http://m.examiner.com/independent-in-salt-lake-city/why-did-fox-exclude-veterans-for-ron-paul-from-recent-segmentRon Paul has claimed that he receives more money from active duty military than all of the other remaining Republican candidates put together. Many people who believe the pundits when they insist Paul's foreign policy is dangerous and naive wonder if Paul's claim is true. Well, it is.
In fact, Paul was being modest; he could have further detailed that he actually received five times more than Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum (from January 2011 to September 2011) -- put together. You can even throw in military donations for Obama in with the Republican candidates, and Paul still beats all of them. It was the same story for Paul in 2007-2008. In the fourth quarter of 2007 alone, Paul raised $212,000 from active military; Obama was second with $94,000. Mitt Romney's top three donors during the 2012 campaign season came from Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse Group, and Morgan Stanley. Ron Paul's top three? Army, Navy, and Air Force.
Of course, just because Paul receives more campaign donations from active duty military does not mean he has nailed down every single veteran's vote. A Boston Globe article on Saturday surmised that Paul may do better with post-9/11 veterans "who are emblematic of the generational divide over the role of the military" than older "Cold War" veterans. But Paul is clearly the chosen leader among veterans and has received substantial support from both active duty military and veterans of all eras. There are tens of thousands of veterans supporting him on various Facebook pages (far more than I could find for any other candidate), and they are certainly from more than just post-9/11.
So in light of these facts, it is even more shocking that Fox News ran two segments (one Friday and one on Sunday) about which candidate veterans support, and yet failed to have a veteran on who supported Paul, when they had one each for Romney, for Gingrich, and for Santorum in both segments. Fox News did ask one of the veterans about Paul on Friday, to which she replied that she doubted Paul's claim about receiving more money from the military than the other candidates was even true. Fox did not correct her with any facts, and since they didn't have a Paul supporter on no one could dispute what she said. So once again, either Fox is showing their ugly prejudice towards Ron Paul or they are just really inept at doing their job and finding a veterans who supports him.
