CBS Labels Ron Paul a "Meaningless Fruitcake" With "No Chance" Of Winning

Despite a general begrudging acceptance amongst a large swathe of the corporate media that Ron Paul is a real contender for the Republican nomination following the hugely successful November 5th “money bomb” campaign, a CBS News op-ed piece today labels the Texas Congressman a “meaningless” “fruitcake” with “no chance” of winning.

The article is entitled Ron Paul, Fruitcake and its writer, Kevin Drum, attempts to make the point that anyone who even expresses an interest in the Congressman’s campaign is a “political infant” who needs to “grow up”.

In reality, it’s Drum who needs to grow up – his four paragraph whine reads like the literary equivalent of a baby throwing its toys out of a playpen.

“Ron Paul raised a buttload of money yesterday. This doesn’t really change anything, and everyone knows it, but I guess it’s something to write about. So people are writing about it,” seethes Drum.

“But look: can we stop pretending to be political infants, even if we happen to be bored this week? It’s cheap and easy to take extreme, uncompromising positions when you have no actual chance of ever putting them into practice, so Paul’s extreme, uncompromising positions really don’t mean a thing,” writes Drum.

“They’re meaningless, and I wish grown adults who know better would stop pretending otherwise.”

“Seriously, folks. Can we all please grow up?” he concludes.

The words of Officer Barbrady from South Park come to mind – “Nothing to see here folks. Move along…”

On what foundation does Drum claim that Congressman Paul’s campaign is irrelevant? His growth curve and fundraising is outstripping any other candidate from either party and bookmakers are slashing his odds of winning the Republican nomination left, right and center.

Granted, the average geriatric Giuliani supporter cited in telephone surveys is going to keep Paul’s poll digits low, but the fact that he routinely trounces the opposition in TV and Internet polls and has been widely lauded for shaking up the debates is hardly “meaningless” as Drum claims.

What’s really happening here is that, whether wittingly or unwittingly, the establishment minions are terrified that their perch on the peanut gallery can be so forcefully undermined by a grass roots rebellion against the stranglehold of the elite – who carefully screen presidential candidates year after year – ensuring only establishment lackeys ever have a chance of winning.

What the Ron Paul Revolution has created is bigger than whether or not Ron Paul will win the nomination in 2008.

This is about setting a benchmark and getting a foothold in an otherwise stage-managed and contrived electoral process, and having a candidate of the people front and center who the corporate media cannot possibly ignore.

In that sense, the Ron Paul phenomenon is far from “meaningless” and Kevin Drum is the one who needs to “grow up”, for his political infancy betrays a complete ignorance of what is taking place.

In addition, if Ron Paul is so “meaningless” then why is Drum, along with an army of other establishment media stooges and Neo-Con cult members, wasting his time in attacking the Congressman?

In the words of William Shakespeare, Methinks this CBS hack doth protest too much.

(Source: http://www.prisonplanet.com)

Defiant Korey Rowe: "I’m Not Going Anywhere"

Loose Change producer released, heads to Fort Campbell to clear his name

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, July 26, 2007

A defiant Korey Rowe promised his detractors “I’m not going anywhere” in a brief You Tube video last night after he was released from Fort Drum and headed to Fort Campbell to clear his name for good.

Rowe, an Iraq and Afghanistan combat veteran, is one of the producers of Loose Change, a wildly popular documentary that alleges U.S. government involvement in the 9/11 attack. He was arrested on Monday night on charges of desertion even though he had been out of the Army for two years and had made numerous public appearances since at which authorities could have apprehended him.

The 15 second You Tube clip was filmed at Boston Airport as Rowe prepared to depart for Fort Campbell Kentucky, watch the video below.

Rowe’s case is an obvious example of political persecution, his movements over the last two years have largely been public knowledge and the arrest was obviously timed to coincide with the upcoming cinematic release of Loose Change Final Cut, and intended as a chilling effect for the rest of the 9/11 truth community.

As we highlighted yesterday, the Army court-martialed just 5% of deserters last year, with that number dropping to just 1 per cent or less for the Navy and the Marines. Rowe had satisfactorily completed his tour of duty and yet was grabbed by police and handed over to military officials on the basis of a tip-off the authorities received.

9/11 truth debunkers like Michelle “put every Muslim in a concentration camp” Malkin and Neo-Con blowhards Newsbusters applauded the arrest of American citizens for their political viewpoints yesterday, lamenting the fact that Rowe had not been kidnapped sooner as a result of his activism.

This whole episode has been a public relations disaster for the authorities and the debunkers, and it will only serve in bringing more attention to the theatre debut of the Loose Change documentary, which is tentatively scheduled to be released on the weekend preceding September 11, 2007.

And as Korey Rowe defiantly stated, no matter what the Neo-Con press whores say about us and no matter what the authorities do to try and intimidate us – the 9/11 truth movement is here to stay and we are not going anywhere.

(Source: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/260707defiantrowe.htm)
(See also: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/250707rowearrested.htm)

Defiant Korey Rowe: "I’m Not Going Anywhere"

Loose Change producer released, heads to Fort Campbell to clear his name

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, July 26, 2007

A defiant Korey Rowe promised his detractors “I’m not going anywhere” in a brief You Tube video last night after he was released from Fort Drum and headed to Fort Campbell to clear his name for good.

Rowe, an Iraq and Afghanistan combat veteran, is one of the producers of Loose Change, a wildly popular documentary that alleges U.S. government involvement in the 9/11 attack. He was arrested on Monday night on charges of desertion even though he had been out of the Army for two years and had made numerous public appearances since at which authorities could have apprehended him.

The 15 second You Tube clip was filmed at Boston Airport as Rowe prepared to depart for Fort Campbell Kentucky, watch the video below.

Rowe’s case is an obvious example of political persecution, his movements over the last two years have largely been public knowledge and the arrest was obviously timed to coincide with the upcoming cinematic release of Loose Change Final Cut, and intended as a chilling effect for the rest of the 9/11 truth community.

As we highlighted yesterday, the Army court-martialed just 5% of deserters last year, with that number dropping to just 1 per cent or less for the Navy and the Marines. Rowe had satisfactorily completed his tour of duty and yet was grabbed by police and handed over to military officials on the basis of a tip-off the authorities received.

9/11 truth debunkers like Michelle “put every Muslim in a concentration camp” Malkin and Neo-Con blowhards Newsbusters applauded the arrest of American citizens for their political viewpoints yesterday, lamenting the fact that Rowe had not been kidnapped sooner as a result of his activism.

This whole episode has been a public relations disaster for the authorities and the debunkers, and it will only serve in bringing more attention to the theatre debut of the Loose Change documentary, which is tentatively scheduled to be released on the weekend preceding September 11, 2007.

And as Korey Rowe defiantly stated, no matter what the Neo-Con press whores say about us and no matter what the authorities do to try and intimidate us – the 9/11 truth movement is here to stay and we are not going anywhere.

(Source: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/260707defiantrowe.htm)
(See also: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/250707rowearrested.htm)