If you didn’t, I’m not surprised. The media has done a great job of pretending he’s not in the race anymore, even while he polls in the top three.
He’s consistent, he’s on point, he sticks to the constitution, and he’s been right, repeatedly. He’s also wildly popular, but you wouldn’t know that from watching the news.
Why is that? What is the popular media afraid of?
I’m not saying that I think he should be President of the United States, but the press does no one a service by pretending he does not exist. He brings valuable insight to the discussion and the public debate, and he’s doing his part to move our country in the direction it needs to go.
Think I’m making it up? Read this from the Pew Center for Excellence in Journalism:
According to the study released on October 17, Congressman Paul has received the least amount of coverage of all the major Republican Presidential candidates, appearing in just two percent of news stories on major media, despite his consistent respectable performance in most public opinion polls. Congressman Paul is currently placing third in both Iowa and New Hampshire in the most recent polls.
That’s more than a little odd. That’s blatant media bias against one candidate.
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The media ignores Ron Paul and keeps trying to resurrect Jon Huntsman. Sounds a lot like me . . . Maybe my real calling was journalism. 🙂
Ha! Very nicely put. How do you explain it? One group of people thinking they know better than a second group what’s good for the second group better than the second group knows themselves?
Well said Daniel.
They’re afraid of him getting rid of the rackets of war and of the Federal Reserve. Too many in power like the corrupt systems we have in place.
I don’t know. I have a hard time, based on those members of the media I know personally, supporting such a simplistic and cynical view. I think there’s got to be more to it than that.
I thought about this a little last night, and I think that the fact that he’s always been assumed to be such a fringe candidate — consistently, for going 5 years now — probably has something to do with it. Now, all of a sudden, he’s polling high(er) in the middle of the race, and the media just can’t break the habit of writing him off.