Thomas Mullen: The media just won't let up on Ron Paul

[Lucille]

The media just won't let up on Ron Paul

TAMPA, May 8, 2012 – It’s official. Ron Paul has won two states. He’s probably going to win more.

In response, most media outlets have chosen to ramp up their passive-aggressive attacks on Paul’s campaign.

Ever since he announced that he would seek the Republican nomination for president back in 2007, Ron Paul has been covered like no other major party candidate in U.S. history.

Let’s review:
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What other major party candidate in U.S. history has been covered this way?

Regardless of whether they agree with Ron Paul on the issues, even the minimally curious have to wonder why the media appears to be trying so hard, especially concerning someone they repeatedly assert has no chance. Whether Republican, Democrat, independent or disinterested, they should be asking the same question that I asked last week.

What about Ron Paul are the media so afraid of?

 

[shishka]

Awesome read. Hopefully others will pick up this stick and relay...

 

[Suzu]

My comment:

What they fear is losing their cushy jobs by not following orders from their owners who comprise a large chunk of the Military-Industrial Complex that Eisenhower so bravely warned us against in his farewell speech. Go ahead, look at the youtube video of that speech. Every word is true and what Ike feared has come to pass. Ron Paul simply wouldn't tow the line for these corrupt owners who have enough blood on their hands to fill the Great Lakes.

Please go give it a thumbs-up.

 

[Josalyn]

Bravo for this article!

 

[Tyler_Durden]

To answer the last question in the article:


Remember that?

 

[Thor]

Love this:

With all of the disclaimers that the media attach to coverage of Paul, it’s starting to take several minutes just to get to the actual “news” in the article.

“Libertarian gadfly Ron Paul, who continues his quixotic campaign for the Republican nomination despite not having won a single state (even though he’s won two and counting), and who cannot, never could and never will be able to win the nomination, who has many supporters who believe in fringe conspiracy theories but have nevertheless ‘hijacked’ the Republican state conventions in several states by ‘exploiting’ arcane rules governing the delegate selection process, but who still has only secured 80 delegates to the RNC despite the fact that we just told you that number is grossly understated because the people reporting it don’t know about the arcane rules, today announced…”

 

[NoOneButPaul]

To answer the last question in the article:


Remember that?

This is how Alex Jones and infowars distorts the truth and makes us all look bad for their own personal profit.

Infowars is the one that ran that story claiming that this person said 2/3 of the media members in the room will lose their jobs if Ron Paul is elected but the original article for this clip actually said that's a defense contractor talking and the people he's referring to are the members of the military sitting in the room (notice the entire discussion is about war, they're mostly defense people, and look at that... Obama was going to talk about DEFENSE...)

That article was a lie and now it's spread around like the truth to make it seem like that's why the media is against us.

The media isn't against us they are just super duper lazy and behind the times and months ago 95% of them didn't know this was how the delegate process worked. Now they do and it's gaining steam...

 

[Tyler_Durden]

This is how Alex Jones and infowars distorts the truth and makes us all look bad for their own personal profit.

Infowars is the one that ran that story claiming that this person said 2/3 of the media members in the room will lose their jobs if Ron Paul is elected but the original article for this clip actually said that's a defense contractor talking and the people he's referring to are the members of the military sitting in the room (notice the entire discussion is about war, they're mostly defense people, and look at that... Obama was going to talk about DEFENSE...)

That article was a lie and now it's spread around like the truth to make it seem like that's why the media is against us.

The media isn't against us they are just super duper lazy and behind the times and months ago 95% of them didn't know this was how the delegate process worked. Now they do and it's gaining steam...

Hmmm. That's interesting because I recall the day this happened, an RPF member saw it live, immediately posted a thread about it, recorded it and posted it here before Infowars/Alex Jones ever got close to touching it.

I don't recall the story being debunked. Source?

 

[KingNothing]

The media spins stories about Ron Paul negatively because that is the narrative those in The Party wish to create. As Paul has said time and time again, he represents change; change that will bring new priorities, new spending behaviors, and new bodies to power. He completely threatens to upturn the Republican Party's applecart. So they send out memos to the press telling their friends to belittle Paul, and they lean on people who rely on access for a paycheck to tell the story as they want it told.

 

[The Free Hornet]

The media isn't against us they are just super duper lazy and behind the times and months ago 95% of them didn't know this was how the delegate process worked. Now they do and it's gaining steam...

The media's bias has been documented by Pew research (3:1 and even 10:1 coverage disparities - when weighted against some measure of popularity like a phone poll). Also there is Google trends documented the blackout:

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=ron+paul,+romney&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=0
[The bottom chart is the media blackout, the people still care as evidenced in the top chart]

It was not laziness when Ron Paul was ignored for his statistical tie for first in Ames IA. They certainly weren't lazy when they served leftover BS stories of racism for Xmas days before Iowa.

Frankly, I don't know how anybody can read this site and believe what you wrote.

 

[specsaregood]

Infowars is the one that ran that story claiming that this person said 2/3 of the media members in the room will lose their jobs if Ron Paul is elected but the original article for this clip actually said that's a defense contractor talking and the people he's referring to are the members of the military sitting in the room (notice the entire discussion is about war, they're mostly defense people, and look at that... Obama was going to talk about DEFENSE...)

proof of debunking? thanks in advance.

 

[KingNothing]

proof of debunking? thanks in advance.

It being on infowars is debunking enough for me.

 

[specsaregood]

It being on infowars is debunking enough for me.

not for me, I remember when it happened. well before infowars had anything to say about it.

 

[KingNothing]

not for me, I remember when it happened. well before infowars had anything to say about it.

As do I, but when it happened we didn't know who was saying it -- we just made assumptions.

In retrospect, that was probably silly of us.