{"id":15895,"date":"2011-08-19T04:30:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15895"},"modified":"2011-08-19T04:30:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T10:30:43","slug":"justin-raimondo-the-media-is-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15895","title":{"rendered":"Justin Raimondo: The Media Is the Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Media Is the Enemy
\nOf peace, liberty, and the truth<\/p>\n

by Justin Raimondo<\/a>, August 17, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ron Paul is getting more<\/a> publicity<\/a> out of not<\/a> getting<\/a> publicity<\/a> in the wake of his virtual tie<\/a> with Bachmann in the Ames poll than he\u2019s gotten to date. Suddenly everyone\u2019s noticing<\/a> the \u201cmainstream\u201d media is trying very<\/a><\/em> hard<\/a> not to notice the twelve-term Texas congressman and libertarian icon, despite his success in quadrupling<\/a> his previous Iowa showing and barely<\/a> being edged out by Bachmann. Jon Stewart\u2019s takedown<\/a> of the Ron Paul media blackout is devastating, and, for the most part, funny. Barring that crack about Paul being \u201cthe \u2018Patient Zero<\/a>\u2019 of the Tea Party\u201d \u2013 likening tea partiers to HIV-positives is offensive on so many levels, I don\u2019t know where to start \u2013 Stewart\u2019s critique of the anti-Paul bias in the mainstream media is 100 percent accurate. Roger Simon, writing in Politico<\/a>, found it \u201camazing\u201d and \u201cdisturbing\u201d that \u201cPaul almost wins the thing and he remains poison.\u201d<\/p>\n

To us long-time Paul-watchers, who have witnessed this media blackout in operation for years \u2013 and are way beyond being merely \u201cdisturbed\u201d by it \u2013 there is nothing in the least bit amazing about the media\u2019s hostility to Paul. The latest snub is merely a repetition of what has been the Party Line<\/a>, a line that \u2013 like Paul himself \u2013 crosses ideological boundaries, and Stewart\u2019s takedown \u2013 which spliced together footage of both CNN and Fox News anchors, wearing identical smirks, disdainfully dismissing Paul \u2013 showed this red media\/blue media united front in action.<\/p>\n

Click here to continue reading “The Media Is the Enemy” by Justin Raimondo<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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