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Dissing Ron Paul

Via errant AtlasBlogged author Jib Halyard, I learnt that GOP presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) was getting no respect from ABC news after last week’s debate. Jib directs us to Jack Henderson’s blog, where it is noted that

[Paul’s] name wasn’t included in a Web-based check-off “rate the candidates” poll from ABC. And his was the only name left off the list.

This was no accident. Scores of online visitor comments relating to Dr. Paul’s exclusion were deleted, the candidate’s name was still prominently absent hours later, and before long a mini-scandal had made the front page of Digg, Reddit, and other social-networking sites.

(emphasis mine)

As Mr Henderson points out, this was a stupid and pointless thing for ABC to do. It represents exactly why political blogging has become such a big deal, and why talk radio became such a big deal before that. A portion of the American public does care, and we pay attention, which means we will catch this kind of thing and make a fuss about it. And the mainstream media will look biased and inept – exactly as talk radio and blogs have always said they were.

Welcome to the Internet Age, you morons.

Posted by Wulf on May 7, 2007 at 06:25 PM

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Poo-poo on ABC. I thought Ron Paul gave a great speech. His tenor was much more appealing than the warmongering, bible-thumping, "it's okay to kill anyone but babies" crowd. It's too bad he didn't run as a Libertarian. And since I'm a registered Libertarian, I'll be sitting out the primaries, unfortunately.

Posted by: Hugh Skinnerian at May 9, 2007 4:00 PM

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