Fox Smearing Ron Paul
By laglen
@laglen (19759)
United States
February 17, 2011 8:36am CST
Fox News's Bill Hemmer caught in the act. Interviewing Paul after winning the CPAC straw Poll, again. Hemmer asked Paul why he was booed after showing a clip from the previous year. In fact, not only was Paul not booed but he was cheered heartily.
Do you think this is an honest mistake of switching last years video with this years? Wouldnt Hemmer have had to know that he wasnt booed this year? Do you think this is in support of Romney? Will the GOP EVER learn that the people WANT Ron Paul?
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/54029/fox-news-caught-smearing-ron-paul/
Also at this years CPAC, Trump tried to give the low down by saying that Ron Paul is unelectable. WTF? Was somebody asleep in 2008? He raised the most funds and had the hardest time getting any air time. Caucuses were closed early when it was obvious that Paul was winning.
This is why I would/will never give a penny to the GOP. I would rather send my donation straight to Paul's campaign myself!
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@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
17 Feb 11
The status quo republicans are scared you know what less over Ron Paul and his popularity. He is not controlable and he will not follow "party lines". Also he will call his own out on their BS. THey don't like that. So they will do anything they can to stop him. It happened in the last election too.
I hope he runs again. If you want to donate to Ron Paul do it through HIS website. Not the RNC. Teams are already getting together to have "money bombs" like they did in the last election. You can find info about it on facebook and C4L website. They are hoping if enough money is brought in he will go ahead and announce he will run. GOd I hope he does. I volunteered on his last campaign and I will sign back up to volunteer again in a minute if he decides to run again.
He is the only one with any common sense in Washington in my humble opinion.
I can tell you some really nasty stories of things the republicans did (some illegal) to try and keep Ron Paul out of the media spotlight and out of the lsat election. Not rumors. Things I saw first hand. And you are right about them stoping caususes when they saw he had a lot of support and even kicking out delegates if they found out that person supported Ron Paul. His name is still a dirty word within the republican party. Go to your local RNC monthly meeting and say you support him.....see how welcome you are. You will be shown the door very quickly and told NOT to come back.
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@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
19 Feb 11
Yep happened all over the place in the caucuses. It does not make the news so most people don't know how nasty those meeting went or how under handed the RNC got.
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@hofferp (4734)
• United States
17 Feb 11
We disagree on this one... I'm not a Ron Paul supporter. I think some (not all, I like many of them) of his views are extreme and may not be the right course for our Nation. On the other hand, I want him to run. And I want the R party establishment to stop the nonsense and let him participate fully. But I'd have to agree with Trump, even if he participates fully, no R establishment b.s., I don't think he'd win the R nomination. And if he did win the R nomination, he wouldn't win the general election because many of the I's who've moved away from Obama in 2010 would move back to Obama in 2012, rather than move with Paul to the far right. I don't know if any one in the Republican field is strong enough to beat Obama...and that scares me. I'm still hoping we haven't seen the whole field...
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@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
17 Feb 11
Paul is not "far right". Ther press and RNC have done a great job of conviencing people of it but he isn't. He reaches across the isle and works with the dems a lot. He has worked on bills with some of the blue dogs. Don't believe the hype.He is not "extreme". That is just a fearmongering RNC smear jobs.
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@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
17 Feb 11
Well I respect your opinion. But I think you are wrong. He has a lot of support. The press does not like to report on it. But he does. He IS popular. He does make sense. If he will run there are lot of average citizens that are willing and even eager to help him get elected.
Who says we can't get rid of them? Why are they "here to stay"? If they are dragging our country down why just sit back and say hey we can't do anything about it and just sit back watch the downward spiral. He can fix it and if given the chance he will.This country can't stay viable and continue to spend like there is no tomorrow. We can't keep letting the government improach on our liberties and stay the land of the free and home of the brave.
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@hofferp (4734)
• United States
17 Feb 11
I agree with you...I'd like to get rid of a bunch of stuff, we can't continue to spend like there's no tomorrow, we can't keep letting the government run rough shod on our liberties... I also agree Ron Paul is popular and has a lot of supporters. I just don't think there's enough support for him to beat Obama. So, I want a candidate that can beat Obama and stop the progressive movement in its tracks...at least for a little while. I'd like a candidate that would start to "reverse" what the progressive movement has done over the past century, but that's going to take political courage (many don't have)...and time. Can you see us "reversing" Medicaid, SS, Medicare, etc.? Talk about one h*ll of a battle! We can't even undo Health Care...
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@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
17 Feb 11
Yeah, I saw that. I was very disappointed. I expect that kind of garbage form the likes of MSNBC, but I thought Fox News would actually show him more respect than that.
I've always said that anyone giving money to the DNC or RNC are a bunch of lemmings who don't think for themselves. By giving that money they are basically saying they blindly agree with everything and anything the party does and supports each and every candidate the party supports.
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@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
17 Feb 11
I caught that too. Un frikkin real. Hemmer ran a "correction" this morning on it. He said it was simply an error and they had the wrong clip cued. Nice try though hemmer....FAIL. If it was the wrong clip, why was it even cued up to begin with since it was a year old? Why was the entire story you did using the clip based on the contents of the old clip (all the booing) if it was just a case of the wrong clip being cued?
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@dark_joev (3034)
• United States
18 Feb 11
Ron Paul should run as A libertarian. so that the GOP gets a taste of not winning and so do the Democrats and now after hearing Trump say he can't win I am already choosing him in 2012.
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@dark_joev (3034)
• United States
19 Feb 11
Oh no he is serious about running I mean really if I had to pick him or Sarah I would pick him. Trump doesn't joke about these kind of things he isn't much with a sense of humor type of guy he is more straight forward and when he says he is going to do something he is going to do it.
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