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Ladies & gents, this is how bad the corporate media really are. They cannot even report accurately on events they plan & produce themselves.

Ron Paul comes along and gives by most accounts of honest grassroots Americans the best performance in the first televised debate between GOP presidential contenders. Exclusively broadcast by MSNBC, Ron Paul led MSNBC's post election poll from start to finish with nearly a double digit margin over his nearest challenger Mitt Romney.

An even more resounding defeat of the rest of the pack occurred in an ABC News poll which at first had been posted on-line with only nine names on it. Ron Paul's being the one missing. Peeved Paul supporters who complained in the poll's comment section at first saw many of their posts ominously deleted some no doubt for language, others for editorial discretion bordering on the word that shall not be utteredunless by me. C E N S O R S H I P people! After someone posted the cell phone number of a Senior VP at ABC News, the Paul name was added to the poll.

With the silent treatment of Ron Paul becoming deafening, ABC News has now taken the "nothing to see here, move along" tact. Here is how they summed it up in their whitewash of the days that followed:

So are the polls missing a Paul boomlet? Is the famously contrarian ob-gyn a libertarian nicknamed "Dr. No" because of his propensity to vote against anything he believes contradicts the Constitution's original intent poised to surge into contention in the GOP field? Not likely. What's more likely, based on Web traffic over the past week, is that Paul supporters have mastered the art of "viral marketing," using Internet savvy and blog postings to create at least the perception of momentum for his long-shot presidential bid.

There is one glaring problem with this course of logic in the current ABC argument. There were almost 80,000 votes cast in the MSNBC poll just BEFORE the first televised debate. In that polling, the results came out just as the MSM media told us they should. McCain, Romney and Gulliani the leaders, Paul, Tancredo, Hunter and others just blips.

What ABC is trying to say now, however, is that those who cast these 80,000 votes suddenly evaporated and were mysteriously replaced by those coaxed on by a handful of Paul supporters and Internet savvy bloggers. Me thinks thou dost protest too much. Or picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. Take your pick.

The sad fact of the matter is that this is indicative of a concernted effort on

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