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I thought the forum was the comments section which is why I was surprised there were no posts about this episode.

I think it was more of a matter of viewer perception rather than actual analysis. If this episode was the only one I saw from your series then I would think that you were agreeing with Jerry Day's conspiracy theory. It was because I've seen and enjoyed your other episodes that I was able to interpret it in context.

Perhaps if the viewer isn't careful (which covers a lot of viewers) the unedited stuff from Jerry is still quite easy to interpret as being the viewpoint of the whole video. I think the fact that this seems conspiratorial is only mentioned once which can be missed by a casual viewer (or not paid much attention to).

i wonder if anyone else has found this episode to be less skeptically-thorough compared to the other ones?

for example the interview includes a comparison of ron paul's internet popularity vs media coverage in search trends -- there are several things i find potentially wrong with such a comparison:

1. google tools appear to be normalised, massaged and there's no reason to consider them as raw data. the video was looking at the graph shapes quite specifically but from what i've found they're only really useful as a very general guide.
2. a large search volume for ron paul does not necessarily imply voter popularity since voter popularity is a positive while many of the searches could have been people wishing to find out more, or a "i've heard he has some crazy views" type of search
3. internet users are a VERY non-representative of the general US population so it's very plausible that Ron Paul's high popularity in the blogosphere was not matched by the same rise in enthusiasm in the offline world.

shane does say that this person's view is a bit conspiracy-theory but i'm not sure why he included this view at all since it seems to be a rather elaborate conspiracy about how ron paul was almost deprived of his rightful presidency by the media. and the way the guest expressed himself gives the casual viewer an impression of significant political bias in favour of ron paul.