FOX News Does Ron Paul Good With Fair And Balanced Article

September 3rd, 2008 8:56 am  |  by Marc Gallagher  |  Published in Activism, Big Government, Constitution, Election, FOX news, Foreign Policy, Free Market, Liberty, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Ron Paul, Taxes, War  |  Comments

FOX News reported rather positively (for a change) on Ron Paul’s Rally For The Republic held yesterday. There is a time to give credit where credit is due even in the face of other criticism. This report by FOX was unbiased in its entirety and could even be considered pro-Paul. It would have been nice to see this kind of reporting from FOX during Ron Paul’s primary campaign.  Maybe Paul is starting to change some minds. Thank you Kelley Beaucar Vlahos.

MINNEAPOLIS — Ron Paul’s “Rally for the Republic” culminated Tuesday night with a speech from the man himself, who urged his supporters to advance their cause of limited government with “peaceful civil disobedience” and to beware of “counterfeit” ideas of change coming from the two major political parties.

The unsuccessful Republican candidate for president told the estimated crowd of 12,000 boisterous supporters that while he would not take credit for the growth of their movement over the last year, “I would hope that our efforts did a lot to speed up the revolution, which was coming anyway.”

He and earlier speakers throughout the day directed much of their criticism at the other event across the way in St. Paul — the Republican National Convention — where they said Republicans, and specifically conservatives, who had lost their way continued to stifle alternative views within the party.

In fact, they have endured “treatment of exclusion, of marginalizing and just making fun of what we are doing,” said the 10-term congressman from Texas. “It didn’t surprise me much. But the more they did that the more it seemed to energize you more.”

Paul had earlier lamented that not only had he been denied a speaking role at the GOP convention, but he has been given limited access to the floor of the Xcel Energy Center – something he didn’t have o contend with as a simple congressman at conventions past. His candidacy has been less than welcomed by the GOP establishment, and despite getting 1.2 million votes in the state primaries, efforts by his delegates at the convention will likely lose out on attempts to have him officially recognized.

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