The Ron Paul phenomenon
Ron Paul sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the candidates because he’s a real conservative and not a boot-licking, pro-torture, war-mongering, free-speech-hating neoconservative.
When Ron Paul suggested that international terrorism and 9/11 are a result of blowback from our 50 years of foreign intervention in the Middle East, Rudy Giuliani jumped at the opportunity to wrap himself in the “9/11 Hero” cloak. Giuliani claimed he had never heard that before, and it was absurd to say that terrorism and 9/11 are a result of our foreign policy. The crowd went wild.
Whoa! Does he honestly believe what he said? For a group of people who use the 9/11 Commission as the ultimate authority on what happened on 9/11, they should know that the conclusion of the commission was that it was blowback from our Middle East foreign policy. Well, never mind that. Who cares about the facts? This is Fox News and the Republican party we’re talking about. Directly following the debate was an immediate smear job and attack on Ron Paul for suggesting what a majority of Americans already know. Somehow, Ron Paul’s words soon became “America deserved it,” in the eyes of Fox News pundits, viewers and the Republican Party. So much for “We Report, You Decide.”
It gets even better. There is now a movement within the Republican Party to ban Ron Paul from Republican debates in the future. Wow! If this isn’t a clear picture of how the party and the media choose our candidates for us, then I don’t know what is.
Full article, by Jake Gaeta, published in the Eureka Reporter, May 22, 2007
When Ron Paul suggested that international terrorism and 9/11 are a result of blowback from our 50 years of foreign intervention in the Middle East, Rudy Giuliani jumped at the opportunity to wrap himself in the “9/11 Hero” cloak. Giuliani claimed he had never heard that before, and it was absurd to say that terrorism and 9/11 are a result of our foreign policy. The crowd went wild.
Whoa! Does he honestly believe what he said? For a group of people who use the 9/11 Commission as the ultimate authority on what happened on 9/11, they should know that the conclusion of the commission was that it was blowback from our Middle East foreign policy. Well, never mind that. Who cares about the facts? This is Fox News and the Republican party we’re talking about. Directly following the debate was an immediate smear job and attack on Ron Paul for suggesting what a majority of Americans already know. Somehow, Ron Paul’s words soon became “America deserved it,” in the eyes of Fox News pundits, viewers and the Republican Party. So much for “We Report, You Decide.”
It gets even better. There is now a movement within the Republican Party to ban Ron Paul from Republican debates in the future. Wow! If this isn’t a clear picture of how the party and the media choose our candidates for us, then I don’t know what is.
Full article, by Jake Gaeta, published in the Eureka Reporter, May 22, 2007
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