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adam1mc
03-30-2008, 07:49 PM
I'm looking for some of the stories or articles or blogs where any of the Old Media giants called Ron Paul crazy, kooky, lunatic or any other derogatory term. Anyone have any of those off hand?

Cowlesy
03-30-2008, 07:52 PM
Bill Kristol calling him a crackpot - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyN6xWSNGBk

humanic
03-30-2008, 07:58 PM
TIME MAGAZINE
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1724358,00.html

"In some ways, Paul is a throwback to the frugal and isolationist wing of the old Republican Party"

"Paul's leave-us-alone libertarianism hasn't fit in with a party anxious to read our e-mail, improve our values, assert American power abroad and subsidize friendly industries at home"

"That's why Paul was the one getting booed at G.O.P. debates."

"And that's one reason why Paul's fervent followers were banned from the activist Republican website RedState... In fairness, though, another reason RedState's directors got tired of the Paulistas was that so many of them seemed — what's the polite word? — nuts."

"Paul's supporters aren't all black-helicopter paranoiacs, but the black-helicopter paranoiacs sure do support Ron Paul"

"But he is an extremist — partly in the Barry Goldwater extremism-in-defense-of-liberty-is-no-vice sense of the word, but also in the wacky let's-relitigate-the-currency-debates-of-the-1820s sense of the word"

"Still, even if you set aside Paul's kookier ideas, there just doesn't seem to be a road to the White House for any candidate who opposes the war in Iraq as well as higher taxes, the war on drugs as well as higher spending, restrictions on privacy as well as restrictions on guns. That's a real "freedom agenda," a true assault on big government, and while it clearly spoke to some angry dudes with high-speed web connections and time on their hands, it's just as clearly not where America stands today"

adam1mc
03-30-2008, 08:10 PM
TIME MAGAZINE
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1724358,00.html

"In some ways, Paul is a throwback to the frugal and isolationist wing of the old Republican Party"

"Paul's leave-us-alone libertarianism hasn't fit in with a party anxious to read our e-mail, improve our values, assert American power abroad and subsidize friendly industries at home"

"That's why Paul was the one getting booed at G.O.P. debates."

"And that's one reason why Paul's fervent followers were banned from the activist Republican website RedState... In fairness, though, another reason RedState's directors got tired of the Paulistas was that so many of them seemed — what's the polite word? — nuts."

"Paul's supporters aren't all black-helicopter paranoiacs, but the black-helicopter paranoiacs sure do support Ron Paul"

"But he is an extremist — partly in the Barry Goldwater extremism-in-defense-of-liberty-is-no-vice sense of the word, but also in the wacky let's-relitigate-the-currency-debates-of-the-1820s sense of the word"

"Still, even if you set aside Paul's kookier ideas, there just doesn't seem to be a road to the White House for any candidate who opposes the war in Iraq as well as higher taxes, the war on drugs as well as higher spending, restrictions on privacy as well as restrictions on guns. That's a real "freedom agenda," a true assault on big government, and while it clearly spoke to some angry dudes with high-speed web connections and time on their hands, it's just as clearly not where America stands today"

Thanks... I'm still looking for pre-January articles... anyone remember anything specific? I've been chatting with someone who said the media didn't disrespect Paul.. they only disrespected his supporters..

humanic
03-30-2008, 08:12 PM
Here's a compilation of media disrespect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVyMPWowpN8

adam1mc
03-30-2008, 09:53 PM
Where did we pick up on the terms 'kook' and 'crazy' if we can't find any documented references to the media actually using these terms?

mczerone
03-30-2008, 10:56 PM
My favorite example (and I've often bought it up) was from the (Dearborn Michigan, I think) Debate, when a member of the focus group on FoxNews called Paul "certifiably insane", which served as a perfect excuse for Hannity to repeat the phrase at least 3 times after the debate.

I don't have a link to a youTube, but I'm there's one if you are a good searcher there.

mczerone
03-30-2008, 11:03 PM
And Another Favorite, often repeated phrase: Quixotic (http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&ned=us&q=Ron+Paul+Quixotic&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&sugg=d&as_ldate=2007&as_hdate=2007&lnav=d0b&ldrange=1990,2005).

The link goes to Google news results for 2007 alone, searching "Ron Paul Quixotic", giving 37 (thirty seven!) results.

How, before any campaigning, polling, or actual voting, did the authors of these 37 articles know he was just chasing windmills? Our outcome hadn't been written to make the comparison to coming up empty.

"Ron Paul Kook" gets 387 articles in 2007.
"Ron Paul Longshot" gets 535 in 2007.

Is it just me, or do the results seem to be pre-ordained somehow?

Anti Federalist
03-30-2008, 11:04 PM
Glenn Beck calling us "domestic enemies" and David Horowitz calling us "terrorists".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8M2JBIoqo&feature=related

Anti Federalist
03-30-2008, 11:06 PM
My favorite example (and I've often bought it up) was from the (Dearborn Michigan, I think) Debate, when a member of the focus group on FoxNews called Paul "certifiably insane", which served as a perfect excuse for Hannity to repeat the phrase at least 3 times after the debate.

I don't have a link to a youTube, but I'm there's one if you are a good searcher there.

A "Fuck You" Frank Luntz out-of-focus group.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3FC_c0Xfqo

Feelgood
03-30-2008, 11:44 PM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=R7JPvbVsDdY

http://youtube.com/watch?v=q-ywngi3i-0

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bFYqtDL50AM