Anderson Cooper Responds to Ron Paul’s Media Blackout Comments

The State Column
October 21, 2011

Anderson Cooper, the host of CNN’s “AC 360,” responded to Texas Congressman Ron Paul’s media blackout comments on Thursday night. Cooper hosted the CNN/WRLC debate in Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday night.

In an email to his supporters on Wednesday, GOP candidate Paul slammed Cooper and CNN for failing to give him enough time to speak during the CNN/WRLC debate. “At one point in the first hour of last night’s CNN Republican debate, blacking out almost took on a whole new meaning,” Paul wrote. “You see, it can be awfully hard to be on stage for nearly 40 minutes between speaking. Yes, 40 minutes,” Paul added.

Cooper, who has hosted Paul seven times on “AC 360″ in 2011, defended his moderation of the CNN/WRLC debate. “Now, candidates are welcome to whatever views they may have on the issues or opponents and the media. But facts are facts, and in this case, the Paul campaign is simply wrong on the facts,” Cooper said. Cooper went on to point out that Paul never waited to speak for more than 19 minutes and 16 seconds. “It’s certainly nothing like the 40-minute gap that Congressman Paul claims in his fundraising letter. It just didn’t happen,” Cooper said.

Paul’s email also slams Cooper and CNN for failing to give him a closing statement. “Closing statements? Well, some of the candidates got them. I will give you one guess who didn’t,” Paul argued. […]

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Ron Paul Launches ‘Black This Out’ Money Bomb

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The State Column
October 19, 2011

Texas Congressman Ron Paul, a Republican presidential candidate, launched his latest money bomb on Wednesday. The “Black This Out” money bomb has raised more than $1 million as of 3pm EDT.

In a email to his campaign supporters, Paul urged his activists to donate to his campaign. “None of our hard work matters unless I can raise the resources to break through the media blackout and take my message of liberty straight to the voters,” Paul wrote.

[…] Paul’s “Black This Out” money bomb is named after his lack of coverage in the national media. “Despite polls consistently showing me within striking distance of first place over the past few months…a recent study confirmed the national media’s all-out blackout of my campaign,” Paul professed. According to a Pew Research Center study, the Texas Congressman has been the main focus of a mere 2 percent of news stories on the 2012 presidential race.

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6 Responses to “Anderson Cooper Responds to Ron Paul’s Media Blackout Comments”

  1. Of course Dr. Paul is blacked out. He’s a threat to all the entrenched power players and money.

    Ron Paul is a threat to:
    1. The military industrial complex. We need wars to justify their size and profits.
    2. The central banking system not only of the US but globally by his beliefs. War is the greatest creator of debt. Without wars the central banks will make less money.
    3. The part of law enforcement funding devoted to drug enforcement and all the related industries of drug treatment, social workers, prison guards, and the entire infrastructure necessary to maintain the war on drugs.
    4. Big Pharma – Marijuana without a prescription threatens many prescription (high profit) drugs.
    5. The federal Department of Education. He wants them abolished nad education to be the rewponsibility of the state.
    6. Environmental Protection Agency and all the ticks profitting from their prefential policies.
    7. The news media, the so-called Fourth Estate which has lost its way by being owned by big money, big advertisers, and, require the
    8. The stock market which can be crashed by an increase in margin rates and discount rates, or vice versa by the FEDERAL RESERVE.
    … and many others

    The only group which benefits by the platform of Ron Paul is the ordinary citizen/voter, an impotent majority of the American people who have no clue. They still think Democrats and Republicans are different.

    Ron Paul represents a peaceful revolution and serious change to the government of the US, a government which does not even pretend to represent the people.

    “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”
    President John F. Kennedy

    Ken

  2. That’s disgusting to treat a candidate like that; so un American.

  3. Heck, even Rodney Dangerfield got more respect than Ron Paul.

  4. Why aren’t the supporters of Ron Paul protesting the news media
    to tell the truth? There are more supporters of Ron Paul than the
    news media are reporting. It is getting hard to believe any thing
    the news media reports since they are so often telling lie’s or else
    omitting the truth from news reports.

    • Because the old dinosaur ‘media’ is on the way out.
      We have no respect for the Presstitutes.

  5. The more they hate RP, the stronger he gets. Let’s keep supporting him as best we can.

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