Rejoice: Our NBC Boycott Ends On Two Notes
 Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

In January, we posted an article on the Florida Republican Debate, entitled "MSNBC Joins Media Censoring Ron Paul."  It was about the GOP national debate on MSNBC, and how Republican presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul were allotted less speaking time than fellow contenders (at the time):  Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and John McCain.  We posted a petition to MSNBC for equal coverage, and a vow to boycott the channel if amends weren't made.

In the sense that we requested, our petition went unanswered.  However, my boycott of all things NBC ends this week on two notes.

The first note being, Ron Paul was actually interviewed on CNBC (same parent company) this week.  On Kudlow & Company March 20th, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera filled in on "Right on America" for Larry Kudlow, who had the night off.  And she interviewed Congressman Ron Paul on whether we should abolish the Federal Reserve and what would happen if our currency returned to the gold standard:  for 6 minutes and 26 seconds.

Caruso-Cabrera said, "Make the case."  And turned the mike over to Paul and he was allowed to speak without an unbalanced timer.  This may be the first time Paul has been granted by a network a glimpse of the media coverage other candidates have snatched up all year.

"The first reason is, it's not authorized in the Constitution, so it's an illegal institution," Paul began.  "And the second reason:  it's an immoral institution, because we have delivered to a secretive body the privilege of creating money out of thin air - if you or I did it, we'd be called counterfeiters, so why have we legalized counterfeiting?"

"But the economic reasons are overwhelming:  the Federal Reserve is the creature that destroys value...This station talks about free market capitalism; and you can't have free market capitalism if you have a secret bank creating money and credit out of thin air - they become the central planners, they decide what interest rates should be, what the supply of money should be..."

Is there any wonder now as to why network bigwigs MSNBC & CNN didn't want to give him too much time to talk in the GOP debates?  Of course, that sentence got cut off - Caruso-Cabrera's producers were probably jumping up and down.  I kid, I kid.

Not only did CNBC's Kudlow & Company allow Paul to speak, but they actually provided a Free Market expert that agreed with him.  I nearly fainted.

I have never tuned into Kudlow & Company before, but I plan to check it out now (it's live Monday - Friday, at 7 pm EST).

So today, if you can, take a moment to thank Kudlow & Company for giving one of our presidential candidates some of the airtime he deserved in the first place - as anyone who is still in this presidential race does.

None of them should be censored, whether we agree with them or not.

The second reason NBC is off of our boycott list is because of Keith Olbermann. After Thursday's video, we're committed to keeping up to date with the Countdown.  With raw truth at a minimum in the news these days, Keith Olbermann is as refreshing as the first day of Spring when it comes to the current ongoings of our troops in the Middle East, and the actions and statements of the current administration.

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