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Ron Paul Cheated Again During CNN "Debate"Corporate media engages in mass public deception as Congressman receives just a third of the questions given to Romney and McCain Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Ron Paul was cheated for the umpteenth time last night, this time by CNN, as the corporate media once again engaged in mass public deception by advertising their spectacle as a "debate" when in fact it was nothing more than a staged punch and judy show.
CIA trainee Anderson Cooper directed just five questions at Congressman Paul as well as two half-questions, the answers to which he interrupted on both occasions.
In comparison, Mitt Romney fielded 17 questions and John McCain got 15, not including the time the two spent bickering with each other about their past statements.
Again, just as with the previous MSNBC debate and numerous others before it, Ron Paul was given less than a third of the questions as the other candidates.
The primary definition of a debate is, "A discussion, as of a public question in an assembly, involving opposing viewpoints."
Since Ron Paul is the only candidate expressing opposing viewpoints, the corporate media's deliberate ploy to relegate, marginalize and restrict his opportunities to speak amounts to overt public deception. These farces should not be referred to as debates because they are merely PR stunts that are conducted with a deep-seated bias towards the establishment candidates.
As we have repeatedly emphasized, this is how frontrunners are created, this is how the establishment promotes its own candidates at the expense of others. The only solution is to continue to strike at the root of America's corporate media monopoly by creating our own forms of media and eventually eclipsing their influence which, slowly but surely, is beginning to happen with the aid of the Internet.
Here's the breakdown of Paul's participation time courtesy of the Lew Rockwell blog.
Question 1 on the economy: 1:19 minutes
Question 4 on the environment: 0:41 minutes, because Anderson cut him short and assured him "2 minutes, in 2 minutes we have a question for you. I promise"
Question 5 on income tax rebates and "make work" schemes: 0:49 minutes
Question 11 on Sandra Day O'Conner: 0:09 minutes, I kid you not. Cut short by Anderson
Question 15* on McCain's "100 years in Iraq" statement: 1:39 minutes (only question directly asked to Dr. Paul)
Question 18* on how X would handle the military as commander in chief: 1:50 minutes
Question 19* on a Reagan endorsement: 0:46 minutes
The highlight of the night came when Ron Paul slammed the punch and judy spat between McCain and Romney over Iraq, both of whom fully support endless occupation, with the Senator making it clear this week that a McCain presidency would mean more wars.
Prison Planet conspiracy.......imagine that.
Have a good one!:s4:
doesn't much sound like a conspiracy to me...sounds like the utter truth of what's really going on...I'm definitely quite intelligent and I'm able to realize that ron paul has been excluded and pushed away from being able to actually be given at least close to an equal opportunity to questions...I think each candidate should be given the same amount of questions, with the same amount of time, so that the American public can actually judge who they want to vote for rather than the media instead judging which one they're going to hear from..Quote:
Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
You can't try to tell me that ron paul doesn't have enough supporters to qualify him to get treated equally..He has received more campaign cash from members of the military than has any other republican candidate, and his fund raising ability obviously goes to show that there are A LOT more people out there who like the idea of America being ran how it's written in American history rather than being ran and the constitution and laws being changed at the will of politicians..
I had absolutely no clue who the fuck ron paul was whatsoever a few months ago. I had seen very little about him on television, which is why I didn't bother to even think about registering to vote..Then I got on the internet and found out just who he was...A few days later I sent in my application registered as a republican so that I could vote for him in the state's primary election. Everything that ron paul says I may not agree with, but that doesn't mean that it's not true by any means. Now don't tell me that even if ron paul got just as much time that mccain and romney do, he wouldn't be popular, because I had absolutely no clue who he was until I got on the internet, a place they CAN'T sensor him. I will guarantee you if ron paul got the media coverage that the other candidates get, he would have so very many more people supporting him.
Go Ronnie GO!
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So how many questions did Huckabee have? Fact is that they aim for the frontrunners.Quote:
Originally Posted by Markass
Part of the reason why he's NOT taken serious by the media is because of the backing of sites like Prison Planet......pretty much a given after the question they posed regarding 9-11.
Have a good one!:s4:
All the candidates should be given equal time.
Here's how you give the candidates equal time at the debates: take turns in sequential order. How hard is that? The people in charge of the debates have no excuse what they did to Kucinich, Gravel, and what they are doing to Ron Paul. Huckabee and Edwards did not get enough time, but they were not excluded from the debates like Kucinich, Gravel, and Dr. Paul. Ralph Nader was excluded from the general election debates because he "wasn't a viable candidate" yet Democrats blamed him for losing the election because he "stole votes."
The way the media justifies how they give more time to the people they like is poor journalism. In their opinion x candidate is going to win, so z candidate will not get as much coverage, therefore people will not know as much about them, and will not get as many votes.
It's a self fulfilling prophecy.
A huge reason Ron Paul is so popular "on the internet" is because the internet is not controlled as much as TV. When was the last time you broadcast on cable access? I was in a really shitty cable access show back in the day, but now I have a Ron Paul video on youtube with over 40,000 views. Not to brag, but my point is that on the internet, people can take time, and find out the information they want.
They can control what they see, read, and the videos and shows they watch. With TV, all you can control is the channel selector, and the TV channel you are viewing is completely in control of the rest.
So many people I know from Libertarians, to Democrats, to Greens, and old diehard Republicans are voting for Ron Paul. My wife is registering to vote for the first time to vote for him.
Nader and Ron Paul both for legalization, both for the people, and against corporations influencing the government. The media successfully shut Nader down. They are trying to do the same to Ron Paul, but too many of their viewers know about him, are voting for him, and want to see him in the debates.
the frontrunners are created by how much media coverage they get, interviews, so on so forth...all they have to do is pretend like someone isn't there and people don't know about them..Quote:
Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
:detective1: I just believe you might be on to something here! I totally agree! :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Markass
Agree 100%Quote:
Originally Posted by Markass
Watching Ron Paul just makes me so bummed out. I really like him and his views and when I watch his videos or see him on the news I just get so frustrated that he doesn't have a chance.
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I wouldn't say that yet...the reason he doesn't have a chance is because not enough people have heard his message..if he continues in this race, I think the only thing that's going to happen is more and more people are going to be able to have the chance to listen to what he has to say and obviously when that happens, people are drawn to support him. $6 million dollars is one day! Tell me that people don't like his message?? I know there are plenty headstrong republicans that think we're going to be attacked if we're not at war with extremists, but plenty of other American's willing to realize that what this man is saying is actually the truth..Quote:
Originally Posted by rebgirl420
I agree completely. Unfortumately i'm afraid it may be too late, with the repubs picking a candidate faily soon and all.
It's a great loss for America....