Why the Old Media Ignore Ron Paul by Thomas DiLorenzo

…..This, too, is why the media ignore Ron Paul. There are a few exceptions, but for the most part they have invested many years of schooling and work as propaganda mouthpieces for the state. They are as much a part of the state apparatus as is any government bureaucrat or any politician.

They are the essential tool of the state in dumbing down the general population so that it will peacefully acquiesce in the never-ending expansion of the state and the financial enrichment of all its functionaries, while losing their own freedom and prosperity at the same time. They are the paid professional liars who repeat, over and over, such absurdities as: “Higher taxes and more government spending will make us prosperous;” “taking naked x-ray photographs of everyone passing through airports is constitutional;” “the Constitution gives the president the right to bomb any country on the planet without consulting with anyone else, especially the Congress”; “the founding fathers thought it would be a good idea to place everyone’s freedom in the hands of five government lawyers with lifetime tenure (i.e., supreme court justices)”; “healthcare socialism will cause health care costs to decline”; “recessions and depressions are caused by sudden outbursts of greed and animal spirits” (according to John Maynard Keynes); “capitalists get rich by selling people products that harm or even kill them”; and on and on and on.

Having spent their entire careers spreading such absurd lies, the appearance of an educated, articulate truth teller like Congressman Ron Paul absolutely terrifies the media, for Ron Paul threatens to expose them, once and for all, as the frauds and enemies of the free society that they are. That is why it is imperative that the media do everything in its power to ignore and demonize Ron Paul and his millions of freedom-loving supporters.

So far, the biggest stumbling block in the way of the old media is the new media and Web sites like LewRockwell.com, which one can only hope will someday soon cause the demise of the gang of liars, deceivers, and propagandists known as “the mainstream media.”

November 16, 2011

Thomas J. DiLorenzo [send him mail] is professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland and the author of The Real Lincoln; Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed To Know about Dishonest Abe and How Capitalism Saved America. His latest book is Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution – And What It Means for America Today.

Copyright © 2011 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.

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