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The Ron Paul movement has been born and bred on the strength of the Internet. Ron Paul's anti tax, anti war, anti big government is the platform that is motivating the most apathetic voter. He is speaking to the masses in the words of our founding fathers. Ron Paul is willing to stand up for the Constitution; a most unpopular position in the eyes of current politicos.

Nevertheless, how has Ron Paul been able to get his word out? It certainly has not been from mainstream media. Currently if the media does not report a story, no one hears what took place and therefore nothing apparently happened. In the debates, Ron Paul's name is usually omitted from the results during public broadcasts.

One example of this slighting by the press is when Ron Paul came in second in the debate in May 2007; the public did not hear this from any mainstream information agency. Instead, it was the grass roots movement that broadcast this information on the Internet.

During the televised June debates, Ron Paul was expressing to the audience that Congress never authorized the Iraqi War; at this time a Fox News lackey thought it would discredit Dr. Paul if Rudy Giuliani's microphone allowed the audience to hear him chortle ludicrously at Paul's discussion. At the same time, the TV screen was split with Giuliani laughing like a school girl on one side and Ron Paul attempting to make a point on the other.

Another illustration of this snubbing by mainstream media came when ABC did not include Ron Paul's name in their results of this debate. The response was a deluge of emails and phone calls from the outraged public. The lesson that should have been learned is that Americans these days speak out electronically. Corporate media has no intention of allowing a Constitutional candidate to be held positively in the public eye.

After the October Republican debate, CNBC ran an online survey of all the candidates. Support for Ron Paul was so prevalent that a startled CNBC took the poll off their website. In response, Alan Wastler, Managing editor tried to appease the Ron Paul supporters with an open letter indicating their overwhelming response to the poll skewed the results. He indicated, "(the poll) was no longer an honest show of hands but instead a platform for beating the Ron Paul drum."

Interestingly enough, the attention that Ron Paul is given by mainstream media is that which is slanderous and disrespectful. Kevin Drum of CBS called Ron Paul a "Meaningless Fruitcake" with "No Change of Winning."

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