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I don’t know how many of you would claim to be a C-Span junkie but I certainly do. I cannot get enough of it. Programs like Washington Journal, American Perspectives, and Book TV, are mentally intoxicating.

I was just watching a speech by Bill Moyer to the Association For Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Wow, there is a reason why he has won 30 Emmys for his work. He is a brilliant linguist and public speaker.

He mentioned his documentary title “Buying The War” which I just finished watching. For anyone that questions the war on Iraq and who believe that Mainstream Media has failed us, this documentary is a must see.

The full length original can be found on PBS’s site here: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html

Here are some quotes about the documentary.

In “Buying the War” Bill Moyers and producer Kathleen Hughes document the reporting of Walcott, Landay and Strobel, the Knight Ridder team that burrowed deep into the intelligence agencies to try and determine whether there was any evidence for the Bush Administration’s case for war.

In the run-up to war, skepticism was a rarity among journalists inside the Beltway. Journalist Bob Simon of 60 MINUTES, who was based in the Middle East, questioned the reporting he was seeing and reading. “I mean we knew things or suspected things that perhaps the Washington press corps could not suspect. For example, the absurdity of putting up a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda,”

The program analyzes the stream of unchecked information from administration sources and Iraqi defectors to the mainstream print and broadcast press, which was then seized upon and amplified by an army of pundits. While almost all the claims would eventually prove to be false, the drumbeat of misinformation about WMDs went virtually unchallenged by the media.

U.S. Comptroller General David Walker, recently appeared on CBS to explain his stance that the U.S. is Heading for Financial Trouble.

When taking into consideration the Federal Government’s income, liabilities, and future obligations; It’s General Walker’s conclusion that our standard of living is unsustainable and the biggest threat to our security.

I would argue that the most serious threat to the United States is not someone hiding in a cave in Afghanistan or Pakistan but our own fiscal irresponsibility,” Walker tells Kroft.

Can anybody say “VOTE RON PAUL”. He is the only candidate that has proven his understanding, and shown his determination to fix this countries enormous financial problems.

But hey, we can always just print or borrow more money right?

U.S. Heading For Financial Trouble?, Comptroller Says Medicare Program Endangers Financial Stability - CBS News

I finally found a video to the Ron Paul Rally in Vegas this last Saturday.

The video quality is great and the sound is great as well. Its 45 minutes of PURE Ron Paul. Great stuff.

44 minute video on Google Video

Technorati Tags: Ron Paul, Video, Freedomfest

My buddy Andy over at MarketingPilglrim.com, recently released his 2008 Presidential Election Candidate Reputation Study, which shows Ron Paul as having the best online reputation.

While this study is pretty basic it is a great starting point for the kind of research I would like to see more of. Andy’s model consisted of taking the top 20 results for each candidates name in Google and Yahoo, then counting the number of positive and negative results.

While having the most positive top 20 results in a search engine isn’t an absolute gauge of a candidates reputation, it does say a lot. Some Candidates are paying millions of dollars to build positive online reputation through marketing firms etc.. we all know that isn’t the case with Ron Paul…

If you haven’t already seen it please view my recent analysis of website traffic trends for the presidential candidates with the most web traffic.

Technorati Tags: ron paul, marketing, reputation, andy beal

http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/

Quotes from their site:

I was checking out the traffic to this website (usaelectoinpolls.com) in depth and noticed that Ron Paul supporters dominated in every way. Comments posted on this site are mostly by Ron Paul supporters. The straw polls on my site show 70-80% support of Ron Paul. The highest search keyword people use to enter my site is Ron Paul on Google, AOL, Yahoo, Digg, and Technorati. The Ron Paul pages have the most traffic on my site, the competition is not even close.

And for our straw polls to still show 70% Ron Paul supporters, there is something very interesting about that. Part of it is that there is a lot of Ron Paul supporters online but the other part is that the Giuliani, Romney, Thompson, McCain, Huckabee supporters really need to get motivated.

Ron Paul is dominating every other candidate in online polls. If they truly make up just 2% of the Republican support that he is getting but consistently gets 70% in our straw polls, that would suggest that his supporters are 35 times more passionate than the supporters of Giuliani, McCain, Romney, and Thompson combined

As a result of all this, Ron Paul is now back into our list of top candidates in the right menu.

Who needs tens of millions in their war chest when you have a huge following of active supporters. You can’t buy support like that! not even with 100 million dollars!

Kudo’s to USAElectionPolls for coming to the realization that Ron Paul is a top tier candidate, he just isn’t getting the love from the Old Media (as a member of the RonPaulForums.com prefers to call them instead of Main Stream Media or MSM).

Indeed we are witnessing a true indication about how the New Media (Wikipedia) is going to have an effect on every future election. That is if the internet remains unregulated

Vote Ron Paul, not because I said so but because you have done your own research. Watch videos about him, and by the others, and see which one voices the issues you know to be true. Take a test (survey) and find out what candidate really represents your views, based on what you know to be true.

Technorati Tags: ron paul, politics, ron paul blog

While Ron still has significantly less money then Rudy and Mitt, there is no doubt that he is on the up-slope.

Ron Paul on ABC news

IMHO there is very little chance that Rudy will get elected, there are simply too many people that dislike him, and a large portion of Mitt’s money is from his own pocket.

Ron Paul has a large base of “fanatical” supporters and doesn’t need 100 million to win the republican nomination. While the others have to pay for the majority of their support, Ron’s support comes at a very low cost, as its the supporters who are shouldering the cost.

True to his beliefs in small government, Ron empowers the people to make change, rather then taxing them to death then poorly/inefficiently spending their money to govern others to make those same changes.

GO RON!

Technorati Tags: ron paul, john mccain, politics

This is an awesome video!

Our Declaration of Independence is a remarkable document that everyone should read, or better yet hear, often. Especially so, in a time when our Government is in such disrepair.

Listen to the words, if it doesn’t light a fire under your ass, nothing will.

Ron Paul - The defender of the Constitution and the only candidate fighting for true liberty!

Hmm,

They said invading Iraq had nothing to do with Oil. This is a very entertaining cartoon highlighting the details of a secret bill being introduced to Privatize Iraq’s oil fields. I’m definitely going to have to research this a bit more.

To learn more, here is a link to the PriceofOil.org’s info page on the Iraqi Oil Law

Technorati Tags: iraq, oil, politics, video

I’m impressed with the work the guys over at the DailyPaul.com are doing.

Be sure to check them out. They seem to be on top of most of the big Ron Paul news.

DailyPaul.com

Btw, I made a RSS Widget for their newsfeed. You can copy the code if you want to put it on your own site.