How to Get Around a Treasonous Press Where Ron Paul is Concerned

Vatic Note:  The reason this is up is not because we support Ron Paul per se, rather because the public has as much a right to know his true positions on subjects that affect them  as any other candidate and the press is deeply preventing that, so this is our way to get around it.  This is a good article on those positions from a leftist "alternative" paper, which is being objective as to this mans integrity, regardless of his politics.  If the system is working and you have a man of integrity in the office, then his policies he prefers won't matter, since Congress would be the place to go to stop something you would like stopped.  He would not be an imperial President as others have done.  Do we know that for sure?  No, he has not been President, but do we know why he would not,  if true?  He has stated he would do no Executive orders or signing statements to get around the Constitutional authority the congress has to make laws and to approve laws submitted by the President.  No, because the press won't ask him any questions much less the hard ones.  Nor will they analyze his voting record for the 30 years he has been in office.  Why not?  What is it they do not want us to know??? That he might be a man of consistancy and integrity as his record in congress for 30 years would show???   He is not a professional politician, rather a baby doctor, and does this work in Congress out of love for his people.  How do I know that?  I STUDIED HIS VOTING RECORD and it confirms those facts. Now if the press would do their job, others would have known that too along with his free medical services he provided as a baby doctor, to his constituents who were poor, including minorities. Did you know that?  No, the press did not pursue that nor his positions and history on such acts of charity. 

The owners of the MSM, do not  want a man of integrity in the White House, so they tell the press not to do their job.. and fire any that do the real job of journalism, but then that is the way the press owners wrote it up in protocol 12 about 100 years ago.  That is treason.  Their job is to act as the fourth column for the nation without bias and they are not performing that function at all. Rather acting as the propoganda machine for a foreign nation on domestic soil and that is high treason.  So, this is the only way to get information out to you about this man so you can decide for yourself.   Our job is not to play politics, but to give you both sides when the press is neglecting its responsibility to do so.   We are making up for that and would ask that you get this around everywhere since its the right thing to do.   Let the chips fall where they may, but at least then the American public will have been exposed to him as a viable candidate even if it is only through the alternative press.  More and more people are turning to the internet to get their news and that is why its important for us to act responsible where the MSM is not. 

I don't believe anyone realizes just how many of the sheep are seriously waking up and the polls reflect it despite the MSM ignoring of the candidate.  This is beginning to smell like another "GOP candidate is the designated loser" like McCain was last time who had no grassroots support,  and Obama is the "designated winner" because he did such a damn fine job for the foreign controllers of our nation, he works for.  Further, he has a double so he is critical to the bogus appearance of a religious figure as a resurrected figure and thus sheparding in the NEW WORLD ORDER RELIGION.....  Ron Paul can't do that!  He has not had brain surgery nor a twin with brain surgery, so that leaves him out as well as the other GOP candidates..  Just keep that in mind when its time to vote and everyone on the left knows it too.    Obama is not his own man.  He never will be either because they control him with hardwiring in the brain.  I actually feel compassion for anyone who has been hardwired.   That means the person he was is gone and probably never to return and those that did that should be hung for their crimes against humanity for such an act of perversion.   THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS WHO WE GO AFTER.  THIS IS YOUR "NEW WORLD ORDER".... HOW DO YOU LIKE IT SO FAR???  Perversion after perversion with truly mentally ill people.  Seriously.  They won't end up in Prison but in some mental institution run by a state.  I think Louisiana sounds just fine to me.

Reason and Rationality in Public Debate: The Case of Ron Paul
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/29/reason-and-rationality-in-public-debate-the-case-of-ron-paul/
By Jim Fetzer, Veterans Today, October 29, 2011

EXCERPT:     
Thomas Jefferson was once asked if he would prefer a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, to which he replied that he would prefer the latter. But Jefferson was not contemplating a time in which newspapers would be controlled by governments or by corporations, which is the situation that we confront today.

