It's kind of ironic that a guy who earned a national following as a television pundit would win up feeling like his political aspirations were at least partially iced by the media.
But that's the way Peter Schiff sees it. The broker and businessman from Weston has long been a media darling; his analysis of the gold bull market, his thoughts on the trade deficit and his predictions of the coming economic crash are staples of CNBC and Fox Busines.
Yet once Schiff declared he was running for U.S. Senate, he found his candidacy essential ignored by some of his friends in the national media, says his brother, Andrew Schiff.
Andrew Schiff says the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and CBS News all ran "major spreads" on the U.S. Senate race a week or two before the Republican primary and virtually ignored Schiff's candidacy.
Even Larry Kudlow, who has hosted Schiff on his CNBC show many times, scarcely mentioned his Senate bid.