Did Ron Paul's presidential bid just get a big boost from Jon Stewart? { The left pushes Paul ]

Did Ron Paul's presidential bid just get a big boost from Jon Stewart? { The left pushes Paul ]:

"Libertarian Ron Paul narrowly lost the Iowa straw poll to Michele Bachmann, yet has been cut out of media postmortems on the GOP's top tier. Does he deserve more coverage? Jon Stewart thinks so.

When did Ron Paul become the GOP presidential candidate-who-must-not-be-named?

'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart asked that question on his show Monday night and in doing so he sparked a discussion among the media hordes that has produced more than a few mea culpas and could perhaps – perhaps – lead to more coverage of the libertarian Texas congressmen in the future.

In particular, Mr. Stewart took aim at the fact that Mr. Paul narrowly lost the Ames, Iowa, straw poll to Michele Bachmann yet was almost entirely left out of the journalistic political postmortem.

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