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Originally Posted by Kizzy

Why?... Just why does this guy get air time?
I don't get it, he's not an MP, why is he all over the media constantly!

What is going on?!

Why don't you "get it"?

There are many politicians who 'KNOW' the truth. There are not so many who DARE to speak it.

Farage is that rarity in politics - someone who knows the truth and is NOT afraid to speak it, or of it.

It is not, however, enough, to be prepared to simply speak the truth - when that truth may be complex and boring, and not really what the long beleaguered and long brainwashed, confused listening public want to have to confront - because to keep that public listening, that truth must be delivered with genuine passion, intense focus, and great oratory skill.

Farage has ALL of these qualities, but more, he has that even rarer skill of crystallising exactly what a huge percentage of the public thinks, and what he has to say resonates with them.

This is why I believe, Farage is so popular with the media.

Irrational and bigoted haters aside - he is a Man of The People - and because the people like to listen to what he has to say, there is a DEMAND for him to "get airtime" and the Media SUPPLY that demand.

Here is Rod Liddle's excellent article from The Spectator, whIch he penned shortly after Farage stepped down as Chairman of UKIP:

In praise of Nigel Farage

"Nigel Farage is the most important British politician of the last decade and the most successful. His resignation leaves a hole in our political system. With enormous intelligence and chutzpah and a refreshingly unorthodox approach, he built Ukip up from nothing to become established as our third largest party and succeeded in his overriding ambition – to see the UK vote to leave the European Union. He is also extremely good company and likeable – unless you are one of those infants who screams ‘fascist!’ whenever his name is raised. Or if you are BBC PM’s presenter Eddie Mair, who – fatuously enough – seemed to suggest Farage was to blame for racist assaults taking place in the country."