well were those who didn't stand up, who didn't write the big stories, who looked the other way when history was happening in front of them, and went along either consciously or just by cowardice with the deception of the American people."

Major networks are primarily controlled by giant corporations that are obligated by law, to put the profits of their investors ahead of all other considerations which are often in conflict with the practice of responsible journalism. There were around 50 corporations a couple of decades ago, which was considered monopolistic by many and yet today, these companies have become larger and fewer in number as the biggest ones absorb their rivals. This concentration of ownership and power reduces the diversity of media voices, as news falls into the hands of large conglomerates with holdings in many industries that interferes in newsgathering, because of conflicts of interest. Mockingbird was an immense financial undertaking with funds flowing from the CIA largely through the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) founded by Tom Braden with Pat Buchanon of CNN's Crossfire.

Media corporations share members of the board of directors with a variety of other large corporations including banks, investment companies, oil companies, health care, pharmaceutical, and technology companies. Until the 1980's, media systems were generally domestically owned, regulated, and national in scope. However, pressure from the IMF, World Bank, and US government to deregulate and privatize, the media, communication, and new technology resulted in a global commercial media system dominated by a small number of super-powerful transnational media corporations (mostly US based), working to advance the cause of global markets and the CIA agenda.

The first tier of the nine giant firms that dominate the world are Time Warner/AOL, Disney/ABC, Bertelsmann, Viacom/CBS, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation/Fox, General Electric/NBC, Sony, Universal/Seagram, Tele-Communications, Inc. or TCI and AT&T. This is just the head of the octopus which has its second and third tier tentacles working together in unison or feigned division. This would include The Washington Post/Newsweek, The New York Times/Weekly Standard, Tribune Co., US News, Gannett/USA Today, Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Knight-Ridder, etcetera. A good site to visit for more information is Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a public interest media watchdog group, at www.fair.org/index.html, www.fair.org/mediafiles/index.html and www.fair.org/extra/9711/gmg.html. Media propaganda tactics include blackouts, misdirections, expert opinions to echo the Establishment line, smears, defining popular opinions, mass entertainment distractions, and Hobson's Choice (the media presents the so-called conservative and liberal positions).

"Who Controls the Media? The Subversion of the Free Press by the CIA, The Depraved Spies and Moguls of the CIA's Operation Mockingbird", "The CIA: America's Premier International Terrorist Organization", and "Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America" by Alex Constantine are an excellent source of information on this topic: www.alexconstantine.50megs.com/the_cia_and.html and www.alexconstantine.50megs.com. David Guyatt has written books and many articles including one entitled "Subverting the Media" at www.deepblacklies.co.uk/subverting_the_media.htm. Then there are two articles called "A Timeline of CIA Atrocities" and "The Origins of the Overclass" by Steve Kangas that are very informative although from a more liberal perspective. Steve will not be writing anymore articles as he is no longer with us, having unfortunately met his untimely death that was 'apparently' from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. If you read about him on his web page that is still available, you will see that he did not seem like a person who was suffering from deep depression. In his memory, please take the time to read what he wrote at www.korpios.org/resurgent/CIAtimeline.html, www.korpios.org/resurgent/CIAtimeline.html, and www.korpios.org/resurgent/index.html.

SO WHAT!!!!

You can't defeat them by ignoring them.

 

[wsc321]

Yep - I saw this, too. Maybe he's reacting to the Glenn Beck offer. Dunno, but I bet Chris will be fair. I think he's a closet Ron Paul fan, but MSNBC pressures him. (Quote: "Many Americans agree with you [Ron Paul], and I DARE NOT say I'm one of them.")

I say we contact both the campaign and the Hardball show and push this one.

 

[jamesmadison]

SO WHAT!!!!

You can't defeat them by ignoring them.

You defeat them by presenting the alternative opinion, liberty.

 

[jamesmadison]

Yep - I saw this, too. Maybe he's reacting to the Glenn Beck offer. Dunno, but I bet Chris will be fair. I think he's a closet Ron Paul fan, but MSNBC pressures him. (Quote: "Many Americans agree with you [Ron Paul], and I DARE NOT say I'm one of them.")

I say we contact both the campaign and the Hardball show and push this one.

The campaign needs to get its act together, seriously. RP has a lot of money, he should hire some qualified people. This is a joke.

If Matthews offers a 1hr commercial for RP, that reaches a national audience, there is no reason to decline.

 

[PatriotOne]

Are you saying that somehow the ideas of liberty are falliable and they will construct an argument against them? I'm not worried about a debate with anyone about the ideas of liberty, whether CIA owned or not.

You assume they plan on talking about the "issues".

 

[PatriotOne]

SO WHAT!!!!

You can't defeat them by ignoring them.

Ignoring the media is exactly what will defeat them. It takes away their power to influence. You seem to think they are the solution to our problem when in fact they are the problem to our solution.

The good news is that they have already lost their influence over the internet generation for the most part.

 

[brumans]

Campaign is pissing me off. They are missing out on three huge opportunities... media opportunities that have millions and millions of viewers/potential voters. We know Ron Paul can handle them... that can't be the issue. The media is offering Ron Paul A LOT of face time.. they NEED to take them up on their offer. We often complain that the media doesn't cover Ron Paul enough... but at the same time HQ is contributing to that!

 

[brumans]

Chris Mathews already endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican ticket.
(John Edwards for Democrats)

 

[bew2005]

Don't jump to the conclusion that the campaign is not taking these offers seriously. I guarantee you he will be on the shows that the campaign thinks will help him. Personally, I think he should go on any and every cable news network offering invites just for the name recognition and so he can explain his ideas more in depth. The more that people learn about him, the more they like him.

Any word from the campaign or Don regarding these offers?

 

[paulgirl]

1-hour is really tough guys! Because in reality it takes a whole day of campaigning away. In case you haven't notices Ron is very conservative with his money to, so flying out to these studios, getting prepped, and flying back is an all day thing. The schedule is continually being fleshed out to what is most going to get us votes. These guys who want these interviews need to go to Paul not the other way around. The campaign knows it's bigger than the MSM. We as the people need to act that way. I still refuse to turn them on whether they have him on the show or not.

this kind of thinking is nuts.

the growth is going to level off if the main activity stays on the internet. Like I said, there are a LOT OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T SURF THE NET ALL DAY.

Paul can only be in one place at one time, touching a few people. These opportunities can touch millions of people in one day. Not everyone who is a thinking conservative is an extremist like you, who won't touch the tv no matter what. That is a very male way of thinking (overreaction)

If you want to get more women, which is obviously a very underrepresented group, then he MUST take these tv and radio engagements.

 

[1000-points-of-fright]

Yes, Chris said he would love to interview RP for an hour. Except that Hardball NEVER has one guest for the entire hour. That's just not the format. Doing it for RP would mean he would have to do it for all of them.

 

[Thomas_Paine]

If RP doesn't do Chris Matthews or Glenn Beck there is a good reason and it would have nothing to do with HQ dropping the ball. It means RP knows traps are being laid for him. Are ya all not paying attention to all the hit pieces or what? RP is under attack so maybe, just maybe, they don't want to go into the lions den. Don't be ragging on HQ if it doesn't happen.

With that same logic Ron Paul should attend the debates either.

WAKE UP!