The mass media’s attempts to downplay Ron Paul’s increasing popularity have gone from amusing, to bizarre, to outright dishonest.

Fox News, which has regularly pooh-poohed Paul, went from merely editorializing against him to committing fraud. When they published the results of the Iowa Straw Poll, Paul came in fifth, with 9.1% of the vote, and Tom Tancredo was number four with 13.7%. Both beat Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain. (All of them boycotted the event.) Fox responded by removing Tancredo and Paul from the list!

Fair. Balanced. Yeah, right.