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DEAR RON PAUL FANS: Here's The Real Reason No One Writes About Your Candidate

Last week, along with many other members of the media, we got spammed by dozens of Ron Paul bots.
The bots were "appalled" that we weren't "fulfilling our obligations
as journalists" by writing about their candidate. They complained of a
"media blackout," and the usual elite media "conspiracy."
(We assume plenty of smart people support Ron Paul,
but we didn't hear from any of those people. We heard from bots that
were apparently commanded by some uber-bot to spam media organizations
with complaints disguised as actual notes).
Well, in case there's any confusion, here's why we don't write much about Ron Paul:


He has zero chance of winning. So at this point, he's just shouting down a rain-barrel.


Ron Paul
is persistent and committed, which we admire. But a lot of people in
this country are persistent and committed, and we don't write much about
most of them, either. Because being persistent and committed doesn't
make you newsworthy.
If Ron Paul wants to keep wasting his supporters' money and time by campaigning until the bitter end, he's entitled to do that. It's a free country. And as long as Ron Paul's
supporters don't mind throwing their money down a rat hole, we don't
mind the occasional whiny note complaining that we don't write about him
enough.
But enough with the Ron Paul bot spam, please.


It's unbecoming for a candidate who prides himself on telling it like it really is.


SEE ALSO: Check Out All The Whiny Emails We Just Got From Ron Paul Supporters


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-paul-media-blackout-2012-4#ixzz1svHnye5z


Added: Apr-23-2012 Occurred On: Apr-23-2012
By: LarryThompson
In: Politics
Tags: whiney emails, ron paul supporters
Marked as: approved
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  • The media lost most of it's credibility with me during the absurd Obama campaign. Anybody with a grain of intelligence, could spot the empty suit for what he was long before the elections. But the media played up Obama's campaign as if it were the second coming of Christ.
    The media is controlled by lots of factors, but truth isn't a big part of it. Government and corporate agenda is the biggest part of what comes from the media. I only have to hope the obama voting dummies now are thinking More..

    Posted Apr-23-2012 By 
    Eva_Destruction (2728.24)  

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  • Problem in America we have no News companies anymore, only propaganda machines.

    Posted Apr-24-2012 By 
    wet501 (8049.12)  

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  • Priceless photo, but the awesomeness of this particular submission is clicking the link, reading the emails (and the comments!), and recognizing the wRabid wRongBots by the:
    1) Quotation abuse. "frontrunner", "winners", "supporters"
    2) ALLCAPS!
    3) The snide assumption that anyone not endorsing their Messiah is a paid shill of teh eeeebul [insert_noun].
    4) Egregious sins against grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and simple decency; all while declaring t More..

    Posted Apr-23-2012 By 
    Blech (557.70)  

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  • F U K RON PAUL THE FRAUD b/c he invokes the constitution in every other word you all think THINK that qualifies him to be POTUS! SAD You guys fall for HIS LIES just like Obama drones fall for barrys lies. And no none of the other candidates are good they all suck BUT NO WAY IN HELL THIS FRAUD SHOULD BE POTUS. Im still waiting for proof from one of you showing Paul performing what he preaches OUTSIDE OF HIS 9-5 job desription. Dont pull the he voted, he knows the COnstitution, he introduced ills More..

    Posted Apr-24-2012 By 
    aa316 (608.52)

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  • He's shouting down a rain barrel? A rain barrel filled with millions of people? Right so I guess that makes him a bad candidate and those people as valuable as rain drops? Fuck you Larry, as always you are an anti-ronpaul bot and all you do is troll without any legitimate values.

    Vote Ron Paul, fuck the trolls and the free-loaders once and for all.

    Posted Apr-23-2012 By 
    EmrysM (1848.26)  

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    • @EmrysM He already lost bro. Its over. the US is in the tank and there's not a damn thing we can do until things get really, really ugly.

      Posted Apr-24-2012 By 
      Gene Lythgow (103.00)  

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    • @Gene Lythgow I like to be optimistic. We will see what happens, though we are certainly ripe for revolution.

      Posted Apr-24-2012 By 
      EmrysM (1848.26)  

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    • @EmrysM I was an optimist before the internet released the underbelly of humanity on us. LOL! You're right; better to be optimistic but its almost impossible these days, literally. Such a sad state of affairs; like crabs in a bucket stepping all over each other to get to the top. Peace

      Posted Apr-27-2012 By 
      Gene Lythgow (103.00)  

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  • The obsession of the anti-Paul bots is epic.

    Posted Apr-24-2012 By 
    Yukon6400 (969.02)

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  • Ron Paul just drew 4,000+ people in the pouring rain in Pennsylvania yesterday. They are not fair weather friends, they are ardent supporters.

    Oh yeah, and Ron Paul just won Iowa with 20 out of 24 delegates to the convention :)

    Keep hating, traitor Larry.

    Posted Apr-23-2012 By 
    MrsShrodingersBox (32.20)  
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  • Not that I care much about politics...but doesn't calling a group of people who support a candidate "bots" just serve to more easily write off anything they have to say?

    Can't you make your opinions without being condescending?

    Posted Apr-23-2012 By 
    eggsaladactyl (53.30)  

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  • The damage was done by the media months if not years ago. Making up excuses for something occuring recently is just a lame excuse. The media will never admit it's critical role and take reponsability for who becomes president of the United States. If you think the american people have a significant role and your vote counts you have an extremely distorted view of the election process. At the very least faults are covered up, exposed and created from thin air all to control who gets nominated and More..

    Posted Apr-23-2012 By 
    Pure_Adrenaline (303.54)

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  • The Paulbots just don't get it. Put a fork in him, he is done.

    Posted Apr-23-2012 By 
    -stile- (697.10)  

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  • Ron Paul LMFAO LMFAO LMFAO LMFAO

    Posted Apr-23-2012 By 
    thebigniv (562.24)

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  • Ron Paul, 2012!

    Posted Apr-23-2012 By 
    Ithinkthat1 (1255.90)  

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  • watching Paultards foam at the mouth=priceless.

    Posted Apr-24-2012 By 
    LarryThompson (334.60)

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  • Comment of user 'ZazzMazta' has been deleted by author!

  • lets follow this guys example vote mitt romney and just be peasants woooo go peasantry support north korea!

    Posted Apr-24-2012 By 
    Divine_Malice (40.98)  

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