The Media is Learning
Posted October 17th, 2007 by militant
The MSM is starting to get it, folks. This is most interesting - I didn't even read the article, the video here speaks for itself:
This is a good way to show that Ron Paul is not the only one who believes the things he says. Serious news coverage is starting to tip toward the Paulian worldview.
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My letter to Susan
Dear Susan:
Past days I served my country as a uniformed officer.
Some days I wake up and I am a small business person, ensuring property owners perform their due dilligence before acquisition.
Other days I wake up and I'm largely a nurseryman, tending to the plants I grow for sale.
And other days I'm a coach, guiding my daughter and her friends in a good game of soccer.
Most days, I wake up American.
But lately, I've questioned whether I want to stay American when I read such articles as yours.
What keeps me American is the hope that Dr. Ron Paul gives us, his stellar record in support of the U.S. Constitution, and his sound policies regarding the welfare of this country.
He even supports free speech. You may want to pay attention to that if you keep wanting to blabber such insult to the American people.
Sincerely,
Patrick C. Wilber
Gainesville, FL
My Letter to Susan...
You have support in "high places":
WSJ, please look around at the markets. The dollar is getting drilled, gold is printing new highs, crude is flirting with $90. Most of the professionals I work with believe we are already in a recession and a large percentage believe the Fed has lost control of inflation and potentially the financial system. Whatever Ron Paul’s fault, and I disagree with him on some things, he understands that there need to be fundamental changes to our country’s finances. I would expect the WSJ of all people to understand this and give Ron Paul a closer look. For the record, I am about as mainstream as a Wall Streeter can be, so please add “derivatives trader” to your list of kookie occupations.
Comment by Wall Street Trader - October 18, 2007 at 12:01 pm
My Letter to Susan...
Thanks!
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I posted a comment at the top of the digg with a youtube link of Ron Paul in the May debates saying the same thing.
Front page
Neat, it made the front page
Re: Wall Street Journal learning a lesson today
Here are my comments on the WSJ's hit piece on Ron Paul this morning:
"October 17, 2007, 5:14 pm
Ron Paul Lists Some Colorful Donors
Susan Davis reports on presidential fund-raising.
A circus clown, diet guru, exotic dancer, monetary architect and slacker in chief: These are some of the folks that help make Rep. Ron Paul’s presidential campaign the choice of individualistic voters."
Susan, I am very disappointed at your take on Paul’s donors. It looks very much like a mind lacking substance picking up on frivolous stuff. A political revolution of epic proportions is passing you by while you occupy yourself with peripheral matters. Why don’t your rather investigate the nature of the political contributions of the other candidates, and more importantly, what are they expecting in return for their largesse. Why are the other candidates willing to sell the Republic down the river for the sake of power and prestige? Now that’s worthy of the Wall Street Journal. Draw a distinction between Dr. Paul’s integrity and uncompromising behavior, compared to the slick-willies who are only too eager to suck up to special interests. The system is corrupt and you ought to investigate it. Earn yourself a Pulitzer in the process. Better still, cover the Paul campaign in depth and become part of history. Otherwise, you’ll be doomed to write history and wonder how you failed to pick up on the greatest political event of the past century.
Comment by Albert Meyer - October 18, 2007 at 9:09 am
Followed up by:
OK, Susan, I have already commented above, but money speaks. I have just called and canceled my weekly subscription, my Saturday subscription and my Barron’s subscription. I will send the refund to the Ron Paul campaign. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Comment by Albert Meyer - October 18, 2007 at 9:30 am
What Cyrano might have written to Susan
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Personally, I like the idea of being included with a circus clown, exotic dancer, monetary architect and slacker in chief. Had I replied, I would have quoted Cyrano de Bergerac:
Why, my dear Susan you are too simple! Why waste your opportunity! You could have listed a thousand marginalized, disenfranchised individuals! You might have included an artificial limb-fitter, ballerinas from the Belper Ballet Company, one-legged mimes, those who actually like molasses, unicycle riders, persons with acne who work at iHop or Popeye's, jockey's, roadies for Tom Petty, Alex Jones' manicurist, temps, bear hunters and people who have large noses. But no!
What is important is that Ron Paul attracts individuals who were never on any radar, anywhere. They were forgotten and overlooked. Now they are not, and this is a wonderful thing.
What Cyrano might have written to Susan
You should post this. I couldn't quote the whole article for copyright reasons.
Here is the link, although I am not sure whether non-subscribers can access it. If you can access it, you can also post; the more the merrier:
ttp://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/10/17/ron-paul-lists-some-colorful-donors/#comment-30950
Thanks for the tip
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Took your advice and pasted it in a comment box. Will it be read? Doesn't matter. It will get more traffic here. The thing, for me, is to keep it light and not get grumpy about it. To spin Susan's comments into positive attributes, which indeed they are.
As the press is realizing, it is not smart to criticize Dr. Paul's supporters. The CNBC folks got a bellyful.
Thanks for the tip
It got published! Thanks!
My point is if the WSJ were giving the Ron Paul the coverage he deserves, one could have excused this frivolous take. However, having written nothing of substance on his campaign to date, a piece like this is just another attempt at discouraging voters from taking him seriously. Rupert Murdoch now owns Fox and Dow Jones. This piece could have been written by Sean Hannity and it would not have surprised us. To the editor, publish a substantive piece on Ron Paul and then if you wish, trivialize his donors.
Too Little, Too Late.
We are gearing up for the war on Iran. Same rhetoric we were hearing before the invasion of Iraq is being said about Iran. They have built up Iran into such an evil place that people don't even listen to what Ahmadinejad is saying for fear their ears will burst into flames or something. We are ripe for the invasion if Iran now that the administration has trained everyone to automatically assume Iran is lying about everything.
We can say they are working on nuclear weapons to hand off to terrorists and everyone will believe this, because there is no real way to prove it one way or the other. Everyone that has actually gone and inspected their nuclear program says it is peaceful, but we know better, right?
They have already completed the first step of getting the American public to hate Iran and paint the picture that all of their citizens are living a life of oppression and fear. Now they are adding the next step of making us fear them by linking weapons in Iraq to Iran and promising us that they have proof that they are working on nuclear weapons (one step up from the WMD excuse used for Iraq).
Giuliani says he will guarantee a nuclear free Iran. "We saw what they can do with regular weapons. Imagine what they can do with nuclear weapons". What an idiot. Worse is that people actually eat this up. Pumping their fists in the air. Getting all psyched up at the prospect of sending more of our men and women to their deaths. It's sickening.
If you are of draft age, start watching for your selective service letters in the mail. I was thinking they would wait until right before the 2008 elections, but now I am thinking by the end of the year we will be seeing "Operation Iranian Patriot Anti-Nuke This-Is-Not-For-Oil Freedom".
I don't know how we can stop it, which is the frustrating part. We can write our congressmen, but I'm not sure they could do anything about it even if they wanted to. Bush said history will determine if the invasion of Iraq was good or bad. I'm hoping someday they try all of them for war crimes and he'll get his answer.
Support Ron Paul! There is NO other issue more important than our foreign policy right now.
The media is learning. but NOT Giuliani!
See the following video titled RUDIS FOUR HORSEMEN
http://ezraklein.typepad....
I'd actually like to see
The same analysis done with Ron Paul. See what people he surrounds himself with, I know the campaign team and obviously Lew Rockwell and others he's namedropped but I'd love to find out what people have a chance to hold top positions in his administration.
Personally I wasn't quite satisfied with the (very early) John Stossel call for Vice President ;) I know some here really like the guy for his documentaries, but I think he plays a little bit too loose with the facts.
right
bad stuff. how disturbing.