Ron Paul: Presidential Election Is Entertainment “Orchestrated by Major Media”

Guest Post by Nick Bernabe

(ANTIMEDIA) San Diego, CA — Former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul has unloaded a harsh criticism of the 2016 presidential election. Appearing on RT’s Boom and Bust show Thursday, Paul commented on the media’s control of the U.S. electoral process, Donald Trump’s candidacy, and the stock market. Some of his harshest comments came when Ron Paul was addressing the media’s role in the 2016 presidential elections: “I think some of this stuff in the presidential race is orchestrated by the major media — and it’s entertainment,” he said.

Former Congressman Ron Paul, who ran for president in 2012, has some first-hand insight into the media’s role in the electoral process. In one of the 2012 Republican presidential debates, Paul famously received only 89 seconds to speak throughout the duration of the discourse. Paul’s candidacy — despite massive grassroots support — was mostly ignored by the mainstream media, reinforcing his assertion that the media “orchestrates” the election.

Proof comes from history, and as we look back at the 2012 Republican primary for answers, one simple fact slaps us in the face: One candidate was shown overwhelming favoritism while another candidate was essentially silenced.

According to a research paper from the University of Minnesota’s Smart Politics,

“… Mitt Romney received nearly five minutes more speaking time per debate above his proportional share [in the polls], while no other GOPer ended up with a net bonus of even one second for the debate season.”

The paper continued,

Despite frequently polling in third place (and sometimes as high as second) during this period under analysis, Paul received less than his equal share of speaking time in 14 of the 17 debates conducted from September 2011 through February 2012.”

The table below shows the 2012 candidates in full, comparing their allowed speaking time at the debates to their standing in the polls.

 

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All of this information further reinforces Ron Paul’s recent statements on the election. Mitt Romney was seemingly chosen in advance to be the Republican nominee and was given a disproportionate share of face time at nearly every debate, despite not being the “front-runner” until much later in the primary process.

These stunning statistics call into question the integrity of the United States’ electoral process now more than ever as the next piece of 2016 “entertainment” is underway. In 2012, Ron Paul was repeatedly painted as unelectable by the corporate media (despite being the best-polling candidate in a head-to-head race against incumbent Obama). Contrarily, Mitt Romney was showered with speaking time at the debates and given positive media coverage until be became the nominee.

For 2016, two more candidates are receiving the “Ron Paul treatment”: Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Rand Paul (Ron’s son). Each of these candidates inspires a large grassroots support base and small donor fundraising network, even though they are repeatedly victimized and deemed unelectable by the corporate media. This is to say nothing of the third party candidates who, as far as the TV is concerned, seemingly don’t even exist.

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Are presidents truly elected based on public opinion, or are they selected in advance by the corporate media and its interconnected board of oligarchs? What do you think?

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starfcker
starfcker

RP’s absolute dismissal of economic nationalism in this spot really bothered me . So I spent a little time today reading up on his recent sources of funding. The conclusion I reached is a pretty horrifying one. They got to him. They did it the old fashioned way. They did it with money. Stick a fork in the pauls, they are done

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

All Trump needed at the debates was a convenient turnbuckle to climb onto for the cheering audience.
Linda McMahon may be scripting the storyline for the Repugnants. Trump is the Ultimate Antihero.
Little wonder the debates seem to have sunk to the level of a WWE wrasslin match.
The Hulkster, reading the kefabe tea leaves, even offered to run with the Trump.

Back in PA Mike

starfcker, you are right, keep blowing Trump, that’ll fix it.

starfcker
starfcker

Back in pathetic mike, didn’t say a word about trump. Not going to blow anybody. Do a quick google search “ron paul institute funding sources” and get your mom to read the results to you.

starfcker
starfcker
EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Starfuck, BPAM knows your political leanings, being a Trump acolyte is no sin.
I have cynically resigned myself to a Trump revisit of the Reagan formula.
The Repugs haven’t totally gotten over St Ronnie.
Bush 2 even adopted his breathy speech.

starfcker
starfcker

EC, honestly, I could give a rat’s ass about polirics. What I care about is economics, and living in a decent society. One of my strengths is, I know how money actually gets made. The best con job in the history of mankind has been to take otherwise intelligent people, and convince them that there future security rides on the ups and downs of a number on a computer screen. Madoff was a small time chump.

AnarchoPagan
AnarchoPagan

starfcker,

Unlike you, Ron Paul knows something about economics, having studied the Austrian school (i.e. real economics), and understands that “economic nationalism” is as gut-busting stupid as “economic Floridanism”.

