Writes John Flanagan: "Not that folks of our generation ever really thought the MSM didn't like negative campaigns, especially the income streams provided by them, yet I suspect the Good Doctor gets no respect because he's entirely too positive in his assertions concerning the negative aspects of government, especially those 'reforms' of about a century ago in regard to Wizard of Oz banking and executive bellicosity. No matter his understated manner, when Dr. Paul criticizes government programs, more and more folks are hearing loudly that we have substituted error for chance. The MSM, of course, have a vested conflict of interest in supporting the error. With the grace exemplified by his genteel opposition, the MSM would rather not recall that they ever declaimed that style was critically important to 'democratic' debate.

"In fact, Lew, it's why folks of our generation and political bent are rejoicing over their (the MSM) shrinking audience, because even though it has taken fifty some years, a new agora, the Internet, credits our favorite politician as he deserves. Truth never needed a gatekeeper. Truth never wanted one either. This new system of pamphlets on a tree is working, as to content and tone. You get the idea that Socrates would have been more open to the value of the written word with this electronic forum now available, and that he would have welcomed no one more warmly into the fray than the truth seeking polymath from Texas."