Why Ron Paul Doesn't Have a Chance

[CoderGuy]

Jon Stewart sums it up very well in his latest monolog. It's very irritating that the media control who gets elected, should be a law against that type of thing.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mo...--the-top-tier

[truthwolf1]

I really thought things were somewhat legit until not so long ago.
The mass citizens are clearly being steered in a direction which in essence is brainwashing.

Let's do THIS so the public thinks THAT and we still have our CONTROL

[CoderGuy]

Looks like the story is making the rounds, this is good.

Is Ron Paul the victim of a media blackout? The Republican congressman and 2012 presidential candidate was shut out of the Sunday public affairs shows this past weekend despite his neck-and-neck second place finish to tea party favorite Michele Bachmann in Saturday's Ames, Iowa straw poll. He was likewise excluded from most of the second-day newspaper headlines about the preliminary political contest, leaving some news watchers to question whether Paul is receiving unfair treatment from the mainstream press.
"Ron Paul just got shafted," Politico's Roger Simon wrote on Monday. "Why didn't Paul get the same credit for his organizational abilities as Bachmann did for hers?"
"This pretending Ron Paul doesn't exist for some reason has been going on for weeks," said "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart in a segment Monday night that skewered coverage of the libertarian-leaning candidate. "How did Ron Paul become the thirteenth floor in a hotel? ... Even when the media does remember Ron Paul, it's only to reassure themselves that there's no need to remember Ron Paul."

Paul's spokesman, Jesse Benton, told the congressional newspaper The Hill Monday night: "It is a travesty that Dr. Paul was ignored after his near statistical tie and historic vote total. However, in our view, the networks could quickly and easily rectify this situation by having him on the coming week."
In an e-mail to The Cutline, Benton said the campaign had "seen an increase in media attention because so many American's have been outraged, and rightly so, by Dr. Paul's dismissive treatment. Citizens from across the country have been reaching out and demanding that the media cover Dr. Paul. And it is helping."
It's a bit early in the week for the networks to have lined up their guests for their Sunday shows. But Paul got some airtime on Fox News Tuesday afternoon, appearing on "America Live" with Megyn Kelly, and on CNN Monday night, sitting in with Piers Morgan. (He has appeared frequently on both Fox News and CNN since entering the race in May.)
As for MSNBC, "We have a standing request into the Paul campaign for the candidate or a surrogate," a spokesman for the network told The Cutline. "A surrogate was booked on Monday, but backed out. We were told that Paul was not available."
Betsy Fischer, executive producer of "Meet the Press," said in an interview with The Cutline that Paul declined an invitation to appear on the post-straw-poll edition of the show when it was extended to him three weeks before the event. Will another invitation be extended in the future? "We have no invitation pending, but we certainly wouldn't rule it out," Fischer said.
Likewise, "We look forward to having him on 'This Week' in the future," said Heather Riley, a spokeswoman for ABC News. A spokeswoman for CBS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Some commentators, meanwhile, are dubious about the notion that Ron Paul is somehow "getting screwed," as Salon's Steve Kornacki put it, by the news media.
"Those who believe Paul is getting a raw deal seem to assume that there should be a direct relationship between a candidate's straw poll performance and the level of media attention that candidate receives as a result," Kornacki writes. "The problem is that the straw poll isn't really about the literal order of finish. It means different things to different candidates for different reasons."
He continues: "The experience of 2008 demonstrated that it's very easy to exaggerate the breadth of Paul's support -- and that his views (particularly on foreign policy) are so far outside the GOP mainstream that the party establishment will go to great lengths to make sure it doesn't expand beyond his base. That still seems to be the case today."
Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune agrees.
"In short, no, he will never be president of the United States and no, he is not a plausible contender for the GOP nomination, so those who are covering the campaign don't feel obliged to pretend otherwise," Zorn writes.
For Paul's part, he doesn't seem to be letting the lack of coverage slow him down. When asked by Politico's Simon about the "media blackout," Paul replied: "It did disturb me, but it was not a total surprise. The result at Ames was significant; it might well have propelled us to the top tier. The media cannot change that."
In this afternoon's Fox News appearance, Kelly asked Paul flat out if he feels as if the media is ignoring him.
"Sure. Yeah, they are and we need to ask them why," he replied. "I mean, what are they afraid of? We're doing well, we're certainly in the top tier, we did well in Iowa and we have a good organization, we can raise money. But they don't want to discuss my views because I think they're frightened by us challenging the status quo ... because my views are quite different than the other candidates', so they would just as soon us not get the coverage the others are getting and they will concentrate on establishment-type politicians."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/...190149609.html

[jaysalti]

Anyone who followed debates from the previous election knew this was coming. Fox placated his supports by keeping him on the airwaves leading up to this cycle. In the end, I believe he does not run with the intention of winning. I believe he KNOWS his exposure will be nullified by MSM and uses that as an advantage to energize the support base.

Americans will never give up the govt teet, and when it's gone anyway, you will see scores of the same talking heads and politicians singing the same song as Paul as if it has always been their position, but with no mention of his name.

[clint404]

I was livid!

Bachman had a petting zoo, randy tavis, and bought $180k in voting tickets for people. She can buy the vote in iowa but she can't by it nation wide. This is the kind of attention paul needs tho.

RP2012

[snusjus]

The problem with Ron Paul is the fact he's an actual conservative. Contemporary Republicans utilize the federal government and increase spending just like Democrats. Fox News wouldn't want a REAL conservative running the country; that would be blasphemy!

[jaysalti]

The problem with Ron Paul is the fact he's an actual conservative. Contemporary Republicans utilize the federal government and increase spending just like Democrats. Fox News wouldn't want a REAL conservative running the country; that would be blasphemy!

Wurd

[Bigblue1]

Way to be Stewart! Oh and as far as the title of the thread, I think it's totally wrong. Especially after Stewart devoting a monologue to the travesty that is the main stream media. He was totally right about these establishment republicans co-opting his message and the way that these pundits think it's some big inside joke to make fun of him in plain sight. What they don't realize is that it just enlivens and energizes his base even more, not to mention it makes them look like the deranged mentally ill sociopaths that they are.....

[EricHill78]

I'm watching CNN headline news right now and they are reporting something that is way more important than the Ron Paul Campaign.

An 11 year old was declared mayor for the day and decided to name a street in her town "Justin Bieber way". Which the town actually did.

Is this what is more is more important to our country?

[CoderGuy]

Way to be Stewart! Oh and as far as the title of the thread, I think it's totally wrong. Especially after Stewart devoting a monologue to the travesty that is the main stream media. He was totally right about these establishment republicans co-opting his message and the way that these pundits think it's some big inside joke to make fun of him in plain sight. What they don't realize is that it just enlivens and energizes his base even more, not to mention it makes them look like the deranged mentally ill sociopaths that they are.....

Unfortunately his base isn't big enough or main stream enough. I stand by the title as I don't think he has a chance, and the main stream media is the reason.