It has become increasingly difficult to sort out information we are given that is true from information we are given that is false. And that is especially true when editors and reporters can slant the news using a variety of techniques familiar to students of logic and critical thinking but not to the average American, including the straw man (by exaggerating a position to make it easier to attack), special pleading (by citing only the evidence that supports your point of view), and the appeal to authority (by citing sources that are authoritative on one subject as experts on another), which can be illustrated relative to news about the candidacy of Ron Paul and, subsequently, the debate about Libya, where differences that have emerged here may be better understood without prejudging who is right and who is wrong.

The Coverage of Ron Paul                                      

Perhaps the most egregious illustration of special pleading of my lifetime—apart from the bias the press has displayed in relation to 9/11 and JFK (on which I am planning to publish a complementary column)—has been the shameless suppression of information about the candidacy of Ron Paul for the GOP presidential nomination. He has won straw poll after straw poll, in California, in Ohio, at the Conservative Political Action Conference held in Louisiana and at the Value Voters Summit held in Virginia; he has raised millions of dollars in funding, second only to Mitt Romney and Rick Perry; and he has won run-away polling victories in relation to the GOP debates. (VN:  What makes this so interesting, is that Mitt Romney is so well off he can use his own money and Perry is supported as the designated loser by the bankers, so, like McCain they are providing the money for his campaign, while Ron Paul is truly grassroots fund raising and thus its an even bigger story that the MSM will not cover).

On 11 October 2011, he won the Value Voters Summit poll 37% to 23% for Herman Cain, where Tony Perkins of the Family Research Counsel, which sponsored the event, repudiated his own poll and declared Cain as the one who had attained the real victory. On 24 October 2011, Ron Paul won the Ohio straw poll, 54% to 26% for Herman Cain and just 9% for Romney.

After a GOP presidential debate held on 22 September 2011, FOX NEWS published poll results showing that Ron Paul had won with 30% trailed by Romney with 27%, Perry with 15%, and Cain with 9%. Even Russia Today reported “Fox Freaks after Ron Paul Wins Debate” by taking down the poll results after Ron Paul took the lead. RT even quoted Ralph Nader, whom most of us have long admired, who said that, in his opinion, Paul was the most appealing of the GOP candidates and offered the following reasons:

“He wants to get out of these wars overseas, he wants to bring the soldiers back, he wants to cut the bloated military budget, he wants to change some of the anti-civil liberty provisions in the Patriot Act, he hates corporate welfare and all these bailouts of Wall Street crooks,” said Nader. “He ought to get more attention, instead of ten times more attention being given to Michele Bachmann.”

The Debate Poll
Perhaps the most astounding result of all followed the Republican debate held at the Reagan Library, where msnbc published the following results:

Since this poll occurred following the Republican debate on 7 September, I infer that, by 22 September, when Fox pulled its results, the corporations that control the media had determined that it was better to publish no poll results at all than to publish poll results that massively favored Ron Paul.
Some might contend that Ron Paul was even featured on “Meet the Press” on 23 October 2011 as part of a series that featured the GOP candidates. His exclusion would have been too blatant a form of bias for any American to miss, so they included him.

As I watched the program on that Sunday, I was not the least surprised by the direct and pointed fashion in which Ron Paul answered the questions that were posed by David Gregory, even one that was loaded about student loans. I was equally unsurprised when his explanation of why he would phase them out was the only answer that was featured in articles in the Wisconsin State Journal (24 October 2011, A13) which led to a letter (28 October 2011, A13) of complaint about that move, but which was accompanied by another objecting about the near-compete media blackout.

Notice how this technique combines special pleading with the straw man, where his proposals to end these wars of aggression, bring our troops home, close our bases abroad, cut defense spending, abolish the FED, restore civil liberties, and end crony capitalism are just too much for the major corporations who control the media to tolerate. They do not even publish the Constitutional reasons he would end student loans, which may not be a plank we all want to support but deserves a fair explanation.

So if there are any lingering doubts about whether we in the United States have a free press, they are decisively refuted by this example, where the media are combining the suppression of information about Ron Paul with special pleading by only publicizing positions of his that they believe will diminish his support, which betrays the principles upon which this country was founded. Thomas Jefferson would not have been pleased.

Jim Fetzer, a former Marine Corps officer, is McKnight Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

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