In the New York Times corrections box (6/7/11):
An article on Monday about Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, omitted the name of one of the other declared candidates, who number six, not five. Ron Paul, a Republican congressman from Texas, is also running.
One of the main tasks the media perform in a campaign is excluding the candidates they deem unworthy of consideration. The Times is off to an early start.
When Mark Halperin at Time excluded Herman Cain when handicapping the GOP field, it drew some fire over at Newsbusters:
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2011/06/04/additional-reasons-why-mark-halperins-omissions-herman-cain-time-are-ine
…but the righties, there (who apparently aren’t Ron Paul fans), seem to think this is some unusual outrage.
No surprise. But this time Ron Paul is known and the times look like the idiots.
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the candidate they ignore
is the candidate they fear
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Of all Republicans, I, as an Independent Voter, would vote for only Ron Paul. I, however, am not foolish enough to do so because I despise everything Republicans have done in the past ten years.
We do need more coverage of Paul so we can all see what a buffoon he is. It is working well for our new National Joke, Sarah Palin.