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May 12, 2007 at 17:00:26

MEDIA BLACKOUT BOOSTS PAUL CAMPAIGN

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- Post-debate online polls will either be avoided altogether, or will be skillfully rigged.

It is fairly clear that big media is not pursuing its current tactics out of self interest. Actually reporting fairly about the Ron Paul phenomenon would give them credibility, ratings, viewers, and profits they have heretofore not seen. The fact that they avoid these benefits points to the possibility that they have an agenda.

The interests whom the big media serve will not give up without a fight. They will pull out all stops in their desperate attempt to put the tiger they now find themselves riding back to sleep - but this tiger isn’t just awake. It is pissed off, and it won’t sleep again before its current would-be controllers have an opportunity to interact with its digestive juices.

Big media, beware.

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Alex Wallenwein, J.D., is a former attorney in Houston, Texas, and a grass-roots activist for the rule of law and American liberty. He organizes the Houston 4 Ron Paul 2008 Meetup.

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I am a libertarian activist and writer. I believe in a free market, complete civil liberties and a non-interventionist foreign policy. We do not have anything like this at this time. I am a firece opponent of the Bush administration. Please see my web page.
Alice LillieI am a libertarian activist and writer. I believe in a free market, complete civil liberties and a non-interventionist foreign policy. We do not have anything like this at this time. I am a firece opponent of the Bush administration. Please see my web page.

Reason for Blackout

The real reason why the media blacks out the likes of Paul and Libertarian candidates is because the media is in the establishment's pocket.

It's a racket.

We do need to fight on. Paul is doing fine work, and making real waves, as the author points out. Thank goodness.

I wrote a major essay on what is going on in government, part of the same racket. Please check it out at http://www.alicelillieandher.blogspot.com

by Alice Lillie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 52 comments) on Sunday, May 13, 2007 at 11:25:37 AM

Alex Wallenwein, J.D., is a former attorney in Houston, Texas, and a grass-roots activist for the rule of law and American liberty. He organizes the Houston 4 Ron Paul 2008 Meetup.
Alex WallenweinAlex Wallenwein, J.D., is a former attorney in Houston, Texas, and a grass-roots activist for the rule of law and American liberty. He organizes the Houston 4 Ron Paul 2008 Meetup.

Thank God

"Thank God" is exactly right. He is still with us because apparently there are still enough people in this country who believe in individual Liberty (which is Freedom with responsibility to God and others, as compared to license, which is freedom without any responsibility).

God's hand in all this is apparent to those who are open to him. The rest really have no effect on the outcome. They are merely part of the background before which this rather spiritual drama is unfolding.

If this country is to be saved, it will be because there is a large enough remnant of believers with real spiritual discernment. Those are never fooled by big government schemes, even if they are perpetrated in the name of "Christianity", "God", or whatever.

by Alex Wallenwein (17 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 15 comments) on Sunday, May 13, 2007 at 6:22:04 PM

Musician and writer, who has lived and worked on all the continents and whose articles on media have been published in China, Italy, England and the US, and now resides in New York City.
Jay JansonMusician and writer, who has lived and worked on all the continents and whose articles on media have been published in China, Italy, England and the US, and now resides in New York City.

How about pushing for a Paul/Kucinich ticket of national rec

How about pushing for a Paul/Kucinich ticket of national reconciliation? Could the author please write up this idea.
Appreciatively, Jay Janson
Never mind whether it is realistic or feasable.
Just talking it up could thrill a lot of people into citizen participation.
And boost support for both of them.
It is so logical. Two men so honest and therefore so similar.
j

by Jay Janson (74 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 87 comments) on Sunday, May 13, 2007 at 10:39:50 PM