paul, devoted patriot or nut job? that is from the new york post which is owned by the parent company of this network. how has the mainstream media treated him? liz troter is a fox news contributor who joins us every sunday with a commentary. happy new year, liz. >> happy new year. the mainstream media ignored him for a full year and now he gets the full treatment. >> this is the dance the media does with ron paul. it is this off again-on again thing. and he wants the curiosity to begin with. and then when he started gathering steam and really began to look like he could be a winner, that's when the knives came out. just like for newt gingrich and everybody else who wants to run for office, and that's right they should. the knives came out in connection with a scandal that really started back in the 1990s. we probably all know about this now, that he was -- he owned a news leter and supposedly wrote it, although