According to the SFGate:

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has decided not to campaign for any of the 2008 U.S. presidential candidates, because none of the politicians in the running “inspire” him.

The star, 32, was a staunch advocate of Democratic hopeful Senator John Kerry during 2004′s presidential election and even traveled across 14 states to rally support and raise funds for him.

But DiCaprio admits the frontrunners for 2008′s election — Democratic candidates senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and Republican Ron Paul — have yet to catch his attention with their environmental policies.

But if you ask ABC, you get a distorted view according to Dr. Paul Levinson:

if ABC did what it looks like it did in the video – if it deliberately gave the impression that Ron Paul had just one supporter when in fact he had many – then ABC should know that it has acted in the tradition of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, in the dangerous deceptive manner of totalitarian societies not democracies.

I will have another example of media misconduct to teach to my class this Fall, which I would be happier not having at all. For ABC News, this represents the third strike: removing comments of Ron Paul supporters, misreporting the results of its own poll, making Ron Paul’s supporters look fewer than they really were. When will it end?

Paul Levinson, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Communication and Media Studies
Fordham University

So what’s really going on? We can’t ask the media, because they are obviously lying most of the time, so maybe we will have to see if in spite of the GOP censoring of Ron Paul, he still manages to do well in the infamous Ames Straw poll.

I find it strange that Ron Paul already has supporters who are stating that they would take a bullet for him, but the media constantly pretends like he has no real world support.

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