AnarchoPagan
AnarchoPagan

By the way, Ron’s views haven’t changed in 25 years, long before there was a Ron Paul Institute.

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

AP- Two words…………..Controlled Opposition. Twenty five years of blathering the same info YET nothing ever changes. Oh wait, we are circling the bowl even faster for the big flush…..nobody listened , nobody cared.

Now watch the downers fly………..but it is true so keep beating the drum for the babysitters.

AnarchoPagan
AnarchoPagan

Bea, if you’re saying that Ron Paul is Controlled Opposition, I’m unconvinced. Granted, laissez-faire and free trade is a hard sell, but it has the advantage of being logically irrefutable. I’m supposed to be shocked that some elites that are selectively in favor of certain aspects of freedom donate to Ron Paul?

starfcker
starfcker

Bea, thanks, I always liked you. AP, on this, you’re full of shit. You didn’t touch what I put on the table, ron paul’s current sources of funding are famous for doling out big bucks to fund a lavish life for has beens, free to spout whatever they want as long as they toe the line on free trade.

starfcker
starfcker

Logically irrefutable? Not only are you full of shit, you’re stupid. Kool-aid?

BEA LEVER
BEA LEVER

Star – Before you get too carried away with yourself, Trump is equally a babysitter for the conservative base. Both Trump and Paul sing for their supper only you can’t see that Trump is complete bullshit because he says what people want to hear and you really ,REALLY want to believe it is on the up and up. Paul has given the common sense side for decades but he is only doing his job to say all the right things and pound against the Fed to no avail.

Trump is powerful and forceful yet in the end he will fizzle, Paul is meek and neutered and in the end he fizzled……………in other words it’s the shell game . While you are watching over here, they are once again cleaning your clock……….sucker.

Nothing will come of it except that for a moment in history you were entertained.

AnarchoPagan
AnarchoPagan

starfcker, you put nothing on the table. I googled the exact phrase you listed and came up with squat. Pretend for a moment that I’m less intelligent than you (difficult, I know) and name a specific source.

AnarchoPagan
AnarchoPagan

Bea, I respect your opinion, but I consider it much more likely that Ron Paul was speaking from conviction, even though no doubt the elites could have gotten him out of Congress and off the national stage. Permitted to be a gadfly, yes, bought and paid for, I don’t think so.

razzle
razzle

AP… I never finished it in the other thread.

Here is how I see it. I’m condensing the situation into a simplistic version but it goes a bit like this.

Ron is “made aware” that he can be gotten rid of easily.

Ron is “made aware” that he will be allowed to continue what he does so long as he stays within certain boundaries.

Ron is “made aware” that he is serving a larger purpose and is being allowed to play the role.

Ron is left to decide whether he will just abandon everything or do what good he can within his limits (with assurances that as long as he stays in those limits he will be left alone).

I don’t agree with Ken on a lot of things, but he does bring to the surface some interesting thoughts.
http://redefininggod.com/category/ron-paul/

Anonymous
Anonymous

Razzle, exactly. AP, will be glad to give you names. Check back shortly. Funny thing, if you look at a list of core libertarian values, it’s always there, asian slavery. Conservative values, asian slavery. How about the liberals? Asian slavery is one of the founding principles of liberalism. Who’d a thunk that? Why, if’s practically a god given right in this country for multinational corps to have asian slaves

Anonymous
Anonymous

Good thing we have the ron paul institute and brainwashed morons to defend that right, or what kind of country would we be?

AnarchoPagan
AnarchoPagan

razzle,

Your post on Ron Paul being controlled opposition got me to researching the question, and oddly enough, Ken’s site was far and away the most interesting that I found. I concede that your viewpoint is possible, but to me the best argument against it is Ron’s intellectual consistency. If he were a standard-issue conservative or neocon on every issue except free trade (or pick another issue), that would be suspicious; but I see Ron’s positions as pretty much wholly consistent, and therefor likely sincerer.

Ken’s site is very interesting, I especially like his analysis of globalist strategy, but there are several issues where I think he just gets it wrong:

One, Amerika the evil empire is not *just* propaganda; they truly have been and are creating mayhem around the world, and violating all our rights at home;

Second, he fails to understand Austrian economics; no Austrian I know of advocates a *government* administered gold standard, rather they usually support private-issue or non-monopoly commodity money. Likewise, no Austrian I know of supports surrendering sovereignty to “multilateral” supra-national governments (U.N.) or central banks.

