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merrimac
02-07-2008, 07:23 PM
Ron Paul won Missoula County and the Montana Kaimin, which is based in Missoula, admitted that it deliberately censored Paul. Since I live in Missoula I took it upon myself to document this for anyone interested. On Super Tuesday, the Montana Kaimin had a contest which tells readers to predict who will win each state (notice how Ron Paul isn't a choice to win Montana or any other state for that matter).

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The only problem was Ron Paul won in Missoula County (and 10 other Montana counties)...

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Also on February 6th, the Kaimin received and printed this angry letter from a Ron Paul supporter...

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The following day the Kaimin issued an explanation on why they censored Paul...

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If you want to comment on this article it can be found online at...
http://www.montanakaimin.com/index.php/opinion/opinion_article/ron_paul_supporters_we_were_wrong/2238

Soccrmastr
02-07-2008, 07:30 PM
AWESOME! Hopefully we'll see letters like this coming from CNN after we win!

Rhys
02-07-2008, 08:28 PM
cool

TSOL
02-07-2008, 08:33 PM
Great job Merrimac !

And props to the paper for apologizing.

rg123
02-07-2008, 09:02 PM
That was great!

merrimac
02-07-2008, 10:27 PM
bump

Laja
02-07-2008, 10:29 PM
bump