James Robert Kelley

(Update May 9, 2008: Looks like CNN felt the heavy weight of my post, and updated their site.  Ok, maybe they don’t even know I exist, whatever).

I probably sound like a broken record, harping about the evil deeds the media does to Ron Paul this election cycle. Today I discovered another evil deed, and it definitely show a strong desire to keep the viewing sheeple calm and under control.

Indiana and North Carolina recently held their primaries, which led me to CNN’s website to see the delegate counts. I was interested in knowing if Ron Paul was able to pick up any delegates, now that he is the only guy running against McCain. Here is a screen shot from the CNN “Election Center 2008″ page:

This screen shot was taken early on Thursday May 8, 2008. CNN posted the Democrat delegate counts as they came in, but after more than a day passed I started to wonder if they were even awarding delegates on the Republican side. Then the aweful truth set in, Ron Paul must have won some delegates and the establishment does not want anyone to know!

Why would they care? The establishment, whoever they are, want us all to be calm little sheeple. If the presumptive nominiee is not mopping up all of the delegate, it means there is dissention in the party ranks. We cannot have any dissent! This set me on a fact finding mission, to see if Ron Paul had in fact picked up any delegates. I didn’t know if he would have, since he only scored 8% of the vote, but I had to know if my suspicion was correct.

My next stop was the Republican Party of Indiana’s website. There was ZERO information on their site that I could find. It seems like this primary was a total snoozer in Indiana. So I stopped by the North Carolina Republican Party website and could not find any useful information. I did find something that further increased my suspicions on on North Carolina Republican Party Candidates webpage:

Notice anything missing? They have on the page, in more detail than I’ve shown in this snip, a full list of candidates for the various offices in North Carolina. We can see that Senator Elizabeth Dole was facing competition from Pete DiLauro, etc. This missing part should be in the list of candidates running for President. It ONLY lists John McCain! Unbelievable! Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul were both on the ballot in North Carolina. Ron Paul is still officially in the race, yet his name is not on the list.

Basically, the NC GOP is telling us to not look behind the curtain and be loyal party sheeple, don’t question, just vote for the guy we ordained.

So, after that little journey, I still did not have my question answered. Did Ron Paul win any delegates? Is CNN and the Republican Party trying to hide the truth from us? A couple searches on Google turned up a result from an AOL webpage detailing North Carolina primary results, surely maintained by someone who has a lust for numbers and technology with little regard for politics:

There, My Friends, is the proof. AOL somehow let this one slip. Ron Paul won 5 delegates. So much for party sheeple, we still have a few people out there willing to think for themselves. Maybe, if the media will just report and not decide, the rest of America can wake up and break free from their TVs.

The LA Times has a writeup on Republican Senator Tom McClintock, the second favorite Republican in California ( right behind the Governator Arnold ).

Senator McClintock had previously endorsed Fred Thompson, who recently dropped out of the race.  While the Senator has not offically announced his new preference, the following quotes tell us where he is leaning:

“If I were to vote today, I probably would be casting a vote for Ron Paul. I’m not voting today.” -Senator McClintock

This was followed by, “I do believe he will respect our Constitu.. I don’t want to go too far. I am still looking.” -Senator McClintock

The Senator is obviously not wanting to jump too fast, but it seems that Ron Paul is his favored candidate.

When looking at the national makeup, it seems that the West Coast seems to favor candidates that are more “out of the box.”  California is a state that loves anything out of the ordinary, so Ron Paul could find a lot of welcoming arms.

What is going on with Fox News? Fox News used to consume a major portion of my time, as I watched the channel starting with Bill O’Reilly and wouldn’t turn the TV off until after midnight. I was a staunch defender of Fox News at the time, now I wonder if I was brain washed, as many times I would doze off while the news segments were running.

Now I have some proof of this, their constant hypnotic affirmations of “Fair and Balanced” have proven to be untrue. Over the summer I became a Ron Paul supporter, mainly due to my disaffection with overly groomed politicians and Ron Paul’s desire to rid America of the IRS. This support has caused me to take a more critical look at Fox News, since they have established a pattern of minimalising Ron Paul.

The proof keeps flowing in, in the form of barring him from a debate and now the coverage of the Nevada Caucus. Here is a test; Take a glance of this Fox News coverage of the Nevada Caucus:

Now that you have taken a look, who is winning? If you guessed Romney, you score one point. Who is coming in second at this point? If you guessed McCain, you score another point. Who is coming in third? If you guessed Huckabee, you lose 10 points, because you are yet another Mass Media Moron. Ron Paul, at this point in the tabulation of votes is in third, with Entrance Polls having him come in second.

Why would Fox News show Huckabee instead of Ron Paul? Good question, maybe I’ll blog about that another day, but it does show one fact: Fox News is NOT fair or balanced.