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The Right Wing Media is Censoring Ron Paul

Posted 9 months ago|30 comments|324 views
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Altruist
Eugene, OR
The media is censuring Ron Paul.

Ron Paul was only 150 votes behind Michelle Bachman yet no one in the media is talking about that. Bachman purchased her straw poll victory by buying and handing out 4,000 of the $30 tickets voters use to signal their preference. Ron Paul just has a dedicated following, so if the voting was fair he would have won. http://defglam.com/?p=41326

During the debates Ron Paul repeatedly made good points, for example he was met with thunderous applause when he suggested we get out of the wars and cut military spending. But the other candidates and the moderator rolled their eyes. In fact many polls indicate Paul won that debate. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...

Ron Paul is the only candidate whose clear libertarian views have not changed, (The rest of the candidates have flip flopped all over the place), and is in line with most of the Tea Party which is driving the Republican Party.

So why is Ron Paul being ignored by the media? http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-i...

Could it be that the media and the Republican Party regulars are all owned by the military industrial complex? Ron Paul is the only candidate that has consistently advocated cutting the military, and he has opposed the wars as the majority of American's do.
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9 months ago: What a trip. Right wing media. Someone is approaching forced commitment into the looney bin.
Colorado
Colorado
Westcliffe, CO
9 months ago: I really want ron paul to make it as a serouis canidit, he just does not have favor with media or the cash other republicans have. I really respect and support the man.
Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
9 months ago: Only 1% behind Bachman in Iowa...I think he may actually have a shot this time around. Bachman cannot maintain a serious campaign, just ask her some questions about the Constitution and she will collapse (she has never read it).
9 months ago: Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
9 months ago: btw, I haven't seen any military industrial complex protest marches in a while. You been to one lately Al?
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
9 months ago: The title of the Rant is very deceptive. It's not just the right wing media that's ignoring Paul, it's the liberal left wing that comprises most of the media outlets that is ignoring him too. It's common knowledge, and some media pundits simply refer to him as 'XXX' referring to a leader in an article that used XXXs instead of Paul's name. Colbert has had great fun with it. The reason he's being ignored is that he's not on board with the folks that put every president in office since Reagan.


But you are right, he's the ideal TEA Party candidate.
Brief Overview of Congressman Paul's Record

He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.
Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
9 months ago: The assertion that the majority of the media is liberal is a big load of you-know-what.

There are FAR more right wing media outlets than liberal media outlets.
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
9 months ago: The common perception is that the mainstream mass media is liberal. Accoding to the study done by a UCLA professor, "almost all major media outlets tilt to the left."

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Med...
Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
9 months ago: Define mainstream mass media please.

Newspapers tend to be fairly well distributed across the spectrum.

Broadcast (local) reporters tend to be Democratic, however there are numerous studies that show personal bias does not impact coverage (if it bleeds it leads).

Cable news is polarized to both ends between MSNBC on the far left and FoxNews on the far right...CNN is hopeless unless you are obsessed with twitter feeds and finding out where Hawaii is on a map.

News/Talk Radio...is so far to the right that FoxNews looks like the ACLU...

The UCLA study was is interesting, however it is limited in scope due to the comparison of news stories related to congressional speeches...we are talking about general news coverage with this post...not reaction coverage to speeches only. There are hundreds of studies that show News Coverage on broadcast television is driven almost exclusively by ratings (money) not personal bias.
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
9 months ago: Generally speaking, what you say is true. But specifically, as was outlined so dramatically in the last election, liberal candidates are presented far more favorably than conservatives. I would hazard a guess that at least 80% of the media's election coverage was pro-Obama.

Pew report

http://www.journalism.org/analysis_repor...
Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
9 months ago: That study is reviewing media coverage after the person took office, not during the campaign.


Again, feeding off ratings, Obama was hugely popular during his first 100 days in office. Media coverage reflected this.

Bush was mediocre...his coverage reflected this.

Its a pattern based on ratings. You cannot even begin to consider cable news when you talk about bias because they are DRAMATICALLY biased. Network coverage is where you need to look, and those are driven by ratings and what makes a good, viewer fetching story.
Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
9 months ago: Also, 80% of the coverage being positive for Obama does not indicate that only 20% was positive for McCain. McCain was running high for a while, but guess what, Sarah Palin's idiocy was a rating hit...so what do companies that make money on having people watch them do? They continued to go for the throat with Palin...she was wounded prey...they could smell it from miles away. It's hard to portray a women who cannot name a newspaper in a positive light.....
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
9 months ago: Oh yeah, Paul is the ideal liberal candidate too. He's for reducing the military, ending the wars, and minimizing the US's overall footprint worldwide. He is a man of consistent integrity and honesty. Well, ok, that might not fly with the progressives, but at least he wants to end the wars and reduce the military.
9 months ago: Right Wing Media... Isn't that an Oxy, moron?
9 months ago: I'm almost sorry...
I couldn't help myself !:]
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
9 months ago: No, none taken, lol. What a difference a single comma can make, huh?

