Soledad saying “flake” gave Dr. Paul a useful opportunity.

Overall I thought the interview was not bad, and it gave him more media coverage. Today is Money Bomb day!

I am amazed at the patience Dr. Paul has with these knuckleheads.

Tell it to Lee J. Cobb in On The Waterfront…..

But.

Scott’s letter was entirely appropriate, and not too harsh. Soledad probably makes about 100 times what Scott makes in a year, and yet she does only about 100-fold less work as a journalist.

She is a perfumed princess. Ideas are a marketplace, and the public must demand a better product all the time. Otherwise, we get…THAT.

It is better to be feared than loved……Chazz Palminteri (in A Bronx Tale)……quoting

MACHIAVELLI? DANTE? Vineyardsaker…..where are you now that I need you?

I don’t want to say that my comments are negative or positive-you should have another choice–neither! It was obvious that you do not believe that Congressman Ron Paul is correct in his views or that he has a chance, that’s OK, it’s not necessary for you to believe in him to do a good interview. There were very many good things about your interview with Congressman Ron Paul. You enabled him to explain his views on several topics without interrupting (as some have done.) I appreciate that, thanks. However, I do take exception to the “flake” comment. I believe that he has not been called a flake more than once or twice in the mainstream media. Why bring that up? What real purpose does that question serve? Mostly it is his followers that have been called “flaky.” We can take that, even if that is wrong also. We are: white, black, Hispanic, Oriental, students, business owners, retired, active military, veterans, peaceniks, agnostic, atheists, Muslim, Catholic, Baptist, right-wing, left-wing, used to be apathetic, always engaged, young, old–in other words lots of types of people. That can include a few kooks and nuts! That’s part of the package. But we are all Americans! And we all believe in our country as it was supposed to be. Please put another interview on your schedule for Congressman Ron Paul, he does have the support out there. Just like my comment above about having another choice, i.e. “neither,” Congressman Ron Paul is our choice.

Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. I have never written to a TV host before.

(This is not a spam letter.))

He selling out? Did he get his 30 pieces of silver?

pfttt! his middle name is sellout, even though he only worked for Perot for a month, that doesn’t excuse him from being a professional bullshit artist from the “Contract ON America” with his buddy Newt, to his “Language of the 21st Century”. he’s just another con man.

In interviews with ’serious’ candidates (i.e. those with a high probability of winning) the media always bow and scrape and soft ball their questioning. Why not question Guliani directly about his family members’ involvement in organised crime? Or his great ‘discovery’ that he had been married to his cousin for 15 years and urgently needed an enulment? How did he find out? Was he reading the family tree over breakfast one morning and made the big discovery? Why not question Hilary about her demands on Bill Clinton that he bomb Kosovo? Why not ask her how she feels about all the mass graves from this alleged genocide that international investigator have so far been unable to find? And what about the real graves of the real people that NATO really killed? How does she live with that? The media’s ‘hard ball’ and often ad hominem questioning of low probability candidates is exactly the opposite of what they do with low probability of winning candidates. So much for the media as the public’s watchdog.

Presumably this selective toughness is because the media companies want to cultivate their long term relationship with any incoming administration. Here in Australia we once had a leading state premier (equivalent of state governor under the US system), Queensland’s Joh Bjelke-Petersen, who used to refer to his press and media interviews as “feeding the chooks”, that’s Australian english for “feeding the chickens”. Joh’s phrase captured the real relationship between an administration and the media to a “t’. The media live off and fight over whatever corn their masters throw them.

Beyond that this Soledad O’Bryan is a stunning looking woman. Maybe Paul should ask her whether her brains or her looks helped the most in getting the Chicken Noodle News job!!

You can parse her question all you want, but we all know Ron Paul and his supporters have been referred to as “moonbats”, “crazies”, “loonies”, etc. by lots of people of “lesser” intelligence. The question was a fair question, and she gave plenty of time for a good answer.

If you’re actually for the Ron Paul cause, you’re hurting the movement more than helping it with letters like this.

Your comments to Soledad were very well expressed and succinct. Keeping your composure was admirable, too!

Bill,

Ron Paul Meetup Group, Greer, SC

Very well and succinctly expressed to Soledad. Keeping your composure is very much recognized also!

Bill,

Ron Paul Meetup Group, Greer, SC

You’re right and I’m being immature, but it worked on Nora O’Donnell or whatever her name is…

If so, perhaps you’ve met one of these (I know, this is a lot of sylallbles) obstetricians (say OB-steh-TRI-shans). They deliver babies. That means–if you have have ever tricked some poor man into impregnating you–you just might be lucky enough get their help. To be an OB-steh-TRI-shan, you need to go to school for a long, long time and learn lots of very difficult things. Like Organic Chemistry, Calculus, Advanced Anatomy and Physiology, Endocrinology, and of course how to be nice and pleasant to people who are screaming obscenities at you. I’m sure you are totally unfamiliar with such things, of course, but as it turns out, Dr. Paul is quite familiar with this. He has delivered 4000 babies and learned how to do it at places such as Duke Medical School.

If you have delivered 4000 babies you do not have the luxury of being flakey. You will lose your job.

This is different than reading words on a screen for a living, Soledad.

It’d be one thing if they made him come off as a total douche but they didn’t. So just stop and think. Quit with the mob mentality. This is not good for the campaign.

We should be thanking her for having him on the show, not getting pitch forks and torches!