chuck todd and peter alexander are in iowa tonight. abc s john carl in iowa for us tonight. we ll turn our critical edge on reporters in iowa and washington and especially the surge in negative reporting about ron paul. this the skeleton in ron paul s closet. this is from the ron paul newsletter. so you read them but you didn t do anything about it at the time. i never read this stuff. why did the press take so long to start examining the congressman s sometimes inflammatory record? i m howard kurtz and we re kicking off the 2012 season onsome reliable sources. happy new year to all of you. it s obviously not a holiday for much of the political press gearing up for actual voting of 2012 after a year of prediction and prognostication. after treating ron paul as an entertaining side show they reacted to his rise in the polls the same way michele bachmann, rick perry, herman cain and newt gingrich shot up in surveys by belatedly examining his record including ince