alt.politics.republicans

In message news:fqlprg01rkm@, Cardinal Chunder is alleged
to have said:

> James Of Tucson wrote:
>> On Mar 4, 8:14 am, jazzerci...@ (-) wrote:
>>> /articles/54052
>>>
>>> Media´s Deafening Silence and Ron Paul´s Candidacy
>>
>>
>> Paul's candidacy lacks sufficient mass appeal. There is no conspiracy
>> against him, rather, the media reflects the fact that Paul has not
>> appealed to a broad base of voters. It's not that people don't know he
>> was running, but that people have not supported him in the kind of
>> numbers needed to make a credible bid for President.
>
> Ron Paul supporters were boasting about their campaign funding, about
> how they hired a blimp etc. It's up to them to raise the profile of
> their candidate, not up to the media.

Consider these occurences from just one week in December 07 (. BEFORE A
SINGLE VOTE HAD BEEN CAST):

- The Washington Post excluded Ron Paul from its series on "the front
runners", despite Paul setting two fundraising records in back-to-back
months.

- Politico excluded Ron Paul from its series on the candidates.

- The Des Moines Register excluded Ron Paul from its series of candidate
analyses.

- MSNBC and Newsweek omitted Ron Paul's results (ahead of McCain) from its
reporting on its own Iowa poll.

- CNN/YouTube limited Ron Paul's questions to a "conspiracy theory" one and
a "3rd-party run" one.

- ABC refused to air its John Stossel interview with Ron Paul.

> Clearly he isn't as popular as the lunatic fringe would like.

Ah, so failing to find fault with the candidate you attempt vainly to smear
those who would vote for him. Your pathetic attempts at insult amuse me.

> If he were
> he would have garnered more of the vote, and in turn the media would
> have taken more notice of him.

Wrong. It is the media's obligation to cover all candidates equally. That
is blatantly not what happened, and it takes less than a third-grade
education to clearly demonstrate that this was a deliberate and coordinated
blackout (just as most media actions are deliberate and coordinated -
remember when all media suddenly learned the word "gravitas" or the term
"red meat"?).