Media Infers Ron Paul Is A Terrorist
Having been forced to report on Ron Paul’s record breaking donation drive yesterday, mainstream outlets seized the opportunity to emphasize the Guy Fawkes gimmick, that was used by grassroots organizers to draw attention to Paul’s campaign, as a way of tacitly suggesting that the Congressman’s message of freedom and limited government is synonymous with terrorism and anarchy.
A grassroots campaign unaffiliated with the official Paul campaign was the catalyst for a huge $4.2 million cash infusion yesterday, putting the campaign well on course to raise $12 million by the end of the quarter and bringing Paul close to being the top fundraiser among the Republican candidates.
The Following headlines, however, chose not to lead with this
information and instead to firstly draw attention to the November 5th theme:
Ron
Paul Raises $3.68 Million on Guy Fawkes Day - NY Times
Financial Fireworks for Texas Republican Presidential Candidate - Wired
A
penny for the guy, a hundred bucks for Ron Paul - CNet
“Historians and British schoolchildren remember Guy Fawkes as
the Roman Catholic, anti-Protestant rebel who on Nov. 5, 1605, tried to
assassinate King James I by blowing up the Parliament. Supporters of the
Republican primary campaign of the libertarian Representative Ron Paul may
remember Fawkes as a wildly successful fund-raising gimmick”, writes the NY
Times.
“On Monday, a group of Paul supporters helped raised more than
$4.07 million in one day ? approaching what the campaign raised in the entire
last quarter ? through a Web site called ThisNovember5th.com, a reference to the
day the British commemorate the thwarted bombing.” continues the article in the
first two paragraphs.
More of this kind of stuff comes from CNN. In the following clip
from Wolf Blitzer’s show, the anchor wastes little time in tying the Ron Paul
fundraising campaign to the gunpowder plot to “blow up the Houses of
Parliament,” despite the fact that the date was patently chosen as a gimmick to
make people remember to donate and has nothing to do with 400-year old British
history:
Rolling Stone magazine went one better, explicitly linking the Congressman’s
cash infusion with terror and anarchy:
“I don’t know what’s more amazing ? the sum total. Or the fact
that this Republican fund-raising surge this is all somehow in honor of
terrorist, er, anarchist, er, V-For-Vendetta antihero Guy Fawkes.”
The article has drawn huge swathes of attention from angry Ron
Paul supporters at pains to point out that Ron Paul’s endorsement of a strong
free market and limited government and is the very antithesis of anarchism, it
is what is directly written in the Constitution of the United States, it
literally is law and order.
“We don’t want anarchy, we want The Constitution. It’s not
something new, it is the law of the land. Do you get your talking points from
Bill O’reilly?”, writes one commenter.
The spin used here is astounding, clearly disgruntled by having
to admit Ron Paul now must be considered a top tier candidate, and terrified of
the Congressman’s growing success, the establishment and others cannot merely
report the fact that Ron Paul has raised record breaking millions via somewhere
in the region of 35,000 individual donations.
Instead they spin this incredible display of grassroots
organization knowing that the neocon blogs will run wild with it, now they can
no longer declare Ron Paul’s widespread support to be the work of ”
spambots “.
And as expected the first set of twisted reality denying neocon
goblins to disseminate their poison was once again, the Michelle Malkin
worshipping dirt-sniffers over at Hot Air (please don’t visit their filth den,
it only encourages them), who went with the “could it be any more yellow?”
headline Ron and the Paulbots celebrate a terrorist by raising $3.5 mil.
We keep returning to this key quote but in this instance it’s
meaning is even more relevant:
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight
you, then you win.”
- Mahatma Gandhi.
Meanwhile, others, while having to now admit Paul is a top tier candidate,
have attempted to spin the amazing outpouring of support for Ron Paul as an
indication of great “alienation” in America. The
Baltimore Sun writes:
That so many people have invested so much in someone who stands such little
apparent chance of winning his party’s presidential nomination, let alone the
White House, speaks volumes about alienation in modern American politics.
It is the same alienation that once handed H. Ross Perot close to 20 percent
of the presidential vote. It is the same alienation that handed Ralph Nader just
enough of the vote to deny Democrat Al Gore an Electoral College victory to
accompany his popular-vote majority.
Though they still underplay Ron Paul’s chances, in many ways the Sun is
correct. What we are seeing is about more than Ron Paul. We are witnessing an
awakening, Ron Paul is just one man, along with a growing movement of truth
seekers, who have been continually prodding a sleeping giant.
The November 5th infusion shows that the people have power and the idea we
don’t is an illusion. The old line establishment media is in crisis, their
popularity is dwindling and they have to act like movements generated by
internet organisation do not equate to real people. More and more people are
realizing that they can inject themselves into real issues and that there is
great hope as long as there is still a willingness to effect change.
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