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In the past few days I’ve seen a lot of commotion about the first Republican presidential “debate”, set for a few months from now.  The biggest deal is about the number of candidates who may appear on the stage: some are counting as many as 19.  And there’s the mess going on right now with George Stephanopoulos: the ABC whateverhedoes and how he donated $75,000 to the Clintons: common sense would be that no “journalist” that blatantly compromised would serve as moderator for any debate, much less a Republican one.

Then again, I haven’t been impressed by any moderator of presidential politics in recent years.  Don’t even get me started on the Fox News guy who blatantly asked Ron Paul during one of the early debates if he seriously thought he was a presidential contender.  If that wasn’t biased journalism, then I don’t know what is.

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“Bullcrap”.

(Only at the last minute did I change that word before posting from something else.)

And some of you still think this is a free country with a legitimate press?

Some of you even dare think that these are the people that we should give our prayers and support to?

Tonight Lisa and I watched The Remains of the Day on our DVD player. Probably Anthony Hopkins’s finest film role ever. That line he says toward the end has never failed to haunt me…

“I’m sorry sir, I was too busy serving to listen to the speeches.”

Some of us do listen to the speeches, regardless of how many other people are too damned occupied with American Idol or Britney Spears’s underwear or with the dog-and-pony show that the mainstream media and the party bigwigs and the power-mongers in our own government parade in front of us… as if ...

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If only YouTube had existed in 2000…

In October of 2000 I was a reporter with an independent newspaper. And – through legitimate channels mind ya – I had been given an invitation to attend a rally for George W. Bush during the presidential debate at Wake Forest University. I was hoping to get a chance to ask Bush a few questions: nothing rude mind ya, but I was gonna try to make the most of the opportunity.

Bush staff found out that some “non-corporate” journalists were there and sent Winston-Salem police to track us down. One of them demanded to see my driver’s license and I asked why. About then a Bush staffer with a bullhorn came over and told me that I should do what she says “because whenever someone in a uniform tells you something you’re supposed to obey.”

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I missed this the first time but it’s been confirmed: during tonight’s debate (actually last night’s debate since it’s now way early Wednesday morning) Rudolph Giuliani said that we need to use the American military for more “nation building”.

Seven years ago George W. Bush said that we shouldn’t engage in “nation-building”. He went ahead and did it anyway. It didn’t work. And now tonight Giuliani said he wants to do more of it.

If this guy does get nominated and then winds up actually elected President, then… I don’t know what else to say, except that we will be screwed as a nation and we will probably have deserved it.

Like I said last month: when the “front runner” of the Republican party is a pro-abortion, anti-Second Amendment, pro-amnesty for illegals, pro-“nation building”, pro-big government in every way, drag queen…

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Tonight’s debate in New Hampshire among the Republican candidates has been over for almost an hour and a half. For every other debate in the past month or so Matt Drudge has posted on his Drudge Report site a readers’ poll on who they thought won the debate.

So far, one for tonight’s hasn’t appeared.

Could it be that Drudge is afraid that his poll will show what a lot of others (heck, most others) are showing: intense support for Ron Paul?

I’m going to wait for awhile tonight, and see if he does run one. If he doesn’t, I’ll have some more thoughts about what this means Drudge has become.

EDIT 11:04 p.m. EST: Okay, here’s what I think…

For all the hooplah ever since Drudge burst on the scene about ten years about being “alternative media”, Matt Drudge has… well, become too much like mainstream media.

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So far McCain has spoken for more than 6 minutes. Guiliani for almost 5. Romney for a little over 5. They’re being asked just about all the questions.

Ron Paul has been given two questions and has only spoken for 2 minutes.

The other “non-front runners” are being given fewer questions and camera time, too.

This “debate” is a farce. It’s protecting the ones the “mainstream” press wants to impress into people’s minds are the only ones “worth considering”.

For some reason, the last week or so I’ve gone back to reading Nineteen Eighty-Four. I don’t know what’s happened in the years since I last picked up that book, but it’s like I can see this book coming to pass a lot more than I ever had before. This kind of consciously playing with people’s perceptions is one example.

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He’s right.

The biggest attacks against Dr. Paul for his comments on terrorism and 9/11 are coming mostly from those who proudly call themselves “neoconservatives”: the ones who can’t get enough of American intervention in the rest of the world. And that’s what has invited so much hatred against America to begin with. I defy anyone to tell me that there hasn’t been a correlation between our trying to be the world’s policeman, and anti-American sentiment.

As for Rudy Giuliani’s tantrum: to me it seemed more like an act of desperation than something of solid principle. So he took what Paul said out of context and tried to spin it to make Paul look like a “kook”.

But I’ve no problem with what Ron Paul said last night. It was an honest and intelligent answer. What else are we supposed to want out of a potential future President?...

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