Ron Paul hits a home run after being interviewed by a very hot anchor shortly after winning the Iowa debate.
FOX News shows an amazing clip of Ron Paul at the Iowa debate on Aug 5. Then, Julie Banderas interviews Ron Paul in what may be one of the most civilized and fair interviews Ron Paul has had, yet.
Ron Paul is currently winning both the Drudge Report Iowa post-debate poll and the ABC News polls. However, a simple projection shows that Sam Brownback spammers will lead the race at the Drudge Report site, if Drudge Report doesn’t reset the poll soon.
In other news, ABC News reset their own poll while Ron Paul was dominating. However, after the reset, Ron Paul still dominates that poll.
It’s disappointing that the lamestream media’s* efforts to hold back Ron Paul have been fruitless on the internet. Here is a hint for you oldstream mediums: instead of resetting your polls, close the poll at an opportune moment, for example, when it is clear that Ron Paul’s rate of change will increase relative to that of other candidates; or keep it open if Sam Brownback is catching up.
UPDATE I: Sam Brownback about to pass Ron Paul
UPDATE II: Ron Paul continues to lead, but poll mysteriously disappears from drudgereport.com circa 4pm Pacific Time
UPDATE III (AUG 6): It appears we are wrong about ABC. They have two debate polls - one was run before and during the debate. The other was run afterward. Our sincere apologies to ABC News. See the first comment below.
UPDATE IV (AUG 7): According to Drudge Archives, Ron Paul won the debate.
*Also known as oldstream, or old media.
Tancredo suggested we bomb Muslim holy sites in retaliation for a future terrorist attack. Perhaps Tancredo wants to punish 99.9% of Muslims for a crime they did not commit. Perhaps Tancredo, like Rudy Giuliani, needs to learn about blowback.
I suppose Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina among other majority Muslim countries are going to applaud Tancredo and the United States for turning Mecca into a glass crater. I’m sure bombing Mecca will have no negative consequences in regard to our political and economic situation.
Of course, this is not the first time such a ridiculous strategy has been suggested. You may recall when President Bush allegedly expressed his desire to bomb Al-Jazeera in 2004; while this story may not be true, two British journalists were charged with disclosing secret information.
It is curious that when it is done to us it constitutes terrorism. But when we terrorize others, somehow it is not classified as terrorism. I think threatening 1.5 billion people and a symbol of their religion constitutes terrorism; but maybe the modern definition of terrorism doesn’t have anything to do with terror anymore.
For a psychological perspective on this phenomenon read the following article by Shankar Vedantam: Disagree About Iraq? You’re Not Just Wrong — You’re Evil.
Partisans within ideological groups tended to view themselves as atypical vis-a-vis their group: atypical in their moderation, in their freedom from bias, and in their capacity to ’see things as they are in reality’ even when that reality proves to be ideologically inconvenient or ‘politically incorrect’. –Harvard Business School researcher Robert J. Robinson
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