Did anyone watch Leno last night (9/13/11)? In his opening act, he was preparing a joke on the Republican Debate, which would turn out to be focused on Rick Perry. However, he managed to get a shot in a Ron Paul too. Here is how is happened:

Jay was describing the candidates in the debate, and named them as (not verbatim as I cannot remember all the names used, but here is the gist) the pizza guy, the crazy lady, the crazy guy, and the even crazier guy (which was Ron Paul's picture), and others...

Now, as I said above, this joke was not even directed at Ron Paul...it turned out to be a joke on Perry stating that he could not be bought for $5000. So, why did the media feel the need to deem Ron as the even crazier guy?

It is truly unfortunate, the power that the media has over the people. I wonder how many Americans will that that 1 second jab at Ron Paul, internalize it, and make it their own view - without researching candidates on their own?

Speaking with first hand knowledge, I remember a few years back when I first heard of Ron Paul, and some people I knew where supporting him, I fell victim to this. I remember thinking that he had no shot and was, for lack of a better term, "crazy." So, I brushed him off. Being on ATS has made me realize the way things work, in terms of the media, and I am happy to say that I have done my homework and do not trust 1% of what the media tells me.

Let's just hope that one day, every American Citizen can say that too.

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Crazy, Ron Paul is crazy ? I'd take him over Obama any day, crazy just might be our candidate.

By the standards of Washington, he is crazy. He believes in small government and keeping out of peoples private affairs. Not to mention that wacky idea of abiding by the Constitution.

Two things. First any press is good press. The more Ron Paul's name gets out the better. Second, if we played monopoly with someone and they were the banker and got to loan money to the people we were playing against for zero interest we might get pissed off. If when he ran out of money to give away he started writing in a book IOU's and gave out more - doubling and tripling the supply of money we might walk away from the game completely. To think that was unfair and manipulative is what everyone is calling crazy. WE are crazy because supposedly that's the way the world works, its always worked that way. Without them giving money to people at no interest and 'inflating' the supply of money the world would come to a grinding halt - don't you know that?

First off the media is owned...and the people who own the media finance the Romney, Perry's who look well, speak well and distort the facts. Problem is the majority of Americans have fell for this trick many times over...Wolfy boy clearly controlled the (tea party) debate, boy was that weird, as usual ask planned questions for destruction. Now, Ron Paul was asked about 9-11 attack and Afghanistan..When he replied he should have said....."First, let me say this. Osama and the Taliban are former employee's of the American CIA. We funded them for our on purpose to push out Russia. After we where finished with them, we chose to place them on the side and took advantage of what they did for us..Now, they are defending what they died for and we(USA)want the ground/resources they have.
Now, while we (TPTB) are focused on world control, Rome (USA) is collapsing..by design....Get your food, bullets and shelter to defend yourself..it is just around the corner.

I could actually see such a label being used to his advantage. If you take the constant insanity of our current govenment and leaders as normal, then you would have to be crazy to consider alternative actions. He'd just need to bring up a few legitimate points of the current idiocy of our government, and follow it up with sarcastic confirmation of his "insanity". An easy hit would be to bring up the cost of the current wars in dollars and lives, followed by his sentiment on ending the wars as a debt crisis necessity. He'd really have unlimited ammo to work with by embracing the label and using it to his advantage. Three girls dead and others hospitalized by his competitions Gardasil legislature, now thats crazy!

I don't watch Leno anymore, only Conan.. what I find odd is he almost never mentions Paul.. just Perry, and Bachman, sometimes Romney. Why? Conan is aimed at a younger audience, so why would he rarely mention Paul, while Jay who I think, has an older audience would make fun of him?