Turn onto CNN. They just mentioned Ron Paul and the Iowa forum!

[dspectre]

I didn't watch this because I don't have a TV.


But I really wouldn't lose sleep over it. Did they have any facts to back up what they are doing? It just sounds like a Hit Piece.

Really people, if there are over 10,000 of us supporting RP, all it takes is a handful to make us look rude. I mean can we control all 10,000 people? That is just totally unrealistic, and people who believe this don't really understand the culture of the internet.

 

[angelatc]

Did I just here Anderson Cooper say that Barack Obama is the ONLY presidential candidate to release his earmark requests?

Im certain I read Ron Pauls requests earlier this week.

Anderson Cooper is a liar.

Ron Paul's office didn't have to discuss it and get back to the staffers about it. They said "Yes" and sent it when asked the first time.

Here are the people who originally did the report: .....staffers Amanda Sealy and Todd Schwarzschild and interns Rachel Zelkowitz, William Hudson, Rachel Reynolds, Chamise Jones, Haley Van Dyck and Brittany Edney contributed to this report.

I am going to try emaling them to see if we can get Anderson Cooper to retract that statement, using firstname.lastname @ cnn . com and if they bounce I am going to write them a letter. Some of you more outgoing people might even try calling them at the Atlanta Office.

The interns are the future of journalism.

 

[Dary]

Not one representative of Ron Paul, Ron Paul’s campaign or supporter of Ron Paul called Failor at his home and made threatening comments.

Not one.

Anyone who would do such a thing stands in direct contradiction to what Ron Paul believes in and. therefore cannot be a supporter.

Don’t let the enemy spin this to make us look bad.

There may have been threatening calls made to Failor and his family.

But not one of them came from a Ron Paul supporter.

 

[belian78]

it's sad to say but...

it very well could have been overzealous noobs to RP that were inappropriately encouraged by others that called the home numbers. i can atest to the fact that the MySpace RP group has been completely hijacked. The MOD has completely abandoned the group, and they do nothing but spin their tires talking about completely useless topics. when something like this happens there are people that promote some less than savory tactics. Myself, and a few others try to keep that to a minimum, but with no MOD it's a losing battle.

Although I agree that in the long run this isnt going to hurt us too much, especially when myself and however many others are standing out front of this Forum on the 30th.

 

[Bossobass]

They should put Failor and his 'RP isn't a credible candidate' story on Jerry Springer.

This guy thinks he can go into every living room in America and tell 300 million people that Congressman-Doctor-Author-Republican candidate for POTUS Ron Paul has 'no credibility', but whine about a few comments (that probably aren't very far off base, IMO) that he alleges.

I wanna hear these messages and decide for myself. Short of that, I personally believe N-O-T-H-I-N-G that Ed has to say. In the meanhwile, you reap what you sow. Ed should inquire with his Christian Alliance compadres where that proverb is concerned.

I wish we could play a tape of the Drug War and Patriot Act Storm Troopers busting down an innocent American citizen's door, without a search warrant, based on erroneous information from a drug dealer that included the wrong address.

Ed would probably enjoy that video and the nice, polite things the SS would do and say to the innocent victims involved.

I say call every number available and say whatever you feel like saying. I may disagree with your language, but I certainly understand the reaction that's no more than a defense of RP when you consider how stacked the deck really is in this election process and what's at stake in the end result.

Bosso

 

[Spatch67]

gave Ron Paul a hilarious and wonderful segment on The Thursday night Colbert Report. It showed people all over the world cheering for Ron Paul after his appearance on the Colbert Report June 13.

I would imagine that anyone who is open to new ideas and might likely sway are intelligent voters, the ones who have have figured out that John Stewart and Stephen Colbert are way less full of shit than 99% of the asses that CNN, MSNBC, and FAUX news puts on.

 

[jd603]

CNN has been incredibly anti-ron-paul , ever since their last debate , I think cafferty would like to do another show with Ron in it, but I think there's a been a call from management to do otherwise, unless of course it can have a NEGATIVE spin.

CNN is as bad a FOXNEWS with how they've handled Ron Paul.

 

[beermotor]

First of all, if he's going to have a breakdown like 60% vs. 40%... what was he doing, counting the calls and making a checklist as they came in?? "Hey honey, looks like we got another nasty one. Make another tic mark in the 'a-hole' column!"

He's obviously exaggerating, or outright lying. However, calling someone at their home is unnecessary and clearly - you can't deny this since the evidence is now in our face - it serves only to hurt us in the short term and maybe the long term too. Then again, I agree, we're left now to prove a negative. If he's going to make that claim, he should've recorded some of them. So for now, until I hear or read at least ONE of these alleged nasty calls, I'm claiming it's a b.s. sympathy ploy. Ed Failor knows he's in a bind. His organization may now lose their tax exempt status, and his desire to exclude Ron Paul in an effort to sideline him, has completely blown up in his face.

At this point, can anyone honestly deny that it would actually be better for Ron Paul to NOT be invited, or to not go if he is invited? This thing, I imagine, has done wonders for galvanizing Paul's supporters, and made him more popular at the same time. Ron Paul absolutely needs to stage his own forum, right outside their doors on the very same day. It would be huge. Tell Ed Failure and his lot to stuff it, we don't need your cruddy forum. In my opinion, a man like Ed doesn't deserve to be in the same room as Ron Paul.

I have a good friend, his last name is Segreto. We (my buddies and I) began to call his outlandish statistical assertions "Segrestics" ... and "segrestical reasoning" ...

Clearly Ed Failor is engaging in segrestics.

 

[angelatc]

This is my biggest objection to descending at the Jun 30th debate, and it's why I'm not going to attend. The RP supporters are passionate. It won't take much to make a couple of them go off, giving the media a couple of clips portraying his supporters as raving, hostile lunatics.

I've seen this a hundred times. When I was a kid, I went to an anti-war protest. There were all kinds of people there, and lots of them were wearing suits and ties. Lots more were Moms pushing strollers. When I got home, the news only showed the "dirty hippies" smoking joints and waving angry signs filled with profanity.

Ron Paul would be better off if his supporters arranged a Meet Up at an alternate venue that day and invited the press there.

 

[jd603]

Nah, the media will always find something to spin... his passionate supporters are what will help drive this campaign and has already led to some interviews etc. I don't see intelligent passionate supporters for anyone elses campaign right now, not this early on... that alone says something.

If he gains enough support, money and attention, eventually the media will have no choice but to change their tune. I hope he makes it to that turning point soon...


Oh and calling Failure's home was wrong, people SHOULD try to refrain from doing that sort of thing, but I'm sure Eddy blew it way out of proportion on purpose to hand the media a big negative spin.