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The media is doing backflips to vaporize Ron Paul after his near-win in the Iowa Straw Poll. <\/p>\n

The Washington Post’s front-page article<\/strong><\/a> on the Iowa results had only a single parenthetical mention of Ron Paul. <\/p>\n

Politico columnist Roger Simon has an excellent column today entitled “Ron Paul Remains Media Poison<\/strong><\/a>.”<\/p>\n

WSPD’s Brian Wilson<\/strong><\/a> did an very thoughtful, sparky 15 minute interview today with retired Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski analyzing the media coverup of Ron Paul’s strong showing. You can listen to the interview by clicking here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n

Karen is running for Congress – she is one of the smartest, most principled candidates out there — check out her site<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The media is doing backflips to vaporize Ron Paul after his near-win in the Iowa Straw Poll. The Washington Post’s front-page article on the Iowa results had only a single parenthetical mention of Ron Paul. Politico columnist Roger Simon has an excellent column today entitled “Ron Paul Remains Media Poison.” WSPD’s Brian Wilson did an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[37,668],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ron-paul"],"yoast_head":"\nMainstream Media to Ron Paul: Just Disappear, Dammit! - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/15\/mainstream-media-to-ron-paul-just-disappear-dammit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mainstream Media to Ron Paul: Just Disappear, Dammit! - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The media is doing backflips to vaporize Ron Paul after his near-win in the Iowa Straw Poll. 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