Has Fox News Excluded Ron Paul?, page 2
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reply posted on 30-12-2007 @ 11:47 PM by spacedoubt
oops! LOL

Better check your source again.
It has been updated!!!
www.nolanchart.com...

Here is the update:

Fergus Cullen, chairman of the New Hampshire State Republican Committee, confirmed Sunday evening to the Tribune that, yes, there will be a televised Fox News presidential candidate forum on Jan. 6, and yes, Rep. Ron Paul was not invited when the other candidates were a week or so ago.
"My understanding is that five candidates to that point had been offered spots but the event is still coming together," Cullen said.


Don't you love politics?
Especially this New Media, versus Old media game?

I haven't been this interested in politics since I first Switched to the Republican party, years, and years ago.

Now, we have an ACTUAL Republican Running..And the Other Neo-con candidates just can't stand it.
It's a beautiful thing!


reply posted on 1-1-2008 @ 01:56 AM by AlienS
reply to post by RRconservative



The WorldNetDaily article got updated as well.


Contrary to earlier reports, the Fox News Channel is hosting a Republican presidential candidate forum in New Hampshire, and, so far, Rep. Ron Paul has not been invited.



Last night, Paul spokesman Jesse Benton told the Chicago Tribune's Jason George the campaign remains angry and in the dark.

"We have not heard anything else today," he said. "[Fox] continues to ignore our calls."

WorldNetDaily

Perhaps this summed it up best:
Originally posted by RRconservative
Misinformation on the Internet? You got to be kidding me?



If I remember correctly, the last debate Ron Paul got excluded from was the tax reform one. And he ended up having an event on the same day in the same place and ended up attracting twice as many people as the debate did.

[edit on 1-1-2008 by AlienS]



reply posted on 2-1-2008 @ 08:03 AM by jtma508
reply to post by jsobecky


And there is the catch-22. For the entire campaign the MSM has excluded Dr. Paul, marginalized his campaign and given him only minimila coverage. At present he is beating Ghouliani in IA yet Mr. Sleaze is considered by FOX et al as a 'major' candidate yet Dr. Paul is not. Had Dr. Paul received any reasonable amount of MSM coverage these many months you can be sure his poll numbers would reflect it. It is, in fact, the MSM who decides who is a major player and who is not. Not us. No more than you decide what is 'in-fashion' and what is not.

I'm a RP supporter. But I'd be pissed if any candidate was treated this way. It just underscores how fatally flawed this entire system is. It proves that it is impossible for any truly new voice to get a reasonable shot. You have to be on the MSM's leash.

That said I'll bve voting Ron Paul even if I have to wrtite him in. I'll also be voting against every sitting Congressperson I can. In this election and every future one until they start representing The People for a change.


reply posted on 2-1-2008 @ 01:29 PM by jsobecky
reply to post by jtma508


Originally posted by jtma508
reply to post by jsobecky


And there is the catch-22. For the entire campaign the MSM has excluded Dr. Paul, marginalized his campaign and given him only minimila coverage. At present he is beating Ghouliani in IA yet Mr. Sleaze is considered by FOX et al as a 'major' candidate yet Dr. Paul is not. Had Dr. Paul received any reasonable amount of MSM coverage these many months you can be sure his poll numbers would reflect it. It is, in fact, the MSM who decides who is a major player and who is not. Not us. No more than you decide what is 'in-fashion' and what is not.

Hasn't he been part of the previous debates? I know I've seen him interviewed 1 on 1 on Fox, CNN, and others. Glenn Beck did an entire hour with him recently.

A regional candidate must spend money to gain recognition. I've heard RP is good at raising funds; perhaps now is the time to start spending some of it.


That being said, the criteria for inclusion was:

The network said it had limited space in its studio -- a souped-up bus -- and that it invited candidates who had received double-digit support in recent polls.


Has RP received double-digit support in recent polls?


reply posted on 2-1-2008 @ 02:46 PM by jtma508
reply to post by jsobecky


Why yes he has. But it depends on which polls they choose to use. ABC themselves recently reported that he was at 11% in IA.

And as far as earlier debates go, check some of the sites that actually monitor the debates and press coverage. You'll be flored when you see how little debate time Ron Paul got relative to the 'major' candidates. I realize there have been some MSM appearances but a tiny fraction compared to the 'front runners'.

Watch the news on any major network toniught. They'll show poll numbers but only for the other candidates. Dr. Paul is nearly always omitted. How can he be expected to rise in the polls when the MSM never shows him? And they nearly always refer to him as a 'Libertarian' candidate. Last I looked he was a sitting, 10-term Republican Congressman.

It's not just this "debate". This marginalization has been going on continually since the beginning.


reply posted on 6-1-2008 @ 10:45 AM by JacKatMtn
reply to post by jsobecky



I wonder if this is a face-saving move by the GOP, while I welcome them distancing themselves from FOX trying to choose a candidate for New Hampshire, I don't see much GOP support for Paul anyway.

I just want more time to see and hear what Paul has to say, especially when the field is narrowed by VOTERS not by the MEDIA.

It would be very important for Paul to continue to be seen by a national audience should he eventually run as an Independent later this year.
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