Letters to the Editor
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1st wave of the Ron Paul Smear Tsunami Sighted!!!
It appears Ron Paul has finally been noticed by the MSM, now it is time to take him down!!!
I find the "journalism" as it is used in this instance to be beyond reprehensible and the fact that Fox News, Wired, ZDNEt among others and all organs of the MSM and owned by large corporations are the 1st to write of this "outrage" to be somewhat "curious".
Referring to the 1st article that prompted all this speculation and subsequent brouhaha:
(http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/10/paul_bot)
The biggest issue here is that there is not a clear understanding of causality here. The article implies that Paul's support is mostly composed of underhanded means, such as hacking polls and sending spam emails to create the illusion of support, when what's really at hand is one isolated botnet.
Now just because the botnet exists doesn't mean it created or fluffed up Ron Paul support. In fact, it's very likely that the spam only started going after Ron Paul had already become popular on the net, thus giving someone the idea of viably sending out Ron Paul spam.
The way the article is written is terrible in the sense that they imply an awful lot of things for the little fact that they have. It's writing that's very skewed and doesn't address the issue of the which way the causality points in this situation.
At least Salon comes at it from a new angle and doesn't imply that Ron Paul himself or his campaign is directly responsible for email spam appearing in peoples inboxes. For this, I thank you very much.