Yesterday, I watched You Tube footage of the Nevada Republican Party Convention.

The gist of it is that Ron Paul won a two thirds majority of the delegates – or would have, that is, if the McCain camp hadn’t walked out on the convention before a vote was even cast. After an entire day, not one delegate was elected. The McCain organizers had rigged the convention in advance, with a list of 200 delegates they refused to share. When the Ron Paul supporters protested this, they were then offered to be allowed to vote for nine delegates – then five. After the Ron Paul supporters balked at this, the McCain camp hemmed and hawed around all day – then left when they realized they couldn’t have their way. Like a child taking his football and going home.

Now, what does this have to do with the media? Well, as usual, the story is completely absent of any coverage by the mainstream press. But, this is not unusual when it comes to Ron Paul, whose second place performances in the Maine, Nevada and Louisiana primaries were also totally ignored.

This behavior has been going on in the media since late last year, when the media decided they couldn’t make Ron Paul go away, so the best course of action was then to ignore him altogether and make him a “non-candidate” by not even mentioning him anymore, except in a pejorative way.

But, Ron Paul and his supporters aren’t going away. In fact, though he probably has been or will be removed from the official ballot, despite having not dropped out of the race, Ron Paul remains as John McCain’s only contender for the Republican nomination.

Given that, the media has now adopted a tactic of focusing on the Democratic side of the race almost exclusively. Why? Because, if they cover the Republican race, they must mention Ron Paul, whom they’ve been treating as a non-person for months. If they acknowledge that he’s still in the race, it calls glaring attention to their previously ignoring him, as though he isn’t even a candidate. This is why the media has fixated on Hillary and Obama and is now rarely mentioning the Republican contest. It’s like a game of three card monte, in which the dealer misdirects and confuses the mark with slight of hand.

However, they can only ignore the elephant in the room for so much longer, and with events like that which occurred over the weekend in Nevada, it’s going to become impossible to do without making the public aware of what they’re up to.