This video certainly isn’t new to the assembled Paul backers, but I simply wanted to have quick access to a URL of the video for easy dissemination.

Whether you love or hate Ron Paul (or still aren’t sure who that is) , every American should be offended at a news organization unilaterally deciding who is a serious candidate and what ideas are worth considering.

For the contextual understanding of those not familiar with this situation, this is from the South Carolina debate held on January 9. The previous week, Fox News held a candidate forum (their euphemism for a debate without lecterns) in New Hampshire, and Ron Paul was not included. That in spite of the fact that he was fresh off a 10% showing in Iowa – resoundingly beating the included Rudy Giuliani (3.5%) – and in New Hampshire was polling well ahead of Da Maya and Fred Thompson (also invited), and close to the Iowa winner Mike Huckabee. Objective criteria could have been cited to limit the debate to just the top 3 (McCain, Romney and Huckabee), but not for the configuration that was invited. Fox didn’t even feign that objective criteria was employed in determining the invitees. They alone decided to invite those they deemed as ‘electable’.

After having it crammed down their throats, Fox invited Paul to the SC debate. Obviously, there was a bad taste in their mouth over the fallout from excluding Paul in the forum. In addition to jeers from Paulites, their competitors repeatedly noted the arrogance of Fox to exclude a candidate who had pulled in 10% of the votes in Iowa based on their own judgment of what constitutes ‘electability’. Even Shepherd Smith and Greta Van Sustern (two of Fox’s bigger names) lobbied for Paul’s inclusion in the forum, to no avail.

For Mr. Cameron and the rest of the motley gang at Fox, I have a better question.

“Mr. Cameron – on the subject of credibility – Do you have any, sir?”