Is Fox News afraid of Ron Paul?

Ron Paul's support continues to swell. This is an effort to exclude libertarian ideas in favor of the "religious right." The Republican party has found themselves in the wilderness and have yet to discover that they were led here by the "religious right." in the first place. Instead of continuing to follow them, the Republicans need to look at their roots of limited government and decreasing taxes, which Dr. Paul represents. Clearly this is an attempt to stifle Dr. Paul in favor of another Arkansas President-wanna-be, who likely would pick up Dr. Paul's support later anyway. Now Fax News has done nothing but irritate Paul's supporters and made the likelihoood of a Libertarian run by Dr. Paul even more likely, which would almost guarantee a Democrat win. Fox News has it all wrong.

duh...Mr. Parsons just now figured out fox news is "we report only we want you to decide?" Fox news peddled the lie that saddam and bin laden were in cahoots, that there were WMDs in Iraq and more recently was pushing for an attack on Iran.

Ron Paul, 2008, FTW. We are tired of the lame stream media, the yellow journalism, the lies, the wars, the broken dollar, the identity politics and the military industrial complex. America is waking up to freedom and liberty. Its our last chance to have them again if we chose to walk with Ron Paul. If we don't chose him, we will become more authoritarian and America will no longer be what the founders wanted it to be and it will become a hell on earth with a dropping standard of living.

Ron Paul has been interviewed on the Brent Hume evening show and the Chris Wallace Sunday show. Hardly excluded. Paul is a fringe candidate in the up coming election and is excluded with the other fringe candidates. If Ben Parsons wants to hear fascism all he has to do is listen to a Hillary speech. Recognizing a fringe candidate doesn't qualify.

Ben Parsons isn't appalled by Fox News, he a-Pauled. His dog won't hunt.

I just wish Mr Parson had told us why Fox News is afraid to let Paul talk. What can he do to Fox News? I listen to Fox after watching Wolf Blitzer in the evenings and according to Fox, they didn't invite Hunter or Paul because of time restrictions. ALSO, THEY interviewed Ron Paul earlier and he stated that the US caused the terroists to commit the act of destruction on 9/11 only because during the Clinton years we were bombing their countries. That we have more road deaths in less than a month than the terrorist caused, and that it is not a big thing. He says we have been on the wrong side with our foreign policy since 1917, blah blah, on & on. Fox doesn't agree with his ranting and neither do I. Also, that Fed Income tax is unconstitutional and should be replace with nothing. We don't need it. His views are just a bit hard to take and he is even harder to watch.

i wouldn't say he 's a fringe candidate ,pat. i think many are going to be surprised when the general election gets here.this is the year of change, not the same-o same-o. it could be obama against paul who knows? i would never support a republican but if i had to i would support paul, also.the other repukes are just sundays leftovers. my favorite team? edwards/ obama/ or biden. also free mike vick!

charlie...Paul is using the Republican Party to campaign, but he is NOT a Republican. He calls himself a Libertarian. I don't know why he is hiding behind the Republican ticket. He would have been better served if he had run as an Independent or his true party..Libertarian. He will get the vote of independents or undecideds, but the Republican base will vote Republican.

Whatif-

Paul has been elected to 10 terms as a Republican and has been a card carrying dues paying member of the Republican party every year of his professional life- even in 1988 when he ran as a libertarian out of disgust with what the Republican party was becoming.

Ron Paul is what Republicans used to be and should be- small government low taxes non-interventionalists.

A lot of that does overlap with the Libertasian Party, but there is a difference between the big-L libertarians and the little-l libertarians. I'm a registered Republican and a little-l libertarian, just like Paul. All that means is I have a libertarian mindset.

Charlie, a month ago you were for Clinton!!

Paul is a fringe runner and there is a time restriction on the Sunday debates. There is another debate scheduled in the future that he can appear on, so he isn't being "ignored" by Fox. Other fringe candidate were also excluded. As fo Fox news, he has appeared on several programs including Brit Humes, Chris Wallace and even Bill Oreilly's program. O'Reilly likes him because he has the gonads to come on FOX that the other DIMocRATS don't have. At least Paul will face off with the likes of Hume, Wallace and O'Reilly. As for me, I hve heard Paul and am convinced he is a comical dip@@@t. I also find it strange he refuses to return donations by White Supremacists.

Charlieonce, think about it. If you'd consider Paul, what informed voter would? I'd call that a fringe candidate. Biden? Edwards? Talk about fringe. Read something other then headlines and stop watching CNN and you may pass for informed......with some effort.

The ranks of FOX News are certainly populated by a horde of blithering idiots, but I can't say I blame them on principle, if time constraints are indeed a plausible excuse. I've supported Paul, and continue to support him and his message, but I don't even think he believed he had a chance in hell of winning. This election process has, however, provided him with superb publicity, so I and my fellow RP supporters shouldn't consider it a loss by any means.

Who decides what candidates are "fringe" candidates as some of you are saying? If such candidates are always treated as such it means the media is already deciding which candidates we get to choose from in the end. That is not very democratic. Its like the debates that would not let Ralph Nader speak, the states that would not put him on the ballots...then everyone laughs and says those independents don't get hardly any votes..hmm, I wonder why.

