Stories Have Been Popping Up about Ron Paul Being Left Out of the Fox Debate
After Calls to Fox News, RonPaul2008 and Speaking with the NH GOP press spokesman, This is Still Rumor
No One will Confirm this as of 4:30 pm December 29, 2007
Still Only a Rumor at this point
Has Ron Paul Really Been Excluded From the Republican Debate on Fox News?
Rumor or News?
After seeing numerous stories pop up in the last hour about Fox News excluding Ron Paul from the Fox News debates, DBKP decided to check on it.
Lew Rockwell, US Daily News and other Internet sites report Fox News has excluded Paul from their debates; there’s even a quote from the Boston Globe.
“They are scared of me and don’t want my message to get out, but it will,” Paul said in an interview at a diner here. “They are propagandists for this war and I challenge them on the notion that they are conservative.”
As we type, we can find NO evidence that Ron Paul has been excluded.
Numerous Ron Paul websites and some news stories all have appeared, each citing an unsourced “AP story” that the Texas Congressman from Texas is going to be left out of the debate the week before New Hampshire.
DBKP called Fox News in New York and were told that no spokesman was available and that there was no one there that knew anything about the exclusion of Ron Paul.
UPDATE: 7:20 pm - Fox News is not excluding Ron Paul. However, Paul supporters may want to voice their disapproval with the New Hampshire Republican Party, which is holding a Forum the day after the ABC debates–and did not invite Ron Paul.
UPDATE: 7:40 pm -
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Ron Paul Exclusion From Fox Debate Only Rumor at this Point
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Ron Paul Exclusion From Fox Debate Only Rumor at this Point
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His campaign says he has not been invited…
Of it is “only a rumor”. Don’t be fooled they will not confirm or deny it until the last possible moment so his supporter will have less time to organize.
Plan on being at the debate Jan 6th regardless of Fox’s final decision.
Well if it’s just a rumor, it sure wouldn’t take Fox News very long to dispel the rumor by letting us know, eh? A 30 second phone call to the RP campaign.
His campaign release has a “?” on it and after speaking with his campaign in the last 40 minutes, they say “We don’t know. We heard it too.”
A 30-second phone call to the RP HQ is exactly what we did. You should do it too, ‘R’.
It wouldn’t take you long to dispel it either. Why wait for Fox? Cut out the middle man here.
No. it is an established fact here, not a “rumor”.
The other five candidates were formally invited to attend the debates (and they have already accepted the invitiations), and thus are officially included. Dr. Ron Paul was totally shutout from the whole process, and never even given an invitation to the debates. That means he cannot enter or participate in the debates.
There is still time to bombard the NH State GOP and FOX News Corp and demand that they send out an invitation to Dr. Paul. Everyone should be doing that now. This is an attempt to obstruct our whole Democratic election process when some outside organization is granted to the sole power to determine who can be put on TV and who is disqualified. Ron Paul is the leading candidate in 4th-quarter fundraising. His support has been rising, while the support for other candidates has been sinking. There is no basis whatsoever for his disqualification.
Take action and storm the gates of the NH State GOP and Fox News Corp. until they back down, and finally grant to Ron Paul his deserved invitation.
Liberty Baby:
If it is as you say, I agree that this is not right.
HOWEVER, when asked if Ron Paul had been excluded, his campaign says “We don’t know”. Doesn’t that seem odd?
In fact, we were in the middle of writing a story saying we didn’t think it was right, when the question was asked, “How do we know this is true?”
After 2 hours of calls, emails and checking, we still don’t know that Paul’s exclusion is fact.
Do you a source for your information? We can not find any sources that say that.
That doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened, we’d just like to know how do you know?
Thanks for commenting and let me know, please. Thanks a million!
This is bizarre, and smells suspiciously like another case of a news organization making its own news story. Are we bringing in a Nevada brothel owner or a commemorative coin dealer for this one?
Darryl:
hahaha….you know, we’re still unraveling things at 7:50 pm Saturday the 29th.
At this point, the NH Forum sponsored by the NH Republican Party didn’t invite Paul. It is being broadcast on Fox, but the NH GOP issued the invitations.
We have report of a statement from [Paul spokesman] Jesse Benton that the NH GOP is saying it’s Fox’s fault.
Sounds like the NH GOP is taking some heat on it.
Their press spokesman told me to they weren’t going to answer any questions on this topic.
I’m actually not a Ron Paul supporter but believe it’s totally unfair not to include Dr. Paul in the FOX News debate.
I’m working off a report from the Boston Globe and I have a post up about it. If any of you have more recent clarification on the story, please let me know.
http://thepoliticalpost.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/ron-paul-excluded-from-fox-news-debate-in-new-hampshire/
How the hell is this a rumor. Dr Paul has NOT recieved an invitation. He is an educated man. His staffers are educated people. They would know if they received an invitation to a forum or not.
GOP candidates to meet in N.H. forum
WASHINGTON (AP) — The New Hampshire Republican Party is sponsoring a forum for Republican presidential candidates on Jan. 6, two days before the state’s first-in-the-nation primary.
The forum, where the candidates will be questioned by Fox New Channel’s Chris Wallace, will be held a day after ABC holds back to back Democratic and Republican presidential debates.
“Never underestimate New Hampshire voters’ appetite for politics,” said Fergus Cullen, the chairman of the state Republican Party.
Participating in the forum will be Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson.
Unlike a debate, the candidates will face questions from Wallace around a table in a studio on the campus of St. Anselm College in Goffstown, N.H.. The 90-minute encounter will air live beginning at 8 p.m. ET on the Fox News Channel and on Fox News Radio.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iNxTApa2sQRu0Xx99P3jt2bEXw7gD8TQ2N282
There is no mention of excluding Ron Paul, there is no mention of Ron Paul. There is only the chosen five. I expect that Ron Paul will likely end up participating due to popular demand.
Ron Paul NOT excluded from Fox debate
Some sloppy reporting, instant web indignation, and holiday vacations produced a surge of hysteria that might have been avoided.
http://www.nolanchart.com/article797.html
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