Mainstream Media Censors Ron Paul Victories
by James Buchanan
You would think a news story about an underdog candidate who suddenly pulls ahead of the field would automatically be the lead story on the news… or maybe the lead story in the political section… or at least appear as a story in the political section. Well, that sort of story would be a headline news event if our news media were impartial. The mainstream media in America is anything, but impartial. The mainstream media is joined at the hip with the neocons, who lied us into the Iraq War. The mainstream media wants a neocon candidate such as Giuliani, McCain or Fred Thompson to win the Republican primary and they will slant the news coverage to favor the neocons.
A candidate, who calls for an end to the Iraq War, warrantless wiretaps, torture, secret prisons and other neocon policies (as Ron Paul has done), won’t get any positive news coverage from the mainstream media.
Does Ron Paul really need the mainstream media? If Paul could get two landslide victories in Alabama and New Hampshire without mainstream media help, maybe he doesn’t need them. 85 percent of Americans regularly spend time on the Internet. It’s a different world now. People are finding out about Ron Paul DESPITE the mainstream media. When the media fails to report on Ron Paul and he becomes more successful anyway, they are demonstrating how irrelevant and mistrusted, they’ve become.
Sure, we all would like to see the evening news anchor announcing these recent successes, and we’d like all our relatives and friends (who aren’t 100 percent familiar with Ron Paul) to see him on the news. But this really is a Revolution. Revolutionaries always have to overcome obstacles that the mainstream candidates don’t face. But Revolutionaries have the people behind them. Unless the enemy resorts to massive voting machine fraud, their stuffed-shirt, neocon candidates will fall further and further behind Ron Paul.
Paul got 73% from moderate Republicans in New England and he got 81% among highly conservative Republicans in Alabama. He’s not only demonstrated huge popularity; he’s shown he can win almost anywhere.
For all the millions that Romney spent, Romney’s only majority in a straw poll was in Utah (the Mormon state).
If the mainstream media wants to pretend that the people voting in New Hampshire and Alabama were somehow “unrepresentative” of normal Republicans, then fine. We’ll just keep pushing and waking people up and we’ll start getting majorities in larger straw polls in bigger states.