At least a few people on the right are finally waking up to the fact that Fox News is a joke.

FAKE News = unfair and unbalanced . . . . . As for the religious right, they are neither.

If Ron Paul isn't in the debate then there is NO reason to waste time on it, America!!! The media needs to learn a lesson here and in the future will MAKE time for the one true candidate wanted as President by the majority, RON PAUL.

What is Ron Paul's message. I keep hearing that he is for the Constitution. He says there is nothing in the constitution for the IRS. But..if there is no Federal money then we have no defense forces other than State Guards, if the States decide to support one. There would be no interstate highways, just state roads, no public schools unless the State wants to fund the entire process.No federal prisons, no FBI no US Postal service (I guess we could go back to telegrams and carrier pidgeons).. I have tried hard to see why anyone would support the man, I have listened to every debate and saw several interviews, even the one with Roland Martin (btw..Martin agreed with Paul that all wars are inside jobs)on CNN. Perhaps someone could explain to me in simple terms what he would approve of?

Since you can't decide on Paul or the others, just vote Democrat we are going to win wth or with you.FOX news is the American Al-jezzera.

RCR I know who I will vote for on Feb 5th, (definitely not Ron Paul, since no one can tell me anything good about him) but not who it will be in Nov. I love Fox, by whatever name you want to call them. My favor-ite program is Bill O'Reilly. I don't listen to Rush, although I think he is okay. Just boring, going on and on about the same subjects. Don't you worry about me. My ducks are all lined up.

Ron Paul is in favor of the Fair Tax and not the IRS. fairtax.org

johnson,,there are already many ideas on what a "fair tax" would actually be. I don't like the one where the politicos in Atlanta would get the money and dole it out to the counties according to whatever priority they place on their needs.
I would much rather at least make an attempt at "fixing" the IRS.

It does not effect state taxes just federal

>Ron Paul is in favor of the Fair Tax and not the IRS. fairtax.org

Ron Paul is NOT for the fair tax. He's for the no tax.

Whatif- this is what people don't seem to understand, but Paul does and he's convincing people. What is the Constitution? It's a contract between the people and the government, wherein the people agree to give power to the government as long as it abides by a set of rules. If the government decided to break any of those rules, the contract is nullified.

Now, being the forward thinking people they were, the Constitution was written in such a way it could be modified. For instance, if it's really crucial that the federal government ignore the 4th amendment and spy on people without a warrant or give telecos immunity, then they should amend the constitution, not ignore it.

You talk about a standing army as being crucial to the security of the nation, but the writers of the constitution thought the opposite. that's why we have a second amendment right to bear arms. If there's guns in every house no army could ever occupy us and they wouldn't even try.

All the social programs we have are not authorized by the constitution- see the 9th and 10th

He said that if he were President and the Fair Tax bill hit his desk he would sign it.

robywar You are kidding, arent you? Please tell me you don't believe this and you are pulling my leg. A gun in every house or a dozen guns in every house would not stop bombs and missiles. I'm not completely stupid. I can actually see past my nose. Is Paul gonna ride a horse down the street screaming the terrorists are coming?..'Paw. Go git the rifle and the stun guns, that funny looking airplane is dropping something that is causes big fires. Kids lock the front door.'

To: johnson: You are incorrect -- Ron Paul is NOT in favor of the
"Fair Tax." He believes, rightly so, that it is a very regressive form of taxation, that shifts even more of the burden from the wealthy/high income persons to those in the lower economic strata. Ron Paul does favor elimination of the income tax and the IRS. Ron Paul rightly observes that the key is to reduce spending. The level of Federal government spending less than 10 years ago could be funded from revenues w/o the income tax. Under the "conservative" government of the last seven years, Federal government spending has exploded, along with Federal debt. I agree with Ron Paul that the current tax system is an abomination and a playground for the big-business-politician cabal. Now, where are all of the rabid members of the "conservative dog pack" on the important issues, such as how The Shrub and Tricky Dicky have trashed the economic well-being of the Country, as they tromp around the world in their jack boots? You say R. Paul is on the "fringe." King George III of England said the same of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington . So why do you say that about R. Paul? -- Because Faux News told you so!

Small arms and homemade weapons are doing a pretty good job in Iraq aren't they? We could be bombed by China if they wanted, but they could never occupy us.
State guards would also be free to have their own bomber/fighter wings, just as they do now. Their funding would be at the state level and paid by state taxes, not federal. Worried about invasion, move to Texas where they pay higher taxes for extra F-22s, not Montana where they only have an A-10 or two.
Johnson, here's Paul in his own words on the Fair Tax. He'd support it if it came up, but he'd prefer no tax and is not running on the Fair Tax- only Huckabee is.
http://weblog.larrydburton.com/archives/2006/09/26/ron-paul-and-the-fairtax

The Knave...Everything I know about Ron Paul is things I heard Paul himself say. In interviews and debates. I don't know why you and your liberal friends don't vote for him. You seem to think more of him than the candidates on the Democratic slate. Make up some signs and stand out at the polls on Feb 5th,.I can't join you. I will be working inside. Goodluck ..

Can you tell me if he made the statement that he would sign it?