I hope that the blog post is wrong about the following: "This comes as absolutely no surprise, but I predict it will have no impact on Ron Paul’s popularity."

I'm quibbling about that sentence because I think the main problem here is that there's not much real journalism left in America. Too often, a story like this isn't investigated nearly enough.

But once it IS investigated, as Charles has done and continues to do (thank you), I think it WILL impact Paul's popularity.

What I'm trying to say is, ***America is dying for more real, honest, actual journalism***. It's not that millions of people don't care about Ron Paul's racist personal associations. It's that most people aren't political junkies, and get their news as entertainment (e.g. Fox News). They just take the news they receive at face value. That doesn't mean they don't or wouldn't care.

Once the journalism is out there, I'm confident that it WILL have a deep impact. We desperately need less journalism-as-entertainment, and lots more real journalism.