Salon quotes Buchanan's Florida coordinator, Jim McConnell, as saying the Buchanan campaign didn't advertise in the Palm Beach area because Buchanan had well under a thousand supporters there, adding that he didn't even know what the Independent Party was. But it's safe to assume that NewsMax, at the very least, should have known, given the fact that they live and work in the area and ought to be aware of the local politics. Either NewsMax staffers are political savants, able to cover the conservative movement everywhere but their own back yard, or they withheld facts from their readers in order to make politicial points. Either way, the story is a lie. That's not a quote you'll find anywhere on NewsMax, historically friendly to Buchanan.
Problem is, they've moved up the time to make it look like more of an injustice than it is.
Another thing NewsMax should have known. But they've always had a habit of favoring demogoguery over knowledge.