No one said it was gonna be easy!!!
*****: but not many of us enjoyed that debate. it was same ol same ol with the Three dominating airtime
XXXXX: Yes, indeed..I don't know if I shud say anything
*****: whatdo you mean?
XXXXX: I know that there was a concerted effort here to focus on the top tier and leave out the others.
*****: come on that is obvious ;-)
XXXXX: No, specifically, production-wise, it was Ron Paul that was to be..as they call "iced" as he was gaining expediency.. I dunno.. I think people are listening to him more? I can't be quiet about it. It disturbs me to my core.
*****: it doesn't surprise me the top tier gets more focus, but this was pre-meditated? u gotta be kidding me
XXXXX: It was, and I'll get my bell rung if they knew I told anyone. It doesn't sit well with me and I dunno what's going on. This is not how I see my country and I am not the only one here at the desks feeling this way.
*****: its worrisome but...hang on, gotta take this call. brb.
XXXXX: I gotta go kiddo. Cant be talking about this now. Talk l8r.
xxxxx is a woman that works for cnn, ***** is a friend of hers she spoke to over MSN last night. This was sent to me by a friend of mine who knows the guy. He's the guy that sent a few of my vid's out to andrew sullivan. I know him to be very honest, all the same I'm trying to actually get some kind of validity to it. But I thought you should see what we may be/ or are up against.
Aravoth,
I'm new here so let me start by saying something I have wanted to say to you since I saw your Ron Paul : Stop Dreaming video....
What an excellent piece of work...very professional...hopefully congressman paul will look to you to do video...I consider the stop dreaming video exceptional in all ways..
But back to the subject....I knew from the minute I saw Ron Paul go up against Giuliani, the mainstream media would try to ice him....
The top tier candidates in both parties fear him.....
The republican top tier wants him quiet because his views might cause the conservative base to finally totally break from the neo cons who have control of the GOP. The neocons fear the conservative base taking back the party.
The democrats top tier want him quiet too...because he is stealing thunder from their golden boy Obama who was against the war from day 1 also....but the democrats also fear him because Ron Paul wants secure borders unlike the open borders liberals as well as the neocons.
70% of Americans want us out of Iraq according to latest polls.
50% of Americans are against the current immigration bill being pushed through the senate.
Since Ron Paul's platform will be popular with voters who feel strongly about these 2 issues....they need to ice him anyway they can.
We can't let this dishearten us. We must make it the reason we all work harder.
The only way we will be able to truly penetrate the mainstream media with Ron Paul is by getting him as much money as possible thru donations so he can buy time via commercials...buying airtime usually leads to bonus airtime on the network thru interviews. Writing letters to see him as a guest will only go so far.
We must tell everyone we know about him, use flyers from the official website, the liberty cards, whatever....every one we can turn on to Ron Paul is one more potential donor.
The internet will only take this so far....We need to campaign for him in the real world...
I see many places we can change minds on the cheap by passing out pro Ron Paul flyers as well as the liberty cards.
It's summertime, and summer brings tons of festivals with tons of people.
Music festivals are a great place to spread the word. Many music festivals have a very anti war demographic....Ron Paul's views will go over well at music festivals.
Here in Buffalo we have the taste of buffalo festival in July which usually brings about 200,000+ people out. I will be there handing out as many flyers and liberty cards as I can afford to print and buy.
We also have the artvoice festival here in Buffalo which has brought as many as 400,000 people here in buffalo...I will be working that too for congressman paul.
If each of us does this at our local festivals where large amounts of people gather, and pass out flyers and liberty cards, It will help...doesn't matter if you print up 100 flyers or 10,000 flyers...it will help grow support and donations to the campaign.
So let this news of the mainstream trying to ice him not let us get it down, let it strengthen our resolve and find ways to succeed!