I just posted over at the Revolution PAC blog:
The stories of bizarre if predictable media treatment (or non-treatment, as the case may be) of Ron Paul’s very strong showing in Iowa are multiplying. We at Revolution PAC issued a release within moments of the straw poll results on Saturday that assessed the significance of Congressman Paul’s success. For a candidate who challenges every major assumption of the political class, and who defies the entire spectrum of opinion on issues of crucial importance, to have such an encouraging result, just a hair’s breadth away from a local favorite who featured a concert by Randy Travis at her tent and whose ideology is much more congenial to conventional Iowa GOPers, is extremely noteworthy. Or so one might think.
We won’t review all the crazy and creepy stories of media personalities pretending Ron Paul doesn’t exist, even in the wake of the straw poll in Ames. A whole bunch of them are being discussed over at the Daily Paul. For now, I find it particularly interesting that Rick Santorum, former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and obviously one of the big losers in Ames — he lost to Tim Pawlenty by 600 votes, and Pawlenty considered his showing so poor that he dropped out of the race — is being described as a serious candidate coming out of Iowa. Politico says he got a “bump,” the American Spectator is buzzing about him, and the Washington Post can’t say enough about — get this — his foreign-policy knowledge.