I find it fascinating that he can be so compelling in his analysis of events, but consistently wrong in his predictions.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

starfcker says: EC, honestly, I could give a rat’s ass about polirics. What I care about is economics, and living in a decent society. One of my strengths is, I know how money actually gets made. The best con job in the history of mankind has been to take otherwise intelligent people, and convince them that there future security rides on the ups and downs of a number on a computer screen. Madoff was a small time chump.

Starfuck, honestly, I could give a rat’s ass about expert opinion. Ifi you have a good argument, I would like to hear it. A person who sends you to a link is unsure of his own logic. I follow my own reasoning and what makes sense to me. Madoff was a distraction conveniently deployed as a face of the theft while the real thieves remained anonymous to the general public.

Anonymous
Anonymous

EC, agreed. AP, I think razzle is exactly right. I do not think ron paul is controlled oposition in the traditional sense. I do think he, and many others, have sold their soul to the devil of free trade in return for an easy life spreading the word on all kinds of small ball subjects, turning a blind eye to the destruction of the country via free trade. I know, why don’t you defend the TPP for us. I gaura

AnarchoPagan
AnarchoPagan

star, I assume that was you at 6:45 pm, I’m not going to defend TPP, and neither is Ron Paul, because it’s not free trade, it’s managed trade. Next straw man?

razzle
razzle

@AP
I would use the term “Domesticated Opposition” to describe Ron Paul.

He definitely knows more than he talks about and in hindsight nothing he revealed has had a negative effect.

No weak points were exposed.. and in fact I am totally honest… the entire truth movement seems to have been used for the primary effect of providing a controlled burn to help the system flush out legacy structures that it *needed* destroyed in order to make room for the next stage.

— “…and oddly enough, Ken’s site was far and away the most interesting that I found.”

Man… the internet is getting to be a very small place.

— “I concede that your viewpoint is possible, but to me the best argument against it is Ron’s intellectual consistency.”

Like I said earlier, it was a grudging shift of attitude for me. I think he is working in his sandbox, but I think he knew all along he was building sand castles to nowhere and in fact the people listening to him were going to be used to help push the next stage through. The FED was revealed as a bad thing on purpose. Not because we were clever… we were just clever enough to recognize it was TRUE that the FED is being used to manipulate us… but not clever enough to recognize they needed us to spread that awareness so when it comes time for it to take the blame it seems natural and organic.

— “If he were a standard-issue conservative or neocon on every issue except free trade (or pick another issue), that would be suspicious; but I see Ron’s positions as pretty much wholly consistent, and therefor likely sincerer.”

I definitely think he’s sincere… but knowingly constrained and has chosen to not inform us of his knowledge that his “right” message was going to be used for ulterior objectives.

— “One, Amerika the evil empire is not *just* propaganda; they truly have been and are creating mayhem around the world, and violating all our rights at home;”

I think his point on that is that while America has been doing those things… it has intentionally setup to do those things specifically for the purposes of being an effective propaganda target. In other words… so the US itself could be blamed, rather than the people pulling the strings outside of the US.

— “Second, he fails to understand Austrian economics; no Austrian I know of advocates a *government* administered gold standard, rather they usually support private-issue or non-monopoly commodity money. Likewise, no Austrian I know of supports surrendering sovereignty to “multilateral” supra-national governments (U.N.) or central banks.”

On that one, I think his point is that Austrians are being used to guide us in the general direction with false bait. That they will talk a good talk… but when it comes time to deliver will turn out to be a bait and switch.

— “I find it fascinating that he can be so compelling in his analysis of events, but consistently wrong in his predictions.”

I would be surprised at all if the Deep State has a decent feel for the pulse of the public conversation and are deliberately ensuring that things stay out of sync specifically to cause fatigue. What is it to them if they message what they intend and hint it will be on X time frame… watch the conversation… once it is set then they deploy an altered version of the same objective on a different time frame and with just enough different variables to make it difficult to connect the two. So you get people constantly realizing that the predictions were “true” but “wrong” and eventually just get tired of trying to keep track.

starfcker
starfcker

AP, don’t know how I became anon. Razzle, you’ve owned this thread. Obviously you’ve thought about this more than I have. Nice job laying out your case. I agree completely. AP, I don’t really care about the semantics of free trade vs managed trade, I think dr. Paul is being disingenuous, to say the least. Either slavery is ok, or it’s not. We either have a country, or we don’t.

starfcker
starfcker

EC,I don’t know if you were talking to me about the link thing, but I do run across bits that say things perfectly sometimes, and rather than just rip them off, I like to credit them. It’s the same as the way you use music sometimes. It just says it perfectly

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