Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart is speaking out over what he believes is the media’s decision to unfairly ignore Ron Paul as a serious candidate — even after he placed second in the Ames straw poll in Iowa.
Stewart showed clips of major networks crowning a “top tier” of candidates — Michele Bachman, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney — while failing to mention Paul.
“We are certainly disappointed, and we think that people are missing a very big story here,” Jesse Benton, Paul’s campaign manager, told Politico. “You look at ’07, and Mike Huckabee was able to turn what was a very weak second place — Mitt Romney had 4,516 votes and Huckabee had 2,587 — into a huge national story.”
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