Bob Barr will appear on FOX News Sunday with host Chris Wallace this Sunday, June 29th. The show airs on local FOX affiliates across the country and at 6pm on Sunday evening on the FOX News channel. To find out when it will be on in your area check the schedule here.
With this appearance and the already scheduled ABC “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” interview for July 6th I think it is now officially safe to say Bob Barr is getting more media exposure than any previous Libertarian Party candidate.
I wonder if he’ll be able to resist talking about himself in the third person in these interviews. He hasn’t been too successful in doing so thus far. Sometimes he sounds like Bob Dole did during his campaign in 1996. At least he’s speaking in the language of liberty instead of “neo-conish”.
Bob Barr appeared on the Glenn Beck TV show tonight with Beck’s replacement host. They covered, naturally, the spoiler role and also discussed, naturally, Barr’s transformation after having voted for the Patriot Act. Watch it below.
We just received word from the Bob Barr campaign that he will appear on ABC’s national TV news show “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” on Sunday July 6th. Ron Paul followers will remember Paul’s appearance on the same show where Stephanopoulos quickly gave a snide retort to the chances of him winning the GOP nomination. Those four simple words, “That’s not gonna happen”, only invigorated the Paul supporters more.
After the CNN coverage yesterday, I think at this point it is safe to say that Bob Barr is getting some serious main stream media coverage which only enhances his ability to spread that sweet liberty message to the masses. Now the question is starting to become: Will that attention turn into real votes for Barr at the polls in November?
Today Bob Barr received some significant main stream media coverage regarding his potential spoiler role for John McCain on CNN’s The Situation Room. The video below contains more than 5 minutes of footage covering Barr. The first is a segment with Wolf Blitzer discussing Barr’s impact on the election with two talking heads from the left and right. Next, Jack Cafferty covers Barr with his Cafferty File question. The final clip are the answers from viewers to that question. Ron Paul gets a few mentions as well.
This is not only great coverage for Barr but also for the Libertarian Party, especially the Cafferty portion. The viewer email by “Jacob” wins for best response to the question.
Ron Paul appeared for over 10 minutes for two segments on the Glenn Beck TV show tonight. The show had a replacement host who interestingly allowed Paul to answer his questions fully and completely, but also asked him a form of the dreaded 9-11 truth question. Ignoring that one question I think it was a pretty good appearance. The now requisite ask Ron Paul about Bob Barr and ask Bob Barr about Ron Paul interview dance was done as well. It is in two parts.
Bob Barr appeared on FOX News today with Neil Cavuto. He discusses his relationship with Ron Paul and his recruitment of Ron Paul supporters to help his campaign. They then go on to discuss polling numbers and ballot access.
It’s interesting how much Cavuto was pushing the Ron Paul angle in this short interview while Barr seemed to be downplaying it a bit.
Ron Paul is in the process of planning a “rally” to coincide both in time and geography to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. All of the major news outlets have picked up the story and are labeling it as a “McCain Alternative”. Here is the story from AP.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is planning a daylong rally in Minnesota during the Republican National Convention that could draw attention from the presumed nominee John McCain.
The Texas congressman with a devoted following has tentatively reserved the Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota on Sept. 2, the second day of the GOP convention.
“We plan on having a large rally,” said Paul spokesman Jesse Benton. “We want it to be a celebration of Republican values and what the Republican Party has traditionally stood for.”
Benton also said Paul wants to send a message to the GOP “that we need to return to our roots” of limited government and personal responsibility.
Ron Paul appeared on Neil Cavuto’s FOX News Channel show today to discuss the event. See the video below.
This is an appearance by Bob Barr on the HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher” from 2003 shorty after Barr lost his Congressional seat in Georgia. I am posting this because I find it interesting how anti-DC Barr is during this appearance. It also shows that Barr can be a pretty funny guy. Also, this is Barr at a time when he was grappling with his allegiance to his now former Republican Party. How perfect it is when Bill Maher retorts to a Barr joke with, “They really change when they get out of Congress.” Also interesting is Barr’s comment that then candidate for CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to win based on his celebrity status. Some may accuse Barr of playing a similar role by his candidacy today (not necessarily to win, but to garner more votes due to his name recognition).
I’m only posting the portions of the show where Barr appears, not the entire show. He comes in at about 4:15 in the first clip below.
Here is the 6 part (full hour) interview of Glenn Beck interviewing Bob Barr from tonight (06/06/2008). Good stuff. Note that without the commercials it is not a full hour.
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