It's not Liberal, it's Corporate

The saddening and unfortunate truth about Congressman Ron Paul and his followers is that despite the fact that he and his followers champion the original ideals of the Republican Party embraced by such names as Lincoln, Roosevelt and Reagan, they are forever cursed with the stigma of being crazy.

If you believe what the mainstream media has to say, the typical profile of a Ron Paul supporter is an overweight white guy pale from not getting enough sun with too much time and money on his hands who types away with Cheeto stained hands at a keyboard with World of Warcraft minimized in the background talking about 9/11 conspiracies. Read: Libertarians and hardcore, xenophobic progressives.

While the above description is in many ways inaccurate, it is well-known how the media has the tendency to vilify anyone and anything who doesn't cater to their heroin-like addiction to ratings and corporate interests. Representative Dennis Kucinich has the same problem as Paul on the current campaign trail as well as during the 2004 primaries. Despite every network's claims of being balanced and fair, among many members of the press (a notoriously superstitious and cowardly lot), it's common knowledge that these claims are full of it.

If you were to take Paul and Kucinich's campaign coverage over the last six months and combine them, they wouldn't come close to the amount of coverage Brittany Spears received on the major networks the morning after the New Hampshire primaries. This is sad.