By Suzanne Eovaldi, staff writer
An analysis of how Fox News handled Ron Paul’s candidate debate responses in South Carolina early on in 2008 may lead us to rethink our slavish conservative allegiance to this cable network. A YOUTUBE.COM video of “Campaign” Carl Cameron questioning Representative Paul becomes very uncomfortable when the Fox interviewer bluntly asks the candidate, “Do You Have Electability? Are You Viable?” The tone is almost mocking, and the audience’s laughter seems to validate that notion. However, the laughter turned to applause when Paul got into the body of his response with such replies as, “I’m a strict constitutionalist; I’ve voted against more spending,” than any other candidate. The [1]dailypaul.com website leads us to the original video still sourced on the front page of DIGG which suggests Fox cut Paul’s definitive remarks from its debate re-air. Then Paul keys in on the Republican platform planks and questions just where the GOP are on foreign affairs, noting that Mr. Republican himself Robert Taft had a lot to say about America’s involvement overseas. The long time congressman from Texas who gathered a dynamic following, especially of young people, during the ’08 campaign went on to say, “I believe in civil liberties,” and pointed out to Cameron how many government spending bills he voted against along with condemning the GOP administration’s “borrowing 10 billion dollars from China to give to Pakistan and to fund the Iraq war. . .at a terrible cost of millions of lives.” Ron Paul then asks, “Where have we gone? Have we lost our way?” Digg bloggers comment on the re-air deletion of Paul’s remarks by Fox News with the implication that we needed to hear what all he had to say. Especially troubling is the 40% stake in the Fox News Parent company News Corp held by Saudi Prince ALWALEED BIN TALAL, making him the largest shareholder outside of the Australian CEO Rupert Murdoch and the Murdoch family. “According to the Financial Times, News Corp announced today it is purchasing a $70 million dollar stake in Prince Alwaleed’s Rotana Media, a Middle Eastern music and news conglomerate,” says reporter Lee Fang. After everything we’ve gone through in the past 18 months of the Obama administration’s takeover of private businesses along with burdening this country with an unsustainable debt load, would we have better been served by the one conservative cable outlet had it decided not to censor Ron Paul? Do we need to ask more of Fox? Would Paul, indeed, have had a lot of electability?
highlight youtube.com go to http://www.dailypaul.com/node/24758 and scroll down to the third paragraph in “Front Page of Digg” to the red highlighted “HERE” to bring up this hard to find video
highlight http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/23/issa-probe-fox if that is not available go to http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/23/top-gop-investigator-rep-issa-open-to-probing-saudi
SOURCES: http://www.dailypaul.com/node/24758 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ_Z_XGOL2c http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/23/top-gop-investigator-rep-issa-open-to-probing-saudi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLfEgHZEX7g&feature=search http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/23/issa-probe-fox
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