Ron Paul says his exclusion from last night’s debate on Fox “News” is an “awful embarrassment” for the Republican propaganda outlet.
The Republican Presidential candidate points out, during an interview this morning on CNN, that he received 10% of the vote in Iowa, where he finished well ahead of Rudy Giuliani — who was allowed to participate in the Fox debate — and that he’s beating him “2 to 1” currently in New Hampshire. As well, Paul points out that his campaign has “raised more money than any other Republican candidate in the last quarter.”
He also notes both the impossible and the obvious in a single sentence when he charges: “I think they’re making a mockery of the whole situation…because they’ve lost all credibility.”
Fox claims their criteria on deciding who would participate in the New Hampshire debate was based on who was receiving at least 10% in the national polls. RAW STORY has the story and video.
Paul supporters are seen in this video, chasing Fox “News” and ABC radio propagandist Sean Hannity down the street last night in New Hampshire, chanting “Fox News sucks” and yelling reminders to the Republican party mouthpiece that he is not, in fact, as his fans would otherwise claim, “a great American.”
Similarly, Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich was not allowed to participate in Sunday’s (capital “D”) Democratic debate on ABC. The Ohio Congressman is filing a complaint with the FCC, which points out, among other things, that the Disney-owned network is “violating its obligation to operate in the public interest,” and that he “is the only Democratic presidential candidate who has qualified for Federal matching funds who is being excluded by ABC.”
Meanwhile American democracy (small “d”) gently weeps.
LMAO! That was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Sean was crapping his pants with a whole army of RP supporters following him down the street screaming: “Fox News sucks!”
The faux news is now leader of the Maggot Scum Machine.
A small d just is not good enough. The word democracy is nothing more than a label that is not correctly used. I would call it a “democracy” since some still call it a democracy even though it very clearly is no such thing!
And now Chris Mathews is declaring democracy is dead, whether you spell it with a small or large d:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/C...feat_0108.html
Saw this over at wrhdotcom…
http://www.libertybroadcastnetw...cations_nh.htm
Count and see how many computers are being used to rig this vote in NH. Farking sad.
Is it true Fox News Is going to allow him to debate in SC?????
The Point of No Return
http://familyforest.wordpress.c.../16/the-point- of-no-return/
I was one of the Ron Paul supporters who chased Sean Hannity and chided Frank Luntz.
Don’t believe the AccuVote machines. I was canvassing the entire state for a solid month. Obama should have run away with it, and Ron’s only competition was Romney.
Also, don’t expect the results to change unless a disinterested outsider gets a hold of the ballots. The NH Attorney General isn’t going to be embarrassed.
How can one not think of conspiracy theories having just observed an improbably simultaneous media attack on Ron Paul the day of the New Hampshire primary? A remarkably successful attack that made him plunge from 14% in the polls to an 8% actual vote? After weeks where we heard little about Paul from the mass media and beltway “libertarian” bloggers? TNR from the left, Fox News and talk radio from the right, and piling on from beltway “libertarians” who made a point of loudly repeating the TNR smears and dumping Ron Paul on the day of the primary. Your eyes and ears did not deceive you, all this happened. It is not the result of a criminal conspiracy, but if one uses “conspiracy” as a metaphor for social networks of vast complexity, there is a strong sense in which conspiracy theories accurately, if metaphorically, explain what happened.
The reality behind the conspiratorial metaphor is the social networking between denizens of the Beltway, who sport a wide variety of political labels but are, relative to the rest of the country, a monoculture. I lived there. I went to these parties. These denizens range from the journalists who report the mass media news to various think tank and university scholars at the Cato Institute, George Mason University, and so on. They study Ayn Rand, then marry Andrea Mitchell and testify against tax cuts. Vast amounts of federal money, that stuff that is taken out of your paycheck with such automatic ease, flow into the Beltway area. Directly and indirectly, almost every person who lives in or near the Beltway depends on the very income tax that Ron Paul declared he would abolish — with no replacement!
Many of these paycheck vampires call themselves “libertarians” and inspire us with their libertarian rhetoric to support them with our attention, our blog hits, and our tuition money as well as the tax money that already funds them or their friends. But at the first sign of political incorrectness, all these below-the-Beltway “libertarians” have dumped Ron Paul like yesterday’s garbage. Now they can rest easy that they will still be invited to the parties thrown by their lobbyist and government employee and contractor friends, who for a second or two got worried by all those Google searches that Ron Paul might have some influence, resulting in some of them losing their jobs (end the income tax with no replacement?! The guy is obvioiusly a kook, and we don’t invite the supporters of kooks to our parties!). Now everybody around the Beltway can go back to partying at the taxpayer’s expense. All the money will keep flowing in, hooray!
The lesson millions of young libertarians have now learned from our mass media, including our beltway “libertarians”? Libertarian electioneering is futile. Voting is futile. Democracy is futile. Anybody who actually wants liberty is a kook, as can be proven by their association with kooks. Beltway wonks posing as “libertarians” are happy to write things to inflame your hopes for liberty that they don’t really mean. Then they make sure that we elect the politicians their friends want — the ones that will enslave your future to pay for full social security for Baby Boomers. The ones that will send you off to foreign lands to kill and die. Our Beltway “libertarians” are happy to sell a whole new generation of libertarians down the tubes in order to keep their Beltway friends happy.