More Paul Paranoia
Tom DiLorenzo, at the Lew Rockwell blog:
"It was OK for the MSM (main-stream media) to cover Ron Paul's campaign as long as there was no voting taking place. After all, they have to have SOMETHING to talk and write about, and all the other candidates sing the same old boring tune. But once the voting started there has indeed been a complete MSM blackout."
Google News, as of a minute ago -- I have snipped out the "non-MSM" hits):
Results 1 - 10 of about 25,822 for ron-Paul:
* Plugged In
Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA - 8 minutes ago
* Ron Paul: GOP Rivals are Fake Conservatives
KXMC, ND - 12 minutes ago
* Technical Risks of the US Protect America Act
Slashdot - 13 minutes ago
* Joel Connelly: You can get anything you want . . . with Ron Paul
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 15 minutes ago
* Republicans Near Caucus Participation Goal
WMTW, ME - 21 minutes ago
* McCain, Clinton Top National Poll
AHN - 42 minutes ago
Ron Paul (R-TX) with 5 percent, and Alan Keyes with 1 percent. Three percent of voters surveyed said they supported other candidates while 8 percent said ...
* We're Gonna Need Plenty Of Popcorn
Tampa Tribune, FL - 43 minutes ago
* Early vote opens in White House sweeps
Hope Star, AR - 45 minutes ago
... former US senator Fred Thompson (who withdrew from the race Tuesday), former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Texas Congressman Ron Paul. ...
* Republicans near caucus participation goal
Boston Globe, United States - 51 minutes ago
Ron Paul was in Maine on Monday,
* It’s all or nothing in Florida GOP race
MSNBC - 2 hours ago
“I thought all of them were good; I don’t have a serious problem with any of them – except maybe Ron Paul” whose position on the Iraq war Westbrook ...
* McCain, Romney Make Last-Minute Appeals in Fla.
Washington Post, United States - 2 hours ago
Ron Paul of Texas.
* Illinois Survey Finds Obama, McCain Ahead
AHN - 2 hours ago
Ron Paul (R-TX) received 7 percent...
* GOP hopefuls dark in Super Tuesday states
CNN Political Ticker - 3 hours ago
And Ron Paul has purchased airtime in Hawaii, which votes February 19, and his home state of Texas, which weighs in March 4.
* Arlo backs Paul
Austin American-Statesman, TX - 3 hours ago
... Singer-Songwriter Arlo Guthrie” as it says in the headline on the announcement from the campaign) is backing Republican Ron Paul for president. ...
* Slashdot Founder Questions Crowd’s Wisdom
New York Times, United States - 3 hours ago
“A lot of these community news sites are all about Ron Paul,” he said. “Ron Paul may be a valid candidate. But what that is really demonstrating is that you ..."
In short, Google finds 15 MSM stories covering Paul in the last three hours, including stories from CNN, The NY Times, The Washington Post, and MSNBC. In the last week, 25,819 stories mentioned Paul, including 257 from CBS, 38 from ABC, 45 from NBC, 113 from CNN, and 83 from Fox News. Wow, for staging a "complete blackout," the MSM is doing a pretty lousy job of it!
DiLorenzo says, "It will be interesting to see how much longer it takes the internet to break up this monopolistic political conspiracy."
I don't know the answer to that, but I can assert that it only takes it a few minutes to break up nutty political conspiracy theories!
"It was OK for the MSM (main-stream media) to cover Ron Paul's campaign as long as there was no voting taking place. After all, they have to have SOMETHING to talk and write about, and all the other candidates sing the same old boring tune. But once the voting started there has indeed been a complete MSM blackout."
Google News, as of a minute ago -- I have snipped out the "non-MSM" hits):
Results 1 - 10 of about 25,822 for ron-Paul:
* Plugged In
Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA - 8 minutes ago
* Ron Paul: GOP Rivals are Fake Conservatives
KXMC, ND - 12 minutes ago
* Technical Risks of the US Protect America Act
Slashdot - 13 minutes ago
* Joel Connelly: You can get anything you want . . . with Ron Paul
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 15 minutes ago
* Republicans Near Caucus Participation Goal
WMTW, ME - 21 minutes ago
* McCain, Clinton Top National Poll
AHN - 42 minutes ago
Ron Paul (R-TX) with 5 percent, and Alan Keyes with 1 percent. Three percent of voters surveyed said they supported other candidates while 8 percent said ...
* We're Gonna Need Plenty Of Popcorn
Tampa Tribune, FL - 43 minutes ago
* Early vote opens in White House sweeps
Hope Star, AR - 45 minutes ago
... former US senator Fred Thompson (who withdrew from the race Tuesday), former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Texas Congressman Ron Paul. ...
* Republicans near caucus participation goal
Boston Globe, United States - 51 minutes ago
Ron Paul was in Maine on Monday,
* It’s all or nothing in Florida GOP race
MSNBC - 2 hours ago
“I thought all of them were good; I don’t have a serious problem with any of them – except maybe Ron Paul” whose position on the Iraq war Westbrook ...
* McCain, Romney Make Last-Minute Appeals in Fla.
Washington Post, United States - 2 hours ago
Ron Paul of Texas.
* Illinois Survey Finds Obama, McCain Ahead
AHN - 2 hours ago
Ron Paul (R-TX) received 7 percent...
* GOP hopefuls dark in Super Tuesday states
CNN Political Ticker - 3 hours ago
And Ron Paul has purchased airtime in Hawaii, which votes February 19, and his home state of Texas, which weighs in March 4.
* Arlo backs Paul
Austin American-Statesman, TX - 3 hours ago
... Singer-Songwriter Arlo Guthrie” as it says in the headline on the announcement from the campaign) is backing Republican Ron Paul for president. ...
* Slashdot Founder Questions Crowd’s Wisdom
New York Times, United States - 3 hours ago
“A lot of these community news sites are all about Ron Paul,” he said. “Ron Paul may be a valid candidate. But what that is really demonstrating is that you ..."
In short, Google finds 15 MSM stories covering Paul in the last three hours, including stories from CNN, The NY Times, The Washington Post, and MSNBC. In the last week, 25,819 stories mentioned Paul, including 257 from CBS, 38 from ABC, 45 from NBC, 113 from CNN, and 83 from Fox News. Wow, for staging a "complete blackout," the MSM is doing a pretty lousy job of it!
DiLorenzo says, "It will be interesting to see how much longer it takes the internet to break up this monopolistic political conspiracy."
I don't know the answer to that, but I can assert that it only takes it a few minutes to break up nutty political conspiracy theories!
I noticed that "blackout" claim too and thought it was pretty specious. I know they don't talk about him as much as they should given the fact that his stances on the issues are much better than the rest of those clowns, but the MSM don't realize that. All they know is he was never likely to win, so they don't cover him. The "complete blackout" stuff is nonsense and DiLorenzo should know that.
ReplyDeleteDid DiLorenzo forget about Tucker Carlson on MSNBC? He seems to interview Ron Paul every chance he gets, and certainly mentions him often. Maybe he hasn't since the primaries began, I don't know, but Fox is the only TV station that blatantly avoids or covers up Ron Paul news.