Actually, the right wing has it's own propaganda machine that's just as bad as the left's. The Limbaugh show is one of the prime examples of a talking head saying whatever he is paid to say, regardless of how ridiculous it is. Hannity runs a close second, all pretense of fair and balanced gone out the window.

I'm not afraid to say these things, I never subscribed to the mindset of "If you ain't with us 100% then you must be agin us!!" I don't believe, as Limbaugh said consistently, that animals and nature in general will eventually come to love and thrive on oil spills. At least not nature as we now know it.

I also believe that with Bachman, the Repubes hope to gain a president that can be easily manipulated and/or intimidated, just the same as Obama. Another inexperienced, on-the-job training candidate.
9 months ago: BOX,

I was aiming at the author and you seemed to get caught in the cross-fire... eh, or in this case friendly fire !:]
Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
9 months ago: You're completely correct...there is no such thing as Right Wing media: Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and every talk radio station host are all pawns for the socialist left wing lunatics that want to take over the world and make it into a Muslim terror fest....
9 months ago: PH, Kudos to you, you have Al's back...

...and you got me... it is just that it is hard to get Al into any kind of banter, so every once and awhile I employ a cheap-shot, however unsubstantiated !:]
9 months ago: Al just seem to believe that the Democrats are simply not able to do any wrong... whereas everyone else is willing to see that both sides, left unchecked... can destroy a nation... faster than you can say Obama!
Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
9 months ago: I enjoy our little squabbles.

The Framers knew that people would always be driven by greed and personal interests, that is why our government at the federal level is, by design, inefficient.

I always find it interesting when people whine about the government not getting anything done...that's the point. If they could actually get stuff done we would be screwed living in either a Dictatorship or Liberal "utopia".

Checks and Balances are designed to make the system break to the point where only the absolutely necessary legislation can get through.
9 months ago: Hear that "futuristic" silence? It sounds like white noise.

Enjoy what is coming. It ain't Ron Paul.
Perfect Horizon
Perfect Horizon
Chicago, IL
9 months ago: I suppose you think that its going to be Bachman (See the poll today that showed that the average American finds the Tea Party less appealing than Atheists and Muslims????)?

Considering your previous statements over time I truly don't understand why you don't like Ron Paul.
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
9 months ago: Here's one of the left's most revered scholars, and the news source most of them trust. He just happens to be right on this one.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/...
Altruist
Altruist
Eugene, OR
9 months ago: All of the media is owned by international corporations most, like GE, are tied to the military. (Don't know how much Disney is tied to the military though). During the past few wars it has become obvious that the military controls all media. http://mediamatters.org/research/2008042...

Fox is ultra right wing, so by contrast the rest of the media which is conservative just looks liberal but it isn't.

We have to rely on comedians like Stewart and Colbert to get our news now.

The reason Red and the rest of the nation is not hearing about the continuing protests against the wars is that the entire media is ignoring them. If that doesn't show that the military Industrial Complex is controlling the media, which make the media right wing, what does? There have been 2,600 arrests of anti war protestors since 2009 but no one hears about them. Why? http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?...
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
9 months ago: Ultra Right Wing and Military Complex are not synonymous, remember that. Remember that the ultra right in the Republican Party were once Democrats, now Neocons. They didn't like the pacifist, permissive policies being implemented, so they moved over to the right and have effectively taken the party. And apparently, they are on both sides of the aisle now.

The media matters article will remain unread. I can't get my news from a source so obviously slanted.

1400 anti-war protesters arrested? That's a fairly trifling number for the purported 150 million people who are against the war. Where has our spirit gone?
9 months ago: 2,600 arrests?

Al. Remember that scene in Animal House when the frat is put on double secret probation and Belishi gets them all to start coughing and coughing out words of discrediation.

It's happening now.

While Bush was president, every sunday morning on the way to church there was a corner where a bunch of clowns held pickets saying "Bush Lied", or "No War On Iraq"... or "Peace loves sheep"... or whatever.

Ever since Obama became president and started a new war, those clowns are never there.....and I go to church.

So, give me a break Al. We know you liberals are everyone of you only parttime war protestors.

9 months ago: Your link on noone seeing the war protestors is interesting.

You reckon the media is not covering the war protestors because they are in Obama's hip pocket?

Huh?
9 months ago: Or Blacks in Detroit?
9 months ago: I'll ask again. Have you folks ever been to Clute, Lake Jackson or Freeport Texas. None of them are a bastion of your "Crock Pot" of America. They are all owned by Dow Chemical (Union Carbide as in Bhopal) and Union Workers. Just like your buddy. Ron.

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