Title: Jon Stewart: Media 'Pretending Ron Paul Doesn't Exist' In GOP Race (VIDEO) Source:
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Jon Stewart: Media 'Pretending Ron Paul Doesn't Exist' In GOP Race (VIDEO)
On Monday night's "Daily Show" Jon Stewart picked up where he left off on Thursday with the Iowa Straw Poll, this time having the results to mock. With Tea Partier Michele Bachmann taking the win, Texas Governor Rick Perry joining the race and Minnesota's Tim Pawlenty dropping out, Stewart had his plate full.
But the person he spent the most time talking about is the one GOP presidential candidate almost no one's talking about: Libertarian/Republican Ron Paul. Stewart wonders why the media doesn't seem to be acknowledging that he's even in the race, despite his doing well in recent polls.
As Stewart shows with a slew of clips, the GOP's current "Top Tier" candidates depend on which network you're watching, but for the most part contain Mitt Romney, Bachmann and Perry. A few pundits even said not to count out John Huntsman or Rick Santorum -- but hardly anyone mentions Ron Paul.
"Rick Santorum? He didn't get half of what Ron Paul got. He lost to the guy who lost so bad he dropped out of the race!" Stewart said. According to Jon the media has been "Pretending Ron Paul doesn't exist" for weeks now. Watch the full segment below to see how he's become the "13th Floor" of candidates, how Fox News treats him like a crazy uncle, and how the media's exclusion of him doesn't seem to jive with the people's opinion.
Jon Stewart is the best media critic out there right now. At some point you can't see this as anything other than self censorship. There is a prevailing ideology in the network media and they are linked somehow. It kind of freaks you out if you think on it too long. Compared to the way the USA censors information, it makes the USSR seem like barely literate amateurs because the USSR censored clumsily and without deft while in the USA the censorship is invisible and all pervasive.
With the economy still in the dumper -- maybe permanently? -- and full-time jobs becoming as scarce as rain during a drought, huge percentages of Americans have had their (misplaced) faith in the American dream shaken, the upper-middle-class consumerist lifestyle is exposed as a mirage for anybody who plays by the rules. Capitalism and the America that embraced it as a way of life is now and forever more a failure. It does me good to know that the generation that voted in Reagan and his ideology will see their America die from that ideology before their very own eyes and knowing they had a hand in its destruction.
I mean, how do you co ordinate NOT mentioning someone...ever.
See Stalin and Trotsky.
With the economy still in the dumper -- maybe permanently? -- and full-time jobs becoming as scarce as rain during a drought, huge percentages of Americans have had their (misplaced) faith in the American dream shaken, the upper-middle-class consumerist lifestyle is exposed as a mirage for anybody who plays by the rules. Capitalism and the America that embraced it as a way of life is now and forever more a failure. It does me good to know that the generation that voted in Reagan and his ideology will see their America die from that ideology before their very own eyes and knowing they had a hand in its destruction.
