So he's going to be on MSNBC with Joe Scarborough at 7:30, then on the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer around 4, and then on Tucker on MSNBC again later tonight? It sounds like HQ is stepping things up! Hopefully, he'll be on a bunch of other programs in the coming week and especially in Iowa stations to improve his name recognition.
Ron Paul Media Blitz Today (12/27/07), HQ finally in gear?
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MayTheRonBeWithYou
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Ron's biggest challenge now is name recognition, so the more the better.
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I live in the UK and I'm curious. Are there only three shows in America? It seems like Ron Paul is always on either Morning Joe, Tucker or Wolf Blitzer's show.... very occasionally he'll pop up on fox news for eight seconds while they make up some lie or other.
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Good point, it doesn't do much for his name recognition when he's on the same 3 shows over and over preaching to the same audience each time.
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Think about how your news treats the BNP. That is how our news treats people like Ron Paul.
With all of the recent press, RP will be hitting his 1st peak in just about a week. Just in time to win Iowa and NH. Then it's off to the races.
No one can figure out Ron Paul's sudden popularity after TV appearance
http://www.wiscnews.com/bnr/opinion/264039
No one can figure out Ron Paul's sudden popularity after TV appearance
http://www.wiscnews.com/bnr/opinion/264039
GOP candidate Ron Paul was on Meet the Press on Sunday. He explained his views that the income tax should be abolished, that U.S. troops should be brought home immediately from Iraq, and that Abraham Lincoln was a warmonger. The next morning Ron Paul jumped fourteen points in South Carolina and nobody in the press could figure out why.
fact or conjecture?
14 points? what poll is that?
He's joking about the South's view on the War of Northern Aggression.
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What? He stood his ground and gave those fools a free history lesson!
It's a great question. People get excited about these national appearances but every region has 'local news' that airs every night on, at least, each of the three big networks (cbs, nbc, abc). A lot of people watch their local news each night. This is really where you'd love to hear Ron Paul's name come up.
Yes, he gave them a good history lesson. But he is running for President, not History Professor. He should stick to current issues and SOLUTIONS, and just ignore the BS questions. If the interviewer wants a history lesson, he should tell them he'll have to give it to them some other time.
I agree. Ron Paul needs to redirect these interviewers and take control of the interview.
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A joke article. But a bit tongue in cheek. Anyone who believes this news reporting probably would fall for that old bit that South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union too.
Oh, wait...never mind.
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They need to invite him to appear. Anytime he is invited to Fox he just destroys the hosts. So they stop.
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I absolutely agree. Ron Paul should have nipped all of this in the bud by realizing that most of the media and the American public WAS NOT READY to hear that Lincoln was not "perfect" and he should have deflected that STUPID question by Russert. As it was Russert was only quoting someone else who was supposedly quoting Paul. If I were Paul, I would have said, "Tim, that is so irrelevant to today's issues, can we move on to something substantive?"
Now, in reality, you and I know that it is not completely irrelevant, but that it is an essential insight into Dr Paul's philosophy of peace, but PAUL should have realized that it would be taken completely wrong and it would be blown up in the media and that it would veer people away from the focus. So, he could have given a simpler answer and taken control of Russert instead of going on a long winded explanation of why Lincoln is wrong.
Paul is sincere and authentic, which does not jive well with the current political climate. He needs to get a little more savvy that way.
I am not saying he should change, but he should not be so gullible as to fall into traps like that.
