Patriot,

First, thank you for all of your efforts calling Congress this
week to oppose the renewal and expansion of mass warrantless
surveillance under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act.

Thanks to you, the bill was not passed in the House . . . for
now.

As this was a critical battle, it demanded our focus. But it was
not the only story.

In my most recent column (read it below), I noted the stunning
success of Tucker Carlson, who was fired from Fox News for the
content of his speech, who (like me) now produces his own content
on the Internet.

His interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week now
has over 200 million views, proving once and for all that the
American people are sick to death of mass media propagandists and
liars.

This - along with overwhelming public opposition to warrantless
Deep State spying on the American people, so much that the House
of Representatives could not find the votes to put the bill on
the floor - gives me great hope that the American people are
wising up to the elites' schemes to control and diminish our
lives.

Read the full column below, and if you support Campaign for
Liberty's continued fights for freedom and privacy, please
support Campaign for Liberty with a contribution.
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For Liberty,

Ron Paul

Tucker Slayed the Mainstream Media Dragon

There has been much written and said about Tucker Carlson's
interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. As of
this writing the video on Twitter alone has been viewed nearly
200 million times, making it likely the most-viewed news event in
history.

Many millions of viewers who may not have had access to the other
side of the story were informed that the Russia/Ukraine military
conflict did not begin in 2022, as the mainstream media
continuously reports, but in fact began eight years earlier with
a US-backed coup in Ukraine. The US media does not report this
because they don't want Americans to begin questioning our
interventionist foreign policy. They don't want Americans to see
that our government meddling in the affairs of other countries -
whether by "color revolution," sanctions, or bombs - has real and
deadly consequences to those on the receiving end of our foreign
policy.

To me, however, perhaps the most interesting aspect of the Tucker
Carlson interview with Putin was the US mainstream media
reaction. As Putin himself said during the interview, "in the
world of propaganda, it's very difficult to defeat the United
States." Even a casual look at the US mainstream media's
reporting before and after the interview would show how correct
he is about that. In the days and weeks before the interview, the
US media was filled with stories about how horrible it was that
Tucker Carlson was interviewing the Russian president. There was
the danger, they all said, that Putin might spread
"disinformation."

That Putin might say something to put his country in a better
light was, they were saying, reason enough to not interview him.
With that logic, why have journalism at all? Everyone interviewed
by journalists - certainly every world leader - will attempt to
paint a rosy picture. The job of a journalist in a free society
should be to do the reporting and let the people decide. But
somehow that has been lost. These days the mainstream media tells
you what to think and you better not dispute it or you will be
cancelled!

What the US mainstream media was really worried about was that
the "other side of the story" might start to ring true with the
public. So they attacked the messenger.

The CNN reporting on Tucker's interview pretty much sums up the
reaction across the board of the US mainstream media. Their
headline read, "Tucker Carlson is in Russia to interview Putin.
He's already doing the bidding of the Kremlin."

By merely doing what used to be called "journalism" -
interviewing and reporting on people and events, whether good or
bad - one is "doing the bidding" of the subject of the interview
or report?

No wonder fellow journalist Julian Assange has been locked away
in a gulag for so many years. He dared to assume that in a free
society, being a journalist means reporting the good, the bad,
and the ugly even if it puts those in power in a bad light.

In the end, the massive success of the Tucker Carlson interview
with Vladimir Putin demonstrates once and for all that the
American people are sick to death of their mainstream media
propagandists and liars. They are looking not for government
narratives, but for truth. That's the really good news about this
interview.
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